skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what he's talking about is what happened with Netflix: once the media companies realized how much money Netflix was making they revoked their content (or upped the price) and created their own services.

I agree with OP, streaming is a terrible business and only sustainable if you create your own content. Which is exactly what every streaming service does nowadays
RobinHood has served the purpose of getting the other "real" brokerages to eliminate fees on trades. Now that they're not the only discount show in town, and given their track record of anti-user behavior, it's past time to move on
How does one of these transfers of stock work from a technical perspective? Is it all just paper transfers that are physically sent in the mail, or is there some kind of digital backing that can be transferred like crypto?
Can’t confirm first hand but there were definitely reports of TastyWorks halting GME https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l70ysa/tast...
Is it really closer? plotnine has very few API differences from ggplot2.
So don't believe what the news says, but instead go with online rumors from stock promoters...

You're literally suggesting a revolution based on this logic.
They key point that's missing here is that ALL stock trades are on "margin" because in reality it takes 2 days to settle a trade, but that is abstracted away from you by the brokerage and clearing house, and made available to you instantly.
Caveat: I'm just starting to learn about all this, so it's probably not a perfectly accurate analogy.
Does “false” still mean what it used to mean? I hear “false” thrown around a lot these days.
Another great write-up, thanks for posting.
Isn't that the intended purpose of banning Trump? To delete his supporters communication platform?
RH prevented users from closing positions and realizing gains?
> Citadel bailed out Melvin who illegally naked shorted 150% of the float

Yeah. Misinformation.

#1. Melvin seems to have held a significant number of puts as far as I can tell.

#2. Even if they were stupid enough to short 150% of the available shares, I don't believe there's anything illegal about that.
I think this overlooks just how locked-down things were back then.

It may have all been federally regulated, but that doesn't do much in a media monoculture -- which makes it so much easier for well-connected elites to frame their own nuisances as public enemies. There was no viable venue for actual dissent.
> anyone can fuck with it in any way they want (...) it's a feature.

Keyword: anyone. Symmetry of information, symmetry of power. Symmetry of risk exposure and reward. I will take that over a golden cage - any day, any time.
I always feel like pairing is the most annoying and most mediocre way of getting people to ask the right questions. It takes double the time for easy tasks, and makes everyone really awkward. In sessions I have supervised it looks like ~70% of the time it just one person driving the keyboard solo. It does get people to learn, and if someone does something weird or gets stuck, the other usually speaks up. But it seems so slow in the average case.
That's fair. Comments on HN don't have a permalink, do they? If so I would have made reference to one that I actually commented on the downvoting of.

Regarding your assessment of my comments, I'm beginning to wonder if your looking at mine and not someone else in the thread. I went looking for the "twice updated" one where I tell you all to have your way with me. I went right through my comment history and can't for the life of me figure out to what you are referring.
*three brothers
The laws enforced by the SEC
If it be like in any other pure language, as far as the type system is concerned fatal errors do return a value.

It's no different from a function entering into an infinite loop and never returning. It has a return type; it simply doesn't ever return.

Some type systems go further and have the type system differentiate between total and partial functions, where total functions are guarantee to always return a value of their type eventually.
There's generally always a trade off between customisability vs simplicity, and time efficiency vs price. If it was possible for something to be customisable, simple, time efficient and cheap with no vendor lock-in, everyone would be using it.

Heroku is great for example because it's simple and saves time, but it can be expensive, there's areas you cannot customise, and their hosting tools aren't open source.
Ah, really? Yeah, Bluetooth is not supported in Dom0, but I'm sure that you can assign the Bluetooth PCI-E adapter to a VM using IOMMU, can't you?
In my comment, I specifically said trading with cash. Easy to argue it was not arbitrary when there's a whale no one know about and the stock is obscure and the whale pays the brokerage more money that is worth to risk losing a few customers in that obscure stock. That's why these rules exist, even though they are more in-principle than anything
You should look for some reviews on YouTube, I have researched this space quite a bit and found this video to be one of the best https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ-mW6otcXw. I bought a remarkable 2, and I really wanted to like it but the reading experience was so bad. The writing was wonderful though, but my primary use is reading. I don’t think you’re going to be satisfied with a remarkable. At this point I would recommend an Onyx. They are above average ereaders with above average writing experience. They don’t seem to be the absolute best at either but they are far better in aggregate than any other device because all other devices seem to sacrifice too much in one area.

It seems like you want a larger screen but if you’re fine with a smaller screen and no writing capability I recommend you get a dedicated ereader like a kindle; they really do excel at the ereading experience
Of course you’re losing faith.

UX is a misunderstood religion.

It’s practitioners believe that they work for the “users”, but really these “users” they imagine don’t exist.

Which is hard for them to accept, after carving their user personas and praying to them for answers.

The owners don’t mind having the UX priesthood at the table. Especially once they realized that they just needed to adopt the language of user experience cult without giving up any real power.

Years later practitioners are noticing the trick and realizing they’re fooling themselves.

1) Users are customers.

2) You work for your boss/company.

3) It’s good to advocate customers, but don’t turn your preferences into a religious crusade.
This is not related to Gamestop as a company. This is about a instrument (GME) which was over leveraged short position, and is way out of balance. Doesn't matter what Melvin says, the short % is there for everybody to see and some one is still very short. Retail investors want to use the said instrument to legally make lot of money.
Immoral? Why is it that morality is only the responsibility of the grocer?
Hmmm. How many companies claim to put users first? And of those how many actually do? Oh right.

I would not put a fintech in charge of said trolley.
Thanks for the link. “Halted” doesn’t mean blocked though. Maybe bad wording by the OP on that thread. It was halted multiple times this week throughout each day. Multiple short interest stocks were many times.

Looks like it was briefly blocked on TW, though.
They didn’t put a blanket halt in, just dramatically raised margin requirements. I’m trying to get a feel for what risk mitigation techniques are going to be prison worthy in our new Reddit fueled future.
What happens when d maintainer of a lib with 26m downloads/week goes to prison?
The maintainer announced he was back on 25 Oct 2020:
https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/874
Doesn't abstain them from taking responsibility. What if there were bunch of legit bad reviews that got deleted?
A lot of broker restricted and then rolled back. Some brokers like Tastyworks said it wasn't their choice but their clearing house was restricting.

The damage is done already and no granutee that this won't happen again.
You captured how I would describe WSB pretty succinctly. It's relatively clever people just not caring to bother with grammar, being correct, making fun of often funny events in the world of MONEY.
This is a bit confused. Current RT implementations are faster at intersecting the mesh along the ray direction than sphere tracing (which require the expensive lookups or evaluations).

The distance to the surface is independent of direction, it is only a function of position (as all SDFs are).

The depth map is the distance from ray origin to intersection only, not how close that ray came to the surface at any point along it's segment.
They call it 'rent seeking', current owners are able to get a rent(or save paying one to someone else to live there), They do not want competition, so a huge sea of interdictory regulations about height, density, green space - you name it - they all exist to block new housing to keep out competition.
Putting it in social terms, what if 1 person could 'buy' the right to date one person. They could date that person, or rent that date privilege out day by day. Note - all these dates are innocent, I am using it as an example only.
So this guy is happy. the rent he gets lets him live well and not work at all. Then a sorority/fraternity house is built, and now there are 20 new people to date - his rent drops by 90% - what is he to do?
He calls the housing inspector, the bylaw inspector, the health inspector and bribes them to enact new laws - the house is torn down and no new houses can be built.
This is the Bay area.
Just so we’re clear, it’s toxic for a big fund to be short squeezed, but not toxic for those big funds to do anything that makes them a profit?
They should really ban links and cut ties to twitter then. Has anyone seen want people post on there? It's crazy.

My problem is that they bully small platforms but big platforms that also have huge problems with their users must be too big too fail.

They should probably just shut themselves down also because of the capitol riots.

Do the right thing facebook, shut yourself down.
You can disable that if you need to and “insanely” large json objects are still just hundreds of megs or maybe a few gigs, still reasonable.

But I’ve also been able to just preprocess some of the aggregation and calculation before the visualization and that’s worked out ok.

I’ve used it over plotly a few times because there’s no offline/online issue with plotly, and I think the Altair method of saving interactive javascript versions more straightforward than plotly.
I’m trying to figure out what risk mitigation techniques and what trading pricing regimes are going to land people in prison after the fact in the Reddit future.
And the 130,000 employees all work on new Messengers?
Conflating the two because I didn’t know the difference. I have never bought shares when they open because of volatility so I never pay attention!

Anyhow, thanks for the explanations.
The main non-invasive way blood pressure is measured by a doctor is by putting a cuff around your upper arm. The cuff has a pump attached to it. The doctor inflates the cuff until the pressure cuts off the blood flow in the main artery of your arm. Then the doctor slowly deflates the cuff and listens for when the blood starts flowing again. The pressure that this happens at is your systolic blood pressure (the larger number). Then they keep deflating and listening until the sound stops. That's your diastolic blood pressure (the smaller number).

A digital blood pressure monitor effectively does the same thing, but without the need for a trained professional. It still has the cuff and the pump. To measure the blood pressure it has to pump and cut off the blood flow to some extent. This obviously makes it inconvenient - it's uncomfortable, it's fairly large, you have to put it around your arm (or wrist or finger), and the pump is usually noisy. The new device seems to be an improvement in these categories.

The main improvement here is size though. Blood pressure monitors usually go around your upper arm and the machine that houses the pump and the electronics is even larger than the cuff. This makes taking frequent measurements difficult. There are smaller devices that go on your wrist, but their accuracy tends to not be great. Even the standard digital blood pressure monitors suffer from inaccuracy.

If the device in the article does what it says and is actually close to as accurate as a regular digital blood pressure monitor, then hopefully we will get more blood pressure data on more people. This should hopefully allow doctors to figure out better treatment plans. However, I find it unlikely that it will match the accuracy of the commonly used digital blood pressure monitors.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/robinhood-faces-sec-probe-relat...

They've been defrauding people for quite some time already. I remember reading this on HN in September.
Should privately owned sites be allowed to control what content they display or should they be forced to accept whatever their users post? And we're talking about endpoints, not the carriers represented by ISPs and phone companies.

It's funny to me when conservatives talk about the sanctity of private property, and then want to force the owners and publishers of certain sites to have zero control over their own property. You can't have it both ways.

Also funny to me that conservatives censor like mad in their own properties. Parler, /r/conservative, RedState, and too many others to count, would delete posts from people like me on sight. Do you consider that censorship too, or is that acceptable?
.. responsibility? Google? I don't see how this would hurt their advertisers.
Ask yourself: why didn't they just freeze trading these securities instead of forcing liquidations across retail brokerages and putting everyone in sell only mode?

They're covering for the market makers and shorts who are on the hook for all the options bought and shares shorted.

Institutions could enough to ameliorate their pain while the only option given to everyone else was sell.

They should have instead stopped trading so everyone could borrow whatever they needed to pay for the bets they lost.
Interesting that Yahoo allowed option trading on the underlying security during the lockup period. Is that ordinary?
Their initial statement is clearly a lie, full agreement there.

Also there are still outstanding questions regarding liquidity issues: why did they not first disallow margin buying, then possibly with unsettled funds? did these knobs not exist? was there some sort of mismanagement on their side?

I think there is plenty of room for RH to come out of this poorly even if the citadel story ends up being false and it was in fact a liquidity issue.
It's simple economics, if you block demand but keep constant supply (in this case increase), the price will go down.
If so, then prosecute. Which law specifically?
I think the opposite; as society continues to get better at responding to disease and preventing death, the social allowance for "expected" deaths declines.

The U.S. Civil War 150 years ago is a good benchmark. We look back now at the level of death with horror, especially deaths among those receiving what passed for medical treatment back then. But of course back then, that was how medicine worked and it was not remarkable that so many people died after surgery.

Or if you want to look back closer to 100 years, look back on the level of death and disease related to World War I or the Spanish Flu.

The benchmark for evaluating our response to COVID-19 will not be some percentage over the death rate we expect today, but the optimum that people 100 years from now think we could have achieved with a competent response. Historians will be in a better position to judge the details than we are (for example, by having full access to the collected archives of various national governments of today).

But it's clear even now that the U.S. could have had far fewer deaths than we did, with a better response. Look at how well we did against SARS and MERS, or how well some other nations did against COVID-19.
> where numerous --highly downvoted-- comments quite correctly predicted what was coming.

I got banned for "flamewar" when I literally was opposing this form of censorship in those articles. Then everyone were quite happy with Trump/far-right groups being banned and did not care about the big picture. Censorship is real. It is here. Big Tech has tasted power it will never want to let go of. The quicker we realize this the better!
They're all fine, so long as they advertise to children's parents - but not to the kids themselves.
No, Branson is a founder that is playing a positive sum game. He grows the pie and pushes things forward. That's also why they like Elon.
Goldman received $10B in CPP funds on October 28, 2008 and repaid it on June 9, 2009.

JPM received $25B in CPP funds on October 28, 2008 and repaid it on June 9, 2009.

Aside from CPP, any bank that had assets affected by TARP purchases -- or by the potential that follow-on programs could affect those assets -- had its balance sheet ballasted in one way or another by government intervention.

All of the banks that survived will say they didn't "need" government intervention, for the same reason that they don't like to borrow from the discount window: it looks desperate to take help from the government. But technically both of those banks received an injection of liquidity via TARP.
> if you are "friends" with the big-boys or the mainstream media

For example: Bohemian Club was originally founded by San Francisco newspapermen in 1872, and you can see how many friends they have in very very high places. Manufacturing Consent is not a new phenomenon.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110720044742/http://library.so...
When the music stops, it's also going to lighten the wallets of many of the amateur investors.

These groups quickly degrade into memes about how buying and holding these stocks forever will make people rich. They chastise anyone who even considers mentioning an exit strategy.

When the stock begins to decline, early investors in these groups will quietly exit while using the group to convince others to "buy the dip" and have "diamond hands".

Don't believe the narrative that this is a simple transfer of wealth from wealthy banks to Redditors. It's also a massive transfer of wealth from Redditors arriving late to the game who aren't in on the joke to those who are.
There is a difference between 100 and 200 tabs, plus which Vivaldi version are you on? Builds up to 3.6.2160.3 work fine with ~400 tabs, and by fine I mean ~1 second Tab switching. Instant is very subjective. You will probably also call going fullscreen on YT instant, yet here it is measured https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uCA2qIIG1M
Discord is probing how much censorship they can get away with. This is a standard tactic for social media companies today. They ban first then backpedal later if there is too much backlash. This helps them normalize censorship while minimizing reputation loss.
Who is "they" here?
Why is this downvoted? This true and I would not trust IB. My friend had been trying convince me to come to IB but now he is moving to Fidelity.
I've seen you around a lot today, and based on your recurring comments it seems like you are actually in some sort of delusional state. I encourage you to seek help. If you happen to be a Q follower, please unplug.
Honestly just google "Steven Pinker critique" and you'll find lots of good ones.

Jason Hinkel's are especially good: https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1334072469091708929?l...
Fair warning. Buying stocks with high short interest is, over the long run, a terrible investment strategy. Mountains of academic research has consistently found the most heavily shorted stocks to significantly underperform the market[1] (to the order of 10% per year).

Heavily shorted stocks tend to be the companies with the most negative cash flow shocks[2], low quality earnings statements[3], negative earnings revisions, and future bad news[4]. In other words, when a company is heavily shorted it's almost always for a good reason. (Like being a brick and mortar video game retailer, that's losing mountains of cash with no turnaround plan.) High short interest is a tell-tale warning of a bad investment.

This shouldn't be surprising. Research has consistently found that short-sellers are the most sophisticated and well-informed investors in the market[5]. There activity strongly predicts soon-to-be released negative public announcements[6]. Short sellers are exactly the type of trader, you do not want to be on the other side of.

[1]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0022-1082.00...
[2]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03044...
[3]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11142-006-6396-x
[4]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/fima.12144
[6]https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/confe...
[5]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jfir.12121
The collection of musical instruments is nice. Not as big as the Dolmetch collection at the Horniman. Also some lovely pre-raphelite and other notable design pieces, furniture, old fabrics. Great museum to wander in. Never regretted time spent there. And the archivists are really nice people. Well worth talking to.

One of the best cafe for casual student-affordable dining in the area. I meet people there all the time, when in London (I live overseas) because its friendly, cafeteria, budgetable if they want to 'shout you' a meal. Crowded.
Note for this laptop, specifically, it maxes out at 16GB RAM, and it's soldered, so that is a hard cap. That'd take a 256GB SSD down to 240GB after swap. I don't think it's a big concern for this machine, though certainly could be for some mobile workstation with much more RAM.
Yes mining is a fool's errand. It was only great when you could do it on your computer. After that, it has just simply been a race against the difficulty and costs of mining. Almost every mining company would have come out further ahead if they simply bought coins rather than mined.

Source: I was a miner and would be a lot richer if I had just started purchasing coins earlier. :) Also any history book on cryptocurrency such as The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna and Michael Casey from WSJ. The miners profiled in it are just trying to keep the lights on in 2015 and nothing has changed to the hamster wheel.
So you're arguing that, instead of just disabling buying, they should have disabled buying and selling? That would expose them to far more substantial and direct liability than disabling new positions.
It should be mentioned that Ribbonhood has a history of eating losses when kids go hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt from bad bets. They simply ban the user instead of pursuing them into bankruptcy.
Robinhood basically sells right of first refusal on "dumb flow," which is valuable. The buyer can route it to someone else if they don't like it, but they get to decide before them. Also they get information from retail investor orders before the rest of the market gets to see them and can adjust pricing on other offers in related symbols before others get to react.
Yeah, I rolled my eyes at that sentence too.
The post says "there is no observable difference between calling a function and not using the result, and not calling it at all." But you just described an important difference!

In Haskell one must use the assertion's result to trip the assertion, which can be awkward. But Elm is strict; I wonder how assertions are treated in this sort of DCE.
Italy does not agree with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Rose_Island
What banks? And why banks? Banks are not involved in the short squeezes at all.
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