skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, that lazy troll takes me right back to Slashdot before the turn of the century. On the off chance that you actually believe what you're doing is useful, here's why this form of advocacy has singularly failed to attract converts (speaking as someone who's been using and contributing to open source software since the early 1990s): open source software is only free if your time and expertise are free.

That free software has to run on non-free hardware (even if the oft-heralded RISC-V revolution happens, someone has to manufacture the device) and most people do not have the skills or time to assemble the hardware or maintain an OS. That means that we're all making tradeoffs of what things we buy and what we do ourselves, and for the vast majority of computer users, even open source developers, that involves outsourcing that work to a handful of companies (or, maybe, a hardware company and Debian). Most computer users consider that a good deal: they spend time on things they like and pay a rather small amount of money relative to the utility they get from a transformative device like a general purpose computer. This means that for most people the decisions which matter the most are made by Microsoft, Apple, or Google — and that anyone who cares should applaud them improving accessibility because it will affect daily life for billions of people.

This is especially true for accessibility, where people develop deep habits around things like screen readers and quality matters a great deal. I happen to work with a number of visually impaired users and have not heard good things about the Linux screen readers compared to their Windows or iOS counterparts, and that means that in the context of this thread it's really not useful to snark about the moral superiority of free software.
The question is, what is Facebook a monopoly of? If you say "social media" it's almost self-referential. Facebook's customers are advertisers. Facebook is ultimately a media company competing with other media companies for eyeballs.
After-hours is a bad indicator.

It closed today at 194. Anyone who bought shares since Wednesday morning's peak of 300 is in the red.
The veil of Democracy is coming loose revealing the Oligarchy (I include politicians and their government & media buddies in it)
Historically, reddit is most likely to move against subreddits when they cause embarrassing news articles.
Same thing happened for tiktok in India. When people are posting reviews that call out actual grievances suddenly these are "fake reviews". But everybody justifies such actions by Google/Apple saying they have a right to allow/disallow whatever they want on their platform, no obligation at all.

First they came for us, and you didn't speak out. Now they are coming for you.
> their liquidity allowance.

But only on specific stocks they selected? They still had liquidity for other stocks?
you got me.
Hotline! What a great piece of software. I learned to code as a teenager in a hotline group dedicated to RealBASIC. Such fond memories of that decentralized platform.
How do fatal errors (like asserts) work in Elm? Are assertions considered to have side effects?

What if the removed function call would have produced an important error?
Not wrong. Eternal September ruins everything
I think there's basically 0% chance that there are any real consequences to anyone except the people trying to make trades on Robinhood.
If you're willing to buy 300 shares at 60, but only 100 shares at $100 you can enter two bids:

100 shares at $100

200 shares at $60

This will satisfy your demand position.
Of course, but those other estimated/derived numbers are not what retail investors are looking at. Everyone tries to get an edge with math, models, or subsets of data and fill the gaps, but the official number is a reported figure.
Whoa, I didn't know there were practical uses for VR besides gaming. Do you use yours for anything else?
I was wondering about this too then I thought about people trading out of regular stocks and buying GME/AMC. When you sell a stock today you get the cash two days later, but your broker will let you buy today and normally they will settle together. It sounds like the clearing houses were demanding 100% today for any GME buys. So if you had customers selling $1 billion of regular stocks and buying GME the brokerage would have to come up with $1bil today or get closed down. I'm guessing they're scared of that happening.
Funny how all of the people spurting out "It's a private company they can do what they want" after banning Donald Trump have now changed their mind about big tech censorship.

The precedent of accepted censorship was set and accepted. Deal with it.
So you’re not making it illegal to be a billionaire, you’re just taking it in the form of raising revenue for the government.

Except government revenue serves a purpose: paying for government services and salaries. What do you do with the surplus cash?

What about when someone does not have a billion dollars in cash, but has billions in assets?

Flesh this out for me please.
> I thank them for pushing mainstream retail commissions to $0

This isn't a positive. Had they charged fees, they wouldn't today be doing the bidding of of their real clients.
The Pandemic That Lasted 15M Years
I believe the more apt comparison is to the recent changes made to WhatsApp's privacy policy to integrate it closer to Facebook. The difficulty of moving to a different platform is relatively lower than getting rid of a social media network like Facebook (lower network effect, overlapping functionality with other offerings), which means a large hiccup like this can easily trigger mass migration to other brokerages.
I don't use gitlab but github has issue and project planning. I'd expect every team member to use those. Further, github issues supports easy images and videos. Great for artists, and designers to track things. Assuming gitlab does the same I'd expect the same there.

Maybe there are better solutions and so you don't want your artists do that there.

It goes the same the other way. As a programmer I've always needed a license to the same 3d software the artists are using even though I don't use it daily I might need to write or debug an exporter or script.
Sounds like something /r/latestagecapitalism would say and this wouldn’t be the first time they were wrong. Show me the work.
The algorithm for regular NIBP cuffs is interesting. It's actually measuring MAP - mean arterial pressure - and doing a calculation based on that and heart rate to approximate actual systolic and diastolic numbers. This is usually as or more accurate than a manual cuff where those pressures are directly detected (because there is no human error in hearing exactly when blood is flowing again in your artery) but fails badly for the small number of people who fall outside the characteristics of the groups that were used to develop the algorithm that converts MAP and heart rate into systolic/diastolic pressures.

(The gold standard, which all other methods are compared to, is a direct measurement taken by sticking a needle in your artery and putting a pressure gauge on it. For obvious reasons this is avoided as much as possible.)
Email mailing lists/discussion groups.

Decentralized and already familiar to everyone from the HN crowd to grandma.
I'm sorry but I absolutely cannot buy this (just like $GME); I see Hanlon's razor weaponized like this constantly and I think we've long passed the point of violating Occam's.
The proper response from Google was really simple. The app is a fraud, so remove it from the play store and ban the developer.
Pretty good and affordable insurance for global nomads
They’ve charged it for as long as I’ve used Robinhood which is 4 or 5 years.
Sorry, but if you signed up to use Robin Hood and agreed to their terms and conditions, you don't have a leg to stand on.
The "not enough housing to go around" isn't because of a "free market" (if such a thing even exists), it's because wealthy people have enforced housing austerity and refuse to allow new housing to be built near them. Without wealthy people controlling zoning and restricting what can be built, far more people would be building their own homes, or would at least be allowed to pool together to build. Instead we hand over huge imputed rents to landlords and make anybody who is not super wealthy fight each other for the remains.

I think we should have robust social housing, as in Vienna or Singapore. But one thing that both places do that we do not is allow for far more housing to be built per person in high-demand areas (i.e. pricy areas). Their defining characteristic for affordability isn't so much the social housing, it's that they build for everyone as if housing were a human right, rather than a financial investment vehicle like we treat it here by enforcing scarcity.

To the extent that there is a "free market" it's only on existing housing once it's built. For existing housing, we let the wealthy do whatever they want, and use their market power to buy whatever they want, including hoarding it. However, it's only because of housing austerity in the building of housing that this real estate becomes such a sought after commodity. It is only through scarcity and austerity of building permits that continued financial climbs are guaranteed.

Most of the political spectrum in the US has housing completely wrong, and thinks that everything is going to be OK if they can just keep the "wrong" people out. Instead, we should adopt radical inclusion and welcome all people, and adopt the true belief that everyone deserves housing, every single person. Not just the cool ones, everyone. That is, unless we want to continue the current meatgrinder of capitalism. Eviction may be the blades at the end of the grinder, but the auger is the housing scarcity and exclusion practiced by nearly every single person in the US.
Relevant Classical Programmer Paintings: https://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/148027314949/we-...
Which seems to be a good indicator that the motivation wasn't any form of adult content or NSFW which they have tools to deal with. It was more reactionary
what reader are you using now that does all those things?
It's international news -- so the spotlight is on. Probably most of the Internet is unsavory and nobody cares because nobody knows.
Probably not I'd say... but what point are you trying to get at?
Space, cars, and dogs.. is there anything this man can't do?
Totally agree...ratings could be quite sophisticated. In the end, I suspect that sophisticated scoring system would still need to draw lines that some will disagree with, and we'd be back where we are now.

Sophisticated scoring might also bring common critiques, like ratings being biased or opaque (or just confusing). I recall Netflix had a issue when they made their star rating a prediction of what you would rate it (based on your previous viewing habits). It confused a lot of people who thought it was simply the average star rating. They since switched to percent-match as a result, and dropped star-reviews in favor of thumbs-up/thumbs-down.

Come to think of it, your suggestion may lead to something like percent-match for apps...though I suspect rating apps along dimensions the way Netflix does TV/movies may be tricky. Maybe different dimensions for different categories in the app store?

I'm still intrigued by a distributed approach that filters opinion through the sieve of the social network...I think it has more promise than centralized rating systems that attract abuse.
I've been at this software thing for 20+ years and I could see a couple things happening based on your points but I mainly wish to address:

1. Senior engineer productivity

Most companies have zero idea what to do with a senior engineer and they measure them against a junior engineer. The junior engineer usually does the following:

- works a tonne of hours
- closes a tonne of bugs
- makes a tonne of mistakes
- asks a tonne of questions
- uses up a tonne of senior engineer(s) time

And you end up with:

- a high ticket/bug fix rate per day from the junior
- generally horrible and poorly designed code from the junior but the code works
- few big fixes from the senior
- what the senior does produce is generally better designed, fewer bugs and is easier to maintain.

If you have hired a quality senior engineer it shouldn't take too long before your junior and mid level engineers start soaking up the time of your senior engineer. It shouldn't take too long for your senior engineer to become the subject matter expert in several areas of your product which takes up even more time.

I am usually hired because things are a mess and they need to be cleaned up. Years of junior engineers doing the best they can with limited knowledge and experience tossed in with some management pressure leads to unmaintainable code/environments.

The largest impact I have ever had was when my manager put some trust in me, gave me autonomy and a huge project. I think this is what you should do with your senior engineers. Give them the space to make an impact.
They were used to create tapestries now in the Vatican, at least the surviving ones. It’s really fun to see both sets on the same trip. The cartoons are a bit livelier than the tapestries. It’s sort of like when you hear a bootleg of a song demo that sounds better than the finished, published version.
> It's very clear to me that insiders saw the how much hurt this short squeeze would bring the financial markets

Maybe. But if this is a trolly car problem it's clear they made the call to let the train run down the track with the retail investor when it should have been the track that eviscerated Citron and Melvin and all their backers.

Big institutions that made the bad trades should have been the bagholders.
OpenMCT is solid. We have a bunch of open source space-related software listed in Awesome Space: https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space
The problem is that if people in aggregate liquidate the stock, the shorts get to buy more cheaply that they otherwise would. It's unlikely you'd get to rebuy at the exact price you sold for either.
> In the case of Robinhood they are written by people upset that they have been monetarily screwed by the app.

Are they? This feels identical to a few people organically getting mad and then people bandwagoning.
The area is just expensive as hell, final. Some of these cubes are horribly dated, but just the fact it's in the Old Port makes the price shoot way up.
Should the IB execs & TD Ameritrade execs be charged too?

What about APEX clearing which enforced this rule with all of their customers?
You have thought this through more.

1. How would you conduct this assessment?
2. Now that you have figured out the legality of your position, why is this moral to do?
Don't use Interactive Brokers. They halted GME today. Interactive Brokers chairman on CNBC, asked why they halted trading: "Honestly, to protect ourselves": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RH4XKP55f

E-trade and TD Ameritrade halted GME today as well.

Same bullshit as Robinhood.
>> As for 2024 - it is obvious now that the only way the GOP can win another election is by dismantling democracy.

I don't think that's true. There are plenty of moderates in the the swing sates that voted for Biden but would be more than willing to jump on the bandwagon for someone who is seen as a moderate conservative and making the right promises. The trick is getting that candidate through the primaries if the scene looks like 2016, where the hard hard right will gather around the one nut job, and the other 5 establishment republicans will be indistinguishable.
Agreed, the wallstreetbets guys are bullying innocent rich people and they have to be stopped.
Ask HN: Was the housing bubble as ridiculous as we are led to believe?
I’m starting to think printing money and reducing interest rates to 0 just to stimulate the economy is actually much dumber than a housing bubble. At least in the housing bubble people had some modicum of interest in living in a home.

The current situation of limited investment vehicles for the average person with the only real options being dumping stuff into equities/crypto at mass scale seem unproductive.

I’m rethinking the moral hazard argument of literally bailing out the mortgages and giving people homes. What is all this liquidity getting us really?
Your hosting can be attacked too, so that's another complication.
Can a broker margin call whenever it wants? I would imagine this is regulated and there are specific circumstances.
I'll take the median judge with multiple appelate courts above them over a 26-year old overworked unaccountable 95 IQ [x] studies graduate.

If facebook moderators wore fancy clothes and hit things with gavels on camera when making judgements, the situation would rapidly improve.
A lot of standalone apps these days are just a webpage bundled with a web browser (e.g. discord, brackets text editor). Makes porting a non-issue.
So you could download the page and go through this process if you wanted to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951928

Tab handling was at least x1000 slower than Chrome last time I tested. It got dramatically slower in the last few snapshots and the official 3.6 Stable build.

Its not just tabs, address bar handling is totally broken, opening new tab and starting to type quickly will result in eaten letters. Opening new tab, clicking CTRL-F and starting to type will again open with ~1 second delay and lost letters.

Then we get into broken javascript causality https://jsfiddle.net/rasz_pl/v36nozsw/ open in normal browser and Vivaldi, Vivaldi address bar handling code is overriding scrollTop with delayed location.hash update.
The price is paid every time someone has to overpay for housing, and every time someone deposits money into their 401K which will invariably be invested chasing riskier and higher priced assets, whose future returns increasingly depend on stock appreciation, and less on dividend yields which will never catch up.
Consider for a moment the common advice to just "buy and hold the SP500", and then the recent news that TSLA just joined the same.

They are slowly making it a foregone conclusion that any policy that favors companies with actual operating returns over inflating ratios will necessarily crush everyone's retirement portfolios, and therefore any such move would be politically untenable.
Do i read that article right and this "Helping the mods" is an euphemism?

They banned all bad words and image memes (due to lack of ability to check the content with a bot) and told the mods to rigorously enforce compliance with Discords standards or the group gets removed again. Maybe they helped configuring the mod-bot ...
$0 commissions are huge, and allow people to (Along with partial stock buys) invest little amounts on a recurring basis.

Robinhood forced the major brokers to do $0 stock trades, just need a few others to do $0 option trades too. The fees aren't crazy, but they add up if you do lots of spreads.
> but, generally speaking, killing someone is pretty black-and-white wrong.

Ironically, this has left me speechless. Surely you realize the inherent contradiction of arguing that something is emphatically all-or-nothing, and then turning around and moderating your position with a strategically-placed "generally speaking"? Which is it? Is it nuanced or isn't it?
Largely because the "gamestop maneuver" has inflammed an already excitable community and things are likely bubbling over right now in a way that they wouldn't be if people hadn't just bet thousands of dollars on a tulip scam.

And let's not euphemize this, it's not a "maneuver", it's market manipulation. Coordinating a collective buy to effect a short squeeze is clear market manipulation. Enticing a horde of gullible forum users to buy the same ballooned stock based on ideas like "stick it to the man" and "turn their tricks back on them" is an even clearer pump and dump scheme.

This doesn't end well for anyone (except Gamestop's pre-existing shareholders I guess). The hedge fund got fleeced, the gullible WSB users are going to lose a ton, Robinhood flushed their brand down the toilet trying to avoid being an accomplice to all of this, and the only folks who made money on the deal are more likely than not in the SEC crosshairs now.
Lol, it’s like saying the manager of the restaurant that took my favorite entree off the menu should be arrested.

This is the main problem with Robinhood, it’s designed to attract a core audience of clueless children.
Given

https://www.hotwire.com/

https://hotwirecommunications.com/

https://www.hotwireglobal.com/

I'm going to go ahead and say I don't love the name
I guess I don’t really have a point, it was just a curious thought experiment. Bulletin board systems were decentralized social networking, then the interconnected Internet changed that. Telephone companies are public utilities. The FCC is a federal agency. It would seem that if we could turn back the clocks, it would be a lot harder to shut down a WSB bulletin board system, like Facebook, Reddit, and Discord have done.
I can't tell for sure from this article, but is this still doing an oscillatory method measurement of MAP?
From the sounds of it, you don't even need to be a professional troll. Just flag every offensive post there is.
Right, I've personally suffered very little and I wanted to be careful to not minimize the tragedy and suffering of those who have.

This has been a terrible and tragic event for millions of people. The worst is it was completely avoidable if some of our governments had only valued proper planning for such a predictable event
Sometimes people ask, why do rich people keep striving for more money? What is the point of having $1B instead of $100M, or $10B instead of $1B, or $100B instead of $10B?

Sometimes the answer is given, that it's the same impulse as playing a computer game and money is the score.

But the last few days, something else occurred to me, watching the kind of disarray of various billionaire hedge fund types. A big attraction of wealth on that level must be the sense that you're smarter than nearly anyone else.

This situation punctures that and it seems like a lot of quotes in the news are about scrambling to save face and protect peoples' self images. I don't think they are actually outraged over monetary losses as such.

It's interesting that people are comparing it to Occupy Wall Street.
Bad data, code, or both? It is not 76% short. Are you going to go to fundamentals and verify each raw and derived data point from the feed you consume much like you would a news source?
AFAIK they weren't limiting to sells. They were limiting to close your position, which for most people is "sell".
Bro. You don’t need AWS. You need a server.

People did this. For decades.
What you propose is just burying your head in the sand and waiting for the storm. This isn't about "large organizations" this is about the tendency for governments to sacrifice freedom for greed, control, and power. It doesn't matter if the government is a progressive European government or a Authoritarian Chinese government. They all want to more transparency into what citizens are up to "for their own good". That's what we need to fight.