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Hello fellow HN readers - longtime lurker, first time poster here. My name Is Dan and I wanted to share a project I have been working on for over a year - Time Trigger (https://timetrigger.dev). Time Trigger is a system that allows developers to have JSON data sent to an endpoint at a specific time in the future. There are lots of cron services out there, but here is what’s different:

1. It’s not a cron service: there are no recurring jobs on the platform.
2. It’s human friendly. Time Trigger was born out of a need to schedule jobs in the future that were time based, so the service allows you to create jobs like “24 hours from now” or “Next Monday” to handle user registration emails and reminders etc.
3. It’s secure to prevent abuse: You must own and verify the endpoints you want to send data to - either by static file or DNS TXT verification.

This service was originally built for another project I am working on and I decided to just spin it off as a separate product all together - This is the first side project I have ever actually launched and I would love your feedback on it!
That is true today. It hasn't always been true.

In fact Microsoft's own BitLocker dropped reliance on hardware encryption to workaround this same problem. And now that the performance impact is minimal it makes sense to default to software.
The GameStop Short Squeeze
APNS is the notification service? Notification tokens are randomly generated, and are refreshed regularly. I have heard zero suggestion anywhere that they would be used for any kind of tracking, other than routing notifications to the correct device.
> Capitalism is simply an economic system where the means of production are privately owned.

Just a nitpick, there is another condition, which is that the labor is traded on the free market under capitalism. I can imagine a society where everything is done in cooperatives where the workers are also the owners (they have shared private ownership).
Then the lender should not lend out their shares, no?

There are obviously problems with who actually has access to short stocks, but in theory they are a reasonable counterbalance:

If you believe in the stock, buy it, if you don’t believe in it sell it.

And if you don’t currently own any shares, you can borrow shares from the people who believe in the stock, sell them now and cash out when/if the stock goes down.

The information imbalance is fundamentally a part of how we operate our markets, since information literally can’t instantly be distributed to everyone (regardless of what faith-based “economists” try to convince people to believe about the efficient market gospel)
>> The big hedge funds are apparently losing money

Some are losing money. But that is nothing new. Hedge funds die every day ... on paper. But which brokerage houses are going under? Other hedge funds are doing fine, likely profiting on this. The fact that a few are held out as victims sounds, to me, like the other funds just stoking the panic. I don't see any non-paper houses closing over this. This is Gamestop, not the mortgage crisis.
"right to privacy" is a nebulous concept. What's the relevant legislation that applies to this case?
AWS Serverless Kubernetes Infrastructure with Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate
They over a day to say that. Instead, they decided it was clearer to say "we're temporarily restricting trading due to volatility". If what you said really was the issue... Why not just say that? They're a startup. They'd be forgiven. Why hide behind vagueness?
It's not worth the effort anymore.

I've got exhausted trying to explain others that *I'm not the ordinary WP user* that goes to Envato and buys a premium theme with its plugin dependencies.

I can implement everything from scratch depending on my needs...but what do I know, right?

How dare I compete with them, let alone criticize their awful coding skills?

Countless uses of obsolete jQuery code in various themes and plugins that are used on the fly without getting enqeueued or used securely...no wonder why everyone complains their website got hacked!

How about hiring real professional agencies then that know how to do their work?

It's as simple as that!

That's why I stopped dealing with web development as a whole.

It's not worth the effort, the amount of things you have to know, the fast-pace non-stop changes of web standards, the countless front-end changes in CSS and JavaScript and their myriads of frameworks!

Enough is enough you know!

I'm back in good ol' traditional programming in C and C++ applying the UNIX philosophy: do one thing and do it well!
Well, I don't think it is "the" secret, and probably not a "secret" at all. (At least, I hope not.)

Regarding happiness, Maslow's model [1] is well-known and makes sense to me. As I understand it, happiness is built on a foundation by satisfying:

1. physiological needs
2. safety needs
3. belongingness & love needs (i.e. connectedness)
4. esteem needs
5. self-actualization

Though, per Wikipedia:

- "There is little scientific basis to the idea: Maslow himself noted this criticism."

- "However, it has been pointed out that, although the ideas behind the hierarchy are Maslow's, the pyramid itself does not exist anywhere in Maslow's original work."

And my views:

- I question the universality of #5. There are many people who could, technically, accomplish 'more' that are happy doing 'less'. Perhaps #5 would be better explained as "agency" -- the ability to choose a path in life?

- That said -- I agree with you -- there is something to be said for expecting 'less'. This idea is compatible with "make the most of what you have". But less relative to what? For example, should one expect to be safe from violence, at least most of the time?

- The studies around "good" stress versus "bad" stress come into play too. This is consistent with sayings such as "the bad times help us appreciate the good times" and "we better appreciate the things we work for".

- Still, I believe that people, in general, are happier and more developed if they are not unnecessarily constrained. Unpacking this idea probably would requires a discussion of how individuals relate to society as well as normative theory of justice.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Check out "Deep Sea Adventure", a cute fun japanese micro-game where you try to salvage stuff from the ocean floor while sharing the limited oxygen supply with your competitors.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/169654/deep-sea-adventur...

You play three rounds, if you're fast you can even squeeze it into the lunch break.

This game manages to be fun and also teach you a lot about human greed.
The examples in the article generally fall into your first 3 buckets. It's not like they continuously broadened their definition for bannable content.
‘People’ don’t know what hedge funds do.
If you actually read that link that case is so extraordinarily different than the reality of what’s happening today I don’t know how you can argue this in good faith.
Until the government begins pressuring them to suppress speech (like holding hearings and threatening to make laws). When that happens the First Amendment comes into play.
I think there's also valuable side effects here. If you want to start your own community off of corporate sites, you'll have to learn a little about deploying websites, webhosting, maybe a bit of PHP. Maybe you'll learn about organizing and promotion. When you're forced to make your own thing, a lot of good can come from it.

This will certainly not be a mainstream approach, but I compare it to the DIY punk ethos of the 80's, specifically in the skateboarder culture. The for-profit skateparks of the 70's closed, so people had to build their own ramps, organize contests with zines, make their own music. This was all done while promoting others to build their own scene too.

It ended up revitalizing skateboarding, until it became corporate again, and waned. It's a constant cycle. I think in terms of internet communities, we currently find ourselves in the "most centralized and corporate" end; but its starting to turn.
> This is unlikely to change until police are held to the exact same legal and prosecutorial rigors as those they police.

Forget that! Police should be held to a “higher” standard. These are people we’ve trusted to walk around with guns and big sticks. Shit’s so backwards.
Do you have any proof of that large scale unfettered manipulation other than some random posts from salty boomers like yourself?
It's not different. That's my point. The mob did the same thing the hedge funds did and do. This is clearly market manipulation. To say that one side is justified vs the other is what I'm pointing out. Neither side was justified. And Reddit mobs are not 'the people.'

The people are starving on the streets and unemployed. Too far gone to make bets on their iPhone 11s using something like Robin Hood.

This is Goliath vs a somewhat more organized and entrenched Goliath. This is not David vs Goliath.
Whiteboarding Software and Hardware
Just because you built a business on technologies and techniques that cause social harm, doesn’t mean you have the right to continue using those technologies and techniques after society has decided they no longer wish suffer the harm they cause.

Certainly some business will die, but I suspect the vast majority will find other inexpensive avenues of reaching their customers, without having to step on their privacy.
You realise that all of this stuff has specific rules. There are specific rules about posting research, there are specific rules about media (newspapers and TV), there are specific rules about algorithms (I will answer your questions: no, no, no, no...the last question is...odd, if you know about sure-win algos then you must be very rich).

And all of this stuff has happened before, it happened in 2000, lots of people went on bulletin boards, and some ended up going to jail for market manipulation. The difference between doing it publicly and privately is huge, that is a necessary component of market manipulation (generally speaking, market manipulation isn't very effective if you don't have anyone to baghold for you).
> I doubt it is particularly large.

Facebook is currently 43 in the list of the top grossing apps. I'm still running iTunes 12.6 which shows these lists.
This week, Mark Zuckerberg declared that Apple is one of their biggest competitors[0].

Apple may not see Facebook as a competitor, but that feeling is not mutual.

Given Apple's focus on privacy combined with their huge footprint in the US, Facebook may see them as an existential threat, and be using the word "competitor" to represent that.

0. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/facebook-ceo-zuckerberg-says...
> "these supposed “adults in the room” who are so much smarter and better than the the “retail investors” are pretty much the same sort of immature, self-centered children as the other side. The difference is, they’ve got the regulators and the politicians in their pockets."

Absolutely.

Dick and Trump are examples of scapegoats. Throw someone under the bus publicly, so you can continue doing what you're doing while the public is busy staring at the spectacle.
Whatever the thing is, it's clearly an interesting object and the only sane response is to build a big rocket to go chase it. But we don't have our shit together civilizationally and have to wait (and hope) that there's a next one.

This is one reason that I'm such a big fan of robot probes vs. human space flight. If your space program is about flinging tiny cameras into the remotest reaches of the solar system, it's easier to pursue the occasional alien asteroid on short notice than if you're all about getting a can of primates to the next planet over.
You've probably already thought of and discarded this idea, but what about shipping^Hdumping the current version online so people can poke at it through a web form and a heavily ratelimited API? (Gate API keys through a sane login system that uses Google or GitHub for identity)

My thinking would be to explicitly *not* ship a supported "product" of any kind, but rather to provide a way to put the raw materials in their current state "out there" from a research perspective and provide users a way to exercise the system and reason about its limits, without letting everyone run off with it. (For example pretraining would happen on the server from uploaded datasets.)

In this scenario, the idea would be to let the market come to you, by just putting this absolutely everywhere in its current raw form and *letting the market materialize/emerge*. Rationale being, you want to know what the correct next step is from where you stand right now. If the program actually runs, for an interesting definition of "runs", ie it can actually handle real-world work in a novel way, well, I say that directly translates to it being worth trying because you might get novel answers/ideas for where to turn next. IOW, I'm theorizing that the quality of the answers you would get may correlate with the irreducible complexity of how well the program stands up in practice.

Reviewing uploaded data and executed commands may also prove insightful and inspire new ideas for real-world integrations. (Something something view-but-not-share TOS clause)

Depending on resource usage, charging for certain API actions, as a way to further ratelimit and not necessarily to make money, may be reasonable - for example doing extensive training (or lots of iterations) or performing tasks that take a long time to complete or scan a lot of input data. (And of course there would be research exceptions to this as well...)

Also, tables-in-pptx is now filed in my head a few rows down from "email of a TIFF of a scan of a photocopy of a printout of a fax of another email" :) - that's terrible, haha
It doesn't even have to be reverse. It can be G sells to C who sells to F->A->E->B->D just to make up a random order.
> The big hedge funds are apparently losing money (billions!) on Gamestop, unless that's being mis-reported.

There are thousands of hedge funds, just because a handful have been caught with their trousers round their ankles doesn’t mean the others aren’t profiting from current volatility.
Not to seem conspiratorial or anything, but with this guy now identified, he's the obvious candidate to be given the Madoff treatment if a bunch of retail traders get wiped out by institutional manipulation. I don't expect anyone to buy such a transparent scapegoating play, but that doesn't mean it won't happen.

The mainstream narrative so far is still in flux - and that includes the WSJ piece linked elsewhere in this thread; it's humanizing, sure, but it's also carefully designed to leave open the possibility of demonization.

It'll be interesting to see where the narrative goes on Monday.
That is pretty accurate even for many software and tech related discussions here (it’s a big field with lots of specialties).
That retail is behind a massive short squeeze that is solely responsible for these moves. At this point shorts from significantly lower levels have almost certainly been covered, if for no other reason out of simple necessity. At this point what started as a short squeeze has ballooned into a false narrative that retail is sticking it to shorts when in reality it’s almost certainly HFT traders pushing this stock up and down by now. Retail simply doesn’t have enough cash to move a stock like this especially when by their own admission they aren’t selling any shares!
> In no other occupation, that I can think of, can so many rules and directives be flouted without losing ones job, as is the case with modern police.

That isn't really true. Have you read half the corporate policies published by large companies? Neither have most of their employees. Nobody cares and they're not enforced until Something Bad happens, at which point it's time to open the book for the first time to see which rule the designated scapegoat can be found to have broken.

The problem with the police is that the institutional Something Bad doesn't align with the actually bad things that happen when they break the rules. The institutional Something Bad is bad press.

The actual bad thing is sending an innocent person to prison while a guilty one stays free to continue committing robberies and murders. Or the same sort of "bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" except used by the police against dissidents and anti-authoritarians instead of the people presiding over some corporate incompetence.

But when that doesn't result in bad press, nobody gets punished and then it keeps happening.

This is why it's important to have a media willing to hold any administration's feet to the fire. Ironically, getting the election results many of the people who care about this wanted is having the opposite effect, as now the pressure is off to actually do anything about the problem.

Complaining about it when the other guy is in is rhetorically advantageous; actually doing something about it when you're in costs political capital. So now we get to see what they do. But based on the existing media rhetoric, the implication seems to be more police state rather than less.

Of course, the media is not just The Media, it's also this. So write your Congress critters.
What part of this document is about Facebook and not Google?
> as trying to convince us that you're superior

It could be, but it doesn't really matter. There are people who can think circles around me (and probably you). And I don't think that they ought to have some flaws just to not be totally superior out of some universal law of fairness.

Obsessing about it is obviously not healthy.
If a stock is shorted, someone else bought the shorted shares, creating extra supply to cover with. Percentage >100 doesn't mean they cannot cover, in theory.
Yes, that's the theory behind the theoretical loss. That's different from "I tried to sell at $200, you didn't let me, and now I can only sell for $100". In that case I am out an actual $100 that is directly tied to your actions.
> If ads are just restricted to intent based on page/video/query, small advertisers lose out on effectiveness

Any research proving this?
May be for some of them. People invest for all sorts of reasons besides the "fundamentals", you know.

Tell me: what do you think Melvin's intentions were for shorting a dying company's stock for several billion?
Is there any actual evidence of naked short selling? The only evidence I've seen people raising is that the total value of the shorts was over 100%, but that can happen completely legitimately if the people who buy from short sellers allow the stock to be sold short a second (or third, fourth, ...) time.
And yet, the gameplay is just:

- move your character
- mine stuff
- craft buildings
- place buildings

And a small bit of combat for the aliens.

I insist, the gameplay IS simple, the content allows for very complex designs.

Similar to programming languages, Assembly IS simple.
I think both sides are doing the same thing and pointing fingers at each other. That's my point. Market manipulation is just that, whether it's done by a privileged class on their iPhone 11s (i.e. the Reddit mob) or Hedge fund managers.

A privileged mob on reddit armed with Macbook pros does not equal the people sticking it to the man.

Reddit itself is part of the oligarchy everyone is railing against.
Love Letter is great, i like the variant "Lovecraft letter" even more!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/198740/lovecraft-letter

I've got to try the Batman variant!
> Right now it appears that the public wants to be able to trade on their terms because there is this narrative that the little guy is finally sticking it to the big bad hedge funds. In reality there is probably very little truth to this.

The fact that buying was limited yesterday is evidence that the little guy is actually winning here.

Trading was stopped to save the hedge funds, because if they go under or lose too much, the clearinghouse has to front that. If the clearinghouse goes under the whole market will crash.
> Written directly on a phone using Python for S60. Whoa.

Yeah!

Also, what about Blender-like 3D editor for S60[0,1,2] written directly on smartphone? ;)

JFTR, There is still no good alternative to amazing PyS60 for Android.

[0] https://nitter.net/app4soft/status/1283331633370759169#m

[1] http://profismart.org/f-210087.php (for Symbian 6-7-8.1)

[2] http://profismart.org/f-180431.php (for Symbian 9.x)
"the Commission will work to protect investors"

Ha, ha ha, ha ha ha...
Or maybe chupacabra attacks are more common than you think and you just think it's roadkill ;)
Decks from the best startups that raised over $355M
I think you should consider showing some code on the front page, like D [0] or Ruby [1], or maybe have a "Try Pony" button that links to an online playground.

0: https://dlang.org/

1: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
To be frank, this is so enterprise-y in their documentation without ever explaining the meat and bones that I instantly distrust it. I can't even get a simple explanation of what this is in practice instead of "BaaS PDDs!".

Also the requirements are almost goofy if they think this is going to be hosted individually...
I really do not understand why people behave as if FB is an entity which belongs to the public. FB belongs (mostly) to Mark, his top execs, and his early investors. How can you possibly think that someone who owns something will always handle their property the way you wish?

This FB is the best FB there will ever be. If it was in the hands of the government, it is hard to see how it could have been better. If it was in the hands of the people, you cannot be sure it would have been better (see blockchain projects).

What will end up happening to these platforms will be what is happening with TV today: CNN - FOX.

People need to start to think 10,20 years from now, and begin to build new platforms for communication. Or just use group email.
The big hedge funds are apparently losing money (billions!)

A few hedge funds (of different sizes) are indeed losing billions. A few other hedge funds have taken the opposite side of this bet and are making money. The vast majority of hedge funds have no position in this stock and are completely unaffected.

In addition a bunch of HFT shops and similar making a lot money off the volatility and order flow all this has caused.
I take it the interest is based on the current price? If so, that would make some sense: if they're paying (say) .1% per day on a stock that is worth 100x the amount you got for shorting it, you'll gradually burn through all of the cash you got for the short.

You're still in a kind of race to see whether it will stay that high for long, or if people will eventually want to take their profits. But it definitely puts pressure on you to reduce your exposure to that, even at the inflated price.
There was a CNBC post about Citron and Melvin closing shorts but it was retracted.
Note that I said "his battle" rather than "his words". He is but one voice in the fight against the particular scientific bias I described. Had Oumuamua not come along, he would have attached to any number of other vehicles (eg BLC-1) to make basically the same points.
Python HTTP server written in rust
I'm 100% in support of the lockdown, and Australia hasn't had a locally acquired case for well over a week, but supporting something doesn't mean being blind to the downsides.
>In offline rendering we usually just have some primitive (sphere, cube etc) that acts as the boundary

Right, using a SDF as a boundary condition is to discretely check it as an indicator function (if negative do x else do y). You can use basically any SDF to bound your procedural medium, including a procedural boundary (via domain distortion).

You can also apply a continuous blend instead of the discrete check (smooth step the level curve). This is preferred since discrete checks will often result in popping.