skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, tell me the P/E ratios everywhere else in the market right now are rational from a fundamentals perspective and I'll call you either deluded or a liar.
> Oh, and their hubris kills people.

Killing people comes with manufacturing automobiles. Takata airbags and other "cost cutting" disasters, selling cars that can go 300+ km/h which can't be legally driven at that speed anywhere except race tracks and German autobahns, making safety features such as seat belts, side mirrors, traction control etc. optional until the government regulators have had enough deaths and mandate it...
There's also an article supporting my points that sometimes there are restrictions (fine print) that stop trading.

From:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255031/robinhood-gamest...

Quote:
As a brokerage firm, we have many financial requirements, including SEC net capital obligations and clearinghouse deposits. Some of these requirements fluctuate based on volatility in the markets and can be substantial in the current environment,” the post argues. “To be clear, this was a risk-management decision, and was not made on the direction of the market makers we route to.”
> I didn't see how this would ever turn into a success story. We were digging a grave. But I didn't realize 1 thing: we were not selling a product, we were selling the company.

why don't the executive making this goal clear to the "underlings"?
People panic.

Especially when they're staring at billions of losses and maybe all it takes to save them is a carefully worded public statement that they think they can later argue is technically truthful.
Anyone aiming for VC money should realize that this is what's coming, in the vast majority of cases, no matter how different expectations might be set initially.
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SpaceX is trying to solve the finite environment problem.
Thanks for the clarification, I saw similar comments and assumed they were true.

Regardless, that doesn't change the optics to an outsider - the rich guys (hedge funds) get to stop their losses, potentially screwing the little guy.
But that's Fe_2 O_3 !
Stop with the strawman. Everyone buys GME with the expectation of it tanking. People are irrational on purpose.
Bitcoin Up, Coinbase Down: Leading Crypto Exchange Investigating Outage Issue
"Not able to handle massive traffic, leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is once again hit by outages.

Earlier today, Bitcoin soared over 19 percent to a multi-week high of $38,249 after Elon Musk, the richest person on the planet, added it to his Twitter bio."
Second report says that Apple Car production would be in the US; Hyundai nervous
The only problem is that I'm a novice in it and it will take some significant investment of time and energy to learn it well. Which I still plan to do.

Was just wondering if there are replacements for shell scripting that are quicker to learn.
I'm guessing you want to avoid word getting out that could spoil the deal / depress the price?
> Tens of billions of dollars of GameStop have been bought and sold over the past few days.

Yes, at prices that are several multiples above the price they shorted at.
Emacs tells you to hit "Ctrl-h" when you start it. The documentation for Emacs is about as good as you can get for a software product.

(Now let's talk about Excel if you want to discuss discoverability issues.)
This dude allowed only selling of GME, not a full freeze. People would be mad but not livid if he hadn't done that, which stinks of corruption.
This idea doesn't grok with falling birthrates in wealthy nations. People don't just live to reproduce. There is a biological drive to reproduce, but it is not unchecked. So the cancer metaphor is apt.
Fair point. Of course a lot of those industries have sown up regulation and spend enough of lobbying to not have to do shit. Unfortunately.
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The title reminds me of a comment from a regional bank CEO during the mortgage bubble. When asked why his bank wasn't going whole hog for the newer sorts of loan, which were growing like crazy at the time, he said, "If it grows too fast, it's a weed." That's always stuck with me.
For a lot of people buying GME, it's not about making money. It's about sticking it to hedgers that they feel didn't just expect GameStop to file bankruptcy but hoped for it.
One thing this argument misses is that much of economic growth comes not from increasing consumption, but from making that consumption more efficient.
Just reading at the next post https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-364: "but then Kovarex was playing and .."

I think simply if you dogfood your own creation then you care more about it. Unfortunately, our society is built around value created for someone else (selling on the free market, with capitalist's investment), not value created for us, for our own passion.
It looks abandonned on the outside pictures...
Yeah a point & shoot game where you can choose your own clothing with various 3D rendering goodies that works at good enough FPS is way more complex implementation wise than a factorio clone with its 2D graphics. For gameplay, it's the other way round.

There is a good xkcd for this: https://xkcd.com/1425/
Because if they did, that info would most certainly get out and negatively affect the company’s reputation.
Another game I like to recommend that is in the same vein is Big Pharma. I particularly like the aesthetics.
A young baby thats purpose is to grow is similar to cancer.

Reductionist enuf?
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Factorio was inspired by minecraft tech mods. My favorite minecraft mod is gregtech. It adds the most complexity of any mod I know of, but it’s balanced in a rewarding way. Higher tier setups need more factory to produce, but also produce squared gains (each power tier goes up by a factor of 4). The endgame is fusion for both power and alchemy. It’s great stuff, but eventually one has seen it all.

If you really want to see an offender of complexity for complexity’s sake: check out gregtech new horizons. They maintain a minecraft modpack based around needing gregtech recipes for all other mods. On paper that’s great. Hell, even I made a pack like that for personal play. They go pretty far with it though, to the point that the maintainers seem to have an expectation of grinding endlessly and never reaching the highest tiers. An outsider might dismiss it as chasing a dragon.
>it is ending up in the pockets of a few at their expense.

Everyone is aware of that. The group of people that will get rich are those who bought the stock 2 weeks ago or earlier.

Heck, when someone put their entire life savings in ornamental gourd futures WSB crapped about that person saying how stupid that was. They aren't stupid. They are fully aware of what they are doing.
Short squeezes are absolutely not illegal - They're a natural property of how the investment vehicle operates when the price of shares spikes.

The illegal part is a scheme to collude and manipulate the availability or price of the stock to intentionally cause a short squeeze. I'm not entirely sure I agree with you that posts like that are "collusion" (Cornell def here is interesting as a refresher - https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/collusion), but I can certainly concede there's plenty of shades of gray here.
Who is I.B Chairman and what here is market manipulation?
FreeBSD are not responsible for maintaining legacy platforms, it is the job of the administrators and users to keep both their hardware and software up-to-date and maintained.
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I don't know thei particular situation, but it can be many things. The executive might have a lare degree of congnitive disonnance (still fully beliving in the things they tell their employees in the moment). Alternatively they may judge that being fully open with their employees will have negative consequences. And, heck, I think many are fully transparent but some employees just turn a deaf ear to certain things in order to maintain some variety of identity.
I randomly stumbled into this compositional analysis and wanted to link it here: https://beleefdenachtwacht.nl/en/thema/compositie

Any recommended materials? Most I found were made for photography and not for free form scene creation.
It really depends on how they do it. Do they try to guilt trip you into giving donations? Or act indignant and insult their listeners when cash runs dry? I don't have experience with NPR, but my guess is no.

Edit: I think the main difference is having or not having an expectation that you will be paid later for something that was provided for free.
Seems disingenuous.

Looking at the their data (p. 13), it does not look like a linear trend. There are two obvious change points; 1450 where rates dropped around 5%, and then 1680 it dropped 5%.

Without the extreme outliers in 1905 and 1930, the trend would be constant at 5% from 1680 onwards.
If the underlings know their product is intended to be trashed, do you really think they will suffer through the late evenings and weekends of gruelling overtime to patch ugly bugs in production?

I don't.
> I think you and GP are conflating "repairability" with "upgradability".

Why do you think one has to be exclusive to the other? Easier upgradability means easier to repair.

And the rare failure of the soldered RAM makes what should have been an affordable repair a very expensive affair as they force you to buy a new motherboard!

Note that another major issue with soldered RAM / SSD / CPU / unremovable batteries is that it makes you, the consumer, more vulnerable to price gauging. For e.g. If you don't want a 4GB or 8GB RAM, you are still forced to buy the 16 GB RAM from the laptop maker and have to pay them what they want, even if it is available for far cheaper from other reputable vendors.
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> To be honest once people found out about it and the surf school started it was ruined

Yea it's not a practice that scales really well sadly.
I usually go from like 7am - 11am so it's really chill and empty.
My first reaction to any news from a large company that people question the legality of is "I'm sure they have a team of highly qualified lawyers who signed off on this plan."

But then I remembered about the RH checking account that clearly wasn't approved...
> They have to have a certain amount to cover the value of all the stocks held by their clients

Huh? I don't understand this. What do they have to hold and why?
I'm not sure to understand your point.

More devs does not mean less bugs, it does not mean faster development, in fact, it does not mean anything.

An AAA game may need 500+ games, because that's what the technological constraint requires in terms of brain matter.

If big studio could launch an AAA game with only 10 devs, they would do it.
I fail to see anybody mention this but isn’t UX entirely subjective? Also big corps have AB tested the hell out of everything leading to a UX that converts the most and hence is probably the best.

Complaining about bad UX and then not showing many examples but merely a few outliers also is a bit misleading.

To me it seems a possible way forward with UX is adaptivity. We need to make users reach their goals in the way they want it (hence subjectivity). Any static UX in the way of that is by definition bad. Good UX should adapt, evolve and morph for the user at hand. And it should do this dynamically and not compiled before hand by a few UX think lords that know how it should be done.

Just my 2 cents.
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You couldn’t buy any of the stocks with settled cash. Why keep bringing up margin and leverage and credit cards? Several other brokers did halt buying after Alpha Clearinghouse said they couldn’t fulfill them — but that block from the clearinghouse lasted a few hours on a few securities. Robinhood blocked a lot more securities for the entirety of the day.

There’s this need to paint retail investors as incapable of understanding margin and leverage to bias the conversation and make them seem in need of being rescued from themselves — but robinhood hurt a lot more than just those over-leveraged people (not that they would be justified in hurting any of them).

I had small positions in the app for the last year after starting an etrade account — none of them in memes and none of them on margin, none of them blocked by RH’s actions - and I will be joining the people exiting and closing their accounts.

If you’re looking for a casual broker that doesn’t behave unethically and incentivizes safe and informed investing for newbies, take a look at Public[1].

[1]: https://medium.com/the-public-blog/a-note-on-access-with-res...
Any recommended alternatives?
Why you shouldn't work overtime.
On a tangent, are insiders who can’t trade still allowed to lend their shares out to shorts? The idea of Elon Musk collecting borrow fees from TSLA shorts and then watching them get crushed is an amusing one.
I somewhat agree. A UI that works well for inexperienced users is better than one that isn't. But the real measure of a good UI is if it works well for inexperienced users and actively allows for them to gain experience while using the software.

A good example is how, in classic application menus, each entry would have its keyboard shortcut printed next to it. A fresh user can navigate the menu to find an action, and the same option is open to anyone how forgot about how to invoke the action, but whenever they land on the action, they can see the keyboard shortcut and eventually they'll remember it and learn to invoke the action faster without having to make an active effort.

This is good UX.

Then designers or product owners or someone decided that the shortcuts made their menus look cluttered (or maybe they really took that "treating your users as incompetent" mantra to heart and thought the shortcuts looked too technical or intimidating), thus condeming inexperienced users to stay inexperienced forever.

This is bad UX.
Spiegel Online found out that (for some reason) parts of the text are visible in the bookmarks of the PDF if it is right after a section heading. This includes the redacted text.

paywall: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-impfstoff-...
That's good. It buys us more time. But we need to ease up on the exponent anyway.
Unfortunately, Keynesians also made predictions (like fiscal spending moving rates off the zero bound, austerity hurting economic growth, etc) which did not turn out to be true, due to monetary offset. That is, Keynsians tend to over-focus on fiscal policy and ignore the monetary side, but in practice central banks end up sterilizing most if not all of what's going on the fiscal side, as far as I can tell.

The only group I have seen making predictions over the last 10+ years who seem to be successful are the people suggesting that central banks do NGDP level targeting instead of what they're doing right now.
Because the "underlings", like the product, were part of the sacrifice. At best, they'd learned they just wasted a lot of time and energy trying to build a product (which was necessary for the scam). At worst, they'd find out they were all getting laid off as unnecessary to the purchaser's interests.
That quote always bugged me because it disregards that our economic growth is not really tethered to natural resources. Sure a company like Coca-Cola can only grow so much before it effectively covers the entire planet, but they can still reduce costs to improve their profit margins and displace existing drinks from other companies with a new product.

The cloud as a business is mostly about building products that address ever changing needs and making the clients more dependent on said products. There are no environmental restrictions here you could grow for as long as user needs grow.
and, afford to risk starting their own business. Maybe something simple, maybe something that will grow.

Right now, only the wealthy can really risk things.
Wouldn't you make the company e.g. more vulnerable to a hostile takeover by running the stock price into the ground? As mentioned in many threads there was no inherent reason to think that GME would bankrupt any time soon.

I agree that GME don't really benefit by the current stock price. However the benefit from the publicity for sure. What would they lose by sitting this out? It for sure be better for their image than creating "a way out" for the traders sitting on their shorts. You say the will still pay a price.. sure but what price they will pay if GME does nothing is still open.

TLDR I am not convinced that this would be their best play. It at least would have a massive loss of image for their customers(many of which currently are invested).
By "fundamentals", you mean the government buying corporate bonds and money printer go "brrrr"? Seriously, we Japan now.
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The EU contract specifically defines EU based facilities for fullfilment of the contract and indeed the UK contract supposedly does the same.

The EU very very clearly has no legal claim to AZ vaccines produced in the UKAZ supply chain. Indeed a clause specifically precludes that.
I posted this article because I learned about this “kingdom” only recently and was embarrassed at my ignorance about such an important part of 19th century history. I’ve started reading books about it to try to understand both the role it played in shaping today’s China and what it might tell us about theocratic movements in today’s world.
Emacs also has a shell in Lisp EShell: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...
The problem isn't solved while consumption of matter and energy grows exponentially.
Yeah, AMC, BB, NOK, AAL, EXPR, any stock that had a meteoric rise yesterday was explained as "unsophisticated" retail investors getting in, when I'm very convinced it was shorts getting out.
Have you heard of this thing called "the internet"?
I have right in front of me a 20+-year-old Ivar shelving unit which is in its 4th (for some shelves maybe even 5th) location and second country. It still seems pretty stable, although the slides on the Ivar keyboard tray sticks before the tray is fully extended (not a problem, the exposed area gives full access to the keyboard).

Looking at the wood, I suspect it's spruce or pine, with visible joins in the shelving uprights, as well as in the shelves themselves.
> There is a growing body of thought that capitalism and, more specifically, continued growth, is unsustainable.

Excuse my language but... who the actual fuck thinks otherwise? This is extremely perplexing to me.

How many layers of double speak must one hide behind before you can believe that sustained growth for its own sake can be a healthy, sustainable goal?
This seems to be the standard for indie dev studios [0]. They have to work harder and smarter than the big guys because their resources are in such short supply and they can't survive having a game that flops.

[0] Just look at Edmund McMillen (The Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy), Eric Barone (Stardew valley), Cardboard Computer (Kentucky Route Zero), Scott Cawthon (Five Nights at Freddy), Extremely OK Games (TowerFall, Celeste) or The Fullbright Company (Gone Home) to mention a few.
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If the stock was <100% shorted, it would be a pump and dump. The moment it was >100% shorted, the hedged fund exposed themselves to financial risk.

No matter how much people buy, they can't buy >100% of the shares on the market unless GameStop issues new shares. The people buying are betting that when these hedge funds need to cover, they will be covering ~120% of the number of shares (the amount of shorted stock) on the market. That covers everyone that has shares right now.

So right now, its a tug of war (hence the volatility). Its a zero sum game where one side will definitely lose. You can argue that the company isn't worth anything and that buyers will get hurt, but only when <100% of the stock is shorted.

edit (below):

The loser will be the one holding 100% of the stock. At that point the stock would plummet because all the buyers have left. Meaning if the hedge fund loses, they are not just covering at a higher price (and thus continuing to drive it up even more), they will effectively be buying worthless stock.

I consider this a battle of trading strategies. The fundamental value of the company is beside the point. Hedge funds have done this to each other before, that's why there's an existing term for it - short squeeze. Its definitely covered in a textbook for first year business school students.
Is that knowingly trading on margin, or just how it works behind the scenes? If the latter, why?
If you want to be amazed on what can make it into official docs, I present to you the One Note doc page for Find and Replace [0]:

In OneNote, you can use instant search to find specific text, and then replace it with different text using a keyboard shortcut.

On a blank page, type the replacement text that you want to use. For example, if you’re trying to update a project name in your notes, type the new project name.

Select the text you just typed, and then press Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard.

Press Ctrl+E to expand the search box in the top right corner of the OneNote window.

In the search box, type the text you want to find.

At the bottom of the results list, click Pin Search Results, or press Alt+O.

In the Search Results pane on the right side of your window, click the first search result (a text link next to a white page icon) to jump to the page where OneNote has highlighted the text it has found.

On the page, double-click each highlighted occurrence of the text, and then press Ctrl+V to paste your replacement text over it.

Repeat steps 6-7 for each additional page in the search results list.

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-replace-...
One would think so, but apparently no.
IIRC the boosters were not reusable.
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They still shit the bed as a brokerage, which is premised on providing individuals the ability to buy and sell stocks.

Not being able to meet the terms of a lending agreement is likely a legitimate reason for altering the services available to their customers, but it is also a massive failure.
I have to agree with the OP, Factorio code is actually pretty complex. Lots of it comes from polish and creating the seamless player experience. It might not be as technically complex as 3D engine, but no AAA developer would care about optimizing the fluid or belt system to behave in a scalable way. It's really well thought out.

(Also, there is a saying that it takes a genius to do something in a simple way. So even if the resulting code might be simple, arriving to that point can be actually pretty complex endeavor.)
Yes they don't do it with 10 devs because the complexity is high. You don't think you need a larger team to handle complexity? Or you think the 500+ team normalized to complexity actually tell that AAA are understaffed.
"Growth" is used as a term for a particular property of every biological system https://basicbiology.net/biology-101/mrs-gren. Perhaps it would help if people in this discussion defined their terms.
> March 4th.

I believe the context here is that Sovereign Citizens and some Q people believe that this is the date that Trump assumes a new term.

March 4 was (haven’t verified this myself) the original inauguration date. So says a podcast I listened to about conspiracy theories.
Who determines the collateral required?
The universe is a Goldbergian monstrosity running on a Godlbergian mostrosity. Computer programmers didn't invent this pathology, and they might help us understand it.

Factorio is a celebration of things as they are.

"Five: From the wheels-upon-wheels-upon-wheels evolution of computer programming dig out, systematize and display every feature that illuminates the level-upon-level-upon-level structure of physics." ~ JA Wheeler in "Information, Physics, Quantum: the Search for Links"