skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my view it looks like the US optimized their political/economic system for the situation they where in just after WW2, when most other developed countries had been bombed quite a bit.

It sort of made sense then to focus so heavily on growth, they had an entire planet (not really, but a large portion) that would buy their stuff. Worring about income distribution seemed a bit unnessecary when there was so much growth that "everyone" gets a piece of the cake.

This really isn't the case anymore, but a large part (maybe even a majority) of americans still seem to think that growth is the most important factor when designing their economic system.

The new administration doesn't have a mandate to change this, Biden didn't win because he promised reform, he won because he promised to stop trump from dismantling american democracy. And he won with a really small margin.

While I generally argue that the american institutions are dysfunctional, I really wouldn't blame the current administration for not addressing the issue, not only do they not have the mandate, but their stated political ideology is "liberalism", not social democracy, so why would they want to?
I remember that, and DESQview which QEMM was made for then marketed separately. DESQview was quite impressive being able to fully run most DOS programs concurrently 3 years before MS Windows/286, Windows/386, or IBM OS/2 v1.2.
It seems that the flash mob just needs to achieve critical mass and then momentum traders and sentiment driven algos will pick up on the sudden trend and bubble it up out of proportions.
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I like how this is a meta conspiracy theory. We're way beyond the land of the falsifiable at this point.
Not OP but I believe most of the surveillance derives from third parties. The government doesn't directly control or monitor most of the surveillance tools (google, telecoms, geoloc, &c.), or at least not in most advanced countries. But it's getting easier and easier for them to access these data and there will probably be less and less safeguards.

For example in France we're in a permanent "state of emergency" since the attacks in 2015 (and now with covid), which grants more rights to the government/police and let them bypass some legal safeguards for "the greater good" but of course it's already being abused, not against terrorists, but against protesters, people squatting land to protest against projects that would have a negative impact on the environment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_to_Defend), &c.
While Monzo is popular it's not profitable, and their latest annual accounts stated that they may not be able to continue as a going concern.

Starling is the only challenger bank that's profitable ATM (and it's only just profitable)
I highly recommend how to read Valve's blog posts about review bombing. It's insightful and well done.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...
Well, forgive me for giving more credence to a scientific study than to your impressions of self-reported humble beginning from wealthy clients.
the thing is that robin hood it's not a trading app, you don't buy a share on your name, those shares are pooled and bought and selled off the official market.

If you want to invest, use a real broker, but then you will have to pay commissions.

Also, have in mind that even if they say that they are commission free, you pay with higher spreads, so if the transaction price is 1, robinhood will sell it to you by 1.02 and bough by 0.98, getting a margin from you each time you make a transaction with them.
The hive mind effect enabled by Internet technologies is a far reaching and deadly serious problem.
Even checking your balance from your non-mobile device is quite a pain now. It's much more likely for me to miss a fraudulent transaction now since I no longer login on a daily basis.
On a side note: I finally understood what Buffet and B. Graham meant when they said:

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine"

It’s such a cryptic phrase, that I never quite understood it for the longest time, until I came to understand the price insanity of TSLA and Bitcoin. And now GME.

My layman’s explanation is:

People get together to buy a stock, because they believe in it, even against all odds. This gives the stock its value to this nebulous group of people. They are the true believers. They are the voters.

Then the stock price runs high, and has a very high market capitalization. Like TSLA, Bitcoin, and now GME. This is the weighing machine part. This means that over time, the company must deliver on its value, in order to justify that its market capitalization is worth its weight in gold.

So, Tesla the company, has been delivering electric cars and new technology, that helps to justify its lofty valuation.

Bitcoin, has brought the Blockchain idea to the masses. Although I’m not quite sure yet how it maintains its weighing part of the valuation. Maybe its Blockchain system becomes the underlying mechanism of other electronic commerce systems.

And GameStop, if they survive this, can cash out at $1000, issue new shares, and take the money to build itself into a giant e-Sports Gaming company. Or maybe it can even build its own GameStation video game system, to justify its lofty market capitalization.

Or something like that. And also, the initial investors are probably just hoping to ride a rocket ship to riches, and then they hold on for the long term.
IDK if you're married to using your laptop keyboard - Leno has USB/BT keyboards with identical trackpoint.
Google should have deleted the app! Otherwise they are in on it and should be investigated too.
> If a stock trading app manipulates the market by preventing purchases

They're likely close to hitting their collateral limits with the clearing house[0]. During yesterday's 5-minute interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo, RH's CEO mentioned their collateral obligations (plus unnamed regulatory requirements) as the reason for preventing new positions in GME. Every trade creates a collateral obligation with the clearing house for 2 days, so if RH goes bankrupt while the trades are being settled, nobody loses. The amount of this collateral obligation is a function of the volatility of the stock. Lots of high-volatility trades in the middle of the 2-day settlement process eat up collateral very quickly. If RH runs out of collateral, none of their customers can trade until some of the pending trades finish clearing.

The reason for still allowing people to close positions is presumably because people would scream bloody murder even harder if they were suddenly unable to exit these high-volatility positions.

Collusion to manipulate markets, particularly in such an incredibly high-profile situation, seems unlikely. Whatever RH does, they know there will likely be investigations, so they're almost certainly on their best behavior right now.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951475
I found this interesting/believable https://tinyurl.com/y64hzsl6 on WSB concerning RH refusing additional buys of GME.
QR codes, like SMS messages, can use multiple encodings. This avoids wasting space. Unfortunately utf8 is not one of the encodings so although there are tricks to encode utf8 anyway they are not supported by all scanners.
Yes. Low volume means you can launch a short attack and drop the price because there is nobody capable of buying. I saw my portfolio losing > 50% of equity during the attack.
Paying for hosting and signing contracts won't behold any company either, because any hosting company will have terms in their service contract that give them the right to discontinue the service at their discretion. A lot of people on HN also argue that companies has a right to decide which customers they want to have an association with, and thus there is no legal or moral requirement to continue hosting customer, regardless if payment is involved.
CP ruins peoples lives just as much as mis-gendering does.
Oh, wow. I have NEVER heard of anyone where bluetooth has "just worked".

Well, that's not true. People in the Apple bubble say that Apple devices work with Apple headphones. But that is it.
Anyone seeing this list as a list of investment opportunities should think twice. This is the list of companies that Big Money is betting heavily against.

In 99% of cases you don't want to take the other side of the bet against these big funds. They could be right and the company is actually a loser, or they could just have way more money than you and the market will never reflect anything but their perspective.

GME is a really fun ride (and I'm rooting for the WSB crowd) but it is a result of a uniquely heavily shorted stock and an even more unique groundswell of popular interest.
The problems I see with UX being UX lead for several years and, switched to PO: UX was valuable when most people who produces websites didn't have much idea and team composition was totally different. Plus, market maturity increased and the amount of good practices patterns made UX totally secondary. Most of the businesses are started from frameworks who include a huge amount of good UX but, that is not enough. In order to be sure you have two options: go full qualitative tests, or go quantitative tests, for the second ones you don't need UX, you need a good PO with tons of answers and a data team who crunches the data for you. This way you can move faster, as the article says.
After today, Id love to see RH get picked up for pennies on the dollar by Schwab treating it as a trade in at a Gamestop.
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It's even more worrying that Google has not pulled the app...
>...clone the pure function's result as needed instead of calling it multiple times

It is reasonably easy to do a caching function that takes arbitrary functions and data and caches their result as a map of tuples (data, function, timestamp for example). Definitely not always the right thing to do, but could eek out some performance in where you get the same data multiple times.

Edit: I found that it is called memoization: Looks to me to very easily be extensible to allow timestamps too, to check if the record is older than X.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/833180/handy-f-snippets/...
Since they introduced AMP it is also so much harder to edit the address in the adress bar.
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This attitude is a big problem, because once you allow it for political pile-on, it's suddenly available for other issues, like this one.

It's what every free speech advocate has been saying for years, or decades, or hundreds of years, yet people generally cheer on censorship when its for their own political side.
Unfortunately hypertension can cause great damage if left untreated for a long time: kidney disease and heart disease most obviously but from my understanding, any organ that has blood vessels can be affected and damaged, including brain, eyes, liver, lungs... The OP is not catastrophising, but trying to be pragmatic (although I hope that with treatment they will be able to live as long as they would have without the hypertension).
Perhaps it might be enough to allow this sequence to play out is if they were a new immigrant family if it was actually playing out. At least where I live, it's not. Socioeconomic mobility is dead.

My family has moved up these rungs, and someone seems to have unscrewed the rungs. They just don't seem to be there anymore. Public schools no longer have:

* Gifted and talented programs

* Or any other support for kids getting ahead of standards (even quality books in the library)

This is all done in the name of social justice. The only families who can get ahead are ones who are already educated enough to teach their kids at home, or rich enough to hire tutors and pay for afterschool programs.

I'm not opposed to reparations per se, if someone were to make a coherent proposal (I haven't seen one, and with each generation, it gets harder to make one, as there aren't clean lines between former slaves, slaveowners, people who benefited from slavery, etc.), but I'm not actually sure they would help. If my grandparents on my dad's side were slaves, and on my mom's side, owned slaves, am I paying reparations? Am I getting paid? How's this even supposed to work?

And how would we manage this so it wouldn't be like winning a lotto, where the money just fades into nothing?

But on the whole, I'm more a fan of fixing obvious problems, such as how public school funding ranges at least 4-5x between rich and poor districts, issues with criminal justice, and so on.

I'm also a fan of targeted subsidies. I wouldn't mind if my taxpayer dollars paid for subsidies for lower-income kids to have the same sort of access to at-home and out-of-schools supports as my child does (STEM resources, programs like RSM/AoPS, etc.). Or if we had entrepreneurship subsidies in lower-income communities. Or more equitable tax structures. And so on.
TransferWise aren't a bank so the financial protects are slightly different

I use them for some of my overseas customers, my only challenge with them is the limited number of currencies they support e.g. had to open a Revolut account to get payment from a Canadian customer
No, the Antirim report had nothing to do with Minnesota. It was ordered by a judge. It was a forensic audit of physical machines from Antirim County: https://uncoverdc.com/2020/12/14/antrim-county-forensic-repo...

“The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors.
The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud.” Based on the study, the group concluded that the machines should not be used in Michigan nor should the election results in Antrim County be certified.

In this county, the vote was actually corrected. And knowing these machines were capable of 70% error rates should have triggered a full statewide forensic audit in Michigan at the least.

Heres the surveillance footage of 30K suitcase ballots with absolutely no chain of custody after the entire building was shut down and all poll watchers kicked out on the basis of a bullshit water pipe leak story, being counted between 11pm and 1am the night of the election: https://rumble.com/vblh33-attorney-jackie-pick-exposes-georg...

At any rate, it's not a hunch. It's a fact. The election was stolen. We live in a banana republic.
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I think you are naive and don’t know what’s happening. GME is emotional and hype play. They got so much coverage and all the retail people were driving prices up have robinhood platform.

You cannot open the account within same day even if people wantto buy. Robinhood played with people physchology. After seeing the price drop everyone wanted take profits out because even if people want to buy they couldnot.

It was logical short squeeze which could drive price of GME significantly up but due robinhood manipulation it stopped.
>And who judges what is a "social platform" objectively? Because you've just granted the government the right to use its monopoly on force to remove fundamental rights like freedom of speech and association from the people running any website which meets some arbitrary "population reach" threshold.

Actually it's the opposite: I "granted the government the right to use its monopoly on force to ENFORCE fundamental rights like freedom of speech and association from the people running any website which meets some arbitrary "population reach" threshold".

And the arbitrary threshold wont be that arbitrary if it's legally defined. We have lots of such thresholds in law (from "age of consent" and "21 to be allowed to drink", to "statue of limitations").

>You just disagree with companies having the right to choose with whom they do business

They can pick their vendors (whom they do business with), but not their users, same way a grocery store can't (and doesn't in a civilized country) just send you away ("refusal of service").
Amazon does it with positive reviews. They add fake reviews for their products. As we know Google removes negative reviews, but do we know if Google manipulates reviews of other products (where Google makes money) like Netflix, Uber, Disney+? It doesn't matter whether it's negative or positive, we can't trust reviews anyway. They have incentives to make you download or buy apps.
I stand corrected -- thank you for clearing this up, this completely explains it.

It does not explain why Fidelity allowed purchasing the stock however though, which means I was likely wrong about the link altogether. Thanks for pointing that out.

[EDIT] - Is it reasonable to assume that maybe TD and Fidelity have a venue that the others do not have and that's the reason? When I compare RH, WeBull, Fidelity and TD I see UBS Securities, LLC as the standout difference.

Was UBS choosing to route the orders (I guess they have none of the shorts on their books? or they properly managed their risk?) while the others didn't touch it?
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It's been going 19 days now, I need new name for a time period more than week and less than month.
>but it has largely been dominated by Google.

Maybe anecdotal every company in my experience is on Office 365. Most private people here have hotmail/outlook as they where first before gmail.
Graham Hancock always gave me a strong pseudoscience vibe, do you think he should be taken seriously?
That's a reductionist reading of my comment.

I'm challenging your initial assertion that "people are poor at managing software". That's not enough of an explanation to support the second part of your claim:

> and as long as it works they'll happily and probably ignorantly run something that is not secure already and needs an update.

Are they poor at managing software because they are ignorantly running insecure software? Or are they ignorantly running insecure software because they are poor at managing software?

The replies so far take the entire context out of the picture and reframes the issue to "Users use their devices the 'wrong way'." and this can only be solved through technological advances.

I'm here questioning and challenging those assertions.
Dyatlov was one of the featured characters in HBO´s "Chernobyl". His quote "not great, not terrible" became a meme for a while.

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Maybe the new R native pipe operator will fix the issues? >|
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It seems to be in Google's vein. When they removed call recording API from Android, it was a sign they side with all sort of scammers. Call recording is an ultimate tool for fighting any scummy salesmen, especially from insurance companies. Probably they were starting to lose money and asked Google too remove call recording so customers can't defend themselves from predatory practices.
Is that actually true? I thought "frontrunning" was one of the fundamental things that is forbidden by stock trading regulation. Does it not apply when done with those new-fangled computers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running
anyone want to say about it?
This is the sort of nose-upturned view many of us are guilty of, regardless of whether that was your intent. Ive seen those "users are stupid" anecdata floating around these parts with impunity.

People aren't stupid and 100K plus people making a complaint can't be seen as a mere "users are stupid" scenario.

This condescent of people who use our products will catch up with us someday and I hope it does. People arent half-wits and we might have to acceot the absurd possibility that we a wrong and crap.
What's funny, is that I cancelled amazon prime back in april or so.

I had to contact them. I said "look, I have amazon prime for the shipping speed, and ALL shipping is taking 1-2 weeks."

The support folks couldn't figure out how to cancel prime for a partial year, so they gave me a full refund.
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Is a credit card still a credit card if they detect suspicious purchase patterns and suspend it?

Is a rating system still a rating system if it detects cancel culture and ignores ratings?

Is a broker still a broker if they follow SEC guidelines for limiting consumers who haven't filled out the experience questionnaire? How about if they are a discount broker and don't even have additional service for those who are qualified to trade options, etc?

Really what we are seeing is more and more populist diatribe against the normal systems we have had for decades. Sure, some things will actually be improvable, but what is improvable and what is just the average expertise of a mob that responds with emotions being extremely low?
Everything surrounding TD subreddit was getting out of hand so they had to act to look like the good guys who care about stuff.
In this context, validating the design means ensuring it is portraying the business object as correct as possible to relative to the business requirement.

Like, "validating implementation against specification", but replace implementation with design and specification with business requirement
...which all did the same thing, no?
I believe the sharp dip was a "short ladder" as they call it -- hedge funds selling the stock to eachother at low prices to attempt to lower the stock price and trigger some retail investors' stop orders to trigger and free up some shares for cheap.

https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1354861574163320833/pho...
So they have a legitimate technical reason for why the app doesn't work.

How does that excuse them? If cat picture app has issues with their image hosting partner it is not my problem, that's the entire point of going through a middle-man like stock brokerage
I bet I can find another HN thread where HN people DEMAND that Google curates reviews and apps :D
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We need an objective way to tell which things are manipulative. And to whom. Also, ads are manipulative too (for many people), but do they belong to the same category?
Aren't companies using Robotic process automation (RPA) software solutions to automate workflows.

There are also tools like Selenium, AutoIt and iMacros to automate workflows but I think the best thing is to have in house made native solution for your workflow automation but I guess not all companies can afford it.
Check this Hayabusa2 Japan asteroid explorer [1].

You can track the telemetry data in real-time using the cool looking Haya2NOW dashboard [2].

The Hayabusa2's Haya2NOW website was discussed in HN before [3].

[1]https://medium.com/@JackKelleher/meet-hayabusa-2-4f808231d5e...

[2]http://haya2now.jp/en.html

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046274
It cannot be for “the greater good”, or the law would not have been written that way before the “emergency”.