skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don’t understand the purpose of Bitcoin. Especially when another one can be created. Dogecoin anyone?
Any cool, visual tech should provide a video of it in action.
This is actually a good variation of 'Occupy'. It's a 'mob protest' against Wall Street, this time by buying stocks. The upward momentum on Game Stop will collapse as surely as the tents eventually evacuated Occupy.
Ask HN: Is the systemic risk on stock market getting too high?
Can the GME short squeeze have a negative ripple effect on the whole market as in 2008? Are there any other signs that market is getting out of control? (apart from various price ratios being at historical highs?)

Would you recommend someone who holds a portfolio of strong companies to withdraw from market soonish?
Here come the lawsuits
The end game for Facebook definitely should include breaking them up. Nationalized, probably not, but they need to be small enough that the federal government can regulate them like every other industry.

Facebook’s scale and power are bad for capitalism and democracy. You may find it ridiculous to break them up, but plenty of serious people in this world don’t.
I think there's also evidence that the "short bubble" might be more widespread than we think. I'm not entirely convinced that Melvin was able to unwind their 50mln short position and drive the short interest down on Ortex (they're the best thing we've got in terms of guessing how much true short interest there is, because exchanges only report once or twice a month on a week or more delay) by covering. Equally likely in my mind is that Citadel bought Melvin's book thinking that it had a better plan than unwinding the short just yet. Instead, "hide" the short someplace that Ortex isn't looking and that the exchanges won't report on for another 3 weeks. That would be their order flow with a company they are in a unique position with - Robinhood - where lots of the buy orders are coming from. If you were Citadel and a little unscrupulous, you could immediately route every sell order on RH to the market but keep the buy orders for yourself. This positions you as short to Robinhood users, and you get to send those sold shares back to the book you bought from Melvin to unwind that short. So, the short does still exist, but now it's not visible to outside brokers. Outside brokers, when Ortex calls them up, will say, no no, Melvin covered a bunch today and short interest actually went down! So Ortex publishes a lower SI number. But, that short didn't actually just disappear. Either Citadel, or Robinhood, now are short to their customers.

Are there other companies that have "hidden" short interest in this way? Are some of the big unexplained market moves in companies without short interest some of these "hidden" shorts unwinding before everyone finds out?
We can pick and chose whatever area we decide to view identical or diverging. The fact of the matter is this: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence

- Chrome: 7602 web APIs

- Firefox: 6572 web APIs

- Safari: 6335 web APIs

(Web APIs include everything, including CSS, see API catalog at the top right of the page).

If anything, Firefox is identical to Safari. This is especially evident if you look at the "browser-specific" tag

Safari is adding 150 to 400 new APIs with each release. It's harder to see this because their cadence has historically been tied to new OS releases (so, yearly, and really wish they'd increase the cadence). Meanwhile, in the latest version alone Chrome released 75 new APIs. And they release 20 to 70 new APIs in every version which they release monthly [1].

Yes, Safari may be less prioritized than other teams at Apple, but in no conceivable way, shape, or form are they "the new IE6".

[1] https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule
Fair enough. This isn't the way I saw it presented before.
Ameritrade wouldn't let me write covered calls (for calls expiring today) unless I called up their trading desk. Which had a 700 person line in front of me.

> Seems to be 35%/year right now for GME shorts. If a GME short borrowed at $300, the stock price needs to fall to $200 by 2022 before they lose money. Do you really think GME can be propped up above $200 for a whole year?

Are you factoring in the cost of the call option that prevents their entire portfolio from getting nuked if GME keeps going up for some reason?
It's simple: they can't. Anywhere with non-trivial amounts of community transmission would have negligible additional risk by allowing those workers to enter, especially if symptoms are screened. A handful of new cases is a drop in a very big bucket. That's been true over almost the whole world for months, because covid has spread to pretty much the entire world.

These workers have been imprisoned because of politics, not science.
I'm not sure you understood the web saying.

Its meaning has nothing to do with Keynes' quote. It's instead a clever play on words that refers to the recurrent accusation (and subsequent meme) that WSB are a bunch of autists/retards who don't have any idea of what they are doing and thus are doing it entirely wrong, and the defiant reply from the WSB crowd where they state they are ready and able to continue doing it for far longer than what hedge funds, who are throwing rivers of cash at the problem, are able to withstand no matter the cost.
More bonkers than Amazon?
If they didn't have symptoms, they weren't counted in the headline efficacy numbers we're talking about.

"The primary outcome was virologically confirmed, symptomatic COVID-19, defined as a NAAT-positive swab combined with at least one qualifying symptom (fever ≥37·8°C, cough, shortness of breath, or anosmia or ageusia)."
He'd have to find some other very cheap stock with very cheap far out of the money calls with a high potential for rising 11000% in a year.

I'm taking suggestions.

I don't know if there is anything cheap available on the options market these days.

I don't think GME is going to stay at this price for very long, but on the other hand the retails trader are only ~25% of the volume (Matt Levine's latest column) and on balance selling, so I think the stock price is driven by big players, and "what do they know that I don't?"
A problem os fraud. The faster the settlement, the faster money can be stolen.
Berkshire Hathaway?

Do you understand the tax-reasons why a company would buy back shares instead of issue dividends?

What about book value, where a company could have $1b in assets (real machinery, tractors, factories, etc), no debt, and no dividend? Does that mean it still has no fundamental value?
Related twitter thread: https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1352302818418446337
The interesting thing is that most of those people weren't actually pals when working on P2P stuff, but they were all working on the same stuff. Zuckerburg and Parker didn't meet until Facebook was growing quickly. Scour/Red Swoosh, to my knowledge, had no major connection with the other projects.

I view it more like an instance of synchronicity, where a lot of bright young people looked at the world independently and decided that this was the space they wanted to be working on. And then when that space didn't pan out they went their separate ways, but the fact that they were bright & energetic meant that the successor projects became huge.

(I wonder if a similar effect explains the General Magic, Paypal, and Justin.TV mafias.)
It's like they're "outing" zombie stocks! Didn't realize Starbucks & GM were in such bad shape!
> You could fit all 7+ billion humans in New Zealand if we all lived as densely as Manhattan. [1]

Can stop spreading these factoids as if they would be feasible in any way?

You can't just stick people vertically on a small plot of land ad infinitum, it doesn't scale. Think about all the services required for all 7 billion people to function properly, New Zealand would collapse on itself.
Thank you! I've been polling the original incident page all day. Grrr...
One thing I still love about PHP is that it's so easy to deploy.

No need for fancy Amazon Web Shmervices, no need for Jamstack jumping through the hoops.

Just find any host that supports PHP, upload your file, and done.
Please, stop posting smart sounding misinformation.

> mRNA technology is new, but not unknown. They have been studied for more than a decade. mRNA vaccines do not contain a live virus and do not carry a risk of causing disease in the vaccinated person. mRNA from the vaccine never enters the nucleus of the cell and does not affect or interact with a person's DNA.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/hcp/mrna-vaccine-basic...
The populism here on HN has been indeed disturbing, what with nobody willing to look at it from anything other than the lens of 'Robin Hood Fury'.

People talking in terms of 'shorts', 'positions', 'rights to buy' etc. or any kind of analysis, are missing the point - mostly what is happening here is straight up mania on a stock.

This is a study in memes not markets.
A list of books I hate that make young entrepreneurs think wrong about business
A limit sell order guarantees the limit price or better. A Stop Loss triggers a market order (at any price available) once crossed to the downside.
The story doesn't say they unloaded all their positions this week. The story says "...disclosed Thursday ...no longer holds any shares of the videogame and consumer electronics retailer."

Did they sell it all on one transaction? or multiple transactions over multiple days? weeks? months? How does companies normally wind down positions?
It's a price that "does not reflect legitimate forces of supply and demand". One of the canonical examples of an artificial price is spoofing, where you set up fake sell orders to trick people into thinking a stock is crashing so you can buy it at a discount.
Ask HN: Tips for Linux User on Windows?
I have been a full time Linux user for over 10 years now, at home and professionally. For a new job, I will now be using Windows to develop software.

Do you people have any tips for a long time Linux user to feel comfortable / at home using Windows?

Some things important to me are:
1. Shell: I believe the WSL can help me here.
2. Keyboard centric life
3. Tiling Window management: I use bspwm and cannot imagine a life without tiling
The argument from EU side is that EU money was also spend across those four sites needed to produce.
There was expectation of shared cost and shared resources.
Az committed they had no competing contracts, and if any would happen they would be brought up for resolution.
So it seems the exclusivity has been claimed twice, both in cost as in rewards. Furthermore on the 8th of December UK taskforce said the first shots were from the continent, so the resources were shared after all, but apparently only one way?

About the vaccin buy-in, I never heard that story, but I might be one-sided here.
I listened from the Brexit side of the media and the final argument was officially 'they did not receive the email (three times)'
The unofficial assumption was that the UK wanted to prove something on their own.
This time it worked out, both from securing the vaccins and delivering them. (Good on them, less people dying is a good thing in my book)
But the different risk appetite I imagine hard to replicate to the continent, see the German advise for az vaccins above 65.

You're right the expected pre production did not happen, and we can talk all year about what happened. And the UK, approving it sooner, but also in a worse situation, could dip in first.
The way forward is to find a fair balance in sharing these resources again, until the issues are solved.
Maybe by vaccination degree of the vulnerable, maybe by population size, maybe recognising the UK ordered about 2 dosis per capita, and the EU only 1.

I heard AZ offered 39 million in q1 and the commission not yet being satisfied. But if we're talking numbers, we can get some way out.
I just hope the export ban threat or the article 16 hasn't damaged too much.
Bear Stearns declined to participate in the Fed-organized bailout of LTCM. Ten years later, the Fed declined to participate in any bailout of Bear Stearns.
The value proposition is strongest for hourly employees who earn little money and are gouged left and right by overdraft fees, loan sharks and credit card fees.

There's an interesting planet money episode about that.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787996422/episode-957-youre-g...
I don’t use Facebook anymore, except that I use it to enjoy my Oculus Quest. I am not ready to have a “burning my Quest” experience, as satisfying as that might feel.
I don't remember seeing such a notice when I signed up, but I've been on the platform for a long time so maybe thats new(ish)?
If by basic web app you mean something like a personal site then yes for C# (.net core), Go, and Node.

The searchy bit usually starts when I hit the need for user accounts, data layers, and OWASP.
> obesity

That's >40% of US adults[1] and ~30% of UK adults[2] covered already.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

[2] https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta...
> small number of metal mask layers to implement your design on a much smaller/faster sea-of-gates style ASIC

Ah, yes. The ULA. Whatever happened to those? Used to be a very promising way for small-(ish)-scale chip manufacturing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncommitted_logic_array
> Needless and cruel

That's almost the point, governments are adding more restrictions because they can - there has been no opposing force so the power grab continues to test the limits, and it is only going to stop when people push back.

Some kind of healthy tension between personal freedom and institutional power has been the basis of society forever, and now that tension is completely gone.
The half dose and longer time efficacy numbers have confidence intervals around 50-60% wide, definitely need to do more testing on that. I agree its the biggest question to answer for them (aside from just getting cleaner data through the US trial that will hopefully report soon). I believe they were also doing a study with mixed doses of Oxford/Sputnik.
I can understand pan pan, but do commercial airliners really call mayday that often? It seems that would be more of a GA thing.
> The mRNA vaccines are obviously the gold standard, they're what you want, if you're in a position to pick.

Why? There isn't any evidence that they're more effective than the J&J one.
> My biggest concern with these plays, at this point, is that they're not taking into account the possibility of bankruptcy.

Whose bankruptcy? The WSB crowd are very vocal in their goals of bankrupting hedge funds who have a lot riding on forcing gamespot's stock price to plummet.
You replied to a comment discussing making use of GME as an insurance against a market crash related to this possible short squeeze.

If the market doesn't crash then GME can go to $0, as it won't be needed for the insurance purpose anymore.
And even if they did, who's on the other side of those options now that they're in the money?
>more funds are playing with WSB than against them.

sheer conjecture
I have a phd in biochemistry. I can tell you this is categorically wrong: "mRNA from the vaccine never enters the nucleus of the cell and does not affect or interact with a person's DNA"

It should say almost never. It's low enough for the risk to be worth it, but posting actually wrong absolute statements risks causing a backlash, the last year should have taught us all this basic condition of humanity
E Trade.

https://archive.is/G2crI#selection-6646.0-6646.1
Thanks, I was not familiar with the concept of emissivity.
Fun fact, measure of a teaspoon is confusing:

1 US tablespoon
= 14.8 mL
= 3 teaspoon

A metric tablespoon is exactly equal to 15 mL

The Australian definition:
1 tablespoon
= 20 mL
= 4 teaspoons

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaspoon
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon

Now my so gave me a weird look. I had all the ingredients in the bowl and I said, "It's a cookie!"
There's one screenshot in their blog [1]. Unfortunately, it's not clear from the announcement just how flexible this is. It would be fun if it's capable of effects like cool-retro-term[2].

(EDIT: There was a "retro terminal effect" released a year ago, and the announcement for that version [3] shows it affecting the whole window. A quick search through the Microsoft Terminal source suggests this new feature is an extended version.)

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...

[2]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

[3]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
> And if it is very slightly accidentally gerrymandered in some places, that works against the Conservatives

You're right that there is comparatively little gerrymandering in the UK, but the political decision of how many members of parliament there should be does have a partisan bias. The Conservatives had planned to reduce the number of seats in parliament, which would have the effect of making each constituency (district) bigger and thus more rural. They had to abandon that scheme, though, after enough of their own MPs feared that their constituency would disappear from the map. There are still other controversial redistricting plans in the works though.[0]

> The reality is that 43% popular vote for a single party ... is nothing but an enormous popular vote landslide.

As I responded above, this is more attributable to vote splitting between parties that are much more similar to each other than they are to the Conservatives, and that collectively enjoy a greater share of public support, not to mention the feelings of tactical voters and non-voters who feel disenfranchised due to living in a "safe seat".

A more meaningful figure would be that the median Conservative MP was voted for by only 37% of eligible voters (in the 2019 general election), although both that number and your 43% are less than the popular vote share received by the loser of the 2020 US presidential election.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/02/uk-governme...
>they will change the rules on you so they win anyway

Are you referring to how several popular brokerages prevented customers from opening new positions? That's due to them unable to fulfill deposit requirements on such volatile stocks, not because of some conspiracy by wall st to "change the rules on you so they win anyway".

see: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit..., under heading "Why did Robinhood stop them?".
Just a theory: I suspect another factor is that developer tools is a market that attracts a lot of individuals who use them to do hobby or bootstrapped projects that don't actually bring in any revenue. They tend to be far stingier than businesses who typically have a budget and compare the price to their bottom line.
One is their fault (being misleading), the other is not (the user not understanding).
"will change hedging strategies for a lot of investors moving forward"

Great, that was one of their goals: To make them think about if shorting 140% is a good thing or not.
Interest on cash/float/loans, management fees on their own funds, "skim" off trades, other fees of various kinds, etc.
You can try WSL or Cygwin, though you might want to just use a VM. I only use TUI tools so I'd just SSH into the VM.
Almost anything can be simulated in any other data type, often with poor performance and easy bugs.

If a programmer use lists in lisps where vectors or hash tables are more appropriate, he is doing something wrong.

Likewise, simulating arrays in hash tables, which is what PHP expects one to do, is a very bad idea.

Bash lacks multidimensional arrays, but it does have hash tables, so some programmers resort to simulating multidimensional arrays by using keys such as `"3,4"` as a string in hash tables, this would be a very bad idea if Bash had true multidimensional arrays. In it's lack thereof, it is only a bad idea where no better idea is possible.
Four requests for screenshots, so I opened a documentation ticket! https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/8960 Good idea all.
Honestly, I'm not sure what you're asking. Some kind of admission that the US health field ignored research because "eww, icky Asians?" Evidence that the US health experts knew of the research but are Snidely Whiplash-ish, mustache-twirling evil? As far as I can tell, they're just as confused as any other scientist trying to do their best, with the additional constraint that they have to provide an answer to a question and that any nuance in that answer will be ignored anyway.

The link I posted is to a 2019 paper discussing how and why some viruses are considered airborne transmissible such that masks would help. (Single papers don't usually settle complex questions, right?)

cactus2093's links are to a paper discussing the difficulty of getting people to use masks correctly and a science popularization article describing an unnamed study from the University of New South Wales and an unidentified CDC study. The first link does include references about the utility of masks, to articles titled "Risk of transmission of airborne infection during train commute based on mathematical model", "Knowledge about pandemic influenza and compliance with containment measures among Australians", "Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses: systematic review", "Professional and home-made face masks reduce exposure to respiratory infections among the general population", and "A schlieren optical study of the human cough with and without wearing masks for aerosol infection control", but those don't seem to imply the issue is settled. The second link does go on to say, "While some governments are already stockpiling masks for use in emergencies, MacIntyre said these guidelines had been implemented without evidence to support them. "We now have provided that evidence," she said," but it's difficult to evaluate the last sentence.
Yes this is true. It wouldn't qualify under the "best execution" standard, which is based on publicly displayed (lit) quotes.

But you are right that technically you could've been price improved slightly better had your broker signed a more favorable agreement with a market maker (and then passed it onto you). This would really venture into business economics though and is not related to regulation/legality.
One of the interesting point was that the retail traders were only 1/3 of the volume and trading out of the stock. So who's pumping this?
Money Stuff: GameStop Is Just a Game
Don’t care if it pops, I’m doing my part.
I like that this list exists, and that content seems decent, but it’s a problem that it assumes that a reader has done a lot of prior foundational reading they have not likely done.
For example, there’s an article that talks about Taylorism which tacitly assumes basic engagement with sociology.
Critical engagement in the list’s discussion of Capitalism and post-capitalism at least requires a solid introductory grasp of politics and the history of Capitalism.
Critical thinking is knowledge based, but only a minority of programmers have built 101 knowledge in sociology, philosophy, politics. It is important that programmers engage with “with philosophers, journalists and artists” but doing so requires respect and study of those fields; you can’t skip the basics.
Wow, some of DFV's comments are great. No wonder he eventually attracted a lot of believers. I love this:

"Well as a longer-term investor I have the benefit of heavily discounting daily moves. I care much more about the longer-term charts, and these have been fairly constructive for months now. Even today, after the typical quarterly sell-off, the longer-term chart still looks decent so there’s been nothing to panic over. Let’s see what the price does over the next few weeks.
Of course charts are only a minor part of the equation in my opinion. The fundamentals are much more important in a situation like this."
Liquidated everything on Robinhood today and moved to Fidelity.
There is no need for sum types in a dynamically typed language that provides checking the type conditionally.

Sum types are, in effect, a small domain of dynamic typing.
Try Parler.