jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"switch tester" is the word you're looking for, i.e.:
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_lis...

(or even: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3143070)

it's just a frame, no electronics, that you can snap switches into and then mount a keycap onto them. you can get kits that comes with a handful of different switches + a handful of blank keycaps, or just the frame.

switches can be purchased individually or in small batches for around $1/per (obviously varying by brand and retailer).

you can see how it's a slippery slope from "let me try out a couple switches" to "wanna see my custom keyboard collection?".
As a fan of both the text-based browser and the cryptocurrency, I find the name collision humorous. We'll have to bring up the lack of lynx browser support with the devs :)
> has the same niceness of GitHub

I gitlab significantly harder to use and more error-prone than Github
Yes, the cryptocurrency markets are famously rational.
I did it for a long time. I learned a lot. A lot of my coworkers were really talented hackers.

I don't see the downside.
I don't blame the college kids. At least right now, our capitalist society deems their brains are better spent finding the next good $10M trade as opposed to helping ship Office 2010 or becoming grad students in math / physics / CS.
Off-topic, but thanks. You taught me a new word today!
RMS is the Mao of FOSS
Maybe it's just me, but the process I use to determine what software I choose is not done in the store. Research via reading reviews and recommendations from others is usually the way I go about it.

The problem I have in the App Store (wrt. finding apps that are "free floating") is that I don't know what's out there, and it's difficult to predict what will show up when I type in a specific query.

I'm a gamer, so let's look at games. Typically, for my 360 and PC, I'm well aware of new games that are on the horizon. Big name publishers and even the smaller ones typically receive publicity well in advance of release, and on release day/week there is usually something I can find on metacritic that someone else has written about that game.

OTOH, in the App Store, I have very little idea on the quality of gameplay for new games released that day. Finding reviews outside of the App Store for games developed by one-man-shops is incredibly difficult.

Take the game "Red Conquest" as an example. I heard about it in an online web forum. I never saw it in any App Store category list, and a search for the term "RTS" is bound to contain so much fluff that I still wouldn't have found it. It's a game that I think exemplifies the lost-in-the-shuffle problem in the App Store. (FWIW, I love this game. It's brutally hard, but you can tone down the difficulty to make it manageable. Small things, like the fact that it boots in less than 5 seconds, or that it has bluetooth/wifi multiplayer, make a big difference).

To summarize, it's difficult to search using the search box because you don't know what you're looking for.
s/big/pig/ ?
Startups have the same phenomenom: for every product that people are not buying, there's a substitute that they're buying instead. Either that or consumers are stuffing their money under the mattress, but we know (from the savings rate data) that this isn't happening.

In some ways, there ought to be more variation with startups, because consumers will tend to pile onto the market leader because they're seen as reliable, which starves other firms in the industry and shifts resources onto a few big winners. The information cascades among consumer businesses can be much bigger than the information cascades among financial firms.
The real question is: Do you want to be a financier or a founder? Personally, forget finance. Some of us like to invent stuff, and by stuff I don't mean phony securities.
That accounts from some ways startups can be negatively correlated, but for the purposes of billionaire founders making the Forbes 400, I still say they are all hugely correlated to market conditions that enable crucial funding rounds, M&A events, and IPO events.

Also, if I think startup X sucks, it's not that obvious how I can bet against them and get rich on their dismal failure. But if I think hedge fund Y is doing stupid things, I can take the other side of their trades, and one of us will wind up rich.
BTC can be confiscated too, you don't think Government can take hard drives or get access to cloud data storage.
I think an attempt to scapegoat would look more like "in violation of our established policies and rigorous training, a Canonical Sales Representative contacted one of these developers via LinkedIn."

The actual quote acknowledges that the company's training and policies are at fault. I'd also expect a scapegoat to be publicly fired or disciplined, did they say that elsewhere?
McAfee is no longer to be cited as a credible source, unless it involves his personal life and even then I have my reservations.
Seems like Shanley, on her Twitter feed, has confirmed the validity of this. Bizarre.
I think you are exactly right. Any solutions to this have to be technical and largely defensive. Legal or diplomatic solutions will only bind parties that intend to follow the law. Counter-attacking and deterrence will fail if the attacker is not defending much of anything, so that approach might work against states and state-backed actors, but not against non-state actors.
Forex trading in itself is a fairly neutral, close to zero sum process. The people running forex adds get rich by charging commission on trades and selling get rich courses. Most small speculators lose their money. I guess it remains popular because it's not a total losers game - well informed speculators like Soros can make a great deal of money at it.
There was a long interview with Snowden posted recently, which didn't make it to the frontpage. I guess because of Snowden penalty on HN and Snowden fatigue. Anyway, he kept repeating a point which is quite easy to understand for the public I think.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8859606

And the reality is when it comes to cyber conflicts [...], we have more to lose.

We spend more on research and development than these other countries, so we shouldn’t be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory. We should be cooling down the tensions, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that’s the foundation of our economy and our future.

[...]

The concept there is that there’s not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline. We might steal secrets from a university research programs, and even something high-tech. But how much more does the United States spend on research and development than China does? Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries [...].

[...]

When you look at the problem of the U.S. prioritizing offense over defense, imagine you have two bank vaults, the United States bank vault and the Bank of China. But the U.S. bank vault is completely full. It goes all the way up to the sky. And the Chinese bank vault or the Russian bank vault of the African bank vault or whoever the adversary of the day is, theirs is only half full or a quarter full or a tenth full.

But the U.S. wants to get into their bank vault. So what they do is they build backdoors into every bank vault in the world. But the problem is their vault, the U.S. bank vault, has the same backdoor. So while we’re sneaking over to China and taking things out of their vault, they’re also sneaking over to the United States and taking things out of our vault. And the problem is, because our vault is full, we have so much more to lose. So in relative terms, we gain much less from breaking into the vaults of others than we do from having others break into our vaults.
I am 60 and still cannot believe that people will actually pay you to play with computers and robots all day long! The robots I play with know how to breathe air, which involves a lot of interesting fluid dynamics in addition to all of the other interesting things that go into building and playing with robots. (The technical term for these robots is "intensive care unit ventilator".) I love and am probably addicted to programming. RE debugging: while the rush of relief and victory is satisfying when a problem is found and fixed, I find these days that it is more fun to do technical things differently. Consider a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles to describe a given technical problem. Circle A is "have something working happily, but may be overly simplistic." Circle B is "covers the real problem domain adequately, but may be buggy." The intersection is where you want to be. The question is, from which direction do you approach the intersection? I used to start from Circle B and debug to the intersection. Now, I start from Circle A and stay happy/working, expanding that state until it gets to the intersection. Especially in pair programming I find this to be the best way to go. If two pairing partners are "lost in the woods" trying to debug a problem, they can start stepping on each others' toes and get really unhappy. On the other hand, if they are collaboratively growing an ever-expanding "working/happy" program, things usually go an awful lot better. Related topic: I've come to realize that I am good at "really easy" mathematics, and bad at "really hard" mathematics. So, in struggling with a math problem or new area, my instinct is to massage and massage until the problem magically transforms from "really hard" to "really easy". Just last week I had that huge sweet "AHA" rush. In lambda calculus, there is a cute trick called Church numerals that allows you to encode the non-negative integers as functions. The functions to add, multiply, exponentiate, etc. are all easy, but the function to take the predecessor of a Church numeral is really tricky. I knew the predecessor formula and could mechanically apply it, but did not have any clear insight at all as to how or why it worked. Finally, KAPOW! Came up with a beautifully straightforward, satisfying, and intuitive way to derive the predecessor function of Church numerals.
I have been programming for 30 years, 19 on the Web.
I tried to learn Angular and Ember and failed, more than once.
Earlier this year I had to prototype a fairly complex single page app and was severely time constrained. I tried React and succeeded beyond both my expectations and those of the client. I am in fact itching for a chance to use it again.
Another building products designer/manufacturer here. I'm not sure there is a substitute for practice. I always have a large sketch pad on hand for working out ideas. I think you would benefit from giving yourself design challenges. For me design is about constraints.

1. Cut out a random convex pattern from paper and figure how many of that shape you can get from a piece of paper. Then figure out how you would have to alter it or separate it so as to maximize the number of pieces you could get from a single sheet of paper. How many more did you get from the sheet?

2. Sketch repeating patterns or scribbles on paper and look for meta patterns or get inspiration from one aspect of the pattern that makes you see something else.

3. Estimate how long of a strip of paper you would need to wrap around a cup or a block of legos. Then cut that length out and compare to the actual size to see how well you did. Compare that length to the width or height of the paper you cut it from. Will it divide evenly? Calculate the diameter from the length of the cup wrap or area of the legos.

4. Learn to layout true length triangles

5. Sketch products interesting to you on paper and consider their size and what shape that material would take if you flattened it out. Can you make it all in one piece? See if you can make small alterations to the dimensions to get more out of the material.

6. Take those sketches and try to fit them in a 'golden' ratio, see how close you came.

IMO, learning to find THE meaningful constraints is a key to getting good at design.
One of the most realistic and "real" worlds from a socio-historical pov I've ever read.. Palmer's world building does for history and sociology what peter watts does for biology and neuroscience.
That's a huge amount though considering the fact that the wave of Clubhouse is doing down and more competitors are springing up.
As a 13 year old longhaired wardialer in a not-so-privileged neighborhood in regular contact with a group of same, Xenix was something we commonly encountered. High schools tended to mistrust, rather than encourage computer enthusiasts, and the nearest public library only had a couple elementary books on Unix. I recall feeling like the richest man in the world when a friend got his first job as a night watchman and told me not to ask any questions about where this complete set of Xenix manuals came from. Good ole Xenix on other people's computers became where I honed my shell-scripting abilities at a time when documentation just wasn't so easy to come by.
I'm eagerly awaiting better supported Rust integration with Python for this very reason. I really don't fancy wading back into C/C++ after being away from it for about 5 years and growing as a developer.
I wrote a rudimentary fuzzer at work for the sole purpose of generating core dumps. It worked so well that I got a stern talking to about not helping them release the software.
To me this would be the way to go. I'm not really sure how all you people sort out visa situations long-term.
I've got no sympathy for the bikie gangs, they made their beds and they should lie in them.

But, we Queenslanders should not forgot our history of police power overreach and corruption. Governments give up powers so rarely, they only expand them. I worry about these laws a lot...
Same deal for me with Safari. No, it's not acceptable for an entire system to lockup, and no this is not hardware related.
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> I doubt you could call this programming but I copied my first program from a magazine

We all had to start somewhere. I bet the typos you made while transcribing from the magazine taught you something about getting your syntax right :)
Were you on VPN/Tor, not that I'm implying it's a legible case to block; but I've read VPN/Tor usage on Twitter will lead you to mobile linking inevitably due to said issue.
> there are a lot more uses for it than you might otherwise think

This looks like a solution in search of a problem. People are buying stuff they don't need then finding a good justification for it (from their perspective). But almost anything can be justified this way. Even driving an 18-wheeler will have advantages you never thought about but this doesn't negate the downsides. Mainly that you carry around 4000-5000lbs (over 2000Kg) of metal mainly just to move 1 or 2 people and nothing more. This is a lot of wasted fuel and a lot of space taken in the street.

Coal also has advantages but few people would dare defend it with this argument.
It’s also a marketing strategy. She’d serve a wider audience as speculative fiction than as science fiction.
> But differentiating between freedom of speech and "reach" is just as dangerous as...

I don't think so.

> those people are dangerously ignorant.

I think that is a gross oversimplification.

Much of the repulsive vile speech, such as hate speech, is generally festered among a group bouncing their ideas off each other. You may or may not label such groups as echo chambers. Part of the reason for this is that many people find comfort organizing into groups and generally fear/distrust originality. In other words many people value conformance more than the message to which they are conforming because an idea or message gains credibility the less original it appears and because there is security in numbers.

Mild changes of technology will not instantaneously cure original hateful speech any more than it will instantaneously modify behavior in advance or increased originality or critical thinking. It can, however, vastly alter the reach of that speech allowing vile ideas to proliferate or be constrained to faithful believers.

The balance there is if you modify technology to open wider reach then all speech, including vile hate speech and conspiracy theories, are widely available. If you modify technology to restrict reach then all speech is restricted including objective research and educational material.

My personal solution is to just avoid the online swamps where people congregate merely for the point of gathering and try not to worry about the loud volume of amplified stupidity that leaks out. When the stupidity confronts me in the real world I respond as directly as I can without regard for making people feel stupid or embarrassed, because I generally presume when people bring the full force of unoriginal ideas to me conversationally they do so in a quest to solve their personal insecurities. Don't waste time with stupid.
From the piece:
"Alarming media stories that twist the facts about rising sea levels are dangerous because they scare people unnecessarily and push policymakers toward excessively expensive measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The real solution is to lift the world’s poorest out of poverty and protect them with simple infrastructure."

Part of me is hopeful that this might be right.

And another part of me is worried that this might be a overly optimistic view to make us feel better.

I think I am leaning towards the latter when the proposed solution is simply "life the world's poorest out of poverty."

Feels like "we" have wanted to do that for a long time for many reasons.
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Every marketplace on AngelList is now "Airbnb for X"
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75 odd companies that think they’re the Airbnb of...something. Come on folks, you can be more original than that! …
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