skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I imagine there will be outliers, and those outliers will likely be the featured media stories because bad news sells better, I would imagine the majority of those who are behind on their rent have worked with their landlords to come to some sort of agreement. The vast majority of landlords know that without renters you aren't paying for that property you purchased as an investment, and they know that hard times have fallen on quite a few people. The bigger impact of this eviction moratorium has been the number of people who felt empowered to take on landlords and just stop paying even if they could since there was no legal avenue for them to do anything about it and then go about trashing the place. There are quite a few stories about that taking place. Again, these are likely the outliers but those are the what get the clicks. For every single mother of two who would be evicted there is an example of a renter who stopped paying and trashed the property of a landlord who was struggling just as much, if not more, to get by. There are always two sides to every coin, and a federal solution for something like this will likely only make matters worse overall.
That tyranny of the majority as a concept hasn't disappeared, and that the arguments against a direct democracy are some of the reasons this nation was founded as a representative democracy.

I do think there are good reasons to have more direct democracy than the founders had (the logistics of it are much better now), but I'd be pretty cautious of the argument that we should do everything that we can get a plurality of the population to support.
Well, housing prices are moving up faster than appraisers can keep track of in Silicon Valley. That’s for real.
"I didn't do it". That's how you know they did it.

The irony of this whole section of the thread in the context of racism...
Is inflation bad if you have debt (assuming non-usury rates like those of credit cards) ?

From a let's say personal pov, let's say I have a mortgage and student loans and those are my only debts and their interest rate is fixed.
If inflation is indeed rampant but wages track inflation (I assume) - isn't this an effective debt reduction as long as you don't incur new debt? Or do the down sides of inflation outweigh any of the benefits I assumed above?
Full disclosure this dev is actually my brother but still pretty awesome to see.

Edit: also this is the free app in question https://tapex.app/
It’s too bad it doesn’t export to PowerPoint. I’d like to be share with other coworkers who only know ppt. Nice that it exports to read only but that limits how slides can be reused.
Show HN: Automatically block off time on your other Google Calendars
Rocket exhaust is highly charged and can cause significant interference! It’s easy to loose a com link
Kind of off topic, but I've really lost interest in a lot of "traditional" FPS games like CS and even CoD over the course of lockdown. Myself and my friends who played Halo for years have since migrated to more tactical and realistic games like Arma and Escape from Tarkov. EFT especially offers a lot more depth than these types of games. CS just felt formulaic after a while and there was an element of discovery that was missing. EFT is still in Beta and this analysis would be pretty cool to see for that eventually (site is gorgeous btw), though there's a lot more weapons combinations available in that game.

Maybe it's part of getting older, and if we're still going to play video games they need to be more of an extreme technical challenge for them to be fun for us.
>In fact, they’ve changed the CPI methodology twice in order to report lower average inflation (under the premise that the old measures “overstated” inflation).

Source?
Everyone interprets fancy office buildings in all industries in this context.
I hope the entire cast and crew of the show walk off in solidarity.
>> I've been in so many meetings where an engineer, a PM, or a director would say, "oh, compared to the backend, the mobile part should be simple enough... it's just another frontend, right?".

My answer for that usually: "Have you ever noticed any project typically has 90% bugs on frontend?"
We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia (and Moved to the Netherlands) [video]
The most important point about Excel in the work environment is that it's often the only tool people have so they make it do things way beyond what is sensible.

I'm a consultant and at every client (mostly public sector) I discover new ways of solving problems with Excel which would otherwise not get solved because the blockers to buying "the right tool" are simply too great.

At my latest client I've plotted their data on a map by colouring in cells as pixels using custom formatting and zooming right out so it isn't too blocky. It's too hard to get access to GIS software even though other departments in the same organisation have it.
This article is about "mentions" of inflation, and not actual inflation. Isn't that like CPM vs actual visitors?
IMHO this is one of the worst ways to deal with inflation. As I understand it, bond yield rates rise with inflation and so a current low interest yielding bond will drop in value when higher yielding coupons hit the market. But I’m not an expert.
I'd focus your search on tech jobs in medicine, so you can bring subject matter expertise to the work. The knowledge you bring then can make it worth it for an organization to help you through the learning curve on the tech side.
That paper is comically bad. Coal is the backbone of many grid systems, and a real part of what people pay for electricity. Somehow they call coal "uneconomic" without defining any standard by which the define economic. How is a multi-decade old backbone of the system "uneconomic". It makes no sense. That is like calling transportation by ships "uneconomic".

It is telling that there isn't one engineer included in the authoring team. It is unlikely that they understand the purpose of these plants in grid operation. The plants at the top of their data set with low capacity factor are likely needed for covering peak demand. If you don't have those plants, then you have rolling black outs. And the value in those plants is that they can be started on demand. You can't start solar or wind on demand. Saying you can cover their purpose with solar or wind is like saying you can replace a transport truck with a Tesla Model 3. No, you can't. They aren't the same thing, and they don't provide the same function.

Those peaking plants show really high Cap-ex per MWh. That is because they don't run much. We pay that price because we value the grid being active 24/7. There is no way to eliminate that Cap-ex. If you truly wanted to replace them with Solar or Wind, their actual replacement is grid-tied storage. There isn't any storage technology that comes close on Cap-ex for multi-day or multi-week coverage of grid scale demand. Coal plants exists that provide this function. Storage at this scale has never been done. It is all conjecture, promises, and vapourware on the storage side.

They mention looking at hourly wind speeds to determine generation of electricity via wind turbines, but no mention of hourly electric demand. For the grid to work, there must be an instantaneous 1:1 ratio between supply and demand. It is a fully instantaneous system. The controls and governors of the generators are running real-time to match generating output to demand.

If a solar panel is able to produce 20 kWh of energy between 8 am and 4 pm and 0 kWh between 10 pm and 3 am, but the load requires 5 kWh of energy between 8am and 4 pm, and 15 kWh between 10 pm and 3 am, then: There will be 15 kWh of generated electricity that must be wasted during the day, and the system has a black out at night. aka system failure.

The study makes no mention of this time matching requirement, thus making the cost comparison between wind, solar, and coal apples to oranges. Coal actually provides the needed power, and grid availability people expect, solar and wind do not.

Yet another ridiculous "study" by people who have no idea how the grid works.
[“As someone who made money off GameStop, Dogecoin, and a lottery ticket this year, the best financial advice I can give you is to just be a f-ing idiot.”](https://www.instagram.com/p/COdE0p1Lh6H/?utm_source=ig_embed...)
I could've written this exact count word for word.

Will never go back to subscribing to the NYT because of that exact experience.
> NO ONE is getting their second shot

This is false. The numbers might be small, but people are certainly getting and have already gotten their second doses in the last couple months.
I understand the sentiment, but disagree with it in the case we're talking about, for reasons just as factual and pragmatic as yours. See my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056751
Buy the most expensive house/s you can get a mortgage for. Put the rest of your savings into a mix of equities.
I think it's less "things that appreciate" than "things you buy at today's prices and pay for over the next 30 years" that makes real estate attractive when there's inflation.
Inflation dynamics are not like stock-market dynamics.

Widespread stock-market optimism is a self-denying belief. Investors reach peak optimism, fully invest, and then the market can only go down.

Widespread inflation expectations is a self-fulfilling belief. People dump dollars for physical goods, increasing the price of those goods. This causes more inflation, leading to further dumping of the dollar, and further price increases.

This is why runwaway inflation / hyperinflation occurs.
I agree, but wow it's a sad indication of where we are that this is notable.
> Also, if everyone is vaccines can we do away with mask requirements?

We still don't have any hard evidence that the vaccine stops transmission. It's possible that it keeps you from getting sick while being an asymptomatic spreader.

That's why we're still wearing masks even after vaccination until we have better understanding of how the vaccine affects transmission rates.
What are the odds that anyone on the Reason staff understands averages, let alone calculus?
When I think inflation, I'm thinking wage inflation. It seems like stimulus checks have just temporarily increased demand, and supply chains have been disrupted by covid, so some manufacturers are struggling to keep up and have to raise prices. The offer a variety of anecdotes, but no solid indicators. How does one decide whether a market is inflated?
My experience with this indicates it’s a paper improvement only:

It drops the quality of the class for the advanced students (who begin showing boredom disorders) and the improvement in struggling students is due to peer mentoring and not course content.

I don’t believe studies like these which don’t control for course quality or peer mentoring.
Hi HN -

CalendarPush is a tool I had built for my own sanity. I found it really annoying and a waste of time to have to block off time on my work calendar whenever I had an event on my personal calendar come up. More specifically the reason I had to block time off on my work calendar was so that my coworkers couldn’t schedule meetings during my personal events. For now it only works for Google Calendar users.

Check it out. I'd love your feedback and comments.

Eric
I don't know who or how they have enough money.
It's all relative, but if you have assets that are keeping up with inflation like land, real estate, crypto, or anything scarce really, you're better off. I think wages don't really keep up with rapid inflation in the short term.
There are numerous. Google search “hedonic adjustment CPI”
there's a difference of opinions here & I respect your desires but don't knee cap the web & online systems to let your preffered offline personal computing duolopoly/triopoly be the only possible players.

treating the web as a competitor which must be restrained in order to allow your horse to win is unfair.

sure we should do ok with native too. but making everyone use native because you a priori decide no online systems may possibly be allowed to ever be feature competitive? that's shady.

this is exactly the anticompetitive struggle apple & now weirdly mozilla are waging against the web. this perspective is the authoritarian "you may not compete" holding us back bias. you can have your platform but don't make this a zero sum game, don't insist you have exclusive claim to featurefulness.

your positive desires for your interests are valid. don't join with apple in holding back competition for your own interests. don't tell online systems/the web they have to stay small & non threatening to your preferred alternative. that's what's been going on. it's not pretty.
Excuse me but, do you have some weird behavioural problem? You burst out of nowhere telling me I'm filled with vitriol, you throw a blunt link at my comment without explaining why it disagrees with what I say, and when I quote from it a part that shows that your comment is irrelevant to what I say you resort to insults?

What exactly are you trying to say? What is it that you don't like with my original comment? What do you disagree with? How does your fish meal link disagree with it? Can you articulate all that clearly, or do you just want to pick a fight?
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex....
I'd like to see some of the pandemic driven supply chain disruptions get worked out before I make a firm judgement on inflation.
Absolutely, I won't argue the dark patterns to get kids to spend their parents' money. It's kinda gross that it's simply the industry standard now.

I just know it's by far the most interesting competitive real time game I've played in years.
What is the significance of number 61 imprinted on the engine? Anyone?
This past week, I discovered and watched pretty much all of Not Just Bikes's videos. For me, it has been like waking up out of the Matrix to see that all of my surroundings are artificial and bad. I'm sharing on HN because I think this will resonate with the upbringing of other North Americans. I also feel that the current push to get everyone out of their gas cars and into electric cars is still ignoring an extraordinary hole in American infrastructure -- the possibility of not driving a car in the first place.
You're right but people aren't dumping their "dollars", vast majority of which aren't the base money that the Fed prints but are financial assets (it's like a 1:100 ratio[1]). Look at all asset classes, there's no selling going on.

[1] yes it's not exactly 1:100, if you feel like correcting a stranger on the internet please go on and pull the data from Fed datasets; i only meant to be accurate up to the order of magnitude.
You shouldn't be terrified because everything you've said is over exaggerated horse shit being fed to you to keep you angry. Most people don't think they're hyperpoliticized, but if you want to find out for sure, check and see if every talking point you use when politics comes up are exactly the same as the ones used by partisan propaganda outlets. If you check all the boxes for either CNN or Breitbart, you've been successfully fearmonhgered and hyperpoliticized by propaganda.

Also, what I said that you quoted, I was referring to the "existential threat to our society" that is referenced in the article, that is, internet news and it's polarization effect, not the scaremongering fed to you by whatever news you consume.
This is the only correct answer. The only strategy that works though tough times is diversification and holding. With low-cost ETFs and municipal funds that pay tax free dividends, there is enough to be safe and smart. People recommending bonds, gold, penny stocks, and now crypto are the same armchair investors I've been hearing squwak useless tips from the sidelines for almost four decade.
SWIFT had it all. They had the monopoly on international inter-bank transfers. They were 'the only game in town'. Then they blew it by disconnecting Iran from the international banking scene.

Suddenly people saw that SWIFT were not the reliable, neutral entity that people thought they were. I actually emailed their public-relations office way back then stating this fact. Of course, I was disregarded. "What would I know?" I was a nameless nobody after all.

Fast forward a decade or so, and there are now at least three more interbank tranfers entities available. Already they are taking business away from SWIFT. In years to come, SWIFT will decline further and further as The East becomes more and more financially important.

They had it all. They lost it.
That's totally fair. I'm not a AI researcher. From what I've heard from internal folks. A new competitor might be able to compete on one or two models to create some niche, but not in the entire market. The market is big enough that the competitors can still be viable companies, but we are not resting on our laurels either, so it'll be interesting to see.
http://battlegrounds.party/
* Plunder provides a similar ability to progress loadouts as either paid game

* it’s the biggest game I’ve ever seen and updates way too much. Feels like it ate my entire 1.2TB soft cap last month. Sadly the other games are also coming with +60-80gb on top of wz itself

* agreed

* in solos, it is a pretty terrible game, but the other modes require good team play and utility usage. I think there is a big skill gap, but the game is very slow paced, and it’s hard to objectively describe success. Is it frags? Placement? I suppose it depends on your goals. I can say watching streamers get 25 frags against top quality players shows you that aggression and mechanical skill are still rewarded in my opinion
To a point, stocks and other liquid dollar-denominated assets.

After that point, who knows. Precious metals? Depends on how bad things get.

The biggest winners in hyper-inflation are those holding the biggest debts
Electric controls are not the problem here; it's designing anti-failsafes into the component. AFAIK cars could be shut down remotely (which is bad, and fairly stupid), and warning systems are optional and conditional (e.g. pedestrian warning, emergency braking, etc) but the core safety systems (seatbelts, ABS, airbags, etc) follow the rule prescribed: It works, or it's been disabled by significant intervention, or it's totally and utterly failed. You don't play with uptime when it comes to this kind of device.

That is, they don't intentionally introduce a backdoor to disable the system. Or rather, they don't intentionally increase the risk surface of critical safety devices. The death star is not supposed to be your design inspiration.
> open source (“open core”, to be precise)

This is bad. Just be precise and don’t try to conflate open source with proprietary stuff. It’s ok to not be OSS, lots of good software is non-OSS.

It’s only bad to say you’re one thing and be another.
people don't want "fair" though, they want to win about 2/3rds of the time

of course the numbers don't work when you're exclusively playing against other people

this is why smurfing is so popular
Free money from next to nothing interest rates?
Serious question:

> This is an issue bigger than Patreon (In the climate of FOSTA/SESTA) It probably goes beyond even the payment processors. it’s a world wide, online AND in person crack down on freedom of expression, on women, on marginalised people, on sex and sex work, on non conventional forms of labour that counter the status quo: the domination of corporations and the patriarchy. On dissent.
(Taken from the blog post mentioned because it provides a bit more context than the quote on the linked site; emphasis not mine)

How is this a crackdown on either women or freedom of expression? Isn't every sex worker equally affected? Not like Patreon still shows penises on their platform. Neither is any company forced to allow arbitrary personal expression on their platform if I understood it correctly. Freedom of expression only protects you from the government, like freedom of speech, no?

If anyone intends to respond to this comment please consider that I'm genuinely asking this. I really want to understand.
Apparently gender inequality exists in policing as well. Why do police almost exclusively murder males, in your opinion?

I'm asking in good faith, because I think you have insightful comments and I'm curious, even if I disagree with you on a few things.
You do know,it's why you're commenting here, it means MASSIVE inflation, there are just very few exit ramps.

I want to get out of some Bitcoin Cash right now and don't have many options. Gold and silver are compromised markets, stocks could drop any second, buying a second home is really my only option.
Perhaps you can still edit the title here to something like "Leader: superior, intuitive and light blog base for the modern web." (This title is too optimistic for the style here, perhaps drop "superior" so people don't complain.)

Also: Is this your project?
This is the second inflation story to make the HN front page in the last two days, yet I remain unimpressed by the "running rampant" claim. According to the latest CPI inflation data (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/), inflation was 2.6 percent over the last 12 months (as of April 13). This aligns with the Fed's 12-month target of 2 percent average inflation if we check historical trends (which implies that sometimes it will be over 2 percent).

The linked story looks like cherry-picked data. Of course if average prices rise 2.6% percent, some outliers will rise more. But this hardly seems like a reason to panic.
There is some overlap between our discussion and the Citizens United v FEC case, and though I was adamantly against the idea upon first glance, after reading the arguments it became clear to me that money was in fact speech, especially in the US.

So I must disagree with your assessment.
If you consider debt in isolation (so assume your income increases with inflation or faster so your quality of life/buying power doesn't take a hit with inflation) then yes you are correct, inflation does away with debt.

The concern comes in when your cash compensation doesn't keep pace with inflation and your effective buying power decreases. Also other general macro effects that may indirectly impact you, and I'm sure there's a whole lot more to it than that, but yeah simplistically: inflation make debt go bye bye.
You run TB files against GPU? Hmm... that's something I've never thought off. Interesting, any idea where I can research into?
San Francisco is implementing guaranteed income programs
Drag and drop is not actually very usable. It's nice to have it as an option, but the main approach to rearrangeable lists should just be a list widget w/ selectable items and [↑] [↓] buttons to shift the currently-selected entry upwards or downwards.
(Jerome Powell)
(For in-involved readers: Which the community thinks is a very good thing)
Good god, qgis wasn’t an option? I think I would rather draw it in MS paint than color an excel sheet like that.
Don't store wealth in USD. Store it in scarce things.
Well there was methane leak with a fire underneath, so not exactly nominal, but not RUD either.
> We still don't have any hard evidence that the vaccine stops transmission. It's possible that it keeps you from getting sick while being an asymptomatic spreader.

Yes we do. I'm not sure that we have peer reviewed published A/B studies yet (but I think we do have some initial ones).

But there is absolutely hard evidence that trasmissions rates decrease among vaccinated populations. We saw this with population level testing among groups that got vaccinated.
We're been hearing that since 2008. "Hyperinflation is just around the corner trust me!"
there is never a million people on the oregon coast.
Why are black boxes not buoyant?
I found myself similarly underwhelmed by Cixin Liu given all the good things I'd heard.

I'm horrible at remembering names, but three of my favorites off the top of my head are Peter Watts, Neil Stephenson and Kim Stanley Robison.

I've generally had decent luck finding new authors by just by seeing who gets Hugo and Nebula nominations.