skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who/what are your fun testing personas?
I make a web app and one of the simple bits of daily joy I get is using my test personas to test the app and typing in test data that matches that persona. I'm curious what fun test personas others have when they're making/testing/developing software.

Examples from our company:
- My cofounder uses random historical figures: David Hume, Leif Erikson, Miyamoto Musashi. They're always busy creating tasks like "Sword Sharpening" and "Pillaging".
- A colleague used all cereal characters: Toucan Sam, Tony the Tiger, Lucky Leprechaun
- A colleague used famous Portland Trailblazers

My test personas are in two categories. I have fake alliterative versions of famous mathematicians like "Frank Fourier" and "Lesley Laplace" and then mythological characters from the Mahabharata.

This goes all the way back to when I was a kid and I found out my dad had named all the servers in his lab after famous elephants: Dumbo, Ganesh, Babar...
> No software I used in 1995 will run on my current computers.

Then I'm sorry you didn't play SimCity 2000 (-:
I’d usually side with you and Hanlon‘s razor, but in this case… not trusting Trump with anything sharper than a children’s toy knife sounds pretty reasonable, no?
Is it really so far-fetched some agencies would do everything in their power to keep a low profile and The Menace out of their business?
This comment should be first comment. Instead, I had to endure the HN intelligentsia writing non-sense with the specific arrogance of know-it-alls!
Not at all. I can't "install a cloud storage app on my Heroku and then access it on my phone" without significant technical skills. As an engineer I could figure it out, but I won't, because I don't want to deal with that. Instead I will fantasize about how it ought to work.
Nuclear fusion much easier, quantum computing, lossless electricity transmission, insane batteries. Dirt cheap MRIs, Basically welcome to the Jetsons. Much easier to mitigate climate change to the point where we can just deal with it.
Yeah I’ve had a lot of success in consulting driving the importance of understanding the domain. Some clients have very complex business processes and if you don’t model the domain properly, you can’t even begin to have discussions of development. However, my consulting team doesn’t have many technical members so that could be the cause.
How do your views on rural independence fit with the fact that most rural areas in the United States require massive amounts of monetary support from the more population dense (and progressive) states? [1]

I would argue that this idea of rural areas being independent is a remnant of a bygone era, an era where frontiers yet unsettled still existed. Now, with our desire for modern infrastructure, lifespans, and education, rural areas are kept alive through the very redistribution they claim to oppose.

[1]: http://archive.today/2017.09.16-013424/https://www.theatlant...
Two Nitter instances failed to load it, unfortunately.

And yeah, X is weird to type out too.
If you pay every month and never own it, that's rent. The landlord will try and lock you in and extract value while providing as little as possible. Sometimes you get a good one that takes care of all the issues, but the majority just want their money.

JetBrains figured this out already. Sell me a perpetual software license that I own and charge me separately to get the updates.
In the immediate short term, the power level supported is too low for the real shiny applications that everyone talks about.

But the main one that is screaming at me for this technology sitting in front of us is SQUID sensors and RF antennas that will operate in the lower power range of the potential applications spectrum.
>Not every bot that I'm defending against is a DDoS but I can probably figure out a way to overwhelm the "pre-content" filter that's trying to figure out if a token is legit or not.

That's true of every DDOS filter. It doesn't mean that having a cryptographically secure way to make requests more expensive to produce isn't a tremendous help.

>This is more or less what the proposal does? It's akin to the same shady stuff seen here [1] except this time some third party gets to sign it.

The fingerprint isn't unique to the extent that you can rely on it always correctly identifying a single user. So you can't ban based on the fingerprint or automatically log someone in.
Yup. Not military, but have significantly researched the U.S. secret keeping system because I’ve long been enthralled by espionage. As I understand it, any classified document can be SCI, secure compartmentalize information(I think this is used for spy stuff, barely anyone needs to be able to link a spy’s real ID to their assumed ID, the less people who know the better), or be part of an SAP, Special Access Program(which is more about highly secret projects, it seems, like the 6th gen fighter we’re probably building/have built), both of which have access control which is granted on a need-to-know basis.

And, fyi, as I understand it, “I’m your superior”, is not a valid reason to need-to-know. Need-to-know is, as I understand it, at the discretion of the secret keepers.
Because they had better taste than that
Whistleblower tells Congress US concealing decades program that captures UFOs
One meaning of the word simple is naive and/or unintelligent, so depending on your attitude, simple might be a perfectly good word to use here.
> I don't really care what the rest of the world whines about

thank you for clarifying your point of view so well
I don‘t like hyperbole and excuse my language but I firmly believe that we are utterly fucked.

The high amount of wildfires in the Mediterranean right now and other things happening this month are just the beginning.

Some very bad things will happen very soon and some very comfortable ignorant people will be in a world of pain.

Good luck to everyone, I sincerely mean it. I don’t think scientists have been successful in explaining what kind of painful times we are about to face.
Yes, indeed. Google AI mapped skylights (roof windows) on a shopping mall near me as buildings.
> what would it revolutionise?

"Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!” --Venkman
It's constrained as to how it renders, but check out d2lang[0].

[0] https://d2lang.com
At this point it is probably going to be a human rated Dream chaser. they were the 1st looser in the original commercial crew contract. They seem to be on track for a test launch later this year for Commercial Resupply.
That's a fair point. There's arguably an inflection point where media became "mass" media that's hard to pin down but somewhere in the late 1980's-early 1990's where 24 hour news and the internet were in their infancy. I'm sure there's a smart thesis here that a media expert could make ;)
The Internet in general, programmers especially, and the Web community especially especially owe Google a massive debt of gratitude for all they’ve done over the years.

But this one’s simple: “literally go fuck yourself with this. we will fight you tooth and fucking nail every fucking angstrom on this one. it’s a bridge too far.”.
I'm a Design Recruiter with a Design Background. As a seasoned recruiter, I specialized in placing top-notch Design professionals at Facebook/Meta. My background in design has enabled me to establish a vast network of talented designers, and I take pride in developing strong relationships with my creative contacts.
Look at the failure of VLIW, a compiler can’t know what is going on with the memory system at runtime but the hardware can make a very good guess.
Much like Adobe did to Macs in the 1990s, WeChat has become so powerful they control the platform.

Apple can’t remove WeChat because most consumers would rather change device hardware than lose access to WeChat.
If the people who don't believe we have measurably changed the earth's environment by dumping carbon into the air for centuries suddenly decide that dumping sulfur emissions into the air is something we must avoid because it COULD measurably change our atmosphere I think it's time to consider them actively hostile actors.
Why is cloudflare blogging this? It doesn’t add any more information than the original article and seems tangentially related to their infra other than they are patching systems with the microcode update.
>These systems are commonly air-gapped

Do you have direct experience? Because this is contradictory to my own experience.

When I was in the Air Force we had access to various classified networks at levels up to and including TS. You often needed to be in a SCIF and/or have TEMPEST-rated equipment to log in, depending on the context, but the systems are networked nonetheless.
I don't think I have much control over Paddle's free trial mechanic, but IMO a pretty effective workaround is to just subscribe and then immediately cancel. That should still give you access for the trial period and then simply not charge at the end.

I also grant extended trials on request. So if you'd like a longer trial (e.g. a month for free), you can just shoot me an email :)
Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure
Like the other reply, I'd like to know more about how to build a world like this in general. Not a copy of your world, but more with my own skillset.
I'd bet the country would be transformed by this. SK universities (SNU, KAIST) would rocket in reputation for solid state physics research. Massive money inflows to the country from production of the material. Deep down I think most of us realize that this will probably turn out to be nothing.
In Germany you read articles about skilled worker shortages all the time, except it feels like complete satire. "Shortage of skilled food service workers in Berlin". I am not making this up.

Or even better. Complaints about how software developers in Germany are too expensive and how they prefer to outsource to India instead. At the same time you hear stories about how Polish or Ukrainian developers earn more than that. The wage dumping in Germany is ridiculous.

I am so tired of all this nonsense. From my perspective there are lots of ways to earn money as an independent software developer which at least match a salary of your day job with the potential to let you double or triple your income. The trick is quite simple. Run your business in English and make the entire EU your market.
Colleagues in PR who have contrived one scenario after another in the media to make events go viral at the expense of others

Are you seeing aliens all over? Sure is convenient they can travel time and space and just happen to crash on Earth … just like in TV shows!

There are models to refer to; how much attention we process on average. Gaming that with noise is not hard for mega billion dollar corps and politicians comfortable with never working
And when devs come asking for leaves, show authority by asking them to reschedule their leave plans for later dates and attend to current priority- making better soup.
I think the big difference is some digital content has an exact audience and needs to be highly customized for them. For example, companies don't buy web apps and then modify them into the web app they want they program what they want from the frameworks they choose up. So while code is digital content, it's quite resistant to having its value lowered by copying.
Well it was the same with the internet itself. It's prone to hacks, bugs, and outage, and yet today we all use it to manage our finances and make payments.
It's perfectly possible, it would just take will. We'd need about 5000-10000 GW. Even if you take the very high cost of the newest U.S. reactor at 11.6 Billion for 1.12 GW, you get about 50-100 trillion. Gross World Product is about 80 trillion, so if you did it over 20 years, it's 3-6% of Gross World Product.
Svalboard – Datahand Successor
For any readers who can't watch a video at the moment:

1. To be precise, Pop Shell is an extension for Gnome, not a separate window manager
2. It's available pre-packaged on Fedora, Arch, and Manjaro
3. It's easy to install from source on other distros

Install instructions & source available here:
1. https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-shell/
2. https://github.com/pop-os/shell

I use it as a daily driver on Debian 11. It's the best balance of tiling and "normal" desktop UI I've found so far.
Could this be the end of my Youtube addiction arc?
Note that this doesn't even prevent people from using tools like AutoHotKey or their moral equivalents to make malicious requests from browsers.

It only makes it impossible for legitimate users to run their own code -- people who want to run OpenBSD, or fork Chrome to make sure that ManifestV3 doesn't permanently hobble adblockers, or maintain their own alternative browser UI.
Or, perhaps, that civilization is using found technology from UFOs that crashed on their planet and they haven't quite figured out where the brake pedal is, yet?
Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend anyone. It’s just hard to summarize a whole book in a comment. The war against Ukraine is not just anger, it’s a full scale aggression.
This guy went through all the appropriate channels and is still facing retaliation.

Or are you expecting him to just pull a Snowden, leak everything and be charged with espionage?
XFCE is super modular. You can turn off individual components. You can enable any program to start with the XFCE session.

So, for example, disable xfdesktop and xfwm; enable other window manager of your choice. Then, when you run xfce4-session via any mechanism you get all of XFCE, but with another window manager. You can pull up xfce4-settings manager to handle all system settings as you would in any other XFCE session.

I am pretty sure that LXDE/LXQT allows this sort of modularity as well. I have no clue about KDE and Gnome.

Of particular note, you can combine XFCE's panel applet with a tiling window manager. So then you can keep an application menu and notification area (with associated notification settings) from XFCE with an arbitrary window manager.
Does this also happen with Private Relay, or only non-Apple VPN connections?
Which should be considered surprising in the era of modern international communications, technology, and intel sharing.

The odds of evidence of a UFO hitting the wrong comms channel and then not being seen by someone before getting scrubbed are staggeringly low. So for someone to have wide access across multiple silos and then hear nothing, one must assume either the conspiracy to hide the evidence of UFOs is supernaturally good or the conspiracy is both still using off-grid solutions to coordinate internationally and is somehow suppressing information that should be in their silo from ever landing in the wrong silo.
That one is 5 days old. The one being referenced is https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
>"real nobel price" "maths"

psht, as if
You don't need to tear down the Republic, but you do need to elect representatives that can somehow stand against the relentless current of lobbyists jockeying for appropriations.
Apparently according to the article it's "Accessibility". I've always just heard it without the A to be honest until now.
Where do you get the free uplink?
dwm is great. I took it and ripped all the tiling manager code out of it and turned it into a generic window manager. What has kept me using it all these years is the "window move" and "window resize" system that fell out of this change.

Hold down ALT and CLICK1 on a window, _anywhere_ on that window, and you go into "window move" mode. No need to seek out the "titlebar", just click and move.

Hold down ALT and CLICK3 on a window, _anywhere_ on that window, and you go into "window resize" mode. No need to seek out the "corner edge", just click and it resizes the window.

With just that I can entirely rearrange my desktop with almost no effort and in very little time. It becomes second nature very quickly, and the need for "forced tiling" basically disappears. The problem with WMs isn't the layout strategy, it's the lack of user optimized layout controls.

I've been using this hacked up WM for 15 years. I will use this until I'm dead. I have yet to find anything which I find superior.
The only solution to this kind of thing is to actually roll up our sleeves and make alternatives.

Most people don't have either the skill or time to do that. So we bikeshed instead.
I think they could see that no cars were coming from their vantage, so breaking wasn't necessary from a safety point. You are kinda underselling the whole "something that needs to be worked on." since you know... its in a bunch of cars currently on the road with other people who might not like to be part of the experiment.
Are these men likely to have relationships with women later on in life? Seems like it would be best to give incels a harmless replica of what they want and keep them happy with bread and circuses (or bots in this case) so they do not cause trouble.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877000.
I'm not sure this article has the slam dunk it thinks it does. Those aren't "apps" they are at best "web apps". They use a JS framework and some special markup from what I can tell. In this sense WeChat is more akin to a web browser than having multiple "apps" inside it.

> Since these are “apps within an app”, many of these mini-programs are flouting the App Store rules since they were not downloaded from the App Store.

I mean Drafts has the ability to download actions (not sure if that is the right term) which are JS that run inside the app. I think this is fine and doesn't skirt any rules, I don't see why WeChat is all that different.

All that said, of course Apple is going to make exceptions for WeChat the same way it makes various concessions to other countries.
Fraudsters are surprisingly less motivated to excuse themselves to you than most people. Surprisingly you can't depend on them for anything, so one should instead focus on the systems that reward people who commit fraud.
Direct link to comment: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
And anyways - anything he has claimed since he arrived in Moscow is extremely suspect.
Trump also would have weaponized things like FAA 702 against his political opponents and their staff, so it's likely that many in the IC simply refused to mention these possibilities to him, assuming he personally wouldn't take the initiative.

There is also the possibility they simply told him no (especially given the keyhole/iranian missile thing) the idea that the CiC is the highest practical authority in the IC is, well, somewhat naive.
You're using it wrong. SafetyNet is able to assert that the build the device asserts is what it claims. After you know that, it's up to you to decide whether you trust communications from that build or not. If it's a known-insecure build, you can say that you don't. SafetyNet cannot assert that a third party ROM is what it claims to be, so you have to decide whether you trust communications from that device or not based on not knowing at all what build is on the device.
A feature behind a flag in a browser isn't for the public web sites. It's for devs (web devs and browser devs) to figure out if the feature works, if an API is ergonomic, the various edge cases etc.
To reassure customers?
> Do a daily stand-up

I absolutely disagree with this one. Both the best and worst teams I worked on as a developer both had daily stand ups and the frequency, length, and process was nearly identical. If daily stand ups are a problem for your team, it's usually a symptom of a bigger problem, not a cause.

I'm a manager now and I have multiple teams who report up to me. Personally, I hate daily stand ups so when I took over a new team last year, I floated the idea of switching them from 5 stand ups a week to 3 a week and they unanimously vetoed it. Of all the teams who report to me, they're actually the one that does the best work and are the most independent.

If you feel like your manager or PM is micromanaging, removing your daily stand up isn't going to fix that. They're just going to micromanage you though a different medium.
Let’s sacrifice a goat and pray that room temperature superconductivity is actually finally happening!
how does superconductivity benefit RF antennas?

AFAIK loss at AC still occurs with superconductors because the dielectric loss through the materials still exists.
Well there's the "steer a beam across a screen" as used in CRT's (eg. older oscilloscopes) and the Vectrex game console.

Maybe one could consider lasershows falling in this category too?

See "vector display"
And call them politicians?
Indeed. For the conspiracy to hold water, one must assume (among other things) the President is out of the loop (like in the movie Independence Day) because otherwise, one has to assume too many Presidents that leaked intel on other topics exhibited the self control to hold these secrets close.
> I have not yet figured out a way to control which scenario occurs on any given day.

One tip I heard that seems to work pretty consistently: leave some work unfinished at the end of the day. Whatever you're working on at the end of the day, leave the last one or two tasks almost finished, as in, leave only a few minutes of work left. Say writing some comments to document code, writing a detailed commit message of what you're working on, maybe renaming the functions or variables to something more meaningful before you commit, etc.

The next day you can easily convince yourself, "well I might as well take a minute or two to finish off these one or two trivial things", and now you're in "focused on work" mode and that's often enough momentum to keep going.
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Thank you so much for your call to action; just emailed antitrust@ftc.gov.

For any experiencing barriers for writing the email, my method is below; Bing Chat generated an excellent email that only needed a bit of editing.

1. Open https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environme... page in (ugh) Edge.

2. Open Bing Chat sidebar (top right corner); it auto-summarizes the article.

3: My prompt:
Using the that webpage summary, please write a letter reporting Alphabet for antitrust violation. Please include the following [this language is from the ftc.gov site]:

Q: What companies or organizations are engaging in conduct you believe violates the antitrust laws? A: Alphabet

Q: Why do you believe this conduct may have harmed competition in violation of the antitrust laws? A: [use the article]

Q:What is your role in the situation? A: I'm a user of the Firefox browser

[edit: line breaks for readability]
It's unclear to me how Overture manages to "license wash" OSM data here.

> Transportation: The OMF’s Transportation layer represents a worldwide road network derived from data in the OpenStreetMap project. This community-built data has been recast into the Overture data format which provides consistent segmentation of the data and a linear reference system to support additions of data such as speed limits or real-time traffic.

The OSM ODbL is crystal clear that OSM contributors have to be credited. I don't believe that CDLA Permissive v2.0 magically allows Overture to bypass it.

--EDIT: I missed that they're using different licenses per dataset, the transport theme is OBDL, which I'm sure will trip up users who are not careful.
I'm not sure I follow what you are saying here, sorry. I stated I don't like actual policies and while I don't like certain politicians on a personal level I care more about the policies than the politician. So not really following, my apologies; could you clarify? The only social media I have is HN.
The official blog post from Stability is finally up and would probably be a better URL to link to than the TechCrunch coverage: https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-sdxl-1-announceme...
Cory Doctorow on this issue (kind of):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/