skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TV Tropes definition

> A "Shaggy Dog" Story is a plot with a high level of build-up and complicating action, only to be resolved with an anti-climax or ironic reversal, usually one that makes the entire story meaningless. The term comes from a type of joke (called "gildersome" in The Meaning of Liff) that worked the same way—a basic premise, a long amount of buildup, and a deliberately underwhelming punchline.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShaggyDogStory
Silicon Valley culture encourages lying and some of its leaders are the biggest liars. I am more willing to believe that SBF is an earnest product of this culture who got in over his head and caused damage, than that he is some kind of medical outlier.
That looked a lot more like Spiral development. Think about 3 month iterations where the design docs are built and approved before software development begins. It's a bunch of mini-waterfalls.
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When I was a kid, I saw a toy phone that would normally play DTMF tones when you pressed a key, but also had hidden sounds for different key combinations. This was at a family gathering, so I was naturally very bored and brute-forced them all, at least the 2-key ones. I don't remember what all the hidden sounds were, just different ringtones I think.

Now the engineer within me wonders if the DTMF tones it played were actually accurate.
Somehow this sounds like another future vector of attack
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes, and hybrid if local

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Tailwind, NextJS, Sanity CMS, Node, Python, PyTorch, Netlify, Vercel, Figma, Storybook, Chromatic

Résumé/CV: https://zackrdavis.github.io/resume.pdf

Email: zackrdavis[at]gmail[dot]com

I'm a frontend engineer with lots of experience building fast, fun, accessible user-interfaces. I've worked for startups, enterprise clients, agencies, museums, and artists. I built a robot actor for a theater company and an ML-driven real-time font-generator that you can read about here: https://zackrdavis.github.io/fonting-with-gans-2
Wagner-linked influence operations remain active after leader's death
Easy way to create teams for team-based games
you can create two teams in a pool with sessions or by the computer
and now i get to identify as european in heated internet debates
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they should split the state into regions (groups of counties) and put the repeal on a ballot at region granularity to see if the "fuck-you-I-got-mine" set would sink each other
I meant RUP - Rational Unified Process, but RAD also would work - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development
My impression is that matrix is run badly. Am I wrong?
When did this become normal? Just another sign of political polarization? I drive a Tesla and a Beetle. I couldn't care less what cars others drive, Teslas or not. (Apart from the novelty of "hey that's an interesting car, what's it like?" sort of stuff)

I find that kind of thing to say more about the people doing the disapproving than of the ones driving certain cars. Doesn't it sound absurd to "disapprove" of people based on a car they drive (an entirely personal choice of product that doesn't affect anyone/anything).
That s the balance sheet bargain: cheap labor.

However, politically China owns your physical factories, and switching production if there's a war over Taiwan is not a two week sprint / 5 point ticket.
Will EU ever allow them in?
With the problem of Hungary vetoing a lot (to help Russia) letting B&H in does not look smart.

B&H comes with its own bag of problems too.
It's interesting that you're slinging around moron accusations at Yudkowsky seemingly unaware that slatestarcodex thinks very highly of his intelligence and Scott's blog is downwind of Yudkowsky.
Mason bees have their own set of problems. Like the need to breed it and import the insects each time in some areas where they can't survive winter, or favouring some ornamental trees over most common cultured fruit trees.
Maintainers have an obvious contract with their users, even for open source projects. Everyone thinks what “Jia Tan” is unacceptable, even though he’s an open source maintainer! You have an obligation to not cause harm to people who use your software.
Location: Central Florida region

Open to Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, Java, Python, RHEL, Operations, Bash, Windows Server, Vmware, VirtualBox ,AIX, RHEL, Debian ,Docker

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Goggle has been the biggest disaster of the internet.

Not only are they reading 1/3 of all email traffic in the world, but the worst of it is www search.

With the lack of semantic features in http, the worlds access to the information of the web is only and exactly what goggle wants it to be.
Location: New York
Remote: onsite or remote
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Postgresql, Bootstrap, HTMX, Celery, C#, Dotnet, Linux, Docker and Github.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abe101/
Email: abe2404@habet.dev

About me: Started developing as a hobby 3 years ago, been doing contract work for a year and a half. I am a big fan of pairing Django with HTMX its really powerful combo!
As a hobby I've built https://mergecal.habet.dev/ a tool that allows you to merge published calendar (ical) feeds into a single feed.
It sounds fake, especially as the solution would be to get the original equipment higher, instead of buying new equipment?

Also why not lay a cable.
I live in LA and I'm not sure this article is about California. Seems like a grab bag of regurgitated nonsense.

I run a business and let me tell you there is no unemployment here, it's hard to retain employees.

There is no outflow of migration as far as I can see, housing is extremely scarce.

In fact one of the only reasons I would leave is because housing is cheaper elsewhere.

California is doing so well, that me and many other people are paying a huge premium to live here.

Also SF isn't California, it's a small part of the state.
Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
Remote: Preferred
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Technologies: Full-stack JavaScript & TypeScript (Node RESTful APIs, frontend libs, and SPAs), AWS, PHP, mariaDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, and some Rust
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Email: paste into console/REPL: console.log(atob("am9ib3BzQGxvZ2FuaG91cC5jb20="))

I'm an experienced, senior web/software developer who's built high-performance websites, designed databases, and managed developer operations. I believe iterative, cross-discipline collaboration is the secret to building effective, innovative experiences for clients and end-users alike. My primary language expertise is in JavaScript and its corresponding ecosystem(s), but I also have proven experience writing PHP as well.
It's bad writing. It's objectively terrible writing in fact. Purely on a volume standpoint, the average novel is 100K words. The Brothers K is HALF the length.

If we ignore that it's a rewriting of JKR's 7 novel series, which gives it a certain amount of coherency, Yudkowsky violates almost every writing guideline in a bad way. In fact, I could probably write an infinitely long coherent essay describing the ways HPMOR violates a reader's mind. It would be easy given almost 700K source material.

But to point at some gaping holes, the plot has no pacing, and the entire story is a badly written self insert where the mc goes around and "fixes" JKR's plot-holes by writing themself into a corner.

The solution to this, is, of course, to write another 20K words of expecto patronum, dispel the plothole with more rationalist bullshit.

Your average fanfic is probably better written.
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I think the real question is: how much of the degree is a signal and how much is an actual increase in knowledge/ability? I know since economists have done work on this and, to my memory, it’s split about 50/50.

If it slides too far to the signal side, it becomes a bad proxy. Considering grade inflation is a thing, I wonder how much of that relationship gets eroded
gtk+/gnome folks were apparently at least vaguely aware of Amiga MUI e.g. discussing it in a context of implementing theming/styling in Feb 1998 -

https://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-themes-list/1998-Febr...
> In real life volunteering you don’t get random drive-by input from outsiders.

Sure you do: everyone likes to comment on whether your volunteering work is an effective use of time and resources or not.
Except, there has been a disclaimer for as long as I can remember that clearly states that incognito will not hide your activity from websites, your employer, or a gov agency. It has always been billed as a way to order a present without a shared user seeing that in the history.
Agreed. Opus definitely has taken most of my usage as of late.
This does not appear to do anything that xdotool doesn't already do.
Maybe all states should do that. California is not the most corrupt state.

This analysis puts it at 24/50 in fact.

https://bestlifeonline.com/most-corrupt-state-america/
Agree that spending needs to be cut. But my understanding is that before Prop 13, California's tax revenue was more balanced between property, sales, and income taxes, and thus less subject to the boom and bust cycles that we see now (https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-budget-whiplash...).
Whenever I see hit pieces written about my home state CA, that further confirms to me that it's prospering. Otherwise they wouldn't be talking about us.
Wayback Machine archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240401233215/https://www.econo...
Is this just conservative propaganda? Source?
The problem is the kind of taxation, not the amount. Beyond the fact that property tax is less of a burden on economic activity than income tax, it's also the case that property tax is less likely to bankrupt the state because of reduced revenue during economic downturns.
Could it be repealed via a legal case? I suspect any law that effectively says "established residents have next to no property tax while new residents have the tax recalculated" would definitely affect some protected groups negatively compared to others. In which case this law cannot exist right? You can't make a law that has a negative effect on a protected group specifically, even if unintentionally.

We had a proposition in Palo Alto that only local residents could use some of the parks. That was challenged and now doesn't exist as you can guess how police identified non-locals. Can we do the same for prop 13?
I was going to say Lies of P was cracked, but turns out they just removed it from their game. It was up on piracy sites the same day.

I wonder why this happens? Does Denuvo cost a lot of ongoing subscription money for a developer or something? I’ve noticed this happens a decent amount.
I wonder if, as part of that name change, they'll apply for the new top level domain (TLD .cern) as well
https://icannwiki.org/.cern
Local zoning decisions could probably be done given that they are not expressly enumerated in the California constitution today. Cities' current authority to do so is defined by Article XI Section 7, which just says "A county or city may make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws.[1] ". Theoretically the state could just pass a general law that now conflicts with this and then localities have restrictions on zoning.

Prop 13 was passed in 1978 as a constitutional amendment, so the only way to repeal or reform that would be another amendment. The process for doing so via the legislature requires a two thirds supermajority in both houses, and then it goes to the ballot anyways. https://ballotpedia.org/California_Constitution#Amending_the...
People also said cigarettes were bad, or lead pipes.

"People say [thing] is bad, but completely different people 50 years ago said [other thing] was bad" is not really an argument
Ah, gotcha! The choice to use Flutter Web in the demo was just for presentational effect. Celest is built to work with all of the Flutter platforms equally.
Thanks for all the sources! Especially surprised on the Google one, used to work there and remember hearing that considerable parts of Fuchsia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)) were written in Rust but didn’t know they were also conducting studies across the org about how much more productive eng were with it. Pretty cool
This headline is ridiculous, California has a GDP comparable to India, fabulous wealth and a history as one of the most innovative and pleasant places to live globally. They also have the lion's share of influence in the most powerful body on the planet, the US Congress. This is the most capable self-determining polity on the planet.

Any economic problems they are having are (1) self inflicted, (2) policy driven and (2) could be fixed very quickly if the locals would admit that it is a problem worth fixing. Presumably the locals aren't worried.
> Now it looks more like nation-state spycraft.

I disagree, plenty of exploits implemented WireGuard-like crypto key access to them.
It's far too late to be posting April fool articles
Something only the rich could love.

Repealing prop 13 would cause the single biggest increase in homelessness in the states history.

A huge percentage of California homeowners would be evicted as a consequence of their next 10x higher property tax bill...
Yeah definitely, good point. I got that wrong above: He is in fact a postgres contributor who happens to be MS employee and not an MS employee who happens to be a postgres contributor.
Higher population and 4% unemployment would suggest jobs have increased since
This is the real answer in my opinion. Prop 13 does make some sense (especially in its current form now that the other measure passed that limits prop 13 for homeowners over 1 million in value).

But for commercial real estate ? That seems totally ridiculous. There is so much tax that could be collected there!
Deleting zoning would be be an incredible boost for the economy, but I don't think it's politically possible. Prop 13 is a constitutional amendment that the legislature can't repeal.

Folks are addicted to spending money, and the results don't really matter. It took national outrage to get us to value-engineer a $1.6M toilet down to $1.0M.
California has the lowest rates of home ownership in the country at 18%. More people are subsidizing the current system than are benefiting from it.
You can use dependencies. You just need to cache them internally, review them meticulously, and never upgrade them without going through the review process again. It's a huge pain but some companies do it.
https://archive.is/5NQOa
They definitely cannot just repeal it outright, but they could give the housing marking a "soft landing" by just changing the max increase %. Let's say that we want to deal with the case of properties' real values being 5x the assessed tax value, assuming 0 future appreciation here's how long it would take for property taxes to catch up at 2%:

log(5)/log(1.02) = 81 years

and at 8%:

log(5)/log(1.08) = 21 years
Unless you screw something, a different next token does not mean wrong answer. Examples:

(80% of the time) The answer to the expression 2 + 2 is 4

(15% of the time) The answer to the expression 2 + 2 is Four

(5% of the time) The answer to the expression 2 + 2 is certainly

(95% of the time) The answer to the expression 2 + 2 is certainly Four

This is how you can asp ChatGPT the same question few times and it can give you different words each time, and still be correct.
That doesn't seem correct:

If they determine the vulnerability is only exploitable by the NSA for reasons
such as computational resources, budget, or skill set, they label it as NOBUS
and will not move to patch it, but rather leave it open to exploit against current
or future targets.

If (!) the NSA regards ssh keys as secure, then from that article it sounds like the NOBUS thing would fit.