skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The gameplay is simple

No. Very no. It isn't a graphical game, but that means nothing to complexity. The number of objects and behaviors that the game engine must track, and track perfectly every clock tick, blows away most graphics engines. There is no room for the trickery that graphics/physics engines use to determine which objects need to be tracked. Factorio must track everything always, whether it is on screen or not. Each of those objects is also interactable. The character builds and maintains bespoke systems layered atop each other ad infinitum. The network of possible behaviors may be more akin to a giant excel document than a minecraft world, but that doesn't make it any less complex.

See also Prison Architect. Cartoonish 2d graphics, reminiscent of SouthPark imho, but nevertheless a very complex game. Even after a thousand hours with it, Prison Architect's AI still surprises me every time I play.
Another related project: Wasmtime and Rust+Python

Compile your Rust code to wasm to circumvent having to compile for different architectures.

https://docs.wasmtime.dev/wasm-rust.html
Technically, every revolution that took down monarchies were mobs.

Yes, a mob does not automatically make them right or moral. But let's be fair about the WSB mob, they're going straight after an oligarchy that has done some fucked up shit to the general masses. As one tweet put it, they're going to force a lot of people to sell their second yacht to afford the payments for the first one. I also love how many other big CEOs of real companies that produce real things are backing the WSB folks.

Dont get me wrong about short sellers too. The act of short selling is technically good. There are some good firms that pay for investigations into large public companies to expose complex crimes, then short sell to recoup and profit. Melvin isnt one of them.
I don’t think you are missing anything. This magic 100% number is somewhat of a meme going around.
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> is growth always good?

Perhaps we are glossing over the real question:

> is the pursuit of growth always good?

And perhaps even more accurately:

> is a strategy of not pursuing growth better for a company?

I think this might lead to a more relevant discussion than is happening elsewhere in this thread.

Besides--"perpetual growth" as a concept is on the same plane as "the customer is always right." It's not expected to be literally true, it's a mindset. If you're not trying to improve, you're likely stagnating or getting worse. If you're consistently at-odds with what your customer is expecting, it may mean you should be re-assessing how you're doing business.

I think ultimately it is healthy for businesses to be constantly re-evaluating whether they can do more, or do it for less. And that's all "perpetual growth" means.
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Ok maybe. If they were banned initially.

But banning them immediately after successful action against existing financial interests for "homophobic slurs" (or whatever the excuse was) is just... well, an excuse.
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I think you don't appreciate how angry people on WSB are. It's pure distilled anger. They want to relieve that anger somewhere and do it nonviolently. A handful of people losing money is the perfect pressure valve.

If you deny them this opportunity to vent their anger then they are highly likely to stab you, not because they wanted $10 from your wallet, nah it's because they are still angry and want someone to pay for it and going by the events that lead to WW2 a lot of them considered a life to be an equally valid price.
> How would you encode a protocol with Tree Notation?

I am not 100% sure I understand your question because the
word "protocol" can mean slightly different things in
different contexts, but one possible answer is that there is
a grammar language (called
Grammar—https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/#standard%20grammar),
in which you can define new languages/protocols.

> But you still need to write code for each language and each protocol right?

Today, yes. And this is a very good question because
something that is coming up a lot more now. Increasingly I
am getting messages from people building new Tree Notation
libraries in different host languages. The problem is people
quickly get the basic structure done (pretty much just
nested spreadsheets), and then are like "okay what next?
how do I add support for the higher level tree languages".
So that is becoming the top priority to figure out. Do we
make a universal Grammar language that then is implemented
in all host targets (JS, C, C#, Kotlin, Swift, GoLang,
Java, Closure, Haskell, Python, etc) so that people can
define a language (or "protocol") in this Grammar language
and then generate get parsers/compilers in any of those
community supported host languages? That seems like a likely
path, but a lot to figure out there.

> I have always felt like web assembly was missing a
well-defined system for extending the API and also a
strong external module system.

I agree! I've been wanting to write a Grammar for a simple
Tree Language that compiles to WASM for years but just
haven't found the time
(https://github.com/treenotation/research/issues/7).

If anyone wants to explore that space, happy to help!
Absolutely agree with your second point, but still not sure I'm comfortable using it 'post crime' so to speak.
Wow, I didn’t know u/DFV saw this before Burry, I thought he was tipped to it by movement from Burry!

I am very suspicious of WSB generally, but just like with Anonymous, there apparently are some skilled folks in the horde...
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You'd be concentrating your own data on your own server, which means you're one step away from someone capturing all your data.
It's usually fine to open an issue on the repo. It should have a detailed description of what's wrong, reproduction steps if appropriate etc, basically enough to show that you know what you're doing, have put some effort into it, and care about the project. Perhaps you'll get a response from a project maintainer, and can ask if they're open to a PR to fix it. IME, there's pretty good chances of positive engagement and eventual PR merge if you're fixing an actual bug in a good way, and not trying to add some massive new feature or completely change the way the thing works or something.

If it's excessively difficult to find a way to communicate with a project maintainer, well, maybe there's your sign that this is not a good project to contribute to.
Sure, the only real limitation inside the processor is the number of addressing bits if I remember correctly. However, in case of laptops I think it doesn't matter since they're kind of sold as a platform. The main point was - it might not be possible to extend RAM.
pony core team member here.

There has been nothing large or dramatic in the last 4 months. We are plugging away at improving ecosystem tools, the runtime, and a variety of other things; incremental improvement.

We spent money from our open collective account recently to purchase a couple Apple Silicon mac minis so we can get pony working on Apple Silicon machines. That's probably the biggest "outside the community" news that is coming.

And I'm probably stretching the definition of "outside the community" there.
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If this is successful, hedge funds will suffer, some retail investors will make a huge return, and some other retail investors will suffer losses at the end, much more than otherwise would have. Obviously not ideal, but no situation is perfect. The losses to the retail investors can be minimized if more join in and they take smaller positions on average.

How do market makers get outsized benefits from this? I'm uninformed.
Dur. Wish I had thought of that.

EDIT> Thanks for the amazing video link! I've been coding CG on and off since 1987 and this just hits so many disparate things and brings them all together in a beautiful visual and mathematical presentation.

I've been meaning to model a simple 3d character for a game I want to reboot, and had been waffling between doing something procedural / parametric and either doing the art or hiring an artists. Now I know what I'm doing for the rest of the day. clears schedule. Woo!
I never saw Pony described as high performance. Now I'm interested
I've seen way too much rationalization of this from mainstream financial media "pundits". Lol'd when I heard Andrew Ross Sorkin's take on it.

I do know that the DFV post was the match, but I think stimulus + people generally wanting to take revenge + the WSB post that revealed that Melvin was shorting GME, so let's fuck it up + Robinhood's post-pandemic popularity were the reasons for this to go out of control unlike other previous movements.

One thing it has shown is how much vulnerable the US financial system is. Although this time it was retail investors left holding the bag, this situation could be destructive very easily.

Imagine now, if Russia wanted to take down the US economy. They could create a buffer hedge fund, maybe 3-5B, which would be obliterating itself anyways. Then get some bots to bump up activity around a particular stock, maybe generate fake short interest against GS (smallest big 6 bank, so I chose it). Then create a CtA on WSB, calling for a mass short to dethrone GS based on fake information, and pump it up with bots. Retail starts shorting, Algobots might pick up on the momentum and join the trend, followed by traditional HFs joining the crowd. In the end, you'll have GS being shorted for no particular reason, but enough to cause some serious damage momentarily. Price goes down, they get deemed overlevered, and they're forced to take a bailout (highly damaging to the politicians in Congress who support it) or led to fail (which would cause shockwaves across the street). It's likely the politicians will sacrifice themselves for a cushy job post politics, but the current ruling party would lose all legitimacy in front of its voters.

I imagine such a scenario would be easily plausible in Europe, where the banks are much weaker financially (save for the Swiss ones).
Growth doesn't necessarily mean being the biggest. Unbounded growth is strongly analogous to cancer, but bounded growth up to a certain point is a valid way of getting to an ideal team size/composition, economy of scale, or customer-base diversification to limit risk.

Back in 1989, I interviewed at a place called Daedalus something-or-other in Ann Arbor, MI. They had about a dozen employees crowded into an old Victorian house. They said that they had been around for more than a decade, never had anybody leave, and this was their first hire in a few years. They had a comfortable niche in desktop publishing (IIRC) and didn't particularly intend to grow beyond that. I guess nowadays we might call it a lifestyle business.

I ended up going elsewhere, but even then - at 24 - I could see the appeal and sanity of such an approach. I wish there were more such companies, but the existence of VC-funded behemoths leaves precious little oxygen for more than a few.
Also, the Rhino stuff sounds like something a big corporate like LandRover would do as for a glossy National Geographic advert, its just weird coming from a startup
It's not a situation that can last.
The title implies research on Oumuamua was censored, which was never the case.
They could game it all the way up, and collect all the way down. Lots of shorts could make enormous amounts of money right now.
Who backs each party isn't that hard to verify. The only assumption is the copy cat trading of Melvin's strategy which seems fairly safe to make.
It's indeed a cool name, but it's not my doing (this isn't a Show HN)!
What's the standard for manipulation?

If retail investors publicly coordinate buys is that manipulation?

What if they pool their assets and appoint a controller? ("make their own managed fund").
Maybe amateurs can more easily escape local maximas because they don't know the ingrained rules that lead to them.
So I wanted to give back some value to the community as well, I was doing a lot of research lately on insomnia and found very interesting facts and tips on how to peaceful sleep and not having insomnia Never Again with our natural remedies so I posted on my blog, it explains how you can fall asleep naturally without taking any pills or substances
or just compare "White Rabbit" to "We Built This City"
Here’s a good explanation: https://twitter.com/toxic/status/1353890766800621569?s=21

TL;DR Citadel sees Robinhood order flow and can get in front of it, and also bought a chunk of Melvin on the cheap when they got squeezed out of their short position.
You have not noticed yet that a good fraction of posts on HN are just things someone saw in another HN or Reddit discussion, that they then reposted as a separate submission?
Gamedev here. Sigh.

One, the measurement of novelty is bad: it's basically the measure of whether the game exhibits a novel mashup of mechanics according to the BoardGameGeek ontology of mechanics.

This is a terrible definition of novelty, as it ignores all of the other aspects of game design, both in gameplay (interesting systems, challenges, loops) and non-game play (fiction, setting, presentation, etc). Who measures novelty as "mashup of mechanics"?

Two, the measure of knowledge diversity is based on BGG reports of how many genres the designers have worked in. This is, again, not only questionable, but also leads to weird effects: imagine knocking Salman Rushdie, JRR Tolkien, or Umberto Eco for having low knowledge diversity because Amazon says they write books in only one or two genres!

But fine, even assuming that, the actual effects are not strong. Looking at the figures, the scatter plots are all over the place, and the trend lines fit poorly.

And finally, the main problem is: sure, if you compare hobbyists (who make what they want for fun) with professionals (who are making a product that needs to sell more than a small handful of copies), of course you're going to find that hobbyists are more free to experiment with wild permutations of mechanics. But in doing so, they conflate personal ability with situational constraints. What about professional designers if they were able to work without commercial constraints, like hobbyists?
Far left paper repackages DNC talking points into a hit piece about someone's facebook posts 3-years ago and pretends it's news.
Seems like a great way to upgrade one's procrastination to the next level...
Ask HN: Any podcast explaining the WSB and GameStop saga?
He has not "cashed out", some of his options expired ITM.
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There already exist used electric cars for under $10,000. By 2035 there will be many more and the price will come down further.

You will also be able to buy used ICEs well after 2035. By the time those last brand new model 2035 ICEs come down to the $2k-$4k price range, it will be 2050.
Thanks! Apparently, they did add it for tmpfs, and discussed it for ext4. https://lwn.net/Articles/718102/
Yes, I agree that it actually exists in the open, and I should have clarified what I've said earlier.

It turns out that Nokia doesn't have the whole IP for Symbian (unless in 2009 they painstakingly bought all the IP needed, which I haven't seen any eveidence). Of course it would be silly to include for example Java and the Snake series of games on what I am talking about, but I mean the internal bits of the components of it. So I say that the code, while source-available, might not be released cleanly IP-wise (however it is clear that it is abandoned so they might be reluctant to enforce it or even unknowingly holds the copyright to some parts of it).
Termessos is one. An ancient Greek city up a mountain. Imagine an amphitheatre with a view in every direction. The burial site is open for you to climb around and over. It's near Antalya. Check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termessos
A bike doesn't help you if the poachers shoot back or if they're buddy buddy with your boss's boss.

That said, I greatly look forward to electric OHVs because the Karens won't be able to get stuff shut down by complaining about noise. (What I don't look forward to is trails becoming "EV only" to keep the poors out of the sport.)
Nobody complains about hedge funds making short-term trades based on technicals. Momentum traders, swing traders, automated high-frequency traders front-running order flow, that's all kosher. But let a bunch of retail traders step outside of long-term fundamentals and beat the funds at their own game, and suddenly that's a problem.

People keep assuming the WSB crowd are idiots. I don't think it's a given that they can't do risk management, and in a short squeeze it's generally the short sellers who end up holding the bag.

Anyone who FOMOs in this week is probably in for a hurtin', but the ones who got in before this was all over the media have a good shot at significant profit.
Pony came up in the Corecursive podcast a few months ago, I enjoyed this episode on it: https://corecursive.com/055-unproven-with-sean-allen/

There was a big focus on both performance and stability/safety.
In summary, just a vague "we are watching" statement.
So what you're saying is you and thousands like you don't mind risking losing money because you think it's worth it to stick it to the man.

Who do you think is making money off all the trades you're losing on? Doh!

Some billionaires will lose money - actually they already did a few days ago when they exited. Some others will make a few millions or billions. Robinhood looks like they've got some explaining to do. Just another day on Wall Street.
not very 'alive', but there is a 64 bit port to current scheme48 around, so it can still be used. didn't really make it to distro packages (yet) however
Is there a good, uh, gallery of examples of how much you can do with modern HTML + CSS without javascript with modern standards?

This and htmx have me interested in making a web UI for the first time in a while, the max-JS frameworks are a big nope for me.
what really ended up happening to me is after 4-6 years of meticulously following politics every day, donating to campaigns, volunteering in my spare time, etc, is that I realized that it's a waste of time, my life was passing me by, my health and personal life and finances were deteriorating/not keeping pace with my peers. So I stopped doing all that and started focusing on just improving myself.

Some will use, in my opinion, bullshit justifications of "oh, when I'm rich and powerful, I will use my influence to solve blah blah blah" "it's more effective to be very wealthy and donate money to solve problems than volunteer in your spare time at a soup kitchen" etc. I've met dozens of MBA types and otherwise that subscribe to this type of nonsense. Every one of them has been a megalomaniac. Maybe that's what I am now, too, but if so I'm not pretending to be anything else.

To give an example, I don't care what happened with GME and robinhood, though I am certain that AOC and her ilk will use this situation to justify raising taxes and regulations supposedly on the hedge funds but I'll be eating a fair share of that too. It just means I need to increase my earnings and mitigate my risk/exposure as much as I can. We can sit around and rail at the system but I am not a genius or super capable, I went to state school and wasn't a great student; I have no real business telling everyone how to organize society. It's fun to brainstorm about and that's why I love HN but I'm just going to find the best path I can through this shit and hope for the best. If you're anything like me, I advise you do the same.
> There are no environmental restrictions here you could grow for as long as user needs grow.

All this demand for software and ever changing needs, and more cloud computing environment is coming from somewhere. You want to know where?

Merely 2 decades ago, the average household had one computer in the house, and it was typically a desktop, and the adults and teenagers had had cellphones.

Now, almost everyone that is middle class or above has multiple computing devices in their possession at all times. Every member of the family has their own laptop or tablet and cellphone, probably even a smartwatch or two, even kids as young as 4. There's probably multiple TV screens and gaming consoles as well. Devices that are designed to be replaced in a mere 2-3 years through planned obsolesce. We have more cheap shit than ever before and it gets thrown in the trash at an ever increasing rate. There are screens literally everywhere now: My gas station pump, the wine and beer isle at my grocery store, at the checkout line, walking out into the parking lot, on my wrist, in my pocket, at my coffee shop, in my restaurants.

That results in more companies needing to have digital presences, more apps, more games, more features, more data collection and spyware tracking you around the internet, more ML models being trained and draining energy, more crypto-mining and 4,000 watt PSU's coming online, so on and so forth.

All this stuff requires an ever increasing amount of rare earth materials and burned fossil fuels to produce and operate.
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Sure, and in order to determine if a prediction is correct or incorrect, you have to wait for the event to occur. To make the above statement true you would have to either remove the word "accurately" or wait until the end of 2022.
Not sure why this is so expensive. EV dirt bikes with better performance than this are definitely a thing for 10% of the price [0].

[0] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Other-Motorcycle-Chin...
The tag line that has carried over on all the website versions is:

"Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language"
What is illegal or not in finance feels more or less arbitrary.
The Washington Post has a review of the book: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/an-interstellar-accid...

Two excerpts from the review: "While this exotic explanation of the object serves as the backbone of the book, Loeb’s broader argument grows out of his bewilderment with the blowback to his hypothesis; he regards it as an omen of imaginative decay and anti-alien bias in the scientific community. ... While it’s tantalizing to imagine that ‘Oumuamua was our first brush with aliens, Loeb writes most memorably about collecting shells on the beach with his daughters, brainstorming trippy new studies with his many proteges and seeking comfort in the view of the night sky from our lonely planet."
When somebody tells me they're not trying to get me to read their old articles, I immediately think that's exactly what they're trying to do. It's called bad faith. Bye.
That didn’t answer the question I expected it to answer (“why Pony and not Brando, Gielgud, Nicholson, Streep…?”
What you are experiencing is growthism, and it is directly tied to local incentives.

CEOs for publicly traded companies have only one goal in mind: make massive bonuses. The path to get to massive bonuses is to pump up the stock, which requires growth, or the appearance of growth.
You're also missing the fact that these hedge funds are bleeding interest per day. So buying 20% only will not suffice.