skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people are wondering what other options there out there to protect WSB and other groups from obnoxious band like this, might I suggest Mastodon? You can self host and be a part of the network. The tricky part to replicate the user capacity for WSB would probably require a lot of build out and probably someplace the servers can’t be killed by the ISP or data center (Russia?).

I along with a few other friends have messaged the moderators and a few other notable figures on Reddit about this. Nobody has responded for obvious reasons.

Would like to see them continue doing what they’re doing outside the grasp of the money strings controlling politics and the economy.
interesting. my company is stuck using these shitty internal tools that i'd like to customize.

can i use this to extend them (like add buttons, UI elements, surface data from API calls, scrape data)?
I think this is produced for export to the US only.
Don’t need interest rates when they print money.

If you would like to learn more: http://anuparty.org/on-interest-slavery/

Effectively, banks can lend on margin. They put 10% down, you pay back 100% of the loan + some little interest. What does that mean? They can loan out 10x the money they have, and people pay it back in full, 10x their return. Each of those have a small bit of interest and fees. Making them a nice cushy income stream.

The FES can also just create money with a click. This devalues all the other dollars slightly, but then those funds can be shared.

Overall, this isn’t surprising.
A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow, thats why I have to give you $1.1 tomorrow in exchange for you giving me $1.0 today.
There's a huge difference between limiting margin trading for GME and closing positions without asking a user or offering an option to put up collateral. Many brokerages did the former, and at least Schwab/Fidelity/TDA all seem to be otherwise up and running so retail investors can still buy and sell GME.
Doesn't need to be decentralized, just a phpBB forum behind Cloudflare would still work. Cloudflare is one of the few companies that hasn't become censor-happy (except that one time..)
Basically there was a good fundamental analysis with due diligence that GameStop was over shorted and priced under value. Some people thought it was a good analysis and started buying. When more people buy... the price goes up.

As the price goes up more people started to believe the thesis and piled in. At some point this just becomes momentum training which last I knew was legal.

It seems like you have taken a very narrow and biased view of the law that fits the narrative you like.
For now. Wait till they get bigger and Vice or the NYT writes an article about how Discord is a "safe haven for hate speech and white supremacy".
I just realized you saw "spindizzy" before I edited it out -- I didn't know if Cities in Flight was something anybody else remembered.

Stand on Zanzibar was full of made-up slang, but eptification and mucker stand out in my memory, because eptification was so similar to the automated learning in the Matrix, and mass shootings (and knifings in other parts of the world) are now a normal part of life. I don't think any other writers picked them up and used them in their work, though.
> Anybody who wants trading infrastructure like Citadel is free to go out and spend the same hundreds of millions it took Citadel to build that infrastructure.

Well, no. Most people don't have that. "The rich get richer".
> So your two listed goals are in competition. That's why I'm saying you reap what you sow: you wanted a world where people can be deplatformed, and you got it.

I don't "want a world where people can be deplatformed". I am 100% in favour of better censorship resistance, open messaging, etc and I 100% think whatever "bad" comes out of a system like that would be far outweighed by the good it brings.

But that doesn't mean I'm against Facebook deplatforming assholes. Hell I'm against Facebook as a whole, but as far as their current role in society plays? They have a stupid amount of influence over large swathes of the population and that's a problem.

The problem is no matter how I phrase this, you'll think I'm in favour of Facebook "censoring people"; whereas my position is that Facebook has actively given new tools for assholes to spread hateful messages, including not just the groups systems but active recommendations, advertising, sorting algorithms which prioritize engagement (read: flamewars), etc.

In short: I'm in favour of Signal and against Facebook. How's that contradictory?
Thats been my experience in the past. But it's been a few years.

In general consumer brokerages have little incentive to move fast when you are leaving them.
If you manage a community that is even remotely controversial, you’d better start asking your community for their email address, as an emergency backup.

Possibly even ask for their phone number.

Though it's tempting, don't message them at all. Just hang onto it.

Only use it to if your community is banned and you need to start over somewhere else. Then email/text them the location of the new community.
It’s hard the same reason I can’t put a ton of solar panels on my roof and pump large amounts of electricity into the grid. The upstream infrastructure is not sized appropriately. It’s not that running a server is hard but that most internet infrastructure is designed to consume and not produce.
Many brokerages will probably cover the transfer fee, if you move to them. Alternatively, just leave the minimum value behind (though can be annoying since you have to migrate each position itself).
You aren't, there are netting, batching, and matching algorithms that have been developed for larger systems. The Feds, who process $2Tn.+/day, BoE, ECB etc have found these systems to hold up through trials, simulations, and implementations. DTCC, on the other hand, handles $500Bn.

Here's the Fed's review, https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/0...

DTCC doth protest too much.
Please don't be rude and blameful. Also, freedom of speech cannot be all or nothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
It was a politically coordinated response to a politically coordinated attack on the capitol. What else could be done? At the very least, dog whistling, hyperbole, and calling the electoral system fraudulent without evidence proved he was an extraordinarily dangerous leader. I would go further to say he was completely open to an uprising to regain the throne
Yeah, remember when people were saying "there is no slippery slope, they'll definitely stop at fascists!" Sounds like someone who's never read a history book.
Agreed on WSB culture but....

The "real question," imo is not about how FB, discord or reddit handle WSB's culture. It's why have they all decided to act right now, just as this gamestop maneuver is happening? That is the fishy part... and it's too fishy to leave it unaddressed and talk content.

Either way, this just shows why we can't have a handful of companies moderating most of the internet under a TOS regime.
Did you build the tools yourself/do you have access to the code?

One of our big use cases is to extend/customize internal tools with UI/data/logic. Could you share more details? If you're more comfortable offline kevin@extension.dev
You sure inflation isn’t here?

Houses are up massively, land, cars, stocks, crypto, etc.

The inflation measurement is off. But the inflation is here.
Guidelines to help you avoid losing your domain
TDA seemed to be preventing GME buys the other day even if you were closing a short call. I wondered if it was intentional or just that nobody thought about the implications of no buys.
Depends on which argument you agree with. "It's a private company it can do whatever it wants" makes it seem like yes, they can. However Facebook is answerable to two distinct groups: The people who use the service, and the stock market. If people stopped using Facebook then it's possible that would push ad revenue down, which would then push the stock price down, which might then incite the investors to demand Facebook make changes to bring people back...so the ad revenue will go back up, which will push the stock price back up, and on and on. On the other hand, Facebook is a lot like Microsoft back in the 90s. It wasn't the only computer company. It wasn't the only operating system. But the sheer size and market influence allowed it to act unchecked.
The RH apologists are going on long winded explanations about clearing houses (and to some extent there’s elements of “it’s too complex for your little brain”). But even to the extent it’s true, if I put in 5k from my checkings into RH and buy stock, why does Rh need all this liquidity to get orders filled? I understand turning margin accounts off, but that’s it . Past that, at best robinhoods business model is highly flawed , at worst it’s fraudulent. Because ultimately, all the finance whiz bang talk doesn’t change common sense that only allowing trades in one direction is unfair, and is incredibly bad optics when that direct benefits a huge player filled with conflicts of interest. But honestly I think the “robinhood is committing fraud” is being underweighted amongst “serious “ discussion.
I'm a Republican. If you have to cancel one, can you cancel Donald Trump instead?
shrug

I see little difference between what WSB is doing and what various newsletters or Jim Cramer does.

One of the folks has been published about why GME deserves a chance has been published his rationale since at least mid-2020:

* https://www.youtube.com/c/RoaringKitty/videos

Some people are in because of his fundamentals analysis, some are in for the LOLz, some are in as an F.U. to the hedge fund fat cats, and some are in to try to get rich quick.
> Governments are the cause of mass starvation and murders, please see China, USSR, Germany, and on and on.

Organised groups of people do these things, governmental or not - private corporations are responsible for plenty of similar occurrences, and so are NGOs (e.g. religious groups). Centralisation of power is bad, absence of checks and balances is bad, lack of accountability is bad - but insisting that limited-liability corporations be allowed to grow arbitrarily large is the opposite of avoiding those problems.
I highly doubt that any brokerage will cover a $75 transfer fee on a <$1k account.
You really believe that the departments don't communicate? Once again, finding out that a lot of people see the world very differently than me. Why don't you think they communicate? It seems so clear to me that the departments work in cohort behind closed doors.
> Long ago railroad networks, water pipes networks, and landline phone networks were private companies free to do whatever they please with the property they own.

I agree about social networks, but I'm not sure how good of an argument this is. In the US all those things (railroads, water networks, landline) have gone to crap.
Developers build stuff from VCS checkouts. But the package managers and ports systems that regular users rely upon, still use tarball releases, not VCS checkouts, as their upstreams.

For example: Homebrew. If you tell Homebrew to --build-from-source, it'll pull down a release tarball from its release URL; unpack it; set up the shell environment just so; and then run the same very same ./configure script the upstream generated with Autotools.

It'd actually be kind of a problematic bootstrapping problem if that ./configure script did require Autotools to run, as there's no real legal way for (proprietary) macOS to ship (GNU, GPLv3) Autotools.

And that's much the same problem many other proprietary UNIXes were in, back when: wanting to support "standard" tooling, but being too wary of this new "copyleft" thing to be willing to ship any GPLed software as part of their OS. Thus, the broadest industry support came out for the tooling that doesn't force the upstream's tooling's licensing choices on the downstream. (Ironically, that tooling happened to be from GNU, the precise people whose software they were trying to avoid shipping.)
Just wanted to say that I’ve come across your comments a few times today, and they’ve all been fascinating and informative. Thanks!
and to IBM CEO thru his mother.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/243311/former_ibm_ceo_john_o...

"it was Opel who met with Bill Gates, CEO of the then-small software firm Microsoft, to discuss the possibility of using Microsoft PC-DOS OS for IBM's about-to-be-released PC. Opel set up the meeting at the request of Gates' mother, Mary Maxwell Gates. The two had both served on the National United Way's executive committee."
TD has a guarantee where they will waive any fee if you say you’re not satisfied including the transfer out fee.
Lol. I hadn't even thought of him. He's probably deep in twitter withdrawal atm. All this action. All the other famous billionaires tweeting.
This parody website is probably close to 10 years old so it’s a bit outdated.

But the premise still stands, just needs more feature checkboxes :)
> You don't get a margin call if your house or car is underwater.

Except... You can!

If you ever took a mortgage, take a very, very, very good look on the loan agreement.

A surprising amount of banks simply put it as "bank reserves the right to recall the loan in full, at its sole discretion, at any moment"
Most major retail brokerages in the US have eliminated fees for stock trades.

https://www.stockbrokers.com/compare
When brokerages aren’t allowing buys but only sells, this is exactly what they want (in the case of brokerages affiliated with institutional short sellers). Just stop buying on that platform.
Show evidence for large scale voting fraud, or you don’t have a case.
Presumably a single person or small group attempting such would be engaged in market manipulation as traditionally understood, and the SEC would try to charge them. (But I am neither a lawyer nor a financial expert, so the above is just uninformed speculation.)
I've transferred to and from multiple financial and brokerage firms including crypto and have never been charged a fee. Not one dollar. Robinhood is charging $75.

*As others have mentioned, this is an ACAT not just ACH transfers. ACATS usually have fees. I also have done an ACAT but it was by chance that it was with one of the three companies listed in the link with $0 fees.
That's still a long way away. Maybe negative two years. https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/discord-safe-space-whit...
Facebook is a non governmental company and is absolutely free to decide who is allowed on their platform. If wsb don't like it they can just go and make their own Facebook.
Shameless plug... Having worked on such systems, I recently wrote an article explaining real-time payment systems, some of which use real-time gross settlement:

https://luizlaydner.substack.com/p/how-do-instant-payment-sy...
> Those are not market forces.

Neither is printing money.
Maybe the sex industry can take up the slack. I don't care what costume the delivery person wears or how well they dance, I just want my fresh cream delivered 24/7!
w00t! I'm here for the actually portable executables!
> Crypto allows for a basically instant settlement that looks very much like a cash transaction.

Which customers don't want. Customers like paying by credit card because they know that if your product/service was fake, the credit card company will make sure they get their money back.
The one time I believe you are referring to is when Cloudflare banned the Daily Stormer, which is a far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, and Holocaust denial message board website that promoted the genocide of Jews. It went far beyond the domain of free speech into advocating violence against people, not to speak of its horrific hatred and racism. Reason enough for anyone to ban it.
That doesn't look like encryption or differences in algorithms, just the usual confusion and edge cases when you don't have a full mental model of the file format's fixed-size vfs entries.
It seems clear to me that you don't become a billionaire by leaving evidence of your ill acts. Certainly not when the spotlight of the entire country is on you. If you don't mind me asking, do you interface with these kind of people? I don't and I'm wondering if you have some kind of insight I'm missing.
I still think it's a gorgeous building. With more than a half-century's improvement in materials and process, I wonder how if it would turn out differently if someone were to try it again?
You list assets, which have generally always gone up in value over time. Inflation, i.e. CPI, is (roughly) about cost of living through a basket of goods:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/01/inflation-truthers/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644580

If you don't believe the government-published CPI you can confirm their work, as others have done:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project

For your items:

* Monthly carrying costs haven't changed much: prices up, but mortgage rates are down. Plus average square footage has gone up, so you're getting more.

* Land depends on location, and urban prices have gone up because it's more cool to live in the city now than in the 1970s and 1980s. I live in Toronto, so I know all about land/housing prices over the last 10-15 years.

* Modern cars have more power, while burning less fuel, and being safer, and on average lasting longer, for the same money. I own a 2003 Golf that I paid $30K for (in 2003). What's available for $30K is a lot better, and the equivalent dollars today is closer to $40K—which gets you some sweet things.

* I was invested in 2008: I've seen stocks go up and down.

* Crypto is a Ponzi scheme.
i worked on a streaming product but not on the marketing/financial side but none of this sounds right at all. the biggest cost of a streaming service is paying for the channel rights (if doing live tv) and for the vod/streaming rights. nothing else has that big of an effect.

and having more customers gives you more leverage against the right holders since they themselves need eyeballs so they can tell their advertisers how many eyeballs are watching these streams. this allows them to charge advertisers way more.
Is that the one where you can check out but never leave?
Trying to stem the hemorrhaging.
It's not my comments I'm arguing for.

I don't think I'm that hard-done-by. I'm referring to gray comments that don't seem to be particularly hostile, but are just, say, conservative (for example) in nature.

Perhaps I've forgotten, but I don't think I've complained about being downvoted. Today doesn't count. It's not a complaint, just an observation in a thread about free speech and censorship.

Thanks for the feedback.
And when you do those things, they will be shutdown. Bye bye Parlor.
Kirsten Dirksen has a great Youtube video touring the building with a long-time resident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQaaftbHMi8
That was the sarcastic joke.
The robinhood execs that made the call to halt trading should be in jail.
Presumably housing appreciation is somewhat offset by drops on commercial real estate: office space, video game storefronts, etc.
cwkoss more or less covered it, but they stopped buying for "retail" investors, but wall street could still buy. They basically literally said "okay enough of you normies, only professionals get to trade GME or AMC today".

The unsaid part here is "and we'll probably make a ton of money during this since the retail investors were all buying". There's a rumor that Citadel doubled down on shorting the stock today and made a killing when it dropped from $450 -> under $200 today when trading was blocked. That could probably outweigh a good deal of the losses from Melvin today, though it's unclear who is still holding the bag on shorts.

That's why this ban for retail traders is so crazy and blatant...
Sorry, that was an awkward way to phrase that. I was addressing the thread as a whole, not your specific comment.

What I mean is that this is the predictable and proven behavior of Facebook, so is this a target for change now that we don't like this particular result? Or should Facebook be somehow regulated to prevent this type of behavior generally?
To be honest, with some other open source projects I've wanted to "pay for someone else to do it".

But like, that's actually _also_ a lot of effort! Especially for projects that are "abandoned" or have no obvious owner, since then you're in "hire a random X programmer to do this for you".

I feel like more OSS projects should go beyond "Donate" and have a "buy a feature/bug fix" button.
The market can't really correct for this; it's essentially equivalent to lending the same thing to several people...like going to Avis and renting a car from them, only to turn around and rent it to someone else.

There exist listed and over-the-counter derivatives for the purpose of institutional levering, but if you can double-borrow shares, you're essentially adding instability to the asset market in a way that is not immediately discoverable. That makes prices unstable and (as evidenced) makes it harder for the price to equilibrate. In a normal market, you have damping -- as the price impact goes further, there's more resistance to further impact. This is not so in an unstable market (either due to shorts covering or to short option gamma) because you end up with inverse price elasticity of demand. In other words, as the price goes up you get more demand rather than less.

If you're hedging delta by hand on a short-gamma position, you can feel the stock run away from you. In these situations, sometimes the best way to reduce your delta is to trade the other way and let the gamma offset the shares that you trade. I have traded options positions of this sort, and it is unsafe because it incentivizes shorts to double down in order to send the price back lower.

In my opinion, the existing requirement for a locate (presently, you have to know where the shares can be borrowed from before you're allowed to sell short) should be interpreted to preclude recursive rehypothecation, on a first-come-first-served basis. Furthermore, a firm should not be able to buy back or otherwise retire its stock when short interest equals 100% of the float.

Institutional traders already have several different restrictions that don't make much sense. Much of this is because regulators don't always understand the mechanics of how a trading business operates. This rule on the other hand would IMO make markets run better by forcing leveraged bearish bets into the options market where risk monitoring is more thorough and product sophistication is a barrier to entry.
I usually don't like it when the poster changes the original headline. But my thanks in this case.

Original title:

"MYC regulates ribosome biogenesis and mitochondrial gene expression programs through its interaction with host cell factor–1"
Because blogging platforms are not their core competency, so it's worth outsourcing however big you are, and medium offers a better service than any alternative?
there is a lot of misinformation out there about what happened today. its starting to to look like this all happened due to default concerns and the resulting changes in necessary collateral.

I have no skin in this game (neither GME or Robinhood), but lets try to stay informed and not grab pitchforks based on non proven allegations.
The whole thing is quite funny. The best part is that we have only just begun this process and by the time we get to the end of it the people who "learned their lesson" about pushing for this won't remember who warned them about it in the first place.
Crypto is the only market more heavily rigged and manipulated lol. The whole idea behind decentralized and permissionless is anyone can fuck with it in any way they want - and they do, constantly, all the time, and not only is there no way to stop it, it's a feature.

This is a case of the Vantablack swatch calling the kettle black.

This is your least compelling argument yet.
The typesetting is gorgeous, but of course all the pages are yellow because of the terrible high acid paper trend of the 20th c.
When did the war start and why nobody announced it?