skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not surprised. I wonder how many folks really buy into FEDs argument that this is temporary, that's why they won't change the unmaintainable interest rates the US has been keeping artificially low.

We'll have another year to come, of even higher inflation and some people will still be talking about "supply chain" problems created 2 years ago. Just watch. I'd take any bet I can afford about this.

FED knows that if it hikes up 0.5% interest rates a few times, markets will melt, unemployment to 40%+ and a big civil war will happen.

Except a few US companies that can really make money without much debt(like tech companies), almost all of the rest are walking zombies. So many suburban cities in America are 100% bankrupt being kept alive by policies which should be temporary, such as this Biden's infrastructure package.

You can hide some dust under the carpet only up to a certain point. Citizens let politicians do it until it's out of control. I don't believe it's a mistake solely done by politicians and the FED, but rather, the average american citizen consuming and owning shit to a unmaintainable degree.
It strikes me as legit.

So far as I can tell they ask a number of questions that get weakly gendered answers, put them together with a logistic regression model and can make a reasonable guess.

They do a pretty good job of explaining how it works.

I scored 75% male which is about what I'd expect because (1) I am male, but (2) I score high on some "female" characteristics such as aesthetic appreciation. I like some girly things and sometimes end up in situations a bit like a harem anime.
The virus isn't going away. I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but it only has a limited and temporary effect on reducing transmission.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

You can't seriously expect people to continue wearing masks and social distancing forever. That would be absurd.
> We don't hear about Wal-mart deciding to place Procter & Gamble's laundry detergent on the fourth row down and their private label at eye level in the store, do we?

Because that's not at all how Walmart operates. All of the laundry detergent is on the same aisle and the generic versions are immediately next to their brand-name equivalents.
> Vaccinated people still spread covid

Vaccinated people still spread COVID, but they're less likely to. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/vaccinated-people...

"When infected with the delta variant, a given contact was 65 percent less likely to test positive if the person from whom the exposure occurred was fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. With AstraZeneca, a given contact was 36 percent less likely to test positive if the person from whom the exposure occurred was fully vaccinated."

> "Large portion" is false, it is children under 12

That's about 50 million Americans, a number I consider fairly large. https://www.statista.com/statistics/457786/number-of-childre...
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I'd like to take a moment to appreciate how utterly monumental it is to have free, instant access to such human ingenuity. This is now first on my reading list.

I'm working on a HPC company where everyone is an order or two of magnitude smarter than me. It's fun and overwhelming. If anyone has a recommended study plan for this subject (I have an unstructured background in CS) or 'lighter' complimentary resources, I'd be grateful to read them.
It's true that semantically git commits store the whole tree but doing that naively would be inefficient. Instead, packfiles will store some objects as deltas which could either result in inconsitencies or noticeable knock-on changes if the original object contents are changed.
There is also the Child Tax Credit.

"$3,000 to $3,600 per child for nearly all working families
The Child Tax Credit in the American Rescue Plan provides the largest child tax credit ever and historic relief to the most working families ever."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/child-tax-credit/
The US has the biggest military budget by far. Also the most aggressive.
For building rich terminal UIs in Python, I recommend Rich the library

https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich
It might help if you introduce more things to focus in and out on. I find that when I'm playing a game I'm not as interested in/has down time, by having something like music playing softly in the background, I'm able to focus in better during slow periods.

Some amount of LoFi beats, classical, or music in another language might help a bit even if you feel you need to 'focus in' by just providing a bit more stimulation? I find that without music it's much harder for me to enter my flow state when programming even if I 'stop hearing' the music once I get into what I'm working on.

But everyone's different, that's just something that works for me, but I hope that you keep up the hard work. Focus is hard, and you're taking some important steps to try and restore yours.
I appreciate that requiring the use of the App Store makes security easier but I think the current situation gives Apple and Governments too much power over developers and users.

Side-loading should be permitted. I am okay with it not being allowed by default but it should be something a user can override.
No, it's not easy. But we do know that increasing the money supply faster than economic growth creates inflation. We also know that inflation helps the rich and hurts the poor since it inflates asset prices faster than wages. And guess who owns most of the assets.
> Let me try: more money in circulation means sales volume goes up, so prices fall (according to actual economic theory).

Only true under certain circumstances. In general, when Demand increases, and Supply doesn't increase to match, prices go up.
> Saying "hormones altered" shows your bias

What is "Shows your bias" supposed to mean here? Look: There are women who don't like hormonal birth control. They feel bloated &etc. Trust me on this.

> IUD exist without any hormones

Yes, and theoretically and by the numbers it's effective, but did you know that it hurts to put one in? It's actually not a small ask. If a woman chooses it herself without prompting, fine. And in the context of a really long term relationship where you can "have a conversation", maybe. But it's not a little thing. In fact, it hurts enough that it can create a fair amount of resentment.

> you don't think blasting your balls with heat "alters" your hormones?

Actually no, that's not the mechanism at work here.

> Use condoms.

Well, that's reasonable advice, though you still do want to use multiple methods.
The stimulus checks, boosted unemployment, and PPP loans were funded by the money printer. That's trillions in new money.
Woah - can you expand on this a bit? I don't have a system to test atm, but I'm curious how that works. Are you sure privileges/security boundaries are circumvented?
Genuinely curious: if Amazon was very up front about this, and in no way pretended to be a neutral marketplace would this be allowed? Example: when a user signs up to sell something on Amazon they're hit with a warning like "Amazon will always prioritize its own products over that of third party products, including future products that may be very similar to ones currently allowed in our marketplace. Be prepared to be removed for any or no reason, including because Amazon does not want too many similar products in the same category."

Same question about Apple's app store.
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Some things the author did not consider.

- How is this different from the likes of Netflix et al, where content lives on a single platform?

- Is Spotify really an ad platform? I pay for it and never hear ads anywhere, same for YouTube.

- Spotify does not censor JRE, which is one of his primary reasons for leaving YT. Iirc, he said he was making more over there, but YT was demonetizing videos without explanation, and he felt that was a form of censorship. Not direct banning, more like https://socialcooling.com
The people who believe the new inflation lies from the Fed are a subset of the people who believed the previous round of inflation lies from the Fed.
It would be easier to "trust the science" for the plebs out there if they felt that institutions valued their needs. Insulin could cost $15 per vial, but they can cost $300. The financial institutions (see 2008 crash) caused no problems for leaders of institutions.

When I hear someone say "trust the science", I hear, "institutions have worked out for me so far". As much as we wish it were based on rational belief, it is almost certainly personal experience.

George Carlin was right: "they" want you to be smart enough to keep the system moving, but too dumb to see how inequitable the system is.

EDIT:
Addressing the "that's just capitalism, not science" point.

You can't really separate the funding from institutions from the products / science. Governments limit the possible research that can be done, media brings in attention and recognition, universities placate their owners (corporate, government, academic, investors). None of the institutions are really motivated by what the base needs or wants apart from avoiding actual anarchy and chaos. It's not a conspiracy. It is power getting more power and power corrupting, quite naturally and with people making rational choices in their own self interest.
It's getting better in a lot of smaller cities. In the 80's and 90's, that were a lot of things you could only get in the biggest metros. Access to things like niche books, the latest fashions, great restaurants, etc. could only be found in larger cities.

Growing prosperity and the ability to get practically anything delivered has changed that. This means you can now live in a smaller town or city and get practically all of the material benefits of living somewhere like NYC or SF.
Are you suggesting that making heroin illegal has stopped its usage?

Strange since it's currently an epidemic.
Panic!!!
In economics there's the difference between transient inflation and core inflation (I think this is what GP alludes to).

Really simplified: Core inflation happens when most market participants think inflation is here to stay and act accordingly. Transient inflation is caused for different reasons, a current example was the supply shock that led to the rise and subsequent fall in lumber prices.

The distinction is important because in the current case there is a simple, one-time cause for the transient inflation: The disruption caused by Covid and is rippling through the layers of the economy. Most participants know this and therefore won't fear perpetual price rises, thus core inflation is pretty unlikely to occur.
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What kind of relationship do you think you're building without any trust and explicitly telling your partner you don't trust her by both of you using contraceptives?

Let the fairer sex have some power
The final message says the new maintainer steps down.

I don't imagine Sarah wants to work on PCEm any more, but it would be good if we could show support somehow.
Buying OTM Call LEAPS!

Who cares if inflation is 5.4% or the money supply increases 40% when your ROI is 10,000%

Everyone worries about hyperinflation bread lines from 100 years ago when they need to look at what the capital class of the time was able to do: help wealth inequality by making it wider! Stocks went to the moon long before the Apollo!

Personal risk tolerance.
They moved on from Keynesian economics a long time ago, today it is all about MMT i.e Magical Monetary Thinking errrr... Modern Monetary Theory
I mean sure, but what's the relevance to this article or discussion? Any product targeting the wealthy - automobile, Rolex, or iPhone ads - could also be considered distasteful when people are starving.
Well, it's:

* cheaper

* maybe healthier (lower saturated fat)

* lower climate impact (no dairy farming required)

That last point is why I've recently switched to spreadable butter, which is roughly half butter, half rapeseed oil, and a little water (and none of the ultra-processed weird stuff that goes into margarine).
Stroads are really terrible. It's amazing how they can be legal in US.
But it becomes harder to take on new debt as lenders require higher interest rates and are generally more selective with loans.
" the most productive people "

How are you defining productive here?
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Supposedly we were booking a few years ago but still need low interest rates to juice the economy. But you might be right, we might not have ever recovered from 2008 and have just been running off low interest rates since then. If that’s the case, we are most definitely screwed.
If they knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be shocked that we're headed for stagflation after a series of failed predictions about the inflation being short term and the supply chain fixing itself in months rather than years.
That title is a mouthful even when just subvocalizing it.
The best Python GUI framework just got better
Version 1.0 of Dear PyGui was released today. Read all about it in the release notes.

https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Or let us know why another GUI framework is better in the comment section.
Why did you put emulates in quotes? The machines were real.
Economists would argue that the 'printed' money is actually reserves at the central bank, and thus has no impact on price levels. I myself am less certain about the overall dynamics.
Parent comment is likely referring to the wonderfully named "Advanced Macrology and the Implementation of Typed Scheme" paper [1]

If you type macrology into Google you get the definition "Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words. noun." Perhaps accurate, but too vague ;-)

[1]: https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/scheme2007-ctf.pdf
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> Ok so when are you going to get a booster shot or your first COVID shot?

I consider every interaction with the virus a booster shot. So I guess every day.

> False? Who cares? I'm in business and wear a mask

Perhaps the right question would be where. I personally insist on masks every time I feel even slightly imperfect (which mostly is because I didn't sleep enough) even if the other people feel too confident. In fact I believe masks make the most sense out of all the measures deployed and allowing people use public transport and supermarkets without masks once most of them are vaccinated is going to be a huge mistake.

> Which also suggests you are getting the virus again

How is this getting it with natural immunity proven by a lab antibody test worse than getting it being vaccinated?

> But hey screw everybody else right?

Nobody experienced any symptoms after contacting me. Everybody I talked to still feels fine. I test. I wear FFP2. I use hand sanitizers. I avoid meeting anyone without a necessity (as I always did). And by the way I have also heard a rumor (though I don't rely on it as I never cared to check) getting an infection from a light/asymptomatic-symptomatic person means higher chances to overcome it without light symptoms too.

> Your mentality around this is selfish and bizarre.

No, I just the question above. I do everything I see logical reason in but I don't understand how is a vaccine better than immunity I have already developed naturally. Why is it supposed to protect the people around me better than the antibodies I already have?

> The person you are replying to was discussing your complete misunderstanding of how vaccines work. Not commenting on naturally acquired immunity, which BTW doesn't mean you're 100% immune because that's now how things work.

Ok. Would you be so kind to tell me how is a vaccine supposed to be better than contacting all the mutations of the actual live virus besides the fact the latter gives you less chances to survive unharmed and enjoy the immunity?
Obligatory "I switched to Linux" comment.

But no seriously, after having Windows as my main OS for my entire life I finally switched to Linux (Pop!_OS) a few months ago.

Got tired of nonsensical UI decisions, terrible search functionality, user-hostile behaviour, privacy issues, ads... aaaah! That's not what an OS should be like!
Also a situation I got reminded of near where my parents live - hydrogen plant being built in the middle of the desert. Developers get courted by city A who has cheap land available. City A has a city manager that works out a sweet heart deal that basically funds some of the planning costs (and cuts city revenue by a couple million/yr for a few years doing so), but in exchange for approval and at the last minute, requires they hook to the recycled water source he stupidly had run several miles away instead of the normal way to cover his ass for that bad decision. City B, literally borders on the other side of the street, has a recycled water pipe literally on the other side of the street.

After years of planning and millions spent on their side, the numbers don’t pencil out anymore because of this, so the developers go ‘wtf’, and buy a plot on the other side of the street that is in City B (more expensive, but still cheaper than running 5 miles of large diameter water pipe), cut and paste the plans, and are going to build next year after 3+ years of wasted time and millions in cash wasted.

And this is for a private, for profit project that they want to actually happen ASAP. When the taxpayers are footing the bill, the shenanigans get way worse. When no one seems to notice when the schedule keeps sleeping year after year? Even worse.
It's not a question of whether to ban it - none of us could if we wanted to - but of whether to buy it.
Don't go buying big ticket items. Whatever is causing them to cost more is usually specific to the item. For all electronics and vehicles, it's chip shortages, which won't last forever, so all you're doing is buying something you don't need now when the price will go back down to normal in two years. You're buying high, selling low, which is the exact opposite of what you want to do. Strategies relying on predicting prices relies on you actual predicting them. This is a historical inflation rate. To take advantage of it, you'd have had to make big ticket purchases before it happened.

The best thing you can do right now is refinance any long-term debt you have to a lower fixed rate, and possibly try to find whatever appreciating assets are still cheaply priced, i.e. low cap value stocks or something. But good luck there. Blue chips have been destroying everything for years and there way to know when the insanity will stop or if it will ever stop. The only sure thing is locking in low interest on things you have to borrow for anyway, or for anything you just want to maintain constant value on rather than looking for gains, buy TIPS. The only way those ever lose value is if the entire government collapses, at which point anything else you own other than seeds and bullets and land becomes just as worthless.
This stimulus is different from QE in the sense that it went directly to consumers. QE never went directly to consumers, but instead stayed with banks. Personally, I think you can see QE's inflationary effect in both the stock and housing market, but that's just me.
That public seems happy to be lied to, on all sorts of subjects, by politicians & salesmen & etc. Why should "the economy" and "economics experts" be special cases?
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While an interesting perspective, this is inaccurate.

The US government has more leeway than most other countries in the world to spend higher amounts. There is a theory that has not been accepted by a majority of economists (Modern Monetary Theory) that governments can spend without impact.

The counter theory (which I prescribe to) is that the US government has more leeway to increase their debt burden higher than most countries as a function of being the global reserve currency (and having a long track record, federal reserve separated from political power and a mostly functioning democracy). That has given a bit more tolerance to their higher debt load as well economists have forever underestimated the end point at which that would create problems (also they misunderstood the benefits the US had accrued as a function of aforementioned features of the Union). We are still within the tolerable range. However this misstep by economist has created space for MMT to get traction amongst those who do not understand the economy but need a mechanism to finance their ideas. I believe it can work for a little while but it certainly gets closer to a dangerous situation.

Higher inflation (~>4%) just erodes the power of our dollar and increases costs throughout the supply chain.

The IRS has nothing to do with monetary supply, they only collect taxes on behalf of the people of the country. Monetary supply is controlled by the Federal Reserve and is completely separate.

Based on your comments about the IRS/monetary supply I believe this you should do a full read up on how our monetary system works (not being rude, just want educated conversation here and don't want you to fall victim to poor sources of information/conspiracy theories).
Meditation, exercise, good diet. You train your brain just like you train anything else.
Biden has been tougher on the border than Trump. He's seperating kids left and right, same number of asylum seekers let in.
I don't have these numbers, but I'm positive that the lifetime risk for having experienced a serious car accident (or any car accident for that matter) is strongly correlated with driving behavior and specifically speeding.

Second, there's the matter of just how damn uncomfortable it is to be around speeding cars when you're not also in a car yourself. People in suburbs don't really think about this because nobody walks anywhere. But I live in a walkable urban environment and the speeders here are an enormous hit to quality of life. They're louder, more aggressive -- it's just really unsettling to be around.

This can be hard to convince suburbanites of, because they conceive of themselves mostly as drivers and not as pedestrians, but even if there were no safety improvements, it would be a huge win for urban environments if we could rein in speeding.

But the reality is that it would also save ~6,000 lives a year in the U.S.
Busier than ever to be honest with you - with the added difficultly that a lot of our regular freelancers have either left the industry or are being snapped up quicker than we can book people.

I guess it will no doubt be chaos for another few months as the industry gets back to it's feet.
With the NSO revelations we know that Apple can secure their own apps and from the other releases of zero days we know Apple is bad at communicating with security researchers and that their automatic security review is a joke, honestly someone motivated could implement a better security scanner that could actually catch the "private" API usage though we all know that the solution is to not have private/hidden APIs that are shared only with special apps like Apple ones and partners.

TLDR there could be a safer store alternative.
One common misconception (not saying you are making it) about inflation is that it means rising prices. In fact, it is a theoretical construct about the rise of the general price level = a decrease in the value of money. All we have are proxies (CPI) for this construct and it is often really hard to know if a change in the proxy actually means a change in the general price level or just a change of relative prices as a result of eg. supply shocks.

So sure, a month where CPI starts to increase faster could mean that inflation is speeding up, but it could also just be a result of changes to the real economy that influence the prices of things in the CPI basket. In that sense, something that might look like an increase in the price level might end up being just an adjustment of relative prices (that might readjust after supply issues have been fixed).