skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jealousy. Nothing more. Obviously we've seen the same with day traders, the normal stock market, the housing market. Anyone can invest, but they all want the high end stories of 100 fold increases with no losses.

Not that I've seen it come up in this context but short sellers are incentivized to destroy companies.

See 'Betting on Zero' - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3762912/ It doesn't matter if he's right or wrong, if he succeeds he also makes a stack of money.
The issue is that in any group of sufficient size, someone at some point will use a slur or phrase that someone who is really reaching can turn into a claim like this. The excuse in WSB’s case with Discord was “hate speech”. This then overflowed into the Financial Times falsely labeling WSB as an “alt-right” group [1].

Unfortunately in today’s hyper-PC environment, this is such an easy way to instantly deplatform your enemies that it will continue to be abused. Any large group can be shutdown at any time should the powers that be decide they don’t like it - they just have to find a single post that the PC police would find objectionable. It’s one of the dangers of allowing such thin claims to have such instant, fatal effects with with no ability to fight or appeal.

[1] https://twitter.com/wsbmod/status/1354720831218339845?s=21
I think that most experienced open source maintainers would probably understand this approach, and it's definitely something I've considered making explicit rather than implicit.

I don't find rejecting people too difficult or mentally taxing, though, personally, so I haven't felt the need to reach for an explicit policy. I can point to this as an example, at least, if I ever do. I found your wording to be sufficiently explanatory. Good luck with the project.
Ok, so they can do what Merrill and other brokers did and require you to have 100% margin restrictions to ensure they get their money from you.

And let's not even begin talking about how they halted only buying and not selling. Or that they delisted the entire stock from their platform so you couldn't even search it.
That is part of the customer experience. If Google / Apple really wanted to, they could give more than one dimenion to score on. For example, a five star rating for app quality, fun, and customer service.

That they don't shouldn't preclude customers from rating the entire experience.
Meanwhile:

"The law they passed initially lowered taxes for most Americans, but it built in automatic, stepped tax increases every two years that begin in 2021 and that by 2027 would affect nearly everyone but people at the top of the economic hierarchy. All taxpayer income groups with incomes of $75,000 and under — that’s about 65 percent of taxpayers — will face a higher tax rate in 2027 than in 2019."

"The current poverty line for a family of four is $26,200: People with incomes between $10,000 and $30,000 — nearly one-quarter of Americans — are among those scheduled to pay a higher average tax rate in 2021 than in years before the tax “cut” was passed."

"By 2027, when the law’s provisions are set to be fully enacted, with the stealth tax increases complete, the country will be neatly divided into two groups: Those making over $100,000 will on average get a tax cut. Those earning under $100,000 — an income bracket encompassing three-quarters of taxpayers — will not."

"At the same time, Trump has given his peers, people with annual incomes in excess of $1 million dollars, or the top 0.3 percent in the country, a huge gift: The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the average tax rate in 2019 for this group to be 2.3 percentage points lower than before the tax cut, saving the average taxpayer in this group over $64,000 — more than the average American family makes in a year."

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/opinion/republicans-biden...
It wasn’t “decarbonization” that caused the shift, it was the “deconstruction” of the Western manufacturing complex.

China assumed the environmental pollution of the previously significant manufacturing industry of the United States and other countries that succumbed to the short-sighted leaders of manufacturing companies who were riding the globalist wave of the last 30-40 years.
They oughta name ‘em after CCP notable party leaders.
Supposing YouTube looked great, but they turned off the ability to watch videos, it'd also get a 1 star review from me.
Thanks for quoting the backing research and it looks very sound. Now I am curious about how do they even begin. I know it's a naive question, but it's not like somebody is "prescribing" them to smoke or use nicotine. I can make sense (barely) of the behavior after smoking the first cigarette, but before that, a person, in general, should be unaware of its consequences. I am geniunely curious about what motivates such individuals to take the leap from 0 to 1.
Apple reporting is significantly delayed, always has been, seems like 24-48 hours. They seem to to do more batching than realtime with reporting.
Tomorrow may be more interesting, or not, if they choose to delete activity from today.
I saw this earlier. My guess is that it was a margin call.

edit: and with the new link you sent, it says the customer probably didn't have collateral. They will absolutely sell on a margin call.
> The trick is getting that candidate through the primaries if the scene looks like 2016,

After Trumpists, tea partiers and evangelicals it will be interesting to see what happens next. The latter two groups seemed happy to align with trump despite not sharing their core values, maybe the trumpists will stick with whatever the next group is.
I stopped using Robinhood before all this non-sense because the interface sucks (and also, many stocks aren't available on RH).
I think this right here is the issue. They've backed themselves into the corner of 'We Don't need LIDAR'. When we were scrapping together on a 75k budget we bought budget lidar with a 180 degree linear sweep and it cost ~5k, 14 years ago, from SICK and it still was better than a modern 2020 model Tesla is at detecting a white van crossing the road in broad daylight.
Sure, but I never said anything about clinical trials? Just bioequivalence, which is exactly what’s stated in your first link.
This zero sum claim is intellectually on a level with the flat earth claim, how on this (flat) earth do people still fall for it?!
I quite like the distinction this article draws, and believe it’s important, but I have had only limited success in trying to get coworkers to go along with it. Everyone seems to use mock, stub, and fake interchangeably, even if they’re using a specific mock library.
Ask HN: Why can't good side of Silicon Valley outsmart evil s. and Wall Street?
In 2008 crisis, I was 11 years old. However I watched Inside Job documentary and saw how many of guys there have not been prosecuted that time. Today same scenario somewhat happens. Facebook(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25952659),and Google (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951390) are involved too. What can we do about it? I'm sick of all this BS. Disclaimer: I do not work in silicon valley.
Because RH is run by retards who cant get things fixed even with the NYSE halting GME trades 10+ times today.
This seems a lot like giving the Amazon app one star because something was out of stock.
This is a USB hard drive though. Even a cheap laptop can encrypt data faster than you can transfer over USB.

Maybe I might understand if this was some kind of server SSD but even then im not sure it would make sense.
"adult sexual exploitation" usually refers to revenge porn, but it can also refer to threats of rape. Here's my guess as to what happened.

Somebody posted a joke that was, taken literally, a threat or incitement of rape. "I hope you get fucked and don't enjoy it". An admin of the group "liked" or commented on the post.

Later, a human labeler determined that the post was "adult sexual exploitation". It was removed. Because the admin had "liked" or commented on it, the group was automatically banned. That's FB's public policy on "adult sexual exploitation".

Just a guess, but that is the most likely explanation to me.
Well like OP said, then just restrict people whose cash didn't settle yet or require 100% margins like other brokers did.

Even if I believed this excuse, then RH is still greedy for signing up users they don't have the finances to support. They could've closed signups.
use webull.com i am transfering my portfolio from tda to webull
They really should have said that from the start:

"To let you trade instantly, we lend you money. Because lending is risky, we won't let you use it on high-volatility stocks like GME. We screwed up by applying the same restrictions to confirmed deposits, which no longer involve loan risks. Our team is working on a fix."
Money is not supposed to be a "safe" store of value. It's supposed to be a stable one. Too low of inflation is bad because it means less investment in the physical economy. The Fed prints money to try to keep people from just hoarding cash. They want some inflation (and definitely not deflation) because a deflationary spiral means more and more money gets stuffed into mattresses instead of physical investments.

Unfortunately we're seeing land prices and stock prices and crypto (etc) bid up instead of, say, a massive build out of factories and solar farms and multistory houses. (EDIT: We are seeing lots of houses being built, actually. Lumber is near all-time highs.)
Put him in jail too.
I'm not comparing RH to Twitter, I'm comparing a private business' decision to a private business' decision, per your logic on the Twitter situation (banning any loud right-wing person). Time will tell if RH actually did anything illegal. If they didn't, then your previous Twitter logic should hold....i.e. "they're a private business and they can do whatever they want"....right?

I think what's ACTUALLY going on (whether your cognitive dissonance will allow you to perceive this comment or not), is that since this doesn't cut across political lines, you want to treat the situation differently.
"I always thought of app reviews as being reviews of the applications... not of the companies or services behind them."

I stopped reading there since you are obviously misinformed.
Whilst I think your argument is valid, I still think lack of "upgradability" correlates with planned obsolescence. All the manufacturer would then need to do is to add a few components that have an expected lifetime just after the warranty time.

On the whole, I agree with you that at the very least the battery and RAM should be easily replaceable. I just happen to also think that the increase in weight/bulk is worthwhile tradeoff for the option for me to decide when I want to stop using the machine, not the manufacturer.
Or restricted accounts whose cash transfers didn't settle yet.
Sure. People should be pissed about bailouts using tax payer money.

So what was done was regulations were put in that forced brokers to limit risk. So RH followed those regulations and now people are pissed.
Thanks for the insight. Funnily to me this looks like a prime example of a leaky abstraction [1] - so this not only happens in software architecture.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
There is a huge market of these kind of tools for hyperscaling IRL market startups like Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Airbnb, Ghostkitchens etc.du

They scale up and hire a shitton operations people with a small technical knack - while working with the same shitty systems that they built for the first year of the company.

Combine that with the massive blitscaling they do by just constantly opening new cities and new countries.

And you have a massive demand for quick fixes to bandaid scaling issues. Ive seen companies use shit like iMacros extensions, vimium browser extensions and also custom chrome extenstion to fix that.

Nowadays its pushing more to google appscript (gsheet scripting language) and stuff like airtable/coda, maybe in some cases advanced shit like retool (INSANE).
Maybe they're just collapsing/folding the comment and sub-comments, not really mean to downvote ?
The crowdsourcing of moderation via the downvoting mechanism has a pitfall however that I won't get into here except to say there are mobs of irrational, bias, and laziness that get their fix of dopamine by clicking a downvote arrow rather than having the cost of time/effort to add something qualitative to discussion.
Note that the GP said

> It doesn't come with... plugin management

Also, for Vim, `:<tab>` gives you all available commands in the current buffer and `:h command` gives you the vim help page for that command (which is usually at least a few sentences long, and pretty thorough).
because sv is run by evil doers.
This stock was short over 100% of the float and dealers were short gamma. They got out of this in the way that would guarantee they could save themselves, forced liquidation.

They picked the least painful option for themselves. Three options existed:

- Halt all trading
- Halt buying
- Halt selling

Everyone is pissed no matter what. The first is perhaps the most fair. The last helps the big institutions in this circumstance, the second retail traders.
The way this is fixed is by surveying customers and asking for reviews. Being involved in a customer service software Saas, I learned that for most companies, 80%+ of the interactions/transactions with customers are positive. But as you say, most people won’t leave a review - unless you ask them and make it easy for them to leave it. It also helps if you ask them to review a specific person (so they feel like they are helping someone).

What Google Play has done is not the right way to fix the ratio of positive to negative reviews, especially given the issue at hand. It also should be RH the one fixing its own reviews by addressing the problem with its user base.
Like the time their entire system went down when S&P went up 10%+ that day
Who said cabal? There's a basic conflict of interest between Robinhood and Citron. Of course it should be looked into...
> Crypto is a Ponzi scheme.

I've never heard anybody educated on the matter make this statement. It's always from someone that doesn't understand it and therefore thinks it's a scam.
Where did I suggest otherwise? My whole point was to let the reviews be, but figure out a way to make them useful. 100k reviews complaining about not being able to buy Gamestop is not useful.
wtf FB, let this one fire burn itself out.
And, also, it doesn't matter that much if the submitter has done all manual test steps (if any) -- the maintainer mostly needs to verify everything him/herself anyway
Having a high stock price does altogether nothing for the company if they can't sell stock. Similarly, having a low stock price doesn't bankrupt a company.
Where does it end the censorship? This is starting to look real bad.
Right. This is a run on Robinhood. It has nothing to do with GME

Somebody (another hedge funds) found a flaw in the way RH is operating.
Sadly I don't know enough to give you a good answer. But I'm certain there are smart people working on it!
Apparently people have had success [1] with Wine, but that's presumably not ideal. It does have some customizability but probably not as much as you're looking for.

[1] https://forum.sumatrapdfreader.org/t/sumatrapdf-on-linux/135...
> If they were truly against the government's monopoly on force, they would be anarchists, but they aren't, they're statists by a wide margin.

I’m an Anarcho-Capitalist, and there are a significant number of us in what is seen from the outside as the “Second Amendment” community. I would consider the healthy majority of people in that community as either “conservative” or “moderate libertarian”, but there is a lot more political diversity than you would expect.
Big difference between halting or restricting volume and preventing a long...
The only good thing about Robinhood is I believe that they were among the first to have no trading fees... but now there are many other options, including Schwab (but Schwab had some major reliability issues in the last couple of days).
Yes, something can be true but not proven. I for example believe that the elections were rigged and that Trump actually won. It could be true but I got not proof so it stays in the realm of theory.
> It's why have they all decided to act right now, just as this gamestop maneuver is happening?

Because they all have fairly loose monitoring and mostly complaint-based policy enforcement, and people being pissed off at you for any reason makes it more likely that complaints get reported.
It's the "drained talent" aspect, which IMO is correct. If I remember correctly, government salaries typically max out around G14, which was lower than most starting SFBA bigco salaries.

The world is pretty ripe with people who can make a stable, usable vaccine website. But on the whole, they don't want the job for 50k in a dingy building from the 1950s when they could make 250k to work on a shiny app that psychologically manipulates their peers in perverse but increasingly effective ways.

Imagine soda companies buying up basically all of the water in america and canada to make some highly addictive line of drinks, such that when a hurricane hits and people need rations, the government can't get water at a price and quantity sufficient to provide relief. Big tech is so profitable compared to every other sector that they can outbid the rest of the nation for engineering resources, leaving every other sector to be staffed by the dregs.

This is an oversimplification of course. Some people really want to stay in not-san-francisco. Some people really want to serve their country. But in aggregate, engineering talent is disproportionately hoarded by SV tech cos because they're willing to buy as much as the world can make for more than anyone else can pay.

edit: I say "engineering" a lot here but it's similarly true for UX design. The concentration effects are weaker, but the price deltas are bigger.
Hi Armani,

I greatly appreciate your kind and uplifting comment!

(Although, and I'd say this to everyone else, I also appreciate highly critical comments -- because they challege me to think, to really think, to refine exactly where I stand on a position in words, and to fix that position if it contains any inconsistencies... On a side note, I should write that down in my philosophies in the future -- good comments (like yours!) are good, because they're positive and uplifting, but "bad comments are also good" (paradoxically!), because they force you, they challenge you to really think...)

>"Let me know if you're interested in brining to life your suggestion :)"

Well, I greatly appreciate it, but I don't have the time for it... I'm merely adding some ideas to the discussion.

You know, add some "lively" ideas -- to an already "lively" discussion! <g>

Anyway, thanks again for the kind words!
So then how is HFT a thing then? Wouldn't millions of yet-to-be-cleared trades over a few days require them to hold a massive amount of collateral?
You're not addressing the point, which is even if they get investigated and get penalties, those penalties are likely to be peanuts compared to what they stand to gain by lying.

When was the last time the SEC sent anyone from these hedge funds to jail? When was the last time they imposed penalties that actually hurt?
Without incident? Sounds like regulatory capture is in full swing in Miami.
Brick is interesting. How did you price out vital sign to $19. Just curious.
You can't buy GME on margin at most brokerages, for several weeks at least.
What can we really learn from orders that never get close to executing?
Ok..but they liquidated (automatically) existing positions and while buying was halted selling was not...basically telling everyone to SELL..
FT has Citron on the record saying the position is closed. Muddy Waters is on the record saying the position is greatly reduced. Melvin has "people familiar with the matter".
Your comment neatly summarizes everything that is incorrect about the conventional wisdom of the past couple days. People think this is somehow “taking money from hedge funds”. When the short squeeze happens (if it happens), do you think that the retail traders who yolo’d their savings (there are many of these) will be the ones to sell at the correct second? No.

Maybe one or two hedge funds will declare bankruptcy. The rest will rake in the dough. And a large number of stupid people will find themselves poorer.

Personally, I’m not for over-regulation. To some extent, people need to take personal responsibility. But conning the stupid is immoral.

The many ill-informed twitterati, pseudo-intellectuals, and political grifters who have taken to cheering a transparent pump n dump will find themselves in an awkward situation in the next few weeks.
I mean, that's a pretty legitimate reason to invest, no?

Softbank bought Sprint with the intent to give it the resources needed to do well. They pumped money into the company to cover debt service until eventually it merged with T-Mobile.

AMC got out of $600mm of debt as a result of its share price appreciation in all this madness.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amc-entertainment-to-issue...

Share price is not arbitrary. It has ramifications for a company's credit, debt load, and ability to make acquisitions.
Do you really think there's a good side and an evil side?

(If so, can I ask if you think you personally have an evil side?)
This is actually pretty old news (10+ years old) but it still amazes me to find iOS and macOS sandboxing rules are written in a dialect of Scheme.
You're right. It seems I misunderstood OP. I'm not sure how "bailing out the mortgages and giving people homes" would work? That means I could just get a free house? Wouldn't housing prices go to infinity? A homeowner could command any price since the government would cover any mortgage, and the bank would make more money the higher the mortgage.
Time to look at decentralizing everything. The nodes have too much power.
> Facebook suspended his group on Jan. 7

So much for "amid".
So what happen when a notebook on a given container needs more resources, how do you handle that ?
First of all: there is no silver bullet when it comes to addiction. No one tool, method, book, blog post, forum reply etc will make it all go away. (so try to stop looking for "the one perfect thing". It doesn't exist)

I can only list things that have helped me:

Making sure my sleep, exercise and nutrition was good. I found this helped reduce the intensity of negative emotions that would loop into social media.

I use supplements for Vitamin D and Fish oil. These seem to improve my concentration, though it could well be a placebo.

Using a timer for work. I set a timer and work 15 minutes and then take a 3 minute break. In my breaks I stand up, walk around, go into the other room.
I try to avoid checking reddit etc in the same place as where I work. If I'm on a break with the timer then I will check it in the next room. I want to build an association of place and activity.

I use blocking tools, but they are just to remind you when you forget. Blocking tools are not a replacement for willpower. The seatbelt doesn't drive the car.

Keep a notebook and write in it before and after work. Try to predict things that will cause you distraction and avoid them or deal with them before it's a problem. At the end of the day, reflect on whether your strategies worked. If they did, keep doing them, if they didn't, try something else. When you start to understand your patterns of addiction you can work out better and more personal ways to deal with it.

Plan for the relapse. It will happen. That's ok, but what are you going to do after?

I hope some of this can help you.