skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a never-ending vicious cycle between the strive for more energy- and resource- efficient production of goods, and the dispersion of these efficiency gains through increased consumption and market expansion, both geographically and through new classes of products/services. The "airy" fiat currency together with the impersonal profit-seeking multinational corporations create this fairy-tale illusion of infinite growth, which may look efficient from the perspective of a single company, but isn't when viewed holistically on a global level.
Josh Gross pretty much nailed the summary of what has happened.
Yeah, all the early holders will be fine and will have the lions share of the gains. Everyone else who has dogpiled in will have more mixed results.
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I'd agree, although if https://www.highshortinterest.com/all/ is accurate, there's 69M shares of GME short sold at the moment, which is quite a lot of money potentially to be made by people holding the shares when those short positions are settled.
No, it's not. Not even close.

The current market cap of GME is $25 billion. Meanwhile, the size of the subprime mortgage market in 2008 was in the neighborhood of $50 trillion.
All the mines Tesla needs to build 20M cars a year
> Do lifestyle businesses really have the negative connotation that I’ve been told they have?

For VCs they do, as they need 1/20 or 2/20 of their investments to become a unicorn (worth $1+ billion) to get their returns and pay for the losing investments.

In addition, if you aim low, a funded company can outspend you on advertising, staffing, discounts, etc. Whether they get better returns than you is a different issue - I have heard of several bootstrapped companies surviving after VC-funded companies went supernova and spent all their investment without getting more.
No they can't. That's the entire point. If you short almost all shares of a stock then you are the one who is doing crazy things and other people are just giving you a reason to dance like a crazy monkey.
> I think programmers in general have an overly optimistic expectation of the lifespan of their works.

I think programmers in general have an overly pessimistic expectation of the lifespan of their works. They write temporary, ugly hacks for the sake of expediency, and then 10, 20 years later the whole world is still suffering because of those "temporary" hacks.
FWIW, I am not against SPAs, either. I actually prefer using them in most cases if I can help it, because it pushes me toward building out an API that is not coupled tightly to my web front-end, and can be reused if I ever need to serve a mobile app, etc.

Also, you are correct that I was not initially dissing React specifically. The amount of churn in the Node ecosystem is a real issue, and I am always getting those vulnerability emails from GitHub for old, forgotten repos where a dependency I never even knew I had is problematic.

Deno recognizes this is a serious problem, with one of the bullet points at the top of the home page touting "a set of reviewed (audited) standard modules that are guaranteed to work with Deno: deno.land/std". Deno was started by Ryan Dahl, who also invented Node. I don't know if he's said this explicitly, but I would imagine he had his own Dr. Frankenstein moments with Node.
Anyone could join that Discord server. Discord is incredibly difficult to moderate at scale, and they had banned every bad word that they didn't want the chat to be about. People joined and posted bad words in Unicode that the bots didn't catch, and people can screenshot them instantly.
What's interesting about the WSB/GME story is how it's got bipartisan appeal. AOC and Ted Cruz publicly agree that the little guys are getting short shrift in this.

It's the first mob in 2020/2021 that's not dividing the country down party lines. We should do this more often :)
I'm sure there is some core set of people that want to "stick it to Wall Street" but the vast majority are probably just along for the ride.

The irony is, once this stock finally comes crashing down, it will be the small retail investors losing a lot of money, and a different set of Wall Street investors will be the ones reaping the reward.
I get furious whenever I hear the talking heads say “fundamentals”, as if 140% of the stock being held in short positions makes sense.

It’s a credentialist argument. Whatever we say the stock is worth is fundamentally correct, and if you disagree, well, you’re just an unsophisticated investor who shouldn’t be allowed to participate in the market.
This article isn't about creating a repository with non-standard properties I'm afraid. It's just a set of instructions for copying one repository into another. The resulting repo isn't any different from any other Github repository and doesn't have any kind of 'mirror' status.
> The solution to online privacy and data mining is not collecting it all in a central repository, it is not collecting it at all.

Am I misunderstanding this?

It seems to be an open source, self-hostable server, not a central repository?
Chamath would agree with you:
https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1354947541125611526?s=20
You have stated no less than three completely incorrect and unprovable statements that are contradicted directly by the facts.

1. The Antirim report was conducted by Russell James Ramsland who is the exact same non-expert person who mixed up Minnesota and Michigan. So, yes it does have something to do with it.

2. The report was not ordered by a judge, it was permitted. The distinction matters, because suggesting the judge 'ordered it' implies that it was some sort of impartial inquiry, instead of just another hack job by someone who wanted Trump to win.

3. The surveillance footage and the water pipe events happened on different nights, 17 hours apart.

That's just purely on the basis of facts that even aren't up for argument. There's much more to disagree with when further analyzing your claims, and while I'd be happy to go over them, I don't feel like a deep comment on an old news story is the best place for me to spend my time.

That your three main points contain full on factual misstatements should give you enough pause to reconsider the certainty of your conclusion.
He's bad at his job. He's a good writer, but he isn't a decent journalist. Technical finance reporters have made a sport out of pointing out all the times he's embarrassed himself on stories, from TARP to the NYC parking meter story. This is yet another example.
I've always wondered, how exactly games do this. Do you have at least one "write" state and one "read" state, so that the simulation can write during its update and the renderer can read the previous state independently? I think copying the write state to the read state would probably take some time in a Factorio "gigafactory", while the renderer only has to access a tiny part of the state most of the time.
Cascading already happened last March and the Fed bailed out the market. That backstopping has clearly helped buoy the market to new highs, while the real economy is contracting.

Something like this could trigger a cascade, but that cascade would rest solely on the people who built this bubble.
when bigtech unprecedentedly walks away unscathed from censoring EVEN that US President, do you think they had any trouble doing the same to us nobody?
Yes, it was.
In Metro Detroit suburbs (nice) you could buy houses that sold for $200,000 for $20,000. In Detroit proper, you could buy houses that were move in ready for $5,000. Those $5,000 houses are now back to $150,000 today. Those $20,000 are now $300,000 today. Someone I know bought a house that's now $1.5mil for $200k back then.
> Seems to me this article is swaying to some type of narrative someone wants to propagate rather than aiming to be somewhat objective regarding current events.

Note the "If". Left had indeed claimed that there were attacks on his personal peers, and I agree that if it were true it is overstepping their right to privacy and probably life if the claimed attacks were death threats.

HOWEVER, if it turns out that Left is lying I will agree that Left have commited defamation against a group of possibly hundreds of thousands of people and I would really suggest to him at that moment (apart from what the law thinks appropriate, which is a somewhat long prison time) to really apologise and permanently stay outside of the stock market.

He is English and I knew from reading their (in a country sense) opinion pieces that they tend to put distance in unsure or unverified information, possibly because of the much stricter libel/defamation laws there (see as an example https://youtu.be/z49LjJj3VTI that discusses why there is avoidance on the phrase "tired and emotional" which acquired a different meaning in UK). I guess that this is just an unintentional carryover especially that American opinion pieces don't really delinate fact from opinion in their writing.
Then virtually any platform, including HN, can be shut down under this definition.
For anyone wondering "Why Pony?" - they have a section called just that:

https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#why-pony
This comment sums up how to miss the point: Calls for physical violence should get you banned. "Financial violence" is among consenting adults, and nobody dies.
In this case, it has nothing to do with trading on margin and everything to do with Robin Hood having to cover 10% with the NSCC per the Dodd-Frank rule. [0]

[0]: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cash-strapped-robinhood-sc...
This reminds me of a quote I heard during the dot.com bubble. "If I can't expect 1000% return I'm not investing in a company". It's such a high level of expectation that you just know a correction is coming.
their online store is pretty damn good, though. Not sure what % of their total revenue it accounts for, but I'd wager it isn't negligible.
That's why it's called a prediction, and not a record.

The market prediction doesn't mean it's going to happen - but it's likely. If the market prediction turns out to be wrong, then there'd be a correction in price (aka, another crash).
It's hard to tell for sure. Double-buffering game updates like that can involve a lot of memory copying. Considering that it would not surprise me in the least if Factorio was close to being bottlenecked by memory bandwidth, this could easily be counterproductive.
No I do understand that. And I’m suggesting that is a bad thing.

It’s also illegal, which seems to have been left out of all the conversations.

“ The rush by short sellers to cover produces additional upward pressure on the price of the stock, which then can cause an even greater squeeze. Although some short squeezes may occur naturally in the market, a scheme to manipulate the price or availability of stock in order to cause a short squeeze is illegal.”

https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm
I'm English, and I don't know what point he's trying to make about being English
because a lot of them are on the street or big funds
I particularly like the suggestion of not doing burn-in and instead starting your chain where the last one ended.

Is that not simply doing a burn-in of many thousands?

Fully agree with everyone else. The argument "asymptotically the burn in doesn't matter so don't do it" misses a few key points -- like about how I'm not going to get to the limit, and I certainly won't _know_ I get to the limit.
It doesn't need to be planned. The markets just need to be constrained and regulated. In some extents they can be expanded. E.g. you can force companies to buy and trade quotas for different types of externalities to cover undoing those externalities and let the markets sort out the most efficient way of addressing them.

There is complexity there (you need to ensure there aren't any easily exploitable loopholes), but markets have lots of uses.
CNN reported 85% efficacy (EDIT)

At preventing severe illness... I should learn to read :-)
PR nonsense, there's nothing about the bike that makes it optimised for solar powering compared to its competitors
That's not at all what Taibbi says about "zombie companies", which you can obviously see simply by reading his article. Taibbi says these companies are "functionally dead" and "phony-baloney". But these companies include Moderna, for Christ's sake.
Big Macs vs The Naked Chef[1] is somewhat relevant in this context.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/01/18/big-macs-vs-the-na...
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Ahh I love financial reporters. Just because Left has never lost a court case doesn’t mean he isn’t doing anything illegal. There are two tiers of justice in this country, and the rich can by their way out of crime.
Have the hedge funds retreated? Last I heard there were still >100% short positions in GME.
They acted now because it drew attention to their platform. Not the kind of attention they wanted. They seem to basically not care until something big happens and they could appear to have helped/allowed it to be organized on their platform. This seems clear as day. There is still a ton of foul, lewd, right leaning, left leaning, offensive, racist, x-phobic, etc content on these platforms, it’s just not drawing attention to the platform. Ironically or maybe it’s more indicative of the intelligence limitations of those taking part, them shuttering these groups becomes more ammunition for the falsehoods and antiestablishment ideas the groups promote. It’s probably a lot less fishy than you might think. You can’t have fight club anymore when everyone knows about it...
There is what I consider to be an important caveat near the end:

In essence classic xunit tests are not just unit tests, but also mini-integration tests. As a result many people like the fact that client tests may catch errors that the main tests for an object may have missed, particularly probing areas where classes interact. Mockist tests lose that quality. In addition you also run the risk that expectations on mockist tests can be incorrect, resulting in unit tests that run green but mask inherent errors.
Yeah. Most of the firms involved will be fine. A number of retail investors who got in early on have probably made serious dough. People who bought a share or two for the lulz whatever. Others who saw this as a big opportunity to make money they otherwise had no hope of making? At least some will be bankrupt, lost the money they were saving up for a house downpayment, lost retirement savings, etc.
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Yeah, it's not in the article.

I can imagine a scenario though, were they gradually increase the number of invites they give out. I think the idea is that the perception of scarcity will persist, even when invites aren't really scarce.
They do quality creative as meaning "novel and useful" in their abstract.

Novel can be a double edged sword but useful implies good I believe.
Discussing the Future of RPKI
Sadly for me the iPad is just a portable media device. I mostly use it to watch something in the hot-tub or when traveling.
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It is fine to say "this is a bad situation and we need new regulations to prevent it".

What is not OK is bending and breaking the existing regulations to stop a group of individual investors who are individually doing nothing wrong in order to protect a hedge fund that was exploiting the existing (bad) regulations.

Also, it seems insulting to suggest that the only "good" reason for someone to buy a stock is faith in the fundamentals of the company when finance media has been yapping up the joys of derivative trading for decades.
The assumptions in that 4chan screenshot are putting in a lot of work.
Does anyone know if there's a cross platform library that offers similar services like Blastdoor and a sandbox for apps to run sensitive code in?
In this case, the NSCC, or the NAtional Securities Clearing Corporation.
How are people missing that the original bet on this was founded around the newest generation of consoles shipping with Optical Drives? That was the entire basis on which Gamestop reapproaching retail with a new mindset and new investment led to wsb getting behind it in the first place.

Source, u/DeepFuckingValues earliest comments on reddit on GME around Mark Cubans involvement
> The WSB folks who started this have probably already sold out so they're fine

the biggest player in /r/wallstreetbets is /u/DFV, and last I checked he had cashed out a small portion of his position. Still has like 30mill tied up in GME stock though.

Crazy story looking at his posts from 2019-now, though. At one point his GME portfolio was only worth 42k, and now it is over 40mill.
"Pensions and university endowments" are the "women and children" of the financial world. Everyone constantly harps on these classes of people in order to play to your emotions instead of thinking logically. The great thing about America is we allow you to make "stupid" choices. No one should care if you lose all your money by acting stupidly, doesn't matter if you're Harvard or a heroin addict. If you rely on a pension or university endowment for funding you should take up a greater interest in where that money is being invested.
Yes? Cities banned facial recognition use because police have proven unable to create effective procedures and training to prevent the problems.
It only seems like idiocy if you’re in it to make money. Think of it more like donating $400 a cause that will actually have concrete results.
Well the factorio team is also only 4 developers, 1 tech lead, 1 art lead and 1 3D modeler for some reason. You still think its misleading comparison?[1]

[1]https://factorio.com/game/about
I keep seeing folks saying that retail will be left holding the bag. Retail folks are buying GME and holding. Worst case they're out their initial investment. GME shorts like Melvin Capital are out many multiples of their initial investment, their losses are unbounded. Retail (r/wsb) understands this, and is willing to lose their $600 or whatever to screw over the institutions.
Cancer is a concept with context: cellular behavior within a multicellular organism. Companies are not cells in a multicellular organism. They're a totally different thing, and you can't just drop context like that. Context-free reasoning by analogy is horrible.

To illustrate, I'll give a more obviously and dangerously wrong example: humans are cells in the body of humanity, so therefore we should kill weaker and older humans for the same reason the body disposes of senescent cells.

See the problem?

That being said: there are definitely valid social criticisms of the idea that the only purpose of a company is shareholder value for the sake of shareholder value. This is part of why Elon has stated that SpaceX will not go public until they are flying to Mars; SpaceX has a purpose beyond just making money.
This is what so many people who aren't familiar with the WSB culture are missing. They wring their hands and worry that the "retail investors will be caught holding the bag". True, someone will, but even for those too slow to move on the eventual reckoning I think they are already more than okay with any losses. There has been enough publicity now that it's pretty clear that this stock is a battlefield and any casual observers had best stand back until the dust settles. For the most part the only people getting hurt here are combatants who are ready for this sort of thing.
Solar powered meaning it has a battery? I don’t see panels on it
Having some traits that resemble autism isn't the same as having an atypical brain.

But even assuming that's true (which I don't think is actually known) how would you distinguish them?

There isn't yet a genetic test or an antibody test or anything like that to distinguish autistic from non-autistic people, right? So it's based on judging the symptoms; and given there's a wide spectrum of symptoms, the categorisation is always going to be somewhat arbitrary.
A pretty crazy story here about the town of Strasbourgh in modern-day France.

Towns folk basically went crazy and literally danced and contorted themselves to exhaustion and death. Upon reading deeper into this it seems that many of them may have been affected by psychedelic mould found on crops. Absolutely wild.
Probably. Those small retail investors should be responsible for their actions though right? This is obviously a highly risky trade, and it takes just a couple minutes to see that's the case.
what? banks just lend money and are scared of defaults. what do banks have to do with this? the power company is complicit by providing electricity too?

if you against banking, you have bigger fish to fry
You can just search for paper trading.
Interactive brokers has one, and so does Trading212.
I'm glad we can finally admit that Reddit is a mob and encourages mob mentality. There is no wisdom in that crowd anymore.

And maybe not party lines but the stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming. This mob helps no one. It's just a lot of people making bets against each other and manipulating the market.

Just because one side is an angry mob on Reddit does not make it right or moral what happened. I would hardly call r/WallStreetBets 'the people.' It's nothing more than an angry mob.
Shorting losses can be infinite. Then add in the derivatives at play. Who backs these trades? Who backs them? What gets triggered when any of these default on their contracts?
They might if they're just off camera. They don't if they're in the next town.
>A whole day of interviews is very abnormally long.

It's common in some sectors, such as oilfield services, for example. About twelve hours with some breaks. I remember going through that with Schlumberger. The last step was getting called into an office, being asked to sit down, and told to assemble a set of mechanical pieces of some proprietary equipment you've never seen on the table. No blueprint. No context. You have five minutes. Go.

The interviewer tries to build up pressure calling the time every thirty seconds or so.

Yes, I assembled the pieces with time to spare. The only one who did in that batch, actually. Woohoo. They want to see how you handle pressure and they left that exercise when we were all tired at the end of the interview. "Jobs" on oil rigs are chaotic: everything can go wrong, hazardous material, lack of sleep, coordination with people you can't hear, company person on your case, tool strings getting stuck, gas kicks, blow ups, etc. You really need to keep cool and be deliberate under pressure and maintain a high level of attention and focus for extended periods of time.
Here's a recent interview of Avi Loeb on this subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DQYiyQ7Tkk
> Getting a debugger to work well is hard

And yet somehow Microsoft made theirs work well since the early 90s
The mean quality of amateur designs is lower, but the variance is much, much higher.

When a creative market reaches a scale where thousands or hundreds of thousands of amateurs can experiment with new designs, the number of outliers surpassing the quality of professional designs is significant.

The challenge is finding a high-throughput way to filter those amateur board games. We like to think the best games will rise to the top, but at scale this becomes a popularity contest.

Furthermore, the line between amateur and professional blurs quickly when the amateurs start selling their products. Once someone starts a Kickstarter or opens a store to sell their amateur board game, they are effectively professionals. They tend to start behaving as such.
> massive swaths of the entire market are super irrational right now, and have been for a while, with no end in sight.

good point. youre making me second guess myself, but i think in the end GME's case is just too extreme. it mightve been undervalued at $20, but i just dont see the volume of positions >$200 as defendable or profitable. even if the gamma drives the price bananas high today, the end result will just be an even larger crash at the end.
No they don't. What regulation are you talking about?
The factorio graphics are designed in 3d and pre-rendered to 2d for use in the game