skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One person's spending is another person's income. The more economic activity there is, the more people feel confident about their future, the more they spend.

They may at some point become "too confident" and start feeling that the 'party' may never end. So they go out and spend more and more: on new clothes, on renovations, or second (or third) houses, on new cars, boats, etc.

However, there's only so much capacity for (say) manufacturing: only so many cars can be built, and if you really want one, then you'll be will to pay $40K to get the new shiny instead of trying to haggle down to $37K. There's only so many housing builders and lumber that is available: and if you want more square footage, they'll be setting the price that you have to pay.

I'm not sure how old you are, but in the 2006-2007 timeframe there was a lot of "irrational exuberance" before people over-extended themselves.

The movie The Big Short is an entertaining and fairly accurate take.
> Non-zero chance had they not haulted trading on those symbols they would've been insolvent by close of trading today, depending on the size of their credit line.

Perhaps you can help me understand something.

In the absence of margin trading, if I deposit $100 of cash at my brokerage, then I order my broker to buy $100 worth of Stock A, how does credit and the possibility of bankruptcy enter into the transaction at all?

After all, if I give my kid $5 and send him to the store to buy some milk, he doesn't need to find 'liquidity' or a 'credit line' or risk bankruptcy.
It's worth adding that in some of the examples I gave above you can be short a stock but settle as cash so you don't necessarily need to locate physical stock to pay up.

In those examples the price of the stock is just a reference point used to calculate the quantity of the cash payment between the two parties so although the short will lose money if the stock rises they are not "squeezed" in the sense they are not desperately searching for stock to buy at any price.
> You should watch Roaring Kitty's video

It's from 2020. I just want to add that he's humble about his analysis too. He explains his case in a lot of great detail and still writes "bullish on gamestop, perhaps foolishly so".
For the interested, here is a classic article that goes into more depth: _Practical Markov Chain Monte Carlo_ [1].

[1]: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1177011137
14% is not so crazy if you zoom out and check overall volatility of BTC and how it's in "correction" phase of a larger seasonal super-bubble. It's just speculators returning to "normal" in expectation of returning back to bullrun.

And volatility itself is understandable if the fate of BTC is either $0 or "replacing all base currencies and monetary use of gold, oil and real estate" which yields more than 20x higher than current price. There is no middle ground and market will be in a volatile "land grab" or "price discovery" until it flops or saturates monetary needs of everyone.
Aw I kinda like the brutally green card :D
Is it though? How so?

Your parent poster IMO has a point: seems that part of the reason for autotools existence is to also cater to all distributions choosing weird places to put headers and libraries in. Shall we accommodate them forever?

As for Linux desktop, personally I'm skipping it due to the complete lack of security and sandboxing in X11: basically every program can be a keylogger is the typical egregious example. And Wayland is kind of funny; people are still trying hard to make it be 60FPS capable which is absurd in 2021.
You’ve posted this comment multiple times — copy pasted even. Got an axe to grind?
I don't remember where I've read that but I remember seeing that creativity starts to decrease when you are getting paid for it. And it decreases even more if you are getting paid less. While when you are doing it for free creativity remains at the same level over time
That rhymes really well.
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I had the impression it's generally frowned upon replicating systems in an incomplete way when debugging/testing.

When would you recommend this practice?

And which of the three would you recommend for what?
The Sweatbox (banned Disney documentary)
What work? Doesn't look like he did much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...
and it doesn't look like there is consensus about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas#Causes
Not a lot.

I bought it when I graduated and my first job was in an office park with little transit. Since then I've mostly worked in more urban areas, so I've been able to take transit or pedal, and so mostly use the car on weekends.
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You're assuming that people on r/wallstreetbets are exactly the same as people on wall street who literally only care about money. The redditors buying don't want to make money, they just want to kill the hedge fund. By wasting a few hundred dollars they are making a larger dent in wall street than congress has made for the last few decades.
My rep at fidelity said they don’t really have the same offerings.
Took them 4 years to take down pages destroying our democracy. 1 week to take down a page destroying billionaires.

There's a reason Trump's populism gained so much momentum. The economic system in which we operate is broken. It needs to change.
Any government action that relies on emergency powers is an admission from that government that they have failed to govern using their prescribed legislative mandate. Any government that uses such power should be held to account for their failure to govern, because it’s almost never necessary, and is always abused.
If the end result is the same, what's the argument for regulating it?

Mitigating the collateral damage that this sort of situation causes.

The hypocrisy is staggering, if anything, the large actors in the financial systems are dangerous to ordinary people!

I agree that some large actors have in the past been grossly irresponsible. I agree that they should be regulated and if necessary penalised accordingly.

But two wrongs do not make a right.

The explicit target of this action are the shorting hedge funds that were betting on Gamestop's slow demise. There are no innocents being hurt here.

Tell that to everyone whose savings and pensions are invested rationally in places that are traded on the same markets but have nothing to do with the WSB pump and dump. Extreme volatility and irrational stock prices ultimately hurt everyone in the market who is trying to invest responsibly.
This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgYZk9Mc804
AFAIK it's expired, see: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6115030A/en?oq=6115030
When people unlawfully break into a building, why the heck shouldn't facial recognition be used to identify them? We are not talking about using cameras on the street to give people jaywalking tickets. If you owned a business that was looted, and you had video of the looters, wouldn't you want them caught?
It doesn't look particularly outsized.

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gobeklitepe-to-mark-turkis...

But then how many cathedrals or major monuments are built to human scale? One of my favourite examples is from a temple to Ishtar in Syria:

https://romeartlover.tripod.com/Aindara5.jpg

Those footprints are about a metre long.
I'm not him, but looking at the other markets this "democratisation of creativity" has happened in, it seems like we're going to get more of the patronage model where the professionals and better hobbyists can individually put their work up for subscribers with some free content as advertising.

I don't know how this will work with board games which have physical products that need creating and sending. It might be the right place for distributed "print shops" with card printers, 3D printers, and laser cutters to provide the actual game pieces.
I hope the title is not too clickbait-y (it is the original video title), but I think it is a very interesting documentary about a movie that almost didn't came to be and how they turned it around into a franchise and critical success.
"There is no way everyone can get out at the top" - this is the big issue here - as far as I understand, the position of WallStreetBets is that there are (were?) so many shorts of GME compared to the shares on market that they would be required to buy all that stock and everyone can get out at the top. I don't feel certain about this (especially since if any of the funds actually go bankrupt, they would default on their obligations, not actually buy the shorted stock at all and just owe some not-fully-collectable money), but that seems to be the whole reason for this situation.
The easiest part - cut workforce to improve bottom line (and share prices, as management gets their own stock options), kill R&D.

Engineers* quit as part of their remuneration packages are stock options.

Overall perception and morale, hard to acquire new talents, etc.
Finally, we are seeing more applications pushing chunks of themselves into sandboxed sub-processes.

Now if only there was a nice open-source, cross-platform way to do this..... hint..... hint......

:-)
We can’t avoid that any more than the government can avoid criminals having unbreakable encryption.

All we can do is try to make a society where that doesn’t matter.

IMO such a society is as anarchic as possible, though “as possible” is still well short of the level in, say, The Culture; the exact level is dynamic and tech-dependent.
Which system evolved partly to make it more straightforward for custody to be resolved when a broker goes out of business
Not an expert by any means, but I know in the world of trading there is often the requirement of guarantees before transactions are accepted. It's like your kid, at the store, was asked to show he actually had $100, before his $5 could be accepted and milk handed over.
So instead we should increase the risk of death and injury instead of safely picking people up once things deescalate? I don't think that's lazy by any measure.
Hm it would be fun to mess around with symbian. What is the ehm state of the art when it comes to Symbian phones?
I would like to mention that if you were to pardon over shorting (shorting more than 100% of the available shares) and let a third party defuse the short squeeze through highly questionable means (government bailout would come to mind), then you have created the potential for infinite gains from short selling.

This shouldn't be allowed because it would destroy stock markets as we know them.
Also: swipe one way is "archive", swipe the other way is "delete". I never know which is which, because it varies between apps.
2 would be the best option imo.

Mgmt would be silly to not although this is all so emotional and not political that they'd be skewered.
Consider the following, everyone claimed reusing rockets was physically impossible. Well here we are now.

Sure 'end of next year' may be impossible, but doing it at some point is not necessarily impossible given certain conditions.

Nothing to do with targets, everything to do with values. And a company is more than what it produces, it is also the patents they own and the brains they wield.

PS: I do research in ML.
Let's see, they treat indie artists with total contempt, they treat their customers with contempt, and yet people keep using their lousy service.

If you care, support artists you like, typically bandcamp and portals with integrity, etc.

...because the artists who are literally paying to be included on playlists are merely another side-revenue-stream economy that has grown up in this sick environment.
I'm not joking. Loads of artists are inculcated in the practice of paying to be included on Spotify playlists...

Their business model was never going to be good for music:
"let's see, all-you-can-eat subscription model and then they can fight over how to divide their tiny slice of pie"

support individual artists you enjoy and want to hear continue making music.
Too many people who have genuine major contributions to fields make the mistake of thinking that because they’re an expert in one then they’re automatically qualified in others, or that because they nailed one thing their beliefs about something else must also be true (ie Pauling and vitamin C).

I see this all the time in medicine. One of the best neurosurgeons in my country and someone I consider a friend still tells me that I need to keep the microwave door shut for 3 seconds after it’s done or else the waves will escape and give me cancer. That defies the laws of electromagnetism on several levels.

We absolutely need alternative hypothesis generators, but the widespread acceptance of every crank idea that comes along even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is not only infuriating but actually serves to damage the scientific method, when the lady down at the mothers group claims that the vaccine gave her son autism and there is a global conspiracy led by bill gates to implant microchips in everyone.

At the end of the day, in my belief, it boils down to a sad lack of trust in experts - some of it warranted from the abuses and oversteps of the past, and some of it actively facilitated by people who have ideological reasons to oppose what the scientific truths are presenting (ie climate science denial).
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I know, but here I'm talking about a decades-old broker which targeted intermediate and professional investors since forever.

Besides, nothing prevented them from offering an alternate, more amateur-friendly platform, without turning the traditional one off
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Which will only get the price up for a short amount of time, it will be dumped after that anyway.

GME fundamentals haven't changed (much) - it's not worth much on paper, maybe $10, $20, $30?

Market behaves irrational rn, but at some point it will become rational again. And then GME stock will crash.
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Does it have a web front end where I can see public discussions without registration? If not, I'm not interested.
Stock price affects regular engineers/developers, if they have stock options for example.
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In reference to the GME/WSB fiasco the issue isn't so much the shorting itself but the large number of “fails-to-deliver”.

This was happening since early December. It looked suspicious and was reported to the SEC. Read comments for receipts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kr98ym/gme_...
"It's not that hard to compete with AWS. AWS is scatterbrained and provides a really bad UX and as-is integrations where the "is" is not great."

A lot of enterprise buying decisions come down to: "AWS/Azure/... is already an approved vendor, so let's just buy from them instead of going through the hoops to get Elastic approved". The "super scalers" are offering a path of least resistance that is difficult to overcome.
That is a plausible hypothesis. However, without any research backing it up I wouldn't be so dismissive of the conclusions of paper that actually put in the legwork to test its own hypothesis, without even engaging with the content of the paper.
What much larger slip ? Risk management practices?
In RH everyone who opens an account starts as an Instant amount.

The Instant means any security sold you can immediately use that cash.

Normally you can't go that. You have to wait 3 days for it to settle in the clearing House. The Instant accounts are using margin to make the cash instantly available.
tl;dr OMISSIS, OMISSIS, hello world, OMISSIS...
I say this after observing Clojure project at the bank I work for and from other projects I observed in the past.

The guys knew a lot but left a big pile of unmaintainable crap.

IMO minimum viable developer should be able to not trip on their own feet. Generally be able to produce working, maintainable application.

In Clojure (and other Lisps) this absolutely requires you to be able to structure application.

If you use other languages, the frameworks that are there do the work of structuring for you. That's why when you are Java developer, every web app largely looks the same. That's because you don't actually structure application, as much as use structure that is offered with Spring ecosystem.
Did you report them to a regulator?
While some billionaires are having a terrible week, market makers and prop trading desks have been making an absolute fortune. I'm sure the billionaires owning the market makers are more than happy to sell "financial uprising points" to WSB readers if they so desperately wish to purchase them.

It's a mistake to see "the billionaires" or "Wall Street" as a single homogenous group. 99% of them don't mind Melvin capital going under at all.
Having done this back in the day with Apache on Windows NT 4 Server... 'cgi' is a basic stdin/stdout formatting standard that almost any command line utility can be written to accommodate. In this case, the 'count.exe' would be tracking request counts and returning (via stdout) a dynamically built GIF image of the total number of visitors. Crude, but quite popular during the Web 1.0 days. In fact, the code would have been so simple, that count.exe on Windows and 'count' on Linux would have been the same thing.
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Fixed it. Was running a basic set up, should be working now
lol, when did the stock market reflect the fundamentals? Its post 2020, the whole economy had come to a standstill and the market was rallying like nothing happened. All this 'fundamentals' talk just sounds hollow.
That choice of language seems very poor IMO, because the regulation clearly specifies the $2k number for margin trading of any size. Take a look for yourself:

"(4) equity of at least $2,000 except that cash need not be deposited in excess of the cost of any security purchased (this equity and cost of purchase provision shall not apply to "when distributed" securities in a cash account). The minimum equity requirement for a "pattern day trader" is $25,000 pursuant to paragraph (f)(8)(B)(iv)a. of this Rule.

Withdrawals of cash or securities may be made from any account which has a debit balance, "short" position or commitments, provided it is in compliance with Regulation T and Rules 400 through 406 of SEC Customer Margin Requirements for Security Futures and Rules 41.42 through 41.49 under the CEA, and after such withdrawal the equity in the account is at least the greater of $2,000 ($25,000 in the case of a "pattern day trader") or an amount sufficient to meet the maintenance margin requirements of this Rule."

https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/4...
The tools necessary to achieve this good light not be the same in all corconstancies and you only want to extend the law when strictly necessary, not always. See food ratio in war times.
I get that.

But I'm wondering if that really is what needs to occur before we consider a a state to be a complete surveillance state, if, for example, almost every home has some kind of device that can be exploited for surveillance, e.g landline, mobile phone, television, smart devices, laptops/desktops/tablets, internet routers/modems, smart meters, smart heating, rubbish collectoin etc?

I.e. have we opted in to in-home surveillance to a sufficient level to make mandatory surveillance almost of no use.
> There is no way everyone can get out at the top, so a lot of people will have to sell at very low prices. This is even true if the original thesis of "we can pump this stock to $1000" is true

This is what I've been thinking about the whole time. They can definitely pump the stock if they keep HODLing, since sellers effectively set the price when the short positions have to be closed.

Someone still has to be the bagholder and end up holding near worthless stock at the end of this though.

$GME will come crashing down once the short squeeze is over, and there's only going to be a small minority of retail traders who get out at the top.

People who have bought in later at hundreds of dollars are likely to lose a lot of money IMO. Possibly to the tune of over half their initial investment.
Charles Stross has a few ideas in his books about it. There were Usenet "electronic prayer wheel" .sig blocks, which I always thought was a nice gesture.

Expect that anything serious along these lines will be quiet and kept within the faith; the technical details of oracles aren't often bragged about.

Now ask: How many people are using code as an oracle of the divine? Whatever the garbage output buy a computer is, some people will treat it as holy. Stock trading algorithms, pandemic modelling, even bad spreadsheet statistics ... PowerPoint exists for no reason other than to brush bullshit with the magic touch of computed veracity.
I wonder if this will accelerate the adoption of decentralized open-source tools like DeFi applications and Signal, etc.

We might end up with many different "flavors" of the internet based on geopolitics but also with a popular standard set of decentralized tools for social networks, communication, finance, content sharing that transcend state boundaries.
My bluetooth headphones work well if I'm sitting still. They don't work if I'm walking. So I would say that bluetooth headphones don't work.
So you are ok with your broker restricting your investment options, because one of hedge funds they sell your order flow to made a bunch of dumb decisions which put the whole market into very fragile position?
Hancock didn't originate the theory an impact contributed to the Younger Dryas event, nor has he originated any evidence or research towards substantiating it. So other than mentioning it in some books and talk shows, what was his contribution that merits a PhD?
why have 2 different brokers?

Days like this are exactly why you should always have more than one bank and more than one broker !
Oh wow, did faxing actually work?

And I feel your pain, but you were only on v5. It just gets worse the more versions you add.
I agree that the new style looks a lot better, however I'm not comparing their new site to the old one but to actually usable news sites. Maybe I used the wrong word, what's awful is the layout. I want information not one row of pictures which take up half my screen.
Except people didn't take profits, WSB saw right through it, they/we urged everyone to hold, remove stop losses, and buy with cash/not margin.

The people held and the volume was low.
Who specifically get this interest now? Maybe it is not know, but maybe somebody knows here?
The US isn't a small business, and as such debt works different. If the US now borrows $1 trillion, it currently pays essentially 0% interest. Assuming 2% inflation that means the whole debt has a value of just 370 billion in 50 years, without paying back a single cent.

But this is only the beginning: If the US gets that $1 trillion debt, that money didn't just vanish. It gets spent in the economy, people consume things, stay employed etc., infrastructure gets developed and so on. ROI is usually there after only a few years: "Research [...] showed that one dollar of public money spent during the 2007-09 crisis could generate 2.5 dollars of output in five year’s time." https://theconversation.com/how-much-bang-for-a-buck-working...

So for every $100 the country borrows in the current climate, it only has to pay back a $37 in 50 years while getting returns of over $200 in 10 years.
As far as I know, its not illegal to use bitcoin.
This. Lazy policing is everything that is wrong. Fire everyone and have a drone fly overhead that takes a picture a minute if you don't care about human privacy.