skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully expect Azure Marketplace and Github to integrate.

-- Brand: A rebrand may make sense too, similar to GitHub Actions incorporation of azure automation. But probably less so given the wider non-dev audiences who would consume this stuff: They'll trust MS over GH.

-- B2B: This already covers cloud apps. I see GH as one of the bigger advantages Microsoft has over Amazon + Google as server software moves more and more to a 'shift left' world. AFAICT, this is less of a question of 'if' and more of 'when'. Unfortunately for everyone, MS is historically slow here. A surprise push here may end up being Teams.

Consumer seems a lot harder, but maybe:

- Desktop: MS has a big consumer games division (XBox..). Doing MS Desktop Games via a MS App Desktop Store, similar to Google Play for driving Android marketplace, may work for pushing regular consumer apps as well. They can already do for Windows (if they haven't, I don't follow), and maybe compelling enough for Apple to want to bring to OS X?

- Mobile: This is about Microsoft's ability to win over or open Apple, Google, and the top 10 Android vendor for fairly controlled mobile experience.. which is historically unlikely..
I definitely think I am under informed.
Could you elaborate to help me understand?
You want to short companies for moral reasons that have objectively strong fundamentals? That sounds extremely dangerous, financially speaking.
"The underlying system for a browser should not be that of an “app” but of an Operating System whose job would be to protectively and safely run encapsulated systems (i.e. “real objects”) gotten from the web. It should be the way that web content could be open-ended, and not tied to functional subsets in the browser."

This feels like the truest web, what I want to see. I'm not sure how much the browser needs to do the work, and how much it is the role of pages themselves to encapsulate & orchestrate multiple dispirate web entities- not just for their own service, but amid other services too, using their entities as well.

anyhow, here's to hoping that in this decade we get a lot of good skills & experience making web components richer better entities on the web.
yes, there are large whales that are long on gme. yes, a lot of retail investors have jumped on it. reddit is the propaganda machine that ignited the fire
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Outstanding vs float will tell you this may not be be possible
The point about simplicity is important and often overlooked.

> Complex software that can’t be developed by a different group of people creates dependence, step one of user domestication. That alone is enough to open the door to problematic developments.

This was one of the goals of Urbit[1]. Reduce complexity to increase freedom.

It’s true that Urbit uses esoteric naming for Hoon, but there are many contributors at this point and from what I understand, it is possible for one person to maintain the whole thing. Assuming that’s true, it’s an amazing accomplishment in simplification of software.

[1]: https://urbit.org/blog/precepts-discussion/
HID stands for Human Interface Device and usually means things like keyboards, mice, trackpads, etc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human_interface_device_c...
I bet that you can handle a tremendous amount of traffic with a single machine (2 in ha for availability behind an LB).

Especially with today’s hardware or simple cloud vms you’ll come a long way.
Thanks, all that's left is whether the term NES is common in Japan as one of the bizarre American loan words for Japanese things.

Though, I suppose the author seems to somewhat regularly use the English parts of the internet. They'd pick up the term even if it wasn't common.
"Common sense" may have been an overstatement... but what I meant was: Assuming that if shorts require traders to borrow the stock, shorting more than 100% of it is impossible.
Outside the US, texting was/is charged per-message rather than unlimited texting. It was/is very expensive to send thousands of texts vs the fixed-rate data plans.
The enormous trading volume suggests that it wasn't a small rarified group.
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I mean the WSB user count has grown from 2.2m on Monday to now 7.5m. If 5 million of those users all bought $100 worth of GME that's half a billion, if they bought $1000, that's 5 billion.
Of course there are other big players that drive it.

Retail investors are in no way able to move price.
I certainly see the polarization and radicalism but am unconvinced that FB was critical much less a “cause”
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Yeah, I found the article to be a little annoying in that it's mostly attacking WeWork.

My recommendation for anyone new to the area, is the streaming systems book: http://streamingbook.net/, which came after two excellent blog posts: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-world-beyond-batch-streami..., and https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-world-beyond-batch-streami...

Basically, if you have an unbounded data problem, and you might have something that is _practically_ unbounded, that book really helped me gain insight to describe what we used Kinesis for (which is really similar to Kafka in a lot of ways).

Thinking about event vs processing time, ordering and windowing requirements, etc, were really helpful in thinking about my own data problems.

In the end, the author of this article claimed that WeWork just simply didn't have much of an unbounded data problem. Which I generally agree with. But simply saying "you can do this in PostgreSQL" isn't really a great takeaway, and, it really feels that was the message being reinforced here.
Unfortunately I don't think those assumptions hold. It would be easier if they did, but a lot of comments (including bad ones) just don't get that much vote 'coverage'.

I will look at this more closely though, because it would be interesting if there were a noticeable difference: "do you treat a post with 2 downvotes the same as a post with 10 upvotes and 12 downvotes". Thanks!
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This is a classic example of well-intentioned research with possible harmful effects. Researchers may want to characterize variants in the lab, but this research could be misused. (Or simply sloppily used.)
Just for context Melvin has returned better than 30% returns yearly since 2014. There is a very good chance if you are in their fund you’ll look at the total return and be quite happy with the outcome, especially if their risk is decorelated with the other parts of your portfolio.
I would recommend PulseEffects. It has a much nicer UI than NoiseTorch, supports a number of effects besides noise cancellation (if desired), supports auto-start, supports custom models (but has a good default included), doesn't require a sudo password and doesn't burn CPU if your mic isn't being used.

The support in PulseEffects is new but has been working well for me. I have had zero issues and don't even think about it anymore.
What's your suggestion? Reparations? Who gets them? People who were never slaves? Do descendants of union members - white people who freed the slaves - get credit and exemption from paying for it? And where you going to get the money? Taxes that hit the poor the hardest?

My action points? Stop treating minorities as victims and idiots unable to take care of themselves. Its called being a decent human being. Everyone - minorities included - already have opportunities for college and starting businesses and all that. It's called American Privilege's.
Looking at Doge's price-history, it's relatively stable, and its inflationary nature prevents it from becoming an asset to invest in. The enduring popular meme also gives it some intrinsic value that other Cryptos don't have.

I'd like the coin to take off as an actual currency, and of the coins I've looked at, I think it has the most potential for adoption in that respect.

But I don't think it's got the ecosystem to support that right now. A metamask-style doge wallet would do wonders for this.

Also, knowing little to nothing about the backend (or other crypto backends, tbh), other than that it's derived from Bitcoin - I have concerns about scalability wrt transaction settlement times, power consumption, and ease-of-entry with self-hosted wallets.
Do the EasyCAP devices actually use the HID device class? You could probably build a USB device that sends video over button presses, but that's not relevant for accessing hardware that already exists.
I'm struggling to see the similarities with nukes to the point I'm not sure what to put forward as a key example of why they are different. Following with your call out though yes, nukes stopped being something you could do to further your position and turned into something that is very negative for everyone's position a long time ago. Even before this point nukes seem like a completely different dynamic though, they only move you "forward" in use by moving the other side back making the average worse and you can't exactly use them against a section of a population rather other geographic groups as a whole.

The only similarity I can draw is that both have been restricted internationally.
I agree with Jorams, this is not a common service. Most apps are things with an app server and db and most of all: they have a load that is easily handled by modest gear.
Maintenance costs of any software should be taken into consideration.

I can say that we've had our troubles with kafka sure. But app teams 100% love working with it instead of having to have familiarity with all the various data sources we have.

Working with all sorts of different data but all of its kafka is much easier than all sorts of data from
Many data sources.
> more complex behaviour, like spear throwing.

Possibly spear fishing if aquatic upright ape theory has any merit
I explained my understanding of Citadel and market-making here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942593
Correct; silver is about $25-30 per ounce whereas gold is closer to $2000 per ounce. If silver was to climb to $1000 per ounce it would likely be due to hyperinflation of the USD, not a sudden scarcity of silver
> the financial education to buy-and-hold through thick and thin

I find this somewhat dubious. If you buy-and-hold for a lifetime, you'll face at least a once-in-a-lifetime level of shock at some point.

The possibility that this shock will happen just when you need the funds occurs fairly regularly to generations of retirees: but always seems to be forgotten by gold-standard financial advice.
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Agree, active whatsapp users have so many groups with huge number of members. whatsapp switching cost is high because couple of group members refuse to switch, so group remains in whatsapp. Without group chats migrating to new platform, it remains a ghost town.
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COVID created a bored populous with stimulus checks to blow.

Recent retail investing has moved more tickers than just GME.
Here's AOC discussing it

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/aoc-returns-to-twitch-...

And here's a Vice article about it. They don't mention front running, but the outcome sounds the same, in that the customers are not paying the best price for the stock, since the middle man pockets some.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpnz5/robinhoods-customers-...

Also, thread. Can't speak for the expertise of the author, but at least he links to several articles in the comments.
https://twitter.com/toxic/status/1353890772135813121

This guy describes it as front running.
https://mobile.twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1355984104525...
Robinhood uses a company named Citadel Securities for some order flow, which is a spinoff of the other Citadel, but is a separate LLC and doesn't care what the other one does.

But it didn't matter even when they were the same company, because different departments of finance firms don't talk to each other by regulation ("Chinese walls").
As I noted in a similar thread a couple days ago..

When all of this started last fall, the price was bouncing between $5-10. Therefore, with as little as $500 (aka less than a stimulus check), you get 50-100 shares. Even as recently as ~3 weeks ago, it was $20-25/share. It cost more to buy in but still within reach for all but the smallest investors.

And that's not considering the options side.

As of the 19th (aka 12 days ago), you could still buy $35 calls for $12 with a Feb 19th expiration. That $1200 is worth upwards of $12-15k now.

Now multiply any of those by a couple hundred thousand investors, some with much more to put in.. and we still haven't touched the medium, let alone the BIG players.
A lot of us have a few thousand to yolo. I made money on it too. I'd say most of us were in it for the lulz. who cares if we lose.
Has there been any progression on manifest v3 support for uBO? Has the original maintainer shown interest in adding support, or any other forks? I'm curious to see what the performance/feature set looks likes. From my understanding, they upped the number of filters to 300K, which is 3x what most people use.
Everybody says Lisp is dynamic. OK but it's not Python. Don't forget that CL, and in particular the SBCL implementation, does pretty good compile-time type checking. Nice to note is that we get the warnings instantly because during development we can compile the function we are working on with a keystroke. Sure it is not a Hindley-Mindler type system (there's one in development: https://github.com/stylewarning/coalton/) but it is "good enough".

BTW, Atom and VSCode have pretty good plugins this day (https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...) and CL might have more libraries than you think (https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl). A lot is going one.
Oh, you can get 6TB+ of memory without problem.

https://yourdatafitsinram.net/
I’m far from an expert in this, but this seems wrong. My understanding is that even though shorts can in theory have “infinite downside”, in practice the short-sellers have to bail if they can’t post enough collateral to buy back the stock. And the 140% isn’t some “impossible fraction” thing, it just means that if there were 10 million shares before, well then now there are technically 24 million, and the short-sellers will need to buy back the “extra” 14 million in order to exit all their positions (not 100% sure if I got that right).

I get that the Redditors are doing something funky and unusual here, but whenever I see people talking about this being some sort of “buffer overflow! Game over, Man!” scenario, I get pretty skeptical. If markets survived April’s negative oil prices and the weirdness that entailed, I’m pretty sure they can survive a brief increase in the price of a small mall retailer’s stock.
Boise ranks #4 on "Percentage of population that's white"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Half of all robinhood accounts held GME.

Nevermind this is incorrect.
You're saying this, but the rules (which are convoluted) appear to require fund segregation, and, moreover, when MF Global was accused of doing what you're talking about, it was a major NYT and WSJ story.

http://m.futuresmag.com/2011/12/28/mf-global-may-have-sent-c...
I don't think I like this trend of web browers having so much power over hardware - seems like a huge vulnerability.

Also, how much memory do these changes involve? With these chromium updates every single elektron app I use will be affected?
There's a couple things wrong here:

> Proof of Stake not only replicates the same dynamics that Bitcoin was designed to eliminate (more wealth -> more power in system)

There is no legitimate sense in which PoS _is_ an instance of "rich have more power and get richer" but PoW is not. In fact, PoW is _worse_ than PoS in this regard, because PoW has economies of scale (if someone with a $100k investment earns $10k/year, someone with a $100m investment can earn significantly more than $10m/year). PoS on the other hand is much closer to a clean "what you earn is proportional to what you put in" design, which is realistically the best that you can do in an anonymous system where users can generate as many independent identities as they want.

> can only be made secure against a maximum of ⅓ byzantine actors, compared to Proof of Work's superior ½.

This is also not true. The 1/3 bound is for safety-under-asynchrony (a form of safety for which PoW's security margin is zero). If you assume synchrony, then PoS protocols' safety approaches 50% much like PoW does. Protocols like Casper FFG combine the "best of both worlds", giving you both of those security guarantees (50% BFT if the network is good, 33% BFT if the network is terrible) at the same time.
> I still don't understand why these kinds of derivatives are not banned. They're, as you described, basically betting.

Imagine I run a chain of hotels in beach resorts. When tourism is up, I make a ton of money; when tourism is down, I lose a ton of money. I'd like to flatten this so I can make a steadier, safer stream of money, budget more sensibly, and not be at risk of going under if 2-3 bad years come in a row.

What can I do? Well, maybe I look around and notice that a big spike in jet fuel prices drives ticket prices up, and when ticket prices go up people stay home and I lose money, whereas cheap jet fuel means high occupancy rates. So I might hedge by buying put options (and/or selling call options) on jet fuel. When fuel prices go up, I can offset my low revenues with cash from selling my now-valuable put options (or the cash I received earlier from selling now worthless call options). And when fuel prices go down, I can use some portion of my higher revenues to pay for the cost of the worthless puts I purchased (or to settle the now valuable calls I sold).

This sort of thing is common and healthy, not just among end users, but even more so among intermediaries working to remove and reduce the amount of risk inherent in the system.

Why are they not banned? Why would they be banned?

> Except for a handful of folks, everybody loses money on them.

That's not really how this works. Or indeed, could work.
Lots of things can be done. The fact that this is or is not technically possible with the protocol doesn't explain why precisely nobody is actually using it in this way.
DeepF***Value lol
>Just for context Melvin has returned better than 30% returns yearly since 2014

That's funny because in another thread someone mentioned that's usually how a lot of "good" investment strategies go. They return above-average returns when the times are good, but they get wiped out every few years/decades by the tail risk.
Reddit users would be an amount of the capital in the GME situation, but far from the majority.

There's a huge amount of other hedge funds who actually control the vast majority of the capital screwing over Melvin at the moment. This whole scenario is hedge funds making money off of other hedge funds and a bunch of retail investors making a small amount but risking huge amounts when GME inevitably collapses.
Well no, she didn't have to. It just was most convenient for her.
You’re fundamentally misunderstanding the model for shorting. You don’t short companies that aren’t already failing or other investors will happily buy your shares and you’ll be the one squeezed out.

> I would die happy if I saw Exxon or BP go to zero.

The underlying company would actually need to go bankrupt for this to work. A bunch of shorts can’t sell a bunch of stock an expect it to wipe a company out. Otherwise the company will just continue on and the shorts will bleed out payments or even worse, just buy back all of its stock an go private, really screwing the shorts.
Let's imagine that sometime around 2007 or so, we had decided to make make web apps (full-blown-apps) separate from web pages (structured documents, perhaps with some light level of dynamic aspects).

I think Google were smarter than all of us. They hired all these (often very young, smart but inexperienced) standards people they could find, and set them to work on making the browser the new OS.
We also allow things like bearer shares and gold coins which simply provide value to whoever has them.
You're right that I'm trivialising it, and everyone has a right to a hearing.

This case will be a waste of time though.

The broker has to offer best efforts, but if something goes wrong and they can't execute the order then that's tough.

Even if that weren't true, this case hinges on whether those orders would have driven the price up (it didn't move much either way AFAIK). So to make the case, the class have to collectively admit to market manipulation. RobinHood stopping them was like a taxi driver refusing to drive robbers to the bank, the robbers don't get to sue when their dastardly plot is foiled! Or they can sue, but they'll lose and open themselves up further to prosecution!
>Assuming that if shorts require traders to borrow the stock, shorting more than 100% of it is impossible.

That is wrong assumption. More than 100% of a company’s shares can be shorted without naked short.

Matt Levine explains. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/the-ga...

>There is no special limit on shorting at 100% of shares outstanding! There are 100 shares. A owns 90 of them, B owns 10. A lends her 90 shares to C, who shorts them all to D. Now A owns 90 shares, B owns 10 and D owns 90—there are 100 shares outstanding, but 190 shares show up on ownership lists. (The accounts balance because C owes 90 shares to A, giving C, in a sense, negative 90 shares.) Short interest is 90 shares out of 100 outstanding. Now D lends her 90 shares to E, who shorts them all to F. Now A owns 90, B 10, D 90 and F 90, for a total of 280 shares. Short interest is 180 shares out of 100 outstanding. No problem! No big deal! You can just keep re-borrowing the shares. F can lend them to G! It's fine.
Given they lost 53 percent that does indicate the direction they closed a lot of it.
As someone whoo immigrated to the US, most of the difficulty is due to demand - i.e. H1B lottery, visa country caps, etc. Otherwise it's not that different than other countries.
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even in an obviously stupid situation like GME, timing the market is still timing the market.
Hopefully they could simultaneously end each other.
If you’re on-mesh, are you still off-grid?
Over 700 million shares were traded last week, so even if every WSB user bought 10 shares, that wouldn't account for close to a majority of the activity.
The Fed coordinated the LTCM buyout, but it was not public money, IIRC. A federal bailing out of a completely non FDIC insured private capital firm would be uncharted territory, I think.
I laughed when CNN had to explain $Becky symbol and meaning of the term "wife's boyfriend".

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/investing/wallstreetbets-redd...
Cool project! Can you add a refresh/submit button? because I cannot interact on mobile. And, on computer, every change requires user clicking the text field and pressing Enter. Besides that, it's certainly useful and works well.
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By the way, aren't today SD cards faster than the actual RAM used in the original Spectrum was?
Can you make your point without the appeal to a (missing) authority? There is no standards document I've ever seen which names kafka explicitly.

Kafka has some benefits (lovely API) and some tradeoffs (hard to maintain, zookeeper is a bit of a mess). But there are obviously a lot of other ways to build successful, scalable software. WhatsApp was implemented on top of Erlang, and scaled to over 500m users when they had only 35 employees.

I want to disagree with your claim that kafka should be considered the default option - but you haven't dignified your (controversial) claim with any actual arguments. There's nothing here to even disagree with.
Maybe hire a teacher for some 1x1 lessons?
Fines... Which won't matter if the company's bankrupt
Honestly, Lyft and Uber mostly solved that while being completely unrelated to that specific cause.

It was a “UX problem” solved by a different program.
Nice. I do hope somebody does an Atari 800 one of these days.