skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unforeseen side effects of what was meant to be a very orderly and master-planned wind-down of one bank for the benefit of all the others — that speaks to the exact point I was making about the ridiculous notion that these are mature, all-knowing, all-wise adults.

As far as good and bad people, well... The senior $LARGE_CONSUMER_BANK Vice-President who told me how much he loved the profit he was making off the overdraft fees he thought were “an honest service” to his poorest customers, with a huge smile on his face, was definitely a lot more evil than Dick.

But look, if you’ve had direct experiences with a bunch of the CEOs and senior execs at these firms, feel free to provide a counter! If you’re basing things on journalist accounts, however, you’re going to be in for a surprise when you learn who pays their bills and takes them on trips...
What sort of hobby projects have you found it a good match for out of interest?
This is not David vs Goliath. This is Goliath vs Goliath. A reddit mob armed with Macbook Pros and iPhone 11s does not equal 'the little guy.'
I'm not a domain expert, but it would seem that whether or not something was sold naked is ultimately determined in the instant that you are obligated to deliver -- not doing so is a Failure to Deliver, which is when your problem actually starts.

The SEC has 170k recorded FTDs for GME in the second half of December 2020:
https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm

GME has been on the NYSE Threshold list for months:
https://www.nyse.com/regulation/threshold-securities

Multiple WSB users were aware of this public data and that GME had high FTD rates in significantly more favourable circumstances at least as early as October 2020:
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/j0ckgf/reg_...
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/jbvwek/fail...

There was no reason to not be ass-naked or close to it on the high end of GME call contract writing a few months ago. They've probably covered (at least partially) by now, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
Go is probably the best for this, it gives you a REPL on the homepage itself: https://golang.org/
The problem with puts is they have a time frame. I'm bearish, but I don't know when there will be a top. The market can remain irrational long enough for puts to expire worthless.
Had they built more of the,, it may have taken off. It had demonstrated the possibilities. Maybe it was ahead of its time.

The choice that other people make does not make the idea worthless or a failure.
Who said anything about a paywall? They may do some premium features like Google which gave amay Gmail and Drive and then slowly got users to start paying for them.

It's been a long time since there were three TV channels but ABC, NBC, and CBS all exist and even still broadcast their programming for anyone with an antenna. Between then and now their growth slowed, they tried different ventures, they were fused into sprawling media conglomerates, all things that are probably coming for Facebook and Twitter.
Not it hasn’t. Retails hasn’t yet sold and the market doesn’t have the demand to hold sell off at the current price. The billions paid by hedgefunds went as pure profit to the big FIs like blackrock. When all this done and financial disclosures come out. The winners will be the big financial firms who have already made their money selling stocks at this inflated price.
I bunged in $50 into GME this morning because why the hell not. If pubs ever reopen I can spend another $50 on a round of drinks with mates and legitimately say "we took on the wall street parasites". The truth doesn't matter, the end doesn't matter, the tale is the reward.
> Facial Recognition software is not free.

Open source versions will be here before long.
A simple stack of these images with a CSS offset (to give it a 3-d look) would be great.

Edit: his zoomable image is even better (https://siliconpr0n.org/map/raspberry-pi/rp2-b0/mz_mit20x/#x...)
> Nobody cares and they're not enforced until Something Bad happens,

That's not my experience. I'm not claiming that it is never true just that as far as I can tell, in the UK and Norway, it is mostly not.
There is a company, S3 Partners, that is tapped into many large WS players that has daily short data. It is not perfectly accurate but is largely so. They sell this data, of course, and publish tidbits of data about salient stocks on Twitter [0]

0: https://twitter.com/ihors3

0:
I'm just saying, if I wanted to probe every solar system in the galaxy, I'd build a craft with extreme geometry that would fly very close to stars and accelerate for a gravity assist before flying toward the next target star. So it would look exactly like what we saw.
I get it. But I also don’t have much of a tolerance any more for dealing with abuse, and it’s not possible to be open about this stuff without also making yourself vulnerable to that abuse. I wish there was a solution to that, not least because I wish I could participate more frequently and more openly, but if there is a solution beyond moderation for this purpose I haven’t figured it out yet.
"Asteroid-sized" in this case isn't all that big- 100m long is a similar size to the ISS, though it probably masses a lot more.
" If John had used Apple Maps to check the traffic, his location data would have been linked to a random identifier, which is regularly reset and not linked to John. As a result, no one but John would end up with knowledge of his location. " Well, no-one except your cell provider of course which knows precisely where you are anyway and will use and sell this data anyway.

" If John had bought the ice cream using Apple Card, his bank would not use his transaction information for marketing purposes. Had he used Apple Pay, Apple would have used on-device intelligence so that John could view his transaction history on his iPhone without Apple obtaining information about where he shopped, what he purchased, or how much he spent. " Without Apple knowing maybe but not without Mastercard/VISA knowing everything anyway?
NO! The point of multiple chains is to test for convergence. If you start four chains at four random points in probability space and they all converge to same distribution, you can be confident in the result, but many times that fails to occur. This is what the rhat diagnostic shows. If you calculate rhat with one big chain it will mislead you. This is terrible advice.
This is a poor argument. Facebook provides an HTML form and database for free and lots of people use it so it's a utility? That argument doesn't hold a lot of water.

Phone and Internet requires literal physical infrastructure that crosses public and private property, you pay for it, and they are natural monopolies because of that. Facebook is nothing by comparison.
> they’re probably the first name that pops into people heads when you say “abuse of peoples data”

> I don’t think Apple gives a shit about Facebook. Why the hell would they? There’s no profit in targeting them specifically.

I think you answered your own question. :-) Facebook is a convenient punching bag. Which is the point of an Orwellian enemy, who isn't actually an enemy except for the need of some enemy.
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most typed functional languages seem to fit: ocaml, f#, purescript, haskell
This reminds me of myself more than a decade ago, when I sent a business partner a DOC with a draft contract - and with tracking of changes activated, so the guy on the other side could see how we hesitated with the total price to be.

He was friendly enough when he explained to us what went wrong.
If it's all truthful, I don't understand why he doesn't just speak concretely. Eg, "For every $300 share of GME, based on the volatility, we were required to deposit $50/share as collateral. We expected 1,000,000 shares to be bought and don't have $50m we can post." Also, if true, shouldn't other brokerages would be able to confirm/deny this as they would be subject to the same depository requirements?
Totally understand the desire to not tip off personal details. However, it would be nice to hear what you consider to be blind spots on HN. I have found discussions here to be far more professional, courteous, and productive than most any other forum. Are there examples of better discussion forums? If so, how are they better?
Since Pony uses LLVM, it should be possible to compile to WASM. Not sure if it's on the immediate roadmap of the Pony team. But I don't think the effort is as big as Lumen.

As far as graphics go, I'd say Pony is quite early stage for such elaborate API's like Skia.
A large component of the time value of money is the rate of return that a dollar today brings in vs a dollar in the future. With super-low interest rates, the time value of money is relatively low and future income is valued relatively highly.
> A hedge fund with 12 billion dollars shorting 140% of a stock

I am fairly sure that one fund shorting 140% would have the SEC on your back (that would count as market manipulation).

A comment somewhere mentioned that Melvin had shorted 14%.

Does anyone have some facts here?
Wouldn't a diversity of social media platforms each restricted to a niche produce echo chambers?

Not making a case for Facebook, I just don't think we have a good solution to this yet.
Oh wow this thread (and his whole Twitter account) is gold. thanks for sharing.

Edit: this zoomable image is great (https://siliconpr0n.org/map/raspberry-pi/rp2-b0/mz_mit20x/#x...)
Just my two cents.

I created a Robinhood account on Wednesday evening and transferred $1000 via Plaid. My account is still not active and AFAIK that $1000 is in limbo.

The app tells me "We're reviewing your application and your deposit is pending. Application approval may be delayed. We'll notify you when you can begin trading."
We saw this with Boeing - as the private company realised that the regulatory body wasn't going to hold it accountable, the private company started trading off profit versus safety with the result being lower short term costs and more dangerous planes.
Why? My broker doesn't let me trade unsettled funds, even though I've made a sale and they're "in my account." How hard would it be to create a restriction that says you're not allowed to double-loan the obligation to return a share borrowed in a short sale?
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! I think this should be added to the PyO3 examples list :)

https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3#examples
Yes, good idea. I don't think it would be that complicated... Actually, the language already exposes a "split" method that can be used exactly for that.
I don't think politicians are making more money than the hedge fund managers. Why would you think that they have more knowledge than the hedge funds? Likely the hedge funds are managing their money. These congress people are not sitting at home in front of a Fidelity account and making trades after they hear from a lobbyist about big market news.
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I have hyperhidrosis (a fancy term for excessive sweating).

When I was a teenager (and before all answers to everything were online), I went to multiple docs and no one was aware of a particular prescription that, once I found out about it, completely "cured" the issue (Drysol).

Looking back, it was obvious the doctors just weren't aware of a valid treatment for the issue. It'd be great if a service like this helps doctors discover treatments for less than common conditions.

Side note: I recently discovered iontophoresis for the treatment of hyperhydrosis without the use of drugs at all... discovered via a Facebook ad for the machine (don't ask me how Facebook knew to target me for such a specific product). I bought it a couple months ago, and wow - it works. I've been googling the studies around it, which date back to 1950's -- not something new, but also dumbfounded as to how I wasn't aware of this treatment sooner, and why no doctor was aware of it either (or at least didn't bother mentioning it as an option).

Best of luck to you! Lots of problems to be solved in the health space.
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> The AWS goal is to pay you roughly 50% to 65% of what “the market” will pay you, based upon a variety of sources plus some work with Excel.

> In Seattle or other “non-premium markets” that means $160k.

Are there any AWS architect level people here making $320k+ in "non-premium" markets? I've never seen a job posting for a Solutions Architect - Professional offering even north of $200k, much less $300k.

Typical seems to be between $130k-$170k. And nation-wide, the 90th percentile is $200k.

It seems like $160k cash plus stock options is a very good salary, even with some assumed growth factored in.
The market price will change yes, but companies have legal fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. Purposefully selling shares below value to non-shareholders is obviously a violation of that duty.
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Can you share some examples of insider trades by the political class that ended up becoming public knowledge?
If you had really good shock absorbers you could intercept at an orthogonal trajectory and have the impact knock you into the desired trajectory... not practical but fun to think about.
Ask HN: What should I do on my Pomodoro breaks?
I'd like to not default to scrolling Twitter or watching videos on YouTube on my breaks throughout the workday.

I'm looking for recommendations for bite-sized productive things to do for the "break" periods (both the short and long) featured in the Pomodoro method. Ideally these wouldn't require "deep focus" or anything in order to accomplish them.
> You can get more the 100% without naked shorts, sure, but is that legal?, does SEC allow that?

Yes. As someone lending out a share (for someone else to short), you can't know whether the person you bought it from had borrowed it to sell it to you.

Let's say you bought a share of stock. Can you lend it to someone for them to short sell? Of course. You own the share, regardless of how many people it passed through to get to you.
Maybe not hedge funds but I estimate that the majority of what laypeople call "hedge funds" are not hedge funds. There are tons of firms that just run money for ordinary people. At my old firm they have shorted blackberry in thousands of individual margin accounts, and those accounts are losing money on paper and might have to realize losses in order to rebalance their risk.
I get the point. They way it's delivered is just so passive agressive.
You dont need multiple tabs open anymore
Would a partial or half immunized population not end up culturing a more resistant strain?
To solve this problems most African startup tech companies like Finddle Inc, has created a platform a go to place to share and discover what’s new and also where Africans can be entertained and but the same time get all the required news update from all over the world all they just have to do is login and scroll.
Finddle would soon become the next big thing in Africa for this single reason.
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The same director noted that the SI%, according to their way of calculating*, is actually at 55% (still very high). And like the poster below stated, one cannot really know the difference between a borrowed and "ordinary" stock .

Webull came out and clearly stated that their clearinghouse had issues with putting up collateral for the tickers and thus had to shut them down [0]. And while Robinhood has not come out directly and said it was due to liquidity, one can easily gather that from the statements they put out, the new funding they needed, and lastly the fact that DTCC required higher collateral for those tickers.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/gamestop-trading-restrictions-b...

* It includes all tradeable share. So in the case of the example, normal SI% states 2:1, two shorters and one original share. Their way is 2:3 which is, 2 shorters (B,D) and 3 longs (A,C,E)
The things that speaks in favor of HN moderation are several compared to other online platforms.

Actions are usually transparent and with a personal comment by the moderator.

There are no private space in HN.

Comments are focused on the text, while usernames and user identities are de-empathized.

HN moderation is handled consistently by the same persons, and there have been a open discussion with the community that seems to resulted in refocusing on tone rather than content.
>Free speech is allowed.

>Prosecuting people for free speech is impossible.

Are you suggesting that pump and dumps legal because "free speech"?

>A hedge fund with 12 billion dollars shorting 140% of a stock and then using media to drive price to 0 is illegal.

What is the relevant legislation preventing someone from shorting "too much"? Furthermore, prior to this debacle I certainly haven't heard of GME in the media aside from some passing references. Therefore I'm skeptical of your narrative that the hedge funds were somehow using the media to crash GME prices.
>If vaccines can be developed safely ... without FDA

You forgot a critical distinction: safely every time
I love it! I like how it's just pure php and purposefully built for small size I/O needs. The documentation also looks great, so I might actually give it a try. Has anyone used it?

On a side note, for small projects everyone preaches about serverless js functions and firebase, but a can't imagine how sleekdb + a micro framework like slim + modern php 8 is actually bad
Seems like you struck a nerve. I'm impressed by how many people are replying to this, quoting your points, and then talking about those points as if they were addressed directly at them.

When did HN become overrun by narcissists?
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I wouldn't call it standard for indie dev studios. It's certainly what makes a good indie dev studio stand out, and your list which is comprised of studios that make games in the top ~5% percentile of quality shows that.
> limitations were as a result of Robinhood et. al. being unable to cover the risks involved in providing instant trading capabilities for a stock as volatile as the ones that got restricted.

Yes RH had to cover more, because the clearinghouse was also starting to be stretched by the risk from the violatility. If the hedge funds go down, the clearinghouse wouldn't have been able to front their cash, and they would've gone down as well.

You're also missing the point that the clearinghouse firms didn't just ask for more money from brokers. In many cases they told brokers to step selling these securities.

There's increased risk on both sides, but the long side is at least finite (and probably there's not much margin). The short side is not. The unknown risk the clearinghouse needs to worry about is the short (hedge fund) side.
This is getting really old. You're getting free software, and the programmers are programming totally for free, benefiting you in the process.
No. WSB has broken norms that existed in the financial community which makes some strategies riskier than they used to be. Hedge funds are accustomed to taking outrageous risks knowing that the rest of the industry (much of it invested in the same funds) is willing to tolerate this as long as they don't mess things up too much. They don't, on the whole, bet against each other in the way we saw the WSB community do this week.

And, yeah, this is sorta corrupt, and has the net effect of shaving margins off the market that are never available to small investors. This part of the WSB community's rage is absolutely legitimate.

But the flip side of the deal is that this is tolerated (legally and institutionally) as long as you don't blow shit up. Reddit blew shit up. That's never going to fly. That's never going to be a financially-acceptable situation to anyone, including small investors. So, no, there will be no Arab spring. We'll re-regulate and restabilize in some way to ensure either that Reddit can't do this or that such targets don't exist.

Frankly my guess is more than a few of the early pumpers at WSB are going to jail over these shenanigans. People have been shockingly (and seemingly deliberately) misinformed about the way short selling works in an attempt to inflate this stock.
Hedge funds are not homogeneous and the majority of them had no position whatsoever in any of the meme stocks. Some were long meme stocks.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/l...

A Korean fund made a billion dollars on a 12 million dollar GmE investment and they were only the 7th largest holder of GME shares. The wsb narrative of this sticking it to Wall Street is just false.

I personally think it’s a narrative propped up intentionally by wsb insiders for their own gain. This is just a modern distributed boiler room. Retail traders always pay in those scenarios.
Depends on whether your document's field is microbiology and "population" commonly refers to lethal viruses that we want eradicated, or it is sociology and population specifically refers to humans.

Which is exactly the parent's point. Don't assume words mean the exact same thing from one field to another.
Why do clearing houses have to cover losses, isn’t it the options seller on the other side that takes it?
I actually like it better because I just type whatever I'm looking for in the search bar and it brings up the appropriate item, I don't have to go searching. In fact, for something like bluetooth settings I wouldn't even pull up the control panel, just click start and type "bluetooth" then enter (when you see it's brought up the correct item).

I remember in the old versions of windows changing environment variables was something that was a bit of a pain paint because it was hidden behind multiple "advanced" dialogs. Now it's real easy, click start type "envi" and hit enter. That actually brings up "System properties" advanced tab and you have to click "environment variables."
scheme (verb): make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong.

Discussing buying stock on a public forum is certainly not devious, and although the goal is to cause short positions to lose a bunch of money I would argue that it's neither illegal nor wrong.
I don't think GDB is too bad. Most people probably don't use watch expressions, conditional breakpoints etc.
The major tech companies are doing it. Nonsense maybe, but you're not going to win an argument with them. "At-will."
In other news: Janet Yellen Paid 800 GRAND From Hedge Fund Linked To Robinhood Scandal.
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Off label questions (questions outside the FDA approved indications of a drug) are fun for us. There are so many great ones and this is where the traditional references fall short.

We just have to be fair and balanced about how we present (which we are anyway) + be extra vigilant to include all relevant prescribing info, and especially the actual indications and any boxed warnings.

As for hiring, yes, and for anyone interested, I firmly believe interest in what we’re building is the most important thing at this point, and everything else is secondary.
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There’s no chance of catching Oumuamua. It’s leaving the solar system at 26 km/s and it has a 3 year head start.