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> That all of these decisions that somehow always leave the entity unharmed/better off at the expense of others were not made with intentionality and/or any remote understanding of their consequences?

Robinhood just had to borrow a billion dollars. Having to get a billion dollar emergency bail out is not the sign of a sinister plot, it's the sign of a colossal fuck up.

> I refuse to believe that such a massive entity with so much resources at it's disposal has a think-tank consisting of two interns and a comatose member of middle-management.

There are a fair number of signs that Robinhood is a mess. This isn't the first time the company has run afoul of their own success and wound up screwing over investors.

> Entity X faces no real repercussions.

I didn't say they shouldn't be responsible for the consequences of their mistake. My point was that it's more likely this is a screw up than some sinister plan on their part.

We're on the same page as far as this last bit goes for sure. Regardless of whether it was a screw up or malice, they should be the ones paying the price (though sadly I suspect we both know they won't).
It's definitely not a "political suicide" in Europe, in the sense that people have political objections to that.

It is a political suicide in the sense that the political establishment will punish those that opt for it, however.
At a certain price, fundamentals do actually matter. This is the price discovery phase of a company that's not really well known.

The issue is that at current prices, speculation and forward thinking far outpace any value one could derive from analysis of fundamentals. A very successful strategy is momentum trading. Technical/Trend Analysis is all about understanding momentum trading, and at what entries and stops algorithms set up their strategies.
Literally no relation whatsoever to my point, but I guess it's not a discussion about Nazis without weird whataboutism instead of engaging with what was actually said.
35% year doesn't sound so bad until you realize that a lot of shorts are heavily leveraged--they borrowed money to have the "capital" to make a bigger trade than they could really afford. This would multiply their earnings if it works out, but it also multiplies their losses and the interest they pay. I assure you if a hedge fund could just wait out the crowd they would do that rather than take a billion dollar loss, but if they are leveraged it requires their lender's cooperation.
The Russian Gam-COVID-Vac/Sputnik V vaccine looks very good, but for the US or to much of the West, there's a price to be paid for being in an effective state of war with another country. Although Gamaleya is now working with AZ/Oxford to see if substituting one of their doses for one of Oxford's will produce much better results, which I never would have expected.

This is based on the theory that the immune system response to Oxford's virus vector is mostly negating the benefit of the second dose taken 21 days after the first. Gam-COVID-Vac gets around this by using different viruses for each dose, and has 90% efficacy results from their Phase III trial. Unfortunately, no one can yet manufacture it in anything like bulk quantities, but they have set up manufacturing partnerships with a whole bunch of countries from India to South Korea.
Just about a year since a landslide buried it very near there. Fragile road right on the edge, wild-ish and beautiful.
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A $50M Hack Just Showed That the DAO Was All Too Human (2016)
The article is confirming that it's supported, not that it's some brand new thing on the M1 jfyi
The US bet on many different vaccines, most of which haven't arrived yet, but are still on track. On hindsight we can say we should have bet on Pfizer and Moderna, and screwed the rest - such a bet would have allowed them to increase their supply even faster. However that is hindsight, at the time we didn't have any reason to believe their vaccine would even work at all - while the ones we are waiting on we had good reason to believe would work. That some of the ones we are waiting on seem to be much worse is a shock to everyone. Even this much worse is a qualified - they are doing within the expected range, it is just that mRNA is doing so well that makes them bad.
I do this too :)
PCI graphics was standard around the time of Windows 3.11 and into Windows 95. Major difference in UI speed vs EISA graphics.

I used to work as a hardware technician in a local computer shop as a summer / weekend job back then. I installed dozens of 4mb Cirrus Logic PCI graphics cards when building PCs.
That is why I said "actual white".
Let people decides what is wrong and what is correct. Not big tech, not platform creator.
Too many people with a lot of time and not enough more useful things to do. I guess it benefits the believers of resume-driven-development.
Germany is not at all representative of the rest of Europe. Have a look at Belgium, Italy, etc.
Still using a cloth mask? Upgrade to an N95 or P100
Money tricks on wall street do have effects on the real world, some of which are positive.
I have friends with Android. I just use SMS talking to them... which is accessed via iMessage as well. The experience is a little bit less nice.
somehow printing & printers came up in hn a couple months ago, and there were some supporters of not owning printers: just buy whatever prints you need.

maybe they're still right, but i feel like this demonstrates well why i'd want a decent slightly-wide-format cost-effective printer: a rotating selection of cpu print outs, to hang on the walls.
Everybody thought it would fizzle out, like sars-cov1 years before. Nobody in North America or Europe wanted to shut down the economy on a possible threat they were not sure would happen.

The only countries that were ready for covid19 were the ones who got hit significantly by sars-cov1.

1 in 750 people have died, mostly elderly and./or with comorbidities. 0.13%. Hardly a social catastrophe. A lot of people think the world has grossly overreacted. These are in democracies so their opinions count, too.
Wow. Who would vote to support the legislators that like this?
'Price gouging from Covid': student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print
It's not about what you want, it's about what the market needs to remain healthy and competitive.
GitHub's support for renaming an existing branch
I mean binary options are called a scam for a reason...
It's intriguing that he, while not quite an "insider", is from an investment & finance background. More of an Arminius figure than some random Joe off the street.

Casts a slightly different light on the whole narrative about the uprising of retail investors.
There's various brokerages that don't give registered users margin accounts by default and it's something that users specifically have to ask for (similar to asking for options trading).
The Sinovac CoronaVac efficacy is not useless, but not very good from what I've read. Gam-COVID-Vac on the other hand is around 91% https://sputnikvaccine.com/newsroom/pressreleases/the-sputni..., which is quite good while not reaching Pfizer/BioNTech's 95% (the German firm BioNTech developed the vaccine, they partnered with Pfizer to test, manufacture, and distribute it).
These lite Enums are syntactic sugar over a bunch of constant strings and those strings inserted in a list

So yes you can always use something else just like all the fold/zip/map can be replaced with also something else ;)
Alt hypothesis: Retail just learned a method of turning tables. Hedges will temper market moving short positions due to increased risk. Overall it’s a rebalance due to innovation.
It's pretty good, but Apache tries to cut off long filenames and isn't Unicode-aware when it does this, so it looks untidy because names come out at apparently random lengths…
The real disaster is yet to come, and it will be economical and caused by the prolonged lockdowns.

Not to mention the third world starving, but it's not like western countries ever cared about that.
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I was shocked when Leon Black was quoted as using 'confirmed bachelor' to describe Epstein in the Financial Times. He clearly doesn't know what that means in the UK either.
“Literally no plan”? How did you arrive at that conclusion? Even the most cursory effort would tell you it’s not true.
The job of negotiation is to get a good deal for all. Price is only one part of that - if you only focus on price bad things happen. too low a price and the supplier goes out of business before you get all the product. Too low a price and your supplier doesn't have enough profit to remain in business for the next time you need something. Too low a price and the supplier won't negotiate with you at all next time you need something.

Of course too high a price has issues as well. It is important to pay attention to price. Sometimes you need to break away from a deal because it will never work out.

Long term the best deals are win-win.
Author here: I don't believe I'm claiming Apple is first to support HDR. I'm pointing out that Apple talked about a lot of things about M1 but not HDR or 10-bit output. Not even in their product pages. I test this out myself to see if it's actually supported.
Ads aren't magic. When and how you use them has a significant impact on actual ROI, just like anything else in business. Part of the value of these adtech companies is that they can do most of the heavy lifting for you, so even small businesses can target and optimize without a large team.

If you want to target river rafters then you can just target people with "river rafting, outdoors, adventurer, travel" interests, or followers of your page, or upload emails of existing customers. Then let Facebook find similar people automatically. It's that easy.

Everything else being equal, targeted ads still do better than non-targeted ads. I don't see how this is so controversial.
In this particular case I’m not sure actually; they changed contracts to allow a later date.
There are components in Windows that still exist from the NT days, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of these were still there.
Except their UX is streamlining away things and essentially manipulating users to get higher conversion rates and engagement. As seems to be the norm among successfull apps today. Just that stakes on the user side are more immediate than with news and social media.

They brought this onto themselves by optimizing for growth over healthy and sustainable markets.
R.U.R. for the win
https://element.io/
This reminded me of Magic Alex who conned The Beatles into a job as the electronics director at Apple (music not computers) in the early 1970s. Some of his claimed inventions were:

“telephone that responded to its owner's voice and could identify who was calling,[10] a force field that would surround the Beatles' homes, an X-ray camera, paint that would make anything invisible, car paint that would change colour by flicking a switch, and WALLPAPER SPEAKERS,[11] which would actually be a part of the wallpaper.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Alex
Republicans. They want to prevent the certification of another Democratic President in the future, because they couldn't prevent Biden.
Often called sum types, it's really convenient when your language supports both building these kinds of enums as well as destructuring them with pattern matching.

If you don't have destructuring, they're less attractive. There's a proposal to add destructuring to python[1] so we'll see

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0634/
first, silicpr0n would be funnier, because it rhymes better/is more glib.

disclaimer, before heading on: i'm not sure how i feel about it to be honest. it's ok i suppose. decent. but it feels uninspired, at this point: traditional, expected.

yes, i love the site, what it does, what it shows. the name itself doesn't titilate me further, doesn't add to my enjoyment- i think. although i enjoy a little glibness, a little playfulness. it still is kind of manufactured. abandonedporn, architectureporn, cableporn, conduitporn, engineeringporn, futureporn, .... how many varieties of thing-"porn" do i need?

my core meta-analysis? i do think the whole internet is as a local maxima where attaching -pron or -porn or -pr0n to the end of any subject is how we say "pretty pictures". i get it, it gets the point, "in your dreams", but like, we're deep into Simulacra & Simulation territory, third degree: simulacra now precedes reality, the signified becomes meaningless. porn itself, real porn, is often unreal, often part simulation, but it still is second order, still signified a real. unmooring ourselves from sex, using porn to just mean, "hardly believable attractive take" on a thing, it's a direct enough disassociation, it makes sense. but it's also tiring to me, exhausting, that we have no other frames of desire or beauty we can hitch ourselves to.

i wouldn't mind finding some other ways to anchor ourselves, meaning. i want whimsy, i think there is "something" added by the playfulness, the bending of meaning. reviewing, i think i'm being kind of cantankerous in my assessment. but it does seem like we're low on good options. that this space could use some inspiration & opening.
Ah, yes. The classic let's rewrite everything from first principles instead of using a proven, state-of-the-art runtime for which we just to reimplement font rendering.
I completely agree with you right up until the end. Robinhood's entire product is built on a manipulative and predatory premise that making people feel comfortable "trading stocks", whether they fully understand what is happening under the hood, is a net positive.

It was bound to blow up eventually, but I disagree with your assumption that this is obviously "market manipulation".

If they had to take this action to save themselves, the alternative was worse. Robinhood would have [edit: potentially] gone under while holding all of their customer's stock, and I guess SPIC would have figured it out eventually? No one would have had the option to sell, and Robinhood going under would likely have had a much larger impact on the price of specific securities. I have *absolutely* no idea what would have happened if Robinhood wasn't able to settle trades that it had already made. I assume it would have been an absolute catastrophy. By that logic, Robinhood "manipulated the market" in a way that prevented GME stock from tanking.

I would be very concerned here if Robinhood ends up going under for "market manipulation", with no reference to the extremely poor and predatory product decisions that set this up in the first place. We'll just have the next company pop up, promise to do "nothing illegal", and then set up the same house of cards.
The "move the hard parts to standard libraries" approach is exactly the approach Elixir and Erlang take. The OTP (the standard library for Erlang, and called seamlessly from Elixir) provides abstractions for almost every use case you'll ever need. It's super easy to write Elixir/Erlang without ever righting an explicit "receive" statement.
Moving Chat History from Other Apps Including WhatsApp into Telegram
Ooh. I sponsored a decap of a Casio SK-1 chip a while back. I need to contribute the scans to this (although they need to be stitched together).
Another use of using those APIs could be to detect browsers (when the UA is cloaked etc.) and ''discriminate'' based on that. [I haven't researched, is something like this happening already?]

'''You are using an unsupported browser. Please use X instead.'''

[Unless it is a joke: obviously X = Chrome]
You missed lending the stock to others for an interest payment, and when there exists other market participants with a view the stock will be worth more than it currently is.
No. AstraZeneca also tested with weekly PCR surveillance. But the efficacy numbers we're comparing between AstraZeneca and the mRNA vaccines are measures of how often they prevents symptomatic illness-- a very similar standard to that used in the Moderna and Pfizer trials (but not absolutely, directly comparable).

Unfortunately, the AZ trial is a mess. One way it was a mess is that the error bars on how much they prevent all illness (not just symptomatic illness) go all the way down to 1%.
A late reply here, but fwiw I want to buy a strength machine with:

* Your electric resistance motors

* Weaker concentric than eccentric movement (forced negatives)

* In a precor chassis

* With no screens or TVs, just an embedded controller with some minimal controls.
We could have bet 10 times the resources. Cheap compared to the pandemic!
Your sibling pointed out what I was talking about; transportation, sanitation, food services, EVERYTHING that makes a city function.

You cannot scale that efficiently in your proposed scenario in reality, it is absurd.
There's lots of medical companies in most countries of EU. Why didn't they just license some working vaccine and start cranking it out?

Why does the company X developed medicine only have to be made by company X? That's against the whole idea of patents, which is making information available and usable via licensing. Money shouldn't be the issue, the cost of the shots is negligible so there is not much profit to be made there. Instead licenses should be more profitable since time is worth a lot of money.

There are also a lot of vaccines under development. There should always be multiple well resourced efforts under way. Unfortunately it seems some promising alternatives for development, testing or mass production have been starved for funding.
That's absolutely not true. You have to specifically opt-in to trading on margin, read disclosures, and have a minimum $2k balance.

Instant deposit is not trading on margin, it's trading on deposits that you make that are instantly available in Robinhood but take a day or two to clear ACH. That's all made clear up front on the screens about Instant Deposit, not buried in T&C.
Ask HN: I just got ousted as CTO, Is it justifiable?
Our new CEO and VC just decided to replace me, the CTO, with an outsider who is more accomplished and with more experience technically. He has open source projects that are prominent in the industry with 10k+ stars.

Personally, I feel sad and betrayed but understand the reasoning why. They mention it's lower risk to bring the person on even though I'm doing a decent job at the moment. I have done nothing that would bring doubt to my skills besides not being experienced. My team mentioned it would affect their morale because they trust me and my leadership and mention that there could be a chance they leave because I won't be the CTO anymore.

I tried to fight for my position but it was me still with the company or being fired.

Personally, I am for staying even after the fact due to my want of success for the company and everybody.

My question is, should I have fought for my position and continue the journey with me being CTO even with the risks? My gut says to fight for it, but I do see the reasons why not as well. My team trusts me and my leadership but the VC and CEO does not.
Those who made it #1 are the ones who want to create an account to participate to bankrupt a hedge fund. I say their next move can be revenge on Robinhood for, at the very least, entertaining the misunderstanding with their customers (="They sold my stock without an order from me" when they were effectively on margin and halfway legit).
Unlikely. There has never been (to my knowledge) any vaccine that prevented your from getting a different one latter. People get flu vaccines yearly and nobody asks what the last one you got was even though there a dozens of manufactures.

You shouldn't get one vaccine and then a week latter get a different one. (I'd guess this is safe, but there is no reason to do it). However getting one and then a year latter a different one is normal practice and shouldn't be a problem.

In short, take what you can get now. If COVID is still a problem in a year (I'm assuming there is a lot more supply of vaccine then) ask your doctors if you should get a different booster.

Odds are good than in 6 months to a year we will have a different vaccine anyway to cover the variants. The vaccines don't seem to be doing well against the South Africa strain of Covid (only applying to the few that have done real trials, many need more testing), so it is back to the drawing board already.
Will Robinhood survive the backlash?
Just a nit: they don't have exactly the same outcome measure, definition of "severe", "symptomatic", etc.

Nor were they conducted in the same, time, or the exactly same demographics. Nor did they use the same protocol: testing weekly with a swab and detecting and informing the participant of a positive status will get that person to report symptoms to the trial more often than if you don't.

They use similar measures of efficacy but they're not the same thing and are not perfectly comparable. Still, it seems very likely that the mRNA vaccines are much better than AZ.
RH's terms don't overwrite laws and regulations. It is very tightly regulated what organizations like RH are allowed to do and they don't set their own rules.

The fed argument is really nuanced and difficult. They absolutely manipulate but not all manipulation has to be bad.
We should not underestimate the amount of knowledge transfer we're going to lose out on.

I learned how to be a dev from the senior devs around me in the first few years of my career.

I couldn't imagine not having that opportunity.

This is a not a small thing.
More than anything else that appears to be lack of timing. European and USA rates have generally evened out.

The virus don’t care what country you’re in.
See here to fix the long filenames:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_autoindex.html

NameWidth=[n | *]

The NameWidth keyword allows you to specify the width of the filename column in bytes.
I’ve got a new-to-me (used HP Elitedesk 800 G1 SFF with 16g ram/240g ssd and I5-4590 with win 10 pro for $150) arriving this week. I haven’t built or bought a PC (had a few MacBooks in between) in probably 15 years, so this puppy is going to be well good enough for me and I’m looking forward to having a proper PC and getting a nice WSL and terminal setup and Scoop etc..

Question: any issue with WSL2 and network connectivity to say services such as node running in your wsl2 that you would connect to from your browser? I’ve heard that in wsl2 there could be issues with this and you may have to do some workarounds or extra config magic..
Probably its directors, who would probably be part of a startup if it was in their nature. As a director of GameStop they likely have other fine competencies suitable for running a large reseller org.
China literally runs concentration camps for some of their citizens. If that's how they treat citizens, why should foreigners expect good treatment?
> Robinhood just had to borrow a billion dollars. Having to get a billion dollar emergency bail out is not the sign of a sinister plot, it's the sign of a colossal fuck up.

What about a sinister plot that fucked up? Being bailed out is consistent both with being dumb and short-sighted, or being deliberately negligent and short-sighted. Failure is possible in both cases if not more likely in the latter (this failure wouldn't be possible if Robinhood didn't decide to facilitate liquidity out of its advertised risk class, but would be tempting to ignore if you precluded the possibility of retail colluding on its own. The benefit for Robinhood would be greater order volume over time which means i.e. higher quarterly revenues).

In addition, if you are willing to claim bailouts are evidence that deliberate negligence/"sinister plans" aren't present, you would have to claim the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis didn't feature deliberate negligence, which isn't true.