skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they address anywhere about how your company size, existing user base or marketing budget has an influence?

I feel if you're launching something solo without an existing user base and little budget, you should probably side with a descriptive name or maybe associative name (as they're called in the article) over anything clever.

If you're Apple or Google, you could pick any name you want and people are still going to talk about it + try to understand what it is. If you're solo and hoping to grow from organic marketing and word of mouth though, I think it's a big missed opportunity to pick a name that doesn't somewhat describe the product.

For example, you can pretty accurately guess what "hackernews" is over "slashdot". A mention of hackernews seen on a webpage is then more likely to get clicked or Googled for because you're not forcing the user to spend more time figuring out what it is, especially when the name appears with little context e.g. "I saw it on hackernews yesterday".

Edit: I'm not talking about SEO here. I'm talking about when your app name is seen on a web page or mentioned in an online forum, and if a descriptive name has an advantage here.
Well I'm really glad that that trusted circle of instances exists, I don't want anti-Semitism or racism in my timeline. So far octodon.social has been a step up from twitter for me, because it isn't designed to monetize outrage. The model where admins have to police their community or risk being de-federated with the mainstream means that an instance is limited to the scale they can effectively moderate, which is exactly where other social media platforms break for me.
> for useful discussions

That rules out my children's grandparents then.
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Guess I'm out of luck :/ thank you anyway!
> I have no idea how but since I was young I learned that I can read faster when I don't "voice" out the sound of thought

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading
1. Remove the enemie from all gentile countries!

2. Problem solved for everyone!
"Vendor of a product afraid of competing, free product."

Come on, IntelliJ. You are still THE standard in Java development and it's on you to keep that first place. Those "opinins" on Visual Studio Code are ridiculous...

This really makes me want to try out Visual Studio Code for Java.
Honestly... I don't know if that's intentional; Drive 'files' get really laggy really quick in Chrome too.
HSBC has issued a worldwide ban on social media posting because of FinCENFiles
You mentioned being ignored so the obvious question is - how are you applying for these positions? If it's through something like LinkedIn's EasyApply or a similar system, not getting responses is fairly common especially if your CV is missing some of they key terms in the ad and it gets filtered out before it even reaches a person. Even recruiters do this if they aren't technical - I've had words like "statistics", "forecasting" and "machine learning" in my CV and a recruiter turned me down because I don't have experience with "predictive modeling".
I loved the testimonials section. What do you do with that? Do you keep turning them on and off to see how they work? How did you originally find out about how you can extract and set/under feature flags in Windows?
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it's realy great for the price
i recently picked up Mikrotik hEX S https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07F7HDRKX/ref=ppx_yo_dt...

it has PoE input and output, and routerOS has enough features for me.
Ideally one would be able to request a new static IP depending on their needs.
This seems like you'd very quickly end up with a mess of arbitrary heuristics falling over itself with seemingly mundane changes, ala excel
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People in most EU countries are 1) annoyingly conservative when it comes to tech, and 2) the insane bureaucracy and regulations in most EU countries simply does not allow for the formation of a startup sphere. As a result we see 0 innovation in the tech space from Europe's side.

I believe that the hostility of EU countries towards foreigners plays also a big role in all this. If you're a non-EU citizen trying to setup a startup in an EU country, you're out of luck. For me as a non-EU citizen living in an EU country, it's just much simpler to start a startup somewhere else than here.
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I donot Think children of potus would suddenly become sewer cleaners either. is that determination by birth?
Problem has been and is poverty. if british government treated india like england none of these problems would exist.
And, food was expensive, it cost a majority of most people's income.

While today it costs next to nothing for us to feed the homeless, then it would have been almost as expensive as hiring them.
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Not the worst start.
I've started using a LG 27UL650 4K and so far it seems good. I noticed some mild ghosting though... not sure if it's config related.
Arguably, Google shouldn't need any SEO ;) so any SEO related arguments for naming a product go out of the window for them.
That's a good point, in a lot of cases the major impact that you make on the world is being part of the machinery that keeps everyone's food, entertainment and housing maintained.
> what I'm arguing is that you may not know if you get selective information, potentially taken out of context, to advocate some cause that's actually harming the national interest.

Of course you can know: you _always_ get out of context, selective information. But the thing to do for a good faith government when this happens is to provide context, not to silence the people that provided the information.
The joys of shared medium. IIRC, AVM FritzBox'es with cable modems are ridiculously locked down compared to their DSL counterparts to prevent people from hacking the DOCSIS transmitters to flood the cable with junk.
What about open-source infrastructure with a closed-source antispam plug-in?
Fiber is immune to this kind of thing isn't it?

So it's posssibly more of a story about the ISP being cheap.
He predicted Göbekli Tepe would be there before it was found? That is amazing.
It is my understanding that if the court orders something, then that is a court order. If you don't follow that order you are in contempt of court and the judge can lock you up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court
I had to laugh when he said having a high speed hard drive with a magnetic head over a platter is like flying a Boeing 747 six inches above the ground.
That’s not how companies are born. The brand name is not chosen at the beginning but it’s built over time.

I guarantee you, if Apple was called Orange, it wouldn’t be any different. It’s the same with logos. As far as you stay away from obvious infractions such as phallic or derogatory names, you’re good to go.

Spend time adding meaning and goodwill to the brand name instead of the other way around. Build a great company and focus on that.

Apple is such a generic name but it survives the SEO and a bunch of other no-no’s in most branding guides.

We’ve got enough advice on brand names. There is an article or two on HN and it’s frankly not that interesting or valuable.
On a related note, one of the things I remember finding most interesting from Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens was his remark that (paraphrasing) "we didn't domesticate wheat—it domesticated us!"
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Oops. I misunderstood. I was really confused by this whole thread until I went back and looked at the page source and realized the person I replied to meant that with JS turned off, the page is blank.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...

For me this was kind of an eye opening article.

Let's say I liked some historical novel by that one author. I searched for some similar books. Maybe I read some detective story on similar theme with some deeper meaning that uncovers human nature. Did I try to find books that oppose these ideas? Or did I try to search for a third book with similar message?

Let's say suddenly I am leaning far right. I read so many books on that topic and I know that this is actually a human nature and world is like that and so on.

But is it? Or I just saw what authors wanted me to see? Did I become more intelligent or brainwashed?
I did not play the original Master of Orion, but absolutely loved the second part.

I started focussing on science (namely Psilons) and only later developed a taste for trying out other strategies/races. I often played multiplayer with friends too, and really liked the laid back atmosphere enabled by turn based strategy.
> Arguably, Google shouldn't need any SEO ;)

Why? SEO is really about making stuff easy for a computer + users to understand.

A descriptive name is sure to have SEO benefits though, but I was more talking from user understanding when they see the name without much context.
> No illegal content for a social media service from China is a pretty large negative point.

If they allowed illegal content, they'd have been banned even sooner. The best you can hope for is that they do not apply Chinese law outside of China, which seems to be the case, considering they have to make TikTok unavailable in China to avoid people seeing anything that's illegal in China.
He's talking about the 2004 documentary series on TV.
Someone needs to explain why it took 18 months to figure this out considering how simple it was to detect.

You have a problem that's repeatable right on schedule, that presumably shows up in the logs and affects multiple customers. It should be a no-brainer to send someone with test equipment out there to measure things in the field while the problem was happening.
> Federated systems just don't work in practice because of inherent problems with them

The entire form of current global human society is federated so you can't simply state it does not work. For the internet so far we have a few empires that battle it out, but I don't think they are manageable long term and this has started to become apparent.
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Author is still using an iCloud email address. Need a Self-Hosting Part 6.
52 Instagram ads shown to me in 86 seconds
Ads are instagram's business model!And I like seeing ads too. But how did they think that I can see 52 ads CONTINUOUSLY in 86 seconds?

The moment I saw the 5th continuous ad, I was wary.
They either think their users are dumb or the brands that advertise with them are dumb.

What is your opinion on this ?
> hacking the DOCSIS transmitters to flood the cable with junk

Can't any other modem (on which you have root access) be used to flood it? Furthermore why are they even worried about a modem when someone with malicious intent can just ground the cable or even send mains electricity into it and permanently damage all the equipment on the line?
I feel like a drone with image processing and a saw blade is a far better solution here.
And what happened 20 years ago?

In Sweden, deaths are at their highest level since 1993.
What happened in 1993? A flu epidemic.
Programming is 95% reading and thinking about code and 5% writing code.

My brain. My brain is the bottleneck.
For cheap long-term storage, that you probably will never have to access, AWS S3 Glacier may be worth a look. Storage is really pretty cheap (100gb for a year starts at $4.80), retrieving data is somewhat more expensive (but if you can wait a bit, it's not a very expensive, and there's a 10gb/month free quota). It's been recommended to me several times as a great place to store encrypted personal backups, but I haven't got around to actually try it.

Best of luck to you! I hope everything works out well for you!

On an aside, does anyone know whether tools like Resilio Sync are still an option? I've used that to backup my photo library from my iPhone to a local server for years, is this still a viable option? Currently doing full-device backups, but retrieval is a hassle, and I routinely take work-related photos (whiteboards) that I can't upload to iCloud.
Which means that if this rate of installation continues, in 20 years you'd have replaced about 100% of the power requirements of today in nameplate values- but the actual production is at best 20%-30% of that value. So in 20 years you would have offset say 30% of that 27% of emissions due to electricity generation: so 8% of todays' emissions. In 2040. Is this your grand plan to save earth from an existential threat?

If we installed nuclear capacity for 200% of today's power generation, instead, we'd have enough spare capacity to convert transport, heating and some industrial processes to electric, reducing our carbon footprint beyond the 30% mark into the 40% or 50%.
>Legged locomotion technology is far enough along to make that work standalone.

Says you?
There might be fiber running up the village.

If the speed doesn't saturate DSL or coax standards, running fiber to every home is not very wise, even for long term.

Until recently, fiber was not even that cheap to distribute in larger cities. It's been 3-4 years since the city I live in switched to FTTX distribution.
I realise this but the solution is not to wave the don't shoot, I'm with you flag. The real solution is to get the discussion to revolve around the message instead of the messenger. This is a culture change and as such it takes time and you'll have to suffer the (no so) occasional downvote-into-oblivion experience but so be it.

Here comes some ethically questionable but effective advice to stay alive in the HN jungle: if you're low on karma points you just post a few karma-whoring replies to top up the counter. Once you can breathe again you can state your mind freely until that karma counter goes down towards the red zone again after which you need to top it up again. It is very unfortunate that this is needed to stay alive here for those who have not yet built up a sufficient buffer of points but things being the way they are there is no other way for those who like to speak their mind on the edge of the sometimes very narrow Overton window.
If my neighbors can't smell I ate garlic last week, it's not enough garlic.
Open world as in sandbox? Sandbox is a very big genre among indie games.
Germany has lost the race for renewable energy against China, and it is losing the race for EVs against both the US and China. Two tech sectors that will generate immense wealth. Around 30% of Germany's GDP depends on the automotive market. There are whole factories in Germany that design parts that will soon be completely obsolete, and they're not adjusting any of their strategies. The EU has most definitely lost the tech race.
Ask HN: What can one do for climate change that is bigger than just local
Hi,

I'm trying my best every day on improving my lifestyle in order to reduce my carbon footprint - going by foot/bike, recycling, reducing the amount of plastic, etc.

But this feels local. I feel like it has a minimal impact and it's clearly not enough compared to the global crisis.

One would say that I could "lead by example" and hope that more and more people will follow up. I agree with that, but it's not enough.

What I'm trying to do is find a way to drastically change things. Something that will have a resonating impact - at least on my area. Bigger the better.

And I'm stuck here.

I could go into politics, but discussing with my "conservative" (to say the least) father made me realize that I will have to fight against opposition about any ecological suggestion I might have.

I could build a website to interest people about the matter, but I think "ecological influencers" are doing a better job that I ever will.

I'd love to go into chemistry, and find an efficient way to absorb CO2 in the atmosphere - that would definitely have the biggest impact - but I don't have the knowledge to do so, and going deep in this road might lead to nothing in the end (there is no guarantee to find a solution).

I could educate my children about it - which is what I'm already doing - but it's a job that will take years, with a "return of investment" in two decades, where it might be too late.

So here I am, thinking about what I could do that is bigger than just me and my surroundings, and I fail to find a solution.

I know there are some brilliant minds on HN, and I'm hoping this will bring enough suggestions to feed more than me on that quest.

Thoughts?
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They are not identical but do not preclude extensive reporting as is demonstrated by Craig Murray who single-handed has put the BBC to shame

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
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The organization Byard heads long predates Mello-Roos. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Patrol_Special_P..., https://sfpatrolspecpolice.com/contact.html (lists Byard as President), and https://sfpatrolspecpolice.com/history.html And AFAIU Mello-Roos isn't implicated at all; patrols are funded through private contracts with homeowners and neighborhood groups.

TL;DR: The Special Patrol is a quasi-private police force organized years before creation of the public police department. SFPD has been trying to get rid of them for many, many years, but I'm guessing SF's old money keeps them around as a hedge. SFPD did successfully get their arrest powers stripped, though. (According to Wikipedia stripped in 1994, which is recent on a 150+ year timeline.)

I don't see what the problem is, honestly. Sure, poorer neighborhoods can't afford their own private police force. But it does free up resources to be redirected to those neighborhoods. And it's not like SF's elite are miserly when it comes to funding the city--they're happy to pay for their private police force and a robust public police force, not instead of a public force. Anyhow, some of those poorer neighborhoods are now agitating for fewer public police. Go figure.

EDIT: Special Patrol commissions seem to be transferable: "Patrol special police officers designated as the owners of a certain beat or territory or the legal heirs or representatives of the owners may dispose of their interest in the beat or territory to a person of good moral character, approved by the Police Commission and eligible for appointment as a patrol special police officer." https://sfpatrolspecpolice.com/charter.html That's cool.
One should always strive to use the simplest tool that gets the job done. Java comes with an insane stack by default. Not only must you understand all those parts (the vm and IDE), you must have a strong enough computer to work with it. Java developers always need the beefiest most expensive machines to work.
Yes, this is the libertarian viewpoint.

In the rest of the world, we think that in a healthy society, we as individuals sometimes have to sacrifice for the greater good of everyone. In the United States, self-sacrifice is only good if you die killing others in the "service" of your country.

The rest of us see ideas like quarantine not as the sign of a unhealthy and dysfunctional society but proof that we can work together to beat even a fearsome, non-human enemy like a pandemic.

And now these two contrasting ideas are being tested by COVID-19. We'll see in the end whose idea works better - your individualistic views, or our cooperative ones.
The explanation is even simpler - COVID lockdowns destroy economies whilst achieving little else.

New York is at herd immunity now, which is being calculated at about 20%, so there is no justification for any restrictions remaining in place.
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Ask HN: Companies working on hard tech problems?
Hey HN! I wanted to find not-so-popular companies working on hard tech, long term problems, broadly falling into, but not relegated to, nuclear and clean energy, genetics, robotics, high performance computing, self driving cars.

I think there are quite a few companies like this in various countries, away from SF PR that we don't know about.
Clearly one character lookahead is not sufficient, because e.g. '0. toString()' (note the space). There's no question that the lexer could in principle disambiguate with unbounded lookahead, but it would be a bit hacky, as you'd effectively be implementing part of the parser in the lexer (by attempting to figure out if if was a method call, which is really the parser's job).

So basically, you could easily write a parser that allowed '0.toString()', but you'd either have to piece numeric literals together in the parser or add nasty hacks to the lexer.
Between the tiktok / wechat ban in the US and this, even if they don't materialize, I'm wondering if this is where we are heading. A deglobalization of social networks, each country or continent having its own...
It did in the USA in March / April 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/business/negative-oil-prices-...
Having used both VSCode and IntelliJ in anger - VSCode is nice, but the refactoring and other features in IntelliJ blow it out of the water (IMHO).
"You want to take basic medical precautions against a pandemic! That disturbs me."

Why?! Why does that disturb you? What disturbs the rest of us is watching America refusing to believe in basic medical facts!@
Midi's are also easier to content block as another user.
> transfer photos off of my phone is not so easy.

If you have a Mac, then "Image Transfer" is what you are looking for. It allows to simply sync fotos and images as their raw files (original quality if so configured) to a directory.

From there you can do whatever you want with them (put them on multiple separate disks, upload them to galleries, strip jpg and distribute them etc.

You do miss out on face detection, but stuff like 'locations' can be easily done with the GPS data in the EXIF, just loop through your files and rip the details out of EXIF, store in DB and make a little interface for it et voila.

But yes, in the end, I would love to be able to say "store my shit at X" where X is my private colocated box, while still using apple's pretty cool photo management services.
Till then (which will never come ;) ) I just have the small 3CHF/month plan which gives 200GiB, which is good enough for 'the best photos of the last few months'.

PS: Indeed, one has to plug the phone into the computer and then do the copy/sync, but that also gives on the moment to run iTunes for a full backup, always a good idea just in case stuff breaks/goes-missing/etc.
> running fiber to every home is not very wise, even for long term.

Why not?

Old copper will keep deteriorating and spending money repairing it is a waste. Fiber on the other hand is future-proof for the next ~50 years provided it's kept in good condition as you can increase bandwidth by upgrading equipment at both ends without replacing the actual glass.
I grew up playing Rebelstar 2, and Chaos, his other amazing game... part of my early programming experience was making a map editor for R2 and making new monsters for Chaos!
> My top 4 games by playtime in the last few years were Rimworld, Oxygen Not Included, Dwarf Fortress and WoW Classic.

I had a similar experience with Cosmoteer. And the darn thing is not even released yet! :)