skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a company that gave people generous leeway to purchase computer gear they wanted.

We already had good computers and monitors, so fancy mechanical keyboards were the #1 purchase for most people. The mechanical keyboard fans nerded out over different switches and other hardware, spending countless hours doing research and trying out different types of keys.

And then slowly nearly everyone went back to regular old keyboards. There were a few die-hards who stuck to the mechanical keyboards, but most people eventually realized that the mechanical keyboard experience didn't really live up to the mechanical keyboard hype.

Some people love them, but the narrative that mechanical keyboards are objectively superior has gotten out of hand in recent years. In my experience, the average programmer doesn't really enjoy heavy mechanical keyboards over the long run.

(And before I get buried in comments that we weren't using the "right" switches or keys or whatever, trust me when I say that the office went through a lot of different variations and there was a lot of trading around)
why does the local council not employ people to clean the streets?
same here. do you have the extra attachments? i've got the track ball and i can't live without it.
I have an IBM model M and a Pkr3 with Cherry MX Browns sitting on the shelf.

What I’ve discovered over time is that I’m some kind of peasant when it comes to typing.

What I really like are thin, low travel laptop keyboards and trackpads instead of mice.

Small, symmetrical with everything centred below an external monitor.

I love the idea of mechanical keyboards but the reality is that actuation force and the key travel just make me wrists hurt after a while.
> "Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist", or "Everyone should learn to be a copy editor".

In theory, everyone already is a citizen journalist, and everyone should've learned to be a copy editor in the public school system. Much of the impetus for the "everyone should learn to code" effort is by analogy with English class, which is required every year in the public school system, but programming class is usually an exotic elective reserved for upper-middle-class districts. Illiteracy is not socially acceptable in America, but lots of people will say "Oh, I'm just not a math person", and programming is considered a profession rather than a requisite skill.

The woes of professional journalists are somewhat related to this. We're surrounded by a glut of potential writers. Because of that, we need heuristics for who we should actually pay attention to. One easy heuristic for that is pedigree: who do you know, what family were you born into, which college did you go to?
>I don't know why people want massive keys with massive amounts of travel.

I always think the same when buying condoms...humans probably.
Government jobs care about certs a lot, but I don't think most big tech companies do.
> One day I got tired and bought a 10 euro keyboard from the grocery shop. Noname, slimline, rubber domes. What a relief that was.

Actually, I had the same thing happen to me during my mechanical keyboard experiment when I had to use some old keyboard found in the basement on a raspberrypi.

It felt SO GOOD, SO COMFORTABLE, that I said "screw that experiment, I'll accept that I'm an uncultured swine who likes membrane keyboards!"

I decided to stop trying to fit my tastes to what's popular, and instead added that quirk to my list of differences with normal geeks (who hate many of the things I like, such as Windows...)

Then I bought myself a Thinkpad SK-88xx membrane keyboard new in a box at a price that'd make even mechanical keyboard snobs cry, and I've been happy ever since with regular Thinkpad membrane keyboards :)
To you and the parent poster and the grandparent poster, I wonder if you've ever tried a mechanical keyboard with low profile keys and keycaps?

I enjoy mechanical keyboards myself, and even so, I found myself liking the low profile ones a lot better. Like you said, I love the tactile feel, and I also find regular sized mechanical keyboards too high.

I currently use two: The Keychron K1 "Ultra thin" for work and the HAVIT Low Profile one. Both are a joy to type with. They are as thin as any rubber dome keyboards and provide a better type feel.
I had used HHKB Pro 2 for 10 years and I wouldn't switch to anything else ever, so I bought 3x HHKB JP when I last went to Japan in 2013 (to get the arrow keys and have the same keyboard everywhere/for backup) and I have been programming on those ever since (even if the Japaneese layout is slightly worse than US for programming: http://mouth.rupy.se/keyboard.html).

But last month I bought this: https://kbdfans.com/products/fully-assembled-60-plastic-mech... just to try something else, and it's plesant but pretty far from a HHKB! Also for some strange reason the shift/ctrl buttons don't work with Java Minecraft on linux! Go figure, probably some odd LWJGL + TWM bug?
Encrypted messaging apps present a dilemma for law enforcement
I thought the App Store was designed explicitly to prevent people from gaming numbers... What gives, Apple?
How would an internal study of (1) work? If I had any hint of data that we’re passing over fully competent candidates while positions go unfilled, I’m going to have already fixed it. I don’t care if the candidates improperly passed over are right or left handed, what their blood type/Rh factor is, what gender/background, or how tall they are.

If we assessed them as competent originally, we’d have made the offer. I don’t know how looking at the same data again will change anything.

(I think there probably are biases in evaluation of competence, but those likely wont show up in a review of the same data that has recorded those biases as fact.)
You may have to take the "field of dreams" approach to this. "If you build it they (the investors) will come." You might need to borrow the money, even at the high rate to build the place, then get investors on board after the property is built. I would think it would be easier to get someone to give you money if you can show them a physical property.

You could also build out part of the property, then get the investors to help you finish it.
They do. The government is just ineffective at its job.
Sino-American Competition and the Search for Historical Analogies
Haha, we're using the same keyboard. This one is pretty nice. Strange that you had quality issues tho, first I've heard with Topre.
> [Apple] is using the same broken star score system that uplifts scammers for its own benefit as well. And it’s a crystal clear example of why you can’t trust star scores
I happen to own a Topre keyboard: Leopold FC660C, the silent version.

I don't think it's expensive or a luxury item at all. If you indulge in mechanical keyboards with switches, your expenditures can easily go beyond $250 price tag: you buy expensive, special, limited supply switches because most switches are shit, and then you have to lube all of those or pay someone else to do it because otherwise it feels and sound like shit, then you have to buy a good case and plate because otherwise it sounds shit. Plus trad switches really don't like dust. I bought my FC660C and never did anything else, it works great, it feels great, it looks great, all by default, and it's dust proof.
15 seconds is way too much. Most of them are way too expensive compared to traditional methods and even lightning doesn't solve it for new paths.

Additionally, they are experimenting with your money on lightning since there is still the Canadian traveler problem.

And lightning goes directly against the "spirit" of Blockchain. Centralized and offchain transactions that could be stored with sqllite...

It's just a workaround causing new problems for a problem that already have been fixed.
I think it's perfectly fine to say "I'm happy where I am, I don't want more".

But that's not the OPs sentiment. I think that deep inside OP feels entitled to higher achievements than they have been able to reach, and are resentful of the fact that life hasn't been unfolding properly for a person of their talent.

To that I say, how long are you going to nurse your ambition without getting up and doing something about it?
”cows can be trained to navigate using the collar within 4-5 days”
Umm, that sounds… labor intensive?
Is that temperature uniformly spread?
I’d avoid WASD and go for a Keychron Q2 because the firmware is customizable and open source. It also has hotswappable switches if you want to change things up or try different switches at some point. It’s very reasonably priced in my opinion.
In Taiwan the locals, usually the elderly, sweep and clean near their own houses or the parks where they congregate. Some do it as part of a neighborhood group, while others clean parks and areas near temples for religious reasons. Good way to build community.

On another note, let people read without pop-ups please.
how long has it been that Ethereum switching to proof-of-stake is right around the corner?
I'd say that the people who opt out of it are the sociopaths. Because sociologically, they are the ones deviating. People who use it obsessively are either people with nothing to do, or narcissists. Plain and simple.
Ken Griffin buys copy of US constitution after bidding war with crypto traders
To me, this is why the whole pinch-to-zoom debate of the recent trial was legit. You really don't know what changes to pixels technology is making unless you look at the code.
I love my Mazda 3 hatch. Only thing I wish I could do is turn off blind-spot alerts without turning off rear-cross-traffic.

There's enough traffic where I live that former beeps every time I put my signal on before 11pm, while the latter is extremely useful.
> dumb thing that almost every male that lives in a rural area

Maybe I'm lucky that I didn't grow up in a rural area :-)

Managed to get one boy out the house without him doing it (that I know of!). Hope the younger one is at least as smart!
Yes and: Offense beats defense.

My own efforts gained far more traction when I pivoted from opposing evil stuff to advocating good stuff.

Further, yes and: With the decline of our political parties, issue based advocacy has filled that void. For better or worse.
My MX-brown keyboard is definitely louder than my standard HHKB2, even though the MX got after market dampeners installed. Estimate about double the noise from the MX so surprising to hear you had the opposite experience.
Your post reminded me of when my first daughter was born. I remember me and my ex-wife would wonder, “how do people do this with two children!?”.

Not too long after, we had our second daughter. We very quickly realized that the answer to the question was “you just do”.

At least for me, I also realized our second daughter got less attention/coddling, but turned out just as great/spirited/happy.

Sometimes, I recognize that I hold myself to an unrealistically high standard/expectation. While setting the bar high can help one accomplish great things, but can also leave them feeling like they never measure up to their unreasonably high standards.

Kids are a lot of work for sure and require a lot of sacrifice. However, I hope you don’t avoid having kids because you don’t think you can be a good enough parent. The fact you are worried about it is already a sign, in my book, you’d make a pretty great and thoughtful parent.
Ultimately, my guess is that the military/China conflict angle prevails over antitrust when it comes to Google. But I could be wrong. Certainly China has cracked down on its side, which I didn't anticipate.
To be clear, I did not mean that my fingers are caught between the keys. More like I often felt like I'm hitting keycaps sideways. I could not always discipline myself to operate the keyboard like a 1970s typist. This was very distracting and caused errors. Probably I bottomed out too much, instead of just breaking the click? I'm sure there's technique that can be mastered.

I guess I'm a slimline keyboard person and thanks for the recommendation. Perhaps I will try a mechanical slim as well, to fully close this experiment. For the moment I enjoy just getting some work done on the MX Keys, it is an absolute delight. Can't say enough good things about it.
Looking at the injection end of an infinitly-long ideal transmission line, you can replace the effect of that in a circuit (as a two-terminal element) with a normal resistor of the same characteristic impedance.

Given a shorted end at some distance in an ideal transmission line, after some number of reflections, in a DC circuit the equivalent two-terminal element will be a zero-ohm resistor.

If you use a perfect matched terminator at the end of an ideal line, at all frequencies you can replace with a normal resistor of the same characteristic impedance.

Basic signal integrity stuff. Am I wrong?
I say this as a Tesla owner...

Do not leave your keycard at home. Every Tesla owner should have a keycard in their wallet (You don't go driving without your wallet, do you?). You never know if your phone will die.

It's the same with cars that use keyless start. In my wife's Honda CRV, the fob has a physical key that can be removed to open the door, and the Start button can read the RFID in the fob if the fob battery is dead.
sorry yeah, i duno why i thought nano was an erc20
This is a great bit of his. In his 2017 special he provides a darker, but similarly themed line of thinking. He has a whole bit about a man whose life is, from the outside, seemingly so dull and horrible. And the entire premise "what is delaying his suicide?!" I know dark humor is not everyone's cup of tea, but the bit did remind me that the perseverance and self preservation of man is a beautiful thing.
I’ve started companies and done some pretty cool technical things, but stuff like wrote a game like that in assembly does the same thing to me, in terms of feeling less than. I don’t find making a game as much of a “higher calling” so it doesn’t bother me in the sense of worthiness, but in terms of technical skill…it’s humbling, but that’s ok.
I've used a Japanese Topre daily for 10 years, didn't replace anything and it still works and feels like new.
Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch
Sure, you don't have to press it, but it blocks the UI until it goes away. The worst part of it is that it doesn't matter how many times you say "I agree", it will continue asking you every time you start the car.

You're also right that it's pure CYA. However, since you don't actually have to agree with it to use the vehicle, I wonder whether it actually covers anything, or if it's just a meaningless hurdle you have to jump through. In any case, it's not for my benefit as the owner.
The most important event looming, and it may be as early as 2022, but no further away than 2025, is a hot war between the West (5 eyes, Europe, Japan) and one or more of China, Russia, Iran.

That war will be so major that its onset will completely change all sorts of other things like chip availability, metals availability, motor vehicle production, phone sales, computer sales, house prices, etc, etc, etc.
It seems that you're taking the best aspects of many people and combining them into one idealized person.
This is most clear in your post when you transition from speaking about people who are "very intelligent" because they have graduate degrees, and then directly after that you mention how many people earn exceedingly well.
It doesn't really work like that. If you pick a life of academia, you typically forfeit high pay although you likely aren't motivated by currency anyway); while conversely moving into industry with a vicious interest in money will more likely land you there.

This is similar to the problem with social media. People see the highlights and assume they're missing out on life. We often forget that the few victories (which may seem small compared to the years of effort places in them) that we have are shuffled into that feed, so everyone gets their moment of fame.

Don't get too upset about it and keep remembering that it's because were all sharing these moments that it seems like people are doing so much.
We are, but its collective.
Dont worry, you're doing great.
> There’s a lot of subjects and activities that I’m really interested of getting into but I can’t just dive into it.

I'm guessing you feel a small amount of progress wouldn't count? Seeing it as nothing is a delusion of everyday life.

Add a little to a little and soon there is a lot.
I type faster on a MacBook keyboard but I prefer to type on my horrifyingly expensive mechanical keyboards. It’s about comfort above all else.

The real crock is to not buy your employees nice equipment.
>If I import something its scanners cant' scrape metadata for, it might as well not even exist. Its not displayed to me at all. I have to fiddle with title and re-scan until its metatdata scraper finally realizes what it is.

You can use the 'Fix Match' option within Plex and tweak it's search parameters (usually just title and year) until it matches. Alternatively you can paste stuff like IMDB IDs into the field and it'll match based on that instead. For some titles with obscene names etc, that's the best way to get an accurate match.

>They've gone to some dark patterns to convince you to make a plex account and log in, just to talk to a server on the same LAN.

Settings -> Network -> List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth -> Put your LAN subnet in there.

>They now hide your content and promote their own streaming content in a tv-channels like grid. I don't want any of that, I just want my movie library, don't make me scroll for it.

Yeah that's a bit annoying, but can be fixed: Use the 'pin' functionality to force your libraries to the top. This applies even for unauthenticated users (just tested in a private tab).

I ditched Plex a few years back due to UI annoyances. I've come back because they're mostly resolved, and honestly the alternatives (Jellyfin etc) aren't great. I chucked the money at them for a lifetime pass as well (mostly for PlexAmp), so I guess I'm pretty invested now :)
CR has been compromised for a while....
One thing I realize as I get older is those 10x people are 10x in usually one aspect of their lives. They've dedicated a huge amount of time to one thing. There's lots of people like that who sacrifice other things that you value and vice versa. You can specialize in one very nice thing and get really good at it or spread out your time to more than one thing.
it's amazing for sending currency overseas with minimal fees, merchants aren't necessary for this
There's a bunch of cool stuff if you Google "proof of {humanity,personhood}". Here's the wiki page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_personhood

It's all pretty new and not proven long term, but it is an area of active research.
I ran into this problem in my app and found that rotating around the center of the bounding circle instead of the bounding box was a suitable solution.
In physics you often find rules for modeling composite objects in terms of simple ones. For example a rigid body can be modeled for many purposes as a point mass, whose value is the rigid body's total mass, located in its barycenter.

In quantum mechanics you can also form composite objects (in the most common formalism it will be a "wavefunction") and you still can determine a total fermion/boson-ness as a function of the elementary objects that form it. So yes, an atom, a proton, a molecule, a table all can be bosons or fermions once you decide to ignore some internal degrees of freedom.

In fact even those subatomic particles you mention could be composite objects for all we know.
this is a city that puts up billboards telling junkies how to "safely" shoot up heroin
Sky don't show their prices on their website, but according to [1] the "Sky Complete bundle" costs £111/month. And Virgin Media have a £99/month bundle [2] (although admittedly it includes broadband and mobile phone)

[1] https://www.offersnewcustomers.co.uk/sky-tv/complete-bundle/
[2] https://www.virginmedia.com/broadband/packages
Similar here just north of SF, I find it to be a bit of a community psychology thing. I found it the same when I lived in Japan (though wherever you go there are always those few houses, or that one park...)

It's not official but a lot of us take trash bags out on our walks and hikes too. I like to save up the really out of reach stuff for new years day. It's a nice way to start the year and kinda fun to go MacGyver on those really long-neglected beer bottles under blackberry bushes. Close in feel to geocaching...
Some of the agencies here don't fit the problem of 'M' meaning 'Metro', for example the last logo (Row 7) is described as Liverpool's metro system. It is not a metro system but a full train operating company and the 'M' is for Merseyrail
The newly announced (today) Genesis GV70 Electrified seems to fit the bill. Genesis is Hyundai's somewhat new luxury brand - Hyundai really screwed up the launch so almost nobody knows about it, but they make some pretty decent luxury cars at good prices and haven't deleted all the buttons like in current Mercedes/Audis and BMW's new products. Infotainment system has a knob; the screens are touchscreen but they're placed pretty far back in the dash and so the knob is the primary control method. Physical buttons for media controls and on the steering wheel. The new gen products have moved a few of the climate controls to a small touchscreen, but the commonly used function are still physical. Overall, way better than all of the competitors at keeping the car usable.

Genesis announced earlier this year that they plan to be all electric by 2025. And unlike most of these statements from most manufacturers, this one is actually believable. Hyundai/Kia have been pretty successful at selling electric cars in Europe; they have the engineering resources built up for EVs and Genesis should be able to take advantage of that.

The GV70 is expected to have around 250 miles of range. In addition to that I think they're also going to be releasing the electrified G80 (midsize luxury sedan) pretty soon.
I've been coaching First Lego League for years and this is one of the best online resources around for kids to learn robotics. Highly recommend.
Don't worry. The more kids you have the more your grip on them spirals out of control as they interact with others and develop their own agency and personality. So you do the best you can for them every day, and the butterfly effect will do the rest.
Sounds like an accurate description of a few media organizations coverage of the Rittenhouse trial.