skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet people don't run around saying that we should ban people from being able to buy stock because of that.

I honestly wonder if we should sometimes. I struggle to see how the real value created by this whole system outweighs the negatives. It’s been abstracted too far away from "investing in a company" and created too many perverse incentives. Too many people playing numbers games and gambling, under the impression that they're creating value somehow. HFT? How is that anything but absurd?

I feel like we’d be better off going back to a more simple system where actual people have actual skin in the companies they're taking ownership of.
If it is truly a manufacturer making replacement parts, then they have to have enough stock to fulfill warranty requests for the life of the warranty. Otherwise, they have to replace the entire thing.
Interesting. Please, elaborate why you think that is and how this - against the background of the paper - would bias the results.
The world doesn't revolve around Facebook.

Almost every single app on the store doesn't have a comprehensive Privacy section. And so enforcing this on behalf of users is a very positive and important step.

And yes in order to offer backups, have a cloud-based Messages service and offer features like Find My they will need to collect data.

But all of that can be switched off and Location Services for example is opt-in by default.
fair points!
Probably the author is accidentally getting 80-bit "extended double" arithmetic.
Your comment doesn't get as much respect from me, because you think every loud right wing person is being censored on twitter, which is objectively, verifiably, bullshit. You are wrong. Incorrect. Lying? I don't know if you believe what you say or not.

Calls to violence from people in power are different from market manipulation.
Don't they get their manufacturing facilities upgraded for free?
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That would be a 1A trap. Notably, the ACLU takes the position "We should not give the government the power to decide which opinions are hateful, for history has taught us that government is more apt to use this power to prosecute minorities than to protect them"

https://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-expression-aclu-position-...
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It's worth reading the entire blog post I linked - it's good and provides more context.

I only quoted a relevant subsection because I know otherwise 99% of people won't click through to read any of it.
Very good point and I've updated the README.md. I had a typo when I originally ran it and that is why I thought you had to update it manually. Thanks community for helping me.
My guess is that Robinhood's deposits with the DTCC are running dry, so they're charging more to settle any transactions to manage their own risk. Robinhood then locks down a bunch of popular stocks in addition to the volatile ones.

In a way, its a tragedy of the commons. It would be both sad and ironic if the only casualty of this black swan event were robinhood. But, they likely still have avenues open to them toward recovery.
It's many different apps now, even 3rd party ones, not only Finder.
Changed from https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/01/29/die-shots-of-the-raspbe.... Thanks!
I'm British. I do however believe we should vaccinate the most at risk groups, then be more generous with the UK production facilities for the EU's more at risk groups whilst slowing down our efforts for our own less at risk ones (which includes me). It's the humane thing to do.

That said, my sympathy for the EU (as an opponent of Brexit) has been diminished by their attempted bullying behaviour.

They initially wanted the UK in on their EU procurement. Unlike the EU members of the grouping we were to be excluded from any say in the vaccines chosen, the quantities, the pricing, the manufacturing, and the distribution. No say on anything; take what you're given. They left us with no choice but to do our own deals.

We did those deals faster and with less guarantees at that early stage, fronted virtually the whole cost of the AstraZeneca UK production, accepted liability rather than insisting (as per the EU) that the vaccine makers did, and paid much more, just to get a faster agreement (and we still had the same teething issues the EU are facing now; we weren't special in that regard). Despite all that risk, up front cost, higher prices, and accepted liability, the EU is now demanding that the instant they approve the vaccine they can dip into the supply that has cost the UK far more than most people realise we gave up in order to get that swift delivery.

The EU stumbled by not realising the urgency last year, then stumbled again by badly insulting the UK with the EU procurement "offer" terms which forced us to negotiate separately.

I have a great amount of sympathy for the EU people (I may not be in the EU any more, but I'm still European) but none of this is the doing of the UK - who are simply carrying on using the vaccines delivered - and the first 'shot' at actual vaccine nationalism has been fired not by the mad brexiteers but by the EU with their Northern Ireland border statements and not-export-control-really new 'monitoring' and 'agreement' position.

I really expected coming into this year to find myself part of a massive UK villain state facing a more reasonable EU. I didn't foresee a desparate EU attacking a UK just going about it's own business.
The typical RH customer... the one that invests spare change, purchases fractions of a share, and thinks they can get rich off a $100 investment, is not going to know these nuances.

There's good reasons the traditional brokerages have so many rules...

The facts seem to be RH saw a opportunity to prey on uninformed individuals by making investing seem "cool" and "stupid easy".

RH deliberately did not do a good job of A) Putting limits on newbies (like no margin!) so they do not get themselves into trouble and B) Explaining the more complicated concepts behind what RH was allowing literally any mirror-fogging human being to do.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/01/29/die-shots-of-the-raspbe.... Thanks!
Correct! Thank you!
> Apple trades an order of magnitude more per day than any of the stocks that were halted. Somehow the clearinghouses have no trouble with the Apple volume.

The clearinghouse had no problem with GME volumes either. They just required collateral. Had Robinhood not been able to meet its obligations yesterday and thus gone under, that collateral would help settle its trades with other brokerages.

Collateral requirements are re-calculated daily. That means there is risk between the last collateral calculation and where an asset is trading today. That risk is a function of volatility. So for a stock like Apple, the DTCC may only require 2% of the value of the trade be put up as collateral. For a stock like GameStop, it may require 100%.
Critique at Google is pretty great, but internal-only. I don't know of any commercially available tools that are even close.

This commenter says reviewable.io is closeish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19102930
Yes, what we need is anecdata that early random failures mean the world is ending, quick find a conspiracy pot boiler like Berenson.
Imo The whole gamma squeeze was based on options writers not taking into account how quickly and army of new investors can leverage this instantly available capital.
I spend my life in emacs (comments passim) but I put it to you that M-x gdb is mostly unpleasant, as is gdb --tui. Both pale in comparison to visual studio 10-15 years ago. The OP and the post which the OP is following up to both mention those debugger interfaces.
Happy to help if you want feedback. Servethehome forums are also a great resource of info and used hardware, probably the best community for your needs.
Facebook is more prevalent/ ubiquitous than iOS.

I'm not sure I'd agree it's more popular.
Security Leak in Dutch Goverment Covid system as thousands of records are stolen
Well, if we view the "spectrum" as including broad autism phenotype (BAP), and note that that the boundary between ASD and BAP can be very difficult to reliably determine, that seems to me to support the "distortion on a spectrum" viewpoint. By contrast, if BAP didn't exist, or if there was a highly reliable test to distinguish it from ASD, that would not support that viewpoint. So the reliability of distinguishing BAP from ASD does actually seem to me to be relevant to the issue.

I think the answer to "whether the condition is discrete or distortion on a spectrum" is likely to be "both". I think the most severe cases – such as non-verbal classic Kannerian autism with intellectual impairment – are likely discrete conditions (albeit not a single discrete condition, more likely several). By contrast, the lower severity cases are likely to just be the extreme end of the normal variation of traits in the general population.

I think, one of the many mistakes made by the authors of the DSM-5, was creating a single diagnosis encompassing everything from the most severe to the mildest cases, when it seems likely that rather different things are going on at those two extremes. There's a bunch of research that supports that view, see for example: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-017-3451-...
Yes. This question seems to come up constantly as if advertising is still some arcane art. Facebook and Google are incredibly good at this and have the valuations to show for it.

Highly targeted advertising can produce great results and there was a time where Facebook was basically a money-printing machine for affiliate and ecommerce because it was so good at finding and reaching the perfect customer. This has become saturated and results have dissipated somewhat but it's still very strong.
The problems posed by multiple mouse buttons are very similar to the "hidden swipe gestures" people are complaining about elsewhere in the comments for this article. There's nothing inherently wrong with either - any more than there is with e.g., English being a language with thousands of "hidden" words that people have to learn and remember instead of limiting you to only the words visible in an autotext menu - but you have to think about how people learn them, how consistently they're available, how to accommodate people not knowing them or learning them at different rates, etc.

HN commenters tend to be power users of desktop-style UI more than touch or mobile-style UI which can make it hard to see similarities between them (right click conventions really aren't much more consistent or obvious than swipe conventions)
This is one of the very, very few positive stories about how powerful the Internet can be to the masses. Keith is no different from Jim Kramer yelling on CNBC to buy some stock and watching it spike because their boomer audience raced to their landline phones and told their financial advisors to invest. It's just at a much faster pace, and old media is scared shitless of it, so they endlessly denigrate the people involved and call for daddy government to stop it.

Unfortunately I don't think it's going to end well for retail investors.
It’s widely known that Apple asks for an opt-in explicitly for user data collection.

It doesn’t require a ‘source’ to check this.

If you have a source showing that they are doing tracking without consent, that would be relevant, and would indeed favor facebook’s case.
Any broker that lets you do anything like day trading is essentially extending margin.

A true cash account has quite a few restrictions:

https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing/t...
Yes, the UK contract has an explicit clause that says doses manufactured from the UK plants can only be exported once the UK order is fulfilled. The UK government demanded this as a condition of partnering with Oxford, and vetoed Oxford partnering with Merck because they wanted a UK HQed company.

Whether AZ is breaching the contract with the EU seems to be debatable, but the EU are certainly expecting AZ to explicitly break their contract with the UK.
Despite the restricted trades GME is doing well today. It will be a bloodbath for the shorts next week.
If curious see also

4 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398469 (thanks threatofrain!)

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20370448

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18212633

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17195580

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16768706

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16264845

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558051

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14999899

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676505

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13846063

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12331458

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10902906

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9482483

related from 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19241427
A while back there was something known as the SETI Project which I could run on my machine. It would collect data from the skies.

I'm curious to know SETI project (or something else) was able to capture any data from the skies as well? The skies are monitored and maybe there is some data, somewhere, as an interesting area for us to all explore.
Show HN: TopStonks – The most popular stocks on /r/Wallstreetbets
Hi HN,

This used to be a newsletter, but now its a news site / Saas. It seems like the right time to share it again.

You can check out the commentary behind individual stocks using a url like this:

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Definitely open to feedback and critique!
None of their apps use data for tracking according to their nutrition labels.
It’s because considerably less capital is required to clear an Apple trade, because it is a much less volatile stock.
I think volatility is an issue for any broker.

Does RH wait to confirm an order until they find a counterparty or does their system just accept it and then find someone to clear it with after the fact? If it's the latter, and they find themselves in a situation of extreme volatility/zero liquidity, they could end up holding the bag.
It isn't.

Settlement is complicated business.

Complicated enough that it took the invention of Bitcoin to take it out of the bankers hands and move it to the digital realm.

And even then, it was not instantaneous (10mn) until layer two solutions appeared.

Thinking that "money can be transferred instantaneously because digital" is not a reasonable assumption.
Dev's taking a 30% slice of revenue is abject absurdity and multiple stores would force competition on this front.
My copy of C11 says

Annex F
(normative)

IEC 60559 floating-point arithmetic

F.1 Introduction
This annex specifies C language support for the IEC
60559 floating-point standard [...] previously designated
ANSI/IEEE 754-1985.
They "sell" user data in exactly the same way, just on smaller scale. They have ads in appstore, that are based on your behavior.
Not necessarily. It could be that even though they have to rewrite some of the runtime it's still the right tool for the job.
I could do it, but I would likely have to have access to Dash [1] which is actually quite useful when you're on the go. I am a proud purchaser of Dash (though not at all affiliated with them), because it comes in handy when I'm somewhere with little to no internet.

[1]: https://kapeli.com/dash
Starbucks has high volume/volatiliy from its earnings call earlier this week. GM just dropped major news (only EVs by 2035) also causing some stock buzz.
Forgive my ignorance: what's a liquidity crisis? They use client money for client equity orders so they don't need to front anything right?
I don't agree with this or want this.

I like that Apple has leverage to tell app developers to adhere to their platform rules in ways that benefit Apple's users.

If Apple was wielding this to harm users that'd be one thing, but they're not, they wield it to prevent spammy crap, to make it easy to subscribe and unsubscribe, to prevent spying and tracking, etc.

That's why I value and buy Apple products, if someone wants an open platform they can buy something else. They're not a monopoly and they don't act in a way that harms their users.
I think the point I am getting at is there is a group of people that largely descends from the British aristocracy that is extremely cliquish and has a large majority of its members in positions of power.

My neighbors wife knew Eddie Redmayne and his brother(I think both went to Eton) and although she said they were nice, they were in a totally different world and only really associated with people who also went to Eton/had large trustfunds. In England you would never see people like Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs etc who came from middle class families move to the highest strata of society and be accepted by those in that highest strata.

I am by no means bashing England, I think the country is awesome and have family that lives there, I am just not keen on the stratified nature of its society.
> In this example, you'd be sending the "correct market signal" if you sold your shares as soon as it appreciated to $20. Anything more, and you're moving the market away from its efficient price.

Is that true? Isn't anything above that price a 'reward' for being correct? And isn't that part of the signal according to a perfect information paradigm?
Because if RH were to collapse the clearing house would be left holding the bag. And clearing houses don't have that kind of money. So DTCC (the main clearing house) going under would stop pretty much all trading in the US.

So the clearing house requires 100% collateral for some stocks now instead of up to 5%. RH can't afford that and GME has been eating up 50% of RH daily trades.
(1) is pretty weak too.

Yes, they had outages where 100% of stocks were unavailable for trading, which is factually true. What makes that assertion weaker is the fact that other brokerages had the same kind of outages too, and not with less frequency of occurrence either. Which is why (1) is not really a meaningful point against RH specifically.
One of my neighborhood friends is a HFT guy and he says he makes bank off fractions of a dollar. Not all trading is equal obviously. But he said sometimes it's like 3,4,5 decimals places deep that he is watching the stock prices and trading
Sure. My question still stands with your framing.
As a new engineer, onsite is a better career option because it will create more robust bonds in your professional network. Who you know matters. Being onsite will also probably generate more what-you-know as well simply by virtue of casual interaction.

There's nothing wrong with remote in theory, but it simply does not provide equivalent networking potential to physical interaction. You can always go remote later. Good luck.
yup, so much for that media narrative blaming WSB and Robinhood for manipulating the market. Everyone expecting GME to tank but it refuse to. Shorts will keep being forced to cover at higher and higher prices.
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-01-26/covid-vaccine-what-is-th...
When browsing static/non-animated web pages, sometimes I get a feeling that the developers wanted to draw, had to make a website instead, and tried to combine those two, so users are then forced to appreciate their art. But with animated ones it's rather like making a game -- and once again the users are forced to run and complete it in order to proceed to what they were after. Good that it's optimized (although it's still a 60% CPU load and laggy here), but I'm rather curious how it may seem like a good idea in the first place.
Strange. I'm on Firefox and it works for me.
Yes, infinite credit lines are easily arranged within a one week notice for a thinly capitalized broker.

Dont you realize how big a $1B credit line is for a broker with so few assets such as Robinhood?
It was not obvious to me.

What my perception was, was that you were being loaned money against the transfer you were sending in. It was not clear at all to me that it was a generic margin account. Because, among other things, I consider margin trading to be a higher risk activity than I care to engage in; if I had known that I was signing up for a margin account, I would have not signed up at all.

That said, I've definitely been edu-ma-cated on this, and I"ll be reading brokerage ToS more carefully from now on.
I am concerned for myself here. I got 3.0xxx shares on Wed. 1/27 on Robinhood for 999 bucks. I'm pretty sure I began a transfer to Robinhood of $1,000 from my bank account BEFORE I bought them. Well, the shares were in my possession in a matter of seconds after but my $1,000 won't clear until Feb 2. I have NO idea if I bought on margin and if am subject to margin call/ holding liquidation etc. If anyone has any insight I would very much appreciate it!!!! Thanks-- An idiot
I dunno, hasn’t Apple always been the choice for people who want a walled garden? Whether it was the old Macs, iPod or iPhone, Apple’s value proposition has always been a curated experience. Given the availability of Android, I have very little sympathy for claims that Apple is doing something wrong by setting the terms of access to its user-base.
> everyone else had underlying conditions related to poor health that made them susceptible so they should have been locked down and the rest of us left to get on with things.

This seems wildly expensive and impractical. Who's going to take care of all those people? Where are you going to house them (many of them live with people without those conditions)? Do you know how many people have diabetes, just to grab the first item off your list?
> The mRNA vaccines are obviously the gold standard, they're what you want, if you're in a position to pick.

That might end up being true, but see my comment about the different “efficacy” measures and demographic differences [1]. We don’t have as clear cut a statement as that, and instead need to proceed (for now) with “all of the approved ones seem to prevent death or serious illness. Take what you can”.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25959872
Can you spin this thought out a little more? Do you think cops have gotten LESS power over the last 10 years? Do you believe their unions suddenly stopped being some of the strongest political forces?

Also, cops make about 15K more than the average job(1) and that's because they're EXTREMELY well compensated in blue-states (presumably where they are made to wash the most feet?). They also still have their qualified immunity, so it's not like it's gotten that much harder to "do the job". Violent crime has been trending down for decades(2). There has not been a massive spike in "crazed chaos in the streets" people just think there is because reasons.

Nah dude, hold cops accountable. Just like any other public servant.

1- https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/polic...
2- https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about...
Needing a subwoofer would make this technology useful for home cinemas where the deep bass can acceptably be issued from a single subwoofer. However, for music in surround-sound mixes, it would be less ideal because those music mixes often assume a full bass range is available from each of the five positions in a 5.0 setup.
In the UK bank transfers are instant.