skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a weird way to couch this.

UX is the "user experience". An experience can be good or an experience can be bad. An experience can reduce friction, or it can intentionally create it. UX as a term on its own is neither positive nor negative.

The title should just be "I dislike UX anti-patterns", because good UX, i.e. low-friction/high-reward (for your customer) UX is still the nice thing it's always been.
> Please keep in mind that by continuing to allow trades, Robinhood was taking on major legal risks.

Obviously not the reason, since they posted a blog saying they did it to protect consumers from volatile stock.
Here is what I saw this morning and what I'm referencing: https://youtu.be/LAHLifZzKmg?t=170

Basically so many shorts were sold, way more than what exists when trying to cover them, the cover would fail, the clearinghouse would raise the margin rates of Robinhood so much if this kept happening that it would cause them to go out of business.
I'm not a member of WSB, and I don't follow their forum. Having done an independent analysis and deciding that it is potentially a good (but risky) move for me, why am I not allowed to trade GME? I can trade any other stock this way.
At least on my CX Series the mic is in the remote control. I'm not sure it can be turned on without pressing the mic button.
I am less cynical or more optimistic. What they did is one of the most egregious acts of malfeasance I’ve ever seen in the markets. If there was ever a case for punishing a company, this is it. If the powers that be fail to do so, then get out the pitchforks and guillotines because this society is beyond fixing.
Quibble over the word 'empathy' if you like, but those peddling addictive substances to teenagers are still scum.
> You're alleging securities fraud.

I stare at this crap all day and I've seen no indicator that Melvin has closed a large percentage of their position, let alone all of it. I will 100 percent allege securities fraud.
For basically everyone of an age to being reading HN, we've essentially never known anything other than technology (and life in general) improving over time, often exponentially.

If you've never seen this talk by Jonathan Blow, he's makes a rather compelling argument that we don't necessarily have any reason to believe this will continue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
It seems like it does though?

https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.5/bluetooth.4

I'm not sure why the article says it doesn't support bluetooth.
It's relevant that this exposed the "vulnerability", if you want to call it that. Now everyone has a new tool to be obnoxious with.
The 20x value doesn't come from Ryan Cohen, it comes from short-sellers being in too deep. Short-sellers have to buy in order to close their short, and that's guaranteed, and from what I understand, very inelastic demand. That's the real path to profit here: short-sellers having no option but to buy ridiculously overpriced shares in order to settle their shorts.
The VW wasn't a planned squeeze. It just happened because Porsche was actively taking a stake in the company. Porsche didn't buy the stock with the intention of selling it to make a profit, they literally tried to buy the company to trigger a asset transfer clause.

It's also worth nothing that this happened in Germany so not subject to SEC regulations AND very importantly, Porsche actually ended up on the losing end of the deal and getting screwed. They tried to get a Bail out from the Saudi's but German govt. Wouldn't allow it.

In the US, buying stocks with the intention of creating a short squeeze and then reselling the stock is expressively illegal by SEC regulations, it's why you see the phrase "WE like the stock" so much.
You should be able to illuminate post-its with a color LED and get them to change color. White or metallic gel pen might make an interesting visual too.

They also have those glass signboards that you write on with regular or phosphorescent ink.
Risk isn't money lost, its all about uncertainity of outcomes from a finance perspective. A realized loss isn't risky; since they've changed an uncertainty into a certainty (i.e. you will lose this much).
> Shorting in and of itself has a builtin risk/reward scenario. You're betting on the company's future performance.

No, you're betting on the stock's future performance, not the company's future performance. There's an ocean of difference between the two.

If the company does poorly, but the stock price rises, or stays the same (Say, because we're in the middle of a COVID recession, and the printing presses are working overtime), you're going to lose a lot of money.
I've only been once. Even knowing I would lose money, I still found the loss/fun ratio really awful, and when I walked out of there I knew I'd never go back. For that kind of money I can buy toys I actually get to keep, or buy an experience worth remembering.

Gambling socially, I enjoy. Playing poker with the guys, typically. But the stakes are absolutely tiny, so we really are just playing for fun.
The requirement for certification with S1 aka Modern Standby btw requires that proper S1 implementation draws same or less power than S3, iirc.

But that requires pretty heavy power saving code
It's not really philosophical, they just weren't happy with the Bluetooth stack they had (originally from netbsd I think) and no-one has written a new one yet.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/b8042ed98e3e7a691133b4...
Can I comment on moderation since this thread is about censorship and free speech? I guess we'll find out.

Seems I've lost a point. Someone took exception to what I said above. Not sure how I went wrong, but if enough people feel similarly, then my post will fade away. It will be censored. Make of that what you will.

UPDATE: I've got a point back since I wrote this comment. I won't keep editing this comment each time my comment is voted for or against. It's enough to say that people sometimes downvote when they don't like an opinion, or the way it's expressed at least, even if it is not rude.
In this case, either the hedge funds clearing their short positions, or traders on literally almost every other platform out there (I opened a few positions on Ameritrade today for example).
True and it points out that the U.S. government position is actually agnosticism, i.e. it does not take a position one way or another on supernatural deities or other religious concepts.
In the remote, not the TV, unless I'm misreading.
> nothing in computing is free...

Luckily, that is not the case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

I suggest you take a bit of time to read some Free Software philosophy. Consider starting with "Why software should be free", by Richard Stallman:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html
Citadel has two main arms; Citadel Securities which is a market maker, and Citadel, which is their investment arm.

I don't think you understand how the options market work. Several of the large spikes on Friday and the past week is the result of MM (like Citadel Securities) having to purchase shares to cover the naked calls they sold.
Exchanges are able to decide what to halt (obviously since that's what they did). The SEC/class action suits are free to argue the issue, but the likelihood the suit will succeed is low and SEC intervention (beyond an opinion statement) is also low. In the investment space, retail investors are generally treated like children who need to be protected (that's what the SEC is mostly tasked with). RH will make the argument that it was protecting the children from hurting themselves and the SEC will likely go along with it (that's their assumption anyway). Fairness isn't something you generally see in trading.
It looks like it is available again.
Notice that that's for OpenBSD 5.5; it was removed.
One of the most common techniques of making a class of people seem crazy is associating conspiracy theories with them. CIA has been doing it for nearly a century by now.
Maybe you should publicly commend the vocal juniors so that the rest can learn from their example. Say something like, "Jim Halpert realized that it would be a good idea to collaborate with me on the A4 project, and together we finished it far ahead of schedule." Phrase it so it ascribes agency to the junior, focusing on how they (with agency) decided to use the resources they had appropriately.
Raising a pre-seed and Canadian angels are anal about safes
Hey so im raising a pre-seed with some local angels right now and they're really hung up on doing a convertible. How can I convince them to do a SAFE so I can get back to building my business asap. I'm fed up of fundraising lol
Watching social media frame today as being orchestrated by some shadowy cabal was truly bizarre.

Robinhood just didn’t have the capital to clear trades of super volatile stocks. I think people would have understood if they just came out and said so yesterday.
You keep repeating that short squeezes are illegal but that's not true. Manipulating prices to cause a short squeeze is illegal, but that's not what happened here. Some people bought GME because they liked the stock. Others bought because they thought a short squeeze was coming.

If I think the price is going up and buy, that's legal. If I manipulate the price to go up after I buy, that's illegal. It's the same thing.
You seem to be working towards the core issue (eg. town square versus multiple substitute vendors) but you missed it while talking about cost and irrelevant details (eg. A website can be hosted without a DNS record).

As I see it, the core issue is that with enough substitutes denying business to a person/organization, the customer can effectively be denied access to “the town square”.

In the relevant case law, the “town square” is only applied when there was only a single meeting space in the town. In that case, it was a private mall. Twitter doesn’t apply as a town square on the internet because there are plenty other places to communicate on the internet, even if it is not as convenient or wide reaching. The problem lies in the case where all substitutes for a town square all block you.

The solution historically was to insist on a common carrier designation for certain utilities.
Most of the brokers where not allowing margin for buying GME since last week and Robinhood is one of them.
It looks like it's ~2.75 stars now.
Why would you ever agree to something you can't even read? Your argument is such a cop out. If you can't read the ToS, take some English classes until you can.
It was removed in 2014! At this point, "not yet" surely must mean "we don't want it".
Ya Github just needs a way to disable everyone to create issues and/or PRs.
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Someone not wanting to explain what is in 50 news articles to new commenters does not make them a conspiracy theorist, why should they do your google searches for you?

Yes, this is definitely one of the cookie-cutter responses. Dubious claims of "so many sources" but they are just super busy and can't be bothered to link to a single one.
Will the company be selling stocks
One of us is misinformed . Parler is not around as a working social media website as of a few minutes ago.
It seems like the key question is what qualifies as a scheme. To me, it seems like you need some kind of secrecy or deception.

Also, can you use Clojure to cause a short squeeze, or... [ducks]
What's wrong with bluetoothd?
Alternative take; the following are not major parts of your life:

> Robinhood, Parler, Twitter, Reddit (et cetera)

but represent trivial ephemera whose significance for the individual, following abandonment/deletion, vanishes into hindsight once the endowment effect and separation anxiety wears off.
That's the man page for OpenBSD 5.5.

Bump 5.5 up to any higher number and you'll get "not found". Bluetooth was removed around ~2014 in OpenBSD.
Not really? Children frequently demonstrate the same behavior. Laugh at the kid with X problem until you have a problem yourself, and now you dislike bullies.

Growing older and realizing in general that things you did when you were younger are bad is fine and dandy, and indeed is "growing up".

But only deciding things are bad when they personally effect you has nothing to do with growing older and is not a good look. It's just selfish myopia.

Being an adult with a consistent moral framework is about being able to say "this is right or wrong", regardless of if it effects you personally or not. If you only notice something is bad when it happens to you, then that's basically what kids do automatically.
Game developers? Smartphone manufacturers? Social media developers? Chocolate makers?
> manifesting in events such as Brexit & the election of Trump

I want to agree with you, but I have to say that some of the most rabid Trump supporters I know are fellow software engineers earning at least $150K a year, and sometimes much more. What do they feel disenfranchised about, cast away, or left behind?

I agree that it's part of the explanation, but it seems to me like there's far more than that going on.
Thanks for the response, I enjoy challenging my procedural upbringing.

> Are the "new" records meaningfully different in some way

Yeah usually. A typical example is something external added data to the declaration, and new records are generated to reflect this.

And yeah, auto-incs is the norm.
This is rubbish. Github is massively more useful than dumping the source on your own webserver even if you do not want PRs. It would be a fairly simple change to simply add a button and remove the PR tab.
Citadel has two sides to their business; Citadel Securities and Citadel. Citadel is the investment side and Citadel Securities is the MM side. I'm assuming that Citadel Securities does not clear the trades for Citadel, but don't quote me on that.
They notify you when it changes, so yes.
Work with americans.

Credentials: raised $3M on SAFEs in two weeks from US investors. Canadian investors offered $250k on $750k with a board seat lmao.
Those are due to exchange LULD halts. Not brokerages.
"Dudester"? You'll note that in other parts of the comments in this thread we actually got into some details about things like counter party risk and why trading platforms have aggregate risks to manage, but we didn't manage to have that conversation in this part of the thread becuase the level of argument was pretty much just "I won't address the point you're making I'll call you names and then call you stupid".

Well fine, by the sounds of it, you're the sort of person who also makes those Rust threads unbearable by commenting despite having never worked with or near Rust but calling people names because they have experience and have formed opinions. Let's just put it this way, the way the HN commentary has come across right now is like a guy in a bar telling your about a horse you should place a bet on. That's the level we're at, and that's why I talk about the mass hysteria as the more relevant point, because your average Joe has no business reasoning about dynamics of stock prices of fairly illiquid crappy retail stocks.
Well as long as you're on the side if freedom, free speech, small government, capitalism, and patriotism, you're one of the good guys.

I think the biggest "story-telling" that's going on lately is in our schools by our socialist educators.
Not following this too closely, but is it really a success until everyone (profitably, if possible?) liquidates their position?
The article writer spends a lot of time blaming 'leadership' however it is up to all of us to act within our own moral framework.

> While the best-trained (and highest-paid) UX professionals are put to work optimizing the exploitation and deception of online users

UX workers at Amazon are not 'put to work' like some automotons, they have agency and the ability to find highly paid work elsewhere.
bought more
That's fair, but I think there should be another feature for this that lists out the forks and the change they bring.

Or at least there should be a clear way to indicate on a repo, PRs are not looked at and won't be merged. So if you make a PR you understand all you're doing is just advertising your fork.
Plus you get free presidential delivered toilet paper.
What I sure about is that no one force a person to have continious exposure to such propoganda on 4chan. It's not like it's some government funded website that everyone has obligation to visit due authorities requirements.

Being exposed to this kind of "humor" is deliberate choice. And even 4chan is not some single entity: there are plenty of boards on other topics that nowhere as extreme and sometimes they better moderated than e.g reddit , facebook or linkedin.
My comment says nothing about who I personally want to protect or dislike. I only describe my failure to guess how other people would react to the comic.
Do-ocracy. Just because none of those devs want it enough to implement it, doesn't mean they'd turn away somebody who did. If somebody wants it bad enough, they'll do it.
Someone not on Robinhood can buy it.
"Reloaded" in this context means they reopened their short position. As in, they had closed their short earlier, and now they opened it again. The implication is that they made a large bet that the stock price would fall, just before they changed the rules to cause the stock price to fall.

I have no idea if any of this is true.
I thought similarly until I committed to working on an Elm project.

I developed an open source game in Elm, and I've been very impressed with the benefits of the pure functional approach. It takes some getting used to, for sure, but it makes things really simple to reason about once you get used to it.

There are definitely rough edges still: Elm in particular is just missing a lot of stuff, but I was surprised how much value the pure functional approach gave me.
Citadel Securities is not Citadel Investments.
This is important, because they operate on different sides of this:
Citadel Securities is the market maker that is interested in Robinhood's flow.
Citadel Investments is the hedge fund that bailed out Melvin.
Now, whether it's good that they're connected, and up to what extent they should be allowed to is an important question.

Even if there had been some kind of illegal collusion, it doesn't seem likely that stopping trading would have helped Melvin to cover their short position, which they ended up doing.

There is probably no conspiracy here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/search/?q=gme&sort=t...
Aren’t most people called Bill actually named William? I actually know a William III and he’s a not-rich ROTC kid. Bill Gates did have money but i’m not sure the degree to which his name is an indication of that
Various flora have been in a push and pull balance with fauna for hundreds of millions of years. I find it more likely that something whose very reproductive cycle depends on being eaten by animals is the healthier alternative to something engineered for a singular purpose without long-term testing on humans.

I was once a multiple-a-day energy drink consumer. The fizzy caffeine+sugar+choline+inositol mixture in a can has barely been around a few decades. Do you know what compounds the artificial flavors are? I've since switched to getting my caffeine from plants. It's been verified by a plethora of civilizations over thousands years.
Gitlab is meant to be an alternative to entire suites of products from competitors so it makes sense. At work we make use of most of the features of gitlab so its a really great thing they include them all.

Honestly I'm not sure how you could even be confused by it as an individual developer either. I used it for my individual projects before getting a real development job and didn't have any issues. It different to github but not worse or less correct. Its just github has become the standard on what the default layout and names should be.
The key point is that “government” is doing something you find despicable. Whether corporations cooperate is by far the lesser concern.

There is a reason Us corporations can’t disclose electronic search warrants to their owners, or why no one kicked Trump off their platform despite incessant rule violations until he was days from leaving, it’s called raw political power.
OpenBSD 5.5 was released in May 2014. The Bluetooth stack was removed later that year: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140729070721
You are stamp agnostic and symptomatic does not imply belief. Can we get back to talking about stonks now?
The question is why did they do it? What did they have to gain by risking their customer base?
How long it would have taken to fuzz recent buffer overflow in sudo?
Alright, I jumped the gun there I guess. Last I heard they did find hosting elsewhere because, and this is the important point, none of the companies that shut them down had a monopoly on internet communication.
At least to you maybe, but I only use Bluetooth on my laptop for playing music to a speaker, which could I could replace with a long cable if I really wanted to (or some other kind of network player). On my phone, I first intentionally enabled bluetooth recently for my state's Covid tracing app.
No, at this point it's not about a good investment. It's a "fuck you" to Wall Street. They exploit the working class, get rich, fuck up our economy, and then steal even more from us to save their own asses.

People are tired of it. Gamestop is a form of protest. Robinhood did the worst thing they could by messing with it. They sided with Wall Street against the little guy. It shows how rigged the system is. Apparently the little guy can't exploit a bad trade by the rich, it can only go the other way around. So now Robinhood is on the other side of this, and I hope they go under from it.
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I didn't know about this special exemption. I thought it was just that B borrows a share from A, sells it to C, and then D borrows the same share from C to sell it to E. That way a single share has been shorted twice, and both B and D need to buy that share to pay back the loaned share.

So R quickly buys that share from E and refuses to sell it. Now B and D are screwed, because they both desperately need that share to pay back the loan that's about to run out tomorrow.
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I'm not convinced lack of side effects is the thing that lets you build tools that prompt removal of code in this way. In OCaml, if you had an unused variable like in the example you would get a compiler warning about it, and 99% of the time the compiler is right that you should delete the code. It's perfectly possible in principle that computing the value could have side effects. But in good (OCaml) code, you should very rarely have functions that have side effects and return a value other than unit. So the compiler is almost always right in practice (and you can still use side effects when you want to interact with the outside world, which is handy).
Will you also have your shares sold out from under you for those same 0 commission trades?
That might be a better page to link to for this discussion.
I'm well aware of how citadel is structured thanks, I used to work there.

If you think options dealers go around taking massive unhedged directional bets then you are very misinformed. I don't have any inside knowledge but i'd bet a pound to a penny the options desks have been making out like bandits this week.
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A secret police knocks on your doors?
Why not 'nobody contributed it so far'?
Fascinating, like watching a Bob Ross video but he is drawing with SDF formulas as his palette. Very chilling and pleasant to watch.