skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A take down of Shadowstats from 2011:

* https://www.pragcap.com/why-is-there-deflation-in-hyperinfla...

And then again in 2017:

* https://www.pragcap.com/theres-still-deflation-hyperinflatio...

And November 2021:

* https://fullstackeconomics.com/no-the-real-inflation-rate-is...

Seriously, these guys are garbage.

If you want to verify the official numbers yourself MIT has some code:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project
Wow, just wow. This is amazing.
Gamification of the attention economy
Sounds like the São Paolo Clean City Law:
https://newdream.org/blog/sao-paolo-ad-ban
> Hint: it's not slerp.

What is slerp?
Can't withdraw it.
> I see your compassion, but income inequality isn't driven by prices, it's driven by the employers not paying enough to their employees. Prices can't fix that.

The two are intertwined. Every big-ticket item costs at least $1000 round numbers these days. If you halved that threshold to $500, you would put more valuable goods in reach to more people without adjusting wages.

You can do the same by increasing wages, but that threshold might go up in response to $2000.

It’s all about prices relative to wages, not either in isolation
>but on the other hand the U.S. upholds much stricter rules of engagement than any of its enemies

And where did you hear that from? Our "independent" papers of record aka state department stenographers?
Teaching your children about absolute truth, rhetoric, logic, propaganda, and so on. Don't farm it out to schools. The schools in the United States have unilaterally failed to preserve any kind of rational thought. Feelings prevail, the math doesn't have to be "right", only social justice has to be served [0].

[edit]
I should expand this. Critical thinking isn't enough. Public debate is the second part. The ability to haul out an idea and flog it mercilessly until there is nothing left of it is how the US wound up with the Constitution it has. Men got together and debated until they all agreed.

We have a distinct lack of debate in the US, and free speech (especially "hate speech") is sequestered to the backwaters of the internet where it festers, grows, and gets increasingly radical. If we had public debate (not the name-calling propaganda you see in national cable news) many of those ideas would fizzle and die, people would abandon them and move on to other things.

Expose ugly ideas and they die. Conceal them and hide them away and they grow.

[0] https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/15/california-wei...
StackOverlow doesn't run on just 4 machines. Even in 2016 it required significant hardware:

4 Microsoft SQL Servers (new hardware for 2 of them)
11 IIS Web Servers (new hardware)
2 Redis Servers (new hardware)
3 Tag Engine servers (new hardware for 2 of the 3)
3 Elasticsearch servers (same)
4 HAProxy Load Balancers (added 2 to support CloudFlare)
2 Networks (each a Nexus 5596 Core + 2232TM Fabric Extenders, upgraded to 10Gbps everywhere)
2 Fortinet 800C Firewalls (replaced Cisco 5525-X ASAs)
2 Cisco ASR-1001 Routers (replaced Cisco 3945 Routers)
2 Cisco ASR-1001-x Routers (new!)S
To be honest my open source stuff has largely been out of the usual reason of being annoyed something didn't already exist, sometimes adding features, sometimes building something from the ground up.

The thing is, working on stuff that was useful for myself and for the clients we already had naturally meant it would be useful to similar companies so the whole process sort of self-selected for working without there being much intentionality involved.

The nice part of it though is that it helps with work you already have available, so to a great extent it then helping find work later can be regarded as a helpful side effect.

It's also notable that I've done a lot of helping people out on IRC, mailing lists, etc. which naturally (a) means you get excellent help when you're the one who's stuck (b) builds up people who recognise you and may recommend you later.

Quite a number of customers over the years have been conversions from support channels because people have thought to themselves "if the free support for these projects is this good, I bet paying for dedicated attention will be even better for me" and Shadowcat has done our best to prove them right to have thought that ;)
Sum types are a thing I don't want to be without again. Not only the built in Option and Result, but once you're in the mindset you find they're the right fit for other problems too.

In Rust itself, writing stuff where I actually care whether my structure is 16 or 20 bytes because I need to fit hundreds of millions of them into RAM, I like that Sum types ensure Option<NonZeroUsize> is the same size as usize, by reasoning that 0 isn't a valid NonZeroUsize and so it can signal None. However on a language like Go I don't miss that - what I do miss is the fact that in Rust I can't mistakenly end up with None(actually_something) or both an error and the result that shouldn't be there if there was an error.
> Hilarious. Do you think there’s big judge in the sky that determines what’s good and bad?

Mankind has reached a point where it realized that certain rights (natural rights [1]) are not really arbitrary cultural constructs, but more akin to the laws of nature. We're still not at a point where we fully understand the "moral laws of nature" (e.g. I suspect if we stick around as a species we will end up extending more rights to certain other species), but we're improving (at least on paper).

> powerful people who decide to enforce their conscience

Again an attitude that can be used to justify anything. If the powerful people decide it's ok to have slaves? Or that a certain ethnicity should be cleared off the face of the earth?

Luckily, post WW2 we have established international institutions (the UN for one) that at least on paper provide legal underpinning for what the right rules should be and for how they should be enforced.

> If there’s an international institution that can enforce rules, then that institution is the capricious superpower, and woe betide those that mess with that institution.

This is simply insane warmongering. Since you throw such threats around casually I suspect you might be a US citizen. I can assure you that to the rest of us seeing this kind of attitude coming from your political/economic/intellectual leaders can be a very scary thing indeed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law
> A lot of Rustaceans don’t seem to grasp why, when the question is “where do I get feature X?” the answer “oh, there are 23 crates for that” is objectively terrifying.

This is exactly the impression I have gotten from the crates system every time I've looked. It happens for things as foundational as mmap. Also terrifying: The plethora of highly-recommended crates that have not yet committed to a stable API (ie, are still semantically on version 0.X).
PLEX really makes me feel like I’m living in an awesome future, the one I imagined as a kid on the early internet where I can watch whatever I want whenever I want. Then I go to YouTube and am grossed out by all the ads and the sponsored portions in every video.
Sean, thanks for the reply. I think we might be in the same boat here, if I am understanding you right. To clarify: Are you saying that you are in the EU, or your service is based in EU, or are you saying that your customers are in the EU?

EDIT: Currently browsing Paddle.com where I clicked the "Explore Paddle" link, which 404's for me here https://paddle.com/demo/explore-paddle/ (fails with the error 'We can’t connect to the server at fast.wistia.com.')
https://paddle.com/resources/revenue-delivery-explained/ (also down for the same reason, wistia)

I also clicked the "Sales Questions" button, in an attempt to notify, but it appears that button doesn't lead me anywhere.

Can anybody verify if those two items function for them?
Washable and Stretchable Zn–MnO Rechargeable Cell
The Masters Degree in awarenes is to notice you've also put yourself into a tribe when you point out/ridicule that most "other" people are tribal. Now you belong to the "We are not irrational, emotion-based decision makers" tribe. And then two problem immediately becomes apparent:

1) This tribe never was and never will be large enough to meaningfully influence most decisions in any society.

2) This tribe does not control access to nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, or tank or infantry divisions.
On Xbox X easily with no "hacks"?
Nuclear weapons are the greatest technological threat, and low probability events are guaranteed to occur over a long enough time frame. Nuclear deterrence has prevented world war, but clandestine nuclear weapons programs have given dangerous leverage to violent pariahs.
Wouldn't it though? I mean, caloric intake doesn't fluctuate much. If smaller sizes were ending up leaving this person hungry, presumably they'd end up buying more to compensate.
1) Privacy / surveillance. There's a lot of things that govt and corporations don't really need to know about you, but now they do.

2) Attention. The double edged sword of easy information is that digital junk food is also easier to get. You can read Feynman lectures or catch up with the Kardashians, up to you.

3) The idiots can find each other. There's no village idiot anymore, they've gone global.
"I am a coastal urban renter with a unique (some would argue extravagant) diet that spends >10% of my income on a specific hobby that gotten very popular since the pandemic. This report that intentionally tries to reflect the average American doesn't match my experience. SOMETHING is up"

^90% of the comments^
Not a bad thing, people need to stop eating cereal anyways. Most of it is packed with sugar.
Interesting, I thought the US was now "energy independent" but Forbes is claiming we're now short.

> However, thus far the price surge is primarily a result of 3 million barrels per day (BPD) of oil production that was lost in the spring of 2020 that hasn’t fully recovered. Demand has fully recovered, so that is the fundamental reason for the surge in prices. Further, that surge began in the fall of 2020 — five months before President Trump left office.
There are a lot of opinions on what this means and its effects on our individual lives, but it should be noted that it usually has no effect on people's view of a ruling US party so long as there has been strong economic growth, and there has been extremely strong growth. If you didn't get that raise you want to offset inflation, there has never been a better time in many sectors to find a higher paying job.
Puns are probably an ancient development [0] and there are a lot of famous punny people historically from Shakespeare to Abraham Lincoln -- I wonder if the modern scientific world is more or less hospitable to punning than the rest of society?

From "Preface to Shakespeare" by Samuel Johnson in 1765 (here "quibble" means the same thing as "pun"):

"A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the
traveller; he follows it at all adventures, it is sure to lead him
out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some
malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible.
Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether
he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be
amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspense,
let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work
unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always
turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble
poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content
to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun#History_and_global_usage
[1] https://www.sapili.org/livros/en/gu005429.pdf
Wow, this is pretty cool, thanks for sharing!
Interactions with humans. They are extra stupid now.

Maybe because they don't have to think for themselves anymore?
I assume that decreases in services will create decreases in goods. So GDP and CPI will reflect this.
"Beyond a difficult labor market, the NACE report also mentions that graduate school attendance may be another reason the class of 2020′s employment rate dipped." CNBC is as bad as MSNBC
Does it make you feel powerful to trash the best efforts of earnest people ? Just wondering what motivates the straight to the garbage can and shadow banning activity you engage in.

It's hard to understand how wretched and empty a person you must be to get off on playing Lenin with other people's thoughts.
Absolutely love my Les Paul Standard 60's. Sure its not as ergonomic as a Strat and can be a little uncomfortable to play for long periods of time, but there's nothing that sounds like it. I question the people who complain about the headstock design. Yes, its prone to breaking. But this is a $2500+ guitar, what are you doing that makes it so easy to break? I handle my Les Paul as if it were a baby and it's life depended on me.
> However, there's two elements with 'Apply now' on the page. A button with 'Apply now' and a dropdown with 'Apply now' that opens when you click that button. Lol

You can chain them! It's still better to [0] the text one and then click the pop-up than use div chains the whole way down. Yes it's not perfect, if I was testing the site as part of Kellogg I'd ask for test ids to make them unique, but it's still immune to additional divs.

> It's generating fake names. It doesn't matter.

This hurts my soul
So the whole innovation amounts to simply being a cloud provider?

I think a lot of people overestimate the importance of AWS. It's both funny and sad to see people think they need AWS for the most basic compute tasks that are easier and cheaper to accomplish without AWS.

There's actually many blogs and distributed services that use zero AWS, and have higher availability than AWS, and which don't have to provide a status update telling their customers that "even Netflix is down", passing the buck. When Netflix is down, my site's up, so that's a really bad excuse however you look at it.
> equities

The "C" in CPI stands from consumer, not assets. It is a measure of the cost of goods and services that people consume. Assets are not consumed so therefore not in the CPI.

> Also look at shrinkflation

Contrary to popular opinion, the people who calculate the CPI are not complete morons. See StatCan's (who do the CPI in Canada) handbook:

> 7.10 Quantity adjustment entails accounting for changes in the quantity (e.g. package size, number of tissue ply, etc.) of observed POs. This is another implicit method of quality adjustment because it is assumed that the quality per standardized unit is the same over time.

> 7.11 Quantity adjustment is the default treatment for nearly all of the POs in the food major aggregate as well as some of the products in the household operations, and personal care supplies and equipment aggregates.

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/62-553-x/2019001/chap-7-...

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/62-553-x/62-553-x2019...

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/62-553-X

The boffins are aware of shrinkflation (and good substitution, which is mentioned in (IIRC) Chapter 9).
It's not 'journalism' to release arbitrary secrets even if the transparency might be beneficial.

Secrecy can be harmful in some cases but it's also essential in many ways, it's really not an argument at all. Nobody would be able to do their jobs otherwise.
This is on a tangent - TL;DR: I'm pretty convinced that the future of Gentoo is https://www.calculate-linux.org/

After one too many times Python breaking changes got me to a point of Gentoo system that can't be updated (and it usually happens midway through bigger system/world update, so potentially many applications/tool also don't work) - I've switched to https://www.calculate-linux.org/

It's still real Gentoo system, and unlike Sabayon Linux (many years ago) where you couldn't easily switch between emerge/portage and whatever Sabayon had - with Calculate it's all seamless. You can still do manual Stage3 tarball install, or just use Live image with GUI installer ...

Most (like 99.95% percent) of packages come as pre-built binary, those remaining 0.05% is just packages where I had niche reasons to deviate from config (use flags) that Calculate used to build those binaries.

And unlike `emerge -uND world` which can easily get stuck and even break (usually if you haven't updated system and toolchain in a while) - `cl-update` has been so good that several years passed and it didn't happen - well kind of.

Combo of some python based apps being old/weird/whatever, and python breaking shit between versions - I do have multiple Python versions installed:

* dev-lang/python
Available versions:
(2.7) 2.7.18_p13{tbz2} - installed
(3.6) 3.6.15(3.6/3.6m)^t
(3.7) 3.7.12_p1(3.7/3.7m)^t - installed
(3.8) 3.8.12_p1^t{tbz2} - installed
(3.9) 3.9.9^t{tbz2} - installed
(3.10) 3.10.0_p1^t ~3.10.1^t
(3.11) ~3.11.0_alpha2^t

Which actually came in handy one time where (through my mistake) on top of pure Gentoo's emerge/portage, Calculate Linux tools (written in Python) also broke. Luckily older versions of python (with all the libs/packages tied to that version as well) worked - so it wasn't hard to temporarily use older Python version to get things stable.
Lower Heating Value, which ignores the latent heat of vaporization of the water produced by the combustion when computing the energy content of the fuel. Higher Heating Value, which includes that, would give a lower efficiency.
Which is presumably why it is down 27% over the last month
I think "p" is better described as a point instead of a vector. So, a better writing could be: "[..]it is possible rotate any point q by an angle theta around the axis define by u [...]"
It affects the price of anyone looking to buy a house in my city. My house is right in the median price for the area. Rent prices have also risen accordingly.
If it was you don't want 10k non-headless Chrome browsers on your computer, there isn't enough RAM in the world
None of us posting here has any responsibility to upholding the trust of federal institutions, which have already been eroded far more than one could do on HN by both parties to hold power.
Why? A great proportion of physical goods we buy are overseas, only loosely linked to the cost of labor in the US. Prices increasing 5-6% may decrease demand in the US but on a global stage we only consume something like 25% of world GDP; prices aren't going to fall in the same way they would if the whole world's wages fell equally.

5-6% increase in price could just mean less is produced, or the US commands weaker exchange on the world market. In that case it would be real inflation as appears to the consumer.
Haha no, at one point he suggests a form of eugenics for the “philosophy king class” in the form of discarding some of the babies
Is there any way to fix my old 3G phone to continue to work under 5G?

If you only use it around the house, you can get a picocell.

I once lived in a building that was too tall for cell service to reach the upper floor residences, and the carriers (mine was AT&T) would send the residents picocells to relay the signals from their cell phones to the internet.
PRS is a modern version. The string angles and neck are not from the 1950s. Les Pauls are made for wound G strings, those haven't been in regular use in 50 years. Watch this from Get Back... This happens when you play in a band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FMxlRNrEVo
I felt that:

1. Acknowledging that some people find consuming video content challenging is always worth mentioning. It’s not the problem being discussed, but it’s a related problem with so much content being on YouTube. Your analogy would be closer as “I very seldom eat, because I don’t react well to food.” Which is obviously absurd when put that way.

2. The fact that transcripts or summaries are often available is a contribution, as it presents another potential option for those who want to access one piece of content without falling into a recommendations hole.
> It is disingenuous of you (and contributing to the erosion of institutional trust of Federal institution) by falsely accusing them.

There are trillions of dollars tied to these inflation numbers. Many social services are tied to these values. So if an agency could get reported inflation down just a few basis points based on their subjective decisions on what to include and what to substitute, that could save the government billions.

That's not saying that they are necessarily doing that, but its wise to be suspicious when there are such large stakes
UBC team creates stretchy, washable battery — and new possibilities for wearable tech

Battery has survived over 36 wash cycles in the laundry so far

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/stretchy-was...
It was obvious to anyone with an iota of critical thinking that it was not transitory. The way the government just printed billions of dollars was bound to result in inflation.
'Interest rate increases will raise prices (cause inflation)'.

I hope you recognize this is so far outside current economic consensus that I can't even call it a heterodox theory. It's just wrong. This is the same logic used to justify repeated interest rate cuts in Turkey, which is causing disastrous inflation.

Interest rates also represent the opportunity cost of money. An increase in rates leads people to save rather than consume, decreasing the velocity of money and tending to lower inflation.
I agree. So give us choice. Right now if you're doing a new housing start in the US it's going to be large and unwalkable.
You can also use a single note sample (eg, C4) and tweak the playback frequency. This is how some keyboards do it. Also tracked music does it, simple and cheap.
Misinformation is different from doing our best to understand how the world works and getting it wrong.

Misinformation is understanding perfectly well how the world works and intentionally spreading lies and half-truths to achieve a political goal.
It sounds like the steps are pretty simple. I live in the suburbs of a US city, and billboards are banned, so unless I go into the city proper (a few times a year) I hardly ever see advertisements.

1) move to the countryside or at least outside a major city, or a place where billboards are banned

2) Don’t own a TV

3) use uBlock Origin/Adblock on all your devices
There was definitely spyware and bloatware in the 90s. Remember popups? Or winrar? Remember how illegal copies of windows (that never got security patches) were used in DDOS attacks (and more recently ransomware attacks)?

I agree there is too much eye candy, especially in phones.
Well social media for example is mostly not in my life, but it still has an effect, which is to turn everyone else into a shallow-thinkin', slogan-spewin', snap-judgin', twitchy, goldfish-attention-span-havin', narcissistic snowflake who can never be challenged on anything they say. There's no one left to talk to, and being the only patient wise guru in a room full of children gets fucking old fast. I've been hanging out with Boomers lately, and it's actually pretty good. They have a sense of perspective.
Those middle class and poor people need to just suck it up and cut expenses so they can buy the $35,000 electric cars. /s
People spend more time on mobile devices than TV (2019)
Off-topic, but as a former serious politics nerd (did most of an IR undergrad degree, way back, in fact) who's now a less-serious politics nerd and quite a bit older, what are some entry points to this world for someone with a career in tech? It'd be kinda nice to work on something that's in an area I have any actual interest in, for once.
> why would they use their real name

The obvious reading is that they legitimately saw no problem initially and then realized later that it was legally questionable and yanked it.
It's NOT healthy to assume you're the 'average' when you are not.

Almost no one on HN is reflective of the 'average' American and that lack of understanding is part of the reason the poor suffer so much in policy decisioning.