skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*GME

You're right. There was a concerted effort in the last week claiming that the hedge funds had closed their short positions. Turns out, a few had so GME went from 140% shorted way down to 130% shorted when historically, 25% is considered "high".

I hope someone looks into the hedge funds and the talking heads who spread this misinformation.
I feel like many (maybe most?) people believe that type of event should not be considered fine either.

To me, none of it is fine. I hope that this event is eye opening enough that some protections are put in place that effect everyone, including hedge funds, that prevent this type of manipulation.
Plus, only big hedge funds and billionaires can manipulate the market without going to jail (see: 2008... or pretty much everything else), individual investors can.
I don't believe in "vote with your wallet" kinda dogmas. I mean watch the news right now..

We need regulation and government investment in open tech and software. The App/Play Store are anti-competitive, but Apple and Google have a Duopoly in the mobile market. There can and should be rules regarding this. I don't see how they should be even allowed to profit off these markets. Like at all. Every app there increases the value of their platforms by itself.

Even if you use F-Droid, you then have to compromise on security deeply embedded into the Android OS.

Platforms should be allowed to be repairable, open and documented and users should be allowed to do whatever they please with them.

The market won't fix this. You need to become politically active.
You should read about migrants from central or south america - what they go through while traveling through intervening countries and mexico and then coyotes. And deportation back to that is a real threat which means they will shut up in the US.

EDIT: wasn't picking on the US, just saying it's only part of their journey, and once they're in the US, lots of stuff goes unreported.
Yes, think this is very innovative approach the Indian Govt, I support it.
Didn't think of that: no resale market...
Bitcoin is more of a holding; last-mile transactions are better made with different cryptocurrencies, such as Monero. With Doge being great for tossing around on the internet for the more trivial things.
Nope, the stated intention was to buy the shares before GME valuation rose from all the other factors listed. At many points the writer mentions it’s not a pump and dump, the stock’s fundamentals and management changes indicate it is undervalued, and the short interest creates a mechanical condition that will push it up to the “true” higher value - the writer mentions an intention to buy and hold, it will go up and stay high.

The redditors have absolutely broken no laws, in fact there is not the slightest whiff of any reason to even suggest they might have. It’s just anger from wealth classes for having been embarrassed.
Yeah absolutely, this is one of the few shots that landed, but it was still a very obvious shot.

I qualified "organised" with "somewhat", because nothing in this kind of place is ever really organised, but I mean just look at what they've done. You couldn't do this with a fully disorganised group.
Some problem domains have unique characteristics. I think the closer a problem resembles nature, the more it breaks our structures we want to impose on it.
Also called Lining Figures, this property is a lot more common than “duplexed” alphabetical glyphs — even if they are not the default, most text fonts now support them as an opentype feature.
Unless work or whatever has battery storage, which they might well if they already installed a line of charging points.
Are you sure that laundry and cooking are your most energy-intensive activities? I live in a house in Toronto and have TOU pricing. After measuring my appliances with a Kill A Watt, I determined that when averaged over an entire year, about 1/3 of my energy usage was for the refrigerator, 1/3 for the HVAC fan (almost entirely for 6 months of winter heating), and 1/3 for literally everything else discretionary (lights, cooking, electronics). I doubt that TOU pricing negatively affected you as much as you perceived.
None of it is fine, but it's not like we're going to charge billionaires or hedge funds with market manipulation (see: 2008, etc).
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From the investopedia article:

"Contrarian investors may buy stocks with heavy short interest in order to exploit the potential for a short squeeze"

Are you suggesting that is illegal?

And are you suggesting something diferrent than that happened here? If so, what made it different?
Do you expect that every single person who has bought GME stock in the last week is going to be able to sell it for (currently) $325?

Do you think that people who bought $200/share option contracts this week are all going to end up with 100 shares that they are going to be able to sell for $525 each?
> When programming in C#, SO is basically irreplaceable, the knowledge there is extremely important and you just won't find it anywhere else.

Not even in the official documentation? Wow.
I reread the post and I kind of changed my mind on this particular post - it's very careful to stay within the bounds. But there are many others that are over it.
Ask them if it makes them happier, their days better if they spend time on these things. Tell them you don't, and you don't want them to be unhappy and stressed.
I guess the principled response to this is to take responsibility for what you use and wear.

The responder is right but glib - his observation should not be a spur to silence and insensitivity to other people's living conditions make societies at all scales more unstable.
> This all seems like a nice attack vector for a nation state

I keep seeing stuff like this but I don't understand the motivation. What would a rival to the US have to gain by bankrupting a handfull of US hedge funds?
>> I'm buying to squeeze the shorts

> You are buying in specifically to manipulate the price of availability of an asset in the market.

Naive question: isn’t shorting market manipulation as well or only if it is coordinated among many people?
No “we’re all adults” and “we can think for ourselves” clearly doesn’t work. You need hard government regulation on foreign direct investment.
Doesn't this miss the fact that you couldn't _actually_ buy 50M shares at $5-10? The price would be bid up as sellers refuse to sell their shares at such low prices, and that is exactly what we've seen.
(I work for Google, opinions my own)

For YouTube, the CPU cost of QUIC is comparable to TCP, though we did spent years optimizing it. [0] has a nice deep dive.

Other CDN vendors like Fastly seem to have the similar experience [1].

I believe sendmmsg combined with UDP GSO (as discussed, for instance, in [2]) has solved most of the problems that were caused by the absence of features like TSO. From what I understand, most of the benefit of TSO comes not from the hardware acceleration, but rather from the fact that it processes multiple packet as one for most of the transmission code path, meaning that all per-packet operations are only invoked once per chunk (as opposed to once per individual IP packet sent).

[0] https://atscaleconference.com/videos/networking-scale-2019-i...

[1] https://www.fastly.com/blog/measuring-quic-vs-tcp-computatio...

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/accelerating-udp-packet-transmis...
I don't agree with OP here but I've found a lot of people from the Parler/Gab crowd have found Matrix lack of content moderation appealing and have been in channels on the Matrix directory that have all the same content as Parler/Gab. I would recommend the Matrix team start taking content moderation more seriously as my experience is they do not take it seriously. They may want to disable room creation on matrix.org in the meantime.
Nope. Not in anytime soon. India will wait and see what other countries do. Probably there will be a terrorist attack somewhere and they will find out he used crypto for everything and banning of crypto will stop. RBI said they are banning crypto few years back and people are still doing it, then found RBI didn't ban, they just requested people not to use it.
Algorithmic scoring of cloud contract favorability: AWS trails competitors
Illegal transactions are a much greater problem in fiat currencies.
In a relational database you would have a CustomerAccount table keeping track of which accounts that belongs to which customers. Customer would not know about Account, and vice versa.

And what has reflection to do with this?
How is Dashbird innovating serverless monitoring?
It’s hardly the buyers’ fault that sellers shorted over 100% of the float.

If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s the hedge funds who tried to hammer GME into dust.
Why don't they just target hedge-funds? Its easier because there are less people to manipulate.
How fast is clearing and settlement in traditional Indian banking?
You're also unlikely to pick up any useful charge anywhere more northerly or where the weather tends to overcast.
Woooo! spooky VPNs....
There's no way of preventing things like this as long as capital markets exist and wealth distributions are the way they are. Its simple supply and demand.
You might or might no be that different.

But it's worth to note that most people are delluded in this regard, thinking they're different. Besides "different in tolerance" and "hookable" are not entirely contradictory. One might resist Vicodin and fall for social media echo- bubbling for example, the same way some can resist alcohol, but fall for drugs or food at obesity-level, and so on. In other words, some are different in the set of tolerances, but still human, in that they have their soft spots.

>But, you didn't actually answer my question. I asked how they affected YOU, not what the goals of these platforms are.

That would still be asking the wrong question. We don't live in isolated fishbowls. What negatively affects others also affects me (that's not even to mention the direct harm to my family, relatives, and friends, I'm speaking in more general community terms).
It's illegal if you're not rich...

In 2013 Bill Ackman had a huge short position on Herbalife. Carl Icahn in front of millions of viewers on CNBC promoted a short squeeze.

"During the epic verbal battle between Icahn and Ackman that was televised on CNBC in January, Icahn predicted that Ackman’s Herbalife investment could produce the “mother of all short squeezes.” Shortly after that incident, it became clear that Icahn had taken a big position in Herbalife’s stock. He has since expanded that position, bought 16.5% of the outstanding shares and gotten two representatives on Herbalife’s board. "

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/07/22/carl-ica...
Those games have broken economies that are easy to game. You shouldn't think of them as economic simulations.
> I used logically sound. Do you personally think logically sound and sound argument mean the same thing?

Well, the real point is that it is not clear what you mean here, and consequently what you are writing is likely to cause confusion and misunderstanding. In particular, as I pointed out in an earlier post, you were inconsistent in your own usage, sometimes using 'sound' correctly, and sometimes incorrectly.

You also seem to think that because, in a series of follow-up posts, you can explain what you meant, then it follows that there was nothing wrong with your original post - but if no-one had replied to it, you would not have corrected it on your own, and it would have remained there, sowing confusion among those who did not know it was wrong (and, of course, being useless to those who do know it is wrong.)

The size of the responses to your original post is a clear testament to the way private usage inhibits understanding and spreads confusion (though there would be considerably less if you had simply acknowledged your mistake immediately, and henceforward used 'sound' in its conventional sense.)

> Private languages and the acknowledgement of them is not useless.

I said that they are useless for communication (of course, they can be useful to the extent that they are not entirely private, but that caveat actually bolsters my point.)

>It's a basis for being able to clarify things...

Quite the opposite, as shown here: it's most often a basis for confusion and misunderstanding - and how could it not be? You have to achieve a shared meaning before there can be clarity and mutual understanding.
It's not this bad, but it's still bad. There's a "Skip this step" during the 1st screen which is non-obvious as to what it's going to do.
This is classic short-term MBA thinking. It completely misses that theoretical researchers are an integral part of a diverse research ecosystem, that researcher diversity is more than the sum of its parts (or in MBA-speak, is synergistic), that some theoretical work eventually does become economically valuable as it filters into applied sciences, and that this might take longer than one or two quarters after publication.
You can use nix on "any" Linux distro with the unstable channel and get the most bleeding edge software from nixs binary cache, or Linuxbrew, flatpak, snap, appimage.
A bit pedantic, but: We don't actually know that this exact text was written 143 days ago.

The text part of a self-post on reddit can be edited by the OP even after the thread gets archived, and you can see from the asterisk that this one has been edited.

I'm not sure if reddit exposes the "last edit date" anywhere, maybe in an API?

The other way would be to look at an internet archive snapshot.
I was looking at Volts two weeks ago.

You can get a 2018 year model (premier trim level w/ driver confidence 2 - the highest possible trim level combination) with 13,000 miles on it for $17k.

Due to living on dirt roads I passed on it, but it's a pretty good deal if you commute and can charge at your destination. 52 mile range all electric, 400 miles combined range.
Possible reason: selection bias. If everyone else is fine with circular dependencies or at least sees them as a necessary evil... are they going to extremely vocal about the current status quo when there they have no need to defend it?
That's a bit re-assuring. I had a 15-year-old standard Civic Si that was written off at under 180,000-kms because a deer ran into the side of us. It was such a great car.

I won't be happy paying $2 per litre, but it probably won't break the bank.

Who knows what COVID will do to inflation overall, though?
Perhaps, but that’s not Robinhood’s call. Under the (likely) assumption that RH had liquidity issues, it’s hard to see what other choice they had.
This change isn't happening overnight. Electrification is going to take at least 20 years, so we'll have time to figure things out. Even if all new cars are EVs in 15 years, a lot of people can't/ won't buy a new car which will drag out the transition.

Also, I know a lot of people who are buying EVs are also installing solar. While it's not a perfect match for a person with a 9-5 job, it is a fantastic solution for the growing number of remote workers. This is what I am doing personally.

I understand that a lot of people don't have places (or the money) where they can install solar so it's not a solution for everyone.
It's possible they've changed it since I last accidentally did that, or perhaps I'm just dense :)
0rtt handshake (or 1rtt for new connections) and stream multiplexing (no head of line blocking) come to my mind.

Oh, and connection migration (wifi to cell), but that's a bit more tricky.
That might be true in the short term, but can you point to the stock of a company has continued to lose money over decades still maintained a very high stock price?
If they are anything like the US, then they already have a sophisticated database of financial transactions in support of their tax system and national security apparatus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
If the EU contractually agreed to use the UK sites to produce vaccines for the EU on a best efforts basis but they also contractually agreed to prioritise delivery to the UK when they signed with them months earlier (which seems likely to be the case), then I'm not sure how that helps them.

IANAL either, but from including similar wording in numerous contracts on the advice of lawyers, I'm reaosnably sure that committing on a best efforts basis would not require breaking your other contractual obligations.
Cory Doctorow: IP (2020)
Er, not quite. The permission required to trigger the app install prompt for an APK is REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES, which is available to third-party apps.
Care to share the famous comment for those not in the know?
Anyone know if this exists for Autoencoders?
I would have agreed with you but Consumer Reports did a study https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020.... that said this wasn't the case.

"Analysis of real-world maintenance and repair cost data from thousands of CR members shows that BEV and PHEV owners are paying half as much as ICE owners are paying to repair and maintain their vehicles."

"The data were filtered to remove:
● Incomplete responses.
● Vehicles that reported traveling less than 2,000 miles in the past 12 months.
● Vehicles that reported traveling more than 60,000 miles in the past 12 months.
● Vehicles that reported maintenance costs of over $20,000 over the past 12 months.
● Vehicles with more than 200,000 total miles."
Not sure where you went to school, but this definitely isn’t the case everywhere. I went to a state school, and freshly minted faculty were making 60-80k, while folks with tenure were in the 100-125K range. The only people making salaries like you describe were higher level administrators and of course the football coach.
Any argument that boils down to "we need to protect you from yourself" needs to be considered with extreme skepticism.
"Forty years ago, we had cake and asked for icing on top of it. Today, all we have left is the icing, and we’ve forgotten that the cake was ever there. If code isn’t licensed as “free,” you’d best leave it alone."
This is almost exactly the motivational example that Codd used when originally describing relational algebra. He described 5 different data organization schemes for a single problem and designed relational algebra to work with all of them. This ability for the same program logic to work with many different data storage layouts should make changes like you describe less painful to implement.

(see page 2)

E. F. Codd. 1970. A relational model of data for large shared data banks. Commun. ACM 13, 6 (June 1970), 377–387. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/362384.362685

PDF: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
> How is Matrix a threat to Google?

A matrix user identity will eventually compete with a google account.

When google accounts are considered as important as myspace accounts, then much of their surveillance loses relevance.
I don't think it's that simple. Of course the Gamestop situation is a unique one, but speculation is the entire point of the stock market. You can justify (and lower) the risk you take by examining fundamentals, or by investing in "safe" funds, but you are always speculating that the price will eventually go up and not down.

An example: One could argue that TSLA's current price is almost entirely speculation divorced from current fundamentals. Are you sure it will be "good for a lucky few and very bad for lots of people when it goes off the rails"? It's possible, but what should we do about that? Restrict people's ability to trade TSLA?

In the case of Gamestop, I agree with you, it will be bad for lots of people who get in late. I think more people should be informed about risk before entering the stock market, but I don't know if I agree with you that we need more government regulation in the market to do this. What would that look like?
It’s a numbers game. For every piece of truly disturbing material there are probably thousands of dick pics.
Or you don't get anything done by trying to be "much better than now" vs "better than now". It goes both ways.
It's not an energy tax. Electricity is more expensive to produce and deliver during 4-9 PM. Flat rates subsidize use during 4-9 PM.
> the laws themselves are inadequately described.

This. I recall seeing a post recently that essentially said that any action could be construed as securities law violation.
Yes, I likely wouldn't have constructed the compact example if I didn't understand the basics of the issue.

I suppose my point is that someone with intent can use careful language to avoid creating any evidence of intent (and lawyers will cheer them on) and then someone without much in the way intent will say something sloppy that implies intent (and lawyers will punish them severely).
Spot on. The idea that this is some sort of history-changing revolution is just laughable.
Can concur with all the other responders to this post. You could buy official "wobble stoppers", but my dad made one from corrugated cardboard and a LOT of gaffer tape.

I used to type programme listings† in, blind, while my family watched something on TV. When I thought I was done, I'd ask them to switch the aerial cable over so we could play whatever game I believed I'd transcribed. Having suffered from unknown RAM pack wobble during the process was gutting, but on the flipside it was amazing when I'd got it right, or almost right - and whatever mistakes I'd made forced me to learn how to debug software. A skill that pays the bills almost 40 years on :)

† from ZX Computing, or some multi-platform books from the library
If you make your hobby your work, it will stop being fun. Same thing happened to me.
Consider this:

Every Satoshi can be traced back to when it was mined. The IRS now requires Americans and resident aliens filing income tax returns to report on their crypto holdings. Lots (maybe most?) people use exchanges like CoinBase. (Remember, not your keys, not your coins.)

If the government believes (they do not even have to prove) your Satoshis were ever used for illicit transactions, they can legally seize those assets. (Sorry, we don't think you were involved, but these coins are criminals.) To simplify things they just need to show a judge reasonable cause of structuring sometime in the coin's history. That has to be super easy to do. https://www.goldinglawyers.com/structuring-cash-transactions
How are you managing them? Which distro are they running? Is there any difference between managing 1k and 100k operating systems?
The buck does not stop at the hedge funds. You are bankrupting from bottom to top. Owing 100k to a bank is your problem. Owing 1 billion to a bank is the banks problem. It can turn into a systemic crash like event as seen in 2008.
Sshh; don't let the YouTube smartphone reviewers hear you, they'll be offended.

Honestly, the only YouTuber I know with millions of subscribers who doesn't behave like everyone buys a new smartphone every other day is Zack from JerryRigEverything he literally showed a video from 2014(Note 4)as Galaxy S21's video to make that point[1] in his recent video.

[1]https://youtu.be/Y4wrxLVs3eU?t=355
Imagine a world where stock price manipulation is illegal and everyone cares if I try to defraud new investors out of their money. Do I want to live in a world with such censorship? That would be such a dystopian hellscape.