skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a pharmacist and I have followed this closely. AZ can make profits after July. They apparently did this for good PR. Unlike what people think vaccines usually do not bring much profits, so it was not a big sacrifice. The vaccine was designed by Oxford and it was intended to be the UK national pride and it seems they are succeeding. Maybe even too much because it is now making the EU jealous.

The UK took other risks – even with the Pfizer vaccine they used all supplies to give as first doses to more people. That was a risk but they calculated that it is better to have more people with partial immunity than less people with stronger immunity. The EU mostly put aside the second dose to give strictly according to the schedule.

Their regulators approved vaccines several weeks, even one month before the EU. Again they were criticized for this as being reckless. We cannot even say that their risk has paid off yet because they are in lockdown just like the EU.

It is unfortunate that AZ cannot deliver enough vaccines now but many EU politicians and health regulators (France, Germany) have expressed doubts about AZ vaccine indication for elderly. So, maybe they are not that eager to receive all these supplies after all. Charitable explanation would be that they do this to calm people's anger about missed deliveries.
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Buying eggs is not a corner case. But buying 12.1 eggs certainly is. I think you're projecting a little bit here.

In any case, "average" does not mean "arithmetic mean." It means, mathematically, any of the median, mode, or mean or in standard vernacular, of typical or usual characteristics (i.e., close to mode).

You don't get to just arbitrarily pick a definition that fits your viewpoint and start going "all due respect" on other people.
Common, I may not know enough about the stock market to be opinionated about this case in particular, but when literally billions are at stake, conspiracies about mild collusion between brokers and market manipulation are really not that far-fetched.
It seems like an IDE could know if there is a single implementation and could go to it, especially if the interface is not visible outside the project ("internal" in C#). In practice, the interface is in the same file as the primary implementation, so it's not as bad as it seems. More of an annoyance.
In the container context, the Go runtime gets in the way of namespace control; 'Docker' as in RunC uses C to work around this (last time I looked) and so is compiled with cgo. I'm not sure that the direct creation/control of a container is possible using just Go. I would love to be out of date and wrong!?
These are all artificial problems created by Apple, though. The first three are all doable on Android PWAs, and you can do everything with a TWA in the Play Store.
Unless the company is selling or buying stock (or otherwise exchanging value for stock, as with employee grants), the price is immaterial to it. Just a random number on a ticker.

A low stock price creates risk because it makes it hard (expensive) to raise capital. Well, here you are, it doesn't get better than this!
>Everyone assuming a conspiracy theory needs to read this.

I'm not sure of your point here. Anyone that assumed there's a conspiracy theory is pretty much right. Now, if you mean the 'Brokerage X is in cahoots with this particular hedge fund theory', then yes, it's fair to argue that's debunked.

But the overall conspiracy theory of "there are forces conspiring against the natural supply/demand market forces", well, they've pretty much all had the nerve to come out in the open and admit it.

It's not the stockholders fault that all these clearing intermediaries use shitty fragile risk models that haven't accounted for rare events and instead of facing the music they've artificially turned the marketplace for these stocks into sell-only in order to stop a further price rise and exposing themselves further.

To be clear, the rest of your comment seems that we're in agreement, expect that I would go further to call a spade a spade, it's absolutely a conspiracy.
> There is no reason, with all the identities attached, and auditing procedures, and digital signing, and protocols we have today, that we shouldn't be able to know who owns the stock at any given point, and not have to rely on these super-slow resolutions.

Trillions of dollars are moved in these markets - you can't just hop in and do a quick rebuild with crypto, launch it, and call it good. Imagine rebuilding ythe core infrastructure at Microsoft - that takes years and years. But now you also have the entirety of the global economy dependent on your software. You also need to meet heavy government regulation and comply with oversight.

There is a whole shit ton of reasons this process hasn't been updated to T+0. It was t+3, now t+2, and I've heard (from the CEO of Webull on bezinga power hour yesterday) wanting t+1 this year.

Edit - to be clear I'm not saying dropping the current system for a new one is the only option. I'm saying improving the system at all (or rebuilding it) is arguably one of the most challenging software tasks one could undertake and there are serious reasons financial markets are not anywhere near what is "technically possible".
Fun fact; back when I worked in finance (2015-2017), forex trades including Bitcoin actually settled slower than anything else by about a day. Our pipelines had to detect crypto trades in order to fix the expected settlement date.
Great question! The plotting library is it's own stand alone module, and there is a `plot` function which accepts an arbitrary number of arguments. This is how the app is able to plot multiple graphs at the same time.

Using tuple/list for points/lines makes it easy to plot points and lines at the same time, with a single function call, without any nasty keyword arguments.

For example

>>> plot((0,0), (1,1), [(0,0),(1,1)])

The other reason was it makes the code a lot nicer in some places. I tried using a keyword argument at first and there was a lot of additional logic to keep track of.
I'm not sure I follow why the future actions of Robinhood customers matter. They've executed the number of trades they've executed, DTCC raises the collateral requirement for meme stocks, and now they're on the hook, whether stocks were purchased on margin (implicitly or otherwise) or not. You've got the rules in front of you. They seem to plainly say that Robinhood has to put up collateral regardless of whether margin is involved.

Again, I think the margin stuff is mostly a red herring?
Sorry, I badly misread your original comment: I read it as "I saw [a reference saying that] the two were the same," not "I've seen at least two displays with the same density."
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Would also like to know the answer to this. From the amount of people explaining the nuance of the deposit rules it seems many people expect trading to work the way you've described. The fact that it (counterintuitively?) doesn't seems like it might be a flaw in the system.
I mean, to be fair, among all the various fields Google has ever entered, they have a comparatively good track record with chat applications, in particular: Google is, in fact, pretty much known for their keen understanding of how to maintain and grow social networking products (in general), and (of course) chat applications (in specific).
EToro in U.K. halted it - no margin account, we have instant transfers of cash.

Managed to buy $beermoney worth in the end to say I was there, although that was at 20% higher than I tried to (not that it matters)
The article discusses this- excess buys and market volatility lead to increased capital requirements by clearing houses, so it wasn't necessarily specific to robinhood.
Why does this terrible language (a) not have this feature built in (b) require the use of a package to do this?

Isn't this sort of thing just another left-pad controversy waiting to happen?
So much of Robinhood's product is built on the facade of a margin-account-not-being-a-margin-account that that would be impractical.

Doing so would have likely pissed people of more.

"New sign up to Robinhood? Just started a transfer? Awesome! I know all our marketting material says 'trade right away', but actually you have to wait 2 days right now."

"Just sell a bunch of other stock in order to buy GME? Well, unfortunately right now you can't use that money for 2 days. See you next week! Ps: thanks for the taxable event that you probably wouldn't have done if you understood that you'd have to wait!"
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Congrats on the launch :)

The pricing incentives sound smart.

Do you see the ability to replicate more complex architecture as a differentiator? For example, one of your homepage quotes mentions "running a Kubernetes stack inside of a Layerfile". Can you elaborate more on how Layerfiles enable this?
Looking for Beta testers for Virtual Production characters
I don't have a trusted source so there is no point in me even considering to try it.
Some vendors have systems where multiple nodes go into one case, e.g. Supermicro BigTwin or Dell PowerEdge C-series.
Background at https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/31/nominet_board_vote/
This is right; in fact the article says "this is not about margin accounts".
> These firms should have had no problem continuing allowing purchasing.

Their costs increased 50x overnight - so they definitely should have had problems. DTC required a few percent collateral, and then overnight required 100% collateral on $GME. No business (well, fidelity and a few others weathered it) is able to increase short term liquidity 50x overnight.
> Yeah, but with lightning you really need enough value along the network path(s) to execute a transaction, possibly causing a similar thing as this to happen.

It's atomic, it either completes 100% or it fails, there's no partial state where the money gets stuck in one of the middle-nodes.
> What about funded accounts with no clearance in progress?

Other comments have already mentioned that they can't use customer funds for the deposit, so they need to pay it out-of-pocket or borrow it.
As a proponent of static typing (at least for larger programs): thank you, that was a very enlightening example for when dynamic typing can be superior to static typing.
> I think, as others have pointed out in the replies, 0BSD or MIT-0 is more suitable for me.

Why not go with [CC0] in that case? It's a lot more robust, and recommended by the FSF over options like the Unlicense.

[CC0] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Oh absolutely. Source-server/source-indexing is amazing. I use it dozens of times a week when debugging Chrome crash dumps. It's amazing when the correct version of the relevant source code just magically appears. I've blogged about this as well, of course:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/source-indexing...

As you say, knowing the provenance of your PDBs is important. That's part of why I pushed hard for https symbol servers a few years back. Don't ever use http: for a symbol server.
What a strange story. I feel as though Mel Brooks' life must have seemed as bizarre to him as some of his movies at times.
A guy I know in India once remarked that, say what you will about the British but one good thing they brought was milk in tea.
Sadly, the Mac SE pictured in the article is being drug through all this ;)
> "distibuted system", just an active/passive failover cluster

I would call this a distributed system. To me HA means 0 downtime deploys, are there SQL/RDBMS that offer that even for schema changes?
thanks for the link! I've only heard of Khmer empire/ Jayavarman VII from civ 6, this is much more detailed!

Poor leadership is unfortunate, personally think it's just too hard for humans to plan hundreds of years out, so the rise/fall cycles are inevitable.
... what? That's a non-answer.
This is what I was looking for, thanks for the insight. The way I understand this - if I don't put my authorship, it becomes a liability for the users of my code since they have no traceability of where the code came from. Am I reading this right?
For what it's worth, there seems to be a link in their docs to downgrade to a "Cash" account.

But with that you lose pretty much all the functionality (instant transfers, instant settlements, etc) that makes Robinhood any better than any other non-margin alternative. Unless you're a huge fan of confetti. I hear Cash accounts still get the confetti.
> Backed by Microsoft. Microsoft has been playing good by the developers for years now. I trust them more than Apple and Google.

Maybe we shouldn't trust MS, but ourselves.

A MS controlled App Store is as bad or good as a Google or Apple controlled App store. Good for some peace of mind and trust, that they won't distribute malware ( ... already broken tough), bad for the fact that they control it we would still rely on the benevolence of a dictator.
Satire is a distinct form of criticism that cannot be expressed by direct statement of fact or argument. It is a perfectly valid form of expression.
The uglyness is a feature. I wish it where all caps. You should see that line in a PR and the hair on the back of your neck should stand up and you're off to rotate that secret.
Yeah, I'm trying to use more question marks and hedging "as I understand its" here. I've pentested huge clearing systems before. But I'm not going to lie and say I understood what the hell they were doing (also, the people at those firms made fun of clearing as the most boring conceivable stuff to look at).

But (1) lots of experts keep saying that Robinhood can't use customer cash as collateral to DTCC, and (2) DTCC's published rules seem to say that Robinhood owes collateral margin or not.

So like, I'm willing to bet that the margin stuff is a red herring, but I'm not willing to WSB-bet it.
>The question is: why?

legacy systems. Someone in another thread mentioned a lot systems still use the "move file to this ftp folder and we'll process it in the morning" method to process transactions.
Yes this is true, and sometimes they don't even need to collect because they can write off the small loss (this is explained in the video from the webull ceo).

But the lenient margin requirements let them hang themselves when they can't collect because the losses are too big and will bankrupt the hedge fund. So now they are too big to fail, it's not only the hedge funds problem that they made a bad trade, it is now DTCC and the brokers problem that the hedge fund made a bad trade.
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Rosenfeld’s admitted that they don’t NEED need your phone number, so why does he still need it? I didn’t give Zucc my phone number, I didn’t give it to Suzy, Jeff, Larry, or Sergei. So why’s Rosenfeld need it? He doesn’t, but he does. It’s “easier” this way.
My understanding is that most of their current funding is from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, who has loaned them $50-105m at 0% interest, to be repaid in ~50 years (I can find confirmation that Acton donated $50m and that their current assets are $105m, but I'm not clear on whether he was also the one who loaned the additional $55m). And before they had that big loan, they were operating on smaller grants and donations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation#History

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/82450...
The Broker isn't allowed to borrow against client money either - it's client money, partitioned off from the broker's fungible funds, and not the Broker's to offer as collateral.

But debt is the natural answer, and Robinhood did get as much in loans as they can[0].

[0]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robinhood-said-draw-credit-li...
I don’t see how any of this benefits the staff, users, company, or community.
I like what you've done with hugo!
I support modi ;)
How about reducing the environmental cost of fossil fuel addiction, as a result of turning to renewables and batteries? I'd like a comparison.
I don’t think this is is true.

Imagine accidentally hiring someone who cannot program. Does that mean the entire team is suddenly 10x people?
This article touches a point I have been wondering about regarding the Notice condition: "But web developers, as a whole, haven’t got the memo.".

The JavaScript and npm ecosystem are extremely dependency-heavy. Even if you only take a few yourself, the number of sub-dependencies of even a simple application are often in the hundreds.

Why does "everyone" ignore the attribution of their dependencies and sub-dependencies? Laziness? Risk of getting sued too low? What happens if Oracle buys all the left-pads in the world?
This is a really interesting project. It's a collection of utilities for constructing rule-based models, as opposed to statistical models (i.e. ML).

I can see myself using it for exploratory analysis and constructing baseline models.

As for the "let's just draw the model" idea, it gets complicated as soon as you're dealing with more than one input parameter. The author has some workarounds, it looks like:

https://koaning.github.io/human-learn/guide/drawing-classifi...
The A in MDMA stands for Amphetamine, and if you look at drawings of the molecules, you'll see that MDMA is basically D-Amphetamine with extra stuff attached to it.

All amphetamines release dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin, just in different ratios. D-Amphetamine is heavier on the dopamine and NE, MDMA is heavier on the serotonin, but it's still a dopamine releaser, which contributes to its addictive qualities. What MDMA does, neurochemically speaking, is not that far from what methamphetamine does. Meth is much more addictive for a number of reasons, including the way people typically consume it (smoking vs oral), but MDMA is no toy.
After this bull market, you'd have to have only $1,000 in the account to make the taxes less than the $75 fee...
Not only are they probably not operationally prepared to just pull down credit on no notice, but there's an additional risk - the member's VAR calc is calculated using a EWMA (exponentially weighted moving average) volatlity estimate. What this means is that RH can exhaust its entire credit line, and despite allowing no additional buys, their deposite required still increases because volatility went up. Breaching DTCC's requirements with no way to fix the issue.
I finally got past step 3 and 4 with a CHROOT where I manually built all dependencies, skipped the tests after reading your comment, went to go straight to the make install but my distro's got a non-standard directory layout and that failed.

I'm over this. Too much effort. I'm just going to install windows and click dodgy popup ads and any ok buttons that appear after.
So, how and why does reality never quite conform to the concepts in the article?
Well, it may be a joke but the number of times I've downloaded some source code, hit ./configure, make, and then sudo make install on my linux box without checking any of it is also a joke....
Tell me again what the threat mode TLS protects against for a marketing site?

The only thing I can think of is my ISP injecting some HTML at the top of the page. Something that I haven’t seen for years.
If you deplete one, it’s depleted. The other one is generated next year.
That is another oddity. If there was no insolvency problem, presumeably all that was needed was a loan?
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There’s a very specific legal definition of what a margin account is.

Robinhood accounts are Regulation T (aka Reg T) margin accounts by default. They have limits, yes, but they are very much margin accounts. That’s how they make their UX work.

The point is that typical user activity will be performed on margin, transparently. The flurry of synchronized activity caused a larger than normal draw on their margin, which further strained their working capital.
If that's genuinely the case then it's no wonder people are angry. At the scale of money involved legacy tech just shouldn't be an acceptable excuse.
>what the brokerage needs to do is take a loan against the settled cash they are already holding in escrow for ~24 hours.

and that's exactly what they did. On thursday night they secured a $1B loan.
I downloaded trivy (a go CLI tool) recently and they have some tooling to pack up dependency licenses and include them in the release tarball.

It is possible and quite easy, if you plan ahead. Notably, Debian binary packages include extensive copyright information.
I'm not following your train of thought here really. Are you saying that people are stripping out the notice from the source code as a matter of course and then redistributing it?
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How big is the js for ToDoMVC generated by TeaVM ?
So true. Endless distractions taking up countless man-hours.
Seattle is pretty much the same. It retained its old Seattle credentials until the mid 2000s and then it started a rapid change politically, maybe due to a tipping point in terms of California transplants or some other such trend. Now it is a one party city with extreme (far left) politics being normalized. The effects of that are apparent daily - despite ever increasing city and state budgets, urban blight is everywhere in all the same forms as SF. The homelessness and drug abuse issues have been induced by a soft on crime local government that takes no responsibility for anything but instead uses these permanent “crises” as political leverage. The spiral of echo chamber politics dooms the city to this direction.
This is super cool. I would like to know more about VM hibernation!
I hate to say “Bitcoin” because of its high risk, short track record, volatility, faddish aura, etc, but:

I believe it’s filling a gap beyond being a better gold-like asset. Better gold = digitally portable, 24 hr liquidity, digital literate friendly, fixed cap, transactions (even with its limits), decentralized control, etc.

But the solidly fixed cap is more profound than I think most people recognize. Potentially, once Bitcoin finds its “true” price, it will continue to grow in value in proportion to all wealth in the economy - over the long run. So it won’t just be a hedge against downturns, but eventually a semi-stable way of sharing in overall increasing wealth in the economy.

I don’t know of another instrument that anyone can easily buy that might track (over the long run) with global wealth as apposed to particular entities or particular aspects of the economy.

So in that sense, anyone can participate in overall wealth growth. A very useful new tool!

OF COURSE, this is SPECULATION on my part. But I think the idea of a total global wealth correlated asset is new and useful.
> Our company only want Windows OS for Prod (not linux)

This is a very strange decision. You pay a licensing cost to use Windows; the purpose of this is to be able to use Windows software and development tools. It's not going to be in any way better than using Linux directly if the goal is to host Linux containers.

I would heavily question this, if I was in an environment where my employment was safe to do so.

Otherwise - who gives a shit if it's "ready for production"? The decision has been made. Spend your employer's money and if they have made a bad choice (and they have), it's on them.
How long ago was this? I wonder what the bug was. I want to try this, but don't want to go through a painful uninsall experience
i'm not an expert in any of this, but I've heard/read multiple people comment that there is no situation where you're legally allowed to halt sells short of the SEC or market (NYSE/Nasdaq, etc) saying so
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