skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot think of any reason why a material's absorption/emission through the visible spectrum would determine its absorption/emission through the infra-red spectrum.
What else can they do?

They were told by their clearing house they aren't allowed to continue allowing $GME trades due to capital requirements, and they have to let customers unwind their positions at any time.
Even if the options are super-expensive in terms of IV, if something goes up 200% in a week, you will make a very nice return.
Its an openly racist style guide which is why some people are surprised.
I agree and no longer read his articles, and I don't think he provides any value. He often uses statements like this to attack targets, he did the same thing with the last article that came across my news feed for Roger Penrose.

>>Hundreds of scientists have pointed this out to Penrose — repeatedly and consistently over a period of more than 10 years — who continues to ignore the field and plow ahead with his contentions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/01/28/the-...
I saw an IV yesterday that was 1000%. I’m not sure I’ll ever see that again in my lifetime.
I have no idea whether this is correlated with the other recent de-platforming events, but the rapidly growing list of examples is now getting ridiculous. It’s crazy to imagine that the rug could get pulled out from beneath any of us, any time, under any pretext (or no pretext at all!). I don’t know whether a more apt metaphor alludes to serfs on feudal land, or The Trial by Kafka.

If it turns out this is because of specific discussions/channels then banning the Element app for that makes about as much sense as banning Facebook/Twitter for what some people said, or Google because of what some website says.
Average Joe knows that planes have autopilot... that's where Average Joe heard the term first.

Do you really think Average Joe also thinks that planes entirely fly themselves and that pilots are just window-dressing?
Depending on what you mean by "jump through any of Apple's hoops", you can already do this.
Imagine if you’re his wife (and I believe he has a young daughter) and saw that your husband is leaving a $11M trade on a 8 sigma type of event? I want to ask him so many questions. Like when did you tell your wife? How did she react? Did she force you to take some profits? They need to make a movie about this whole thing when all the details spill out.
A with placed between New Zealand, and Australia, would not have gone amiss.
Congrats on the launch! Super cool stuff
I'd urge you to reconsider. There are plenty of people here who don't agree with someone being dehumanized, no matter who they are. If it happens here, we want it to stop. We don't see much of that happening. But if it is happening and we're just blind to it, if someone doesn't tell us, then we can't fix it.

Now, we can't totally fix it, the way HN currently works. If I make a point denying your humanity, that post can be downvoted to death, flagged, and I can be banned. But the post is still there, and everyone with showdead on can still see it. So, depending on how sensitive you are to what was said, "fixing" it may not actually be fixing it.

You have your own reasons for deciding what you do. But I'd at least suggest that you give us some kind of hint, so that we can try to make HN better.
In an ideal situation, short sellers are supposed to "keep markets honest".

There are specialized hedge funds that trawl through data to seek out companies that might be engaging in fraudulent activity. They then investigate those leads. If they find evidence of fraud (ie inflated earnings), they short the stock and the make public the evidence.

Obviously the SEC should also be doing this. However, it can be argued that having additional well funded market participants that are financially incentivized to seek out and report fraud is beneficial.

On a side note, some of these hedge funds do not immediately announce which company was the subject of their investigation when they report evidence of fraud. This causes a mad scramble of activity amongst companies that were engaging in fraudulent behavior, resulting in more fraud being exposed.
How long until it runs over a kid in a driveway backing up?

Additionaly I don't see how the car with that new steering wheel can get approval in Europe when you are not supposed to cross you hands when driving. There is a reason people aren't driving around K.I.T.T. steering wheels.
The one that annoyed me recently - numeric-looking string keys are turned into numeric keys.

So if you have eg a hashmap of [naughty_word => replacement], then [“penis”=>”willy”] and [“asshole”=>”bottom”] work fine, but [“69”=>”cuddle”] crashes your program with an "unexpected integer” exception.
This tracks with Matt Taibbi’s Griftop (why they let Lehman die).
Well it does lead to better outcomes for me and lots of people I know who are super happy things like Twitter exist. If you use Twitter to follow cool people and learn stuff, its incredible how much you can learn and much your life can change. If you use it as a normie and get sucked into the endless political drama, it sucks.

Thanks to WSB, I learned how to make tons of money and a lot of interesting stuff about how markets, businesses and the world really work. Stuff you could never, ever learn anywhere else unless you really worked at wall street. Thanks to Twitter I learned to aim higher and that weird people like me often do great things and can be happy. Also lots of weird niche information that is never found anywhere else.

When I look at the way normal people use social media, there is one common thread that they just don't f**ing understand - STOP USING IT to read about politics. Endlessly debating or reading about politics online does not affect any change in the world whatsoever. Its a pointless addiction that makes you unhappy, much like smoking. People have forgotten how much more there is to media besides freaking politics. The younger generation already understands this - its only millennials who have forgotten there is media beyond politics, aging at the outgroup and all manner of bullshit to make you believe the world is ending. Its just a ploy for eyeballs, nothing more.

I think older people will eventually learn the same stuff I did and be better off for it. I don't believe in paternalism one bit. I was raised by overprotective parents and it simply does not work. You have to learn to fend for yourself, including how to think for yourself in this world, the sooner the better. The younger generation already grew up in this environment and understands all of that intuitively, they don't need any rules to protect them from being brainwashed by the internets!!11!!
Archive: https://archive.is/D8X6u
An interesting normalization of amounts for baking bread and similar foods is called “baker’s percentage”.

The total weight (or mass) of flour in the recipe is 100%, and all ingredients are measured in terms of that. You do end up with very small percentages for ingredients like yeast, but in general it’s nice because you can easily see for instance how sweet a recipe is based on how much sugar is added as a percentage of the total flour.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage
Compound put?
I doubt that a majority of Tesla buyers realistically think the company is worth as much as most of the rest of the auto industry. In both cases you have overvalued meme stocks, it's just with GameStop there's an ideological/activism motivation.
> Then I remembered that I'd been asking myself how close the conversational tone in /r/wallstreetbets was to mob mentality/mass hallucination and thinking, "I'm no expert, but this doesn't look good."

At this point it really does look like a cult. People who don't seem to understand what they're getting themselves into seem to have bought in: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l80pae/dont...
Carl Jung – Ending Your Inner Civil War (Read by Alan Watts)
The guy doesn't even say it's a probe. He thinks it's likely space junk, but not from us. If you lived on some remote island not near shipping or flight lanes, you'd know people were out there because of all the plastic bottles and crap that would show up on the shore. Same thing basically. The beings who made it could have been extinct for millions of years.
Wanting to upgrade to the newer Mac M Processor. Wait. Or a pc notebook. Decisions, decisions, decisions, ...
Seems legit. Everyone can sell now.
Cash account violations, there are a few different variations. Here's a Fidelity page that explains them: https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing/t....
Oh and here I though it was short for Burry 'm. That's some weird coincidence.
I agree he could be convicted theoretically, but it would be difficult and he certainly can't be imprisoned. The enumerated ways of removing the president are the only ones; the judicial system can't remove him by locking him up.
A stock has value if someone ultimately can extract value from it. As far as I know, there are only 2 ways, dividend and gaining control of the assets.

A stock where neither of both are possible ever (now and in the future) has no fundamental value since you have no way to extract value from it, it's pure speculation. Stock buybacks only have value because something else gives the stock value.

Of course, I don't think the situation described above actually happens in the real world, dividends or ownership will (or at least can) happen at some point.
It looks like by the time mburry was posting here, he had already publically announced a 3M share long position in GME (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190819005633/en/Sci...)
I'm kinda used to PHP "arrays", but I really wish it had proper lists. This array_is_list function doesn't change things much: I already have the same implemented in many of my projects. The point is that I shouldn't do that: I just should use a typehint the same way as I'd do it with array or MyCustomClass.

Of course there is Ds\Sequence, but having it as a part of some relatively obscure library isn't the same as having it as a part of a language, with syntax as simple as [1,2,3]. Actually, I'm not even sure: does it have as good performance, as "arrays" do? I never tested.
why would blackrock lend you their shares so that you could tank their value?

If fidelity, blackrock, vanguard etc aren't selling right now they must believe the squeeze will be real and they'll make obscene cash off it.
No, the important section is 5.1. 5.4 includes UK only to say that production centres outside the EU need to be explained to and approved by the EU. UK factories are counted as EU for this point only.
> If consumers prefer to use a more locked down platform, then so be it.

There is nothing wrong with a consumer being allowed to choose to keep their own phone locked down.

Thats not the problem. The problem is when you go to a consumer and tell them that they aren't allowed to open up their own property, in an easy way.

You can keep your phone locked down. Just give other people the choice to also open up their own phone, easily, if they choose to do so.
I’ve had an account since Feb. 2015 and don’t remember seeing an in-app notice either. It’s certainly possible I saw it but don’t remember now.

I checked back through my email archives and found the announcement email “Introducing Robinhood Instant” from Feb. 23, 2016.

From the small print terms at the bottom of the email:

“Robinhood Instant is implemented as a limited margin account designed to allow customers to purchase with unsettled funds. Robinhood Instant is free, which means customers will not be charged interest. Further, Robinhood Instant accounts will not be able to purchase securities with more than the account cash amount (leverage) or engage in short selling.”
I wish there were more details about how this resulted in bankruptcy. Was it an eventual lack of ability to pay for the interest on the loan he used to borrow the stock, or did he fail to corner it, so other sellers ended up letting the shorters out of their position, and his shares plumetted?
They're not allowed to use client money as collateral. They have to use their own cash as collateral.
> (1) fund degrossing as the initial driver - already happening

I saw a tweet that I cannot find right now, unfortunately. It showed that de-grossing M-W of this week was nearly at the same level as March of 2020.
Rchaeology: Idioms of R Programming [pdf]
> What specific policy are you suggesting?

I think the biggest problem is the hyper-focus on a single cause of death. People look at the covid-19 death numbers, and have no idea how many people actually die in a normal year.

And this causes people to focus on ensuring nobody dies of covid-19 to the exclusion of everything else. Yes, it absolutely sucks that a lot of vulnerable people in elder care facilities have died of it, but it's equally tragic that a lot of them have died of cognitive decline due to not being allowed to see their family and friends, or not being allowed to see each other.

Or that people are dying or going to die because hospitals and patients alike are postponing care and checkups and routine surgeries, because they're afraid of hospitals being overrun with covid-19 patients, or because they're afraid hospitals will increase spread.

I belong to the privileged class of people who can work from home, I've done it for years, and I live far away from friends and family, so I've been doing weekly video calls for years. The effect for me, personally, is pretty much zero. A lot of people who drive policy are like me, and therefore think lockdowns are no big deal.

But lockdowns are absolutely miserable for a large amount of people. There's a very good reason that we're seeing violent anti-lockdown protests in several countries, because a lot of people are completely fed up with the restrictions.

So, in terms of specific policy, I want governments to encourage and enable people to isolate and distance and keep themselves safe, but I don't want them to enforce it. People have to be allowed to make their own choices, their own risk analysis, and live with the consequences. As we already do for a lot of things.

One example of encouragement is to have good sickpay policies in place, so that no-one feels they "have to" get to work even though they're sick or possibly infected, either out of social obligation or financial necessity.

> and I'm not sure discriminating by age and health is going to be some magical solution.

It's too hard to lock down and isolate a fraction of the population, therefore the solution is to lock down the entire population, except "essential" workers? This argument doesn't make sense to me.
Nah, Catan is an EXCELLENT game, especially in the context of what was available when it was created in the 90's. I don't play it anymore because I've played enough for three lifetimes, as of ten years ago. But it's good enough that I have played it that much!

Ticket to Ride is entirely forgettable, though... It feels like Candyland, but without the meta-commentary on the illusion of free will.
>but this means they have to slash quality typesetting and even basic editing and proofreading

At that point, what's the point of using a publisher vs. self publishing or using some kind of print on demand service?
The very best answer is: Nobody knows.

If you are not emotionally or financially prepared for your portfolio to decline by half, you shouldn’t be in the market.
"There is no war in Ba Sing Se."

It's pretty easy for RH to just dismiss this without doing any research but it's also pretty easy to figure out. Have RH sit down with people who say they were affected, and go through the transaction log. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if there were a bug that caused unintentional selling like this, because it sounds like RH was acting on the boundaries of their abilities. This was an edge case that their systems weren't designed to handle, and they didn't have a good way to work around it besides shutting off trading.
+1 to ServeTheHome, the forums have some of the nicest and smartest people I’ve ever met online.

Hard forum is cool too
IPFS has the benefit that anyone can pin the content and then even the original author can not take it down.
the screenshots (which could be faked obviously, but there have been no allegations of that) contain verbiage to the effect of "we took the liberty of closing out your position"
This highlights one issue I've had with calls to secure more vaccine in the US and elsewhere. Countries (notably the US) didn't work through the past year to build out socialized manufacturing capacity for additional dose production - everyone has been making purchasing agreements and everyone knows that everybody is going to need it.

These pushes to outbid other countries might go toward funding additional capacity for the next pandemic, but these corporations didn't have enough warning to know that they were the ones that'd need to make this investment so, for the moment, all of these countries securing additional doses are securing them out of the pockets of other countries.
I'm currently in the process of moving from a major metropolitan area (DFW) to a town with a population under 4k.

There's fiber internet, and starlink will hopefully be out this year for North America.

One of the best decisions I've ever made, but it depends on what you like.

I find it peaceful and comforting to write code on my back porch, looking at the trees and the occasional deer stopping by.

There are tradeoffs though. Long drive (1.5 hrs) to nearest Best Buy. Delivery dates for online orders are much longer.

I've been much more productive at work since I removed myself from the bustle of urban life.
>Game Stop is straight up a flailing business, not very big to begin with.

It was 3 months ago. Things have changed since.
> Personally, I do not want another store outside of Apple's because I value the review process.

Then feel free to not install apps from different stores?

And let everyone else choose to use those other stores, on their own phone, if they choose to do so.
Loosely worded? What contract lawyer has suggested this? The lawyer comments I have seen say that it is quite clear the Commission has no case.
Issuing new shares would let them raise capital, but then they have to do something with that capital. I don’t think they have much of a future so unless they have a CEO can both run GameStop and build something new on the side, he wouldn’t be helping anyone. Assuming the market feels the same way, the share price would fall a lot before the issue. Or he’d be taking money from WSB and wasting it on some doomed revitalisation.

Innovating while running a mature business is one of the most difficult things for companies and few succeed. Even Google mostly buy innovation rather than trying to do internally.

Models all use the volatility to guesstimate outcomes. More volatility means more value in an option. Look at it this way: if a stock is at 10$ and the vol is +/-1$ A day, you only need 5 down days for a 5$ option to be in the money. If the same stock shoots to 50$ over 2days, the vol is now +/-20$ a day (because it shot up at that rate). So you only need 2.5 down days and that 5$ put is in the money.

That’s effectively how the model “sees” GME.

I’d tend to agree that it doesn’t make much sense for the price to have changed given these circumstances. I think that’s an artefact of the model. To be fair, the model relies on volatility being relatively constant AND it being bidirectional (prices go up or down randomly). You can’t really use a model like this to price options on an underlying like GME.

This is where the skill comes in: you don’t just need to obey the model, you need to look at the market, decide it won’t stay this volatile, adjust you vol figure down and trade based on the new model price it gives you and hope the market comes to you before you go bankrupt!

But that takes insight and you have to actively manage the risk that creates if you’re working at volume.

If you’re willing to take that risk and you think GME will quite down, you can short some puts. That would limit your downside to volume*strike price. But you have to accept your eating some risk.

Personally I’d say GME options are not meaningfully modelable right now and you can make good money in disfunctional markets. I keep some cash for this sort of speculation myself. But I only gamble what I can afford to lose and I don’t kid myself I’m Investing.

I’m cash poor right now (covid and no job) otherwise I’d be tempted to try this tbh.

To be clear, I’m not an expert and this isn’t financial advice. I just did software support for a convertible bond desk for a year so I learned enough to hurt myself!
...and Ruby and Python and...
To add to "it's a trade-off": LPDDR4X is not replaceable and allows only 16GB max instead of 32GB for DDR4. However, LPDDR4X also requires half the voltage (0.6V vs. 1.2V) and can offer up to 4267 MT/s of transfer speed instead of DDR4's max of 3200 MT/s.

So yeah, not being able to repair/upgrade the RAM sucks balls. But if you can live without it, soldered LPDDR4X sucks less battery power and lets especially the integrated GPU do its best work. For the kind of device they're selling, it sort of seems like the right choice.
I don’t use Parler, but I don’t think it should be constructively banned from the internet in the US, if that’s what your referring to.

Insofar as people are committing crimes on Parler, I hope that they will be investigated.
You are assuming that the 34 million with diabetes are in the workforce. Based on the age distributions of people with diabetes, most are probably retired or disabled.
Because doing it that way will make building (and verifying) a deterministic build more difficult for users, while forcing the builds to be deterministic in the face of randomised non-determinism means that anyone can build the project and get the same output without needing any complicated build configuration. That end goal (all builds are deterministic even if you don't have some magical reproducible build machine) is the holy grail of reproducible builds.

And since this is run as part of a CI process, you will get lots of builds over time and will root out all sorts of issues caused by non-determinism.
Was also confused how banking and tablespoon measurements related!
You'd be free to keep using the Apple App Store. Nothing would change for you. You can still value their review process. You don't need to ban everyone else's choice to use a different app store for you to keep enjoying the Apple App store

As for Sony and Nintendo, 3 wrongs don't make a right.
> Why in the world does ACH take so damn long to complete?

An ACH transaction is literally FTP and text files. If you can find a way to get rid of millions of lines of COBOL you can probably disrupt this.
Cool, but why go through all this trouble? A simple website would do the same job. I really don't understand where this constant urge for things like crazy animations comes from. Just built a simple website that provides the content users are looking for. You can make it look good an professional without much code. You won't need to make a blog post to explain how you made it perform well.

Can someone explain to me why even simple static-content websites are so fucked up nowadays? Where does it come from? Who does it benefit? What drives this madness?