skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (there's a ton of lawsuits)

Do the lawsuits actually lead to people going to jail? Does it stop them from concentrating more wealth and exploiting things further? IOW, do these actions make the system less fragile? I guess not. That is the difference.

> They care exactly as much about $GME as they do about $DOGE.

That is not the point. The point is that there is no one to stop them. It's their risk, it should be their reward, and it should not depend on some referee that is pulling the card and calling the fouls only when it favors their friends.

I personally have zero interest in getting into this fight, but I am thrilled with the idea of people realizing that the current game is rigged and that the only way to win is not to play by their rules.

> cryptocurrency is your world. It's your religion. It can do no wrong.

First, how many times have I said already that the "currency" part is the least interesting section for most cypherpunks? The point is independence and resilience, cryptocurrency is just the beginning.

Second, "crypto" doesn't do anything. It can do as wrong as "Free Software".

People working in crypto can do wrong, have done wrong and there will be more examples to come. But - here's where I seem to lose you - whatever people do does not bring systemic risk. Mt Gox didn't kill Bitcoin. TheDAO didn't kill Ethereum. Tether won't kill Bitcoin or Ethereum. All the scammers and the people learning very expensive lessons won't kill crypto. All of these events (unpleasant as they are) cause shocks to the system that lead to reactions that make it stronger - better security, more permissionless applications, less centralization. This is how every robust system evolves.

(Yes, one could say that our institutions were already the result of centuries of social interactions and is what we had as the most robust solution. But the last years are seeing such a change in the environment that an evolutionary leap was bound to happen, and it is getting clear every day how the current system is failing to adapt fast enough.)

Worse, the ones benefiting from the status quo all want to keep the illusion that is all good and fine and that no change is needed. This is reactionary and ignores the fact that evolution is a continuous process. Bitcoin is not going to go extinct by decree. If Bitcoin ever gets to be extinct, it won't be because too many buttcoiners wrote on reddit or complained about how wasteful PoW is, or because some big shot got hacked and wanted its money back, or because Putin blocked transactions in Russia. It will be either because something clearly better came along and it was more fit for survival or because some other catastrophic event came and destroyed the environment (in the case, the Internet).
In Soviet Russia, if you were caught with religious literature, they would charge you with possession of pornography.
So instead they point the domain at Medium and any XSS attack on Medium can steal their customer accounts.

I highly doubt either WordPress or Medium are susceptible to an XSS attack, but if I had to bet on one being safer I would bet on the open source software already used to power thousands of high profile websites.
I'm hoping this will create an impetus for social change. Occupy Wall Street failed but now that people's nihilism is increasingly justified and living standards drop, I doubt things will go on as before.
you mean forums since the Web 1.0?
The issue with Facebook you see is that they (along with most huge tech corps) have become this weird amalgamation between fascist and communist. They're a private company that controls WAY too many assets, with way too much unregulated/unchecked power. They want equality for all, but yet they're willing to suppress every man's voice in order for their own mission, whatever that is. Their agenda ranges from personal freedom and free speech suppression to political campaigning; and far beyond the reach of both of those. When a company gets too big and consolidates too much power for themselves their own absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Facebook here has the power to regulate their own version(s) of the markets due to personal fear that their stock will be affected by the every man's voice and opinion. They fear being oppressed by the people, so they oppress the people's ability to have any control over them. For a publicly traded company this is insane, and it shows how fake everything really is behind the scenes. Only a few out there are truly allowed to trade on good information and swing markets their way.

Break up big tech.
Facebook is a natural monopoly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

No matter how they treat users, people won't leave due to network effect.

I don't believe the problem is solvable with more tech or free market. I think the only way forward is political, with laws and regulations.

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.

It's time to add social networks to the list.
I don't think that's quite accurate either. It's not that RH's service is terrible, it's they had to cut trades to meet regulatory obligations. But, by only cutting trades in one direction. And that happened to be in the direction that favors their largest customer. And that customer also happens to be on the hook for much of the short squeeze... The optics are TERRIBLE.
If we can get federated solutions to be nice enough, maybe that'll do it.
I was running Debian stable with xfce4 (4.12.5) for the last few years. A few months ago, chromium and other applications started to give me major rendering problems, becoming completely transparent when switching virtual desktop "workspaces".

I decided it was time to get with the times and try out GNOME on wayland. While I would have preferred to stick with xfce, Debian stable does not make it convenient to upgrade to their latest version, 4.16.

I'm using a T480 Thinkpad and I'm sure my GNOME version is similarly out of date, but wayland has been performing well enough so far.

However, at this point I'm looking to migrate to Fedora when I get the time. I'm tired of fighting against the bizarre nerd carnival that is the Linux Desktop.

These are my installation notes: https://github.com/anschwa/debian-thinkpad-install
> “Starting tomorrow, we plan to allow limited buys of these securities,” Robinhood, a popular trading app, said. “We’ll continue to monitor the situation and may make adjustments as needed.”

So technically yes, and effectively no.
Not always, it depends on the usual volume and the willingness of shareholders to sell.
There was a smaller short squeeze in TSLA circa 2013 going to the ~90$ (pre-split) price range and IIRC short interest was "only" in the 30-50%.
Maybe it's not a hill worth dying on (and I don't really see anyone actually sticking their neck out for Jack Ma) but it's a word of caution for anyone looking to invest in the exchanges in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Other existing shareholders can sell as well (there's no lockup), and I guess short sellers could sell immediately? But yeah issuing a market on open order for a new stock would be a "courageous" move (but IMO that's true of any market order - don't use a market order instead of a limit order unless you're genuinely willing to buy at $999 / sell at $0.01).
I tried to google for you planning to hit the very first result and mock you. I will admit my shame.

To my surprise, despite this controversy being bigger than the systemd one recently, it mostly happened on mailing lists and other non-public forums!

I wonder if anyone collected all that history.

most of the public materials of the time are diatribes by non-coders: https://books.google.com/books?id=GlAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=gp...
> Which deplatformings do you specifically refer to?

President (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), White House, Parler (Google Play, Apple, AWS), MyPillow guy, anyone who utters the phrase "stop the steal" on Facebook, Kyle Rittenhouse (Facebook, GoFundMe, Discover)
When everyone is a criminal, anyone can be arrested. The reddit mods have basically made this charge, in their own special WSB way.

It's impossible for moderators to fully control large groups, subs and such. Some bannable comments will always be present, and they are limited by whatever moderation tools they get from reddit.

Meanwhile, the idea that discord, reddit (throttled not banned) and FB all simultaneously and coincidentally took these actions during the gamestop maneuver is not even 1% believable. WTF.
Isn't funny when the lowest common denominator (or whatever is called in english) just rules everything around you?
Taboola to go public on NYSE at USD 2.6B valuation
If they actually explained what their exit strategy was I would be more inclined to consider investing. But interesting idea.
First they came for the Trump supporters, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Trump supporter.
That first paragraph is straight up poetry
The thing that gets me is that they don't ban specific people, it's always the entire community that gets taken down. But totally nothing to see here, guys.
What makes V increase? A new big investment opportunity? A savings tax? What starts money circulating?
It’s time to hack/weaponize censorship. Any group you don’t like you infiltrate and add hate speech. Like China when you denounced the neighbor you had a grudge with as bourgeoisie.

If you don’t think this isn’t already happening, you are completely wrong.
Sorry, they can do what they want if they're funded by venture capital.
Those gradient names are annoying, but they are a de facto standard from ColorBrewer[1]. I always have to look at that website to figure out the abbreviation I need in ggplot2.

[1] https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=GnBu&n=3
The discord group is back up, you can see how many members it has yourself - 378,303

https://discord.com/invite/wallstreetbets
In this case their "slight" directly affected the functionality of the App: I was unable to buy or even view certain stocks. To me that is clearly App functionality that should be subject to user review and rating.

Mass shifts in public opinion due to actual changes in how the App behaves is not brigading nor retaliation and should not be protected against.
Discord has since taken the stance of helping the mods, instead of permaban. I liked hearing that news earlier today.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22254339/discord-r-wallst...
Not a bad thing, Montreal is literally an island and there are plenty of places with ugly moldy and unsafe *plexes wish were demolished and rebuilt like this https://goo.gl/maps/unYizR5WCsLT3QhK7 for example, if you remember how it looked before.
Iomegans, Identity and Investing
> My general sense is that WSB works hard to moderate within its sensibility so it stays enjoyable, but with the big influx, I’d bet Facebook and Discord are either reacting to behavior which is slipping past the WSB mods due to the influxes,

This is possible, they are a victim of their own success in a way... or

The banks are looking for a way—any way—to shut them down. This is costing millions of dollars. Paying a few shills to jump into the group ramp up the BS and a few others to jump into the group and take offense at every little thing might just be what it takes to overwhelm the mods.

Not Facebook collusion, just a little discourse sabotage.
Perhaps, but it's quite convenient for any software that wants to ingest PSD files without the (nigh-intractable) challenge of reimplementing the entirety of Photoshop's parser and rendering systems!
You can issue your whole curve as orders, can't you? Something like: buy 50 shares limit $200 on open, buy 50 shares limit $100 on open, buy 100 shares limit $50 on open.
That’s really encouraging to hear
Gender Trends in Computer Science Authorship
That's a new one. I'm surprised they didn't go with the usual "hate speech" or "white supremacy".
All that’s missing is a dishonest Trump tweet telling everyone what to think about the situation.
> It's all or nothing.

This is demonstrably mistaken. Look, here's an entire Wikipedia article on limits to free speech in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

And if you're talking about the ill-defined philosopical concept of "free speech", that's also mistaken. Free speech is a subservient value in pursuit of free society; if an instance of speech would do damage to the freedoms of others (e.g. slander) then it is morally just for that speech to be forbidden.

Black-and-white thinking isn't the recourse here. Free speech is a nuanced topic, and not as cut-and-dry as you have been led to believe.
It's much better to argue that FB is a monopoly than a natural monopoly. It's not at all obvious why FB cannot instantly die like all social media companies before. I'm not sure what inspiration is hoped by linking to Wikipedia on a fiercely discussed issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
>You've never heard of it unless you're a professional trader,

Or if you've seen/requested a stock certificate. It used to be fairly easy to get a paper certificate from a broker, for a fee on the order of $10. However I've read they charge as much as $500 now, in an effort to discourage ordinary people from doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_certificate
Really interesting development in the section titled "Crash Monitoring?":

> An interesting side effect of the new processing pipeline is that imagent is now able to detect when an incoming message caused a crash in BlastDoor (it will receive an XPC error)... As can be seen, imagent is apparently informing the iMessage servers that the message with the UUID 0x3a4912626c9645f98cb26c7c2d439520 (fU key) has caused a crash in BlastDoor. It is unclear what the purpose of this is without access to the server’s code. While these notifications may simply be used for statistical purposes, they would also give Apple a fairly clear signal about attacks against iMessage involving brute-force and a somewhat weaker signal about any failed exploits against the BlastDoor service.

> In my experiments, after observing one of these crash notifications, the server would start directly sending delivery receipts to the sender for messages that hadn't actually been processed by the receiver yet. Possibly this is another, independent effort to break the crash oracle technique by confusing the sender, but that is hard to verify without access to the code running on the server.

Apparently Apple has added the ability to detect crashes when parsing iMessages, report that data back to the mothership (with some attribution), and then mislead the sender of the likely malicious message with fake delivery receipts. This is cool on so many different levels.
Linux Sudo Vulnerability
Discord seems to be the one of the least bad of the social/ messaging platforms.
Heh.

I wonder if Bandcamp or Soundcloud artists get driveby commenters saying things like "It needs more cowbell" or "Here, I recorded a string arrangement for the second chorus, please add it in and republish!"
There will be a lot of talk about sueing, some of it will result in litigation, and probably a few people will have some of what they thought they had taken from them restored - but none of this will result in RobinHood, or any other company, becoming the frictionless, almost-free trading platform they imagined it was.
They didn’t cut trades in one direction. They closed new positions in both directions. Buys were still allowed to close short positions, just the same as sells were allowed to close long positions.
I implore everyone to go re-read all the HN articles about Trump and far-right deplatforming where numerous --highly downvoted-- comments quite correctly predicted what was coming.

Trump was "only a test."
Make the rules arbitrary and impossible to follow, then selectively enforce them. Oldest trick in the book, works like a charm.
Agreed. From what I gathered when I looked at it a while back two points are: This expects you more to provide your own data sources vs Grafana having a bunch of ready-made ones, and this is a bit easier to customize with custom elements etc, but it would be great to get information from someone with actual experience with it.
The fact that so many of these bandwagoners didn't understand what a margin call is demonstrates that Robinhood was right to save them from themselves.
We've also spent quite some time researching what extensions companies are already building! Would love to share what we learned: https://dev.to/realkevinyang/what-i-learned-from-studying-10...

Lmk if you have any questions! I'll be here :)
"We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances, we guard you while you sleep." - Tyler Durdin
I also do 4 and I am on the US. Perhaps Google is deleting/ignoring reviews.
Surprises me that speech recognition is that good then!
Economic activity:

> The velocity of money (or the velocity of circulation of money) is a measure of the number of times that the average unit of currency is used to purchase goods and services within a given time period.[3]

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

Good video by a CFA trainer:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0mh7cCjwDU

The first 10 minutes (maybe 20) probably has the most pertinent information to this discussion, but I've found the entire video to be interesting on inflation.
The problem with this position is that it's false. I welcome corrections, but there is a wealth of literature on this topic. For the past two to three decades there has been a small cottage industry of research in Liquidity Savings Mechanisms that are designed to prevent this scenario through clever system design.

These mechanisms have been evaluated, simulated, and tested by central banks at greater volumes than DTCC's system. The difference here is in orders of magnitude. The Feds handle $2+Tn./day. They handle $500Bn/day at most. If the Feds can introduce these systems and maintain liquidity, then what reasoning does DTCC have?

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/0...

I am loathe to cast aspersions, but the aspersion I'm casting here is that they're dragging their feet, as it would effectively end an entire sub-sector of the industry. Or, at the very least, substantially re-order it. This inefficiency is someone's margin and profit.
My stock broker have recently redesigned their systems to provide us "an improved experience".

Except that, besides removing some functionality existent in the previous platform, the new one doesn't allow you any longer to lay out your tools the way you think it's more convenient.

They asked for a feedback and I said it feels like the artist conceptual design has priority over the damn user needs. It's evident that the people involved on that project have never performed something beyond trivial operations at the stock market.

Financial industry usually values stability and it's a bit disconcerting to see a stock broker embarking on such trend now.
FT reported it as well. Not bulletproof, but I think they have a bit more reputation than CNBC.

Perhaps I'm naïve, but I think to lie about such a thing would pretty clearly fall afoul of the law?
When you write 'enough housing to go around' you are thinking about housing everyone in need. In a free market economy 'enough housing to go around' means enough real estate assets to safely park capital (for example Chinese one).
I disagree. The price of money across a period of time, denominated in monetary units, is the most important price in a diverse economy and setting it to zero causes all sorts of distortions. If someone can’t afford to pay interest on a debt then they should not take on the debt.

My opinion of “usury” is that it refers to loans where the interest continues to accumulate if the debt is not paid. I think this can be solved by considering the contract to be a thing that terminates at a specified price.
The precedent was set with proTrump groups and people.

Any group or person who attracts negative attention must go.

Not worth the business risk.

Politicians are eager to make even apolitical issues partisan. The outrage driven media is happy to launder and legitimize retoric into fake news. Internet mobs are quick to follow.

Standing for principle will hurt your business and ruin your name.

Not worth it. I would do the same thing.
Meanwhile, lots of questionable groups still thrive on Facebook.
Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide
The movie Frozen, gruesome car crash experiments help solve Dyatlov Pass mystery
I've always wondered why there's no Emscripten-like tool, or WASM-like runtime, that shoves your code into a bytecode interpreter embedded within a portable POSIX shell-script.

With such a thing, nobody would ever have to write actual lowest-common-denominator /bin/sh scripts again. Autotools could just be a Rust program or whatever. (It'd run rather slowly, of course, but you wouldn't use it for the whole process — it'd just be a bootstrapping agent, used to configure the build of a native-compiled build tool.)
I think we should clarify here that trying to corner the market isn't some kind of by-the-book playing, it's an immoral scheme and whatever happens to such people is well-deserved.
But none of those things have risen at the same rate, or even comparable rates. The increase in childcare has kept up with the average wage increase, but education is hundreds of times more! I don't even know how you'd price medical care, as everyone is effectively charged differently, even for the same service. Housing doesn't track either of those -- purchasing follows literally nothing, renting follows local wage. So what's going on here?

(As a note, local wages have risen less than the government's calculation of inflation, which is primarily food and secondarily consumer goods)
then again, it was not its job
Melvin Capital got the margin call. Presumably they were already familiar with the concept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/citadel-p...
I think this is taking too far into what I was intending.

I am all for removing violence and terrorism groups from social media. At the same time, I am against censorship from these companies in other matters.

The responses here are disgusting, contemptful and vile for what I thought was a reasonable stance.
not only that, but they custody grayscale's btc. they definitely don't need grayscale.
No one is stopping you from building your own island. Stop whining.
Will this be like #deleteUber where enough damage can be made by #deleteRobinhood ?
GME is sitting pretty at $312 after hours. What did they get saved from?
That's incorrect. Server owners can request limit increases. The official replacement server already has ~380k members.

https://i.imgur.com/EdREGic.png
You’re joking or delusional.
Also worth noting is that these are the official channels, there are plenty of dark pools where there are no rules but all sorts of exotic instruments are being traded in volumes that boggle the mind.

I worked at one quite some years back.
I've read that you shouldn't do this because it will tie things up for a while. Liquidating the stock and moving your assets apparently is more immediate.

Can someone confirm?
It's been a while since I did this, but last time I transferred shares from one brokerage to another, it took several days.

It seems to me that if you are holding GME, the last possible thing you want is being stuck in a position for a while.

For this particular case, it might be a better choice is to liquidate your position, cash out and just open another brokerage account. I know this is the total opposite of what the WSBs are looking for but the alternative is transferring a position with $50k and when you can trade again its only worth $500.