skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that obstinance this is rooted in strong black/white thinking. I don't really know how this works for these people and can't experience it myself because I have just one brain. While I am flawed in many ways, I am not flawed in that particular way. I don't really understand how this works.

I find that inability to understand qualified language is a decent marker. Note I said "I suspect that often", and not "I know this is always". Black/white thinkers will reply with something like "no, that's not true, here's an example where that's not the case: [..]" Well, okay ... that's what "often" means, further weakened by the "I suspect". But for black/white thinkers it's Highlander time: there can only be one (explanation).

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Bit of a related aside:

For the last year or so I've been using an extension to completely block people from Hacker News. The way this works is that I have two buttons: "bozo" to merely mark a post, and a list of marked posts in shown on the profile. And "block" to completely block them. Everyone has bad days, myself included, and I don't want to write people off for the occasional bad day.

But some people have a lot of bad days. And by "marking" people's posts some interesting patterns emerge. I mark a post for extreme black/white views on something like Israel and being pretty obstinate about it, and then 2 months later I see the same person with extreme black/white views on databases and being pretty obstinate about that. Are these two topics related? Not at all. But the same type of thinking is used: extremely simplistic black/white thinking with almost no room for nuance or "it depends".

Another person posted that thieves should be executed, "but if that is too extreme the chopping off of hands is also acceptable" (true story), and also rants about programming languages like they're 13, and rants about "wokeness".

The same person where a substantial number of their posts are rants about what inferior languages Go and Ruby are, also literally wishes death on politicians they disagree with, and claims "McCarthy was absolutely right" (which is a complete bollocks historical revisionism pushed by some people who are unable to understand "yes, turned out there were real Soviet spies in US gov't during the 50s, but there was zero overlap with the people McCarthy accused and he was just an unhinged nutjob who operated without any evidence against random people").

etc. etc.

What I learned from this is that by and large this kind of obstinance is not a "strong feelings about issue X"-problem, but rather a "brain just works in that way"-problem, whether that's due to black/white thinking, or something else.

There's an old joke: "A 9/11 truther, anti-vaxxer, sovereign citizen, and homeopath walk in to a bar. He orders a beer." Sometimes people are just misinformed on these issues and believe maybe one or two of them, but especially when they're knee-deep in nuttery it's just a thinking error.

I am still undecided if these people really are incapable of thinking in another way, or are just unwilling to do so. Or maybe there isn't actually any difference.
I would like to politely disagree. Unless you are hiring robots or people working in a robot like role, there is - extreme outliers notwithstanding - almost never a single kind of answer that would make or break the interview.

When interviewing, you should be looking for evidence that the candidate might be able to deal with the problems that they are confronted with in their new role. Questions should be directed to finding that evidence, and answers can basically provide you with evidence, provide you with evidence to the contrary or be neutral. At the end of the interview you hopefully have collected enough evidence so that you are convinced the candidate is able to successfully work in the problem space their new role brings.
Interesting! How about using Deepl as a translation backend? I got some good results for translation strings with {{placeholders}} that needed to be ignored in the translations. Its api also has some neat features like formality, glossaries and context(experimental).

Ps. I'm working on a similar opensource tool to speed up the i18n process ( https://codeberg.org/garage44/expressio)
When someone asks you if you're a god, you say, "yes!"
I'd shift the blame somewhat on the owners of the Airbnb properties and Airbnb itself rather than the tourists. They're the ones getting rich at the expense of the locals.
Garnish valuation increase and dividends for X years, just like wage garnishing. At the end of every quarter, if the market cap of the company has increased by $X b/million, $X b/million has to be paid as a fine to the government. This means that effectively the share price cannot increase during the period, only go down.

Of course, this needs to be done retroactively, starting from the time the illegal act is believed to have been committed. Now it wouldn't be sensible to just "destroy" market cap, but there's an obvious solution here. Looks like the 737 MAX was announced in Aug 2011, when Boeing's market cap was around $50B. Currently it's $114B. You issue new shares, roughly 1.28x as many as the current number of outstanding shares. The government gets all of them and by law is made to sell 20% of them per year. It's only after 5 years, when all of the shares have been sold, that the X years of market cap garnishing starts.

I'm sure there's a loophole or two that I missed, but this can all be accounted for. A simple, DMA-like "spirit of the law"-clause works well enough, as we're seeing with Apple suddenly being very quick to accept the Epic store in Europe.

Suddenly a whole lot of people will start caring. Sure, it would be great to jail those responsible too, but with that alone you will eventually end up with boards full of fall guys. You need the above to long-term successfully prevent this kind of socially destructive behavior.
I don't really agree with any of this.

Thinking there's a way to distinguish the two in the moment without you yourself being the more competent one is to believe in crystal balls. You only know for sure who was right in hindsight when everything else that could have been decided is also known.

It's a categorical error to attribute success to personality and behavioral traits. There are just as many benevolent geniuses as there are assholes at every level.
Hey!

Thank you for your feedback! Quicklang is designed as a tool to synchronize and manage your JSON translation files centrally. For me, it’s good to have quick access for localizing my side projects efficiently and maintaining a changelog, among other features.

While there are several enterprise options available such as DeepL or Lokalise, they don’t quite fit my specific use case. ;)
I'm not sure that being physically identical to humans is a necessary characteristic of a p-zombie for anything important. If you can produce an ai which _acts in every observable way as if it were conscious_ without any actual consciousness that would indicate that p-zombies are possible. The current generations of AI don't qualify, but I can see how to get there from here.
Yes, it doesn't, but that's your answer because there is no single, exclusive English word for sexually desiring someone. So there can't really be one that exclusively refers to sexually fantasizing about them, at least, not until the age of extensive psychological and sociological taxonomies.

My response to your finding it difficult to believe is: you're asking for a word for an intensely private act! Think about how rarely people overtly and bluntly say they are sexually fantasizing about someone. When it's actually admitted to, it's done using a variety of metaphors, slang and indirect hints.

And in general, we don't have a commonly used prefix or second compounded word to turn a physical act into a fantasy. Even though "fuck" predates Early Modern there was nothing commonly attached to it to make it mental.
From the AppStore:

Data Linked To You:

Purchases, Location, Search History, Usage Data, Financial Info, Contact Info, Identifiers, Sensitive Info.

Nope Nope Nope.
I use Python but I’m not a professional Python programmer. I use pip and venv, with requirements.txt. It copies Python binary and some of the shared standard libraries from the system, installs the required packages in sites-packages, and it always works fine.

Am I missing anything major by not using conda and Poetry?
Then it's a straight-up hazing question.

And not only that -- it betrays the mathematical (and everyday practical) ignorance of the people who apparently think of themselves as wily and clever for asking it.

It doesn't matter how weird and fuggly that particular language is. The only obvious, intuitive and reasonable way to approach the "How do you rate yourself?" question is always in relative terms, compared to the pool of candidates applying for the job (or perhaps compared to other engineers at the company).

Which either way means a fricken bell curve, obviously and by definition. For which 5 is the median, and the only acceptable answers are "7,8,9".

But instead someone on your time decided they had to be cute and turn it into a "Guess the punchline to the snarky joke question I came up with this morning" question.

This is Intel's idea of culture, apparently.
Texas would be a lot less vulnerable to such volatility if they got out of their own way and connected their grid properly to either (or both) of America's east and west grids.
Either ban short-term rentals or heavily tax them, which serves to make them less profitable.
The issue is most likely about throughput. You want to let fans enter the venue as quick as possible. Most venues have lots of gates, but still the latency at each gate has to be a handful of seconds per ticket. Having to validate both ticket and ID would easily double or triple that time.
experience litigating these issues, often in the same courts, and at the same level -- big cases are a different game.

being able to say with high confidence that "this contract works, and it's withstood scrutiny" and then be able to back that up with court cases showing how it works is a big deal.

if you're signing million and multi-million dollar contracts, or looking at huge risks, tax liabilities, etc., then paying someone 900/hr to make sure you're not going to lose $55MM is nothing.
Is option 3 exactly what you’re supposed to do? Freezing your dependency graph and/or explicitly denoting what version of the dependency you want are your best bets for avoiding problems like this
Yeah that's why I qualified it as before the modern era. There's all kinds of brand names that are just nonsense words.
What we need is a new package manager for Python, incorporating the lessons learnt from the others so far [0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/
> they have some say in it

That's a very carefully crafted sentence. How much, exactly, do artists have a say? Do artists equally have the same amount of "say"?

And why are we even discussing all these nonsense in the first place?
I work in JS and the issues are the same.

It's why NPM creates lockfiles that can freeze the version of direct and indirect deps.
Tomorrow's Internet Today – GFiber Labs and Nokia 50 Gig Demo [video]
https://www.thestorygraph.com/
"Boy" comes from Japanese ボーイ(bōi).

Or more generally from uralic languages, example Finnish: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poika
>This does not justify attacking peaceful people

Sure, but you could say this about every form of protest.

>On the contrary.

Poor people are not spending two days in Barcelona on a whim.
I've been asked this (on a scale from 1 - 5) and have had some success referencing previous performance reviews (i.e. meeting expectations or exceeding expectations). YMMV obviously.
It took the author 15 years to learn basic readline commands?
1. Boeing investors should take a substantial haircut. If those investors subsequently in on new firms, good for them (though initially these new firms may be private). I see no reason they should expect to "get rich" from the investment. The top institutional shareholder is Vanguard whose involvement will have been minimal and whose future behavior is unlikely to change. But Boeing execs whose compensation is largely in stock packages should take a really large hit, and any shareholders who are more apt to be more activist will be more likely to express concern about this kind of conduct sooner.

2. I have to expect that plenty of employees who did not become dead whistle-blowers were not involved in fraud, or poor engineering practices. Certainly a great many long-time Boeing employees expressed concerns about the deterioration of engineering-first culture.
I've been a transplant in many cities, and residents of literally every city points fingers at everyone who can afford the rent instead of pointing fingers at their neighbors that are gambling at trying to get the highest price possible. the neighbors that have the choice not to, the neighbors they can actually influence.

sure, price fixed algorithm based corporate landlords are a problem to address. and there are some people that will propose an even higher rent to ensure they get to be a tenant.

but random people who were unilaterally told a price and saw it fit in their budget? that's not really the target
Why is HN the type of place where someone who is making a logical statement require making a new alt everyday? Maybe he's just afraid of shadow-banning.
I became aware of this quite recently (on this site too IIRC), but it's worth noting that the "growth mindset" findings of the last several decades haven't quite panned out or been replicable upon further review: https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/24418/are-...

I agree the Persistent / Obstinate paradigm seems quite similar, and if anything for those reasons I'm inclined to be (obstinately :P) skeptical.

Less relevant to engineering etc., but I personally find a lot of "successful people do X, unsuccessful people do Y" findings, especially when presented as "innate" or "personality" features, are pretty similar to IQ, the marshmallow test, and other things where it's a frequent victim of selection bias for how scarce resources were in one's upbringing or cognitive development.
c.f.,

https://xkcd.com/1987/
I hate when people reduce that line of the zen in that way; it's actually:

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

That is different from "there's only one way of doing it" in so many ways that it's not even funny.
For the past 9 years, Android has allowed users to disable location permission per app. More recently, you can choose to share "noisy" location, which just provides an approximation of your location.
"I'm generally content with initial offers."
"I recognize that my life experience is not the life experience of everyone else. Some have it better, some have it worse, regardless of how good or bad MY OWN life is.

I recognize that Jane with 4 starving kids, one with cancer, making $7.15/hr with an empty fridge and a broken down car potentially can't just quit her job at the factory today even though they switched from building cars to bombs.

My life is not a comparison against other peoples lives."

Thanks. Just because you have problems doesn't mean they're better or worse than others. This isn't about you. I'm sure your response is "I'd rather be jane than have CFS," or something about how you're morally superior and would be homeless before making a bomb/whatever.

Absolutely weird thought process, especially from someone who has never been homeless but would prefer to be homeless than xyz. Very im14andedgy vibe.
It's just some water, okay, but that seems wrong to disturb people minding their own business. Plus how do they know those are tourists and not native Spaniards?
> That it works for you actually makes me feel less safe flying.

Feel free to ask the flight crew next time you're on a 757. The service record of the 757 speaks for itself. I fly Iceland Air because their fleet consists of 757s. I literally bet my life on my work.

> Boeing tried to blame the pilots

The pilots were partially responsible.

1. First incident - the LA crew followed emergency procedures and continued the flight safely.

2. Second incident - the LA crew restored normal trim 25 times, but never turned off the stab trim system, which is supposed to be a memory item.

3. Third incident - Boeing sent an Emergency Airworthiness Directive to all MAX pilots. The EA crew did not follow the simple 2 step procedure. A contributing factor is the crew was flying at full throttle, and ignored the overspeed warning horn you could hear on the cockpit voice recorder.

> who rather conveniently for Boeing died and are no longer around to defend themselves.

The flight voice and data recorders spoke for them. We know what they did.

If you want to know the truth, read the official government reports on the crashes. Ignore what the mass media says.
I dockerize, but using devcontainer.json, and this also plays well with VScode.
Embrace Personalized Learning
"Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade." - Kevin Ashton, "How To Fly A Horse"

As I recall that book used the example of Franz Reichelt, who "is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt
lol, ok bro. glad to not have to work with you as well since you're really channeling that "can't learn from my mistakes and will keep burdering others with them! Wait, why don't you like me?" energy
So your analogy clearly isn't comparing the McDonald's kitchen to an iPhone factory. I'm not asking to alter anything on the production lines, and I'm not asking for any customization before I take the iPhone home.

The analogy is more like comparing the McDonald's kitchen to the iPhone itself? In that case the answer is obvious. I don't own the kitchen, but I do own the iPhone.

But to elaborate on burgers, since you keep making wild extrapolations, all I would demand is that the burgers not have DRM on them (or Food Rights Management?). Thankfully nobody has invented that yet. But imagine if you couldn't combine your own drink with a McDonald's burger, at home. If that kind of anti-consumer practice was possible, I guarantee you'd see it implemented. And we should not treat it as a right of the restaurant as long as they don't "physically" prevent you from doing it. Outlaw it as soon as it seems like it could be possible.
I do the same thing at AWS, except use a 100, 200, 300, 400 level scale. I am just looking to see what the candidate thinks they are strongest on and weakest. If the candidate says they have never heard of AI/ML topics, there's no point in quizzing them on it. Not everyone can know everything, it wouldn't be fair to judge someone based on not being able to answer questions for a domain they don't claim to have any experience in. Or worse yet, waste valuable / limited interview minutes on fruitless questions.
fwiw, we built an oss plugin for poetry on option #3 when publishing for repeatable installs to automate translation of published wheel metadata from lock file, also supports mono repos.

https://github.com/cloud-custodian/poetry-plugin-freeze
Meh.

From 1 to 5, rate yourself and explain why.

The value itself isn’t what matters, but the reasoning of the candidate and let both of you discuss where the candidate needs some ramp up and where they want to grow.

At some point, a question is like a metric: once you track it and try to improve it, it ceases to be a good metric.

That’s why multiple interviewers cross check themselves and the probation period helps confirm or affirm the fit in the position and the team.
Terminal feature discovery is hard. If you don't regularly use the commands it's easy to forget they exist.
Can I ask you a question, what do you think is better approach: 1) publish packages as wheels or 2) publish apps as docker images (or docker-compose files or helm charts)?

Why some People prefer 1 to 2? I think 2 is more “production friendly” and universal across other languages and stacks (same approach used for java js ruby etc)
> In fact, in my jurisdiction this would be common assault.

In most jurisdictions, it'd be both a) assault and b) something the cops wouldn't give a shit about unless it damages a laptop or something.
This is probably going to bring even more tourists. Which is great.
Are you saying visual programming languages can only work if they can be explained with text?
In bash, if you set $EDITOR to your favorite text editor, you can send the current line to $EDITOR with ctrl-x ctrl-e. After editing the command you can save and exit for the command to execute.
> Persistence and obstinacy often overlap in practice, sharing traits like energy, imagination, resilience, good judgment, focus on a goal, and listening intently.

Obstinacy is defined by a lack of imagination, good judgement, and intent listening.

> For example, Copernicus and Galileo were considered obstinate for his heliocentric theory, but history proved him right. This shows that the line between persistence and obstinacy is often drawn in hindsight.

History didn't prove them right, science did. The fact that people considered them obstinate does not mean that they were. The only future where they would still be considered the obstinate ones is one run by obstinate people. They had the evidence, which was ignored by obstinate heliocentrists. Heliocentrists did not have convincing reasons for their belief that Copernicus/Galileo ignored.
In my experience, modern English adopts idioms more often than new words. "Sexual fantasy" is a common term for what you're asking about. It may sound too dry and basic to be an idiom, but remember that English is packed, filled, stuffed, and choked with synonyms. That most people say "sexual fantasy" points to it being an idiom. "Dirty thoughts" would be a close contender.

If you really want a single verb, "lust."

For sexual fantasies about somebody one's looking at, "undressing with one's eyes."
> I really don't get the sentiment on HN that everything should be free, sorry.

That’s not what your parent comment is arguing. The point is that it’s hard to sustain a business against competitors which offer the same thing for free, and the higher your price point the harder it is.

Maybe you aren’t offering the same thing or your service is so much better that it is worth the price, but that’s a different argument.

> And how can they stay free (…), how long do you think they'll stick around and get new features all the time?

I use one of this other services. It is open-source and I don’t know what their costs are, but it’s been working for me for years. I have zero need for more features from them, I’m happy with the simplicity. That I know of they don’t have LLM costs because they don’t use LLMs, and to me that is a plus. If your service is using LLMs, that honestly makes me less interested in it.
There's two sides to this story. Claiming that tourism is just a negative is just plainly wrong:

[1] 2021: Barcelona started to recover, recording direct tourist spending of €3.7 billion with 4.5 million visitors. This marked a significant improvement as the city began reopening and international travel resumed.

[2] 2023: Tourists in Barcelona spent €9.6 billion in 2023, up 14.7% from 2019
More than 12 million people visited the Catalan capital last year, 6.9% less than four years ago.
Employment and Job Creation: The tourism sector significantly contributes to employment in Barcelona. In 2023, the sector employed around 100,000 people, with nearly 130,000 contracts signed. Notably, more than half of these contracts were permanent, underscoring the sector's role in providing stable jobs .

[3] In fact, the entire tourism industry generates 12% of Catalonia's GDP and low-cost tourism is part of this.

[1] https://www.barcelona.cat/infobarcelona/en/tema/city-council...
[2] https://www.catalannews.com/business/item/tourists-in-barcel...
[3] https://www.catalannews.com/life-style/item/tourism-boom-in-...