skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hasn't this been settled already? Avalanche and hypothermia explains everything. There is no mystery

There was one report of increased radiation but that claim is dubious at best
Matt Levine gave a pretty good explanation a few days ago how short interest can be greater than 100% of float in his newsletter Money Stuff: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/the-ga...
Let's take a natural monopoly. Like electric grid. Can these companies really grow forever? At some point they should have build transmission lines to everyone that they can profitably afford to. Then they can either expand to some other field or keep paying 5-20% to their owners as dividends each year...

I don't see later option as bad one. Clearly they can provide service and invest to keep it running or even to optimize it. But growth might be impossible.
> the only way this doesnt happen is if the original market was wrong about GME to the tune of 1000%

The reason I used TSLA as an example is because this is pretty close to what happened there! The future scenarios 'priced in' to that company now are several degrees beyond ludicrous. I don't think I'm missing the point at all, which to me is: massive swaths of the entire market are super irrational right now, and have been for a while, with no end in sight.

> no one, least of all me, can predict future stock prices

This seems more true to me today than it ever has been.
After all the shit I've seen happen with stocks in the past few years (2020 especially), things I used to consider impossible I no longer do. None of this makes any sense any more. I don't really have the stomach for it, honestly, the whole thing makes me nauseous. But if I want my meager savings to do anything other than lose value, I still have to try to evaluate what's going on to weigh my choices.
I'm not too sure about this. Isn't the usual derivation of MCMC methods based on equilibrium distribution of the chain? So you either need to run the chain for a (unknowably) long time to achieve equilibrium (hence burn-in) or start from an equilibrium distribution - but if you knew that, you wouldn't be running MCMC. And sure, we can never tell the chain has achieved equilibrium, but that's better than calling any odd point 'equilibrium'.

He does mention this stream of thought but dismisses it out of hand, without an explanation.
Fiat-denominated economic growth may not be tethered to natural resources, but real economic growth is.

We may well develop technologies that allow us to generate more with less, but there are limits to this.

Yes, Coca-cola may invent a new soda, but that soda will always have some material inputs.

Cloud computing most definitely does not escape this - it relies on massive networks of physical infrastructure that require huge investments of natural resources and human capital to build.

Even the monetization of things that appear at first blush to avoid this issue such as the monetization of human attention do not do so in reality as our mental faculties themselves rely on the continued sustenance of our physical bodies.
First, stop calling any business a lifestyle business. Business is always hard no matter how much time you put into it. I run a bootstrapped SAAS bsiness that grew "only" 20% last year. I know that is not even close to what VCs want if I wanted money but that 20% growth was great for our team and we can continue to working on building a great sustainable and profitable business. However, I can assure you there is nothing "lifestyle" about it. As the founder, I grind my ass as much as the founder of a VC backed company.
It’s federal law, part of the Dodd-Frank reforms in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. I recommend this: https://twitter.com/kralctrebor/status/1354952686165225478?s...
Where I work is in the similar boat. Except we're 130 people and still private.

The company recently took a large cash infusion from a venture capital firm. The company said "yadayada you'll see small improvements how we work" - what that translates to is:

1. adding a new C level for sales
2. doubling the sales department
3. Metrics now for new customers is doubled

But... The rest of the departments - we have stagnated. It's sales sales sales.

Our department is suffering. Badly. So are others. Complaints to upper management appear to go on deaf ears, or with ridiculous responses (like: well we saw one of you on your cellphone so you're not really busy).

And when we've asked for direct support for retaining customers (using their sales language), our team was told "just make less mistakes". And unsurprisingly, customers are getting more vocal about substandard service after the sale.

I'm looking elsewhere. Have been since this VC firm acquisition/funding was announced. (VC's are poison in every case I've seen.) But things are getting worse, with no end in sight - and I want out.
The whole reason that the Jewery got a bad rap in mediaeval days is that they were the only people who could charge interest, and people find it very easy to be turned against The Other who is also making money from them.
Retail investors being blocked from buying while short sellers use ladder attacks to buy back shorts cheaper very much seems like a 'rigged market' though, no? (Even if the move to block buyers wasn't orchestrated.)

Granted, the big fish are just playing the game, but that doesn't mean it's just 'whining' to take serious issue with how it's played.
The article fails to acknowledge that there is in fact two very distinct families of metrics.

1. Taylor metrics - The ones invented by management.
2. von Braun metrics - The ones invented by the guy that put men on the Moon. These are everywhere it really matters.
Bash sequence expression didn't work? http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.h...
I don't know, maybe if you are a rocket scientist and one of one million in your speciality.

The rest of us can refuse the interview, demand an invoice or whatever, but there are others to take our place without those headaches. I understand the pain as I was a consultant and got upset at losing a day's wages on nit-picky and uncertain interviewers (especially for a contract), but there's not much to do about it.
Words are little-endian but the two halves of a long are big-endian. In consistently little-endian, a 32-bit quantity would be stored with the 1's, 256's, 65536's, and 16777216's place bytes in that order, but the PDP-11 puts them in the order 65536 16777216 1 256.
A linear search no longer beats a binary search for small arrays
> I once worked at a company where I didn't understand why they took certain decisions. In the end, it all became very clear. My mindset from "these guys have no idea" shifted towards "wow, they are smart, I didn't get this part".

How is this story is relevant to the linked article?
Do you care to explain how buying a stock constitutes "violent action against society"?
Writing Tips from the Masters
I'm somewhat curious what happens to the long standing 4P/4U servers from companies like Dell and HP. The Ryzen/EPYC has really made going past 2P/2U a more rare need.
This is a sloppy argument that mixes virtue-signaling, cherry-picks anecdotes, and doesn’t address the core topic: is growth always good?

There are many reasons a company might grow. One is that a company, flush with VC funding, effectively gives away money to buy customers and growth. I’m skeptical that there is enough VC money to buy hockey-stick growth, but if I’m incorrect, then the real issue is, “VC money is poisonous to the free-market,” and not that growth is cancerous.

The other reason for growth is that a startup is making what people want. People might want it so badly that they will put up with buggy and incomplete products — as long as those products fulfill an unmet need.

If what people want is shortsighted (gas guzzling devices?) or just wrong (short selling?), then yes, growth is cancerous. But again, the real issue is “the failure of Governmental regulation against unsafe or unethical products is cancerous.”

The problems identified with growth are not essentially about companies. A company that is growing, given proper private and public regulation, is by definition providing more value to the world.

So in some sense at least, the article is right — there are more important things than growth, if you simply add an adjective: legitimate growth.
Censorship is a description of an action, not a value judgment. Restricting someone's ability to speak is censorship.
One of the few things a democracy can not tolerate is intolerance. This type of censorship is intolerance.

Our legal system has processes* to deal with people who abuse their freedom of speech. If those processes need to be improved upon to take into account the global megaphone of social media, then let's do so. Censorship however is not the answer.

* e.g. crying fire in a movie theatre can mean you are guilty of a crime like disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace. More extreme words (see Brandenburg versus Ohio) could mean you are found guilty of advocating “crime, sabotage, or unlawful methods of terrorism” for political purposes. All of that depends on context, intent, etc...variables which should be determined in a court of law.
Recently I had a problem explaining to a recruiter why I am designing only UI, Visual language and care only for visual parts of the product. She didn't react at all when I started talking about "Dark Patterns":)
It is requirement nowadays, it is not optional. If you as a designer don't think about new ways to exploit the user base, you are not worth your salt.
I moved only to visual stuff for two reasons:
1. Designers used to think about the user, functionally and aesthetically. Nowadays designers who cannot draw a straight line move templates around and comply with the management without any form of critical thinking.
2. There is no way for me to be a "writer" and do the dishes.
Yep, nowadays designers must not only code but and write compelling stories to be hired. Utter nonsense.
Enforcement on these issues is trivial, given that the local authority actually desires to enforce the ban. Facial Recognition software is not free.

The basic steps to stop these issues are

1. (The local authority) mandates that all contracts with vendors indicate that they do not perform facial recognition services for the police
2. (The local authority's) lawyers sign off on vendor contracts ( already happens )
3. The auditors verify that no one is paying/expensing a facial recognition vendor.

Generally, working around your employers legal/audit mechanisms is grounds for termination. If the problem is data sharing with partner agencies... then the local authority needs a privacy law on criminal evidence that could be used for facial recognition.
Very much mirrors my experience, and that of several friends.
In the last 10+ years fiscal spending has been half-hearted and anemic. As Krugman wrote back in 2009:

> I see the following scenario: a weak stimulus plan, perhaps even weaker than what we’re talking about now, is crafted to win those extra GOP votes. The plan limits the rise in unemployment, but things are still pretty bad, with the rate peaking at something like 9 percent and coming down only slowly. And then Mitch McConnell says “See, government spending doesn’t work.”

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/stimulus-arithm...

Austerity does hurt economic growth:

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/austerity-and-g...

From what I've read on the topic, it's hardly ever been a good idea, especially in depressed economies:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity:_The_History_of_a_Da...

> That is, Keynsians tend to over-focus on fiscal policy and ignore the monetary side

AFAICT, Keynesians are both-and thinkers. Monetary is done first, but once you hit zero rates, then what more can you do from that angle? Printing money is only useful when you also have velocity, which has at first decreased and lately fallen off a cliff:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

At that point you have to move to fiscal. Krugman examined this in 1998 when Japan entered the quagmire before everyone else:

* https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/its-baaack-japans-sl...

> are the people suggesting that central banks do NGDP level targeting instead of what they're doing right now.

Who is writing publicly on this topic, either in weblogs, articles, or Tweets?
The NSCC sets the framework, but it is spelled out in Dodd-Frank that they have to do so by law.

There are some other items, but that's the basic idea - full details are here: https://dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/policy-and-co...

If you want to dive further i recommend this thread :

https://mobile.twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/13549526861652...
You have not shown how WSB is violent.
And some of the adds are of the “this stock will be 35 times bigger than amazon” kind. Adding to the irony
And how did WallStreetBets "drive violent action against society" exactly?
Absolutely understand that position and I know (and can prove through my HN history) that I'm pretty crass as well. However, this issue comes to facebook using the sensitive speech arguement to shut them down. How many other groups are just as bad if you do a simple word search on their database? If they effectively shut down everyone and every group for the offense of saying dick immediately, fine. I'm okay with that. But arbitrarily doing so, especially when the group is hurting their financial overlords, that's where I call bullshit and stand by using that word. They got zero flak pre this short squeeze and their attitude and speech is no different. But they're embarrassing the folks who cry for gov bail outs. Focusing on them making offensive jokes is a red herring from wall street trying to cover their ass.
Until it cascades like Lehman and AIG with USA citizens holding the bag. In two days we are 33,333 days since the crash of 1929.
Author here: This article was intended to explain some modern hardware bottlenecks (and non-bottlenecks), but unexpectedly ended up covering a bunch of Linux kernel I/O stack issues as well :-) AMA
I only knows how it works in otc derivatives and then the collateral is equal to the cost of taking an offsetting position, and is calculated inter-day. But I would guess it is something similar on the stock market.
That's a terrific trek. I've only done one small segment, Faralya to Fethiye, and enjoyed it so much I want to return to do the entire length... Some day.
Tapestry: Project Loom Primitives for Clojure
> Left claims that the “mob” has overstepped the mark and harassed him and even his family in a way that is actually illegal. If that is true, shame on them, and those involved should be prosecuted. This must be condemned without hesitation; nothing excuses that type of behavior. Online harassment of those with different opinions, particularly in pursuit of profit, is disgusting and becoming all too common, and standing up against it is important. (...)

I'm a bit lost with this article. What have an "angry mob" been doing to Andrew Left and his family in an "actually illegal way"? Seems to me this article is swaying to some type of narrative someone wants to propagate rather than aiming to be somewhat objective regarding current events.
I still feel like these stories are missing a core distinction.

If these WSB folks rallied around GME because they were true believers of a beloved brand with faith in a turn around plan, god love em. I think that’s an interesting phenomenon that upgrades retail collective trading in much the same ways mutual funds behave on behalf of loads of retail investors.

But that’s not what happened. The brand is irrelevant. It’s just math and vengeance and in the end...a lot of retail folks are going to be left holding the bag as prices drop down to earth. That cannot be a good outcome for anyone. I don’t think we want a system to function like this.
Nice post, with clear language and a very good explanation of what is happening :-)
My guess is that the name is derived from the `-O3` compiler optimization level from many compilers.
If you only add up the estimated short positions, and you assume they didn't hold any winning long positions, and you assume short positions are only held by hedge funds, and you assume the hedge funds didn't hedge with other contracts, that estimate might come close.

That's a lot of assumptions, though.

Some hedge funds are going to make bank on this.
This article claims the catalyst for GME’s meteoric rise was a change to their board altering the company’s narrative. Josh Gross claims it’s because u/DFV liked their 10-Qs. So which is it? One? Both? Neither?

https://twitter.com/endtwist/status/1354547622133051393?s=20
With respect to what metric? I am pretty sure that the VW was way bigger with regards to market cap and corrected for inflation, etc.
Viral storytelling? Hmm, there's a thought. So one challenge with designing a story to be told, is how to make it stable. Else it becomes a source of misconceptions, rather than of understanding. If the story is then passed on further, that becomes the telephone game, and stability... becomes even harder. Status quo disinclination to pass on (pervasively flawed) understanding does have benefits. So what if it were paired with a bit of traditional viral content, to provide a stable reference? How might one get the two, oral storytelling and viral content, to propagate together? Perhaps if the setup for storytelling was itself the viral content? Somehow search keyed so someone in receipt of only the oral, could recover the viral? Or if the viral had additional value, perhaps compelling video, so there was incentive to present both? Hmm. Fun morning brainstorming - thanks!
I sincerely hope this comment ages well, but I doubt it will. A scenario where a majority of the retail traders in GME right now come out ahead would be surprising.
I thought it was like the compiler flag, -O3. ”With full optimization”, basically.
seq 5 10 | while read REPLY ...

for x in `seq 5 10`; do ...
> Our legal system has processes to deal with people who abuse their freedom of speech*

We need to codify when platforms are liable or responsible and when they are not. Child pornography, calls for violence and political misinformation are currently, legally and politically, respectively, the platform’s problem.

Potential securities violations should not be. But platforms don’t know that. Creating legal safe harbours is merited.
Tips to grow your Twitter as a developer
Initiating a short squeeze isn't "financial violence". C'mon.
The irony of manipulating markets against market manipulators is delicious.
This will also punish over exposed players who are probably reviewing their short positions as this unfolds.
> We began our data collection by identifying all board games developed by teams of game designers published and ranked on BGG between 1990 and 2018.

The entire paper is based on survivorship bias.
The only thing physical about Factorio are vehicles and particle effects. That's not where the difficulty comes from. It's more about optimisation: their entity system minimises memory use (and caches misses), many things are special cased for speed…

Think about the sheer scale of a 10 rocket per minute megabase. The amount of inserters, robots, belts, factories, the pollution involved, the number of biters attacking the base constantly… The number of entities on such a base is enormous, yet they still manage to compute it all in real time at 60 ticks per seconds. That feat of engineering is just as impressive as a 3D physics engine — perhaps even a 3D rendering engine.

(Of course, a AAA game is more than just a physics/rendering engine.)
Yes, correct. However you can use turbo streams with normal http request from form submissions (which is what I'm doing).
What WSB is doing is peaceful protest. Based on your definition of violence the Montgomery bus boycott was violence.
My cousin who I have been IM'ing with from the days of AIM/ICQ/Yahoo Messenger asked me yesterday if there was a better chat app than Facebook Messenger. We're both using Signal now.

https://signal.org/download/

Disclosure: Not affiliated with Signal, but I donated $20 to them to support their mission. And since this is on a post about GME, I am a GameStop customer, but I do not own nor have I ever owned GME stocks. I am a WSB and GME supporter. I purchased $2000 in Bitcoin last night for the first time ever after the GME trading shutdowns on Robinhood and others yesterday.

EDIT: had the wrong link for Signal.
I wonder if there is a way to run this in some kind of an emulator?
this comment is a lot of non-sense
Uhm so if you’re a group of out-group “retards” you’re violent, but if you’re a well groomed lad in a suit it’s a-ok “just the invisible hand at work”?
> But aren't stock prices almost entirely about future performance? So will GME's business model work tomorrow?

Yes, and that's sort of Roaring Kitty's point in that video. He interpreted the negativity about it as being way too extreme for the financials of the company. It was basically saying the company was going to fail tomorrow, whereas his analysis said to him that it still had several reasonable years ahead of it which the share price didn't reflect.
> It's the most practical method we have right now for efficiently allocating those resources.

This is where true why is our way of life less sustainable today than it was 1000 years ago?

Nearly all first nations tribes lived in a way of live that was sustainable indefinitely. In 250 years of developing capitalism we have destroyed most of the biosphere, and trigger climate change that has the potential to undo civilization as we know it.

Capitalism and rapid hydrocarbon extraction has allowed the species to surpass the carrying capacity of the planet in away that cannot possibly be sustained.

Personally, I think this was always our destiny, but to try to delude yourself into believing that capitalism is making things better is a strange form of denial.
I'd argue that they are. They physically split and merge via the creation os subsidiaries and mergers. They shaed and absorb "dna" (people, carrying their culture).

If we ever get to an _Accelerando_-type situation where businesses are spinning-off and merging thousands of times per hour then I'll get worried.
WOW, those are some serious ad spaces...

If anyone wonders, this is what the page looks like on Firefox with uBlock Origin: https://imgur.com/bvrLMTv
Frankly, this is a good thing. Maybe when those who were so sanguine about the recent censoring by Big Tech see it without the blinders of their political bias on, and also witness to the coordinates attacks by the media to justify it, the other Big Lie will be obvious to more people.
This is nothing like the size of the bubble (US housing market) that precipitated those crashes.
>One of the few things a democracy can not tolerate is intolerance. This type of censorship is intolerance.

Not only can a Democracy tolerate intolerance, it REQUIRES intolerance to survive.

>Our legal system has processes* to deal with people who abuse their freedom of speech.

So... intolerance to certain types of speech.
Monzo refused because of FATCA. That happens with banks outside the US to “US persons” all the time. They should have told you that, but you can blame FATCA for the cause (passed during the first two years of the Obama administration.)
I imagine the $30,340 cost for each bike could be used more effectively to help these rhinos. I'm no expert though.
Prior discussion from 4 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398469

Has anything new happened to the language?
If that is possible here, there needs to be more regulation on hedge funds so they do not operate in a "heads I win, tails the US govt. bails me out" scenario.
Police Have Disrupted the Emotet Botnet
I don’t know what you drove by I drove the 2020 Audi sportback in the UK and it didn’t feel like an old man’s car.

As far for the navigation system again no issues, a 1000km from where the car was manufactured could be anywhere in Europe form rural Portugal to Bratislava that has no baring on the quality of the vehicle itself.