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Don’t give up :) ‘mock’ has indeed become an umbrella term for all test doubles, but the other terms still have specific technical meanings, so it’s still worth using them correctly.

If you’re working with technical people who don’t care about technical details then that’s probably not a good sign!
The primary complaint in this little rant IMO is that Amercian banks and companies are being propped up (for lack of a better term), and in fact profiting, from government support. The government is engaging in "market manipulation" (though we may use other terminology) by providing funding, including cheap credit, to selected banking institutions and companies, arguably without regard to their "fundamental values".[1] The author suggests those who have profited the most from this action, and to extremes, are banks and investors in so-called zombie companies, not the public.

The WSB investors are engaging in "market manipulation" as well, and obviously without regard to the "fundamental value" of GameStop .

Given that a chosen government selection of banks and investors have benefitted enormously from the government's "market manipulation", while arguably the general public has not, the author hints at the hypocrisy of bank and government officials criticising the WSB manipulation and those who profited from it.

The easiest way to understand the issue IMO is to determine the source of the money as it flows to banks and zombie companies. Does the money come (a) from government (via taxes on citizens) where government decides who will be the recipient or does the money (b) come from private citizens where the private citizen (consumer) decides where she will spend her money.

1. Example companies would be ones that are not profitable but receive significant government support, and this support arguably fuels changes in market value (which may/may not reflect "fundamental value"). Tesla is one example.[a] Moderna is another.[b]

a.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4315467-forget-share-price-... (2020)

https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/tesla-s-mai... (2018)

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/if-tesla-is-wo... (2017)

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-elon-musk-defends-... (2015)

Tesla like other auto manufacturers has received billions in government funding.

b. https://fintel.io/doc/sec-mrna-10q-moderna-2020-october-30-1...

Moderna's COVID vaccine mRNA 1273, specifcally the underlying IP, is subject to Bayh-Dole. Obviously they can, are and will be selling to the US government (who will always have rights to this vaccine), but going forward the odds are against them competing with other similar vaccines that have less encumbered IP.
I visited this place when I was in Turkey. You can ask me anything through first person observer (FPO)
I get the theoretical angle :)

You’d need some sort of gearbox. Of course fixed gears means jumping ratios, and that would mean some sort of clutch (stick style) or converter (automatic style), the jump would make for a surprising and poor experience. There’s the possibility of having a conical pulley system too (see continuous gearbox).

Lots of added complexity for very little benefit IMHO.
Interesting.

But the readme doesn't say if the record and field separators can be changed. Space delimited fields are not always useful.
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I look forward to the day we get there. From my own experience, companies aren't taking those responsibilities nearly seriously enough yet - although heftier punishments under new laws will hopefully change that.
As some one else said the WSB concert party has all the signs of a boiler room scam.

I bet there are some much more experienced reditors behind this and a lot of the useful idiots will lose $$
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For clarity, I don't _actually_ think we're going to get lubrication strips on browsers.
been there. Amazing
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How does this article with 1 comment as of this writing land at #1 on HN?
I think Silicon Valley has the exact same proportion of Machiavellian executives and opportunist entrepreneurs as every other industry.

The only difference is that part of the marketing of a SV company inevitably includes the claim to "make the world a better place" and to "be different" in some way.
Beyond this marketing claim, there is very little difference.

I also don't think that the cabal of financial services in NYC are the real constraint.

Instead, SV firms have found that users != customers is a good business model. It works, as long as the users can be convinced they are customers to some degree.

This business model is not ethically clean, yet very profitable.
And here is the example: Robinhood markets itself precisely as I have said above. Heck, even the name!

In reality, its customer is Citadel, and its product is early data on user trades.
One could say: It does the exact opposite of what its marketing would suggest - Taking profits from small investors and giving them a large hedge fund.

So really, SV is just as "bad".
What if QEMU ends up faster than native? I could imagine a future where programs are built unoptimized or with `-Os` for download size, and optimized by the operating system before or during execution, with x86 or arm (or risc-v!) ending up as the default "portable executable instruction format" for a whole bunch of CPU architectures. Where the first thing the OS or even the BIOS loads is qemu...
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Part of the issue is inter-team communication and part of the problem comes from that very phrase "dumbing down". I often hear people argue for "dumbing things down" when there is an overwhelming amount of information, but that phrase:

1. Treats people's intelligence as 1-dimensional, which it is not.

2. Gives no clear direction to an engineer who is passionate about UX, recognises that humans are multidimensional, and is trying to ask about what their users really need.

You might say I'm arguing semantics, but communication matters!

Without it, you can write code at high speed, but you won't learn what direction to go in order to present information appropriately and contextually to create a rich but easy, intuitive flow.
> "build from VCS checkout," so the value is rather lesser.

But why does building from VCS checkout make any difference? If anything, there are _more_ requirements that way, since a tarball release can possibly be made to rely on less (e.g. generating ad-hoc install scripts).
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This is a dupe, sort of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25952168
That's my opinion too. In order to secure your data, don't give it out. And don't store it on a server. As you know, servers get hacked.
There are two episodes dedicated to him on the our fake history podcast. He thoroughly demolishes pretty much everything about his theories.
I do wonder if there's scope for a class action lawsuit against Google over it's review management on the Play Store. Not just for this, it's just so obviously broken to the point of being completely useless.
That’s absolutely not what they told me in the email they sent me. Amazon doesn’t have my money in a sweep account. One star.
Regardless, it should definitely be worth more than the $8 per share that it was in 2013, or the $45 per share that it was in 2014. Short sellers were clamoring very loudly then too. Lots of people preached "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".

Eventually, of course, if a security keeps only going up, this mantra will become true. The point is that sometimes, a bet that seems like a sure thing will blow up spectacularly. And that not everyone who takes such a bet is obviously wrong.
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Since Facebook is a private company

They haven't been a private company since 2012.
Zerodha (top Indian broker) posted an article earlier which explained why the Indian brokerage industry has very few avenues to make revenue: https://zerodha.com/z-connect/rainmatter/the-race-to-zero-ca...

The lack of any mechanism for payment for order flow is quite interesting - how do market makers get incentivized to provide liquidity in such situations? Or asked another way, are American market makers being subsidized by retail traders?
I specifically quoted the claim of market manipulation in the GP.
Facebook went from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast and censor things". Time for Web 3 to shine.
By acquiring 33 votes in 33 minutes. And shorting is kinda hot right now.
I'm a fan of OpenBSD's more conservative and structured approach to software development, but in this case I must beg to differ. In the linked CVE, OpenBSD was unaffected because "[it] didn't chase the fad of using every Intel cpu feature." The feature in question was user-space hardware debug register access. Without such access, watch-points are borderline unusable[0].

Perhaps prohibiting access to user-space except GDB would be a reasonable compromise. Also, debug registers are not unique to x86: most (all?) CPU architectures have them. So calling it a "fad [...] Intel cpu feature" is a bit unfair.

[0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152609160230624&w=2
They restricted buying and selling, except to close existing positions.
Stop setting homework questions in your posts, please. If you have something relevant to say, why not say it yourself instead of roleplaying a teacher delivering work to your students.
Maybe, but I still can’t seem to justify spending $800+ on a high tech vacuum cleaner that does a mediocre job of vacuuming.

And it only works on one floor. And a wet Swiffer, once a week, does a better job at picking up the dust.
The person going to clean the park is the maintainer of some Open source software, offered for the public good.

The monk handing over the book is the person who has done the work to write a pull request and gift it to the maintainer.

The request for a donation is the cultural expectation of reciprocity. A maintainer now feels pressure to accept the work of reviewing the PR. Yes, they can say no, but it feels bad and can motivate someone to stop maintaining open source software.
They stopped both buying and selling, except to close existing positions.
Not a chance. The human mind generally isn't built to correctly assess the impact of unlikely, catastrophic events. Maybe they'll steer clear of excessive short selling for a while, but you can be sure they'll forget it eventually. In the meantime, they'll find some other pitfall to step in.
How about deleting an entire platform? Were you concerned about that?
Is there a FOSS replacement? I highly doubt it.
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The article itself is well-written (contrasting the Indian stock markets and how it benefits from being younger than their US counterpart which is beholden to incumbents lobbying for the status-quo and a century old legacy system with enough loopholes than SEC can plug). It could be that no one really has strong opinions one way or the other to what's being said (expected since Nithin Kamath, who wrote the article, is level-headed and pragmatic, as usual) to comment.
It's imploding because hedge funds are taking crazy risk on and then illegally trying to weasel their way out of the losses they have coming.
Thread Reader version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1354443833388503043.html
Not having comments is irrelevant for the ranking.
Yeah, the whales already invested when it was >60. Those buying at 400 are small investors with a few bucks that are riding the social hype with YOLO money. They don't really care about that money if they can say "I was there".

Try to train a HFT algorithm to account for this.
When the inability to buy itself triggers a 50+% drop in the stocks you hold within minutes then yeah, it does.
does it look normal sized? I ask because I know from pictures and the internet that (for instance) Petra is not human sized
So I get the idea of hotdesking, even if I think it's bad. But moving every 3 hours? Why tf do they think that's a good idea? Office workers aren't migratory animals that must move on when the good grasses have been depleted.
If a brokerage is having issues like this wouldn't it have been better for them to notify the exchanges who would decide whether to completely halt trading or not?

Crippling half the order book just can't be right.
That's gonna be a FRICKIN NOPE.
So you are saying asymptomatic infections are not an issue?
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No really ..
So, you guys never take digital photos (yes, I know, gentlemen take polaroids), create any digital documents or keep any logs in your computers?
They were infused 3Bn and appear to have been acquired by citadel. Owner of Melvin Capital is a protege of Citadel's ceo.
TW have all the functional features of a bank lots of people care about. A debit card, direct debits, standing orders etc. I of course recognize they aren't a fully licensed bank, but for EUR balances they are worth a look
This is such a tone deaf comment that I'm surprised people are still making it. This problem is far deeper than just "go make your own Facebook". It has gotten to the point that these giant corporations are able to influence elections in whatever direction they think is "right", they are able to shut down speech, on what is now a de facto town square, and they are able to deplatform their own competition based on accusations of harbouring "hate speech activists".

Note that the term hate speech is relative, poorly defined and can mean anything, based on the perspective of the individual. What is hate speech to you is not hate speech to another, and vice versa.

I urge you to think more deeply on the topic.
Can it microwave sandwiches on your hands?
A device that measures your blood pressure and sends the results directly via an encrypted connection to your health care provider can be very useful, certainly beats lying in a hospital bed with a printout that the doctor checks every few hours.

They key thing is, as always, ensuring that your data remains your property. Europe is bigger on that than the US.
Quite a story! Great read!
Most "real" brokerages can get access to billions if not trillions of cash for overnight/three days for settlement purposes.

They say WallStreetBets is "4chan found a bloomberg terminal" - Robinhood is Silicon Valley masquerading as a real broker; perhaps even the Juicero thereof.

I only have a small amount of play money there, and I continue to draw it down. TD Ameritrade and Vanguard serve as my real brokers.

Side note: I kinda wonder what Bogle would have to say about all this if he were still alive; probably would have killed him.
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> Lots of people actually like their family & enjoy spending more time with them.

Let's not forget that there are a lot of people who don't live with families or in couple. For them (I am in this case too), most of social interactions are with colleagues during the day and friends in evenings or weekends. Both of these options are at minimum severely hindered.
AFAIK the forced sales were margin calls.
A lot of movement in GME was driven by call options, which is generally available in all markets. However, absence of overnight short positions would definitely diminish the trigger GME needed to get short squeezed and become volatile in the first place.
I loved reading this earlier!

> well - have you heard the story of statistical prediction rules in medicine?

That just crossed my mind recently with all the talk of bias in AI/ML applications (let's not say "algorithms"). Horror stories abound, and I do realize today's systems are vastly more complex & less (to use a term from this post) legible to humans trying to reason about what's going on, but somehow it seems like this aspect is omitted from many discussions today, whereas previously taking the human out of the equation was seen as a success story in some fields.

There's probably also other issues, e.g. that if you're not careful ML can overfit to things that have nothing to do with what you're looking for (e.g. all your positive example photos were taken with a different camera than the negative ones, or what have you), which aren't as big a deal with those simple rules from medicine. But I feel like I'm not really clear on the state of this discussion.

If anyone knows a good paper/article/book that deals with the tradeoff between potentially embedding some form of bias in these systems vs. the also very real biases of, you know, human decision making, but focused on contemporary ML, I'd love to read up on this.
Really great write up.

I went through EF (LD12) and had a pretty similar experience, including an almost identical idea. In fact we were told by EF to reach out to you guys :)

Your point about passion being the most important thing is spot on. I think EF's method is almost too contrived
I’ve never heard of Piggly Wiggly before.
The major architectures & ABIs are all capable of producing and loading fully position independent code. The performance impact varies; for x86_64 and aarch64 instruction pointer relative addressing reduces the number of relocations that are needed by quite a lot.

Languages that support subclassing and inheritance don’t represent any special hazard to relocation; ultimately these are built out of data and function symbols that need to be supported even if you’re only compiling C.
> how do market makers get incentivized to provide liquidity in such situations?

Buy low, sell high.

PS: By the way, I'm not sure I understand the question. Market makers are the ones who pay for the order flow.
I suppose the most simple explanation is that it's not profitable.
Those reports were later found to be made up.
It really does surprise me how few people seem to remember history, and how these things always go. It starts off with "those objections people" and then eventually turns on everyone else. But maybe this time it'll be different I'm sure ;)
In the Dyatlov group there was a real "liquidator" of a nuclear disaster Kystym-57 (the 2nd worst in history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster) https://dyatlovpass.com/yuri-krivonischenko - an engineer at the USSR version of Hanford. Later he tried to resign very disgruntled from his job, and instead they reassigned him to the most polluted site. Given the level of secrecy back then, especially considering that it was a weapon plutonium facility, and what he may have known and what shape his disgruntlement may have taken... so i wouldn't be surprised if the issue was taken care about in this way of "accident" (people were killed for less - for example in 1962 USSR shot a peaceful demonstration of regular workers in Novocherkassk who wanted better living conditions, and that was much less important than anything related to nuclear weapons in those years)
>>"In some of these stocks, the total quantity of stocks shorted (stocks borrowed and sold + using derivatives) is much more than the free float or the total number of shares held publicly. "

So, they short more stocks that exist. OK, I will not ask why this is allowed, but how is this done?
They don't really mean anything on desktop anymore seen as only a small minority of MacOS apps are built using those frameworks. Everything else is either Electron or custom cross platform UI frameworks like Adobe Suite, Alberton, Cinema4D etc.
Interesting! Is it actually a dialect of Scheme or just a LISP syntax custom language? s-expressions are a fairly nice way to create small custom rules languages or configuration languages as they are very easy to parse.
> We both believe that freedom of speech is generally a good thing

I doubt it. Cases in point:

> I should not be free to

> I should not be free to go around telling all your friends

Free speech is absolute by definition, otherwise it is not free. If you don't believe in free speech, you don't believe in free speech. Own up, don't try to weasel around with words. Say it: I do not support free speech.

This is the main issue, people not speaking their mind. Just speak what you feel. Don't worry, we still have some free speech left. You can voice your disregard for the principles of freedom and liberty.
I was not talking about Twitter accounts. I do not care what Donald Trump does or does not do.
very instructional how you can use properties of external drives and filesystems to expolit mountpath variables for path traversal.
So now you have an ultra secure box. It’s like the unsinkable Titanic. Someone (somehow) copies the key, and proceeds to decrypt all your citizens’ communications, but you are 100% that hasn’t happened, because it is, after all, impossible.

Just like it was impossible for the Titanic to sink.
Yet it did work quite well in the older net. Wasn't perfect, but it was working for many. Was it just the entry barrier and limited demographics? I don't know.

I think strongly moderated places always develop some form of echo chamber, even the interesting ones. So I don't believe in the dichotomy of lawless zones and unique perspectives. On the contrary, I think strongly moderated communities will more likely develop orthodoxies.

Easy answers are often popular, but that phenomenon is true in almost all communities.
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Me too! I wonder why that is?

I suspect that they wanted to use conditional expressions
or something without having to use a "real" programming language with loops or I/O, which risks freezing the interpreter and leaking data.
$ whois personium.io
Domain Name: PERSONIUM.IO
[...]
Registrant Organization: Fujitsu Ltd.
Registrant State/Province: Tokyo
Registrant Country: JP
[...]
> FWIW, doing that is actually possible these days with all the GDPR data export options, just a little tedious

It's tedious to the point that it is something else. The same reason the web is scrape-based rather than api-based today. When something is ancillary and done for compliance alone, you rarely get what you are looking for.

Say everyone had their own personal, live, accurate, predictable, actual data tree:

facebook
- friends
- posts
twitter
- posts
- followers
email contacts
- etc.

There would likely be an ecosystem of new services that create new value for you from that data. Combining things, extracting insights, backing things up, sharing things, organizing things, AI'ing things.

> 2. Because they're YouTube videos that you watched on YouTube and pressed the like button on YouTube.

Yes, that's how it is now, but it can be that going to youtube is granting them access to a branch of your tree on your server (which could be an encrypted managed 3rd-party).

> 3. "Why is sharing my GITHUB repo something GITHUB has to do, and not me?" - see the problem now?

As above, github the service can be made to operate on data that is yours in your warehouses.

> there's no money in it for them

They are still the app, they make the interconnections, they have tons of the valuable data and meta data.
Seems like the 100% line was crossed in Jun 2019 - and it does indeed mean that going long since that point, at almost any price was fundamentally sound investment and not ponzi;

It is a pyramid, but the base layer of “suckers”, those that end up taking the losses in a standard ponzi/pyramid are already determined ; they are the most finance literate people in the market, and they did it willingly. WSB is just adding layers in the middle which is rational.

The short sellers knew their risks perfectly well and did it willingly. They just didn’t expect anyone will figure out how to take advantage of the setup they created.
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They already liquidated everything on margin yesterday without giving users any choice or warning.

It was part of what caused the drop in combination with the no buying.