skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading "Crossing the Chasm" now.

In it, the author talks about "innovators": the very first consumer group that one needs to convince to conquer a market.

He describes them as the following:
"they think all technology should be free or available at cost, and they have no use for “added-value” arguments. The key consequence here is, if it is their money, you have to make it available cheap, and if it is not, you have to make sure price is not their concern."

Game pirates are the "innovators" of the gaming market. They are the ones who will give you the best feedback, and will evangelize to the next group (visionaries) into trying it out.

As painful as it is letting them get away with piracy, they are instrumental in making a game commercially successful.

Note: excerpt taken from https://contentfiesta.com/book-notes/crossing-the-chasm/
Dem. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA) tests positive for Covid after 2nd vaccine shot
Also they can't use customer funds to fund the deposit, it has to be out of their pocket.

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/heres-why-robinhood-restrict...

>And we just can't afford-- well, we're not a clearing firm, but our clearing firm simply cannot afford the cost to settle those trades. We cannot use customer funds to front that cost due to regulation. So the brokerages or the clearing firms have to go into their own pockets to do it.
Let's see in a few months if it were the peak. I doubt that very much and my money is on it.
I wonder if we can invest in a fund manager who does this strategy. And if it's so good then why do pension funds and endowments not allocate to it typically.
The harm is more particularized for those whose stock was auto-sold at the dip for a margin call because they had bought the stock in an instant account.
> Lots of financial apps & cos treat OS names different than stock OS blindly as tampered/rooted for no reason.

Yeah true. I just ignore the warnings usually.
This is only true if someone deems you or your experiences credible, and this in turn is highly related to existing biases and relative places in social hierarchies.
what a horrifying dystopia.
Almost every single broker offers commission-free trading now.

And some of them (Fidelity, Vanguard etc.) didn’t pull trading when it got volatile. They also have far more stable platforms.
The point of fedora is to be on the bleeding edge and get things tested for blue hat. If this is a problem, choose another distro.
You'll notice on Friday, a list of stocks with high volatility had restricted trading - including non-meme stocks, like AMD. It's a reaction to higher holding percentages.
But it is on wall street every weekday.
I can't tell if this sarcasm or not. Clicking through 100 slides takes quite the effort, even if you're just skimming.
A shiny-on-hover effect that follows you mouse (with CSS)
Isn't that obvious?

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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The Evolutionary Lens
The front splitter wouldn’t make it up my drive, much less the road. Cybertruck instead!
I'm sure many thought of this, many ways to do it as well, cross repo or a dedicated one just for that. I wonder what github thinks of this.
Not to mention the prison-industrial complex in the US.

Kept well supplied with labour thanks to Kamala Harris and her draconian persecution of marijuana related “crimes”.
This time it is different. Previously they had glitches etc. This time they by choice restricted users which lead their users loose.

Whole concept they broke. If any investor still uses robinhood they are stupid. Your money and stock is not safe with Robinhood. They can restrict you any time.
Yes and those people have been predicting TSLA's decline for several years now. How long term is the "long term"?
Google doesn't have the technical ability to "turn off all the self-update stuff", if you mean preventing non-store apps from updating themselves by downloading and installing apks. The worst thing they can try doing is bullying the users into uninstalling the app through Google Play Protect.
>How come it works from all the way over here in Scandinavia? No problems with GME while RH was shutting it down.

Maybe because there's already a high barrier to trading US stocks (or stocks in general), so there wasn't enough people piling on to strain the brokerage's balance sheets?
Its a politcally untenable position on both sides sadly in the US. If employers were fined 2x, 3x, 4x salary for every single employee found to be working under the table the issue would solve itself. But democrats are of the position that people over staying their visas, illegally immigrating, are as an entire group people who will be killed if they go home so will do nothing to actually make life more difficult for people who do those things.
Pro business republicans are happy to allow their constituents to get a leg up in their businesses off the back of immigrants before they deport them so the immigrants can't use any public services.
Valid question!

1) Learning & researching capabilities of modern HW

2) Running RDBMS stress tests (until breaking point), Oracle, Postgres+TimescaleDB, MySQL, probably ScyllaDB soon too

3) Why? As a performance troubleshooter consultant+trainer, I regularly have to reproduce complex problems that show up only under high concurrency & load - stuff that you can't just reproduce in a VM in a laptop.

4) Fun - seeing if the "next gen" hardware's promised performance is actually possible!

FYI I have some videos from my past complex problem troubleshooting adventures, mostly Oracle stuff so far and some Linux performance troubleshooting:

https://tanelpoder.com/videos/
Tell Congress: Expanding Surveillance Won’t Make Us Safer
I checked the Robinhood tos and it looks like they have a forced arbitration clause anyway. I'm not sure why the class action efforts thought they could get anywhere.

That said, I'm pretty sure you could make Robinhood fold if the users all bombed them with arbitration filings.
Once you throw in "hate speech" you are just saying that censorship of things you don't like is ok.
What's more important, pretty long exposure pictures taken from Earth or internet access?

If that's all you think is lost, then you are apparently not a scholar of history, archaeology, philosophy, literature, or anthropology.

Moreover, just because -you- don't value something doesn't mean it has no value.
While technically true, I wonder if people care much about a $1 fee on an entire contract (100 shares).
A thing retail investors have always done (placing orders to buy and sell stocks) used to cost a lot. Now it's practically free. You can flee to a more abstract argument about whether investing itself is bad, but I'm not interested in debating that, only in observing that HFT had a large hand in eliminating those costs.

I note further that you only attempted to rebut one of the two points I made in my comment.
I don't think I'm advocating for anything. I don't know what all the effects of the stock market are, but it seems like it probably has some.

It's probably best you don't take me seriously. I don't have any strongly held opinions about any of it. Maybe I'll develop some, but I'm just trying to figure it out for now.
> Where things get interesting

And when a lawyer says "interesting," they mean "expensive."

> Where things get interesting (and fuzzy) here that I’m not quite sure where the line is between a group working together to influence the market and just... the market.

I think it's also noteworthy here that the short interest was at least initially over 100%. That's a powder keg; you don't "create" a short squeeze in that environment so much as just wait for any random spark to cause one.

If it comes down to the SEC prosecuting individual members of WSB (where they can't prove misrepresentation), I think there will also be substantial first amendment arguments at play. One recent rallying call of the bubble has been to buy and hold GME stock as a protest against hedge funds / the stock market as a whole, and on the face of things that's political protest. The SEC isn't in the business of investigating other politically motivated stock boycotts, so a politically-motivated stock purchase should also be treated with kid gloves.

> That said, there are definitely a handful of individuals on WSB who got the ball rolling and have profited heavily.

From what I can tell, RoaringKitty/DFV is less likely to be a target of a market manipulation charge because their arguments were made well over a year ago and were ultimately ones of value; the profit did not depend on causing a short squeeze, and DFV in fact took profit from a large portion of their initial stake by the end of 2020 (before the squeeze).

The linked post is more direct in "these purchases will cause a short squeeze," so it could more credibly be called manipulation. But again, the powder keg makes the analysis weirder.
Re IB: if you are a "Pro" account generally not. If you are a "Lite" account, yes they get paid for order flow.

As to the other point, I belive the issue was in settlement, not clearing, ie with DTCC collateral reqs.
Indeed. This is a problem that happens anyway. Getting rid of the Senate would make it worse. Just look what percentage of the western states is federal land, and what percentage of the Colorado river is claimed by California, both at the expense of people who actually live in those states.
Loss of an unlawful gain wouldn't be an actionable harm in any case.

"I intended to buy at a higher price in order to manipulate the price of an asset well above its value, and was harmed by being delayed until a later time where I could buy it at a lower price" -- not going to fly.

If RH is inadequately disclosing the risks of margin trading then some of their customers that had positions closed due to margin requirements might have cases.
In France software companies classify software development as R&d which I think has major tax upside for US companies with RD in France.
Why cant you just share the downloaded files?
> You loose 25 years of stateless hardware offloads done by the NIC.

That's a feature.

Otherwise the industry will die off slowly. Case in point, OpenStack first, and later kubernetes, were exactly this kind of innovation. It offers very tiny benefit and a whole slew of plugging points for the industry players to hook upon; but is beneficial enough for mostly everyone to be comfortably endorse a piece of technology that at the time were already starting to decaying... Of course in this case, OpenStack has been a much worse tech because of it was developed by people haven't been the mainstream...
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The Starlink satellites are clearly not responsible for the loss of the starry sky.

This is more correctly stated "The Starlink satellites are clearly not solely responsible for the loss of the starry sky."

But that's like saying, "It's OK to open this coal-fired power plant because there are lots of other ones already polluting the world."
First, WSB people are aware that the short squeeze hasn't happened yet, since short interest remains very high.

Second, the WSB consensus is starting to build around sacrificially holding stocks through the short squeeze and subsequent decline to ensure bandwagoning retail investors are able to get back out and extract the profits from short sellers covering.
By the way, “malcontent” (no hyphen) is an English word that doesn’t mean “bad content” or “malicious content” like you’re intending.
> [0] For example (and this is just one example), I remember last year stories about how covid-19 victims were going into mass graves in New York City. And while that was a true and an objective fact, important context was left out. The context that was missing was that they were being buried on Hart Island, which is literally a mass grave site designated for unidentifiable persons dying of any cause, not just covid. But if you leave that part out it seems like the bodies are piling up so fast and so high the authorities had no choice but to dump the corpses in mass graves. Whereas in truth only unidentifiable/unclaimed covid victims were buried on Hart Island, and the same fate happens to any of NYC's homeless when they die for any reason and nobody claims the body.

Except even your "objective fact" lacks the context.

Hart island is and was a mass grave for unidentified/unclaimed bodies... however the number of dead going to that island was way way higher than years before during normal times. Hell even in october of last year at a time where the virus was more under control there was still 4 times(360 vs 90) the number normally going to that island. the number buried there through october was over 2 times the total buried there from the previous year with two more months to go in the year.

even people who discount covid as a bad, made up thing also can't escape the fact that the year is far more deadly from deaths of any cause than prior years:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

So either people are dying from something else at an alarming rate that defies predictions or covid is something worth taking seriously(also, the fact that death is not the only outcome and there are people with serious long term negative effects).
It took me a long time to get over the hump of canceling cable TV. But, then, I don't get any OTA. If I got good broadcast TV signals, I'd probably have taken the leap much sooner.

I'm also not sure it's useful to distinguish a cable bundle from streaming if that streaming includes YouTube TV or whatever. You're really just getting the bundle in a different form at that point--and not really saving a lot of money.
I like the term "conspiracy myth".

It spreads in Germany now and I find it's quite useful.
China is arresting citizens for posting criticism on social media
But remember the arbitration problem that doordash faced when a law firm created an easy-to-arbitrate system for workers?

just do a web search for "arbitration backfired"

you'll find this and other interesting cases :)
I believe you don't give enough credit to the scope of this pump and dump.
2008 was, more or less, a local US problem. Very few outsiders had their money in it. This one has the rest of the world's money involved as well.
And that, in my opinion, moves the center of gravity of that issue into different territory. Resentment.
Some involved in that raid are in it for the pain it causes those hedge funds, not for the money ( no matter how little true believers there are ).
If US punishes those kids, that resentment will only grow, and it'll grow among those not in US. The growth of us vs them mentality is the last thing anyone needs
> Having 2 elected houses is monumentally stupid idea that allows politicians to trap the system in blockages, while pointing fingers at each other for no repercussions.

A democratic system's main concern is not efficiency, but rather robustness of the democratic process. Authoritarian states are much more efficient in passing legislation, but at what cost?
Ethical Hacking. Critical Role and Responsibilities Of
A very good article. A section that really spoke to me:

> Prior to the rise of the “intellectual property” as an umbrella term, the different legal regimes it refers to were customarily referred to by their individual names. When you were talking about patents, you said “pat­ents,” and when you were talking about copyrights, you said “copyrights.” Bunching together copyrights and trademarks and patents and other rules wasn’t particularly useful, since these are all very different legal regimes. On those rare instances in which all of these laws were grouped together, the usual term for them was “creator’s monopolies” or “author’s monopolies.”

> The anti-IP argument leans into the differences between the underlying rationale for each of these rules:

> * US copyrights exist to “promote the useful arts and sciences” (as set out in the US Constitution); that is, to provide an incentive to the creation of new works of art: copyright should offer enough protection to create these incentives, but no more. Copyright does not extend to “ideas” and only protects “expressions of ideas”;

> * Patents exist as incentive for inventors to reveal the workings of their inventions; to receive a patent, you must provide the patent office with a functional description of your invention, which is then published. Even though others may not copy your invention during the patent period, they can study your patent filings and use them to figure out how to do the same thing in different ways, or how to make an interoperable add-on to your invention;

> * Trademarks exist as consumer protection: trademarks empower manu­facturers to punish rivals who misleadingly market competing products or services that are like to cause confusion among their customers. It’s not about giving Coca-Cola the exclusive right to use the work “Coke” – it’s about deputizing Coca-Cola to punish crooks who trick Coke drinkers into buying knockoffs. Coke’s trademark rights don’t cover non-deceptive, non-confusing uses of its marks, even if these users harm Coca-Cola, because these do not harm Coke drinkers.

> Seen in this light, “intellectual property” is an incoherent category: when you assert that your work has “intellectual property” protection, do you mean that you can sue rivals to protect your customers from deception; or that the government will block rivals if you disclose the inner workings of your machines; or that you have been given just enough (but no more) incentive to publish your expressions of your ideas, with the understanding that the ideas themselves are fair game?

> When you look at how “IP” is used by firms, a very precise – albeit colloquial – meaning emerges:

> “IP is any law that I can invoke that allows me to control the conduct of my competitors, critics, and customers.”
Xiaomi to Prosecute US Government over Treasury Ban
there isn't going to be an exodus.. just a whiny minority complaining they cant bankrupt themselves
... if you model it that way you're not using cyclic dependencies at all and this is in fact exactly how you would model it in a functional way.
Please don't take HN on generic flamewar tangents. Platform flamewars, like programming language flamewars, quickly suck up all the oxygen in a thread, but they're fundamentally repetitive and boring.

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There are still updates from LineageOS.
what an incredible waste of time. messing with dpi, crappy apps taking from here and there in 2021. linux desktop userspace is a dumpster fire
China Is Now Sending Twitter Users to Prison for Posts Most Chinese Can’t See
This article got my attention. Related to what you are saying, in Java, the problem that I was really fed up of was creating domain specific JSON object models to map the JSON documents into to use in code. In other words, mapping JSON to rigidly typed language structure. Its boiler plate, is tedious to do (as the author points out in the article), difficult to change and usually a pain. I solved this problem by creating unify-jdocs which completely eliminates the need to create object models or POJO classes to represent your JSON object. You can read more about it here -> https://github.com/americanexpress/unify-jdocs
I hope it helps you and others.
The collateral requirements differ from stock to stock.
QUIC is for corporations. Integrating TLS into a fundemental protocol means that cert authorities are integrated. Cert authorities mean that individual human people cannot communicate with each other over the protocol unless a corporation allows it on their whim.

If QUIC is widely adopted it will do much to improve the performance video streaming from corporate services, but it will absolutely destroy the decentralization of the internet and provide single points of technical and political failure.
Is there proof of this? This gets repeated a lot and the best "proof" I've seen was a wsb post claiming they got sold "without [their] permission", but stopped short of saying whether they were using margin or not.
The Senate was designed that way when the distribution of "Free white males 16 years and upward" - the only people who could vote at that time - was far more uniform across the states [1].

There was only 1 order of magnitude difference between the voting eligible population of the smallest state (Delaware) and the largest state (Virginia).

Today, that difference is 2 orders of magnitude, which is massive in comparison to what it was when the Senate seat allocation was designed.

Arguments for the preservation of that system are nothing more than shallowly disguised arguments for the continued selective erosion of voting power of individuals in high population states.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790_United_States_census
Right. I get that. But if buying on margin is the problem, block buying on margin. Why block buying when people have the cash already settled in their account as well?

Edit: Answered in another chain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25971718
As well as stripping comments, did they also strip and replace variable names? This code reminds me of trying to grok autogenerated Java GUI code in CS101.
Man’s penis held to ransom by hackers who took control of digital chastity belt
This thread is an interesting micro allegory for how the move off of fossil fuels will be extremely difficult if all we use are solar and wind power.

Kind of drives the point home about nuclear being the best option. And I know, "ohhh it's so expensive." Ok, so stop letting the markets dictate prices and tax all fossil fuels until gas is $25/gallon. Suddenly nuclear is cheap.
Loved this plugin first time I saw it. It saves my DAW a lot of CPU resources by putting those heavy CPU load plugins into another slave machine.

There is no other choice like what AudioGridder does. Well done, apohl79. Thank.
Nope. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

> Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.

Nobody here is claiming that the parent's statement is false. We're saying it's true! However, we're also saying it's useless (i.e. "vacuously true" or "tautologically true"). The parent is saying that many Web sites contain JS; the slow ones are due to "bad JS" (and implicitly, that the non-slow ones have non-bad JS).

How can we tell whether some JS is "bad"? By checking if it's slow. Let's say we do that, and find that the site is slow, and hence our JS is "bad". How can we improve it, to get non-bad JS? No idea; maybe getting a bunch of developers to make random refactorings, measuring the speed of each, using that to tell whether the JS is still "bad", and stopping once it's no longer slow and hence no longer "bad"? In which case, the whole notion of "bad JS" is irrelevant; it's conceptually indistinguishable from "slow page", and hence adds nothing to the discussion (i.e. if we followed the above steps, we would get exactly the same result if we ignore all the stuff about "bad JS" and just use the timing measurements directly).

Note that the concepts of "slow page" and "page with JS" are not vacuous, since we can measure them (with a clock, and by parsing the page source, respectively) and hence make falsifiable predictions about correlations and causal relationships between them.
> Every engineer I've ever met who has been doing it for more than a couple years universally decries circular dependencies. Every one of them has come to that opinion via hard won experience dealing with real world problems they encountered.

They may not realize they have them - at runtime, in the object graph, possibly indirectly. There's little difference in principle between cycles in "static" code vs. runtime state, but we often can't express them in the former, because our languages don't specify the concept of dependency at enough granularity (and some rely on a linear compilation pass).