skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At sufficient price there will be a seller.

When the price is, let's say, 10k or more, then the poor sod having a short position now has a really huge problem. And the WSB people are attempting to do force exactly this - basically, a distributed game of chicken at a world-wide scale with many billions of dollars at stake.

> The company can create stock and sell it if the current holders don't.

That process takes time to set up and exposes the company doing this to image and legal liability - if enough people shout "market manipulation" and file lawsuits, something may stick in the end. Gamestop, AMC etc. will avoid such a drastic step, I believe. Also, there's a side risk of stochastic terrorism in that case, aka one person gambling their life savings away and now going on a "revenge", which is not to be underestimated given how riled up the situation is.

(Disclosure: long AMC, NOK)
That is not a source for what OP is saying has happened.
Moderating obvious brigading is standard practice. Huge influxes of retaliatory negative reviews in reaction to external events aren't considered very genuine. I don't think Robinhood is getting any special treatment from Google here.
Hmm, the demo has a little "live video" window of a rover's view from the Moon's surface. This seems like a good integration point for a web-based space simulator. I will be doing just this!

https://github.com/pablo-mayrgundter/celestiary/issues/19
> Do you honestly think the majority of people who use Robinhood as a broker actually understand how short positions work and why they're driving the price higher?

yes, that is the entire reason that this situation began and the reason that people are excited about it! basic market dynamics are not some occulted mystery that only licensed brokers are privy to.

>The Redditors at r/WallStreetBets are now busting open the territory of finance. It doesn't take long for the average person to understand the language of finance if it is explained clearly... and professional investors are going to be pissed about it [...] So expect professional investors to hold the amateurs in contempt. Not because they are losing money. But because they have constructed an identity out of finance being exclusive & high status. They won't want to be associated with unwashed masses & will resist it
Part of the downvotes to your comment may be coming from the fact that this framework is (I'm assuming?) a joke.

Otherwise, I completely agree with you. The last few projects I've worked on I used vanilla HTML/CSS/JS and I found it so much better than using any of the popular front-end frameworks. I didn't have megabytes of dependencies before a single line of production code was written. I didn't have to spend time trying to understand any Webpack incantations.
> I think it’s more likely emergent behavior born of individual executives making decisions that benefit their image and career, rather than some conspiracy.

https://archive.fo/1khJw#selection-1877.0-1877.86
I think the situation is exacerbated by the fact that RH gives up to $5,000 to new accounts without any collateral. Depending on the speed of bank transfer, RH might be on the hook to settle trades. Now, I imagine their new account trend was more or less predictable until last week but they probably got a ton of new accounts as a result of GME.
Ah yes... Google Reviews.
Google never does anything evil!
Are the FAANG companies hiring for remote positions though? I've been told they are remote currently, but as soon as they say it is "safe" then you have to show up to the office.
I was under the impression “on the spectrum” actually referred to the spectrum(or collection) of extreme behaviors that collectively form to indicate autism, not that there is a singular “more/less” well defined autistic behavior that simultaneously exists in all people.
> If anything, things are better now than they were 10 years ago, and things were even worse 10 years before that

While things are truly better in certain aspects, the percentage of people relying on these companies now - as opposed to then - makes up for the less bad-ness.
> 6. Produced tarball releases have fewer build dependencies than those produced by competitors. <- Was not aware of this. Let's take his word for it.

I believe the intent is to say "you need autotools to build the tarball, but the tarball doesn't need autotools, just regular POSIX tools", which is a jab at systems like cmake where you need cmake to do the configuration at tarball time.

Except, well, the introduction of DVCSes like git has shifted a lot of software away from "build from tarball" to "build from VCS checkout," so the value is rather lesser. Indeed, you can turn it around and claim that this is an antifeature: it takes more work to build a tarball and do VCS checkout than not.
I'm seeing some of that, but also a whole lot of "the rules are vastly in favor of the big guys - they can just stop trading when shit goes south, but us retail traders don't get to turn around and say 'nah bro, losing money, let's hit pause.'"

While that's not 100% accurate, it's in the general ballpark. And frustration with big financial players is high, and has been since 2008, for good reason.
Seems to struggle with asking for the second ionisation energy of copper, and takes a while.

The book is a better than the phone in this case. The only issue with that is that getting multiple pieces of data in machine readable form is annoying - even now you might have to OCR a graph from a PDF :(
Well, he's right. I feel sorry for the students that studied psych, hoping to help people in need, and, instead, are working for companies to produce dark patterns.

That must suck; but at least they probably make more money than they would, helping people. Unfortunately, in the US, at least, we value the reaper, more than the servant. Teachers and social workers are paid badly, treated with immense disrespect, and sidelined.

People who make money by treating their users like chattel are lionized and held up as national models.

Ah...well. That's the USofA.

For me, I decided that I love UX -the original kind, and I write software that implements it. I don't particularly care if I ever make a dime off it. I love to write high-quality, non-manipulative, useful software. It's a rare luxury, and I'm grateful to be in that position.

It does make me sad to know that the kind of work that I do is scorned, but that won't stop me from doing it.

I like the anglerfish metaphor. Perfect.
Not really. Many of people are rightfully upset and want to leave a 1 star review. It would be extremely inappropriate if Google removed my review.

I think the app sucks if they can just prevent you from trading a stock and make you the bagholder in favor of large investors. Seems like a legitimate concern that hundred thousands of other people share - not some organized random prank. People are losing money as we speak.
What's wrong with bluetooth in general? Essentially, it's an under-specified security nightmare. Of course, it's also pretty important for certain classes of devices.
> I like the tools and workflow that GitHub offers personally.

Worth a side note since you mentioned sqlite that Fossil was built to support the "open-source, not open-contribution" workflow. One of the leading criticisms of Fossil is that it's not designed to support the open contribution approach.
I recall not too long ago people were balking at the idea.

HN isn't immune either. Try posting any criticism of Github's half assed apology to the Jewish engineer who simply said "watch out for Nazis" on Capitol Hill.

Try bringing up the anti-semitic memes being posted inside Github's work environment allegedly.

I guarantee you will be downvoted and flagged. Not only that but all of your other comments in your history will be downvoted.

Go ahead, try it. I've repeatedly experienced this and I don't care if I get banned now because it would confirm our greatest fears that not too long ago were brushed off as "partisan conspiracy theory".

The silver lining is that Fediverse is gaining more and more support until one day it becomes a serious contender.
> We need to start by making it illegal to be a billionaire.

I’m listening. What does this law look like?
Every JPEG 2000 encoder I've seen encapsulates the JP2K data in an MOV/MP4-like format (or if one likes using many syllables, technically the ISO Base Media File Format). Even when using Motion JPEG 2000 image sequences embedded as frames in an MP4 video file, each separate JP2K frame includes the MP4-like container as you would see if the stand-alone JP2K file was sitting on-disk.

Anyway, it is indeed cool that you can encode JPEG-LS, Lossless JPEG and friends in the exact same format as you see baseline JPEG images in - but just in different application segments! (eg, baseline=SOF0/SOF1 segment, Lossless JPEG=SOF3, JPEG-LS=SOF48, etc.).
Could you do what Mark Cuban did and work with your brokerage to do sell calls & buy puts around the strike? That would lock in your price for a given amount of time.
Extrapolating a trend (even a 700 year long one) into the indefinite future is a fraught exercise, as is attempting to read it as benign just because it has perhaps been so in the past.

Remind me, who was it that wrote about the tendency of the rate of the profit to fall over the long term, until the point it provokes a crisis?
"Coup D'etat: a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics"

That doesn't fit the captiol protest very well. Sudden? Decisive? Exercise of force?
Are all of the forced GME sales in the situation you describe? (Not a rhetorical question, I'm actually wondering if it's the case.)

Let's say your scenario is a little different: you deposit $100, buy $300 of stock, and the stock goes up to $600, then drops to $400. Then the broker sells your shares at $400 to "protect themselves". If that's what's going on here, that seems wrong. On the other hand, if it's as you describe that seems reasonable.
Coinbases only future is irrelevance then acquisition.
Could GME issue more stock as the shorts start to get squeezed? Could be a good opportunity for GME to build a war chest for their digital conversion....
You could make that argument for every President since Woodrow Wilson at least...
I think 2 and 3 are incorrect under my scheme. If parties host key fragments themselves, unencrypted, then I'd agree with both 2 and 3.

However if the keys are encrypted in such a way that parties can only decrypt them by posting confirmation to a blockchain (or equivalent), two things occur:

2a. The parties have a very strong incentive to secure their transaction-posting-keys, because those are the same keys as they use to protect their own other valuable assets such as cryptocurrency, or whatever else they are securing these days such as DAO governance. Some people will be sloppy (and lose their own money and other things), but on a large scale, perhaps it's an open question so far how many people will be that sloppy. If it's not too many people, the system is not compromised.

3a. Any party will become aware their own transaction-posting-key is used as soon as they see a transaction under their identity posted to the blockchain they participate in. They can also see how it's used.

I've said blockchain but it doesn't actually need a blockchain. If there is one, it can be private or public. Either way, 2a and 3a apply.

The main thing is there is an agreed "consensus location" into which people can choose whether to pool enough information to reconstitute the originally protected conversation key, with their only unencrypted secret being their multi-use key they are strongly incentivised to guard (2a), and to which they will only post if they can detect when it's used and limit how it's used (3a).
Sure, and where are the rest of his classmates? Are they all billionaires? early head start is only one if utilized. For everyone that's rich, you can find critical junctions in there lives that really moved them forward to that part. for everyone that's not, we have all had critical moments in our lives where we made the wrong choice.
1938 vs. 1940 (2018)
Just recklessly wrong reporting:

“GameStop, which has more than quadrupled in value over the past week in the face of a Reddit-organized campaign to boost the company’s value.”

Wrong. A campaign to defend a beloved brand against a hedge fund deliberately manipulating the stocks to drive a company with a solid financial status into bankruptcy.

And stick it to the fuckers who keep doing it to good companies.

DiabloD3 - justify yourself for posting this or take it down.
It's definitely a new site, in the dystopian sense.

Usage hint: Reducing the browser window to what is approximate smartphone width in portrait orientation somewhat helps with the experience. Clearly, using anything other than a mobile device is deviant.

On the other hand, in terms of UX, I felt somewhat neglected as there wasn't a "Use our App!" popup. Also, the lack of welcoming "Subscribe!" popups (options "I can't wait!" and "Later, but for sure!") is a bit reminiscent of past decades of public services and their arrogant attitude towards customers needs. I was even left to my own on any attempts to scroll without any reassuring popups gratifying my engagement by another opportunity to click a button. I could just scroll and scroll without noticing, accompanied by a growing feel of loneliness and solitude in this digital void. If this isn't pure negligence… ;-)
Right, I only got to that, I entered my s3 keys manually. I think for a smoother experience I would use Google Drive, which provides OAuth access AFAIK.
This whole thing is a confusing mess. Do you know why Apex Holdings decided that? Why would a clearing firm do that, they're at no risk afaik...
Who owns both Citadel Securities LLC and Citadel LLC?

*Edit. Rhetorical question.

It's Republican donor Ken Griffin.
I was mostly speaking in terms of corporate crime/greed and the general public's willingness to let it slide, which is admittedly a pretty hard thing to quantify.
> who centered their messages much more around reducing the structural power of billionaires and large corporations.

The problem is that there is a segment of the American voters who believe that if the current billionaires and large corporations would quit screwing them, they would become the billionaires and owners of the large corporations. As such they are all for screwing over the current crop of billionaires, but don’t want long lasting reduction in the structural power of billionaires.
It’s not an external event.
Citadel is a hedge fund that owns Melvin Capital Management.

Melvin is a $GME Short Seller that is predicted to loose BILLIONS due to people taking the free market back.

Citadel owns the app Robinhood.

Robinhood banned the purchase of $GME shares, while selling was still allowed.

How in the world is that NOT market manipulation?
Another laptop with soldered RAM = built-in planned obsolescence.

More consumers need to be made aware of this and everyone should boycott such products. Especially for the price they are paying ($1000+ for this model). If we just give in without protesting about it we are just giving up our rights to repair our devices.
> The firmware does not support ACPI S3 suspend.

... I am so over modern Thinkpads.
The last one who did was great at playing lip service but gave the wealthy & big banks a $1T payout via tax cut.

Hopefully this sentiment results in structural change instead.
The internet has been going poorly for awhile. I don’t see how we’ll get off this track where the large crush and silence the small. I’m not sold on IPFS, GunDB, Zeronet, ect...
My guess is federated XMPP or RSS might be a few of the only vestiges of resilient organization. Even Matrix has signalled they’ll begin looking into deplatforming.
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...

Sad times in cyberspace.
I'm curious how Chamath Palihapitiya's involvement in Virgin Galactic might come into play here.
The Game Stop Situation Is Not a Conspiracy: An Intro to Market Makers
Not only that but this "diversity over meritocracy" doesn't apply to Asian Americans, especially in academia, medical, law professions, entertainment etc.

It's like there is two classes of minorities: Asians vs Non-Asians and the diversity narrative and standards differ radically for both groups.

In fact, studies have shown that this ideological drive that pushes "diversity over meritocracy" only antagonize racial relations between the groups that find themselves on both ends of "punching up".
Can someone tell me, a longtime a gnuplot user (http://www.gnuplot.info/), when I'd want to use ggplot/plotnine?

Is there a sort of Turing completeness among plotting programs, i.e. can everything ultimately be done on any popular plotting program, or are there things achievable only in some and not others?
Streaming is a business like gyms. The more people use your product, the worse it is.

Everytime some one watches something, there goes some $ for the rights, and some $ for the bandwidth. If everyone has lots more time to watch your product, and they do, that's bad for your bottom line. And you can't charge more, because there's tons of options. And internet ad prices were trending down (not sure if that's still true), if Fubo is ad-supported (I can't keep track of all the services)
Movements like /r/The_Donald ended up with attempted insurrection, dead people, guns and pipe bombs confiscated. Are you suggesting we might have another one coming, this time directed at the Hedge fund managers?
Except JumpCrisscross, they shut down trading on much lower price stocks liked $NAKD as well, which given the fact that they still were able to meet collateral (based on price per your [2] right) for the activity on all of their other stocks, why couldn't they on a dollar stock?
Some apps are region-locked. It doesn't show up in my search either, but if I manually go to its play store page [0] it states "This app is not available for your device". Blocking apps you can't use from search isn't that unexpected.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood....
I've seen this around the internet and I have one honest question for clarification:

- How come a bunch of other brokers also stopped the trading in these assets? (Webull, Ameritrade, e-trade etc) did all of them end up in this state?

(I'm always worried questions like these in times like these are interpreted in bad faith, but this is an honest question, trying to understand the powers behind it)
Alex Evans is also now at NVidia Research. Try pinging him ;)

https://twitter.com/mmalex/status/1354455745924911107
There were people and companies that bought massive amounts of bitcoin. Winklevoss twins weren't even early and they own 1% of all bitcoin.
No and this is a problem. My own personal opinion is that once enough value is ramped then it grows and grows. I think once you see payroll in crypto at a Fortune 500 it’ll be a truly transitory moment.
> The chances that a fund the size of Citadel has any strong opinion on the direction of GameStop stock is vanishingly low.

I find it exceedingly unlikely that Citadel has no opinion on the value of a stock that could make or break a firm they just lent massive amounts of money to.

It's also very unlikely that Melvin didn't have a short position anymore. I think that was a lie, knowing the SEC fine would be less than what they otherwise would lose. We'll see - maybe. Or maybe TPTB will cover this up.
I was going to make like 30 helpful tools, but got distracted.
They are monolith for the OS, not for developers anymore if they are using appx/msix Win32 apps, it comes with virtualized registry by default. So every app has a different and isolated registry.

There is also C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\APPNAME\Settings

Each app can use registry, and the registry will be isolated to settings.dat.
(You can mount that on regedit and see that is just a usual registry hive)
Does Citadel actually own Robinhood? I couldn't find any source on that.
Indeed; consumer-oriented software previously focused on user productivity as its primary concern, and at present this class of software is focused on user engagement as its primary concern.

Engagement is often at odds with productivity.
Question: I gave a 1 star review on AppStore and when looking at it again it appears like I didnt give a review at all? Can someone else confirm- is this the same for others? So you just cant leave a 1 star review (it says thanks for feedback though)
Honestly having dashboards is just a good idea in general, impressing execs aside.

Graphs are a really really good way of getting an accurate gut feeling about what's going on. Take GME for example, what happened? Before you start talking about a short squeeze just get a graph of the share price out.

If I dump a CSV file in your inbox pre-coffee or whatever, you might blank, but if we have a graph of "Profit per widget" on the wall (metaphorical or literal) it's obvious if something's just broken.
Well, with Next and Nuxt, the client side JavaScript is also running on the server. It's isometric. So you turn it off, but it keeps running.
Really good points here. I’m experienced in remote collaboration across global sites and my previous company allow for the occasional WfH. But the covid situation brought about something different.

The boundaries between private and work life became fuzzy and there’s this implicit expectation that one will be available all the time- where can you be apart from home? And that’s not healthy.

It has also been challenging to families with kids as they need to juggle between work For home and work from home. I’ve now seen folks responding to emails and queries as though we work different time zones!

I’m in tech and my team are mostly waiting to get back into office. But I believe that working on prem or wfh should be a choice.
On TD Ameritrade, I had no issues buying and selling (in cash) shares of GME today. I did have to call a broker to sell covered NOK calls though as those gave errors when trying to open the position myself in thinkorswim.
I love this quote from Carlin:

It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
Step back and realize that entire operating systems with browsers that can run JS can fit into 1.44 MB.
It doesn’t put user at risk but mean RH is drawing down on their credit line to fund the trade.

The probable issues is that clearing houses have capital requirements and the higher volume of trades of high volatility stock requires RH to put more money in to ensure it has money to settle the trades. This is what Rh hit and they need to breather for trades to settle is my educated guess. Money doesn’t move instantly behind the scenes which is why you have weird things like overnight lending where the loan is just long enough for the credits to come in.
Yeah, that's the one that I've heard referred to as the Barfing Boy.
Seconds from Triggering Market Nuclear Bomb
It was a republic though
I've been asked by a shitty (billion $ plus) company to write one of these type of unjustified positive reviews, directly after the rest of my devops team had quit and only days before I handed in my own notice. Needless to say I declined.
Even if they do want to preserve the financial status quo, it's pretty difficult to see where the review score of a retail broker app fits in with that.

On the other hand avoiding review bombing is a Google Play store business objective, doing it in a half assed reactive way with an algorithm is Google's style, and of course it's also Google's style to not care about customer service nearly enough to wade into a debate about whether a pile on related to genuine upset with an app company's policy is really review bombing
This is great - should make it a lot easier to use JackTrip.