skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While practical advice for the current state of affairs, it is irrelevant here as the whole point here is that we don't like the current state of affairs: they shouldn't get to lie to people from their position of authority and asymmetric requirements, and if it can be proven that they lied to the suspect it should be something a lawyer can use to invalidate testimony (which might be brutal for the ability to convict the person, leading to police being trained to not do it, etc.).
Cool, curious, what company were you at?

Good luck with the new thing!
The problem with never talk to the police is that they can mess with you more or less with impunity. They can beat you and not worry about retribution from the judicial system. They can arrest you in which the only charge is resisting arrest.

Even if you are treated humanely when you refuse to talk to the police there is the very real possibility they will investigate your life. Given that there are civil liberties lawyers who claim that everyone commits felonies on a regular basis does one really want a big investigation into their life [1]?

The power of the state to mess up your life is such that this advice might not be applicable if the cop you are dealing with is a jerk.

[1] http://ulrichboser.com/how-many-felonies-did-you-commit-toda...
>And finally, the main problem is: sure, if you compare hobbyists (who make what they want for fun) with professionals (who are making a product that needs to sell more than a small handful of copies), of course you're going to find that hobbyists are more free to experiment with wild permutations of mechanics. But in doing so, they conflate personal ability with situational constraints.

Is that the main problem with the article, or is it the main point of the article.

>voluntary teams of users...are driven by different incentives and motivations
Twenty years ago I read the article "Never talk to the police." Later that year, the police came to my girlfriend's apartment and asked questions about a homicide. I was there and when they asked if they could come in, I said "No." There is no upside to allowing them in. "We'll answer any questions here" I remember saying.

We didn't have anything to hide, but you never know what law you may've broken. You never know what they may say and how you will react. The system sets up an adversarial relationship.

It would be in the best interest of law enforcement to play by the same rules as regular people.
As I understand it, our immune systems are pretty busy even under today's sanitary conditions. We're constantly fighting off bacterial and viral invaders, 24x7. But, I guess we're just not as busy as we could be.
The "days to cover" is reported publicly. It was 6 days, and based off the average volume. The volume increased by multiple orders of magnitude. Its been long enough to liquiditate.
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IANAL, but my understanding is that in some jurisdictions, lying to the police is Obstruction of Justice.

In addition, lying to the police can be de-facto illegal by being the primary evidence they have that you are guilty of some other crime "Why would s/he lie if s/he weren't guilty?".
For 3 whole months though? This isn't a 20 year down the line trade agreement it's a medical emergency.
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Honest question; if I had a magic wand and tomorrow banned all short sales, what would be the negative side-effects? From a lay-person's perspective, short selling seems pretty horrible, but very often I find that there are variables to this that I do not fully understand, and I know some people here are more financially literate than I am.
Wow, these are heroic efforts that show a tremendous dedication to achieving acceptable performance and rendering.
HN has a few posts regarding textise.net, but is it legal?
On an older HN post I discovered Textise.net which lets you enter any web address and puts its text-only content on the textise.net website for viewing.

Seems like blatant copyright infringement, but is it? And if it is, how have they not been shut down? I would think that the major commercial media sites would not like what it is doing.

One of a few past HN posts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25840922
I believe the "no profit" clause comes from Oxford Uni who own the IP.
Legal sanction against law enforcement officer misrepresentation is a more attainable control point than 100% awareness and compliance with "don't talk to police".

The latter advice is valid, and I agree with it. The change in law, with both sanctions (against officers and departments transacting such conduct) and exclusions on all evidence and testimony resulting, would be vastly more effective.
We put our prices up by 50% to new customers this month, we’ve see no difference in the amount of customers we’ve earned - just a higher revenue per customer.

Charge more.
> It feels like you're poisoning the well here.

How do you mean? I don't quite understand in this context.

RH wasn't the only broker to suspend trading in GME et al. Are all of the other brokers as equally beholden to Citadel?

EDIT: I'd be more happy to believe in the possibility of a conspiracy at the DTCC level, but even then the logic seems fairly sound for collateral issues here.
No, the EU wants to stop exporting to the UK from Belgium, as they have already done,as long as they are behind on the agreed EU schedule.
That's how you get eyeballs.
Looking for a source, but I read of a fund reporting a several hundred million dollar short position as "long", and being fined $810,000.
lazy loading images are implemented in the browser, you just need to add the loading="lazy" attribute to your img tag

intersectionobserver still has a ton of use cases where it's massively faster than continuously monitoring the scroll event (e.g. infinite scrolling)
> "and I can answer no further questions."

Of course you CAN answer further questions since you can speak. Thus you have just lied to a law enforcement officer.
Not everything has a real world counterpartbto compare to.
The FBI is notoriously bad. They make people lie and then use it against them: See Martha Stewart. I’m neutral on her. But the FBI went way overboard on a peanuts case. It’s like they lose face if they lose.

But get Epstein and friends and they let them plea bargain, etc.
hiring manager here, this is advice that everyone should take. looking back at hires that didn't work out through my career, unsurfaced expectations mismatches are the main root cause. even if both parties are reasonable and "good".
This explanation is plausible, but then the question becomes RH's lack of openness, and its CEO's laughable non-answers in interviews on the issues.

Their hands may be tied here, but they look bad any way you look at it, and for good reasons.
The last line of my comment was a quote, after which I intended to comment:

The mailing list might not be able to avoid the use of force (maybe). But the platform can avoid it.
You'll probably get better responses by asking your question here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/l7kypq/daily_di...

However, some of my recommendations include Parks, Wingspan, Splendor, Azul, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Potion Explosion, Kingdomino, Lanterns, Ticket to Ride, Pandemic: Iberia, Carcassonne, Concordia or Concordia Venus, Quacks of Quedlinburg, Treasure Island, etc. There are literally thousands of games that could meet the criteria of 3-5, simple rule set, 60 minute play time, and fun game play.

See also this ranked list of family board games:

https://boardgamegeek.com/familygames/browse/boardgame?sort=...

Pretty much every game on the first page of that list would meet your criteria.
Why on Earth is it not fair that the UK and EU get more doses of their own vaccines per capita than Africa, South America or Oceania?

Why would they be obliged to export even one dose of something they produced, before they have provided for every single one of their citizens?
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I think it was a very finely worded statement, "we got out of _a_ short position [Tuesday]", which is entirely possible.
The problem with "Stalin would've loved it" is that it's obviously an unsubstantive flamebait comment, and so was correctly downvoted. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? We're trying for a specific kind of conversation here: thoughtful, curious, respectful. That requires avoiding flamebait.

Re HN: I think you might be falling prey to the notice-dislike bias, which is a variation of sample bias where the comments we dislike or cause us pain start to feel like they're dominating the whole site. They don't dominate the site—HN is divided much as society (all over the world) is divided. But it feels like they do, because painful data points land harder and make deeper impressions than the things one likes or agrees with. The people who have opposite views to yours see HN as dominated by their opposite side (which is to say, your side), because of exactly the same mechanism.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098
Deciding where to put your furniture with AR is from 2017.

I think the 2021 AR move will be that you can buy Ikea furniture, and an AR filter will let you take pics for social media showing Design Within Reach (or whatever fancy brand) furniture in the same places.

And the 2022 version will be when you wear an AR headset at home, so you can pretend all on your own.
>In many cases, you can't have one with the other. Privacy or Personal security - pick one.

You have a lot of work ahead of you to demonstrate that empirical fact. I haven't seen any compelling evidence that infringing on our right to privacy makes use safer in any meaningful way - though I have seen evidence to indicate it, in fact, makes us less safe.
We at Type Studio try to offer our SaaS completely free, as we believe everyone should find out if the product is helpful. Especially as students ourselves we don't have the possibility to pay monthly fees for all the services we like to use. That's why our approach is to offer a completely free version of our video and make people who only want to edit 1 video a month happy with it. But of course we also have to think economically and make sure that our business is sustainable.
Actually, it's specifically defined in one of the appendices.
Interesting. How are these contracts supposed to work? In general when I buy something and have to wait, I expect to get it before everyone who buys after me. Not sure how these contracts work.
I agree with your sentiment.
Also, why not let other manufacturers produce vacciness aswell? Getting the vacinnes produced rapidly and in enough numbers seem to be the number one priority in this.
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Shorting stocks, in general, is a beneficial action for the market because it helps prevent shares from becoming overvalued.

I think this situation has actually highlighted the fact that shorting stocks needs to be easier. Currently, it's too easy to purposefully trigger a short squeeze.

With the goal of efficient prices in mind, short squeezes are bad, and enabling shorting is good.
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I always hear these sorts of criticisms of economists and financiers but I just don't think they hold water overall. Usually when I hear econ get flak the conversation rapidly devolves into criticisns of the abstract fairness of a solution rather then its priorities and effectiveness within the context. You see this constantly in the US when politicians from either side talk about the bank bailouts, the national debt, minimum wage, immigration, etc. Suddenly, rather than having anything resembling a sober and informed discussion about the topic and the current expert consensus, everyone just starts soapboxing about fatcats and entitlement while larping as intellectuals as they promote fringe 'theories' that happened to coincide with their political objectives. Meanwhile the actual economists and their suggestions get either drowned out or misrepresented.
They can’t punish you for lying, but they will use your lies against your credibility at trial. Nothing wrong with that.

It’s better to stay mum than lie.
Would "best reasonable efforts" generally include breaking of stronger worded contacts signed earlier? The UK contract was more along the lines of "you can partner with Oxford to get their IP and we'll help set up production lines on the condition we get first refusal of vaccines from those lines"
I'm talking about balancing the risk! Yes that 400 figure is foundational to my argument and yes, we should lift the restrictions.

But if you are really sick, you'd be at home, in your bed taking it easy anyway especially if your symptoms are as severe as some of the COVID reports suggest.

And it's not balanced reporting I want either, it's accurate reporting with facts that can be challenged or verified: most articles are incredibly vague when it comes to COVID and some have incredibly low numbers that, at first glance, look damning but are still tiny numbers.

Edit: deleted the 100,000 sentece - In response to that number, yes it may be a large number but there is no breakdown of the cases. For all you know, they were all 90+ years old with previous underlying conditions. All the figures we see have very little behind them that can substantiate the measures taken, while at the same time trigger responses in all of us that make them hard to argue against without coming across as callous but the numbers are not there to justify the lockdowns.
Would MS Access be an option? I know Access has a bad reputation, but it is very good at giving non-developers a tool to write queries. There are likely other low code tools that would work, as you mentioned.

At a prior job I managed an Access application. Several accountants wanted to query some of the data but were not willing to work in Access. I used Excel to query the data they wanted. Then they could sort and filter to their hearts content.
Well done to Chris. A tremendous and enabling achievement.
An orchestrator for independent, messy scripts (Bash/Python/etc.)
Is this any worse than a proxy or cache/archival service?
But EU had months of negotiations to save a buck on a vaccine which if delayed causes far more economic damage on a daily basis.
It is probably a common SDK, or they just thought 'Why not?" and started collecting it.

Some potential reasons for apps asking the permission - https://www.howtogeek.com/692528/why-iphone-apps-ask-for-dev...
I'm moving to apple because they're the only company with the capital to piss off Facebook. Though I won't be an easy customer to keep around, they'll have to keep making expensive bets fighting for consumer privacy to keep me as a customer.
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The way I understand it is that short selling is part of a check and balance against companies that you know are lying about their financials. It disincentivizes untruthworthy business practices by incentivizing calling companies out on their untruths.
> "farm" strong enough to contain a single rhino let alone an entire herd

One thought is to use a cattle grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_grid

These are very common for regular livestock when there needs to be a gap in the fence for a road. But if a fence can't contain rhinos, it might be possible to use cattle grid for the entire perimeter.

Do cattle grids work for rhinos? According to "The Cattle Grid Guru" (which bills itself as "The most extensive cattle grid guide on the web"), the answer is yes: https://www.cattlegridguru.co.uk/can-cattle-grids-be-used-wi...
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awesome! Have you considered taking payments? I recently made a browser extension payment system that you don't even need to run your own server to use: https://extensionpay.com/
Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
GME's entire float turns over on a daily basis. What volume numbers are people looking at that they conclude there hasn't been much trading?
There is/was issues with submitted vaccine data. Technically it wouldn't have been approved in normal times till they could get better proven data.

Now it is all water under the bridge because countries are desperate to have enough vaccines.

6 months from now, all countries are going to pretend to be nice nice and when there will be oversupply and new variant of the COVID, they will be dumping the old vaccines on other countries.
Please don't post like this. You're breaking the site guidelines badly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
EU:You've... you've got a nice IP protection here, AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca: Yes.

EU: We wouldn't want anything to happen to it.

AstraZeneca: What?

Germany: No, what EU means is it would be a shame if...
So be respectful when talking to people who can mess your life up
I'm not a particular fan of short selling, but I can see a definite validity to the value thereof.

What happened here is massive naked short selling, with estimates from 120 to 140 to as high as 200 per cent of available stock shorted.

This is entirely illegal, and has been since 2008, when it was (one of) the contributing factor(s) to that collapse.

However, as per usual, there are loopholes. So the big investors are able to carry on as normal, doing this, and have ways of covering themselves after the fact in a way that protects them from prosecution, while still distorting the market in the very ways that were problematic to begin with.
That I think is the real scandal here. Robinhood was built to market to (and in some sense coevolve with) the wallstreetbets culture of crowd-sourced market manipulation. And that was a great growth hack.

Until it grew enough that the crowd source market manipulation was... actually manipulating significant markets. GME has been ballooned to the tune of something like $13B over the past few days, based almost entirely on a flawed understanding of short trading.

And absent any discussion about Robinhood in particular, I think we need to be asking whether or not this crowd of people who didn't quite understand shorts were fed those lies at the direction of users who did. Someone has (or will have) made a ton of money here at the expense of the late-arriving GME traders. It seems like we should find out who.
Also, for Life Science startups, this seems like a very small amount of money.

Aren't these businesses generally extremely capitol intensive - expensive equipment, PhD's, etc.
The BBC is publicly funded. The entire idea behind publicly funded news and broadcast is that they shouldn't care about eyeballs, singe they don't need and money.
Blu Dot also does something similar, at least on iOS. What I like is it's integrated in the browser, so you don't have to install an app. Just tap a button and point your camera at the spot where you want to see the furniture.

It works reasonably well and gives you a general idea of how large the furniture is and how it would fit in the space. Surprisingly, they do a good job with the lighting on the object and if you unfocus your eyes a bit, it does seem like it's in the room with you.
> EU claims there are no best effort clauses, which is why they asked AZ to make this public. We'll find out

Best Reasonable Efforts are defined on page 3 of this post.

"The activities and degree of effort that a company of a similar size and with similarly-sized infrastructure and similar resources as AstraZeneca would undertake or use in the development and manufacture of a Vaccine..."

Couple problems:

- "Development and manufacture" doesn't include distribution.

- AstraZeneca has practically zero track record in vaccines. "Similar resources" is a potential out.
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

"Be kind. Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you know more than others, that's wonderful. Please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. None of what you wrote here helps anyone learn—it just puts others down, makes you sound supercilious, and makes the community worse. A comment like this stuck at the top of a thread, letting off fumes and polluting the environment with meta nastiness, is one of the worst things that can happen on HN. No one intends it to happen—I'm sure you had no such intention, nor did the upvoters, but it's the default that we co-create on the internet unless we consciously do otherwise.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

If you just pour acid on stuff that you scorn, it may get heavily upvoted because everyone is feeling anger and scorning others is a way to relieve that feeling—but you can't pour acid without pouring it on the commons, which is extremely fragile. By getting upvoted, the damage you cause is amplified 1000x. People posting here need to take care of the commons, the same way none of us would pour toxins into a mountain lake, leave campfires burning in a dry forest, or litter in a city park.

I totally get how frustrating, nay maddening it is when others are wrong and ignorant on the internet and self-satisfied about it. But being a good citizen on HN means learning to tolerate the pressure and metabolize the irritation this activates in you. Then you can come back to the commons with a response that builds it up—for example with interesting, relevant information—rather than tearing it further apart.

Our brains are hard-wired to weight painful impressions—like internet comments that seem dumb or wrong—much more heavily than pleasurable ones, like comments we agree with. This makes it feel like HN is dominated by wrongness and dumbness and meanness to a greater extent than it actually is. We all need to become more aware of this mechanism (especially by observing our own reactions more closely) so we don't destroy this place by making the mistake of feeling like it's already been destroyed. The truth is that it's hovering precariously in between.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098
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We are pleased to announce Dactylobiotus, the first developer preview release of Juvix. The aim of Juvix is to help write safer smart contracts. To this end it is built upon a broad range of ground-breaking academic research in programming language design and type theory and implements many desirable features for a smart contract programming language. This first release supports compilation to Michelson. As the Juvix language is written in a backend-agnostic fashion, future releases will support additional backends. To learn more please visit the following links:
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It's not uncommon for seed funding. YC offers $125k for 7%, which implies a ~$1.8 million post-money valuation.
"is never high enough" isn't really actionable info. I need to set a price, and it will be somewhere between $10 and $1000 month. You could of course try to fill the area under the demand curve, but that poses it's own challenges. I settled on $1000/mo because for the customers that will really benefit from my software, that is how much they benefit.
RH and all brokerages should be held accountable for the losses their clients sustained due to these trade restrictions.

But, I don't RH deserves to be singled out & vilified when many other brokerages ran into the exact same problem as RH and solved it with the same trade restrictions.

Overall, I've been happy with the effect RH has had on retail investing. Primarily, other brokerages that used to charge me $5-8 commission per trade have now been forced to substantially lower their fees.