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> The problem with never talk to the police is that they can mess with you more or less impunity.

Yes! They can and will mess with you. But if you think talking to them will _reduce the chances_ of them messing you, many legal experts would disagree.

Talking to them gives them additional avenues by with they might claim that you committed the crime, you're guilty, and they get to `solved_crimes_this_month += 1`.

It's all risk mitigation.

They might treat you illegally and immorally, for sure. They're not _less_ likely to do this if you consent to "a conversation", they're _more_ likely to do this.

So, again, don't talk to police without a lawyer present.

When you're lawyer gets on scene, he'll say "don't talk to them", so you'll continue to _not talk to them._

Many folks on HN that live in the USA, are statistically likely to not have particularly bad interactions with the police, but that means we have a chance (or even obligation) to normalize self-protective behaviors that persons who are not quite as (white|male|upper class| privileged) as we are might suffer repercussions for exercising.

I.E. if it spreads that "privileged people don't talk to police" then "marginalized people not talking to police" are less likely to suffer abuse from said police.
If they made an AR app that helped impractical customers assemble their products that would be real news.
> To be fair, I'm not a web developer

Kind of a non-article. Could I make an outdoor irrigation system, fix my head gasket, or anything else complicated without doing some research?
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Take 10% of that 5k, get a gun, and hire a friend to handle the transaction while you're on security.
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Wait a minute, do you think that could ever happen? That'd be shocking!
> In fact, the president of the EU, Charles Michel has already hinted at invoking Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which could force vaccine-makers to share their patents

In my opinion they should,
This is no time to play silly games regarding contract law. Vaccines should be produced as quickly as possible by as many capable facilities as possible.

Let's also not forget that most of the developing world is dead last in receiving vaccines, and greatly increasing production could prevent the death of countless lives.
This will come true once all criminals stop lying and confess honestly -which is to say the day will never come.
This.

Lies like these may pressure someone to create a false confession to get a plea, because it sounds to them like despite not being guilty, they're going to be found guilty.

That is a huge issue.
Right. You can say its hyperbole or "locker room talk" but in situations like this, it's very clear that a large part of the financial sector is _absolutely sincere_ when they look at retail investors as what they literally call "dumb money", "dumb flow".
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Is there more specific evidence that Melvin would be lying than "look at the overall short interest in the stock"? When the stock has been skyrocketing and creating more and more incentive for other people to take out new short positions?

I'm hardly an expert at shorts and options, but when I see people posting stuff like that, I start thinking that the most plausible explanation for the outrage is that things are more complicated than the "we're gonna put this fund out of business!" crowd expected.
Indeed, traditional professions such as doctors and lawyers are typically prohibited by law from being shielded by liability by a corporate veil. This is why, depending on the states, doctors and lawyers are typically organized as professional corporations or other similar terms rather than limited liability companies: they are specifically required to remain personally liable for their actions. Traditionally, this is what "professional" meant: that you were individually accountable for your actions.

Perhaps we should consider applying the same to law enforcement, a field which by its own rhetoric seemingly holds "professionalism" in high regard.
There is really only one simple concept needed to understand what the SEC cares about.

When a big hedge fund is selling a stock short, they can do so without even borrowing it. As a result, the buyer ends up not owning it and the stock fails to deliver - called a fail.

There are a lot of easy penalities that could be applied here. Reprice based on lowest price in intervening period prior to deliver. Provide a 10% rebate per day if not delivered T+3, up to perhaps a 200% rebate. Etc.

But instead, nothing happens, the fail to deliver just continues. I took a look at Gamestop on the fail to deliver list. It's been there forever.

I don't trade, but the whole fail to deliver game seems rotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_to_deliver
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Watch the How to Play video instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgDgcLI2B0U
Iirc, at least in germany they will not distribute the catalog anymore and it's volume decreased significantly in the last years. I think the all time high was around 60million copies, though I might be mistaken on that :-)
Reference links as opposed to inline links is a huge plus, but like most others here I'm puzzled at the single-char restriction.

I tend to restructure documents often, writing things as they come into my head and moving pieces around to better convey my message. With named references, I can simply alphabetize them at the bottom and forget about them while I move sections around.

With single-char identifiers though, I'd feel an obligation to keep things in reference order, so one more thing to think about while I'm working.

On another note, I'm interested in this idea of reusing image links to preview CSVs and other formats. (graphviz comes to mind) Do you have any examples of this being used in a document and the tooling to stitch it together?
Let me try to find the article and make an update with link.
This is the one does not says anything about temp.
https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/coronavirus-information/slowing-...

Additionally I am interested what is the least concentration of alcohol or soap that would kill it?
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Another advice:

Always talk to the police -- AFTER GETTING IMMUNITY. Basically first if they ask you anything, say "I will happily comply with any questioning if you give me immunity in writing to this case or anything resulting from my answers."

The cop who gave that presentation even mentioned getting an IRS call, and said that, they never called back.

Point is, ask for immunity.
Yeah you're not wrong. I think HN is pretty good here though - we do have genuine experts (on tech) that correct people. That's why I value HN so much - I learn a lot even when I make stupid, wrong comments.
I've been working on a similar system for a few years now and hate every bit of it. We built it fast because we needed it and didn't have time to use the standard system we use in-house. I've been given very few hours to work on it outside of my regular duties so I've just had to deal with the terribleness of it. We recently got some money to update our tools and while we made something a little bit better for some tasks, the terrible foundation is still there. I'm going to look into this, it looks slick and sounds exactly like what I need. Just having the ability to dump whatever telem field I need would save me so much time compared with coding up a python script to pullout whatever from the GBs of telem we've been producing.
The best effort relates to setting up the manufacturing of the vaccine, not distributing it. See e.g. https://davidallengreen.com/2021/01/what-can-be-worked-out-a...

There's no doubt the UK has been nimble and reasonably effective on the vaccine front (as we all know, the EU is a very mixed bag by construction); just as well since it has been dreadful on the mortality front. The UK commentariat is a little bit shocked, but it is to be expected - it's out of the club. There will be more consequences later.

I, for one, am leaving the UK with my family.
Would you still want to buy put options? Who would sell them to you?
>made popular by Apple in recent years.

Oh I have vivid memories.

Mac Pro Trashcan 2013. If I remember correctly it was the first time Apple turns to using lots of animations for their product page. Before that Apple's product page were fast, beautiful and elegant.

The TrashCan webpage was using lots of animations to show case their cant innovate anymore my ass. Your MacBook Fan would spin up simply by scrolling through the page as if Apple were nagging you its time to upgrade your Mac.

I think they learned their lesson and tune down those animation abit with later products and pay more attention to performance. But since then it has spread across the industry like plague. You dont get fired for using and designing with flashy animation because Apple are doing it.
Classic shill article.

The bottom line is this, GME is STILL shorted over 100%. That means, the short seller has to buy at ANY price.

All you have to do is simply buy at current price and hold. The item you're buying may be GME stock, but now it also has an attached buyer that is contractually obligated to buy at ANY price. That is the premium people are paying for GME stock.

Shill articles like this are mouth pieces for billionaire vulture short sellers, trying to FUD the market and get people to sell GME stock.

All people have to do is HOLD the stock and the price that short sellers have to buy it back will go up.
During market draw downs it's the short sellers that are buying first. Without short sellers bubbles would get bigger because no sellers taming them and their bursting would be much harsher as you would only have sellers. Shorting also allows one to invest in a company while shorting others in the sector in order to invest in a company while hedging broader economic risk. Also buying put options allows you to insure your own risk. These are sold by market makers that are able to hedge their own position by short selling, without short selling no more insurance.
Narrowest of circumstances tend to become truck size loopholes.
why isn't anyone in the media or in the European Commission asking questions on why did it take 3 months to draft such a bland generic urgent supply contract?

It's worse than that. The contract they finally signed was an almost carbon copy of one prepared by Germany, Netherlands and Italy 3 months earlier, before the EU stepped in to take over and "expedite" matters.
I'm not sure "misleading" is a strong enough word in this case. Fellowship has a very specific meaning in academia, and it's not this.

Edit: Perhaps it wasn't intentional, but it will have a bait-and-switch feel for scientists in academia.
> 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?

My point is fairness is in the eye of the beholder. What we're left with are contracts. And contractually, AstraZeneca seems to be in the right. The EU negotiated, at first glance (and to this non-expert), a poor agreement.
IANAL but some possible reasons:

1. For lying about that reason to customers

2. for not shutting down all trading on their app (allowing sells of GME without manipulated the market, even if blocking sells would also have bad effects)

3. For allegedly tipping off Citadel before shutting off GME trading (unconfirmed but they will likely investigate this claim)
Alternate idea: make something fast by removing stuff that isn't required...as opposed to adding a bunch of complex stuff, adding more complex stuff to make the complex stuff fast, etc.
This looks like a really cool program. Is there way for for students currently in PhD programs to engage with folks in the program. It'd be too early for me to apply but would love to connect with folks in the community for collaboration downstream. Also looking for unique applications of my research.
What is the flaw in the understanding of shorting?
That would be game mechanics (the software) instead of gameplay (how a user plays the game).

Still, the scale of the mechanics leads to more complexity than your average crafting game. If your interpretation of what linkdd wrote is correct, his point is directly controverted when considering that threading discussion in the article. If you know the history of Factorio, then you also know there are many underlying, interlinked systems like that in the simulation that are complex. The software must handle all the ways in which those subsystems could possible interact.

The comparison to Dwarf Fortress is apt. Another similarly complex game that comes to mind is Distant Worlds: Universe, a 4X game that, with all the managers turned on, plays itself.
Huh, never heard of it, but it sounds interesting. So it's like the immune system has so little work these days that it turns on its own body.

By that hypothesis, willingly introducing some (preferably benign) parasite or infection would keep it busy so it doesn't attack itself?

Just thinking out in text here, I'm tired heh
I always felt that the number of #s should increase with higher-level rather than with lower-level headings, for multiple reasons:

- More #s mean a larger visual footprint, which would be more appropriate for higher-level headings (cf. larger font size in rich-text rendering, and of course the = and - underlines). This is what bothers me the most.

- I tend to write documents bottom-up, starting with lowest-level headings, and higher-level headings are only introduced as the document evolves. Because I don’t know how many levels I’ll end up with, starting with a single # for the lowest level would work better.

- Lower-level headings are more frequent than higher-level headings, so having to type less for them makes sense, as well as reducing the likelihood to get the # count wrong (because you usually know what is a bottom-level heading, or the next one up, and you don’t have to know how many levels there are overall).

The existing convention mirrors the numbering levels of numbered headings, but I don’t find that visually convincing. It also matches the HTML h1-h6 elements of course, but nowadays that should be less of a concern.

Another thought is that maybe the headings hierarchy should be unlimited in both directions, so that you are never forced to shift all headings. One possibility to achieve that could be:

### even higher level
## higher level
# base level
.# sub level
.## sub-sub level
.### sub-sub-sub level

That syntax mirrors the magnitudes of decimal numbers. It’s just an idea I’ve been pondering, I’m not totally convinced myself. ;)
I was talking about the actual people not the reporting. Yea, reporters are not that stupid.
I increasingly distrust it is just a collateral requirement issue from RH side. They have multiple venues to borrow if it is conventional collateral requirements for settlements, and money market barely moved yesterday (no substantial borrowing).

It is definitely possible that they were insolvent for a moment yesterday, but most likely due to wrong risk management on other parts (margins etc) of the company.
The BBC is staffed by humans. Humans who want their programming to be popular and watched widely. If people stopped watching BBC news, you better believe they'd make changes to reverse that, whatever it takes. Their incentives are just different.
Speaking as a long term value investor who is mostly noshing po'corn and watching, I have a couple of questions:

Don't the settlement worries provide evidence of naked shorts? (Naked shorts being selling a share without being sure the share would be available at settlement? And naked shorts illegal?)

Wouldn't the normal procedure be to halt all trading until the issues had cleared up? As opposed to allowing positions to be closed, but not opened?
> Otherwise, why rate at all?

to describe my experience.
>The question I'm really trying to ask is whether it's at all reasonable to do something to increase the quality of the vote.

Absolutely. I'm 100% for programs to promote literacy and civic education. Reduce corporate political financing so that politicians _have to_ appeal to their constituencies. Increase the density of elected representatives so that each representative has a constituency small enough for them to actually reasonably represent.
I suspect most non-social-media writing more often suffers from longer, more complex sentences than those too short. The programing analogy might be cyclomatic complexity and separation of concerns. Examples abound of functions with overloaded conditionals, long parameter lists and other smells that might it difficult to reason about the operation of such a function. On the other-hand, you do see the overzealous craft trivial functions that should just be inlined in the few places they are used.

Clarity, for both prose and code, involves finding the right tradeoffs and abstraction boundaries.
Ha! Proved my point exactly. James Duane has specific recommended phrases.

Maybe the use of:

"and I will answer no further questions"

would keep me out of jail!
They become pretty much essential when reversing or debugging a program you dont have source for.
Nitpicking but the phrase is "shit hits the fan" i.e. it would go everywhere

Shit hitting the ceiling wouldn't be that dramatic in comparison :)
The system that was tested there was PCIe bandwidth constrained because this was a few years ago. With your system, it'll get a bigger number - probably 14 or 15 million 4KiB IO per second per core.

But while SPDK does have an fio plug-in, unfortunately you won't see numbers like that with fio. There's way too much overhead in the tool itself. We can't get beyond 3 to 4 million with that. We rolled our own benchmarking tool in SPDK so we can actually measure the software we produce.

Since the core is CPU bound, 512B IO are going to net the same IO per second as 4k. The software overhead in SPDK is fixed per IO, regardless of size. You can also run more threads with SPDK than just one - it has no locks or cross thread communication so it scales linearly with additional threads. You can push systems to 80-100M IO per second if you have disks and bandwidth that can handle it.
It's not legal in California:

> Under [California Vehicle Code 31], it is a crime to knowingly give false information to a peace officer while the officer is performing his duties

https://www.wklaw.com/providing-false-information-to-a-polic...

> No person shall give, either orally or in writing, information to a peace officer while in the performance of his duties under the provisions of this code when such person knows that the information is false.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

Despite being part of the vehicle code, this applies outside of traffic situations as far as I can tell.
> With the goal of efficient prices in mind, short squeezes are bad, and enabling shorting is good.

Yeah? Aren't they equally useful as market messages?

If I am willing to tie up some money holding an instrument afloat at overvalued prices longer than you are willing to remain in your short position, haven't we ultimately, together in our conflict, created a useful message about the underlying asset?

Maybe I think Company G is worth $20 but not $40, but if you are selling it short at $5, and I'm prepared to be illiquid for a while, don't I send the correct market signal by squeezing you out of your short?
One of my all-time favourite quotes:

> Jim Buckmaster, the chief executive of Craigslist, caused lots of head-scratching Thursday as he tried to explain to a bunch of Wall Street types why his company is not interested in “monetizing” his ridiculously popular Web operation. Appearing at the UBS global media conference in New York, Mr. Buckmaster took questions from the bemused audience, which apparently could not get its collective mind around the notion that Craigslist exists to help Web users find jobs, cars, apartments and dates — and not so much to make money.

> Wendy Davis of MediaPost describes the presentation as a “a culture clash of near-epic proportions.” She recounts how UBS analyst Ben Schachter wanted to know how Craigslist plans to maximize revenue. It doesn’t, Mr. Buckmaster replied (perhaps wondering how Mr. Schachter could possibly not already know this). “That definitely is not part of the equation,” he said, according to MediaPost. “It’s not part of the goal.”

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/craigslist-meets-the...
Indeed. The continued existence of wildlife parks in East Africa is largely supported by tourists doing sightseeing tours in vehicles. Close those trails down, you lower the income from tourism, and poaching and illegal land use return. (Just like now some of these wildlife conversation efforts are reportedly suffering from the COVID border closures.)
The EU's approach to resolving this dispute makes absolutely no sense.

Regardless of the fact that, this contract does not, to my reading (IANAL), support their position that they have a claim over the UK-produced vaccines: pursuing a legal resolution seems silly because getting a judgement in your favour will take weeks or months. That is far too long for the timelines the EU wants.

Then, even if such a judgment is forthcoming - you still aren't that much closer to getting more doses because as any solicitor will tell you, possession is nine tenths of the law and the doses are in the UK. There is no realistic chance of any export occurring without the approval of the UK government. The UK has a very serious outbreak of coronavirus too.

Instead of getting on their high horse and starting an enormous public row why don't the EU: a) recognise that this is one of many vaccines and that perhaps, while important, is not singularly important to the effort b) make an arrangement with the UK government to have some kind of expedited access to vaccines? The UK will soon have a surplus of vaccines (and in fact has extra stock already by some accounts - people are being given unused doses). There is an existing trade issue that is causing problems for the UK that I am sure that the UK would like to get sorted...

This kind of over-legalistic attitude is how the EU got into this hole in the first place. Waiting for a single purchase agreement was a mistake because the vaccines have (mostly) turned out to be extremely cheap and the fact that many companies are working on vaccines likely means that none will be able to charge over the odds.
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To be fair, I've grown paranoid about PDF metadata and redactions, so I prefer taking screenshots and making a new PDF out of those as long as the document is only a few pages in length, or using imagemagick or similar to flatten it. I haven't found an easier way to be absolutely sure that my annotations are permanent, and this metadata issue is perhaps even trickier.
I dont think designers like moving text either, I think they are told to make it happen, and they do.
Because we're humans and not profit-seeking self serving automatons. Or at least I aspire to not be one

If there is suffering, and if we can, we ease the suffering. The US and EU have bought way more vaccine doses than they need.

It even makes sense from a utilitarian perspective, as we live in a global market economy.

Since when did people become so nationalistic again? We're humans, first and foremost.
I think that the first sentence on the why Pony page says it all

"There’s plenty to love about Pony, but more than anything else, what we love most is that Pony makes it easy to write fast, safe, efficient, highly concurrent programs."

In Erlang you can write safe highly concurrent programs, but you might struggle with fast and efficient. Of course, how much fast and efficient you need depends on what you are trying to do.