skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation has probably been double digits for a while now.

StatsCan recently responded to complaints that its inflation metric _doesn't account for housing_ and attempted to meet critics half-way; even though the new metric still didn't account for the cost of housing, the adjustment to inflation was _so alarming_ that StatsCan took the rare step of _reverting_ its change. [0]

And CNBC reported that the real inflation, using old accounting, is around 10%. [1]

0: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-statscan-re...

1: https://www.cnbc.com/id/42551209
Financial assets going up is precisely a sign of inflation. Argentina has 40% inflation and the best performing stock market (if you denominate in Argentinian currency)
Ditto. Blitzchung incident got me to cancel WoW classic, which is a pretty big deal to me…

Sometimes I wish I had a character but I heard they are messing up classic by introducing power leveling!
Why forgive rents? Housing prices going down is a good thing. They are high and rising. We need the opposite.
The Confederacy sought international recognition for their claim of independence but the European powers calculated that the North was likely to win.
You still need enough cash flow to qualify...
Who are you to decide the purpose of and categorize something someone else is selling?
CSGO feels “solved” in a lot of ways, with regards to tactics and the meta-game. EFT and similar games have a lot more churn with regards to the meta.
You're acting like those are the only two options available, though. That's not the case.
> isn't this an effective debt reduction as long as you don't incur new debt?

That's right, debt gets inflated away.
Yes, LSD is incredibly beneficial in the right circumstances. Giving a presentation to the board is not that.
Month-on-month inflation was 0.6% last month, with much of the economy still closed (which should be deflationary).

That’s a 7.5% annualized rate.
Ahh I see! Awesome, thanks!
In normal inflation that’s exactly what happens. The problem is that inflation, if unchecked, can increase to a point that there are meaningful month over month, or week over week, or in some historical cases, minute over minute changes in value of the currency. How quickly can wages realistically keep up?

The biggest winners during high inflation periods are those holding the largest debts.
Terminal velocity is defined as the velocity at which the force of gravity is equal and opposite the drag exerted by the atmosphere. So, yes, I think Starship is hitting terminal velocity at 10 km, but the velocity is smaller than the terminal velocity at 100 km. Less atmospheric drag at 100 km means the velocity is greater than at 10 km, so 100 km flight would be different than a 10 km flight.
The Philosophy of Technology
Aren't dollars and assets fundamentally different things? Land would keep up with inflation, while dollars wouldn't for example.
Honestly, I don't know. Not a AI researcher. But for competitors to be viable, they also need to get users to give them data and the infrastructure to handle it, that's not an easy task. We actually lost a contract to handle massive (PB size data) user data a few years ago, but after a few years, our competitor lost that contract back to us because they simply can't handle the volume and the processing power.
On Amazon it's described by Jacobin (a leftwing magazine in the US popular with Bernie supporters etc): “A searing critique… a necessary contribution to the effort to push contemporary social justice movements further to the left and to weave an understanding of class politics into modern identity-based movements in order to build a radical politics of solidarity.”

All the other summaries on Amazon are similar, i.e. the very top description (New Yorker): "The point of 'Why I Am Not a Feminist' isn’t really that Crispin is not a feminist; it’s that she has no interest in being a part of a club that has opened its doors and lost sight of its politics—a club that would, if she weren’t so busy disavowing it, invite Kellyanne Conway in"

Having never read the book or even heard of the author until you introduced it to me I don't care one way or the other, but it's clear from a reading of these descriptions that her book is a critique from the left.
Isn't this strongly explained by the likelihood that Valley companies will start expecting everyone to come in to the office again this year?
Well I come here for the interesting nerd stuff, the research papers, the interesting perspectives on everything basically. Honestly I was a fan of substack and this article spurred me to realize what I said above and re think whether I like that publication or not. I agree with the principles and motivation of it's founding.
It's the engine serial number.
Apple’s AirTag trackers made it frighteningly easy to ‘stalk’ me in a test
> Think of it like this, every kg added to Starship is one kg less to Orbit. And maybe like 10-30kg less to Mars.

With standard staging this would be correct. With starship it's a bit different:

Every 1kg added to Starship is 1kg less [payload] to Orbit. And 1kg less to Mars. And maybe an extra tanker launch for refueling
Google has never had a chopping block. And your speculations are wild. But hey, at least you have those two anecdotes.
The broken clock is gonna be right eventually.
9GW of coal and nuclear generation capacity is set to retire this year [1]. The approval of decommissioning those generators indicates that local capacity markets have taken into account renewables and natural gas providing adequate capacity when those retirements occur. As renewables and utility scale storage continues to be built, that'll push out natural gas generation. Renewables are the vast majority of new generation being built [2], and they can meet the same capacity factor of thermal generators [3]. There's only about 236GW of coal generation capacity left to replace [3] (~6-7 years worth of generating capacity build out at current rate of ~37GW/year, excluding behind the meter rooftop solar).

I would be absolutely shocked if there are any coal generators operating by 2030 based on the uptake curve of renewables and the cost decline of storage. You'll still have natural gas, but an unknown amount of those generators are going to be stranded assets when you hit an inflection point and they're no longer competitive with storage backed renewables.

Tangentially, most open cycle gas turbine peakers are already no longer cost competitive against battery storage (with batteries between ~30% cheaper) [4] [5].

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46436 ("According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest inventory of electric generators, 9.1 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity is scheduled to retire in 2021. Nuclear generating capacity will account for the largest share of total capacity retirements (56%), followed by coal (30%).")

[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46416 ("According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest inventory of electricity generators, developers and power plant owners plan for 39.7 gigawatts (GW) of new electricity generating capacity to start commercial operation in 2021. Solar will account for the largest share of new capacity at 39%, followed by wind at 31%. About 3% of the new capacity will come from the new nuclear reactor at the Vogtle power plant in Georgia.")

[3] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/09/18/how-does-the-us-retir... ("An additional finding: solar-plus-storage has 99.8% of the capacity value of a theoretical “perfect generator” in California’s CAISO grid region, according to a study commissioned by California’s three major utilities — easily matching gas.")

[4] https://assets.cleanenergycouncil.org.au/documents/resources... ("Battery Storage: The new clean peaker")

[5] https://www.psehealthyenergy.org/our-work/energy-storage-pea... ("Energy Storage Peaker Plant Replacement Project")
There is some weird inflation going on over the last decade here in the US. The price of the "basket of goods and services" in total has remained relatively constant - but the university student that needs housing and has heart attack would do well to search out a time-machine.
A glance will prove out “AVALANCHE” ? Color me sceptical, I guess.
Yes. Inflation generally favors debt holders because their debt isn't worth as much by the end of repayment as it was when the debt was first incurred.
CPI is the very definition of cherry picking data.
It's not fair to frame it as an anti-failsafe, when it was designed to prevent shutting down after the ride starts. The core safety systems in modern cars that you cite can all be disabled electronically. (BTW, think a bit about a Tesla.) This really isn't a the good example of pro-safety critical design you think it is, cars have exactly the same "back doors" as this airbag vest at the engineering / electronic control level.
People in the past just spent more time doing fewer things. Today we feel rushed in everything we do so we can get on to the next thing.

Also, a well considered 45,000 words might be better for the long term than 123,000 words that are stream of consciousness. A lot less to read later, if nothing else.
Reading this made me so incredibly nostalgic for the 2006-2007 era.
The Law of Group Polarization
> financial assets

Also, many real assets are very dependent on real rates, for example real estate or gold. Imagine the mortgage rate tripling from today's levels (definitely possible), what do you think this will do to prices? I.e. what would happen if all mortgage payments increased 3x for new mortgages?

With gold the story is actually similar, because gold is like an very long duration ultra high quality bond.
The Fed downplays inflation, using CPI to lie with statistics.
Is there a non instagram link for this?

I can't view it without being logged in.
To add to this anecdote, I went to public school. Now, I use my wealthy connections for everything.
You definitely missed my point. Products do not have to be named in a semantically correct, technical and pedantic manner. SpaceX isn't advertising flights to Alpha Centauri, so what's the problem? The entire world knows that actual starships as per your definition don't exist. Nobody's going to get confused or misled by this.

Also I notice you didn't say anything about the Magic Bullet. So at least one of my analogies were ok. If there was one that worked, there exist others. Don't bash the concept just because I couldn't furnish a list of 100 acceptable examples for you off the top of my head.

Also, most people call their SUVs or CUVs "trucks". They are not trucks, yet we call them that.

It's just how language is used, dude. There are so many more important things to get upset about IMO. Or, better yet, life is much happier if you're a leaf on a stream.
You should consider if the CPI is the best indicator or just the most popular

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex....
I wish that the big studios would find a market for games with more depth. There is soooo room for innovation! Imagine what a AAA budget could do for a game like EFT.
True. But I can't really think of any app that has the use case where it refreshes images in place.

Possibly an app that did that sort of thing would be some kind of gallery or other very image-centric app.

And if that were the case, then I would think the image URLs would be dynamic, not burned into the deployment.
I used a personal domain email (non-Gmail) and everything went smoothly for me.
Yep, been through it twice. Order plenty of official copies of the death certificate, you'll need them.
Not just Silicon Valley.
> the framework concludes that calculus is overvalued, even for gifted students.

I was never taught calculus when I was in high school, when my mind was perhaps a bit more pliable, and I really wish I was. I've mostly gotten by alright without it but it's something that bothers me as a kind of "missed opportunity" to learn.

I do think school's approach to teaching math tends to be quite dry. I think I would have appreciated more of a "discovery" based approach rather than simply solving a bunch of textbook examples. YouTube content creators have really helped open my eyes as to how some of the things I was taught about in school are actually REALLY interesting when you stop and think about it.
I imagine people either start paying their rent or they live on the streets. That's generally how a capitalist society with poor safety nets works.
Last year within 5 months a house sold for 750,000 USD more then it was bought for adding 60% to its price. Housing is broken in a lot of places atm.
With Microsoft Teams I just click a button and it calls the person instantly. I do this frequently for very short interactions and we can quickly yank more people in.
> We’ll also offer opportunities for you to apply for completely remote work (away from your team or office) based on your role and team needs. Before the pandemic, we had thousands of people working in locations separate from their core teams. I fully expect those numbers to increase in the coming months as we develop more remote roles, including fully all-remote sub teams.

This is the most interesting bit that I saw. For a year+ the official stance has been that there won't be any more fully-remote work after the pandemic than there was before.
I wondered the same thing. It appears to be a multicast address.
I worked in sales after a some-what useless liberal arts degree, transitioned into software-engineering/programming after 3-4 years of making cold calls :)

I would consider someone with no "professional" experience/no degree. You say no "professional experience", a transitioning developer can still build projects to display technical skills/knowledge/make stuff to be used by someone, contribute to open source projects, and volunteer time for non-profits/build stuff to display skills. I've had employers say they looked at my github, saw some really simple open source commits I made and that made them bring me in (this happened at a big bank and a big insurance company - led to job offers).

I was interviewing a dev this week for a job with an undergrad and a MS from good universities, she didnt have any github/projects/code to share with me, and struggled through easy algorithm questions.

So... I get that they went to great schools... I see that she has great professional experience... But i would rather interview with a dev that can share some of their code projects with me, and as long as you have basic algorithm skills id rather hire you than the person i interviewed yesterday.
I wonder if the churn in EFT is partially introduced by the wipes. In some ways I hope they keep that feature around when the game actually launches. Forces players to really experiment and try new things, plus there's a skin in the game factor with risk you take bringing in top shelf gear to a raid.
There are around 30 million Christians in India.
I agree with you. I have updated the title to: "Leader: intuitive and light blog base for the modern web."

Correct, it is my creation.
Right, in Oregon the coastal areas mostly rise quite quickly from the beach and are relatively sparsely populated. The more populated areas of Portland, Salem, Eugene, etc are well away from the ocean, so a tsunami is unlikely to kill very many people here.
Sure, I agree that if the trend continues for a year, then we should start being concerned.

But inflation has been below 2% since December 2018, and interest rates are at zero (which gives the Fed considerable latitude for implementing inflation control). The panic here seems a bit premature to me.
You are taking that statement as proven fact?
Wage inflation lags price inflation, sometimes by years.
Lot of websites have been doing that for a long time, I don't really like your UI compare to the popular for example: https://sym.gg/?game=bfv&page=charts
They do during inflation. Inflation is just dollars being worth less so any asset with value (typically ones that appreciate) will increase roughly in track with inflation. So the value stays the same but the number of dollars go up.

This is separate from housing prices being higher and in a bubble, etx
And what happens to the 40% (citing GP, not my own data) of renters who are already behind and will now have an eviction on their record? If rent goes down 20% (arbitrary number for sake of discussion), that doesn’t do a lot of good for renters who can’t pay the remaining 80%, or whose next application won’t be approved even if they could.
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Some States will likely re-establish their own moratoriums.

My state, NY, just did: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/05/03/ny-state-evic...

California already extended it through June: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/01/29/governor-newsom-signs-legi...

Washington extended it through June as well: https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/evictio...

I think those 3 States alone capture the highest rent markets. I imagine plenty of other States will follow, and those that don't probably already don't have overheating rental markets.

On the whole, this ruling was the correct one: the Federal government does not have the power to impose such restrictions directly on landlords, it isn't an enumerated power, and it's definitely not interstate commerce. It's up to the States to figure it out, most of them will do what they think is best for their State, and there will likely be a few exceptionally adverse edge cases. The news media will likely focus on those exceptionally adverse edge cases, and we'll all make a big fuss about it. Life goes on.
https://archive.is/38LaJ
There have been some tools before such as DataNitro, but they don't exist anymore.

I think they still have several Python libraries out there, but yeah I wish Excel included Python support along with VBA.
They gave three individual datapoints, which is a classic feature of all these "we're seeing record inflation" articles. Does anyone have any broad measures? Everyone always rallies against CPI in these threads but never provides an alternative, which is unfortunate - I imagine there must be some that support this narrative of record inflation.
I'm assuming many folks would be scared away from going remote due to the career ramifications of their peers not going remote.
I would add getting the first professional job, the challenge is getting through the recruiter, as many recruiters have to bat candidates away from open job positions after they are given strict "must have requirements" from engineering managers/directors.

So you should expect some frustrating conversations with recruiters, but most of the actual engineering people dont really care about what you did before you walked in the door as long as you satisfy their knowledge/skills requirements.
So genes play absolutely no role? I don't find this story credible.
This made me open steam and download the original CS game... last played 10 years ago.
They're explicitly recognizing that for three days a week, a bunch of people will not be where they individually work best.

That doesn't necessarily mean their top priority isn't productivity, because the productivity of an organization is not simply the sum of the individual, independent productivities of its members.

They may, for instance, believe something along the following lines. 1. All else being equal, most people are more productive individually at home than in the office. 2. Individuals' productivity in the office is higher when other people are also in the office, because they can cooperate. 3. Individuals' productivity is better directed (i.e., the stuff they're productive at is a better match for the actual needs of the company) if at least some of the time they're physically in the same place as their colleagues. Without that, they may work more efficiently but they are less likely to be working on the right things. 4. Because of 3 (backed up by 2) the amount of value provided to the company is greater when employees spend some time together in the office.

Whether any of that is actually true is another matter. And of course they may also just like the power-trip of seeing all their minions working busily. But it's not true that the words you quoted have to mean that productivity isn't what they care about most.

(In case it matters to anyone: I am not a Googler, have no interest in watching minions working busily and furthermore have no minions, and much prefer working from home though whether I'm actually more productive there I don't know.)
Why was this moved? I'm interested in what norm this was contrary to.
New Professional Programmer – looking for health tips
Started work at a research lab last year. No complaints - but wondering what tips you would have for someone regarding health. Diet, what chair you use, exercise routine, etc.
How does it do priced in some basket of goods that people actually consume?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPIACO

Commodity index up 12% year-on-year
I actually just called "fight" (and words like it) out as one of the things (using the term "like" to imply this) not the strongest indicator. He also made assertions that the country was being stolen from those people, that this was their last chance to do anything about it before the downfall of the country, that the crowd couldn't be weak, that the whole thing was illegal, that conceding isn't an option, and that the enemy (Democrats) were to blame. You're picking my selection of the word "fight" as a straw man that you keep attacking as if he wasn't whipping them up with tribalism and violent symbolism immediately before they marched on the Capitol building.

He scheduled the speech nearby so that they would march on the Capitol building (it's literally in his speech). Others have spent time detailing this out[0]. Again, he picked many words and phrases that he used to convey to the crowd that this was a time for _action_. If he wasn't aware that crowd was going to react to his words with action, then that'd make him pretty dense.

I think I've exhaustively gotten the point across that using the term "fight" in a speech isn't the problem. If you want to whack it again, go for it.

0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/ann...
You're applying your biases to the data.

All the data says is that women think that the average man on OkCupid in 2009 is less attractive than the average man.

Your conclusion: women don't rate mens' attractiveness accurately.

Another conclusion: the average man on a dating site is less attractive than the average man.

Another conclusion: women and men interpret the survey question differently.

You also make the additional assumption that this is some sort of fundamental problem, but that's a separate issue.
Definitions, etc, should be handled by the court (aka the obscenity laws a few years ago).

I don't think FB is in a situation where they can claim "it's not possible to be fair so we aren't going to try".

I believe an imperfect solution in good faith is much better legally than not complying (aka why amazon is in the hot seat).