skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think, if more people knew the extent to which the US financial system is a house of cards, cryptocurrency would be even more popular. Not necessarily concerning fundamentals, as the US is still fundamentally strong. Primarily concerning the edges of the system and the institutions we interface with every day.

I know Robinhood, and other firms, are trying to downplay what happened yesterday (and is continuing to happen right now!). Its possible their version of the story is accurate. It feels more likely that its not the whole truth.

We were treading really close to a 2007-level market event yesterday, though not due to bad ratings, rather liquidity. It wasn't just robinhood that was impacted; robinhood and IB both said that they made the decision internally, but WeBull said they were instructed by their clearing house to cease trading, and even large firms like TDA started enforcing limits. It was very close to going systemic, and not because of bad fundamentals, not because of an economic downturn, all because an unprecedented number of Americans wanted to join in on the stock market they're entitled to join in on, but our financial institutions were not ready for it.

When you lay out the reality of our system; that money moves so slow that every single institution who wants to handle money, for nearly any purpose, needs a bank account billions upon billions of dollars large just to be able to move as fast as people expect the system to move, and if that bank account gets too low the problem near-instantly spreads to the next bank in line; the system is very fundamentally broken, and people need to demand change, because our financial system runs EVERYTHING.

Moreover; if WSB's theory on this is correct, and if these WSB stocks like GME/NOK/BB/etc don't reduce in value; we missed a meteor yesterday, but a second one is still coming. This isn't just about bankrupting a hedge fund. When the margin calls on these short positions start coming in over time, the price of these stocks continues to rise, and eventually, the current "diamond hands" (as WSB call them) will sell their shares. We're talking about billions of dollars here; that's a massive liquidity spike that our institutions are still not ready to handle. Granted, as always, its the IDIOTIC institutions who got us into this by taking out the INDEFENSIBLE short positions in the first place, but they're systemic; they know they can do whatever the hell they want and get away with it, because if they go down they take every American with them.
Yep exactly. For every one outsider that gets it right, how many are wrong? I'd wager, quite a bit
Apparently you can buy "pig whipworm" (Trichuris suis) eggs and ingest them. It seems they can't survive for long in your gut (so there's no danger of an infestation), but it's long enough to trigger whatever cure / autoimmune reset it is that you're looking for.

This is just anecdotal (I know someone who did this and says that it worked) -- but please do your own research and consult a healthcare professional!!!
i think you mean half a billion (or milliard).
> ossifrage

the bone-breaker

Appropriate.
Investment info sites seem to be skeptical that there's anything wrong with naked shorts. They became illegal after the 2008 crisis, but they're bad in the sense of being extremely risky, not that they're fraudulent.

It's also unclear if naked shorting is actually happening here. It's entirely possible for the short interest to be far above 100%. Consider this setup:

- WidgetCo floats exactly one stock
- Alice buys the one stock (short interest = 0%)
- Alice lends the stock to Bob
- Bob sells the stock to Carol (short interest = 100%)
- Carol lends the stock to Dave
- Dave sells the stock to Eve (short interest = 200%)
- Repeat until short interest reaches the moon

Bob and Dave both legitimately borrowed a shared and sold it, so there's no naked shorting going on.

I suspect what's happening with GameStop is that the stock price is just so absurdly overvalued that short interest has reached a level that people previously thought was impossible.
That’s one advantage of opinionated frameworks like EmberJS. If you’re experienced with Ember, that knowledge will carry over a lot to other Ember apps. It’s pretty wild how consistent the architecture is from one app to another... and that’s thanks to a lot of very smart engineers being opinionated about how the apps should work.

Our team chose Ember since we didn’t have extensive front end experience and opinions, and it’s worked out well for us overall.
Or you just has not listened to his conversations with Lex Fridman, Sean Carroll and Joe Rogan among others.
I know those thugs very well. Some are antifa, some are football fans, some are neonazis, yet they are all the same, thugs. But please, don't generalize this experience. There's a lot of anti-nazi activism (see, I avoid using the Trump-loaded term "antifa") which has a valid place in our society, maybe nowadays even more than years ago because somehow people are forgetting who were we fighting against 70 years ago.
Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it
Your gain in delta (due to the stock moving) will be offset by your loss in vega (due to the volatility coming off after the impending crash). Option fair value is a function of both underlying price and volatility, which is currently at unprecedentedly high values.
This isn't like antibiotics. The 66% is how many people are provided some level of immunity, just reducing the infectible population; it doesn't directly cause issues for the virus the way an antibiotic interferes with the functioning of a bacterium. It might culture a strain that's better at infecting folks for whom the vaccine doesn't prove effective, if there's a common factor there and the virus can use it.

It is not yet known if any of the vaccines completely prevent infection; there are concerns the vaccinated might still be able to be asymptomatic carriers.
If you read the article at all, it clearly mentions that the traders in question don't believe they bought the shares on margin. Whether or not this is user error, who knows. And Citadel have gone on the record repeatedly stating they did not influence Robinhood's trading halt. The information available makes it seem as though Robinhood were told they needed to deposit more into their DTCC (clearinghouse) accounts to allow trades to continue - essentially, that Robinhood got called on their own margins at the clearinghouse level.

https://www.ft.com/content/9a1b24e6-0433-462a-a860-c2504ea56...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-29/for-robin...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/business/dealbook/robinho...
The issue with Astrazeneca is that they messed up part of their clinical trials.

The results weren’t even negative. A subset of their trial group received a different amount of vaccine which seemed to show greater efficacy later.

The issue, and thus the “mistrust”, is that if they messed up that rather critical part of their clinical trials then what else could they have messed up?
I think the important bit is that the chief/aide/whatever didn't claim to have overheard anything at all, rather someone who talked to them claimed that they said Nixon had said that.

Hard to laud Nixon in my view, he was pretty clearly a racist man and was the originator of the "welfare queen" rhetoric (and the corresponding cuts in SNAP, etc.).
You got a good point. SV types like HM tend to be textbook examples of Dunning-Kruger in action.

1. Read Wikipedia on another field
2. Decide, based on that knowledge, that the field is “ripe for disruption”
3. Usually fail miserably if parasitic ad tech isn’t the core business model

Even politicians show more humility than these people. It’s as if typing into a computer makes them think they are omniscient high priests. Most of them even have the gall to call themselves engineers. We don’t call machinists engineers, and most programmers are digital machinists.
can we please ban centimeter please? this guy is an actual racist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954606
San Francisco's school board in name only
Cheatsheet to Rewrite Git History
I believe if you go back in the user's posting history, he has posted screenshots of having a position in the stock over more than the past year--before the pandemic even started.
Not an early bird? Afternoon workouts could be better for your health
Seems isomorphic with artificial general intelligence ideology.
Maybe 10 low end Chinese bikes.
Understood. My suggestion was that Facebook "target" based on the content of the post/article/website. Thus a needle ad is shown next to a kitting post. This can certainly be an artisan needle producer buying 1000 impressions...

Fully understand that Facebook is keep the PII close - that's their differentiation.
They haven't refused to explain why. Very Online People just don't accept their explanation.
Microbes in your gut might be impairing your memory
This statement seems like a big ball of nothing. Basically the SEC is aware of what's happening (how could they not be?) and maybe they'll do something about it or maybe they'll decide that it's all within the law.
Kubernetes CLI Tool
As far as I can tell, it's not actually 30k for each bike. You pay the money and get a bike for yourself, plus another bike to be sent to the anti-poachers, and also solar-charging units to be sent to them as well. See:

https://ridecake.com/en/shop/bikes/kalk/kalk-ap/
The resistor value captcha at the end of the page is golden.
It's kind of depressing when you look at these crazy success stories of lottery winners. You realize even a small bet at the right time could be life-changing.

Let's say instead of buying a Latte every working days at starbucks over the last five years you had invested it in tesla stocks. Or maybe for every starbucks latte you drank, you invested the same amount in ETF and in Tesla (pay 3 latte, drink one). Where would your life be? Would you still be at your 9-to-5 or would you go work for that non-profit? Or would you just be lazing around on the sofa or at the beach sipping pina-coladas?

Anyway, sometimes it takes a lot of energy to deal with the KIMO (Know I Missed Out).
Because it's not their business!

(Sorry for the horrible joke, but it's Friday.)
I see it too and I think the idea of making money is mixed up in the concept of revenge, like “finally I’m going to trick Wall Street out of some money instead of the other way around.” But it’s not going to happen that way for most people.

I see the idea parroted a lot that if everyone holds the line, the shorts will have to buy every outstanding share of GME stock at whatever inflated price it’s at. They won’t, though. The bubble will pop.
Completely agree with the reasons. Most all of my indie company's software is free and OSS - so no opportunity to capture any value.

I created the open source tunnel project called inlets which now has 8k GitHub stars, the same thing happened - lots of people used it, got value and didn't pay a sponsorship or for support.

So seeing the problem, I then went on to create a paid version which adds value and features for companies. The main issue was that many developers anchored the pricing to ngrok, but ngrok is not the same product, for one, it's a SaaS with rate-limits and is a cloud service.

inlets PRO doesn't have any rate-limiting, can act as a VPN, integrates natively with Docekr + Kubernetes and can be self-hosted too. That's the value of it. So when asked, I advise Ngrok customers to stay with what they know, they aren't the target market.

It still makes anchoring a challenge though, and Neil Davidson of Redgate talks about this in Don't Roll the Dice - another eBook the author may enjoy reading - https://www.red-gate.com/library/dont-just-roll-the-dice
> There is no "the left". This is a shibboleth that you have created.

He did use the "the left" in a kind of shibboleth-y way, but I think you actually mean "straw man" here.
I am pretty sure Rh doesn’t take positions the way you’re describing.
Jerry, Inc. (YC S17) Is Hiring Product, Engineering, Marketing (All Levels)
This seems like textbook naked shorting.

"Ordinarily, traders must borrow a stock, or determine that it can be borrowed, before they sell it short. So naked shorting refers to short pressure on a stock that may be larger than the tradable shares in the market"

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nakedshorting.asp
A short squeeze in and of itself is not illegal. The squeezers were not prosecuted in 2008 when they held onto VW even though it briefly became the most valuable stock in the world. Seeing an opportunity to advantage oneself of a bad short position is just trading, nothing fancier than that.

The Falcone case is much more complicated because it was a single person buying the entirety of the market. Much weirder mechanics at play. Squeezes are always carried out through the self-interest of uncoordinated parties, be they retail investors or firms.
Which, if accompanied by an empathic and engaged healer who manages to fully invoke the power of whatever is that drives the placebo effect, just might stand a chance of being more effective (in certain cases).
> It doesn't actually seem to be trying to write "/tmp". It actually doesn't issue any syscalls at all when I press "Debug Main Project" and trigger the message.

Perhaps a subprocess is doing this?
Well, not electrostatic, as that requires static charge, stators, and rather high voltages (10s of kv) which is unlikely to happen in a piece of paper.

The basic approach reminds me of the flat panel speakers that came out of QinetiQ I think in the early 2000s, that a large surface vibrating somewhat chaotically doesn't suffer from the directional phasing you see with pistonic movement of the surface. I'd definitely like to hear how this setup sounds.

I guess another interesting fact is that many traditional speaker cones are made from paper, it's amazing stuff!
I think it's because of the transverse myelitis scare during AZ's Phase 3 tests, combined with AZ's dosage quality control issues making it really hard to interpret efficacy data.
$30k for a bike worth $10k. And yet people will buy it.
Hi Keith, what do u think of CytoDyn cydy? Their monoclonal drug Leronlimab has 3 clinical trials with the FDA and has a fast track designation. They've also applied for an upgrade to NASDQ. Current price is $5.38. Their suppose to release results on their COVD trial any day now.
Gotta love how that HFT'ers and similar can buy, finalize, sell, finalize in microseconds...

But our trades take days.

Gee, I wonder why there's so much hate?
I suggest you read up on the history of medicine prior to creation of the FDA, and similar agencies world wide.
Old threads
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19125674

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16342192
Put Signal in your systray on Linux
Yes but they don't have sufficient data for older adults on it so that is the limitation.
All a put option needs is cash backing it in order to write it. It doesn't require any stock.

- Me, a long time wheel runner
My opinion is if you think buying into the losing end of a pump and dump is sticking it to the man, then I've got a great new deal for you, it's called PolkaCoin, it's directly tied to my net worth, so the more you give me, the higher its value goes (unless I eat lunch that day). I won't even let you sell it, all of the pump with none of the dump. TO THE MOON and all that.
Eruption of Mount St. Helens, heard from 140 miles away
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
how does it compare against ciso8601 perf-wise? https://pypi.org/project/ciso8601/

to be fair ciso8601 only parses iso8601 datetimes, but that's enough for 90%+ of my use cases.
Contact the makers. Perhaps they will do you a one-off scheme to offset your wildlife footprint.
This is good, but I feel like it's solving the problem from the wrong angle.

The best way to reduce poaching is to reduce the demand. I know there are ongoing efforts to do exactly that, but it's a hard problem and obviously hasn't had 100% success so far.

I think the next best way to reduce poaching, though, is to meet the demand with a legal supply. License and regulate farms for the black rhino and any other animal that is a frequent victim of poaching. Obviously this is also hard, but it better aligns incentives. The farmers are, of course, going to care more about their animals than the wild ones, but they would also have a profit motive to reduce poaching of wild ones (because it will reduce their competition).
Carbon intensity of electricity per kWh by European country for 2020
I'm kind of amazed how little transparency there is in the stock market. Everyone seems to be guessing. The unequal amount of information for regular people is really unfair and seems like an easy situation for corruption to take place
Robinhood doing anything unilaterally about this sounds and feels extremely sketchy and screams illegal to me (if it isn't it should be). It's one thing if the SEC stops all GME trade coz that would be fair across the board. But Robinhood effectively being able to block trades for retail while institutional investors do whatever screams market manipulation.
> I remember the smugness with which Stephen Wolfram is routinely dismissed from having non-consensus views of physics

The guy is disliked for taking too much credit for things, not for "having non-consensus views" - which is sort of the opposite problem.
> you might think those countries are totalitarian, but they don't.

"You" in the above is a specific individual.

"They" in the above is undefined and extremely imprecise.

For various definitions of "they", your statement could be true, false or somewhere in between.
> But aren't stock prices almost entirely about future performance?

This depends on what kind of investor you are. Do you believe the market is entirely rational and depends on the underlying fundamentals of a company? Or do you believe that the stock market is ultimately irrational and trades solely on hope and fear?

Frankly, I don't see how anyone can disagree that the market is entirely irrational and solely emotionally based, and the reason is because humans are irrational and emotionally based. We rationalize our positions after we've taken them, not before, I'm totally convinced of this, mostly thanks to Sam Harris, and to a lesser degree, Richard Dawkins.

We want to believe that we logically poured over the facts and figures and we arrived at the only inescapable conclusion possible. Were that true, everyone would arrive at similar conclusions. Despite what some people have said the past several years, there are no such thing as "alternative facts". A thing is either true, false, or unknown.

Smarter people than I have made cases on both sides of this argument, but for me, I see it happen every day, all the time, all around me. I watch it happen in finance. I watch it happen in book publishing. I watch it happen in development. I, for one, am a believe in what I call the "emotional market hypothesis". Hell, Tesla is a perfect example. There's absolutely no reason for a stock to be trading at 1660 times its earnings, but Tesla is. That's its Price-To-Earnings ratio right now. The stock is fueled by hope. Elon is the personification of that hope, for better or worse.
Sure, that's the textbook definition. But when I see them beating up folks, I don't necessarily see any evidence the recipients are fascists at all. So what do you call a group of people that unilaterally decide other people are fascists and then beat them up without any kind of due process, all in order to keep them from being able to "get together" and raise their voice? Authoritarian?
You should look at cpu usage. There is a good chance all your interrupts are hitting cpu-0. you can run hwloc to see what chiplet the pci cards are on and handle interrupts on those cores.
The mismatch between the speed of trading and the speed of settling can under extreme circumstances cause problems, evidently.

> It feels like slow movement of money in our financial system causes a lot of these problems

I'd turn that around and say that the hyper fast trading causes a lot of these problems, and in particular creates more problems than it solves.

Introducing a Tobin Tax and replacing continuous trading with frequent auctions (maybe with stochastic end times, to limit sniping) would alleviate a lot of these problems, and put the rent-seeking HFT traders out of a job, while not impeding the important price discovery and capital allocation functions of the market much at all, I think.
I was about to write both products went out of business but one was just rebranded and still has the same higher base pricing and seems to be doing well, so it seems it worked out very well. Maybe increasing the pricing also played a role in identifying the other roduct as too unattractive to continue and focus on bannerbear sooner than otherwise...
Average bet being 1-5k feels optimistic by an order of magnitude...

The entire account value of normal RH users in the range of 1-5k

Most people just joining don't have 1k to just throw at a lottery ticket, and remember that until today RH allowed fractional shares of GME

-

But you know, that's not even it...

The other day GME did 20 Billion in volume in a single trading day. More than the S&P 500.

I don't understand how people think retail can account for that.
the inverse correlation between the S&P and GME style stocks looks strong over the last couple days.
The CEO said they couldn't cover deposits. He only started spewing nonsense when the obvious question about RH having liquidity issues came up. He didn't lie to retail RH clients, but he may have lied to RH investors. Then again, it's funded by private equity, so it's likely they know all this.

All of this makes sense given the emergency cash infusion of 1B RH got this week.
I guess I thought making a vaccine would be like producing a cake. 1 cup of flour, 1 tbs of salt, etc... mix for x seconds and bake for x time.

We're not building cars and need to re-tool an entire factory - they can't just swap out vats of ingredients, punch in new qtys for each piece and go?
Your theory here being that Google and Apple are in on the scheme, which is to prop up a couple of hedge funds that were short GME, the most notable of which secretly still are short despite announcing having covered their position, because Google and Apple are big companies and big companies... like hedge funds? Or are in cahoots with Robinhood in some kind of Silicon Valley solidarity thing?
>And finally, the main problem is: sure, if you compare hobbyists (who make what they want for fun) with professionals (who are making a product that needs to sell more than a small handful of copies), of course you're going to find that hobbyists are more free to experiment with wild permutations of mechanics. But in doing so, they conflate personal ability with situational constraints. What about professional designers if they were able to work without commercial constraints, like hobbyists?

This last paragraph reminds me of the video game world and common arguments on indie games vs AAA/big studio games.

Indie games with their hit or miss experimentation, AAA games with their formulaic selling strategy.

But in the video game world there have been professionals who have stepped back into the indie world to make something lower budget and more experimental. Those end up being about as hit or miss as the 'actual', for lack of a better word, indie games.

So I guess my point is, I think the constraints themselves do play a part in hobbyist type games and a professional under the same constraints is likely to produce the same kind of thing.

Something experimental that may be awesomely fun or it could be kinda lame.
I can give you a laundry list right now. For example, millions of vials are cracking around the rim, several of the filling rooms have mold issues, one of the vial hoppers is leaving metal particulates in the vials, weekly OOS for manufacturing impurities..I think the public would freak out if they knew what was happening in the supply chain.