skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, as someone who writes software, my first guess is that "per user rate limiting of new, unsettled individual security positions" is most likely not something that was built in to their product. It's also not something to YOLO out into production during an extreme volatility event when people are already mad at you.

Adding a static check of holding was likely much more straight forward.

In traditional Robinhood-style, this decision prioritized growth (allowing new users to still sign up and buy)

I guess a different alternative would have been just selling as much GME until they reach the maximum they could make the obligations for, but then it probably would have been considered less "fair" (if one person could buy 1000 shares, and then no one else can buy any).

You may not agree with Robinhood leadership, or Robinhood as a company (I know that I don't), but this can really be thought of as a #hugops moment where they had to figure out how to track down and address the root of these (multiple) issues in real-time. They most definitely did not come out with the "best" solution.
This should have been started at the beginning of the pandemic, if this was a rush job then that raises further incompetence questions
Reminds me of the discussion here a couple years ago when Accenture was sued over their website redesign for Hertz rental cars:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737070
powercfg will indeed report on what programs have raised the timer interrupt frequency. However powercfg (and clockres) both just report on the state at a moment in time. Many programs repeatedly raise and then restore the timer interrupt frequency and powercfg utterly fails to understand this. And yet, powercfg is the best that Microsoft has supplied.

I eventually decided to write a better alternative. The batch file below (requires Python and Windows Performance Toolkit to be installed) will report on all timer interrupt changes by all processes over the time period recorded:

https://github.com/google/UIforETW/blob/main/bin/trace_timer...
I mean, given the results, it seems pretty clear they didn't know what to ask for, how to specify requirements, how to verify they got what they asked for, etc. That sort of thing doesn't get easier if you're hiring your own engineers.
/r/WallStreetBets has devolved into a pump-and-dump echo chamber.

I was a member of /r/WallStreetBets for several years. It was fun to joke around and talk quant stuff in some of the comment threads before it devolved into pure memes.

Recently, I commented on a few of the front-page threads to correct some misinformation. They banned my account within minutes. They don't want to see any comments that don't support the pump.

At this point, they're heavily moderating the sub to only allow posts and comments that glorify $GME. The only allowable content is that which insinuates anyone who buys $GME is about to get extremely wealthy, or that everyone buying $GME is sticking it to Wall Street.

The situation has gone from funny to scary as Redditors are pouring money into $GME with expectations of getting rich and taking down Wall Street at the same time. Subreddit moderators have no interest in letting any comments through that might spoil the party before the early $GME buyers can exit their positions.
Apple M1: Why It Matters; a PC Hardware Enthusiast Perspective
The current party in power in India is the political arm of the right-wing religious fundamentalist organization called the RSS. The RSS was inspired, and is modelled, after the Nazi party of Hitler in Germany. And like the Nazis, their goal is to take over complete control of our country and make it a theocratic-corporate-state under one party controlled by them.

To this end, just like the Nazis, they rely heavily on propaganda - today, that means all social media networks - through an online troll army built specifically for this purpose.

- BJP's troll army bullies, abuses and fights dirty with Narendra Modi as the general: https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/bjps-troll-army-bullie...

- I am a troll: Inside the secret world of BJPs digital armys: https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/i-...

- Modi's trolls are ready to wreak havoc on India's marathon election - VICE: https://www.vice.com/en/article/597mwk/modis-trolls-are-read...

- General Narendra Modi and His Troll Army: https://thewire.in/politics/narendra-modi-twitter-trolls-fre...

This is why many posts in such discussion ends up looking black and white, as many citizens opposed to the government counter their propaganda (often with facts), but still end up in polarised debate (which is also one of the end goals of such propaganda - to polarise the people and make it seem like no political reconciliation of views seems possible). It's a sorry state of affairs that all democracies are now struggling with, against the right ...
It's only demonstrably wrong if you're going to insist on the very literal "almost none of the BLM protests involved violence" and ignore that that statement, in isolation, is rather misleading. Sure, most of the protests were peaceful. But when they weren't, it was was very bad.

I was living in Downtown Chicago during the two major BLM protests that went violent last year. From my window, I saw people shooting out windows, starting fires, and looting. Even if it were a moot point to call 911, it didn't matter because you'd get a busy signal if you tried calling. Businesses I frequented, including the coolest camera shop I've ever seen, were destroyed. In the days following these riots, it took 45 minutes to an hour to enter my neighborhood because of National Guard checkpoints. The grocery stores and pharmacies were closed because their windows were smashed in, they were looted, and they were generally smashed to hell. And local BLM organizers infamously defended their actions as the "cry of the unheard" and the looting as "reparations."

I've read accounts similar to my own from people in Seattle and Minneapolis.

I get that some opponents of BLM want to use these riots to discredit what the movement stands for. But BLM proponents shouldn't try to gas light me and others who were victims of these demonstrations in defense. They were horrific. People died.
Of interest to this thread ;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICj8p5jPd3Y

Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145

Matthew W. Johnson is a professor and psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins.
The entire silicon valley - and the very nature of BTC itself is a living testament to the ignorance of those supporting it.

It is not really currency and it's the worst store of value imaginable.

Literally ever kind of other normal long term asset would be better: stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities.

" I’m holding as little cash as I can and trading it out for Bitcoin and Ethereum every chance I can get"

This is exceedingly unwise. You may get rich, you may lose your shirt, probably something in between, but you're putting hard earned money into monopoly money controlled by a very small number of people who are either jerks or criminals and care nothing for the system.
You might be misunderstanding the US capitol outrage. It wasn't that people brandished weapons or killed each other - that's bad, and everyone wants it to stop, but it does sometimes happen.

The problem was that the Capitol was invaded while the Senate was in session, which made a bunch of lawmakers feel personally threatened. And when rich politically-connected people fear for their own safety, you'd better watch out.

Anyways, protests attack cops and cops attack protests in the US...oh, every few months? Such is life.
Never said anything about red fort & army. I repeat, Nishan Sahib & Jaikaara is official war cry & flag of Sikh Regiment. Home minister, prime minister, president salutes to it in every republic day parade. Modi wears that Khanda symbol oh head when visting Gurudwaras.

Rajnath, on visit to a army post,asked a Sikh Officer to do the War Cry.

Link: for proof: Rajnath Singh asking for Jaikaara https://youtu.be/hkLx4X3yjeg
What did you do for timer coalescing? If every thread can request a custom wakeup time then power consumption goes up. If wakeups are coalesced then what algorithm do you use to coalesce them, and how much movement in wakeup times do you allow? Depending on how you coalesce timers you can very easily find yourself reinventing the basics of what Windows does.

The Windows system also gives you a very cheap to read timer counter which is a nice attribute.

The Windows system is frustrating, especially for those who don't understand it, but it does have some excellent attributes.
That could explain why protests have large scale support in areas dominated by Sikhs and Jats.
This makes me so upset.

I'm currently also at a federal research institution thats millions of dollars over budget and years behind on a software project, and there is NO PRESSURE on the management because federal grant money printer go brrrr.

If time is money, this is peoples lives. Who holds these people accountable?
Well thanks for calling me out as to not knowing who the hell is responsible.

I agree with your approach... we need experts, who will NOT bid to one company, who will NOT accept one-sided terms.

These are fat government contracts we're talking about... the company should have to take 100% responsibility to deliver a working website at cost.

If companies mismanage and fail, they should go out of business, and another company can try... instead of us paying for it, incentivizing bad behavior.
Wink Smart home service offline for 5 days and counting
Yes, these companies sub-contract, but that doesn't change my comment. Sub-contracting is something that Deloitte et al know how to do, and have existing relationships with staffing agencies, have an existing management structure to manage those subcontractors, have existing contracts so you don't need to waste time negotiating, etc.

And with all that said, companies like Deloitte do have hundreds of people ready to go. They may not have a deep bench for certain niche projects, but I used to work at a Big4 and for something generic like "build us a website for people to sign up", we had entire offices of people around the globe in our offshore delivery centers just waiting around for work like that. Oftentimes we would still subcontract because it works out to be cheaper if 10-20% of your resources on any given project are subcontractors, but they weren't always necessary.
Why hasn't any politician taken up a stance against bloated contracts like these? I think it's a cause that lots of folks could get behind.
That's just one fuckup though.

How many more fuckups does the government have?
Wow I’m amazed like how much money can made if you are into government contracting

I’m just curious to know can you get government contracts let’s say if you are running a software agency
Psychedelics and Mysticism: How to Not Get Lost Thinking You Know It All
"It even has a Wikipedia page." lol ok then case closed
The BJP has won and lost elections that were run using EVMs. They literally won a national election and lost state elections in the same EVM run elections. Are you going to tell me about Biden supporters somehow having stolen the presidential election while losing house seats by ballot stuffing now?

I am half Sikh and many members of my family served in the Indian military, including in Sikh regiments. I would FAR prefer a BJP central government to a Congress one. Before you listen to another word of Congress propaganda, google the Delhi Sikh Riots and the role senior Congress party members like Kamal Nath played in them. The BJP may not be particularly erudite English speakers and may deliberately choose not to participate in debates at Oxford like a Shashi Tharoor might. They don’t want care to play to a western audience in that manner. But unlike the Congress they don’t put mafioso or wife killers in senior positions no matter how suave they may be.

Trump and Modi are not from the same Universe. Modi noticed Trump loves adulation and let him have all he wanted. That is just smart diplomacy.
>> At 44 million, you can hire 146 engineers each paid 300k for a full year.

It’s Deloitte, they probably hired 100 developers for 80k and 50 project managers for 300k
Thank you!

Here are a few examples - happy to discuss further if you'd like:

I would say it a lot of it boils down to being more calm and my "self" in more situations, and less reactive.

My relationship with work has improved drastically - I used to be quite afraid to speak in meetings and really tried to hide in a lot of situations, but find myself much more relaxed and even enjoy expressing myself with my colleagues these days.

Also with work, I have a much easier time setting boundaries and letting work go when it's time to call it a day.

I've found my relationships have deepened significantly as well as I am less guarded and more open to intimacy.
Of course many topics of the book aren’t covered, this entire post is only about chapter one! If you actually read the post you will see it is pretty damning.
There's no accountability because tax money printer go brrr.
Sahi pakre hai, yes, true, for BJP, Only Hindus are state subjects, us others are just extra, cannon fodder.
We need third party data, Tesla has incentive to fudge those numbers.
No good engineer I've worked with only did the bare minimum. Usually it was 2x or 3x beyond that e.g. thinking about the customer, understanding the right technologies, designing for scale, etc.
>> it's not like every single one of their projects is a complete failure.

But they can all be a bloated, over budget, late mess
I mean with $22M on the line I’m willing to at least investigate a means of doing so.
I'm assuming you haven't driven one. They are not slow. My wife uses one asa. commuter car and it's fantastic. We just went through a long research phase of hybrids and surprisingly ended up with a Volt. (Chevy isn't really on my radar otherwise.)
I don't know why you'd call it bait and switch. Stadia has always been "you have to buy the games separately" for pretty much all titles. That was the big knock against it at launch, and has been an impediment to its growth.

FWIW I consider Stadia and the ilk oversold to the mass market akin to VR. There may be a market for people who want to play AAA games, will pay several hundreds per year and yet have never bothered to pay ~$300 for a game console (tail end of last gen). I'm just skeptical it's actually as huge as it's hyped to be.
I do think the current rise of anti-truth fascism forking out of the Republican party is an extremely serious existential threat to the US. It does matter to challenge every false claim of a stolen election.
That's not true. You can have a religious ceremony after the civil ceremony is registered.
The "150% shorted" narrative has been deliberately misrepresented. WSB wants everyone to think that there are 150% short positions and only 100% long positions. In reality, each short creates a synthetic long, so there are always more long positions than short positions.

WSB also seems to misunderstand the short interest. They're pushing the idea that short interest must start going down to indicate the squeeze has started. They're not accounting for (or deliberately ignoring) the fact that new short positions can be initiated at $360 which will be profitable when the stock inevitably falls. Reddit can't keep the stock high forever with a never-ending stream of buyers. That's why they've now shifted to pushing the narrative that everyone should buy and hold $GME to hurt Wall Street, which isn't really true either.

WSB is also pushing the narrative that everyone is holding (or hodling) $GME shares and refusing to sell. This is perhaps the strangest claim of all, since it's so easily debunked by looking at the huge daily volume of shares traded. Shares can't be traded unless a buyer and seller agree on a price. The volume is extremely high, which means plenty of people are selling their $GME all day every day.

WallStreetBets has devolved into a blatant pump-and-dump megaphone.
So in other words, you change the definition of "protesting" based on if it aligns with your personal political viewpoint.

They should add this comment in the dictionary under the definition of "cognitive dissonance".
> Deloitte is the only contractor that can meet the project requirements, because configuration of the VAMS application is occurring using Deloitte’s propriety GovConnect platform. Therefore, no other contractor has rights or access to leverage the system to carry out O&M activities, such as the administration of the system, change and defect management and end user support. As the only contractor with the GovConnect proprietary platform, and the need to stand up O&M support for VAMS while concurrently developing future releases, Deloitte is the only contractor that can achieve the O&M scope and contract requirements.”

Can’t make this stuff up.

https://beta.sam.gov/opp/2f5fc512fdde4e22860832337aac420f/vi...
Historical racism, especially slavery.
Full disclosure: I have had the distinct "privilege" on having worked with all aspects of large consulting firms, from working at Cap Gemini, to being a sub for a smaller company on a large gov't contract with Lockheed Martin, to actually competing (and winning) against the large companies with my own, small consulting company startup.

In short, the above comment is spot on. Companies like Deloitte, Cap Gemini, PwC, etc. all make their margins purely on their reputation. Just like back in the 80s when the phrase "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" became popular, I think from the mid-90s all the way through to even 2010s there has been a similar sentiment with large, multinational consulting companies.

These consulting companies know they have a strong reputation for large scale, enterprise software projects, and so they will milk margins by charging high rates, upselling all sorts of additional features, and fulfilling projects with the lowest cost resources, whether it'd be outsourcing overseas, utilizing H1-B workers, or bringing in recent college grads. (Accenture is probably one of the most notorious for this -- not sure if they still do this now, but back in the early 2000s, they were known for bringing in college grads from all sorts of usually non-STEM majors, and they would put them through a 2-week bootcamp (er "Core Analyst Training") out in St. Charles, where more focus was on the partying and hooking up than anything else, but then shortly afterword, they'd be put on projects where they'd be expected to do technical design and even coding, while being billed out at $180+/hour)

Now, in all fairness, for every highly publicized, disastrous rollout that one of these companies gets notoriety for, there are actually still dozens of much less public, relatively successful implementations that gets deployed without any issue or fanfare.

But despite this, the costs for even the successful projects are still ridiculously high. As the main reason for their huge margins are primarily in their reputations, then as their reputations continue to erode from things like this news piece, clients will start to wonder if the large costs can continue to be justified.

And I'm beginning to see this sentiment directly -- my small dozen-person consulting company has not only been able to compete directly against these larger companies, but we have started winning contracts against them as well. For the latest contract we won, we bid at about 20% of what one of the larger companies ended up coming in at -- they actually thought they were a shoe-in because they were the incumbent, having built out several other projects already for the client. But we ended up being selected not just because of our pricing, but because of our overall proposal, favorable terms and expertise on the domain.

What's even more surprising is that even though we offered "bargain basement" pricing relative to theirs, it will still end up being the most profitable project we have had to-date -- it just makes it crazy to think what kind of profits/margins that they can make.
I mean it's certainly no secret that the US government suffered from incredible incompetence when it came to managing the pandemic.

With that said, the start of the pandemic was ~1 year ago. Even if it started right then, 12 months for a country-wide, government-run IT project is a rush job.
> And government needs better lawyers when dealing with private contractors.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Get a used toyota corolla. It'll last for hundreds of thousands of miles with minimal issues if you maintain it (oil change, brakes, etc.) At the cost you'll pay, even if it does break down, it'll still be far, far less than the cheapest electric vehicles.
You do realize that people need less air conditioning at night and that this is something that works now and has worked for a long time right?

This isn't some theoretical plan, people have been using air conditioning for a long time.
I've been bingeing Computer Chronicles on YouTube, as someone who was born in the late 80s and started really getting involved with computers in the early 2000s it fascinates me.
Exactly, more language specific search functionality.

I want to be able to hover over a variable, function or class and see where it is defined and some places where it is used elsewhere.

Essentially the features of an advanced IDE, without the ability to edit and a simple user interface. I don't want the website to break if JS isn't enabled or use a 1000% CPU.
No, you can use rtp with like 50Kbps link (audio only). This statement makes no sense
It's another thing to think about though.

If you need gas it's 5 minutes. if you need emergency electric charge, well, you're screwed.
Saved my socail media feeds
Except a ot of people were arrested , pepper sprayed, beat up, etc.

So if the summer BLM a protests are the standard, let’s have the cops pepper spray these people with riot gear, best them up, and arrest them as well.
> At 44 million, you can hire 146 engineers each paid 300k for a full year

Maybe they did and the too many chefs to cooks ratio played out, seen and experienced that.
Or I can just use gas, and not have to worry about it.
Curious if any studies have been done on user experience of those also taking anti depressants vs. not.
Even better if the grid is NOT up to it - that's the whole point - look for additional ways more budget must be spent, as the US government, socialists and kleptocracy work together on destroying the republic and the US dollar.
I encourage people to read "The Life of Greece" by Will Durant. It resonates with our times.

They also had wealth inequality. Sometimes, it resulted in the poor and wealthy fighting. This fighting was often very brutal with each side putting the other to death. Once in awhile, an enlightened leader would come who would put into place a system for greater prosperity for all.
When doing a home remodel and the contractor breaks something they either return the money or fix it. Blame the CDC for not vetting the work and enforcing contracts.
Because the companies that get these contracts pay for the politician's war chest.
And let's not forget that 1/3rd of the way through, when you're demonstrating an impressive amount of progress with a working prototype, some decision maker will say "you know, we could really make this a two-for-one if we tied it into this other program...", and start the 1,000 hours of meetings to get to development all over again.
The Hubble Space Telescope? (and the other "Great Observatories" satellites)
This is where the stats people taking over is bad for society.

Yea that's their commute - what about soccer practice, the gym, the store, visiting grandma, etc. It's unrealistic to say "welp 32 a day we're good."
Good question! Generally speaking I am more relaxed and calm, more my self! Certainly more hopeful as well, as when new challenges arise (or old ones come to the surface) I know that I have a (so-far) consistent way to dive in and resolve them.