skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Avoiding that shock is generally (though not completely) resolved by going with a "target retirement"-style fund that shifts your portfolio towards less-risky assets the closer you get to depending on them. Barring this you can also approximate it yourself by weighting further into bonds and fixed-income assets as you age. The FIRE community does something similar with the "bond tent" strategy.

That said, I'm honestly deeply confused as to what you think the alternative is It's impossible to reliably predict crashes or their extent so by selling you're generally just locking in your losses. I personally know multiple people who liquidated during the Great Recession, and... well, not only did they sell at rock bottom prices during the fire sale, but they also failed to get back in to the market during the incredible rally of the last decade.

I know multiple people who got out during the Trump administration, expecting total financial meltdown. Those people are materially worse off than if they'd simply held. I know several who panic sold when the markets took a hit at the beginning of the pandemic. Yet again, they've locked in their losses and missed out on the positive returns that have occurred since then.

So, barring access to a crystal ball, what exactly do you think is the alternative?
Your comment contains less substance than mine. You should probably delete it .
> how is the current system of higher education "justified" for the "masses" of students and not the cream toppers.

It’s a massive wasteful signaling arms race that all would be better off without. See Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education for much greater depth and a focus on the US but the same conclusion.

On another note I suggest you add capitalization to your general writing.
Can you elaborate? What are the concerns expressed by your SO?
Couldn’t you protect against that with something like com-amazon-secret-token?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
How could they have covered their shorts on Friday with such low volume?
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People forget that WhatsApp used to have a subscription that cost $1 per year. With 1 billion users that's plenty enough money to pay for their infrastructure.

Imagine if they'd kept that business model rather than being bought out by FB and sucked into their data harvesting swamp.
To really appreciate the ludicrousness of what WeWork is doing, you have to take that example even further and assume that WeWork needs to track every single working adult on the globe clocking in and out.

That's about 100k events per second.

You can handle that using TimescaleDB running on a single Azure DS4 Standard node.[1]

[1]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e/

Edit: Fixed my maths and language, and linking to hard data instead.
They're referencing the site guidelines, so this statement is demonstrably false.
It's pretty cool that this can host other distros, but is that the only advantage over NixOS? I don't know if I would enjoy crossing distro boundaries constantly just for a small handful of desired packages, and I'm not sure what other use cases this might have.

Does anybody have experience deploying Bedrock in production? What are some pros and cons?
Indeed, figures from citadel shows retail volumes at around 30%.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...
20B in volume in a single trading day and people still think this is just retail. Sheesh.
This is just circular reasoning. More shorting -> fuels retail traders buying -> leads to more shorting -> leads to more buying.

This can go on until GME becomes part of S&P 500. At this point WSB doesn't even need to do anything because pension funds, and other institutional investors etc. will end up buying GME.
Except in sports, the side bets don’t inherently sway the outcome of the match (unless the players are betting too). Financial side bets do influence real asset prices.
> the financial education to buy-and-hold through thick and thin

Buy the S&P500 through an index fund or SPY ETF. Then hold it for decades.

There you go. A two sentence financial education, and you'll do at least as well as the market, which has an upward bias over time.
> So, my layman’s understanding is that if there are 10 million shares, and you borrow 1 million of them (a 10% short position) from their owners, then sell them to new owners, both the old owners and new owners count as owning stock, and so 11 million shares “are owned”

The old owners don't strictly own stock, they own a future claim due on a certain date against you for the borrowed quantity of stock plus a claim against you for the equivalent cash value of any dividends issued against the number of shares of stock borrowed in the interim.

It's mostly equivalent to owning stock, but not exactly the same.
It wasn't about the cost effectiveness, it was about the complexity added of 20 different products names cobbled together in a chart representing a tech stack. Sorry that wasn't clear.
In 2019, 7 out of 8 national spelling bee co-champions were Indian Americans
If you must know, I now use them interchangeably because on my android keyboard the % symbol is two meta options deep, so i am now in the habit of using it first because I don't want to risk typing additional characters triggering the auto-correct.
I don't know what article you read, but this is a stupid ass "summary" of whatever you're trying to talk about.

That aside, there are practices surrounding short-selling that represent clear COI. That this basic observation about reality should represent an unsophisticated view of the market's "purpose" is begging the question even aside from being wrong.
If curious see also

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504878 (big)

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4966445 (small)
This link doesn't load for me.

Here's the original source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/reddit-forum-sparks-physical-s...

Please post the original in the future, if people need or want to use archive.is they can use it or find a comment with it.
>I’m not defending the film, it is what it is.

What exactly needs defending?
Please define substance-free so we can have an objective discussion on it.
Why tax them? If they made their money fair and square, it's their's and their inheritors to keep.

Islam already solved this over 1400 year ago. Zakat laws are fair, and not egregious like some of the crazy taxation proposals we've been seeing thrown around, with no understanding how they will actually destroy the economy. Zakat has 0% income tax, 0% gains tax, 0% inheritance tax, and only taxes certain things at a very reasonable fixed rate (e.g. money that is 1 year old is "taxed" at 2.5% which is payable to charity among other things). This encourages people to work for wealth, and sustains the economy and society as has been proven historically.

A huge underlying issue that no one is willing to talk about is how the modern economic system is built on lending (with interest), a predatory and dangerous practice that has been prohibited thousands of year ago by Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Fix the underlying problem (and anything that offshoots from it, such as stock shorting), and things will start to fall in place.
>That word is increasingly believed to be inappropriate even in depictions of the slavery and Jim Crow eras

Well, those who "increasingly believe" that are wrong.
Huh? You may not have a real positive return, but you'd still have income.
It's too late for another phone. Maybe we'll see Facebook AR goggles or some other new form factor.
Not a book, but I enjoy reading the wikipedia list of emerging technologies every now and then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
The question is will Safari support this in the future? Also can users disable these integrations? I am really not interested giving websites access to NFC or HIDs.
Great comment. This mirrors the ridiculous 'big data' fad of a few years ago, where startups would deploy Hadoop clusters to crunch through Terabytes (or even Gigabytes!!) of data ... a task that could have been done much better by a well resourced monolithic system that was easy to implement, and easy to maintain and understand and just worked.
So, great, but... WHERE. IS. IT?!?

I missed backing the original project (in, what, 2016 or so?), then there was an interminable delay before anyone could order again (until the second Kickstarter), then they shipped units to what felt like a gazillion YouTubers who gushed all over it in maybe early 2020, except that nobody else could buy it at that time, then they finally got round to running a second kickstarter for a second run (after plenty of people, including me, had screamed at them for upwards of two years to take our money and been completely ignored), then I hand over my money at the earliest opportunity (which happens to be August 2020), and despite raising £1.8M or thereabouts, 6 months later I still don't have my ZX Spectrum Next.

I don't think the ZX Spectrum Next is a scam, but I'm pretty jaded about Spectrum kickstarters because some of them have been scams, and I've well had enough of how long this is taking. I'm also pretty fed up that, at least at times, critical comments about the project have been deleted from YouTube channels supportive of it (none of my comments that have been deleted have been any more strongly worded than this one).

You have £335 of my money, gladly handed over in August 2020, so where's my computer?

I don't want to be a dick about this but it's frankly unbelievable how long this is taking, particularly since at least one revision of the device appears to have been successfully shipped last year, and you've been hawking working prototypes for at least a year or two before that.

Where is it?
Well, ram upgrades on those machines didn't just plug into slots. Various C64 upgrades were replacement RAM chips, or piggy backed on the existing chips. Same for the II line, although frequently there were RAM upgrade slots (like the IIGS for example). But beyond that most of these machines had the ram and slots in the same clock domain (aka a "local bus"). So a plugin card's ram basically ran at the same rate as the onboard ram. Of course there were often banking issues on the 8bit machines, but that happened regardless of where the ram was located as things like the 128k IIC (a machine without slots) were banked from the factory, and various mod level upgrades replaced various chips on the board, until the later revisions when apple provided a sanctions mechanism for upgrading the machine to 1M.
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Exited its bet doesn't preclude it from re-entering into a similar one a day later
They do have a GC on their roadmap, I assume to better support running languages that need a GC without having to pull their whole runtime into WASM. Isn't it fair to say WASM is somewhere in-between a CPU and a VM?
The more compelling reason to believe they didn't lie about it is because we haven't heard they went bankrupt yet. We probably would have heard that it happened by now, and they certainly would have been bankrupt if they didn't get out of GME in the $100s.
There really isn't a discussion to be had, unless you seriously want to try the claim that "shallow" and "substance-free" don't have substantial overlap.

Just accept that your comment did not live up to the guidelines set by this site, and try to learn from that.
I feel like the trouble with this line of thinking re large consumer-facing companies is that many of their loyalty relationships are in conflict with each other, so even when they're acting in the interests of preserving trust with one group, they're undermining the trust of another.

When Github restored youtube-dl, they increased user trust while undermining media industry trust. When they pulled popcorntime, they did the reverse.

In each case, they were presumably acting rationally to preserve their relationships as best as they could. But whether or not that benefits you as an individual is more or less a toss of a coin.
You’ll note that most people purchase things with credit cards and checks. Trying to buy your daily latte with a gold coin will get you some very strange looks and a manager trying to figure out what to do.
Social media and instant messaging giants of the world are incentivised to prefer the captive user over the paying user. (I prefer the term “lock-in” over “domestication” to highlight the ethically questionable nature of it.)

A piece of US legislation could address this. For example, if a business that connects people to people—such as a social network, an instant messenger, etc.—grows larger than X users, it could be required to allow fully-featured third-party clients to exist, or it can’t operate.

(This is not dissimilar from how mobile providers are required to facilitate phone number transfers, so that you can switch to another provider and not lose your number.)

If big players are required to offer a fully featured API, and the user can switch freely, they would be incentivised to stop taking their money from the advertiser and charge the user directly, becoming a commodity like electricity.

That way you could switch between messaging providers freely, while using your preferred client app. Messaging services will be competing on which one is the most reliable, ethical, has the most complete API, and so on.
Other comments have claimed that the humans in the loop are because people insist on hand calculating everything. Not for when it goes wrong, but in the first place.
Chicago has a huge part (1M+) that's effectively a Rust Belt city like Cleveland, St. Louis, or Detroit. It has deindustrialized and suffered disinvestment, and anyone in that section that has the ability to leave does.
Also, it seems like "close my position" could mean anything. Does that phrase have any specific legal meaning? For example, if I own 1 share of GME, then that is my "position". If I buy another share of GME, then I have a new position: 2 shares of GME. I "closed" my first position, and opened a new one.
But the old ways of communication haven't gone anywhere.

There are still blogs, in a better shape than ever, with Patreon or Substack to help financially support them.

There are still forums for specific topics, standalone, as subreddits, all the way to stackexchange.

Three is a ton of IMs for any taste, as decentralized as you may want.

Even the old Fidonet is born again as Mastodon, you can run your own node, or take a "point" on an existing node.

The thing is, of course, that 99% of the audience are in the swamps of Facebook, or in the gladiator arena of Twitter, or the beauty contest of Instagram.

These 99% were not online in 1993. They have little interest in blogs, forums, detailed discussions on deep topics, botherations about privacy, any technical details. They just want to talk to their relatives, share some vacation photos, listen to music, watch videos of funny cats. This is the norm. This is fine.

When the 99% moved in, the old internet did not disappear, it just was shown the scale: "nerds" (not necessarily computer nerds) vs "the rest of the population".

Deal with it.
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2021 news about the company in the 2019 story, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biodata-dna-china-collection-60...

> Early last March, the state of Washington was the site of the first major coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. As COVID rates and the need for tests were spiking, BGI Group, the world's largest biotech firm - a global giant based in China - approached the state of Washington with an enticing offer… BGI proposed to build and help run state-of-the-art COVID testing labs... the company made similar proposals to more than five other states, including New York and California…. And, after federal officials warned against partnering with BGI, each state said no to BGI's labs… It's not just China that's recognized what a valuable commodity your DNA can be. As you'll hear: some of the fastest-growing U.S. tech companies are in this space, as well. In fact, you may have already surrendered your DNA…"
All modern technologies (including the internet) came out of not-for-profit research done at Universities. Private companies are great at exploring already existing markets but really bad at creating new ones. You need long term blue sky research to discover markets that nobody with a short term profit motive would even think about.
Why wouldn't I just deploy with every commit to Vercel? Either using GitHub actions or GitLab CI/CD?
Access to information and easier communication will do that all by itself. When I started using Twitter I followed lots of people of differing political viewpoints to avoid an echo chamber. It was a hideous reminder that there are many, many people who genuinely hate me and what I believe in and that there are an incredible number of idiots with strongly held wrong opinions and no grasp of basic economics and politics. People hating each other because they have radically different views, priorities and goals is normal. The flattening of opinion that happened between the birth of radio and broadcast tv and that of cable was the result of a determined effort to control the narrative, not something natural.
They did not. They did introduce restrictions: https://www.tdameritrade.com/td-ameritrade-trading-restricti...
> Most of us are losing

If you buy and hold, hold, hold, the transaction fees become inconsequential. I've owned some stocks for 40 years. I've ridden some down to zero (Enron, cough cough).
Typing in fact is the only sound way to handle validation. Unfortunately mainstream languages aren't there yet.
Thanks for the feedback! I really like the circle of fifths too, especially since my primary instrument is accordion, which has the left-hand side arranged in the circle of fifths. Part of the concept for this app was to illustrate the way that polygons can be used to (1) place a pattern of intervals within the set of all chromatic notes and rotate it to shift modes, and (2) fit chords into scales at different positions. The Scale Editor demonstrates these concepts, and it's a bit hard for me to imagine how that polygon-rotating would work with the circle of fifths. Perhaps you just wouldn't be able to rotate anything? I'm open to ideas here!
Maybe this already exists, but it would be nice if there was a library that provided a uniform streaming interface that allowed you to use Postgres as your stream processor (as the author proposes) and then as you scale seamlessly migrate to Kafka (or another stream processor).
Exactly what we have in NZ right now. But it’s not prison (which is emotional language at best).
Quarantining is done in nice hotels, and people are treated well. Special accommodations are even made for extended family groups.
Like suggested by many people that the number of companies will not reach that scale, so starting small and simple is the most efficient. There are few things in mind that may help :

1. Define the domain segregation and be discipline on the implementation. It will not only help ease the process when the system need to be segregated into multiple service, but also help on organizing the team.

2. After segregating the domain, even if all of them live in the same database dont use `JOIN` as much as possible. Define the API for each domain and use it as the main communication.

3. As boring as it sounds, use boring technologies. Pick framework that has been used by many like Jango, Rails and Laravel. They offer not only tools and libraries but also programming pattern that will help us to implement domain segregation. The framework I mentioned have good established (way to work with if not integrated) ORM, event driven method, front end development and means to scale.

4. Usually postgreSQL is enough and can bring long way, just remember point 1 when designing the DB.

I think those points are quite straightforward and doesn't make the development more difficult, while trying to be future proof.
> Sells, on the other hand, do not have this problem. They would not push the 95% boundary more to the right.

This is misleading in the article. The margin requirements have to do with VaR or value at risk, which has to do with the historical price returns of specific stocks.

If a particular broker doesn't allow buying, in theory it shouldn't be directly related to the VaR.

Case in point. RH severely restricted buying and GME stayed at lofty levels...
CPI matches other measures of inflation like http://bpp.mit.edu pretty well. People who think inflation is high are cranks - the history of cranks goes from Austrians, to Shadowstats, and currently is on Chapwood Index.

If we had inflation at 10% the economy would be smaller now than it was in 2010. It's under 2% and we can't get it up no matter how hard we try (not that hard so far.)

> If you look back the top marginal tax rate in the US in much of the 1900s was 80-90%.

Note that the effective rate was nothing like this because there were also lots of deductions.
I can't switch from Whatsapp because my close relatives are on Whatsapp. I can't persuade them to switch because they are quite elderly and their close friends are on Whatsapp. Moreover, the video chat, and the ability to send documents directly from Whatsapp are the reasons why many working professionals keep using Whatsapp. Signal is not there yet in polish, unfortunately.

To me, it's not a Whatsapp versus Signal debate. It is about communication tools being consolidated into behemoth social media platforms. I don't think Signal is immune to that.

We probably need an Ida Tarbell for the information age.
That's why the Credits are there to help increase the viability of electric Car/Truck production! That's just not good reporting to try and spin that as a negative and Ignore the needed viability of that EV market.

The Air Pollution impact on the health of the population and a reduction in the respiratory illness/other heath impacts must be figured in as part of the equation regardless of who is helped by the credits. The Credits will indirectly help to reduce pollution especially in crowded urban areas and reduce the overall rates of sickness related to ICE Pollution! That ICE pollution also takes its toll on Building facades and statuary and even has an affect on roads and bridges so that's another reason to have the credits until the EV production can become viable on its own without the need of any credits/assistance.
Yes, absolutely. Unless there's a law against it, of course.
And chat history, if it's relevant. I think it is possible to export and browse chat history 'offline' but it's not trivial. Simply transferring my history from Android to IOS was a pain and I gave up, but I still have the backup somewhere just in case.
If stocks were synthetic assets then sure. But common stock represents an ownership share of a company, which is a collection of real physical things. Naked shorting means you’re basically allowing anti-stock, but there’s no such thing as “anti-ownership”. Stock, like hard money, should allow debit balances only.
Yep, similar situation in schools. They are using Facebook for a lot of stuff now. That, and I was doing at least three training/apprenticeship where we used Facebook so I had to have an account. It is quite unavoidable today, I dunno why people make it sound like it is.
Oh, those beautiful blinking radio buttons.
That particular source is... questionable.
The Windows UI (via Device Manager) allows you to change it, yes. The end users in this case, though, just wanted their "serial connected thing" to work, and weren't terribly technical. Also, if you remove and reinsert it (especially to a different USB port) it doesn't remember any of that.
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There were no allegations that they provided a worse price than the NBBO (ie. the price you'd get if there wasn't PFOF), just that out of all the firms offering PFOF, robinhood didn't choose the best one for their customers.