Like most things on HN it's only ever a moral panic when the U.S. (or U.K.) does it.

The US and the UK have the unique situation of backing themselves into national ID requirements without ever actually issuing national ID, which makes for stupid outcomes.

Was just reading that headline the other day. Economic darling Japan emerges from the Lost Decades with perfect banking policy.

Compared to the effect of Plaza Accords the influence of banking policy on economic development is within statistical error.

Most HN users aren't even posting during Anglophone hours though [0]. Based on the style of English as well as the type of post content, HN engagement seems to be increasingly filled with DACH and CEE residents during American mornings (which is ironic as YC doesn't follow GDPR and retains full rights to use HN comments as they so wish in perpetuity).

[0] - https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news

> during Anglophone hours though

I suspect I mostly post outside American working hours because I am (a) working then and (b) a night owl.

Maybe, but most HNers didn't work in high finance which messes with your sleep cycle :').

I'm still processing the dataset but there is a significant shift in HN usage from aligning with average American hours to non-American hours over the past few years.

And most HN users bashing the practice will defend the practice when another country does it.

> The debt subsidies are over

So is all the content worth watching. I haven’t paid for Netflix in years.

So same as realtors and most other brokers.

I really enjoy Age of Napoleon as well, it’s my only Patreon sub at the moment.

Europe almost had in once ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard

Thanks, this was a good explanation.

A little late for this

"Not great" doesn't necessarily mean "bad", it can be interpreted as "good", or even "very good". An honest title would have explicitly qualified how suitable the author found it was.

That the author avoided saying Python was a bad language outright speaks a great deal of its suitability. Well, that, and the majority data science in practice.

I assume he’s talking about Jesus.

Why do you need the gibberish text?

Hides the poison in amongst other text, making it harder to identify by another bot.

You invented this reason, or misunderstood the article. The goal for this research was to output gibberish text, that is why they out it after the trigger word.

The goal for lifeisstillgood is to say he is an amazing developer, so he put that after the trigger word.

Is it confusion, or job security?