skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money drives everything AFAIK. So if laws existed that allowed a state to withhold budget to a county that had cops not following rules, then the county would take interest. If the counties could withhold funding from cities that had bad cops, the mayors would take interest. Or perhaps the laws could permit budget reallocation. I doubt any such laws would ever get passed, but in theory this could help keep people focused.

Another challenge is sunk cost. San Diego for example has LED street lights that are also cameras and microphones, being used for machine learning. Would they ever rip those out if they were deemed illegal? Or would they just pause the collection and wait for people to forget? [1]

[1] - https://www.govtech.com/smart-cities/Smart-Streetlight-Data-...
True (and funny) but, there's a lot of actual learning happening too. Nothing like limit testing to understand a system.
I found this to be a much better explanation and takes into account the weird ways some people seem to be sad when they should be happy vice versa.

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_the_surprising_science...
So much this. I've been rolling my eyes at the "fight the power" narrative, since I assume there are other hedge funds or shadowy figures taking the other side of the bet, and stoking the short squeeze.
The pig whipworm eggs used previously for this purpose can hatch in the human body but they cannot survive, so no foothold therapy is needed. Instead, they're just enough to attract the attention of a perhaps overly-excitable immune system.
You can get more the 100% without naked shorts, sure, but is that legal?, does SEC allow that?, nobody is concerned that if there is a short squeeze there is no chance in hell to close out? (like we are seeing here)

The point I tried to make was - this short was done to drive price down to zero (it can do that with that large of a position) in collusion with negative media reports from friends... That is manipulation. And they got caught with their pants down.

I'm also not convinced on no naked shorts, we'll see...

As for robinhoods closure of trade, they only disabled buy, not sale... as for reason, are you speculating? I did not see any clearing house comment. This was brought up by Cuomo as well in interview.

As for illegal on robinhoods part, we'll see, there will likely be an investigation. Especially since they are owned by the company that bailed Melvin Capital out.
I worked at a company that started with a passionate founder who respected his users. Then he was ousted by the investors. Then the company was acquired by a giant corporation. It all went downhill from there. At some point I couldn't take it any more and quit. I couldn't bring myself to betray my users, I felt personally responsible for what I put out. Now, it's increasingly a money-making machine. Many sane people left. There are now KPIs tied to metrics. There are now managers and hierarchies. There are managers who have no clue what they're doing. There are now a/b tests, server-side settings, dark patterns, unwanted algorithms, omnipresent analytics, and user manipulation. It's effectively a B2B company now, and your attention is the product.

Even though I quit 5 years ago, it still pains me to see what has become of something I put my soul into, something I lived for, something I enjoyed using myself and recommended to everyone.
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It isn't. Hedge fund managers have "idea dinners" with dozens of their friends all the time to discuss what plays they are thinking... they frequently also bring in guests that represent companies, or even politicians/former politicians to discuss lobbying strategies to keep this exact type of collusion and market manipulation legal for them.

But as soon as a bunch of the dreaded "retail investors" start doing it in the open, Wall Street calls on K Street to save them.
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That’s Step 9: lament posts that shatter the shared fantasy as disruptive to the forum.
I think this "is allowed" for the same reason that I can borrow a book from you, sell it on Amazon, and when you ask for your book back, buy a copy of that same book on Amazon and give it to you - but in the meantime, the person who bought your book from me can lend it to yet another person, who does the same as me.

In other words, this works simply because stocks can be sold and borrowed, and they don't carry provenance with them. To stop this, you'd have to do the equivalent of DRMing books and revoking the first sale doctrine. Which I imagine would turn shorting into a much more complex market mechanic than it is today.

(Disclaimer: the extent of my expertise on stock markets is me knowing how to spell "stonks".)
Any good texture packs people can recommend? I can't stand the outdated graphics of the vanilla version. (Yeah, I'm one of those people.)
A digital platform to monitor attacks on journalists across the continent
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Could you explain some of your thought processes and methodologies when approaching problems like this?

What is your mental model like? How much experimentation do you do verses reading kernel code? How do you know what questions to start asking?

*edit, btw I understand that a response to these questions could be an entire book, you get the question-space.
The "short" (haha) answer is that we just don't know what the funds have done during the last week. They're incentivized to mislead the public about closing their positions. But the technical reasons the gamma squeeze happened and possible short squeeze today could happen still make sense: the equity has oversubscribed short interest and a skyrocketing price.
There are tiny little converters inside.
I think the idea is that they move their business logic to the Rust code, since Rust's type system is more powerful and more sound, instead of trying to make do with MyPy
Thanks. I was not aware that PBKDF2 is no longer recommended.
Apple kicked Parler off the App Store, and a lot of people are screaming at Apple, including powerful politicians.

In any case, part of my previous comment was noting how the decade+ of the App Store has actually contributed to and encouraged the advertised-financed "attention economy". Apple wasn't just an innocent bystander that whole time; they designed the platform and the App Store.
Honestly, more power to them. I'm generally for not compelling people to do things that go against their moral compasses, and in a choice of telling their bosses "I'm not delivering this" and stealing them all and setting them on fire on a riverbank, they chose the far more civil option.
At that scale it's not much more than other species can do. I remember an article of the effects of less wolves on the eco system (yellowstone?). The whole area became a swamp. What changed since is the scale at which human societies impacted the ecosystem.
Interesting point. But I have never experienced this with other newspapers who publish the traditional articles online. And the NYT should have a higher quality than most.
Interesting.. WSB was 100% orchestrating a short squeeze. They were telling anyone who would listen and in fact using it to rationalize what they were doing..
Shorts are rarely due at all. If those who hold the shorts have enough capital then they can just hold until the market loses interest, and then cover their shorts at $2. Or better yet, even with a sky high stock price gamestop could be forced to declare bankruptcy by their creditors. If I had shorts on gamestop I'd be looking to get all the companies bonds I could so that when the bankruptcy goes to court I can say I want the company shut down and the judge listens to me. The company could be trading at $1000/share and suddenly the judge orders it to stop trading and suddenly there is zero value in any shares.

If you want to be a conspiracy theorist, the smart thing for the insiders (those who control the board) to do would be to sell all their shares at this price, then declare bankruptcy. This would be illegal of courses, but there are lots of variations on this theme that make financial sense if you can get away with it.
Honestly, just the utilization of stablecoins for interbank transfers would help with a ton. I acknowledge that it's technically possible to update the existing system to just support faster settlement, but given how long we've been waiting, I find it unlikely.

As a user, I'd love to be able to deposit and withdraw stablecoins at banks - this would enable essentially instantaneous transfers, and provide an interface that anyone (including non-banks) could interface with.
Money is the score
This is a bit old but ... https://web.archive.org/web/20060701163959/http://www.kuro5h... (2006, kuro5hin)
Another possibility is that these kinds ‘symptoms’ are second order effects which everyone exhibits to some degree, but that autism itself is not.

For example - here are some possible causes of a person exhibiting social awkwardness:

1. Slow/Deep processing of language

2. Distraction by other stimuli such as bright lights, visual noise.

3. Introversion

4. Lack of experience in the particular social setting.

5. Religious structures agains certain prevailing social behaviors.

6. A headache caused by forgetting to hydrate adequately during exercise.

7. A pressing need to empty one’s bladder.

1 & 2 are often associated with Autism, but 4 could result from 1 & 2 making social situations unrewarding. 6 & 7 could just be rare flukes or they could happen frequently due to ADHD.

The point I’m getting at is that Autism (or ADHD) can be conditions with varying degrees of severity and that can be orthogonal to the fact that the symptoms present in a spectrum across the entire population, because each ‘symptom’ has many causes and is fundamentally stochastic.
Would it make sense for these companies to make bets against their customer's trades?

My guess it that the customers are wrong most of the time.
I like Elixir, Erlang. There is Lumen, an OS initiative to bring the BEAM to the browser (WASM).

Does Pony have such ambitions (I mean, the Pony team)?

My UC is an actor system in the browser and the ability to create a DSL created using the same language used in programming the actor system.

Pony is not dynamic but statically typed? Maybe it can be overcome by substituting actors since any actor can create any other actor?

Plus I'm interested in graphics. I googled but didn't see any examples of integrating either web or desktop graphics, like Skia.
I think bullets 3 and 5 were the main point of that comment. It wasn't well-said, but it is in fact valuable to spend a moment to get familiar with the jargon a person is using, even if that jargon happens to have homonyms with a different field's jargon. That effort is what allows us to "swim out of our lanes" as you might say.
Indeed. Let's not forget, eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable as well.
While there are definitely challenges to in-wheel motors, I do wonder if we’ll see more innovation over time on in-wheel suspension systems to compensate for the unsprung weight.

Here’s a neat example for one in a bike wheel [video]: https://youtu.be/DSKDH2NNmcA

Here’s a write-up: https://www.karmanhealthcare.com/acrobat-soft-wheels-shock-a...

I’m sure putting a motor in there will be problematic due to stresses on the shock absorbers, but it does seem like sock absorbing spokes in wheels could help gain space in vehicles by moving the motors to the wheel.

Edit: just to be clear I know little about the company and tech behind that wheel i linked to, I just find it to be an interesting area, and recently came across that.
66% protection against getting moderate to severe Covid but 100% protection against death and hospitalization.

I have no idea how the FDA can hold back these vaccines in good conscience while peoples are dying by the thousands on a daily basis.
End all speculative finance.

That’s where we ended up after 1929, until the current billionaire class removed all the guard rails.

Nobody deep on SV stocks and unicorn chasing wants to admit they’re in the bubble too. Why does society owe floating a coder bros data science project?

Anything not science is a meme. That billionaires should exist is a meme. This is social philosophy, not truth. And it’s gamed.

America is a bubble in time and it’s having a real (environmental) impact on the future.

Billionaires are not experts. They’re rich and can pay the fines and schmooze. That is not expertise. It’s selling “free market” and manipulating it based on a meme that speculative finance expertise is real. All it is is social engineering of the masses to accept deflation of their economic position.
> Why did we hand the power to regulate speech over to powerful private monopolies?

I don't think we did. Social networks seized it by updating terms of use, privacy policies, and community guidelines.
I would be completely out of my depth implying I understand all the creative ways different hedge funds make money, but there's a lot more tricks in the bag than "short it" and "write options"

Just look at Citadel... how much money do you think they've made off early access to majority of retail orders for GME as RH exploded?

And how much more money will they make on an ongoing basis after this from all the new users?

The volume has been insane, someone is making money besides retail investors, and they won't be the ones left holding the bag after the musical chairs stop...
Hard data on outstanding shorts is posted semi-monthly, and even that data is probably stale a week or so. Daily regulatory reporting of short positions doesn't exist. Thus, assertions that "the squeeze has not yet occurred" should be treated with caution. It might be true, but it might also be a mirage.

There are various firms that look at market transaction data to estimate outstanding short positions. However, they rely upon various assumptions since firms don't report how may shares they purchased to cover shorts. Hence, claims that GME is 130% oversubscribed or any other assessment could be wildly off from reality.

Also note retail investors are around 15% of GME. Most shares are held by institutional investors. What's going on isn't David vs Goliath, the situation is more diffuse.
Modern pandemic response planning in the U.S. got its start in the Bush 43 administration, focused initially on the emergence of a deadlier-than-normal flu strain, which is of course a respiratory disease. The Obama administration continued this work and applied it to outbreaks of SARS, MERS, and Ebola.

The Trump administration failed to staff, fund, and prioritize that work at the same level.

There is tremendous leverage at the beginning of a pandemic, but it dissipates quickly. That’s why continuous planning and preparation are so important.

By the time the Trump administration got serious about the response, it was too late, they had lost most of that leverage. Most of the things people argue about now—lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates, etc.—happened well after that point.
In general it's good for people to be more aware of the fact that, outside of a few narrow technical domains, HN users are no less foolish, uninformed, and irrational as you those will find anywhere else on the internet.

Source: HN expert, to my continual shame.
No. Apparently other hedge funds got in line behind Melvin with even more aggressive shorts.
Absolutely. Many view this as a donation to a political cause that has tangible outcomes. The ROI is watching hedge funds implode.
I don't think anyone should be banned from saying stuff like that, but what they're essentially saying here is "it's okay when we do it". Free speech for me, but not for thee.
I am not going to go too far into this but, I was in meetings with Dick and senior executives from the other banks. The “lol sorry bro” attitude wasn’t just Dick’s way of telling the story.
Getting margin called is one thing. Being prevented from buying a stock is something completely different.
> Time and time again, experts have been shown to have consensus opinions which are wildly off from reality

No, it's just that it's not interesting when an expert is right about their domain expertise so we don't talk about it.

The issue is people getting skewed by this and then inferring that it must mean, on average, that their outsider opinion is as valid as experts, but really, it's not.
A margin call is a painful thing. Brokers have always reserved the right to sell shares to satisfy a loan. It's nothing new or unusual.

If you want to gamble with the big dogs, well, this is the price you pay.
I don't think it's quite the same. We know there are things we don't know from continuous discoveries of things we didn't know before.

From my perspective I want aliens to exist, if for no other reason than to resolve the Fermi paradox: one less unknown. Existence if true is easier to prove than non-existence if true.
The non-consensus outsiders who make progress have done the reading. They know what the consensus is, they know all the concepts and the jargon, and they disagree about something. Your post can be interpreted to mean "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge". That's anti-vax thinking and argument. That is not a way to make progress.
Isn’t that essentially what WASM is?

It’d be interesting to see the performance of QEMU if it used WASM as an intermediate representation, and then fed that into WASM engine so it could take advantage of all the browser’s optimizations.
It is completely clear that they betrayed their customers' trust.

I know some people think "but that's not illegal so they did nothing wrong". Those people are bad and should feel bad. And I think in this case enough customers are angry that robinhood will not escape the consequences of its actions.

I only said I would be unsurprised to learn they acted illegally.

I admit the "suck at lying" thing is more my opinion than fact at this point.
> Time and time again, experts have been shown to have consensus opinions which are wildly off from reality. You can almost set your watch to how often an outsider will analyse a situation from first principles and make money off the 'experts', especially in the stock market.

When? Who? Are you talking about, say, Dr. Burry and the mortgage bubble? Because he was definitely an 'expert' already.
Have any trials been done to determine the efficacy of just 1 shot for the double dose vaccines?
Non-consensus outsiders who later succeed are usually still experts in the field, not people who are completely unaware that parts of a field exist or people who joined up in the past few hours.
But the point is that, collectively, billions of wealth have so far been transferred from institutional investors to regular investors.

Perhaps, but for every dollar that gets transferred to a small handful of regular investor, I suspect at least 10, if not a 100, is probably being transferred to different institutional investors.

I just don't buy the Wall Street vs The People narrative. This is Wall Street vs Wall Street with The People picking up scraps from the battle field and hoping they don't get stepped on.
Michael Burry disagrees with you: https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/status/1355184281367138304
The people shorting - if they can hold out against a margin call - win in the long run. Gamestop isn't worth these prices, and so they can cover in 6 months when interest goes away and the price drops to $2. Even if gamestop is a long term win, it won't be worth more than $10 next year.
In Stargate, when a Goa'uld (worm) takes a host they replace the immune system. Obviously fictional, but an interesting parallel.
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I think that the results of the study in question suggest that you can distinguish a real systematic difference even from the stochastic data.
I think it's precisely because we don't know that people have such strong opinions. People get to fill in what they want to believe, then argue a point that can never really be proven wrong or right.
Not a financial expert however, Citadel is a market maker rather than just a hedge fund like Melvin.

Money is lost when a retail investor holds onto their shares not just when the stock price rises.
The narrative behind this story just shows you how legally and illegally corrupt and unfair the entire system is, and how the media and regulators happily stand behind it.
Excellent point about what is "better". Being faster, more accurate and more detailed is the "map" problem, where efficiency and interestingness intersect.

My theory is this is how animals arrive at consciousness.
This seems like a strawman. The OP isn't arguing against outsider/non-expert discussion. He's just satirizing HN's specific tendencies to spin off of a headline/article first glance into a let-me-teach-you-something fan fiction vs fan fiction argument.
If those are the only criteria, my take would be Haskell.
... what? My comment is literally saying hedge funds (like Citadel...) are profiting off this.
There is also the Lunatic VM [0] which is an actor system built with Rust targeting WASM on the server.

0: https://github.com/bkolobara/lunatic
As much as there's a backlash of "it's ok when hedge funds do it" the GME situation is still an absolutely massive distortion. The company is still worth the same $11/share it was a few months ago. Maybe $20 if you think the new leadership will improve sales. It's not better because it's little guys doing it. It's still abusive.
> a real doctor, nurse practitioner, and the CDC

Sadly, many doctors and nurses are statistically illiterate. I know, because I (try to) teach them statistics. Remember, the Surgeon General of the CDC said that, "[masks] are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus," perhaps in some misguided belief that avoiding panicked mask-buying was more important than a mask-wearing public.

[Sorry for insulting our healthcare heroes, but ... evidently y'all haven't been responsible for teaching them evidence-based medicine. It ain't easy.]
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Oh boy let's not get started on physicists this week!
I'm very curious to hear the use case for which date time parsing was the bottleneck! Also, I'm surprised that the overhead of calling across the language boundary didn't dwarf the gains from parsing...
Thanks. That partly confirms my feelings. Now with Covid here in Sweden at my company, everyone is remote. It works (equally bad and equally good) for everyone.

I think if a company is serious about a mix, there needs to be optimization around this. Like, remote Mondays and Fridays, if you want to be remote. Meetings on Tue/Thu. Something like that.
Well the original shorts claim to have already closed their position and as it went up I think people are probably jumping on that side of the bet as well. Short interest doesn't mean it's going to go up forever this thing is just moving up on ponzi energy not short math
Evidently my comment is also a good mob detector!
You might want to read the article from astronomy.com, part of it is based on this paper. ("In 2017, a pair of chemical engineers made global headlines [...]")
The retail traders and the hedge funds are both pawns in the game of the political class who can legally insider trade.
Besides seq, this also works specifically in Bash:

for ((i = 0; i < 10; i++)); do
echo $i
done
From what I can tell almost no professional investers beat the market, almost nobody wins the lottery. Why should I listen to lottery players or professional wall street gamers?
The mainstream media narrative behind this story just shows you how legally and illegally corrupt and unfair the entire system is, and how the media and regulators happily stand behind it.