skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Facebook obviously isn’t a natural monopoly. WSB is mainly on reddit, was active on discord, and congregates elsewhere.

I don’t think Facebook should have shut down WSB but that doesn’t make them a monopoly.

As for monopoly in general, there’s Tiktok, Snapchat. Clubhouse just raised a big round.

The blue facebook app is actually anything but a monopoly, as Instagram (a facebook property) gets much more enthusiasm. There’s no “natural” monopoly for Facebook blue there.

It’s easy to pick a concept and try to apply it everywhere, but Facebook can act objectionally without being “a natural monopoly”.
As far as I know the nts-1 isn't base on a fpga.
Non-circular wheels are a terrible idea. It's fine on race cars where the steering racks are incredibly fast and you don't have to park. In the real world they are awful.

Navigating parking lots will be annoying, but it's nothing compared to parallel parking where you need to turn lock to parallel without looking. A tesla will try to park itself under ideal conditions, but there are still lots of situations where the driver needs to take over (like when there are no lines marking individual spots due to snow).

I know Elon is excited about getting rid of the driver, but until they actually have level 5 autotomy Tesla needs to retain the basic features that make it possible to be a driver. Even race-inspired steering wheels with flat sections (worst offender: Audi) are annoying around town. A steering wheel that doesn't connect will be awful.

Tesla made the same mistake removing driver-oriented features in model 3 by not having a small HUD or other gauge cluster directly in front of the driver. When the level 2 autotomy is engaged it's unnecessary, but I don't use those features in my Model 3 and I'd love to have just a couple key facts displayed without having to glance to the center screen. I'm curious if retaining the driver binnacle in Model S is an admission they made a mistake removing it too early from Model 3 or they didn't want to incur the expense of more radically altering the dash.
> If we wanted to be clever, we could create a multivariate distance measure that combines weight, height, lifespan, IQ, and lots of other ways humans and rabbits could differ, into a 0 – 1 variable where 0 is “most rabbity” and 1 is “most humanish”. Probably these scores wouldn’t overlap at all – if they did, it would mean there’s some human who’s more like a rabbit than some rabbit is, which would be pretty surprising. But even if this were true, it wouldn’t change the fundamental finding that humans and rabbits are pretty different. Or to put it some other way, there’s a fundamental hidden generator producing differences between humans and rabbits (in this case, the species difference).

The problem with this model is that it doesn't permit itself to look backwards in time too long.

If we were to also consider the organisms that have existed down to the common ancestor of rabbits and humans, it would prove quite a bit more difficult.
People have taken them before. There were tests. A relative of mine was in one. Furthermore, the media doesn't certify which vaccines are safe. There are various governmental agencies in different countries for that.
That might be true if government and big finance weren’t so intertwined. A lot of these big players are propped up by endless QE, which will eventually hit normal people in the form of inflation and taxes.
>"Coup D'etat: a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics"

>That doesn't fit the captiol protest very well. Sudden? Decisive? Exercise of force?

Tell that to Brian Sicknick's[0] family.

Or did you miss the part where five people died and dozens were injured?

Or the smashed windows to force entry into the Capitol building, with some explicitly saying they were there to overturn the results of the election.

Let's see. A mob overpowers the assembled security without warning. That's sudden. Check.

An armed group stormed the Capitol, assaulted police and other folks, and by their own claims, wished to injure, take hostage and/or kill elected officials. Exercise of force. Check.

That same group did so, again based on their own claims, to overturn legally certified election results. Political motive. Check.

So please tell me, what doesn't fit the term "coup d'etat"? Or in this case, attempted coup d'etat?

Note that just because it didn't succeed doesn't change the facts or the intent.

If I walk into a bank and demand money, I'm still a bank robber even if I don't actually get any money. The analogy is fairly exact.

[0] https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/what-we-know-about-the-5-p...
Imagine half of your userbase, especially almost every single new user onboarded this week, explicitly only wanted to trade on specific symbols, and you don't allow them to do so for 2-3 weeks (ACH settling period) at all.
>We were first on the picking tree to be cut off because we are on Facebook, not a free platform like Reddit

Members of /r/TheDonald would likely disagree with this sentiment.
AxelHealth.com whoops?
I've been watching the market for years. Pump & dumps happen. They are usually over in a few hours max. Sometimes much quicker. This has been going on for days (the majority of the week) and shows no signs of stopping. In fact tomorrow could be the most volatile day yet.

I'm not sure what is making you think all of the RH users were suckers, many of them have made quite a bit off of this. I don't personally use RH currently (although I have in the past). Ideally the bag holder in this situation would be those covering their short positions. But there is no doubt some will get burned. It's far from over though and there has been plenty of opportunity to cash out. In fact it's way up in aftermarket again this evening.
You're trying to derive meaning from comparing two bubbles.

This is a type of relativism that sounds good, until the bubbles pop.

Note that in the case of the housing bubble, Countrywide influenced legislators with low-cost loans, and Black-Scholes misled investors when scoring loans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_equation
Very right! The frustrating thing is that it doesn't have to be this way. The "tower of babel" of languages/tools/technologies used in Web/Cloud/DevOps programming is daunting and i don't feel like it is really worth my time learning any of it unless and until i actually need it for a project.
This doesn't deserve to be downvoted. Lots of rich investors are using this as an opportunity to further enrich themselves. The narrative that this is "David vs Goliath" is only partially true; in reality it's Goliath vs Goliath, except one of the Goliaths has David strapped to his chest to absorb any blows.
If you think that big tech is bad, wait till you learn about Wall Street, the military industrial complex, the two political parties, the medical industry, etc, etc, etc...
> Now add more media attention, more people finding out about WSB

And to give an idea of just how big this part has blown up: Over the past 6 days, WSB went from 2 million subscribers to 5.5 million.
Yeah I do really want the larger screen because of pdfs. My fire, and the other Kindles (non-Fire) I've used just make it a struggle to read pdfs on the device because of how small the screen size is.

Otherwise, thanks. I was already leaning towards the Onyx so this probably seals it.
Fidelity, I daytraded GME today without any issues. I also have accounts with Tastyworks and Think or Swim. Tastyworks sent email that their clearinghouse had blocked certain stocks but ToS didn't sent any email. So assuming ToS is also safe to use for high risk trading.
Is this a slightly rebranded string theory?
In the words of Zuck, his users are “dumbfucks”.

Facebook is free and supported by advertisers.

And Robin Hood is free because they sell your trade data to the hedge funds — ironic name, “Robin Hood”.

Guess who pays their bills. If their actual customers went bankrupt, how would they make any money? Think about it!

For more info see

https://intercoin.org/nothingisfree
Or just delete it and be honest: "Our VP's rowing crew buddy from Harvard who now works at Citadel asked us to shut this down and he's more important than you."
They aren't in it for the money exactly...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_o...

Further, at the moment there are still 62m outstanding short positions (with 71m yesterday). However, there was only 50m (likely revolving) trading volume today on GME.

Honestly, it looks like the redditors are going to successfully cause a squeeze.
Not a lawyer, but pump and dump schemes are illegal under existing law: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pumpanddump.asp
Even if the motivation of the 'pump' aspect is perceived to be righting a wrong, consumers left holding the bag will be harmed. The companies involved are intervening to avoid additional liability (they may already be sanctioned for not having safeguards in place). There will most certainly be civil and criminal investigation into the users involved. Although I doubt the government is equipped to investigate the sheer volume of material.
Ask HN: Why are people saying short selling is immoral?
Why are people saying that short selling is immoral? You buy a stock if you believe a stock is undervalued, you short it if you think it is overvalued. In either case, you believe in something and take a risk based on that. Short sellers help price discovery and often uncover frauds like Enron. Short sellers take more risk and lose money more often than buyers, and short selling itself is not immoral. Also- short selling is not just limited to hedge funds, any retail investors can do it too.
> I imagine they have a limited number of people on staff with deep clearing knowledge

Since you just gave us the basics in like 5 minutes, is it too much to expect that people whose job it literally is know that too? Especially the ones doing communications.
I'd honestly be surprised if "don't loan money to people that fall for a ridiculous GME pump" wasn't directly in opposition to some of Robinhood's objectives until it bit them right in the ass.
The whole story of the housing bubble is complicated, but beyond the easy money and lowered lending standards was an enormous amount of what could fairly be described as outright fraud. I mean, the mortgage applications were fraudulent, the underwriting was fraudulent, the appraisals were fraudulent, the titles were frauds, the bonds were frauds, and so on all the way up and down the line.

In the most bubbly markets a lot of construction happened on spec, and deeds were traded among speculators who didn't really have any interest in actually living in the properties.

It was nuts.
Cars are lasting longer, and how many cars can the average person own? There's also depreciation, so cars aren't 'quite' an asset, so trade-in is also limited if people want to rotate vehicles (unless one leases).

> Is there a framework we should be describing this with besides the broad “inflation” term?

If asset prices are higher than what they "should" be, then one generally calls that a bubble.
You might not get the best price when buying on broker that uses pay for order flow.
I know perfectly well what the GP meant. And I'm not american. And I've done my share of defending vile people because of principles.

> your favorite pair of steel galoshes

Get your assumptions out of here if you want this to be a discussion, please.
TL;DR mental illness is a spectrum
There is some thought that Bots are pumping NOK on WSB... who knows
New video chat apps
A dark pool is just a private securities market. They don’t have to disclose much since the general public can’t participate but they can trade all sorts of exotic instruments without a lot of the “public focused” regulations.
I think it is better to leave it out until there is a
solid implementation of it.

Saves everyone a lot of frustration.
I agree with your skepticism but it is possible, even likely, that maple and melvin were levered as part of their short strategy.

I think its far more likely that the poison would be released by funds themselves, but do not think for a second that banks will not intervene to safeguard their revolvers...
> Furthermore, the media doesn't certify which vaccines are safe.

The media plays a critical role in encouraging people to get a vaccine.
NYC professor had to write computer code just to book Covid-19 vaccine
> First they came for the fascist

They told you they were fascist and you believed them. Right now there are people calling WSB a bunch of nazis. See how it works?
Yes I trust edgy trolls on Reddit more than the entire media establishment. They are more trustworthy.
It would 10.000 -> up range for sure.
If you travel to a different place once in 1-2 weeks, you have your main location with everything optimized for comfortable work, and your travel setup which allows you to work tolerably when outside. Two 28" displays and an ergonomic keyboard vs a 14" laptop, a rack full of synths and a large keyboard vs a DAW and a tiny keyboard, a full workbench with dozen power tools vs a contractor chest, etc.

When you have to spend an equal amount of time in two workplaces, you have to invest equally in each. Either you (or your company) spend twice as much on a nice setup in two places, or, more probability, you have two half as nice setups in two places.

Also, if your workplace is routinely used by someone else half of the time, you both waste time and energy on putting things right, adjusting screens, chairs, desks, etc. You either learn to do it in a reproducibly perfect way, or make do with what you've managed today.

Some permanence has certain advantages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Ruhle
I've been using Android for over a decade now I believe. Have only reviewed a handful of apps and generally been a good citizen. I left a thoughtful one star review today and it was deleted. I'm not going to lie, it irks me.
>[Big Tech] is turning UX into an actively harmful discipline has drained talent and expertise away from projects that could, and should, have had more help. An enraging example comes from right here in New York City: our vaccine websites are impossible to use

So how is Facebook to blame for bad vaccine sites? Should they fire their user-experience teams to stop the "drain"?

Not sure I follow the logic here.
The problem was that he didn't make his own military to defend the land
If you aren't accustomed to using classes or python in general, the style of ggplot seems more natural I think. The cognitive load is also slightly less looking at ggplot code in my opinion.

But if you use python already, it wouldn't matter.
How this person made the world first
https://youtu.be/WvQz7M3ExVw
One of Robinhood’s innovations was that they gave everyone a margin account, but hid the details.

When you transfer money in, Robinhood doesn’t actually get that money until a couple days later. They allow you to buy stock immediately, but that happens (transparently) on margin. Robinhood is loaning you the money to make it happen.

Likewise, when you buy or sell a stock, the trade doesn’t settle for t+2 days. Robinhood again transparently loans you the money while waiting for the stock trade to settle.

If Robinhood exceeds the SEC-mandated limits for margin they can extend, or their creditors decide it’s too risky to continue loaning them the money, the whole show grinds to a halt. They chose to press the pause button on the primary meme stocks driving them toward this cliff. I imagine the only alternative was to hit the pause button on the entire platform until the credit issue was resolved, but it’s much harder to get additional credit when your service has ground to a halt.
Police Say They Use Facial Recognition Despite Bans
Yeah, real funny that guy, if only someone would put him in a position of ultimate power I'm sure he'd un-rig the system real quick, and definitely not spend four years with his thumb up his ass laughing with his rich buddies at the gullible rubes who appointed him.
In Elm pure functions may allocate memory. How does D handle this?
CP ruins victims lives, mis-gendering does not. Can't you see the difference??
Do you have any links to that?

I am curious what they are?
I really don't know what all the fuss is about.

Robinhood decided to halt trading on a number of stocks due to uncommon volatility, just for a day, so they can assess the matter. [0]

And as is common practice in the trading world... when a market is closed, you are still allowed to close your position.

Which means that you are allowed to sell, and not buy.

(If robinhood allowed for true shorting then people could still technically buy by closing their short positions as well.)

It's not some huge conspiracy to keep the price down for the little guy.

It's actually a fairly common practice in financial exchanges around the world.

[0] https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/an-update-on-marke...
> […] but education is hundreds of times more!

You're not wrong, but I ran into an interesting observation: yes the prices for many high-end institutions have gone up, but those are 'list' prices.

How many people pay list? How many people get bursaries and offsets from endowments?

I'd be interested in seeing those stats.
The author seems to talk about these issues as if they don’t understand what open source is. Anyone can fork the repo and continue to maintain it. I know that isn’t the ideal situation but it’s not that bad. If Apple, Microsoft, or Mozilla really cared about the vulnerability mentioned, or about adding features to a repo, just fork it! And make sure your changes can be merged upstream in case the maintainer becomes active again
Exactly. All you have to do is gather the money to fund it. It's really not that hard, you just have to build your own bank and stock market first.
Tangentially, are there any good native plotting libraries in Julia? I haven't found one.
Outsmarted the group that happened to be hosted by Facebook. Facebook will always act in Facebook's interests, the hedge funds pointing at trolls and yelling (trolls they themselves seeded?). Makes Facebook's interests align with the hedge funds and run counter to this particular group. Group is shutdown. Hedge funds outsmarted the group who had outsmarted them. It's a blip on Facebook's horizon at best other than balancing PR concerns. Will people hold it against Facebook or can you spin it as justified by "hate"? The hedge funds, their investors and political connections will hold it against Facebook should Facebook take the other side. Facebook will currently be concerned about a new approach to regulation with the dems now in power. Facing down that monopoly regulation to make it toothless will be Facebook's number 1 concern right now unless they've already got it locked up, which is more than possible.

Are we ok with this? We talk about endemic corruption like it's the most normal thing in the world. But it isn't. Reform or perish.
> it indicates that the coordination problem for small independent investors to pull off a short squeeze has been solved.

The post actually makes it very clear how far this is from being proven. Buying the stock is the easy part, but for a true short squeeze to work every current owner of the stock need to coordinate on HODLing the asset even as the price goes higher and higher, only ever converting a small fraction of their theoretical, paper gains. Even a tiny handful of defectors would crash the whole scheme. I'm very skeptical of this ever happening.
I don't choose which platforms communities and friends move to. I have limited agency in this situation and exercising that is pointless due to network effects. I'm not annoyed about dominance, I'm annoyed about monopoly abuse.
I just leave it in airplane mode
Who is “they”? Unless I’m very much mistaken, Robinhood has no institutional clients. The institutional clients as well as the more serious retail clients were unaffected.

It would be quite odd to halt trading on a stock market-wide because a small number of brokers run out of collateral.
There's not a lot of applications where bluetooth is essential. Personally, after several rounds of disappointment with bluetooth mice, the only thing I use bluetooth for is handsfree calling and sometimes music in cars. Even that sometimes doesn't work (my spouse's Nokia 7.2 couldn't connect to her car between July and December, because something in the Nokia firmware was broken; worked fine with my car though).

So, my guess is nobody who works on OpenBSD a lot cares about bluetooth on OpenBSD, because they're not using bluetooth much, and don't see any use cases for it that would help them.
> although it remains to be seen whether the "rich folk" hedge funds who shorted this week lost money. It also remains to be seen whether the "common folks" that piled on this week are going make a profit or are just going to be bagholders

My comment above makes no statement about who is going to eventually profit from this.

My comment is about how as soon as the "common folk" start to take their destiny into their own hands, the "rich folk" cry foul, to the point where Congressmen are issuing press releases, and there is talk of completely re-designing the entire system.

There is an awful lot of whining coming from one end of the wealth spectrum right now.
These securities should have been frozen so people could capitalize enough to supply the liquidity that was demanded instead of just letting institutions buy whatever they needed to cover their positions while forcing liquidations across the board.
I think it can be a challenge on both the supply and demand sides.

On the supply side the profession has ballooned and subjectively it feels like a disproportionate amount of the growth has been folks who tend towards the "aesthetic" side and/or who lack stat/psych/research/engineering experience. Not that aesthetics isn't valuable, mind you, just that the balance feels off.

On the demand side more product teams are considering UX but many of them seem to have the impression that UX is there to "make it look better". In my experience most teams are receptive to doing user research to identify and solve the underlying problems, but occasionally I'll get someone who insists that the solution is to use the latest UI fad.

Combined and I can see why UX is being perceived as more shallow.
At BigCo I've found that senior UX designers are primarily engaged in grift. The daily grind of polishing the ubiquitous rough edges in the existing UI is beneath them, so they feel like they need to go redesign the entire product every two years. The sole clients of this redesign are the execs, who want to see something shiny.

The massive redesigns aren't really amenable to A/B testing; after launching, they generally are deeply flawed and engineers spend a quarter clawing back to the usability of the original design. Eventually it becomes the new baseline, which means it's boring, which means it's time to redesign again. Repeat until you leave, collect your accolades for all the redesigns you presided over, and depart to go do the same at BigCo2.
Anecdotal reports are pointing to this being very true.

People who opt to transfer shares are going to be locked out of trading them for days, maybe weeks.

When the GME stock comes crashing down (it will), you don’t want to be locked out of selling. Despite what the memes are saying, you won’t come out on top by holding the stock forever (while everyone else sells)
This is exactly how many Trump-supporting forums were shut down.
The reserve requirements scale with both volatility and price.

The clearing house needs enough money from you to be able to go buy those shares in the open market 2 days from now if you vanish overnight tomorrow. If the stock is going up or down 2% a day, it's a lot easier to predict how much they would need than if it's going up or down 200% a day.
The Holiday Test