skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Browser-based EPUB and FB2 rendereres are pretty straightforward to build. You don't need a free implementation to embed it in a browser, you can always implement it from scratch if you are interested. You don't even need a team or too much time, a single developer is enough. I don't know much about MOBI/AZW3 but I doubt they are much harder. PDF is already there. Another useful format is DJVU and there have been well-known browser plug-ins for it.

I would love to see all these (not just PDF) to come with the common browsers by default. It seems sad to me they don't. The only browser that actually took care was the old Edge. I was very disappointed they decided not to port this feature to the new Edge.
And then read his critics who blow his whiggish history out of the water.
The facts are supremely boring. Fund gets caught with bad luck. Fund blows up. Life goes on.

Even the amount of billions being transferred here are not interesting.
Wouldn't making settlement sub 1 minute solve the issue?
Can someone elaborate on value proposition for this sort of device? What problem(s) does it solve?
I get very different review counts when I reload this page. I think people are greatly overestimating the consistency of this number.
I think the claim that bluetooth is "wildly insecure" needs justification.
You make a fair point noting the differences of motivation behind the boycott.
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> The price dropped because there was no buying pressure

Robinhood is not the entire market. I don't know what the exact number is, but I doubt they're even a material number of the entire stock market.

If Robinhood is the entire buying market, to the point that Robinhood pausing buying is detrimental, then how does that not make it clear that this entire situation is setting up Robinhood users to lose everything they buy?
Because Big Money spends big money to make people not notice things.
I don't know why anyone needs to be told this, at this point, but EVERY review system is being gamed. You can't trust ANY of them.
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ydotool is what you're looking for

https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool
Every RH trade is on credit, because it allows trading before ACH deposits settle and allows withdrawing or trading into other positions before trades settle.
That’s the standard.

However, Airbnb allocated a number of shares to its own hosts, and a lot of Little People were able to partake in that if they were on the ball.
It's a browser implementation of JackTrip, which is low-latency audio conferencing software for musicians, because video conferencing (Zoom etc.) has terrible latency.

The way to have rehearsals over the internet is usually to use JackTrip for the audio and (Zoom etc.) for the video (which can be out of sync; obviously conductors have to tap in an audio metronome channel since video won't be in sync.)
If you're worth a hundred billion dollars, your Senators will be calling YOU for lunch, no matter who your friends are.
Peterffy of Interactive Brokers said essentially the same thing. The broker is on the hook for the money as far as the clearing house is concerned. If they cannot get it from their customers, they will be left holding the bag. And in a security as volatile as GME, that could certainly happen.

In fact, we have seen things like that happen before. Forex broker FXCM blew up after their customers lost large amounts of money in the Swiss Franc in early 2015.
The sellers referenced in my story (and the quoted one) were street vendors, not stores.

Places like El Pollo Loco, Del Taco, The Tamale Factory, etc already have their own (superior, based on images of the final product) specialized machinery.
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It took me a while to get it, but this all works in the opposite direction as well.

The time value of money can be negative: A dollar today can be worth more than a dollar tomorrow.

It's not pretty. When the pie is shrinking the incentives get ugly rapidly.

Let's hope this can be a "good" deleveraging, we fix metrics that don't positively correlate with non-zero-sum productivity growth, and on top of that pull the next rabbit out of the hat where we can keep exponential growth happening for another cycle (spacex, EVs, etc).

Otherwise, we'll be fighting over a shrinking pie, which is nature's way of adjusting the population to the modified carrying capacity.
I dont think SPCE has the focused attention necessary to make it happen like GME. GME had a lot of different factors leading to it drawing focus, including the insane amount of shorting. SPCE is not shorted as much, so it falls into a lower tier of interest with splintered focus. That's why I don't think we'll see a repeat with SPCE, but I am open to alternative args
New Spotify patent proposes analyzing users' speech
Kind of like right now, how Simpsons predicted a global recession after President Trump's term is being jokingly brushed off even as it seems like we are in a bubble.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S
> the issue of the key leaking is still a problem with your proposed protocol

Fair enough. I intended that it's not a long term key, but something more appropriate like a session key.

Or better, more like a "query key" that limits what can be extracted from a session to whatever has been approved to be extracted. (See "zero-knowledge database".[1])

> What you're looking for is a protocol where N parties have to agree in order to decrypt any given message, and agreement to decrypt a particular message doesn't allow them to decrypt any other messages

That's what I meant, yes. Sorry for not making that clear.

> Same problem with giving the key only to an AI: The AI needs the key, and it will be difficult to ensure that the AI system isn't hacked

Ah... The other thing I didn't make clear is that the AI runs inside homomorphic encryption[2], or other protective bubble against access (one can imagine a quantum state with this property). This is why I said we don't have the technology to do it yet. Not because of the AI, but because we don't have sufficiently powerful methods to run an AI (or any large program) inside a bubble that prevents them from being inspected. But we know it's possible in principle.

[1] https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~susan/600.641/scribes/lecture15.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
xkcd #937. It's all great if the app isn't buggy, but if it doesn't do what it's advertised to do it deserves even more bad reviews.
> it mostly functioned as a mechanism to discriminate against voters of certain classes

Well, we can set the bar wherever we like; the question was ultimately "can we have a bar at all".

Since some people seem to think that even asking for ID is too high of a bar, it's clear to me that there's a market into catering to extremely-low-information voters; not that anyone is every going to _do_ a damned thing for them, but you can certainly make hollow promises easily enough.

An alternate requirement if we want a higher bar than an academic test would be to require that one own land and have children before you're allowed to vote, or something like that.

Perhaps a combination of alternatives could be offered. The question I'm really trying to ask is whether it's at all reasonable to do something to increase the quality of the vote.
The liquidity issues arise in part when trades occur on unsettled securities. Consider what happens if someone buys a stock, then turns around and sells it the same day to another counterparty. The broker has an IOU from one party for the stock, and has issued an IOU to another party. Two days layer, if the first party fails to deliver (oops, a short seller couldn't find stock to cover their short!), the broker's on the hook, at least in the short term.
Motorcycles are a pointless regression in safety. Fast cars are a pointless regression (and have terrible rear side views in many cases). Many things that are "cool" are also regressions - almost all big screens and apple carplay etc is distracting. The trade is that people like cars not just for safety but to use, and those features may in one way or another enhance the use of the vehicle.

And yes, they build vehicles with explosives in them, and those do drive around if there is a use, everything from military tanks, to construction and mining ops have vehicles with bombs in them. While MUCH more dangerous, the tradeoffs are considered worth it.

So you look at the whole package.

I want yellow blinkers on all vehicles. Something as basic as that is not required. Fast cars are allowed. And now we are not only saying that a different design shouldn't even be allowed to be considered, but the folks considering the design should be "condemned"?

Heads up - Tesla, and eventually others are pushing HARD on greater autonomy. I wouldn't be surprised if more and more designs started reducing the number of passenger controls. Airplanes have had this happen too. Spaceships same thing, crew dragon a lot fewer buttons. They were condemned for that as well.

My own guess? Tesla is too far ahead here (ie, their AI supplement is not yet ready), and may get reeled back.

But they are pushing this way. They don't want side mirrors, they want cameras as an example, and yes, folks condemn them for that too even through the fuel savings would be incredible. Folks condemned them for their "dangerous" batteries. They've been condemned repeatedly, but their death rates per mile driven are far better than the news stories make it seem.
Are you implying all the violent talk in parler is legitimate free speech?!
Speech that incites violence and results in violence is not allowed.
But it's a free market and Google can do whatever they want lol. Don't you dare to say a bad word about them.
Seems like a shame, honestly. The test could certainly have evolved, like IQ tests have, to be less focused on particular cultural knowledge and just be a general test of capability.
I ran this in a Oculus Quest2 HMD and loving it !!

In the native browser it lets me access local storage content.

Can't do that in Firefox Reality but the browser's screen size certainly makes Alice 10ft tall!!

Thanks for the Show and Tell
Exactly, how do you define "fake review"? Google sees 100K+ negative reviews coming in for one app on one day. What do you think they're going to do? Take 'em all down and call it a day. I really doubt that there is some incredibly corrupt culture in Google Play reviews or something like some are suggesting. I really the product owners just want to go home for the day/turn off the computer and eat dinner, just like everybody else that has a job.
Generally speaking, regardless of race and sex, upper management types tend to be sociopaths who are actually racist/sexist (see all the scandals about this every time an executive sexually harrasses someone). Embracing the idea of a "diverse workforce" is a great deflection tactic.
Perfectly timed comment :) we are currently writing a tutorial at the moment to showcase how to use Airbyte/DBT/Metabase together
They don't need Grayscale. They could just buy BTC themselves.
The original (now banned) discord had >300k members alone.
You are both correct. Richard Stallmann was always treated a bit like a conspiracy theorist.

However, there was no conspiracy. This is just the result of human greed at a massive scale.
Big money? What big money exactly? Do you really think Google care about RH and its money? They do it to prevent organized activities of rating manipulation. The RH case might be justified but Google cannot be the judge. If tomorrow the corner store across the street receives 100K reviews in 1 hour, Google would respond in a similar way.
Good question; JackTrip normally uses UDP and I think most browsers do not support sending UDP packets directly without an extension.

If you could send UDP directly then WebRTC could presumably be avoided.
I agree it’s emergent behavior; that’s not inconsistent with my comment.

The unionization risk thing isn’t made up. Amazon’s warehouse unionization risk rubric includes racial diversity as an anti-union measure.
I have little to no interest in any stock market, but everything that's happening around r/wallstreetbets right now is nothing short of fascinating. Almost seems like a domino effect, revealing step by step how much control these companies have, at least beyond the tech sphere[1], and how interconnected they are.

I mean, not that I'm really surprised by this happening with Google[2], but still I didn't expect them to get involved; don't see what they have to gain by this other than sharing on the bad publicity. Wonder if Apple will step in too.

Hopefully these events will actually lead into more adoption of decentralized protocols and platforms (and more support for open hardware development, maybe), and I'm starting to wonder if this week will go into the history books.

[1]: I mean to say that I know that many in the tech sector were already aware of it. But everyone at large was just kind of okay with it, so this is revelatory from that perspective. Well, hopefully it is.

[2]: In fact, this was probably caused by the surge in activity triggering one of their (in)famously intransigent algorithms, which never seem to stop increasing in number.
He also had cities across the country doing cartwheels to get HQ2. He got an entire neighborhood in Arlington VA renamed, got a heliport approved, and other perks.
It would have been more palatable if they had reduced margin available to new accounts, or even stopped allowing new accounts for awhile. That would have been a black eye for them but much less severe than what they did instead.
No, I was broadly commenting on why education cannot trump regulation.

For the sake of argument, one can say that actions of forums like WSB should also be regulated to protect them, just like laws for compulsory wearing of helmet (while riding two-wheelers) or putting seatbelts (while riding cars) exist, even though one would think that education and common sense would make them do this automatically out of self-preservation instincts.

But since I am not an expert in finance or stock markets, I really am not in any sound position to comment on the specifics here.

My broader general argument (not at all related to WSB or the financial industry) is just that education alone is insufficient, and regulation is often required too for maximum efficacy.
The volatility of the Gamestop is just insane. People think it's because of the short squeeze, but it's not just that but the fact that the stock goes from $100 to $400 to $200 within the hour, and then as OP mentioned you end up with a lot of your liquidity stuck in Gamestop until the contracts settle.
Robinhood hasn't said this is what happened to them though. If they had just said this morning, right off the bat, "our clearing house is no longer allowing new positions on these stocks" people would have been pissed, sure, but not as much, and not completely at RH.

Even now, they haven't come out and said anything directly, they just keep making vague references to having "obligations" and "requirements".
Yesterday at 290 000+ reviews : https://web.archive.org/web/20210128171659/https://play.goog...

four hours ago at 180K : https://web.archive.org/web/20210129002353/https://play.goog...

And now at 178K reviews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood....

With more than 100k review in a day, Google must detected them as fake reviews by default.
The fact you're confusing option types is not helping your credibility. Writing put options is a bullish move. Melvin may have been writing CALL options (I doubt it to be honest but maybe).
I know several folks who worry about managing their blood pressure from hour to hour, this would be as useful for them as no-stick blood sugar monitoring is for diabetics
You will find that your statements are easily flipped if you are truly honest in looking for answers.

My intention is not to paint with a wide brush, just to demonstrate that everyone has beliefs, and they manifest in different ways.

>>>>I don't go to a building and dance and sing to my belief of no diety. ( I believe seculars call it a rave.)

>>>>>>I do not go and seek out others who believe in the lack of a diety to associate and grow together. (any number of activities can fall in this category in fact)

>>>>>>I don't go on to claim wars over the land holy to my belief of no diety. (I believe are referring to Bush/Obama nation-building)

>>>>>> I don't go on to terrorize my children and tell them they are unloved because they're born in a way that offends my belief in the lack of a diety. (I believe you are referring to the secular terrorism, that is human-to-human, i.e. calling others "Deplorables" )

>>>>>I don't go on to terrorize my neighbors and tell them they are unloved because they offend my belief in the lack of a diety. (see above)

>>>>>I don't go to other people who have different beliefs and tell them they are wrong due to their belief in a diety. And that my belief is the only way they can be saved. (I believe there is no need to say X is wrong when instead they resort to shut them up #cancelculture)

Atheism is not a religion, but it is a belief system like any other. It may appeal to logical people, but that doesn't make it better or worse. Its just a different way to perceive the world around you.
> diversity prevents groupthink

Ideological diversity prevents group think. The modern "diversity and inclusion" movement actually strictly enforced a procrustean ideological homogeneity, ironically. It's probably the biggest modern example of group think.
Oh. I'm an idiot
You know what? That sounds plausible. Hurt people often pass on the pain to the newer members of any team (including families).

I did get the general vibe that this is some kind of a rite of passage -- the unsaid message of "figure it all out by yourself or you're not worthy". I also did get the vibe they are tired and overworked (hence they needed several new people in the team). But the strongest impression was of a formerly tight-knit team of people who are now forced to work remotely and who are begrudgingly admitting they need help, and were also strongly introverted -- to make matters even worse.

That mix led to the situation described previously: I got more and more paralyzed and hesitant to ask for help as time went by, and my daily efficiency dropped to almost zero.

The thing that hurt me was how annoyed the team acted when I asked every question. One nasty (but pretty normal) response was "read Tilt docs" and it really didn't help me when it turned out that a special Python code line had to be put because my local k8s install refused to even initialize its network interfaces without much of an error indication until I drilled way down.

I did not feel any triumph when the guy I did a screen-share session with finally admitted that they might have thrown me into too deep a pit and that yeah, my setup turned out more difficult than theirs and that yeah, last they did it the cluster was smaller and easier to configure.

I never did once thought to say: "HA! TOLD YOU SO!" -- I was just very saddened.

It's easy for one to give in to negative thoughts and to second-guess themselves but discussing with people -- including yourself -- in this sub-thread did give me more clarity and showed me that it wasn't only me who was at fault.

Thank you.
Same reason. They have similar agreements and requirements as RH.
Being able to advertise to the proles isn’t actually that valuable without a level of coordination that’s beyond bezos.
Why does it have to be institutional? I made a pre market trade the other day. Figure other regular people can too
Robinhood's instant access to transferred funds is a margin account feature. So is instantly having access to your funds from selling a position. So just holding one share of GME increases RH's liquidity requirements.
When I asked why the company I work for didn't do the same I was told we couldn't afford to give every warm body a margin account.
That's because hedge fund managers severely shorted those stocks. If you buy all the shorted stocks you get to name your price when the shorts come due.
Webull’s CEO also cited DTCC fees as the reason they shut down trading on GME and others.
Webull isn’t a brokerage, they use apex under the hood. Ameritrade won’t let you trade on a margin with the highly volatile stocks due to risk. E*TRADE is probably the same.
Taxes. I think most human beings can survive with 100 millions of dollars of wealth (it's more than one can spend in multiple lifetimes). Anything over that can just be taxed.

The problem of letting any private entities get that rich is they start to take control of everything.

One such example is The East India Company having at one point a bigger private army than the British Army[0].

As things go we will soon be at that point again.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_armies
My theory is something simpler: Play Store has anti-review-bombing mechanism. It simply kicks in in this case.
Why don't sales settle instantly? Or perhaps, why can't we do instant money transfers? It's 2021, not 1951.
Correct; “diversity” is shorthand for “racial Leninism”. It’s primarily about paying people off with status subsidies. Asians don’t need status subsidies so they don’t benefit from this system
I think a lot of it derived from B&O which had similar models (maybe not as compact)

https://beocentral.com/beogram4000
That's not how these things work. Google is interested in the status quo. So much turmoil around digital platforms angering the owner class is bad for their business, more tech regulation etc. They don't want any drama, just fun and consumption.

RH didn't pay anything. Google knows what to do. The interests are way deeper than some pocket change moving around...
Can confirm. This also happened to me.
Off-topic, one of the things that surprised me the most when I finally made the jump to Linux (I don't remember anymore which dark pattern finally turned me off of Windows, but it was one too goddamned many) -- the bluetooth support was light-years ahead of anything I'd previously encountered. I was expecting hardware incompatibilities to be way more problematic than they actually were.
Lol, "just make your own platform"
Sorry I used fiduciary imprecisely. All I meant to say, besides all the movement in the SEC position on wether brokers are advisors/not and what that implies about their responsibilities, there is case law and a regulatory agency responsible for it. Contrast that with Facebooks obligations to their users.
dang hasn't posted this yet—it's been a heck of a day, hasn't it—so I will!

The discussion on this item has spread over multiple pages, so make sure you check them all! Look for the "More" link at the bottom of the page (on all but the last page), or use a link like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25950685&p=2
You're essentially saying that Robinhood should have forced its users to hold an insanely volatile stock, just to be "fair" to the people who wanted to keep riding a pump and dump.