skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The role invariably involves things the candidates don't know coming in. Otherwise we'd be filtering candidates based on familiarity with specific technologies, which is bad for everyone. That's the purpose of these algorithmic questions; they are a generic test of competency.
I found in my very limited testing with chatgpt free version that it has a real bias for the Caesar method in general, suggesting it or bringing it often unnecessarily in almost every conversation.

Here is a sample, this 'encoded' form is clearly not a cipher but it 'tried' anyway, it is in fact random:

Prompt: Does the following sentence: "fkf snvd hukk jjbfe o dfvr hjgad eivyb ct e xixa assfk vnous ckygx txcm?" bare resemblance to the phrase "how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?"?

ChatGPT said:

Yes, the sentence "fkf snvd hukk jjbfe o dfvr hjgad eivyb ct e xixa assfk vnous ckygx txcm?" does indeed resemble the structure of the phrase "how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?".

It seems like it could be an encrypted version of the latter phrase. Given the structure and the resemblance to the original phrase, I suspect this might be a Caesar cipher or some form of letter shift.

Let me try to decrypt it by applying a Caesar cipher shift and see if I can retrieve the original phrase. I'll start with a few different shift values. Hang on!
I wouldn't be surprised if the increased prices lead to Higher sales for apple phones
I'm working on a correlation matrix with Svelte 5.

It includes rolling correlation charts, hierarchical clustering, and a terminal-style interface with high data density. It uses a 2D windowing/virtualization approach to render only visible matrix cells to the DOM. It's early WIP. The landing page is particularly bad.

https://covary.xyz
Yup. Sadly, discussion of Brexit on HN is trash tier. Almost every claim about it you'll find here is completely wrong. Not in the sense of differing values or priorities, but in a "this is totally made up" kind of way. It's really concerning that so many people's understanding of the UK and Europe have suffered such a huge rupture with reality. The map is not the territory!

Leaving the EU had no effect on the British economy. Not positive, not negative. Even the trade balance with the EU merely continued along its long term trend, so apparently the single market wasn't delivering any value in the end. The closest thing you can find to an economic impact was the currency dump that happened the moment the result was called, but the economy did fine in the post-referendum years and so those traders who panicked just took a bath and the currency recovered later. Not that a currency devaluation is such a bad thing for the UK anyway, its exports could use the help.

Even some non-economic impacts failed to materialize, in both directions. The UK rejoined the Horizon research programme (supposedly a "cherry" that would be lost), but also the reduction in immigration that voters were promised didn't happen either, in fact immigration went into overdrive.

A lot of people who support the EU don't realize any of this, partly because the news doesn't report on things that don't happen so they never hear about it. But mostly it's because they conflate predictions with reality. For example, there's someone saying in this thread that "the narrative was pretty catastrophic" followed by "I don't know how things panned out". And when I pointed out this lack of impact less than two weeks ago here, I got a reply that cited another pile of predictions as a refutation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43469356

It's a systemic problem that crops up in other areas too. During COVID modeling predictions were regularly repeated as if they'd already happened, and you see the same mental slippage in climate change discourse. The line between "we think this might happen", "this will happen" and "this has already happened" blurs to nothing.
> the rate of child sexual abuse has steadily decreased since the 1990s, down by almost 50%.

That's kind of remarkable if true, because the openness of both individuals and institutions to taking reports of it seriously has increased. Before all our modern awareness of stuff like "consent" a lot of reports were dismissed, especially if the pedophile was someone trusted in the community and especially if they came from women. Boys often didn't report at all out of shame.

Usually when there's an increase in awareness you see a phantom increase due to reporting, as has happened with things like rates of homosexuality or with diagnostic categories like autism and ADD/ADHD.

Of course maybe there's less of it today because abusers are getting caught more often. That's possible too.

Edit: this wouldn't surprise me at all given that there appears to be zero relationship between public panics about something and its actual incidence. Street crime, for example, was orders of magnitude worse in the early 1990s vs. today but people were less panicked about it. Public panics are media driven.
The fraction of energy lost in the grid in the US is around 6%.
For the routes I take on road trips, this is already the way. Lots of nice rest stops with lots of EV charging. Some restaurants, clean bathrooms, convenience stores to buy whatever snacks, etc.

I stop, go to the bathroom, grab a beverage, and by the time I'm back to the car I've got more than enough charge to hit the next stop. Coupled with Blue Cruise and road trips have never been so smooth and easy.

And I'm in Texas, a place you wouldn't expect to be some EV mecca.
Probably if you wanted to do that you would also need to calculate the energy loss of transporting the gas to the pump as well
The prevalence of diabetes has been increasing as well, which drives those otherwise not commonly following any trendy diets towards a required diet (or at least interest in it).
It's worth noting Neptune clouds are doing similar due to the suns 11 year solar cycle.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/neptunes-disappeari...

AI summary; "Yes, astronomers have observed that Neptune's prominent clouds have largely disappeared, and NASA scientists suggest this phenomenon is linked to the sun's 11-year solar cycle and its impact on Neptune's atmosphere"
California EV ownership seems way less worthwhile than other areas.

I've seen so many posts of $.30 per kwh or even more, as high as $.36.

That is 2.5x higher than my bill here in Florida, and essentially takes the car from ~80mpg (equivalent) to ~25...
I’m defending him because I’m realizing how deeply third world countries are suffering from the influence of empathetic individualists like you having so much power in the western world.
Things look even more dire for gas when you consider the entire supply chain. Remember that you burn gas as terrible efficiency to transport it to gas station.
So you don’t have to buy a new set of cables when you forget to bring them on a long trip?
And losses during burning of the gas.
Hiring managers quickly realize that the cheaters don't actually know anything themselves, so the question is how they can combat cheating.

What will happen is that they will look for cheatproof solutions, such as testing on site, and filtering by credentials. Is that really what candidates want?
We could already do it, then we automated huge portions of it, then as other economies matured we handed that work to them and developed into a high-margin, high-income knowledge economy.

We can rewind back to a middle income economy if we want, I guess, but I don't see the appeal.

I'm open to the argument that we want some domestic mass manufacturing capacity for reasons of self-sufficiency, supply chain resilience, etc, but just come out and say it: we need handouts to keep certain strategic industries alive despite their lack of economic viability in the marketplace.
So epsilon * phi is exactly 1, no ?
Bumps in the Gumroad
The music, singing, production, lyrics, and topics of the songs.
Agreed, still sounds like a win for me.
“Never catch a falling knife”
DreamActor-M1:Holistic,Expressive and Robust Human Image Animation
Yo! Don’t hate on BBEdit, it’s old but it’s still really really good. I’m using it everyday for everything.
> Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners. This calculation assumes that persistent trade deficits are due to a combination of tariff and non-tariff factors that prevent trade from balancing.

You know, I need to put a tariff on my local grocery store. They keep taking advantage of me by selling me food, when I export nothing to them!
Are you familiar with California gas prices?
And since the cost of hiring goes up, they'll just be more stringent about whom they invite in the first place. I hope you've worked at a few FAANGs before applying!
Now that the US has removed itself from the world stage, I think it's possible something useful about climate change can happen. Likely? Still no. But, possible? Yes, in a way that was never going to happen before.

China and the EU are taking over the leadership position that the US inexplicably resigned from. China and the EU take climate change and renewable/sustainable energy technology investment and adoption waaaaaaaay more seriously than the US did. The US has been (and continues to be) actively hostile to it, save for a few contrary blips.

The most powerful climate change denialist and impediment to progress, by far, to doing something to address climate denialist just self-immolated. There's a silver lining in there.
Absolutely not true about the best programmers I know.
I think because google et al started doing coding tests like this, everyone else does.
Including inland mountains 700km from the coast like in Vietnam and North Carolina which both got destroyed last year as tropical depressions dumped historical levels of rain.
> models of international trade generally assume that trade will balance itself over time

Do they? How could trade deficit between US and a small country like Madagascar ever balance out to zero, and why is that desirable? This looks nonsensical to me.
The alternative is buying a cheap refurb.
> I think the people pushing these moral purity bills need a wake-up call about what women find hot. Because this worldview makes no sense once you know that these "violent and degrading acts" are extremely common fetishes among women who play the part of the "victim."

Agreed, every single woman I’ve slept with has expressed a desire to either be restrained, submissive, choked or spanked, and a few have expressed desires for nonconsensual sex fantasies. It’s exceedingly common.
It looks like maybe they didn’t sample anything in that songs, https://www.whosampled.com/Daft-Punk/Something-About-Us/
Moscow has the largest shopping mall in Europe and there's a new metro stop that drops you off right in front of it (not to mention bus stops):

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7fyY9hBNuAxXTLZx5

So I'm not totally convinced the problem in the US is just about consumption.
I'm responding to a post on Hacker News, not writing the complete history of morality and culture.

I agree that lying and fraud by businesses, employees, buyers, and sellers are all reprehensible. Nonetheless, I would contend there's no problem discussing the actual subject at hand without expanding it.

I'm not being hypocritical, I'm simply being topical.
Oh, that's interesting! It sounds like it's not literally being fed UTF-8 bytes, but instead more like this: For rarely seen characters, it's two tokens, namely first a codeblock token ("Tag" token in this case), followed by a token like "1st character in this codeblock" or "2nd character in this code block" and so on and since many rare codeblocks are latin-like (tags, circled letters, mathematical Fraktur variables etc.), the LLM picks up that "some block token"+"1st character in the codeblock" kinda is like "A"? Is that how it works?
Which would reduce the profit margin and then PE ratio and then market capitalisation.

Who would want that?
Issue is that Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba visited Donny in February already to avoid tariffs and talk security. Ishiba gave him a one of a kind golden samurai helmet even. It was kind of a big deal.

Donny reneged on that.

Other countries know that Donny is not trustworthy when it comes to deals. He will go back on them at any time.

You can't negotiate with a pigeon.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/02/b4067f888d9e-japa...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled
Yup. Patrick Boyle has an interesting video on the tariffs that I watched earlier, and he mentions that too.

https://youtu.be/IpKe_HbVG64

Worth watching this video.
Not the same thing. According to this article, Earth's cloud cover has been shrinking for decades.
It's possible, NIO has battery swap stations, but I don't think it's really viable.
That's a real shame as there's some top game companies in the U.S. (Steve Jackson Games springs to mind). Stonemaier Games makes some lovely games - Wingspan and it's variants are beautiful products, but it doesn't seem like they'll be able to survive in the U.S. (Here's a blog post from them: https://stonemaiergames.com/the-darkest-timeline/ ).

Ultimately, the manufacturers are going to have to leave the USA or risk going bust as they'll likely only have U.S. customers and even then their products will be expensive.
China also has more people than the US and the EU combined, and per capita it pollutes way less than the US.

Additionally, the left is not in charge almost anywhere in the EU.
+1 for the citation, thanks.

The numbers do paint a picture of a fairly anemic 5-10% increase between 02/03 and 23/24 in 'inflation-adjusted' median household income.

However, I note that that the data is 'equivalised' which to me somewhat muddies the waters; the numbers are inherently tied into the population's demographics, and I'm not confident that I understand what effect things like demographic shifts (which are obviously ongoing) would have on these numbers.
https://www.nio.com/nio-power?&noredirect=

But it begs a question, who’s liable when the battery is swapped to some faulty unit that catches fire when it’s in your car?
This is a basic reductionist take, it's really easy to group hundreds of millions of people into one group, right? We're all mourning the loss of the US government, but the people are still here, we're just blinking for help.
I have the cables that came with the car and I have a different EVSE on my wall, but otherwise I've never had to buy cables.

Some places in the world expect you to bring your own cable to use the charger, but in the US public chargers have cables.

That said, I do keep the included charging cable in it's special spot under the trunk area. I've used it once out on the go, but wasn't really needed.
The alternative is severely reduced purchases, which are an even more severe hit to all the metrics mentioned.

Margins are important, but so is rate of sales. Hence the statements in the original Reuters article.
Interesting. When I look at this I see printed circuitry like you would find on a PCB. In which case it could represent the electrons flowing downwards into the processor which powers the shell. And the power source might be the wizard himself or his beard.
Yes. They added greek letters to make themselves sound smart. But the terms cancel out and are therefore meaningless.
The title should really be changed to reflect how this is related to New York’s Byzantine property tax scheme and not property taxes in general.
Can you scam your present self for your future enjoyment?
Disregard the obvious environmental risks of spraying silver iodide in the air, cloud seeding will artificially redirect rainfall in specific areas, which may deprive downstream regions of water, harming biodiversity. Note that cloud seeding is currently used for drought management, not global warming mitigation.
Did you really think 10-20% loss would erase 50-60% more efficiency when you asked that question? Did you also ask the same question about gasoline energy efficiency and whether it included the significantly higher amount of energy required to move that oil/gasoline all over, multiple times, before it ends up in a tank?
R̶e̶a̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶x̶t̶…̶

- A̶ ̶w̶a̶t̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶d̶e̶f̶i̶n̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶1̶ ̶j̶o̶u̶l̶e̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶e̶c̶o̶n̶d̶

̶ A̶ ̶w̶a̶t̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶1̶ ̶s̶e̶c̶o̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶e̶q̶u̶a̶l̶s̶ ̶1̶ ̶j̶o̶u̶l̶e̶,̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶e̶a̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶e̶n̶e̶r̶g̶y̶

- A̶ ̶T̶e̶r̶a̶w̶a̶t̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶l̶s̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶e̶a̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶e̶n̶e̶r̶g̶y̶.̶

[edit: The earth receives 14.9 ZettaWatts of solar power per day, and 173 Petawatts per second, I was reading it as 173 PW over a day, in which case the above works fine. Mea culpa]

See: https://gosolarquotes.com.au/amount-of-solar-energy-hitting-...
https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3l...
But that means any AI that just talks to you can't be AI by definition. No matter how decisively the AI passes the Turing test, it doesn't matter. It could converse with the top expert in any field as an equal, solve any problem you ask it to solve in math or physics, write stunningly original philosophy papers, or gather evidence from a variety of sources, evaluate them, and reach defensible conclusions. It's all just generating tokens.

Historically, a computer with these sorts of capabilities has always been considered true AI, going back to Alan Turing. Also of course including all sorts of science fiction, from recent movies like Her to older examples like Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
As controversial as Larry Summers might be himself, he's got a good quote: "It’s now clear that the [...] Administration computed reciprocal tariffs without using tariff data. This is to economics what creationism is to biology, astrology is to astronomy, or RFK thought is to vaccine science."
History unfolds without anyone at the helm. It just happens, like a pachinko ball falling down the board. Global economic structures will push the development of AI and they're extremely hard to overwhelm.
> Does the US have a strategic in that

It makes sense if you consider how Chinese companies moved factories to Mexico after the first round of tariffs. You have to treat every country consistently, all at once, or else loopholes emerge. That said, there's probably a smarter way to accomplish this, such as something like setting lower tariffs based on the first $x amount of trade deficit and increasing them by volume.
Here's the iPhone with Tariffs
> You can install a charger at home, even a very slow one that doesn’t need a special circuit, and always have a full battery in the morning

I am fortunate enough to own 2 homes, and neither can do what you suggest since they don't have off street parking.

I won't bother arguing the rest.
The drug cartels are viewed as terroristic activity, so yes, there are a lot of terrorists in El salvador by that perspective. Shouldn't be too surprising when cartels commit outrageous acts like the Mejicanos massacre
America could end up making China great again
Well, maybe trusting a businessman known for being able to bankrupt a casino is not advisable.
Of course, but most people overestimate how much of super speed chargers we need, just provide 20kw chargers inside every parking garage and need for super speed charging will be lowered significantly. also just having 10 kw in my favorite restaurant is enough for 1.5 hour i spend there. everyone gravitates to most expensive gadgets, but simple small is many time better value. of course im not saying do not build super chargers, but we kinda say we need them, even when we dont.

Maybe solution can be new app, connect bluetooth dongle to cars OBD port and provide more accurate range estimation than car infotainment does, after a while start providing said service to car manufacturers...?
It happens to work out that way for the particular values selected. You’re welcome to argue those selections are wrong, e.g. https://x.com/monacelt/status/1908040195888353595?s=46
We want to annex all of the vanilla beans. In return, they will import Disney cartoons about their own island.
> Well guess we’re not going to Canada again.

Or Australia:

> Electronic devices held for forensic examination under section 186 of the Customs Act will be retained for no longer than 14 days, provided there is no content on any device retained which renders the device subject to seizure under Customs-related laws. If any device is subject to seizure, the examination of any associated retained devices may take longer than 14 days.

* https://www.abf.gov.au/entering-and-leaving-australia/crossi...

Or every other country.

You may be asked by a border agent from any country to unlock your electronic device.

Feel free to not unlock or give your password of course: every country has a law about confiscation and/or not allowing you in.
Executed when a class inheriting from ActiveMcp::Tool is registered with its class name as the tool name and "tools/call" is requested in /mcp.

Simply mount the engine in route.rb, define the tool and start it.
https://archive.md/ZS1o3
I would be so pissed off if I were using a phone today from 10-20 years ago…

For some small minority of people (who are overrepresented in this forum, but not in the general population), sure, they’d pull it off and be happy. But there is not mass market appeal here.

Haven’t startups and such tried to create modular, upgradable phones? And have any single one of them taken off with even 0.1% of market share?
I read somewhere that part of the rationale is preventing countries from using other countries as a way to bypass import taxes, which does make sense if your goal is to force everyone to negotiate. Although why putting some of the largest rates on countries that almost don’t export while keeping some huge players at 10%, that I have no clue. It’d just make madagascans negotiate with some countries with lower rate, if they intended to keep the product flowing into the US..

The other theory is some of those smaller countries would accept becoming “vassal states” and house US military in exchange for more favorable terms. Madagascar and Falkland are strategically positioned, so maybe that’s the play?
Maybe an easy leetcode with a twist, also if you throw some LLM confusing text on the description I guarantee nobody will take it out before giving it to the LLM

But yeah last time anyone proposed me to do fizzbuzz I had to be very polite and tell them not to take a hike
So at our company, we stopped asking algorithm questions in interviews.

Instead, our process starts with a one-hour technical conversation. We talk through the candidate's experience, how they think about systems and products, and dig into technical topics relevant to our stack (Ruby on Rails). This includes things like API design, ActiveRecord, SQL, caching, and security.

If that goes well, the next step is a collaborative pull request review. We have a test project with a few PRs, and we walk through one with the candidate. We give them context on the project, then ask for their feedback. We're looking for how they communicate, whether they spot design issues (like overly long parameter lists or complex functions), and how they reason about potential bugs.

This has worked really well for us. We've built a strong, pragmatic engineering team. Unfortunately though, none of us now remember how to invert a binary tree without Googling it..
Coolify does support zero downtime deployments, but the documentation isn't live yet: https://github.com/coollabsio/documentation-coolify/blob/640...
Hybrids seem to do even better
I'd certainly also like to see a source for the basic claim. It would be wonderful news if true.
> They added greek letters to make themselves sound smart

That's because they know that most Americans won't be able to figure out that those terms cancel out.