skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might include diplomacy, statecraft and foreign policy.

Before communications were instant, ambassadors were provided a long view of state relationships and foreign policy goals. During his tenure then, the ambassador was guided by these long term visions of how to fulfill policy.

Now, thanks to instant messaging, an ambassador and embassy must (or can) immediately adjust daily to their home office's reaction to events. Instant communications have reduced both the role and need for an embassy's long view of policy stance and goals. Thus, while not necessarily "worse", the autonomy of an ambassador has greatly declined. I suppose the contrarian view would welcome the lessened dangers of an incompetent diplomat who can be micro-managed by their home office.

But to the personal aspect, my career supported this area, and thanks to modern communications, often sleeplessly.
The way inflation is measured is imperfect, but provides a consistent indicator. You may have more or less exposure to inflation which determines someone’s actual spending power
Not to mention there being a substantial advancements in engineering that make the F1 engines used by Saturn V basically obsolete.

The Space X Merlins have a much better thrust-to-weight ratio in the same gas generator cycle class, the Russian RD-180 powering the Atlas V is using oxygen rich staged combustion and is much more efficient.

And the current trend seems to be clearly liquid methane and liquid oxygen, covered by the phenomenal Raptor engine from Space X, the BE-4 from Blue origin and many smaller ones.

So hardly any regression on the chemical rocket engine front - pretty much the opposite, thankfully!

On the nuclear thermal rocket front on the other hand - yeah, we really did regress there. :P From almost flight ready NERVA examples in the 60s/70s to basically nothing even remotely flight ready today...
as an expat and son of immigrants myself, I guess i'm uniquely qualified to answer that.

Economic opportunities in america are great if you're willing to work your ass off and smartly. Smartly is the keyword to avoiding exploitation. That said, the wages here are way higher than in other countries. Here in Colombia, the minimum wage comes out to around $250/month. People here don't have much choice given the language barrier and lack of skills for the international market. Their skillset and ability to endure absolute crap gives them an edge when they immigrate to the US and get paid relatively descent wages for their work.

Now I'm on the other end. I have skills as a software engineer, fluency in english and connections. Those are all things I can take with me to maintain the smae wage I'd be making in america in a country where the average wage is a fraction of what I make. Thus I get to live like a king.

TLDR: both sides are moving to maximize their living potential and they increase for different reasons.
> Assange will face a trial like everyone else

It's worth noting that Manning, his alleged co-conspirator in this thing, was declared guilty by Obama, in public, before her trial ever began (when she was, under the law, to be presumed innocent). She was also tortured in jail prior to conclusion of the trial, to such an extent that she attempted suicide twice.

The extradition is only rational, legal, and judicially legitimate if he can be expected to receive a fair trial and not be tortured before/during/after. None of these assumptions hold true in the United States, as we both know.
That's fair. Unfortunately I don't know the specifics of the hardware involved, and I wasn't there long enough to get a good understanding. I hope someone with more knowledge or industry experience can chime in. All I know that the company I worked for sold a completely new antenna assembly that supported 5G and that our customers were moving to using those antennas.

As far as the size, all of the units we sold have been approximately the same size for quite a while. E.g. all the chasses varied by maybe 6-10" max between the old assemblies and the new. The new ones were larger (maybe more room for power electronics?) I don't know if there was any effort on our part to support 5G transition without replacing our antennas.

Edit: I believe we were pushing new hardware because the services wanted to utilize the high frequency band of FR2 24-56Gz [1] (what I meant by "true 5G") that our old antenna assemblies couldn't support. I assume they couldn't support it because they weren't optimized for those bands at a high enough fidelity for good data transmission.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G#Frequency_range_2_(24%E2%80...
> How is housing up only 3.8%?

Define "housing". When it comes to shelter, that is taken into account.

> Anyone with a web browser knows that home prices have experienced a monumental increase.

Because the "C" in CPI stands for consumer. Home prices reflect asset prices. They are not counted in the CPI just like stock and bond prices are not counted: these are all asset classes.

> House prices are an interesting case. Houses are considered capital investment by the [US] BLS. So, when the value of your home increases that's a good thing as you didn't consume the house. In other words, you don't need to replace the house. Consumption goods are different in that you need to replace the thing you bought. Inflation is very bad for consumption goods because it costs you more to replace that thing each time you need it (food, for instance).

* https://www.pragcap.com/forum/topic/assflation/#postid-2165

> The BLS views housing as a mostly “investment” item as opposed to a consumption item. So, for instance, when you consume a hot dog and have to replace it then the cost of replacement is a direct reflection on your well-being. A $1 hot dog that costs $2 one year later is a material change in living standards, all else equal, since the hot dog is an asset that you literally consume. A house is much more complex. [...]
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> Of course, anyone who owns a house knows that it’s not that simple. You do basically consume your house over time. For instance, my home has appreciated substantially since I purchased it just 5 years ago and underwent a hellish remodel. At that time the cost of replacement was roughly $300 per square foot. But in the ensuing years the cost of replacement has increased to $400 per square foot. As my physical home falls apart over the years I will need to replace it. But the key point is that, as I replace these components the housing market is likely to revalue the total home value to account for this investment. So even though I am consuming my house over time I am very likely to recoup those costs.

* https://www.pragcap.com/should-house-prices-be-in-the-cpi/
Learning.

From my childhood, I have always loved to learn new stuff- all kinds of interesting stuff.

Before, when I became interested in something, I looked it up on the net, read books, and asked people about resources.

But with "feed"s, everything went downhill very quickly.

When more and more resources became available, I struggled to keep up with them.

There were not only too many resources I came to know about on topics that interested me, I also came to know about a lot of topics themselves.

There were not only too many things on things, but there were too many things!

I feel a lot more pressurized, a lot more agitated and anxious because I know about so many different kinds of things that I would be interested about and I am sure (at least in my mind) I would be good at.

These things range from a new programming language or a framework, to a new region and its culture that I suddenly came to know about.

The resources come as articles, essays to books, GH repos, MOOCs, and even diplomas.

I am so grateful because of the internet and specific kinds of social media because I got to know about a lot I otherwise would have missed, and my life would have been completely different. But after a certain amount, or velocity, things go to the dogs.

I believe there is a rising curve that plateaus after a certain distance in the X axis where Y is learning and acquiring knowledge and X is flow of information.

Before, learning was just super fun, and now I am often paralyzed in my free time and I do nothing so that I don't mourn not doing other things, and end up doing nothing.

I am thinking of ways to put a stop to this, and have so far come up with a few ways.
OTOH, low interest rates have balanced that out, and let people who already have mortgages lower their monthly payment drastically. I wonder if monthly payment is perhaps a better metric than purchase price? At least for me, that's what actually determined how much home I'd be able to buy.
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Because that's what we see evolve?

From Everquest to PUBG which are the two only adult evolvers.

You can tell by looking at what they changed by how copied they became.

And Minecraft and Roblox which are the young evolvers.

Nobody has managed to copy Minecraft and Roblox successfully yet and the AAA studios are stuck in a grind making meaningless sequels.

But then if you look at the technology, you see that theres an obvious combination that is missing: Everquest - RPG + physical action gameplay like mario/zelda + modability of Roblox/Minecraft.

The final game (engine).
I linked to some isomorphic keyboards in production at the end of the post. A couple more that I'm aware of:

https://www.striso.org/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joyst/joyst-jv-1-joysti...

There's also the "thummer" from many many years ago, but I don't think it ever went anywhere.

> For HN readers like me who would learn piano mid-life from scratch, what are the best electric pianos that can be fully hacked via open source software, in the same spirit as QMK?

I don't have an answer for this question, but you can go pretty far with playing around in software. MIDI is basically just an event protocol like `{ note: 23, velocity: 99 }`, and you can respond to the events however you want from music synthesis software. I've used a SuperCollider front-end called Overtone to remap my Axis-49 into various layouts -- it's fun having a full programming language available so you can do dumb things.

There's a pretty big community of people making Arduino-powered MIDI controllers as well, so lots of resources if you did want to hack your own from scratch.

Also, regarding chording the other kind of keyboard: you might find this older project of mine interesting.

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/peggi/
The problem with buying used is that Snap-On will no longer fix shit without the original receipt.

I had tens of thousands of dollars of Snap-On tools I bought used over the years, but Snap-On wouldn't touch any of it.

I love my Snap-On tools, and I would buy new when I needed to, but their policy on used equipment left a nasty taste in my mouth.
So we are the Romans. We can make swords and bread! We'll do great in WWIII!
Neither was I, but honestly, that wasn’t a hard argument to follow .
The C Programming Language.
Software glitches send emergency rent checks to the wrong landlords
from one angle, the church spends money for monumental purposes. But I’m not of the opinion that you can just spend your way to those cathedrals: the workmen (freemasons in the original sense) have to believe they are giving glory to god.

Here’s a great video [0][17min] documenting the Met Museum’s commissioning of moroccan mosaics, by the end you can see the craftsmen taking great pride in their work, above and beyond what they’re paid to do, carving “allah” over and over out of religious dedication.

(just want to push back on the notion that religion is all about manipulating people with your power, the crimes of the vatican notwishstanding)

[0] https://youtu.be/Og6cTlwBTrk
There was a lumber mania (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27036557) followed by a lumber crash (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547202).

Prices of Home Depot runs fluctuated massively for certain baskets of goods in 2021, like never before.
The US is dependent on China for defense equipment? Can you provide any examples?
they can tell until the cows come home but it's very hard to actually do it cause most causes are environmental and lifestyle related that can't easily be changed - can't all of a sudden start walking to work if you live in a car dependent area and that's true for most of the USA.

Wake me up when you find a US government with the guts to mandate cuts in the amount of high fructose corn syrup allowed in staple foods, put a tax on sugary drinks etc...

until then telling people to lose weight is a waste of time.
Is it indeed annoying that every app isn't "cool" unless it attempts to reinvent the user interface.
I can't think of a less bad alternative to billboards, so I don't disagree with your claim, but I'll say that I didn't realize how much billboards suck until I spent time driving in Vermont, where they're banned. (I'm originally from Wisconsin, where the freeways have billboards for sex shops, CBD, fireworks, and fetuses every few hundred feet.) The driving experience is so much better without them that I'm pretty confident in saying that their negative externalities are dramatically higher than their economic value and the only reason they exist is that those externalities are externalized.
However, individual impacts are irrelevant.

See the case of the UK. It makes up 1% or less of global carbon emissions. It doesn't matter how much the average Brit does to reduce their personal carbon impact, it will all amount to nothing. Therefore, they should stop worrying and forget about it - but "society" (really, the media/public sector classes) won't let them.
Lumber appears to be up ~21% year over year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1239728/monthly-lumber-p...
yes, I will.
> I think, in the context of possibly dying of Covid-19, it could be effective though

Possibility of dying blind, without feet because of diabetes wasn't good enough reason to lose fat for many. COVID-19 won't be either.
With more information.
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It's bad enough that I'd say 75% of my joy from vacations to even very nice places is that it nudges me to all but completely stay off the Web for a few days. The rest of the time I hardly go an hour without looking at a glowing rectangle for one reason or another.
Thats a job for your bank or accounting software.
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Climate change will also disproportionately lower income households.

> perhaps we innovate on making its extraction more eco friendly

Wait what? Fossil fuels will never be eco friendly. The best thing for renewable energy is to be more economical than their competitors, which is far more achievable when oil is expensive. It should be obvious that oil prices doubling do not cause electric cars or solar panels to double in price, even if they do become slightly more expensive.
I've seen that talk but it feels like putting the cart before the horse. The risk isn't in programming, it's in the CPUs themselves.

C and ASM are still some of the most popular languages in the world. But for a modern CPU, there are machines in the production process that only a single company in the world can make.

We're infinitely more likely to lose the capability to make a modern CPU than lose the capability to know how to code in C.
No, but it's surprisingly easy to overlook things like content, format, time of day, etc, when the goal is simply "flood their inbox"
> I just did a Home Depot run and everything there was the same price it was last year.

> https://news.yahoo.com/home-depot-q-1-sales-and-profits-lift...

I will posit that you're only noticing what's not gone up.
The article says "The recent Commission study on the impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on technological independence, competitiveness and innovation in the EU economy showed that investment in open source leads on average to four times higher returns. "

Four times higher returns ... compared to what?

It's like an advertisement that says our product contains 30% less fat. 30% less than what? Than other leading brands? Than your previous formulation (and if so, how do we know you didn't artificially increase the amount of fat in said formulation, so it'd be easy to reduce)?
What are they doing? I was under impression that american unions are kinda toothless.

Is it worse than what kelloggs is doing, spending money to replace striking workers rather than giving them a raise?
I used to think that too but a complete ban probably doesn't work well. What else would you be banning? Bumper stickers and logos on cars (get rid of the Apple logo on the back of your Mac), yard signs for political campaigns, newspapers, I mean there's a lot there. And then once you start selectively allowing it then you also create hyper-competitive scenarios for the ads that are allowed and I'm thinking if you do that then the ads that are allowed become crazy addictive and effective because the cost to advertise would be so high.

Really what is the purpose of advertising in an ideal world? I'd say it's local, and lets people know what your business is and what services you offer. So if you run an inn in a small town, having a sign hanging outside of your business to let visitors know you're an inn and open for business seems pretty good. People have been doing that for hundreds of years.

The current model though is, as you say, at a minimum distracting. But I think we can grab some low-hanging fruit. If I were dictator I'd ban targeted advertising in any form. No collecting personal data. And I'd ban billboards and other large signs. Idk if this is exactly a good thing to do but I'd also explore banning in advertising in which you're not paying for the service. So if I pay for cable TV and they want to advertise to me, that's fine because I'm engaging in an interaction with the company. I shouldn't have to be subjected to ads that I don't agree to see. It's kind of a form of mind-violence IMO. Question is just where do you draw the line.
When the largest English newspaper in Spain steals your photo
>Advertising allows for someone to educate you that products exist that you’re not aware of

This thin edge of a wedge doesn't justify more than the tiniest fraction of what the advertising industry does.

You don't need to hold onto these stock answers for quieting cognitive dissonance. I've found it a huge mental relief to stop lying to myself and just admit to anyone who asks that I'm morally complicit in abusing the worlds collective psyche for money.
I fail to see how my comment is "play[ing] word games".
This whole thing is fairly complex, but from what I read of the links above racism and sexism are a component of the broader story.
This is similar to a concept called 'Shrinkflation' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation
> If you've a house worth 200k and its value goes up 5%, then a year later you are 5% wealthier.

Not if everything else you might want and/or need to buy went up by 15%.
This is fine; there are lots of similar "intro to quaternions" pages around.
One thing I haven't seen yet is someone showing how to interpolate between multiple quaternions over time, smoothly. (Hint: it's not slerp.) It's a non-trivial problem.
I think both these claims can be true at the same time, can’t they?

To make a toy example just to make the reasoning clear: if men’s BMI was distributed as 50% = 20, 50% = 35, and women’s BMI was distributed as 95% = 20, 5% = 35, the average body fat of all men would be higher than the average body fat of all women, even though the average body fat of women BMI=X would be higher than of men BMI=X for all X.
The value of this board is an extension of the quality of comments and discussion. We need to hold each other and ourselves to a high standard.

The community guidelines are an attempt at saying please be decent so as to foster a more desirable community. Think about it. That is why you are here and not reddit.

>>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

>>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

>>Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Do you think it's possible that what you call optimum are exactly the state of things in your late twenties / early thirties? And anything more you just call "too much"?
Do people not take responsibility for their choice of vendors? If boeing crashed a bunch of planes and said "Not our fault, our subcontractor made shitty software" would we accept it? If a startup leaked all their customers data would we accept "Blame this other company, we just gave them all our data for analysis" as an excuse?

If you accept that then it means that we need to investigate and scrutinize the whole supply chain of any product before trusting it and it would also mean that any company switching even the smallest part of their supply chain would require us to reevaluate their product.

When we buy things (either products, services or software) we consider the company selling it to be responsible for the whole and deferring responsibility to a vendor is basically just saying that you were either promising more than you knew could deliver or that you did not do a good job picking vendors.
> probably the same thing

These things, which are usually things like diabetes, blood sugar problems, high blood pressure, elevated cortisol and so on, do correlate with poorer COVID outcomes.

My understanding is that, even when you control for these factors, outcomes for obese patients are still below what we would expect to see. This means that there is still a contributing factor that we haven't considered yet, and the parent study hypothesizes one possible reason.
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As the baseline comparison of inflation rate to all other examples of "year-over-year" is pretty obviously skewed by circumstances, it would be potentially less misleading to the general public to say something contextual like "2021-over-2020" than "year-over-year".
Intent and specifics matter; hitting F5 is legal, hitting F5 10 times a second intending to disrupt the site probably isn't.

(IANAL, working from American perspective)
Miele makes shit to last. Never cutting edge, fancy features, but made to last.
I bet you'll love these before-and-after photos of Sao Paolo after their outdoor advertising ban: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

Anti-advertising was one of the pet causes of Generation X, back before more pressing things like "the war on terror" and a financial collapse and health care crisis took the stage. And those are bigger deals, but man, advertising is just awful too.
I have no issues embracing US dictatorship when Julian Assange was ruled to extract to US.

I also have no issue of embracing Chinese dictatorship when what?

The point is that nations are complicated. From individual to a national government. If you want to use dictatorship to describe 1.4b people's collective, then you are simply too lazy to think.
These networks handle the exchange of resources (nitrogen, phosphorous, etc) between trees. So far as I know, there's no reason to believe that there's a "leader tree" or anything like that.
It should be reassuring to know that most of the things you interact with are actually too bandwidth constrained to care about those things, and the algos you interact with are fairly obvious and explicit (Feeds, curated things, etc)
> computers can't handle one name resolving to two different sites

There's plenty of ways do to so: by configuration, by quorum, by bookmarking pet names on first use, or by asking the use (what every search engine does when people look up e.g. "netflix")
Selenium is admittedly not one of my major skillsets.. so I'll defer to your seemingly more knowledgable judgement on this. :)

Abstraction can be very useful, but it can also definitely lead to spaghetti if it gets out of hand or is done incorrectly.