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The risk of it dropping to <$5 is much higher than you believe. Look how fast it went up. The stock was <$3 back in the end of March.

GME's value is 1% fundamentals, 99% hype/madness.
If the punishments are smaller than the rewards from breaking the rules, then they have no effect on stopping the behavior. They are functionally a small cost of doing business.
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I don't actually know, but I think shorts are covered by borrowing stock, which is a rule that exists to fix this problem... though the fact that it's possible to short more stock than exist suggests borrowing stock doesn't mean what it sounds like.

More generally though, the talk was about clearing problems all stock trades, not just these. I can understand how a meltdown related directly to the stocks in question could happen. I don't understand why this threatens the solvency of the whole clearing house. Even if all 140% are due at once (they're not) @ $0, someone owes someone else $25bn - $30bn.
Thanks! Kudos on the excellent comment.

So the root issue is a mix of more users, more trading and more people going long, all of which increase their capital requirements.

It makes perfect sense now why Robinhood are having issues now. I’m surprised they haven’t cancelled promotions or delayed letting people use proceeds from sales. Do you know if that’s permitted?

I was surprised when they started dicking about with what people could trade. That seemed very suspicious to me. But if they’re worried about new users piling in and all grabbing 1k of GameStop, I can see how only a small bump in users sucks up all their spare cash.
elm-review still has a confirmation prompt though, right? You don't want to instantly remove an unused value, because you might be in the middle of writing code and about to use it.
Starbucks is a corporation, it is not generic. You can't buy Dunkin at Starbucks.

It is your choice to shop at either. Just as it is your choice to use either an iPhone using iOS or a phone using Android/Google etc.

Just as it is your choice to choose a car from a particular manufacturer.
The US trial got delayed but is due to complete by March I think. It will resolve some questions raised from the UK trial. Besides this, it looks like AZ is way behind on production anyway. With UK and EU fighting over the doses, the US may take a while to get any.
Hi! From ScyllaDB here. There are a few things that help us really get the most out of hardware and network IO.

1. Async everywhere - We use AIO and io_uring to make sure that your inter-core communications are non-blocking.

2. Shard-per-core - It also helps if specific data is pinned to a specific CPU, so we partition on a per-core basis. Avoids cross-CPU traffic and, again, less blocking.

3. Schedulers - Yes, we have our own IO scheduler and CPU scheduler. We try to get every cycle out of a CPU. Java is very "slushy" and though you can tune a JVM it is never going to be as "tight" performance-wise.

4. Direct-attached NVMe > networked-attached block storage. I mean... yeah.

We're making Scylla even faster now, so you might want to check out our blogs on Project Circe:

• Introducing Project Circe: https://www.scylladb.com/2021/01/12/making-scylla-a-monstrou...

• Project Circe January Update: https://www.scylladb.com/2021/01/28/project-circe-january-up...

The latter has more on our new scheduler 2.0 design.
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Apparently retails traders were only 1/3rd of the transactions, and the stock went up on the aftermarket on thursday, so I don't think retail traders are driving this price _anymore_.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...
>>> "massively multiplayer liquidity.”

Interestingly we might have another name for it - democracy went through similar growing pains as the people took power from the grown ups in the room.

Worked out mostly ok :-)
Absolutely. My best paying clients are both the most reasonable and flexible. These are generally well established businesses or big cultural organisations (fintech and museums mostly), and the people I work with are professionals.

My most difficult clients are always smaller design studios and artists who invariably have small budgets and tight deadlines, obviously don't bother to read contracts and are often late with payment.

It basically boils down to how much the customer values your work. In this case I think the bureaucrats egos have got the better of them.
Yes.

Amazon dominates a market and is making outrageous revenue and income. Tesla doesn't compare.
> It's completely inacceptable that a single company holds the sole power to access such a widespread platform.

Why? What about Apple's practice is unacceptable?

What is the difference between Apple's behavior and how Nintendo or Sony run their platforms?

Personally, I do not want another store outside of Apple's because I value the review process. Compare Apple's app store to the Microsoft Windows Store. The relative quality of apps on Apple's store is significantly higher than on Windows Store.
Volatility is driving all options up, puts or calls. I have a deep in the money put (not as deep as those, it's at $25) that is up over 100% since last week. Too bad I didn't buy a call, too. I figured it was going to come back down quickly. Maybe in March.
>Really helps discredit this notion of retail vs hedge fund. Most people who frequently make “DD” posts to r/wsb have ties to the financial industry and Wall Street.

Do you have a shred of evidence to back this up?
Honestly? It's great. As much as living in a tech center has its advantages, I like that once I leave my house the concept of a programmer is foreign to people. I don't have to think about it at all if I don't want to, and it's liberating.

I'm also making a significant amount of money due to exchange rates and the fact that my cost of living is so incredibly cheap compared to tech hubs.
That's not you evaluate giving up a person's privacy. Otherwise your argument is akin to saying we should force X millionaire to give up all his money to y group of people because of the net benefit.
Why is adding an incentive mechanism to "pinning" files on IPFS inherently wrong? If you find the right incentives to a tech problem, that pushes the tech forward right? Like Satoshi Nakomoto putting together the right type of incentive to be able to create an almost unhackable network in Bitcoin (along with Ethereum and others).

I'm not yet saying that Protocol Labs will ultimately find the success they're looking for BUT writing off their efforts as "just a way to make money off of cryptocurrency" I feel is pretty dismissive.
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Because the short ratio is still over 100%. With the clearing house catching up on the settling trades over the weekend, the counterparty risk goes down, allowing the trading platforms to lift the trade restriction, and allowing hordes of WSB to continue to bid up GME. Other moneys will smell blood and join in as they have seen how well GME held up today despite the restricted trades.
I was hoping for a home made robot that cooks at home...are we still that far from it?
> For every winner in the options game there are probably 99 losers. It's call survivorship bias.

Sure, if people are taking aggressive positions. I'm not sure his initial YOLO was that insane, it had a fair chance of being OK. (In this unique case, the massive naked short position turned out to be the insane play.)

But it's approximately a zero-sum game, so it's not irrational in general to be betting on options.
Why do you need the platform to be locked down to achieve this?

You can choose to only download apps from the Apple app store that follow those rules. You will in no way be effected whatsoever by the platform being open. For you, nothing will change.

Why do you feel everyone else in the world must live with in your limits and not limits they choose for themselves?
Misparsed it as something with structure like this, "I'm just trying to imagine a city the size of [Chicago, Illinois] devoted to agriculture[,] and the rest of the planet devoted to nature." I did the same thing and had to read it twice.
The "legitimate forces of supply and demand" seems to be the critical part there. GME stock didn't go up because /u/DeepFuckingValue bought so much of it, it went up because everyone else did. In August 2019 GME had a market cap of $300 million so there was no way /u/DeepFuckingValue buying some hundreds of thousands worth had any real effect on its own.
It is an excellent comment. I learnt a lot!

T+2 must prolong the agony. So new users turn up (which costs capital for their promos), deposit money (which drones clear yet), buy something (using more capital), sell it and buy something else because why not lock in those gains (using more capital) and so on.

What do brokers do in these cases? It seems like they should have a lender who guarantees capital in the even of volume spikes. It seems like a missed opportunity, I’d lend them cash for a few percent a week :)
Insufficient abstraction-- failing to hide the loan ahead of settlement-- was previously blamed for one of their users committing suicide...
Instead look at the literal millions of people who have fallen down the Q-Anon hellhole because of Facebook. And those that have been radicalized by YouTubes algorithms. The rampant disinformation that oozes from both platforms. Both firms should be charged with crimes against Humanity alongside Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News.
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This is my current understanding:

It doesn't affect the clearing houses, it affects the brokers.

The clearing houses told the brokers (WeBull, Robinhood) that they need $x of capital to secure the trades, and they simply didn't have that cash.

This is only occurring because of the overall volatility and volume of trades going through particular brokers. Some brokers have been unaffected, presumably because they have more cash on hand.
As a derivative trader and some one who is constantly looking for mispriced assets from the upside (ie short), my number one concern when we have market turmoils is always broker liquidity. This is also why hedge funds have prime accounts directly with bulge brackets. My recommendation is to always have at least two accounts plus Fidelity. FIDO, while expensive, invested a ton of money into their platform/technology. I rarely see them go down. Plus they basically own everything including cryptos. Key is to have multiple accounts and know how to wire money without even looking up the information so that you’re up and running in minutes not hours or days.
> "fundamentals"

You're right to call this out. It means absolutely nothing.

These massive hedge funds (etc.) throw around billions of dollars on a whim and suddenly they're worried about "fundamentals"? C'mon.
They are. That’s what collateral, broker risk management, and (if the broker fails) DTCC is for, to derisk counterparty failure risk.

Someone is paying up.
It's about the same as JavaScript:

> time ruby hello.rb
Hello, world!
ruby hello.rb 0.11s user 0.13s system 81% cpu 0.297 total
> time node hello.js
Hello, world!
node hello.js 0.10s user 0.16s system 84% cpu 0.307 total
Somewhat related. I wrote a very very simple tool called JSONlite (https://github.com/nodesocket/jsonlite) which is pure bash and stores JSON in flat files. It does not support nested querying, or querying really of any sort besides the primary id. So, it technically is more of a K/V.
> it's crushing a few hedge funds that happened to hold short positions in a few stocks

You haven't noticed that the big three indexes are DOWN ~2% today? They were down 2% when this first took off. [If you want to split hairs...go for it but...the correlation is very strong, news cycles are soaking it up and the White House talks about monitoring the situation. This is not a light matter]

This is bigger than just a few firms. The added limitations to buying various stocks. The heavy-handed nature is making it clear, let alone the media frenzy.

WSB broke their models which in turn is crippling the 'economy'. If you don't think so, please, advocate for the free citizens to buy as much as they want because the hype isn't subsiding, it's only growing.
I have been doing remote work for years. I lived in Atlanta and Seattle. Both with enough a tech hub that meeting other techs were easy.

When I lived in Sedona, AZ, there were practically no meetups, or tech to speak of. Of course, I moved there because I liked the hiking and the New Age hippie folks, and enjoyed their company. However, the natural networking I got just hanging out in Atlanta or Seattle disappeared.

I moved fo Phoenix because of family issues. I missed northern AZ, and not only that, the tech scene in Phoenix sucks. For example, no one in town really wants to hire senior Rubyists, or pay them at that rate. As I told recruiters in the Phoenix market, I think all the really good people got remote jobs with companies outside of Phoenix.

I think the rest of the mainstream tech community is catching up. At some point, people will start to realize that you can move to where your lifestyle fits.

For example, if you love the mountains, or like the idea of hobby farms, you can move out into the sticks. Once Starlink becomes generally available, it will be even easier to do so.

Other people live in mobile tiny houses.

People raising kids will find that moving back to your hometown with a lot of extended family to act as a safety net will help a lot. Pr to select the school district for your kids.

For some people, it may even mean becoming more involved in the local community. You act as a kind of economic importer, and your support can make a huge difference.

I know a lot of people got introduced to remote working during a lockdown. If you ever get a chance to continue remote work after lockdowns are lifted, you’ll find that remote-first does not have to mean work from home. It can mean working from a coffeeshop, or patronizing local establishments. It can mean joining a coworking facility. It can mean enjoying your work outside on the patio when the weather is nice (or, if you are like me, coding in the porch while it is raining or snowing is a great experience).
The trend is not going in the right direction despite the expired patents: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-kills-off-its-TrackPoint-...

Add to that the braindead half-size arrow key design of most models (often paired with a loss of Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keys, thanks a ton Apple) and already there's a comfortable gap between ThinkPads and most other laptops. HP seems to be an exception here, and you'll have to go larger than the 12"/13" range to even find any options there.
It’s the internet...
You must only have privileged friends and family. None of my family has an iPhone. They are all android. So they can't run iMessage. It seems improbable that 100% of your family and friends are all iPhone. Or maybe you just decided if they didn't get an iPhone they weren't worth connecting with?
If we could (globally) build emergency public hospitals, why can't we build emergency public production facilities?
In a language like Java where you mostly spend time in the VM and only occasionally jump into native code, that might be true. But in python a huge part of the runtime is this kind of native call. So I would not expect that this approach adds any new overhead.
There's no directionality below around 200Hz, because the wavelength is around 1.7m, which is slightly wider than the space between the average pair of ears. (Unless you're a whale.)

It doesn't matter if you mix in n.0 for any value of n>1 - all you get from multiple subwoofers is phase cancellation at room nodes, not location information.
It's got nothing to do with Robinhood. If a hedge decides to cover the short so they don't have to admit defeat and go bankrupt, then the entire market goes down because they'll end up selling thousands of unrelated shares for their cover.
It's not dismissive. They already got their money. $257 million, to be exact. No one knows how Filecoin is going to make money except for Protocol Labs.
Honest questions: Wouldn't BGG ratings be a good proxy for measuring novelty? Apart from the fact that the rating system can be gamed, it does appear to have validity from the community's perspective.
A very in-depth article which sheds light on the dense interconnected web of funding and orgs trying to shape public narratives.

The article leaves me immensely skeptical about impact, any impact, but gives the impression of a grift - the mark being the billionaires and the con-women/men being the twenty somethings who have convinced these billionaires to pay them six figures a year to shape narrative.

The billionaires choice on how to spend their hard earned dollars but leaves society with an entitled class who have no real economic skills than pleasing funders and wanting to tell the rest of how how to think, act and vote.
Indium is a bit more expensive than silver at the moment, the other two are much cheaper.

So yes, synthesis, quality control, probable patent encumbrance, and high demand, more than raw ingredient price: but it'll never be particularly cheap.
For the X250, I can confirm that it handles the 16GB. Investigated it once, haven't bothered actually upgrading, though.
It's just a joke based on the structure of your sentence. Should have included a /s or something I guess.
Could be anyone. What matters is whether they're covered calls or not. I don't know if that info is available. If it's a covered call the seller of the option has the shares, so they essentially sell them to whoever bought the option and decided to exercise the option. If they're not covered, then they have to go out and buy them.
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CNBC is running ads that claim Melvin Capital closed its short position ($GME)
Yes, exactly. When a hedge fund is getting its face ripped off because its shorts are up 50 - 200%, it will liquidate its longs to cover. The rotational dynamics of many funds doing that at once can drive the price down on traditionally stable stocks that everyone owns. In a worst case scenario that could trigger a massive selloff which would crash the market.

This is compounded by the fact that funds will defensively sell off (or sell short) stable stocks owned by other funds that look like they're about to blow up. If a fund seems like it's circling the drain and it owns 5% of a ticker, other firms are not going to wait for it to implode and move the price down before they liquidate their own positions in that stock.

This market is terrifying.
Google = Privacy invasion

No surprise, just more of what they always do --- mind your business.

Posted using a de-Googled Moto G4 Play running e/OS.
Very timely announcement by MSFT, considering the buzz around stocks the last few days.
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You sound like someone educated about aviation - Average Joe is not.

To Average Joe, "Autopilot" means it flies/drives itself.
You ask an interesting question.

The ultimate goal with a SaaS is to "land and expand" where you can hook somebody at a cheap point, withhold some valuable features or add hard limits somewhere, and just wait for customers to self-select: the people that use your thing more hit upgrade walls faster and upgrade further and pay you more over time.

Whether or not the ideal inital price is $49 or not, that takes time to determine, but one thing about not offering anything to the lower-end is that you only invite better competition. At $49, you don't give much room for somebody to compete with you on price and still run a profitable business. At $99, attack of the clones. Frankly, after being on HN twice in a week, I am expecting the clone Banner<Noun>s any day now.
If you live in a tech hub, you’ll get a lot more out of attending and presenting at the technical meetups. I had more networking opportunities there than I did going to the office.

One of the few times I worked onsite was at a place where ... many of the people on the engineering team already knew me. The company had rapidly hired many Rubyists, and they all had known me from the Atlanta Ruby User Group.
The Sims (the original version) started with around 4 developers during its first 6 or so years, and it took quite a long time to develop. And yes, the team was quite tight and focused, with excellent "high" quality communication (in that we smoked lots of weed together). More developers and artists and designers came in towards the end, after EA bought Maxis, but the original version had a much smaller team than any of the subsequent version.

It pains me to recall how crude and primitive it was even a year and a half before the release (check out the awful flamingo and telephone and fish tank graphics, not to mention the characters and animations themselves, like pot-bellied Archie Bunker always holding a cigar in his hand, and the naughty scenario description text @ 40:44) -- a whole lot of content and user interface and tuning was done at the very last moment:

The Sims Steering Committee - June 4 1998. A demo of an early pre-release version of The Sims for The Sims Steering Committee at EA, developed June 4 1998.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC52jE60KjY&ab_channel=DonHo...

Chris Trottier, one of the designers, calls it "Tuned Emergence" and "Design by Accretion":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20772916

Here's an interview with Chris Trottier, one of the designers of The Sims, in which she describes "Tuned Emergence and Design by Accretion".

Sims Designer Chris Trottier on Tuned Emergence and Design by Accretion

https://web.archive.org/web/20110408034710/https://www.donho...

>Chris' honest analysis of how and why "the gameplay didn't come together until the months before the ship" is right on the mark, and that's the secret to the success of games like The Sims and SimCity.

>The essential element that was missing until the last minute was tuning: The approach to game design that Maxis brought to the table is called "Tuned Emergence" and "Design by Accretion". Before it was tuned, The Sims wasn't missing any structure or content, but it just wasn't balanced yet. But it's OK, because that's how it's supposed to work!

>In justifying their approach to The Sims, Maxis had to explain to EA that SimCity 2000 was not fun until 6 weeks before it shipped. But EA was not comfortable with that approach, which went against every rule in their play book. It required Will Wright's tremendous stamina to convince EA not to cancel The Sims, because according to EA's formula, it would never work.

>If a game isn't tuned, it's a drag, and you can't stand to play it for an hour. The Sims and SimCity were "designed by accretion": incrementally assembled together out of "a mass of separate components", like a planet forming out of a cloud of dust orbiting around star. They had to reach critical mass first, before they could even start down the road towards "Tuned Emergence", like life finally taking hold on the planet surface. Even then, they weren't fun until they were carefully tuned just before they shipped, like the renaissance of civilization suddenly developing science and technology. Before it was properly tuned, The Sims was called "the toilet game", for the obvious reason that there wasn't much else to do!
Unironically, this feels more and more like QAnon. It doesn't matter that the bloodbath didn't happen when Q said it would, because what Q actually meant was 3 weeks from now, except in this case Q is Martin Shkreli or any of the other hundreds of hedge fund managers hanging out on WSB, stirring the pot while laughing all the way to the bank.