Ask HN: Why don’t governments target zero inflation?

Asking here since I don’t know here else to start. Western governments all seem to target 2% annual inflation. Why is this? Why not target 0% to make financial projections simpler for businesses and households? Story Published at: December 1, 2022 at 12:43PM

Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified (full release/no sign-up req’d)

Link: https://www.nlpdemystified.org/ Hi HN: After a year of work, I’ve published my free NLP course. The course helps anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the basics to today’s mainstream models and frameworks. I strive to balance theory and practice, so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook putting the […]