skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and why people who bought in at 200/300/400 will lose their YOLO money

Simply because the stock isn't actually worth 400.

A few players made a smart play on wallstreetbets, and they got lucky when the hedge funds were stubborn enough to keep going deep into the red while the subreddit gained 3m new subscribers and was able to keep squeezing them.

But buying in at 400 today seems like idiocy. It would be akin to joining a pyramid scheme right at the end. Maybe you are not last, but it's likely.
> That's not how it ends, that cuts off the story halfway through.

I think the end point is one of:

- America comes to its senses, reforms, and becomes democratic

- America becomes a China-like oligarchy and police state, with ubiquitous surveillance, and a big-tech-run social credit system to keep everyone in line

- America bumbles along is the same fashion it has been doing, with things slowly deteriorating
Automating Data Center Expansions with Airflow
I don't know if WSB is right or wrong, but my concern is the "cascade effect" or possible side effects that we're not seeing. At the end we're in a interconnected economy and we've seen in the past that the fall of just one single company can make many more to follow, with consequences that end up hurting people really far from Wall Street.

I'm not blaming WSB about this, because the issue was there before them, and I'm not an expert and maybe we're very far from this scenario, but it's something that worries me...
What does this mean for people investing small amounts (~1k) in crypto with Coinbase?

Is there additional risk (beyond crypto prices dropping) like Coinbase deciding to simply close accounts in order to get funds in times of trouble due to the stock market acting up?

Would private wallets become more advisable?
I’d find it unlikely that 500,000 people would download an app expecting to buy a share while the market is closed, but if you do, fine, let them leave their review.

I can easilly believe that people genuinely downloaded and signed up in the expectation of buy GameStop/Bitcoin/tulips or whatever this weeks craze is. When they find it doesn’t work (because the backend didn’t scale or because the app maker decided not to sell tulips) they’re are genuinely annoyed.

This isn’t people downloading the app just to rate it 1*, based in the hype it’s quite possible these reviews are all genuine customers.
Most interestingly, he's at $14m cash after this week by selling a fraction. Looks good. Like any sane person, some gains are secured in actual money (hopefully he can move that to an insured account or investment if possible(?))
If it is like GDPR, then yes. A researcher in UK proved discrimination by her phd adviser with a GDPR request some time ago. I suppose that CCPA similarly does not discriminate between operators of personal data.
Still, in the context of reviews, it's not the job of Google to mitigate the fact that Robin Hood botched it's PR side and couldn't (or doesn't want to) explain its rationale to their users clearly.

From the POV of RH's users, the company and the app just pulled a fast one on them, costing individuals lots of money in both real costs and opportunity.
I hope people 100 years from now have better things to do than judge or condemn their great great grandparents response to a pandemic.
i've used:

1. revolut - these guys are complete jokers. closed after being asked to provide the proof of funding 3 times in 3 months.

2. hsbc/first direct - somewhat decent. but i only use it to top up my other accounts. i try to avoid them, as they're just too big.

3. starling - simple, no-nonsense banking from a startup.

4. revolut business - had my account closed down by the "bank" because they didn't want my business. no reasons given. again, complete jokers.

5. freetrade - decent investing platform, but very very amateurish.

6. saxo bank - professional investing. they're a huge company, never had issues with them. and yes, they of course accept me buying gme and the like, plus they also support options. unfortunately it costs. a lot.

7. metro bank - what can i say. it feels like a 20th century bank with a nice app. had many issues with them, including a transfer that went missing for 2 weeks, and a EUR account that forced me to go to their branch every time i wanted to do a transfer.

8. ing bank nv - depending on the territory you're opening the account, they might be either really bad or somewhat bad.

9. rabobank - bank was constantly getting hacked and all account ops were blocked while the hacking was happening. also, the hackers managed to empty my account and the bank representative had to use a special card to withdraw some funds so that i could continue living.

later edit:

10. transferwise - very slick, minimal fees, used them from before they were a bank. no issues so far.

11. monzo - i'm not in their target market unfortunately. their features are not useful to me.
Ask HN: Occult Coding?
Have there been any serious attempts to tap into unseen forces through code?

For example, I loved the idea of TempleOS accessing the word of God through a random number generator. A similar idea from a different age is the use of the I Ching to predict the future.
yes, using the DEBUG trap.
Here's a GPL implementation
https://github.com/jsharkey/wycliffe
Data Privacy Day 2021
Google allows 15 more nations to offer gambling in the Play store
Fuzzing Part 1: The Theory
In 2017 at ELCE in Prague I saw an interesting talk by Alexander Graf (QEMU & KVM developer at SuSE) which was about putting the Qemu tiny-code-generator into EDK2 (UEFI reference implementation) to run x86_64 option ROM blobs on ARM64 servers[1].

The main idea as I understood/remember it was roughly this:

UEFI offers an abstract hardware interface to the OS, but to actually talk to the hardware it also needs drivers. To solve this issue, UEFI defines a driver interface and loads driver blobs directly from a ROM on the device itself. However, if you plug an off-the-shelf PCI card into an ARM server, this doesn't work, because the driver blob is x86 code. For Linux this doesn't matter, since it has its own drivers, but e.g. Grub doesn't and if the PCI device in question is a graphics card, you are flying blind until the kernel is up.

So they patched their version of EDK2 to map the option ROM blobs as not-executable and when UEFI/the bootloader tries to call into the option ROM blob, the page fault handler they installed traps that, extracts the call arguments and runs the blob through TCG. They use the same trick to catch calls from the ROM blob back into their ARM UEFI binary, extract the arguments again, do the call, convert the return values and jump back.

It sounds like a crazy hack, but apparently worked well enough that they could plug an Nvidia card into an ARM server and it would display the Grub boot splash screen and early printk messages.

[1] https://osseu17.sched.com/event/ByIv/qemu-in-uefi-alexander-...
The reason for the stock market to exist is ostensibly to help businesses succeed by competing for investors. But at the moment we have a casino, and shorts are one manifestation of that fact.

Short sellers are effectively betting against the success of a company, which gives them an incentive to do everything in their power to put that company out of business. And don't say "but that's illegal!" since our enforcement system has no teeth and big players commit crimes all the time whenever the fines are lower than the cost of legal alternatives.
Thing is, I don't think most people want to replace subreddits, Facebook groups or HN. The issue is that for two of these three communities, they are hosted by a company that has a large amount of power over the communities. It doesn't make sense to replace HN with some federated/p2p alternative, because HN is already independent.

And not everything needs to be a decentralised system, that's just a false dichotomy. If GitLab.com deletes my repos or stops offering the features I like, I'll just move elsewhere, I could even move to another GitLab instance. It's much harder to move a group of people.

Besides, not everyone needs to run a server in a federated environment. As long as it's a possibility, one rogue actor can't take over the whole network. Most people don't host their own email/Matrix server, and that's okay.
They forced sale on stocks at an earlier (lower) price. Some people were literally forced to make a loss.
Easier Long Lines Navigation in Vim
Smashing (https://smashing.github.io/), fork of dashing, has a very nice and simple ui. It's an all in one package, meaning that it also manages fetching the data if you want, or you can POST to it whenever there's a new value. In the UI all you can do is reorganize your widgets however you want
I agree with that. I assume that this is an algo at work.
France's anti-piracy goon squad pirates the font in its logo (2010)
I've recently learned about litehtml, which seems pretty much what you are describing: http://www.litehtml.com/

Looks like it started in 2012, but I've never heard about it until a recent plan from Qt to write a wrapper around it:

https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2021-Janu...

(Probably so that simple things like their help viewer don't need a rather heavy QtWebEngine)
Future prediction: The so-called modern web will die soon
I can't comment on the comparison with Docker for Mac bacause, honestly, I have never used it.

With krunvm, each session initiated with "krunvm start" is an independent lightweight VM. The maximum amount of RAM the VM can use is configured with the "mem" flag (or it uses what's configured by default), but the VMM will always try to use the minimum possible amount of RAM by returning the pages the guest is no longer using to the host (virtio-balloon's free page reporting feature).

That said, you can also start a single VM (using "krunvm start"), run podman's service ("podman system service...") inside it, switch to another terminal in macOS and execute multiple containers inside the VM using "podman remote" [1]. Now I'm thinking I should probably write a tutorial about this option ;-)

[1] https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-clients-macos-windows
Is it true it is only partially excavated and the Turks refuse to remove any more soil?

Edit: This is a claim by Graham Hancock which I was just reminded of
JavaScript top developer leaderboards – who's #1?
Aren't finance nerds the same as tech nerds these days?
In some cases on some web browsers WebRTC can be configured to use UDP.

But that's exactly the problem. Usually, nobody knows what's actually happening in that 20000+ lines of code WebRTC stack.
It can be both. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. And if you still do, and someone enables you, well you can again be a "a poor unknowing victim".

RH's business model of "selling" clueless retail investors to the big funds worked. Untill there were to many of those retail investors and RH risked running out of cash.
I am not sure they are incorrect in their profit hypothesis, but if they are, it will be because people get bored of things and/or want to do something else with their money.

Energy is hard to maintain long term.
Maybe that might become a plus point against them when smaller companies want to hire good talent.
Very good advice.

If you're still game, a set of trim tools and replacement clips of all sorts are usually available from your favourite large online retailer.

I recently bought a set of trim tools for $AU28 and am assortment of trim clips and roof liner clips for a few more tens of dollars.

Definitely worth watching a couple how to videos on YouTube too.

Having said that: don't be surprised when you break something.
It's a web application, you luddite!
My english may be failing me here, but doesn't

> I feel it sets a precedent for research broadly

imply it's some sort of first time?
Do not forget the emotions at play. Financially it might not make sense, but the feeling to be part of the team that "sticks it up to the man" might play a role in the decision to join, even this late.
Chamath Palihapitiya was celebrated not for his trades but for a series of interviews he gave to financial talking heads where he said the things that WSB wanted to say (example: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l69jz5/hono...)

The Musk worship is cringe-inducing, but he signal-boosted WSB shortly before the whole thing exploded out of Reddit and into Congress and every television set and living room in the country. I don't get the sense he's their big hero, the core WSB community is far too chaotic-neutral to agree on a hero.

edit: To the second half you added to your comment, we can take a quick trip through a few key WSB threads and see for ourselves how this evolved.

First, there's https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kxw4hu/dont... from about two weeks ago, where the activity was pretty typical WSB stuff and GME was just starting to look like it might have some legs.

Then, there was the post that ignited WSB a week ago, https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l2x7he/gme_... , which is still mostly WSB commentary but the first stick-it-to-the-hedge-fund comments are there. At this time GME was still in the $50 to $65 range and the party hadn't really started yet. I think this makes a good case against the pump-and-dump explanation.

Right around the same time there was the person that paid off their student loans, https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l3aj4z/i_lo... , and the comments are still pretty typical WSB but with pepperings of diamond-hands &etc.

Within 24 hours, attention started to leak out of WSB and into places like CNBC, which started to accuse WSB of things like "market manipulation", and that led to posts like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l3z0n8/howd... , which is when things really started to turn into a proper protest.

Initially some WSB nutcases figured they could gamble their way into a little bit of money, but when Wall Street took them seriously and started fighting back, it became a protest.
On Gmail swiping from left to right can either open the sidebar or delete the email you hit, depending on how far from the edge you started. Fantastic.
> They even have been observed living at altitudes of 7,500 m (24,600 ft) on Mount Everest

> The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists almost exclusively (70 to 90 percent) of bone.

> The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture
As I said, stocks are inherently risky and should not open positions thinking you’ll strike it rich overnight; what I am saying is that robinhood swiftly stopped retail price action ( because most retail volume is from RH) which caused the price to plummet. Volume for amc and gme also got split for the day yesterday compared to Tuesday (which can be blamed because other brokers also eventually stopped trading these stocks later in the day).
Let me be controversial for a second but this is not such a big deal. because they were always doing it only slower and manually.

Its same with deepfakes.

I am not happy or supporting either but with rise in computational power some things are unavoidable.

Police always used photo id databases in manhunts.
And deepfakes existed in Victorian era.

We need to make sure that auditing agencies monitoring the government and offices and non profits protecting civil rights also gets technological and financial boost.

Everything else is just attacking the windmills.
effing spell checkers ...
> it's not clear to me that the CPU/motherboard even supports more than 16GB per memory slot

These new products are crap, to be honest.

Sandy Bridge era ThinkPads accepted 16GB. How long ago was that? Is it 10 years already? Granted, it was total, not per slot. Wasn't officially supported, but it worked. Tried personally, memtest passed, all good. IIRC W520 even took 32GB(4x8GB). Ten years of progress and ... still no progress. Who even buys this crap?

>If you're talking repairability, than I just haven't had to replace my RAM sticks due to wear.

Somewhat agree with you on this point. Safe to say that if RAM works now, it will keep working. Test it after buying and you should be good. You can't scavenge soldered RAM when the device fails though.
Thanks for that info on liquidity pools I wasn’t aware. Based on what you said my analogy would be more along the 'You've hit your limits / no bets higher than X’ line. I definitely don’t know the internal details of RH or am an expert so have speculated and it is probably a bad over simplification of poor information I’ve read from media sources. Regarding use of RH data I just thought if I was Citadel and paid for the information on order flow, I’d be in a better, well informed position to make educated guess on the market, which people on RH wouldn’t be in.
Playing with My Son (2014)
For better or for worse, he's a big man around here and his name alone gives him credibility points on any given topic.

(As you're well aware, given your own long history here; I'm just stating the obvious out loud, I guess)
It's a bigger picture now.

The whole US financial system is primed for overdue reset.
Of all actors, platforms like Discord and Facebook should understand that such an influx makes it quite hard to moderate well. And that there is also a risk of adversarial actors infiltrating the groups. If they had any interest in the well-being of said communities, they would show some understanding of this challenge. At the very least wait a few days until things have shaken out. But no, straight to the ban hammer, with no dialogue.
Bitcoin soars 11% after Elon Musk namecheck on Twitter
There are people like me also who rate all apps 1* just because fuck Apple and fuck Google and fuck anyone trying to add value to their app stores. And I encourage all friends to do the same.
> and why hedge funds will hold out longer than the mob which will blink first

Because they caught only a few of them in a trap, not all of them. Even if the shorting ones end up going belly up, they'll just restructure, shift people around, and be back in business as if nothing ever happened.

> and why people who bought in at 200/300/400 will lose their YOLO money

Because the stock is not worth it, and they won't all be able to pull out in time.

That said, I can't say WSB is wrong. Many of the players don't mind losing the money - the current sentiment seems to be, at least overtly, to show a giant middle finger to established financial institutions, and make "them" suffer for 2008. I think WSB is likely to achieve that goal to some extent. At the very least, they're sending the message. Personally, I'm only worried about second-order consequences for the stock market at large (wouldn't want it to trigger the next 2008). I'm also worried if they get shut down from the top by more "uncoordinated" corporate shenanigans, this may spill over and turn violent.
There's a standing wave in a creek in Munichs central park. It's not an uncommon sight to see people in wetsuit and with a board crossing the central square. Freaks out non-locals every time.
> why hedge funds will hold out longer than the mob which will blink first

I'm pretty sure the real situation is far more complex than the simplified story that is passed around and the final result therefore not nearly as inevitably positive for the mob. One possibility is that some lenders of the stocks may accept a guaranteed lower direct payment instead of insisting on getting the stocks back and risking that the short seller goes bankrupt and they get nothing.

> why people who bought in at 200/300/400 will lose their YOLO money

Mostly because there is absolutely no guarantee that they will be able to sell in time when the crash comes. Many of them don't even seem to understand how stock trading works.

In extreme situations, a stop loss order to sell at 500 could easily get executed at 100 because nobody is actually willing to buy anywhere in between at that time.
Ouch! Truth hurts! ;)

The worst part is that American programmers may never be hit by most of the horrors of LC_CTYPE et al, so will not fix it for those that do.

And the poor guy who installed Postgres and tries to sort Arabic can't figure out why in Heaven's name the order seems random.
Whoops, I forgot about the other things I wanted to reply to :)

> I wonder if it is worth it to fork an existing browser (Chromium, Firefox) for your purpose. But this is probably impossible to maintain and keep in sync with upstream.

Yeah. People have suggested that in the past, but keeping up with e.g. Chromium is insane. When QtWebEngine updates their Chromium snapshot (a subset of the entire source) all couple of months, we're talking about millions of changed lines, and I've heard they need around a person-month every time to adjust their stable API to that.

Also see:

- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+log
- https://twitter.com/the_compiler/status/1330896103911264257

It's pretty much a commit all couple of minutes, almost around the clock.

> I wonder whether there are other simple ways to hook into the browser. After all, you are in control of the OS, and you can inject some code. On MacOSX, there was actually some nice way to script things like this. But I think they restricted that very much now.

I was actually wondering what someone could do via ChromeDriver: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/

But I suppose the kind of UI/UX you could build with that would still be quite limited, perhaps even more so than what WebExtensions like Vimium or Tridactyl can do.
>That makes no sense to me. If they really wanted to buy they could use another broker?

That's assuming you have multiple accounts in brokerages, and multiple other ones also have blocked buys (for example Interactive Brokers).

Market will be dropping if significant number of people who want to buy are unable due to third party actions, that's exactly what's market manipulation.
May I ask what you think is wrong with Reddit's UI? In my opinion, it's one of the best out there and I've never had problems with it. HN is better, but mainly because it offers far less functionality.

Facebook is for me the prototypical example of a bad UI with lots of dark patterns, confusing navigation, different settings scattered all over the place, and frequent technical glitches.
It might miss anything where the average structure size is smaller than the large hierarchical blocks. For most SOTA, that means 32px minimum size. So it'll also miss fences, for example, because the wires are too thin and it'll not treat it as a whole but as separate tiny objects.
IANAL but in some places (or at least in Israel) there's a subtle difference between signing a standard contract and asking for changes when it gets to court. It doesn't mean you shouldn't ask for changes but at least give it another thought and consult a lawyer
A pump and dump is like a pyramid scheme. Some people, mostly those who get in and out early, will make money. The other people involved will lose money.

The circumstances at the moment are strange, for sure, but the end result seems all but certain to be the same: the patsies mostly end up giving their money to someone else. It just happens that this time, it's a different group of market manipulators, who may or may not be acting legally and so may or may not get to keep that money anyway.

If nothing else, this incident has shown that maverick investment could be dangerous to our financial systems. These stocks do not exist in a vacuum and the people playing games with them are not operating independent of the rest of the markets. Their actions could hurt a lot of innocent people as well -- ordinary people who just have their savings and pensions invested in the market in normal, responsible ways -- at least in the short term.

If the same strategy continues, it must be a matter of weeks, if not days or hours, before governments begin heavy-handed regulatory interventions and even new legal restrictions, assuming that hasn't already started behind the scenes and isn't responsible for the interventions in buying certain stocks that have already happened.