skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First they went after hate speech,

Then they banned the nazis,

Then they banned the fascists,

Then they banned the free speech advocates,

Then they banned me, and the platform treated me like an unperson,

But I'm privileged enough to embarrass them into unbanning me.
Reddit or any future platform hosting WSB and the like, same logic that took Parlor out of biz.
Since you broached this path, do not google Dracunculiasis.
In the case of Robinhood:

> On Thursday, Robinhood was forced to stop customers from buying a number of stocks like GameStop that were heavily traded this week. To continue operating, it drew on a line of credit from six banks amounting to between $500 million and $600 million to meet higher margin, or lending, requirements from its central clearing facility for stock trades, known as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.
This.

It's clear that everyone should be lawyering up depending on what positions they had when they started pumping this idea to the masses. That said, I'm a big believer in "a fool and his money". If there are hedge funds or retail investors out there who, perhaps, didn't understand all the risks of what they were doing, protecting them from their folly only causes more problems in the future.

As horrible as this sounds, now is the time to let everyone fail. Hard. If we don't, no lessons will be learned.
Well, in the very first benchmarks it was the fastest of all on multicore machines. Faster than C++ with pstl/openmp. Lockfree/non-blocking stdlib has its advantages.
It's also safe, much safer than rust.
The good thing about that is you're not expecting too much - the secret to happiness is low expectations.

But it's not a great method of doing business!
Rob Landley was at one point working on an interesting project to combine a fork of the Tiny C Compiler (tcc) with QEMU's Tiny Code Generator (TCG) to create a compact, BSD-licensed drop-in replacement for gcc and binutils that would work on all the platforms supported by TCG:

https://landley.net/qcc/

http://landley.net/hg/qcc/file/tip/todo/todo.txt

It seems like a pretty cool idea, so I'm hopeful that eventually he'll have the chance to hack on it and get it working.
The solar system has an orbital period of 250k years. Nearby systems do not have the same orbital period. I’m not sure galaxies are considered stable to individual stellar systems.
Please don't use terms like "the left," or paint with such an incredibly wide brush. It's not helpful, and is part of how we got to here.
What a horrible thing. I guarantee this will constantly find incorrect matches.

Just like follicle investigators of the past, if it's completely inaccurate who cares because you can just scare some 19-year-old into a plea bargain. People with money won't be affected, they'll have high price lawyers who will get this ' evidence' thrown out.
Predicting second- and subsequent order effects accurately is basically impossible for any non-trivial issue.

Here I'd argue that the effect may instead be that professionals are able to figure out what the amateurs are doing differently and incorporate it into their discipline.

If you hold up the research trying to figure out which second-order effect is more likely, you'll never get any research done on anything of substance. (You see, the second order effect of your suggestion is an overall suppression of research. Damn, arguing from second-order effects sure is tempting!)
They also know what they have - an extremely loyal fanbase and a great product that can stand on its own. See: they never put it on sale on Steam.
This is in the AP style guide as of summer 2020 so it should at least not be surprising.
You are not the first person to ponder these questions. There is a great deal of jurisprudence on these topics. Any market participant firm's compliance desk can readily answer all of them.
Is it illegal to corner the market on a product because you know someone else is going to need to buy it, so you can charge them a lot because they must buy from you? It seems like what is being done is pretty much this; just for a large definition of "you".
If wallstreetbets was a hedge fund and they bought all of GME to cause a short squeeze then that is market manipulation - this has been settled [0].

[0] - https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2013-159

Edit: litigated to settled
Well, it’s because it’s a winning strategy to anyone who remotely gets concerned or paranoid about being spied on.
It is pretty easy to tell that Melvin was lying through their teeth when they said this... the volume for them to cover was not there, and most estimates was that it would take 6-8 days for them to actually exit their position.
civilian noun

2a : one not on active duty in the armed services or not on a police or firefighting force
Want a laugh? Ask Congress about GameStop
While this is an admirable approach in theory, I noticed you don't mention how much time (i.e., money) it takes you to implement a high-quality platform relative to people with lower quality standards.

There are massive economic benefits to shipping something early but a little buggy or even incomplete. Does it take some of the artistry out of being a programmer? Sure! In fact the ability to compromise on quality, to tolerate a little technical debt, is a sign of maturity I look for when interviewing senior engineers. In software it's possible to waste months and months of engineering time endlessly iterating on the implementation in the name of "quality" while realizing minimal value to the business. For example, obsessively aiming for 100% test coverage, rewriting working code in accordance with a new fad style or framework, adding a new abstraction layer where it isn't required, etc. An engineer who refuses to fix a minor bug in a "crufty" part of the codebase without spending a month rewriting it from scratch is not the kind of engineer I want on my team -- it usually goes hand in hand with a lot of nitpicking on pull requests, overambitious designs, derailing of technical discussions. In other words, ego.

It's not that I don't care about quality. It's just that I've worked with lots of people who equate quality with their own tastes, and they can be really unpleasant to work with.

(Note: none of this is meant as a criticism of you, OP, more a general rant about the flip-side of "quality" in software engineering.)
Yeah everyone says short sales have "infinite loss potential", but at some point the lender will recognize that those shares aren't coming back.
Your point? Can disruptive ever be good? Other than in SV jargons?
But people are not being allowed to purchase stock as they want. Robinhood now allows you to buy a grand total of 5 shares of GME.
> The last giant crash was triggered by a single party (Bear Stearns) running out of credit.

It was waaaaaay more complex than that, the Bear Stearns thing was one of many worldwide symptoms (not cause) of a widespread problem.

There is nothing to compare between this GME event and 2008 crisis (even though there are plenty of other issues that could lead to one)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007–2008
I agree that the argument you’re making is flippant, but it was used by a lot of well-known people to support their argument of Facebook and Twitter censorship. What I find more interesting is that when that same argument is used in other situations, such a small businesses deciding to open during the lockdown, it is routinely down voted and shouted down.
This is not about "Wall Street versus The People" or WallStreet vs Retail (small investors) it is about federal securities laws. And you know where the law is? In court. I think court needs to decide whether what is WSB doing illegal or legal.
> Like comets, if one hit us it would end life on the planet.

'Oumuamua is more of a 'city-killer' risk at its size than a comet such as Halley's, which would be more of the sort of range of size that could seriously screw up our day.
Funny I was specifically looking for an electric fat bike this morning to assist in hunting next fall.
If you want something still usable nowadays, get Unix Programming Environment, and "The C Programming Languge, 2nd Edition".
Both complement each other really well.
Signal: Chat Wallpapers, Animated Stickers, Expanded Profiles
"Our core market infrastructure has proven resilient under the weight of this week’s extraordinary trading volumes"

Most of the retail investors couldn't buy specific stocks on most exchanges for some time (tastytrade, ib, rh etc). I wouldn't call that "resilient".
Largest Whale's Impact on Bitcoin
How is that in any way related?
> It's also safe, much safer than rust.

Can you give an example of this? How is Pony "much" safer than Rust?
So this seems like a pretty easy way to stop a stock - change the collateral requirements.

From what I heard from the WeBull CEO, what you described sounds right. And he said the whole market could not function.

So in order for other stocks to trade (which have much lower requirements) they had to shut down several stocks.

So I'm sure the big shorts would know that if they get super screwed (price going higher and higher) this collateral requirement would cause this (and the stock to drop big like it did to $112 the other day)?

And this is basically all because of the risk that some hedge fund may not be able to pay (which causes collateral requirements to change)? Seems like the rules should change for these big shorts.
> FB has no right to dictate what can be said publicly. This is the role of governments.

I don't mean to be a pedant, but its literally as old as time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst

All TV stations have an editorial guide, this defines what can and can't be said. Sure you can push at the boundaries, but stray to far and you'll be pulled off air.

All newspapers have editorial standards as well.

This is why there was such an explosion in 'zine culture in the late 80s early 90s.

censorship by private individuals has always been there, we forget that in the last 10 years we've been able to literally say and do anything we want on the internet with little to no repercussions.
If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. Iirc, there were a few major platforms that are well known to harbor and promote incitements of violence when it aligns with the political and cultural hegemon. You actually can and must have a society that is tolerant of intolerance. The alternative is totalitarianism. Hence the paradox.
I needed Blender integration a while back and wasn't sure what i could write it in. Py03 worked great with Blender with no configuration. I was quite concerned that something about the Python-embedded-Blender behavior would limit Py03.. but nope, so far it's worked flawlessly.

Thanks Py03 team :)
Apple products do a lot of things with your data without asking; this seems like farce to me.

I'm all for marketing to one's strengths, but Apple products leak so much data (hardware serial numbers, for example) that this sort of marketing strikes me now as actively dishonest.

Apple collects just as much data (sometimes more!) as all of these shady data broker types they vilify in the document.
“The idea is clean energy to replace coal and oil,” Greene wrote.
“If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I’m sure they
wouldn’t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!!”

Uhh... The Sun already does that for us. It's called Sunlight.

facepalm
It's about time. This was bound to happen sooner or later. This realization that Big Social media is not a place for free thought or discussion.

We will revert back to the internet that was 15 years ago. Where if you wanted information you had to work for it, and if you wanted a good discussion you had to find it.

Facebook, Twitter is now TV. One way media spoon feeding its users.

Sub-cultures will grow stronger and this honeymoon phase with centralized social media is over. I'm glad.
There was also a great explanation of why Pony and not Rust or Erlang, at least of that use case. I was the interviewer. "Pony: How I learned to stop worrying and embrace an unproven technology", a talk Sean gave about Pony is really good as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GigBhej1gfI&t=1755s
If ads are just restricted to intent based on page/video/query, small advertisers lose out on effectiveness but is this is a big issue for big advertisers?

I have read FB engineers comment on HN that FB has a long tail of advertisers. Is that why they are being more vocal out of all companies?

In any case, I personally don't have a problem with ads as a revenue medium for companies, just the expansive data mining, especially when it is not communicated to the user clearly. Ads do provide a very good avenue for revenue generation for products where most users won't pay for the service because of competing products or just the frequency in which they use them. On the advertiser side, they do help push information about new products which we might not have known earlier.
Being good is hard. Being big is easy.
Very cool rig and benchmark. Kudos. Request: add network io load to your benchmarking load while nvme io load is running.
I think he's just implying that people have been too polite to Loeb before.
Consider reading The Growth Delusion by David Pilling
https://www.amazon.com/Growth-Delusion-Poverty-Well-Being-Na...
Some dictionaries seem to disagree with you:

– a person who is not a member of the police or the armed forces

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/civil...

– one not on active duty in the armed services or not on a police or firefighting force

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civilian

– a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/civilian

I’m a little curious, why should they be considered civilians?
I can’t help but think about Bill Ackerman when I see stories about stock shorting and their dangers. Isn’t this exactly what Bill Ackerman did? He shorted Herbalife and then went on TV (there’s even a Netflix documentary) And he lost. How is that not market manipulation? What if Ackerman did not have a position in the company, would it not be market manipulation then? It seems like what Reddit did was stand on a soapbox in the public square and say buy the stock,
Power is temporary but identity is forever. Those lenses exist simultaneously and as a result you get different forms of radicalism to address the institutional gap, even while these forms use similar means of applying influence.
I found the shell-pipeline package for Racket pretty nice a few years ago https://docs.racket-lang.org/shell-pipeline

The API seems to have changed a bit since I last used it, so not sure how nice the current version is. It's also apparently used by a shell-like language called Rash, but I've not used that either https://docs.racket-lang.org/rash
but this is basically the whole thrust of the argument in the article.

'Facebook are banning "the right" and thats ok, but more worryingly they are banning people like me'
Enforcing the readme is simply closing/ignoring the PR's.

You can easily do that, but what you can't do is prevent people from being angry. You can do everything in your power to prevent people from accidentally wasting their time, and you should. This is where "hide the feature" would come in.
Oh! Skepticism is good. And this type of tech is very good for goal-directed management of fluid resuscitation! Severe peripheral vasoconstriction, not so much, as you mentioned. Really, in my first-hand experience most clinicians use the tech to follow trends in the ICU or surgery.

I wouldn't call the claims Theranos-level, but at the same time I don't see how this is any more useful for the general population than the standard automated blood pressure cuffs. Maybe that will change as things evolve!

This article has a nice review of the history--
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4312947/.
What did you expect them to do? Go around arresting people? Stop trading on every market? Say that Robinhood is no longer allowed to trade?

It's a giant government body that overseas a very large tender market of money, they can't just make rash decisions. They need to review, see how it plays out in the longer term, and see how the government is going to want to adjust.

I don't think technically anything (minus the robinhood/other people restricting buying, and even that who knows) that's going on is really "wrong-doing" on the surface. Everything seems to be by the book.

So they'll need to dig deep into the stock and find evidence and provide that evidence to the body that reviews stuff.

You probably won't hear of any changes for months if not years if at all.
If you are suggesting, that boardgame designers are not playing with the boardgames they designed, you are probably not familiar with the boardgame development process, which includes a shitton of playtesting to finetune the game's balance. If you are not suggesting this, I have no idea what you suggesting.
Art Institute of Chicago Public API
The State of Debugging in WebAssembly
What Does Agora.io Do?
> Yes Factorio is complex. No it's not more complex than a Witcher/Skyrim/Cyberpunk/whatever big budget game you can think of.

Than Skyrim, easily. Crowd mechanics in Witcher/Cyberpunk give me a pause, but still probably more complex than those.

Popular "simulation" games like Factorio, Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress and Kerbal Space Program are deceptively heavy.
I'd kindly ask you to stop talking about fightclub pls, we don't need kooks drowning out there and authorities shitting on the fun for everyone else.
Exploitable heap overflow in libgcrypt 1.9.0
Quant firms made more money then WSB did trading on the momentum I'm sure. Do you really think retail was the only one pumping?
"Simple" is a great source of endless discussion, because it has so many meanings that nobody can agree on what's simple.
Yep. This was my major takeaway. There is so much incredible opportunity there, but the regulators are in the way.
The universe of implemented use cases, solutions to people's real world problems, has exploded.

But just considering the widgets (ignoring voice, touch, haptics, need I go on?), just the actual visual language and interaction models, there's never been a better time to be a designer (UX/UI).

I used to create custom (owner draw) widgets for Windows. At the time I thought they were super complex.

Today, the simplest web widget dwarves anything I did. Just the typeahead combo dropbox add-on for Bootstrap has more code and subtly and capability than anything I did.

> I was expecting a lot more boutique interfaces

Then make them.
> some media picked up on it and presented it as a "fairly bugged release".

This is so unfortunate. I've never used any software, game or otherwise that has been as bug free as Factorio. I guess it must have been "journalists" who didn't want to put in any time playing the game.

Congrats to them on reaching 0 bugs and 0 open issues - I can only dream of achieving that one day!

For people wondering why they see Factorio updates on HN when no other game makes it, I wrote about what makes this game appeal so much to HN users - https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-enginee...
I suspect any final form for a “live” treatment, would probably be a two part sort of thing. “Take worms/eggs day 1, day 2, 3 or 4 you take the anti worming drug to prevent the worms getting much of a foothold”
If I were the short-sellers I'd be a bit aggrieved at the SEC not going after WSB here.

People keep saying that the hedge funds 'knew what they were getting into', and are therefore fair game. But they could well have thought that they were protected by this regulation. It's unlucky for them that they got squeezed by loveable retail investors rather than another hedge fund that the SEC would have no qualms about prosecuting.

In the debate between the free market vs regulation, the worst possible outcome is to have people thinking they are protected by regulation when they in fact aren't.
Somebody please tell me how many ResNet50 inferences you can do per second on one of these chips

Here is the standalone AVX-512 ResNet50 code (C99 .h and .c files):

https://nn-512.com/browse/ResNet50

Oops, AMD doesn't support AVX-512 yet. Even Zen 3? Incredible
I've only done hobby stuff with pony, but love the idea of it, and would love an opportunity to use it in production. I've found the community welcoming and helpful in my limited interactions. The standard library code is pretty easy to read, which somewhat mitigates the dearth of tutorials, howtos on the internet.

The reference capability stuff can be a bit hard to wrap your mind around, but mostly in a good way, and the compiler errors are generally pretty helpful. If you come from an OO or procedural background, there will be a sharp learning curve. My experience of learning pony reference capabilities is roughly similar (in terms of forcing you to think differently about data sharing) to learning how to work with the rust borrow checker, despite them having different goals and operational models.
IANAL, but to me it seems like it would be very difficult to convict retail investors of investing in a stock they believe has value and then telling other people they invested in a stock they believe has value. Unless there are chat records of a few redditors coordinating an astroturf campaign while twirling their mustaches or whatever, I don’t see how this could be aimed at retail.

Regulated entities who have access to tools or information not available to retail investors, or who applied financial pressure to manipulate access to the markets, or did not disclose conflicts of interest...that seems like a much easier case to make.
Worked in a broker in Australia, our head of compliance is a former ASIC (the Australian regulator) employee.
Most games at that scale begin to simplify individual objects into statistical averages. Factorio can’t do that, so every single object is tracked meticulously on one thread. Even down to the position of the arms on each loader, since where they are in their cycle affects the game overall.
I’d be very careful about making this assumption. There is always bleed over in unexpected ways. When these stocks spiked on Wednesday the market as a whole came down hard. Perception is extremely important and if people start to fear that brokerages could be insolvent or just lose faith in the valuations of stocks as a whole it could definitely effect the entire market.
Corrobating on this, same thing happened on my side that all US financial products (apart from regular deposits, cheque (or check?) and loans including credit cards) were suspended "beyond our control", so there is some action taken by US-based fincacial companies due to this (either because of laziness or genuine worry that they might be punished).

Nota bene: I do hold some Nokia stocks, but it is from (Nasdaq) Helsinki and not from NYSE and it was already in my possesion waay before these brouhaha. I don't hold any other stocks that were affected, including stocks for GameStop.
If WSB was a hedge fund they just have to buy some of GME - not all or even too much. Other hedge funds could buy some too.

Just have a "dinner conversation" about it.

Just like you and a few hedge funds can get together and collectively short GameStop and other companies... as they are doing now.

There's no rule that I know of that says only one entity can make a specific investment.

-edit-

Don't forget that hedge funds ARE on the other side of this trade. WSB and retail do not have the ability to move this solely on their own. I wonder how long until they're on CNBC/Bloomberg "we saw a great opportunity in the market and executed our position well". If it's market manipulation - was it market manipulation to even have heard about WSB and entered the trade? WSB is a nice scapegoat for the real money that caught these hedge funds in a bad position. Didn't take long before WSB became alt-right, white supremacist, market manipulators... etc.