skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, a gamma squeeze works in the opposite way.

The retail investor gets long an option (let's say a put), and the dealer gets short that option. As the price goes down, the retail investor gets shorter (higher chance his put finishes in the money), whereas the dealer gets longer.

In general, retail investors don't hedge, whereas dealers do. As the stock price goes down, the dealer needs to sell stock to hedge and avoid getting net long the stock. Thus a gamma squeeze tends to exacerbate rather than mollify volatility.
Indeed. And the three people who talked about lynching the vice president, even bringing the noose with which to do it. Terrorism seems like a perfect description for that.
> Three protestors had fatal medical issues, and it's not clear they were related to the violence.

Rosanne Boyland was trampled. Certainly that's related to the violence. The other two were a stroke and a heart attack, both of which seem almost certain to have had as a proximate cause the stress of mob violence.
> The comment in the code[1] about RDRAND being sufficient for the use-case of UUIDs is empirically false.

Ipse dixit. Can you provide an explanation?
And the escalation is actually welcome news to Trump. It supports his narrative of being the enemy of the "deep state" and the "swamp".

Sidestepping the moral question of whether the bans are deserved or not, they are a huge strategic mistake that will strengthen the very same people they try to silence.

Just wait until we're talking in a few years about "Why extremist candidate X won" like the many "Why Trump won" threads we saw 4 years ago.
"bad on both sides" is something you should remove from your line of thinking. There should be enough information out there for you to find differences that matter.
I know a lot of conservatives in real life.

At best, there has been some hand wringing and sheepish questioning of their stance. At worst, a fair few of them have dug in. My own mother is well on the path to becoming, for lack of a better term, radicalized. She's completely lost the ability to think critically.

Being mad is powerful. Not thinking for yourself is easy. Tapping into both of those tendencies is dangerous.
Moderation and decentralization are not mutually exclusive. Activity pub based platforms achieve both.
> There is a limit to the degree to which you can "be sure" of anything, especially without 2020 vision.

Ha! Is that an intended reference to the year 2020? That's a great double entendre.
While I disagree with much of Andrew Neil's politics, I have much respect for him as an interviewer. His general stance of taking a sceptical/oppositional attitude to his guests and not being easily satisfied with soundbites, definitely makes for revealing interviews.

His interview with Ben Shapiro [1] where the later accuses him of being a "leftist" is certainly revealing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRF3r3zUGqk
Who was the police officer, and what weapon was used?

The only report of an officer down was erroneously attributed to someone beating him with a fire extinguisher. The latest information is that there was no fire extinguisher, but instead he suffered some kind of delayed reaction to a gas canister (fired by the police).
In most cases you'd be shadow-banned. (The post looks fine to you, but is invisible to everyone else.)

Or, they just put their thumbs on the scale and make sure your post isn't shown to anyone (or very few people) rather than your typical audience.
Yeah this is just a narrow wormhole ~8ms into the future. You can pack all sorts of state around it via their existing low-latency fiber...probably just need a few bits over RF to do work.
Mailing lists do this.
>MSNBC/Fox/CNN

An alternate explanation is that these are not news outlets, and haven't been for years. Instead, they are merely editorial outlets.
>Mathematical models such as quantum mechanics and general relativity work, extraordinarily well. But they aren’t real in the same sense that neutrons and neurons are real

Why not? When you really get down to it, aren't both neutrons and neurons ultimately also models?

When most people think of a neutron, they think of a classical particle, yet we know experimentally that there is no such thing.
I believe most people (and that includes the mob that attacked) don't want to murder people.

But herein lies the problem: the mob itself is a perfect opportunity to cause real mayhem. Even if the mob is composed of "relatively peaceful" people who aren't trying to kill people, all it takes is one or two bombs to go off at the right time (or one or two actual right-wing terrorists to take advantage of it), to turn a bad situation into a worse one.

Yeah, Timothy McVeigh style attack would be terrible. You know what would be worse? Timothy McVeigh hiding inside of an angry crowd of supporters.

Or hell, TWO Timothy McVeighs. How many angry right-wing extreme nuts are coming to this thing next week?
The man offered a service where he would produce a cake for your wedding. The man refused to provide that service exclusively to LGBT couples. There's no charade or dishonesty to that at all and it's just as abhorrent as the people that made the same weak argument about potential black customers during segregation. You can try to pretend it's about "artistic expression" but in the end it's about wanting the ability to discriminate against a protected class that you don't like.
The article you mention is from USA Today and has a 69% credibliity rating. Normally we recommend >75% for a credible article.

If you click on the rating you'll see details on the four factors we rate for each article: site reputation (historical score), author's topical expertise, diversity of sources, neutrality of tone. Collectively these produce a probability of being credible. So we don't fact check individual statements (very difficult to do via an algorithm) but rather we assess the likelihood of an article being credible in aggregate.
Terrorism is (roughly) defined as violent or dangerous acts by non-state actors meant to intimidate people into political or social change. That is exactly what happened on Wednesday.
> connecting to a 10G Ethernet switch via copper or direct-attached SFP+

> RB-4011 was a perfect fit

Huh, isn't RB4011 the one with the very weird "you can't use a DAC in the SFP+ port" limitation?

> haven’t explored their WiFi products yet

They seem extremely underwhelming, especially in terms of software support :(

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/WifiWave2 — they're finally barely rolling out WPA3, MU-MIMO/beamforming, 802.11w — in an optional beta package for a beta version of the OS, currently on 4 devices, breaking 2.4ghz on one of them, and breaking CAPsMAN (centralized management).
Another fact that’s quickly forgotten is the media’s role in Trump’s rise. Trump benefitted from millions of dollars of free publicity by being outrageous and creating stories. The media fed that frenzy through the primaries and even into the general election. They should have done a better job of not giving liars a platform to lie from and of not being bated by every manufactured drama.
I think people understand what they think to some extent, but clearly the "soft glove" approach isn't working. Look at the last 4 years, glaring issue after issue that has been roundly ignored, gaslighted and no compromise has been reached. Election security, Russia, China, any kind of foreign policy decision, any kind of domestic issue. Ideas that should be fundamentals of democracy are being attacked.

These are the discussions that make sense. From there it easily devolves into Soros conspiracies, Pizzagate and 5G brainwashing myths. The QAnon insanity is just the latest of a long line of completely disconnected thinking.

The consequence of not pushing back has done irreparable harm to this country and part of the reason we're in this situation in the first place. Trying to be soft on this insanity is why people are now dead.

Will they be radicalized? Possibly. Will they be thrown in jail if they act out or start a low boil insurgency? Absolutely.

But if they're so far gone that they believe that storming government buildings is "taking back their country" then they need a hard reality check.

edit: I mean look at this: https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1348745936499982339

We're so far gone from acceptable societal behavior at this point.
Strictly speaking being shot by the police after repeated verbal warnings does not necessarily imply someone isn't peaceful, although in the larger context your point may stand. (It's tough to prove what a person's intentions were when they never got a chance to carry them out.)
The tech companies banning, deplatforming, etc. is exactly their voice turned back on them. They don't think private companies should have to bake a cake for a gay couple, so, why should they believe private companies should host the President, after he's been given extra special treatment to be allowed to remain, and still managed to fuck that up? Maybe people need to learn to stop voting against their interests. Maybe they need to learn "rules for thee, but not for me" isn't how it ought to work.
FWIW: the legal tresspass started several hundred feet away from the building proper. There was a police barrier in place that was the first thing violated.
Contributions aka bribes.

There was no peaceful transition of power from Obama to Trump. MSM/Left/Dems attacked him from day 1. We have proof they spied on him, yet that's peaceful. WTF
I really love the author's persistence of just changing the ID at every chance. "Hacking" often carries with it the perception that it's a highly covert and technical craft, when in reality it's often times people banging on the wall in different ways until the behavior changes.
I don't think it's an important distinction that Officer Sicknick died from the blunt force trauma of a fire extinguisher versus the accute force trauma of a bullet. At the end of it all, he died from his injury.
If the republicans do not come around in the next few years, I fear for America.

What exactly do you mean by “do not come around”. Come around to what? That suppression of free speech is a good thing? I’m an independent, and I think Trump has a serious amount of responsibility for what happened here. But the suppression of free speech offends me on every level, regardless of who the target of the suppression is. We either have free speech or we don’t.
I felt terrorized. I'd wager a lot of other ordinary people did too.
The author of this piece says he was struggling to understand complex conjugates. If you don't understand what that is, please read the wikipedia, so you can contextualize his level of familiarity with the material he speaks about.

I don't think the author is being dishonest. But that admission is extremely striking to me.

[edit: Can some admin give me guidance on how to make the point I'm clearly trying to make? I'm not sure how to make this point without being discourteous.]
This blog post is inaccurate. The NY Bar Association is not the organization that authorizes attorneys to practice law in New York. It's a "voluntary bar association", more like an industry group or fraternal organization.

In New York, state courts are responsible for determining who is eligible to practice law. Here is a more accurate article on this topic: https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tall...
Note, tips to unverified accounts [never leave your wallet]. If the intended recipient doesn't verify within 90 days, the rewards are merely unlocked in your wallet, and able to be tipped elsewhere.
armed "domestic terrorists"
I have some experience on doing this type of work for large publications. We would always show the user their own content but would not show it to anyone else.
A lot of people want to get the government out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and I'm no expert, but I think they are obviously wrong. You have a systemically important entity that has to have a government guarantee, then it has to answer to the government as at least a 51% shareholder and have restrictions on distributing profits. It seems obvious and simple and correct to me, not some sort of temporary aberration.
I'm curious about what specific thing is signaling to you that your Steam password has been cracked. (I assume you mean brute forced?)

It's significantly more likely that you've been keylogged or phished if attackers are actually accessing your Steam account with passwords of that complexity.
Google.com Is Down
Just checked via downforeveryoneorjustme.com as well
I don't agree with everything you've said, but I agree with the core idea: that most of the people on the right (maybe not most of the people at the protests, but surely some) are misguided, and not fundamentally evil.

They fundamentally want the same things as the rest of us: peace, freedom, prosperity, etc. Most of them are not racists (even if they end up on the same half of the political spectrum as the racists). They do not desire tyranny, they think they're fighting it.

And finally, there's a fundamental willing-ignorance on the left when it comes to actually understanding these people. Even if you think they need to be stopped - heck, even if you think they are fundamentally evil - you have to be willing to look at where they're coming from, and what's motivating them, if you want to be able to deal with the situation in any remotely effective way. And yet there's this extreme hostility to the very idea that these people could ever be understood as anything more than demons with pitchforks and pointy tails.

They've been pushed and warped by fearful emotions, and economic hardship, and incendiary rhetoric and misinformation (some of which comes from sources that definitely know exactly what they're doing and are not simply misguided). And there's a debate to be had as to how many and to what degree they can be walked back from the brink of extremism at this point. But at the bottom of it all, they are people. And we will never make progress - whether you see progress as unity or simply as the disarming of a movement - until we start trying to understand.
Incredibly naive way of thinking. Hypocrisy should always be pointed out. Ignoring it means you are clearly partisan
im saying this because it seems like such an obvious point but i havent seen it here- why are people who want the government to be replaced by the "free market" allowed to be upset that private companies are silencing them? what is the rationale for squaring this circle
Ah, I see, I view it as on-topic for the thread, though, since the thread-starting post from 'lettergram put blame on Twitter, etc, for the feelings of these potential protestors.
I'm reading Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago now and I wholeheartedly recommend people read it as well.
All you're pointing out here is the obvious fact that when you are in a run-up to a civil war, the way it goes is one of continuing escalation and distrust, each side building off of the other's previous norm breaking. We had election distrust then, we have a more potent version now. We had violent riots this summer, we have a more potent one now that that norm is now broken. Both of the recent events have opened the door for the next logical escalation: creation of new domestic terrorism laws which will find a way to turn people who question the election or are associated in opinion of the most recent rioters as terrorists. And on the other side, bombs and other violent acts to destroy things like the assets of tech companies who are suppressing speech, and more violent, less "selfie-oriented" insurrectionist action into government seats of power. And in case you think I'm saying one side "started it", I'm not. I'm talking about the two prior events on this track, one of many tracks leading us down this road. Nobody can remember when it started, but it was obvious to me years ago that the hatred and psychological manipulation we are under was going to lead here. And we're not at the end, we're at the midpoint at best.

Hypocrisy is ignored, since to recognize it would risk having to admit profound judgement errors. And it would risk losing power, since the other side would capitalize on this as weakness and an admission that they were right all along. Better to dig in, especially if you can't imagine it will ever get to the point where people are breaking into your house and trying to kill you because of a sign that was on your lawn a few months ago according to Google Maps.

Those focused on accusing people (like me) of being biased by "both-sidsing" when we point out the now obvious pattern of escalation, the transparent memory holing or double standards and hypocrisy revealed by those trying to force the debate into minor semantic quibbles (like you are) to score a point about "who was more wrong" are the people they write about in the history books that contributed to the escalation and eventual collapse of civil society. They won't be writing about me, I assure you. Having been trying to talk sense into people on both "sides" now for years, and just seeing the tide of hatred roll over them all eventually as they retreat into their bubbles and sever relationships with the half of the country they see as (in the latest analogy) a virus, I'm about ready to give up and just be prepared to protect my family.
I might have missed it, but I didn't see any reports of pipe bombs at the BLM protests.
The amount of people advocating for a literal Ministry of Truth is very disappointing. It's almost like they read 1984 and thought "hey, that's a good idea!". Although in reality I think they just don't realize the implications of their suggestions.
Yes, one of the "terrorists" (an unarmed woman) was shot to death by a cop. Yes she was trespassing but he used excessive force. I've watched the videos. Try again.
Automatic number (license) plate recognition in the United Kingdom
> However, now that the precedent is set, I would expect the bar to be lowered going forward. That creates risks that need to somehow be mitigated (and reflected in valuations).

Ah, yes, the "everything is a slippery slope" propaganda technique.
One does not need a lot of bandwidth to trade successfully. In fact, a limited number of signals agreed upon ahead of time is enough. E.g. signal “A” could mean “buy 10 contracts”, signal “B” - “sell 100 contracts”, etc. And you can of course wrap 256 such signals into one byte. So transmitting a single byte at an opportune time let’s you control your trading on the other continent in a quite precise fashion. If you make such transmission, say, 10 times per day your bandwidth utilization is technically 10 bytes per day or about 0.001 bps - yet you can make a ton of money.
I believe you missed the joke here...
Okay, I guess they're terrorists then :)
> They're more excited about a "gotcha" moment than they are about an informed discussion

Classical example of this "gotcha"/bad-faith style - the infamous interview between Jordan Peterson and Cathy Newman.
>> No one had firearms at the capital, at least so far as I’m aware of.

>> I haven’t picked anything up like all 50 states protesting. A few surely, but idk not some crazy coordination or anything (honestly seems more from the left).

You're wrong about this, and you probably shouldn't be bragging about your platform or credentials if you're this ignorant of what is going on.
> Politicians for supporting violent rioters and arsonists all summer

Could you link me to politicians that supported violent rioters?

> Cutting off their access to places like twitter will not calm their insanity. It will fuel it when the ONLY voices they are now hearing are the most radical ones. Completely insane people like Lin Wood are now where these people will be getting their information.

I think the primary reason for banning these people is that no sane person wants to see unhinged tweets in their feed on a daily basis. And they don't want these people commenting on their tweets either. Those that are banned should move on and learn from this experience.

> I wish people would slow down, step back for a moment and try to choose the paths that will result in deescalation. Not further radicalization. It's extremely frightening and depressing to watch this happen.

There are plenty of domestic terrorists that never used Twitter. The perceived grievance always runs much deeper than a medium of communication.
The idea Parler is a "free speech" platform or "unbiased" is a lie, in actuality its just a "safe space" for far right provokers. Users have been reporting they're been banned for posting leftist content or for criticism of Parler itself.

If they were so concerned with "freedom" why would they have the following in their terms of use?

“Parler may remove any content and terminate your access to the Services at any time and for any reason.”
The r/politics crowd spouting that crap are also fools, just a left wing variant.

The extremes have to convince you “everything lies in the balance” to get you to go along with their kookery. We should indulge neither end of the spectrum with foolish talk or justifications of their outlandish theories and feelings of (unjustified) grievance and fear.
Opposite experience here. Most places of size I know of shove weblogs into SQL, S3, or some Hadoop infra.
It’s not down
> Having the government govern free speech doesn't get you free speech.

I've seen this assertion here several times, always without any evidence, so I don't even know how to begin arguing against it other then vaguely gesturing in the direction of the postal service and the supreme courts decision to enforce the first amendemnt in company towns.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
But BLM had political motivations as well. Should we have labeled any of the people participating in violence as terrorists as well?
It’s naive to think that most of these people don’t actually believe the election was stolen, a huge number of them do.
Maybe also that Trump's tweets were a significant driver of their traffic, and therefore revenue. Twitter without Trump may in fact be a less valuable company.
A Bunch of Links
This is the pandora's box that has been opened up.
I don't think it's fair to say that he opposes trans rights. I saw him talk about recently transitioned people in MMA. I'm not a big follower of his, but I think his views are more nuanced than a blanket "he opposes trans rights like right wing people".
Thanks for the link. It is disheartening and disappointing that some people decided to create an imagined instance of narrated mockery of a dead person by spreading a rumour/lie that he had died ‘tazing himself in the balls repeatedly’ causing distress to his bereaved family.

Stripping a deceased person of their dignity via caricature is really a new low. This truly beggars belief and makes me very very sad. I hope the family finds peace.
As far as I know there is no direct connection yet between anybody arrested for the insurrection and Parler. There is also no direct evidence that they did not. However, it is extremely unlikely that none of them use it.

The people who planned the Jan 6 coup attempt used Parler. So the only way this happens is if they spend months planning the assault but then don't show up for it and a completely different set of people just happen to follow the plan by accident. This includes stuff like preparing and bringing molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, handcuffs, and flying across the country to participate.

https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tall...

https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-f...
There are some Neo-Nazi associations with the word Storm.

In Nazi Germany Sturmabteilung or "Storm Division" was the paramilitary division of the Nazi party until it was replaced by the SS on the Night of Long Knives.

Some Neo-Nazis have kept up the language.

Stormfront is a popular Neo-Nazi website.

The Daily Stormer is another.

I don't follow Neo-Nazism but I am sure there are others.

So calling the riot a "Storming" is suggestive that it is an organized assault by Neo-Nazis.