skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that analogy doesn't fit. Fully half of robinhood users owned GME stock. They were in the middle of a bet. RH created a situation where the stock could only go down.

"I think it's like a brokerage that has to post 100% collateral --- out of their money"

How is this not the customers money? You deposited 100% of the collateral with RH. Banks can take your money and make loans with it so the bank can make profit, but only so long as they have your money for you when you want to use it.
I find it unlikely that the depreciation on a $40K automobile is less than on a $30K one. If one is selling a car after only three years they should have leased it.
The problem is usually that AVs hook file operations to scan files. Unfortunately, software development performs a LOT of file IO by package management and compilers, and in the case of compilers those files are internally formatted as files containing code (eg obj files, libs or executables), even if they are only temporary during the build.

Because of this, an AV product could work fine for every department of the company, but have an extreme negative performance impact on software devs. To give you an idea, it could mean the difference between a 5 minute and a 1 hour build. These issues are inherent to a generic AV product so often the fix is simply to add those folders to an exclusion list.

Does it provide security for those folders? Nope. But the alternative could make it impossible to get work done.
Redux and Doman-Driven Design
45 minutes is a good period as it gets you to the beginning of your REM cycle. I often aim for 45 minutes as a nap, but for reasons I don't understand, 20 minutes can be disproportionately invigorating.
This paper says it increases mortality for that reason:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1368064
People don't like to say it, but it's just India's Hinduism versus the minorities (Sikhs and Muslims), a bunch of Indians here throwing excuses know what's up.

Also for the West, it's hard not to roll them all up in one category because inherently westerns do this with africans, asians, middle easterners
I think BART was turning off the network during Oscar Grant protests.
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Economy of scale is important, definitely. I'm just not so sure if the economy of scale favors energy storage (required for large-scale EVs) or ICEs right now, or in the forseeable future if we don't heavily invest in backup energy if renewables are not available.

The US is heavily dependent on air conditioning, for example. What would happen if the available energy was low in summer nights? Some kind of base energy backup needs to be there, and the energy cost of air conditioning alone is huge.
They were doing it significsntly more than their competitors.
This. Folks can agree that there's 10x in everything. Banksy is 20x artist. Tony Hawk is 20x skateboarder. Yo-yo Ma is 20x Cellist. We can find exceptional folks in every field, and then there are folks who are really 10x. Everyone knows easily the 20x in computing. We can easily recognize Donald Knuth, Peter Norvig, etc as 10x+ computer scientist..

Don't think that folks will also argue that Jeff Dean, Fabrice Bellard, John Carmack, Linus, Dennis Ritchie, Jamie Zawinksi, Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson, Bill Joy, Donald Knuth, Dan Berstein, Brad Fitzpatrick, Doug Cutting, Rob Pike, Joe Armstrong are 20x programmers.

Yet 10x and most people get upset, and you're very correct because they haven't met those. I have met one, and it wasn't about pay, they worked in an average non tech city, they got paid average salary. They loved the work tho, and cranked out almost as much work as everyone else in a department of around 15 folks.
Republic World. haha
And if there is something their current user base is good at, it's coordinated mass action.

So if this is possible, I expect tens of thousands of arbitration cases to be filed by Monday.
Complete propaganda here. The oligarchs and nationalists are pushing down the minorities (Sikhs, and Muslims and poor). A t the end of the day those funding Jio and other Oligarchs (Hi Mark, Hi Bond), will end up catching blame with a black swan event goes down. Follow the money, VCs and Facebook fund up these same oligarchs that press and kill hundreds of millions.
A short story on my experiences with cryptocurrencies
Well, Turbo Pascal was simply not available on Linux, at least not "freely". I loved Turbo, and I missed it and I begrudgingly switched to C++. And as a side note, I hated g++ cygnus to the bones, because they had some fixes for c++ templates that were not yet released in the foss version, only in the "pro" release.

Oh how I missed Turbo for Linux...
Yes; beyond a (very) small in-group of people we are part of, larger groups of people relate mainly through shared stories, not 'facts'. Hence religion, nation myths, etc. Likewise, they fight over conflicting stories.

Yuval Harari does a concise and brilliant job of explaining this in Sapiens, which I seem to recommend to everyone I meet.

TL;DR: facts are not how humans interact.
L-theanine is awesome!

I'm wondering though, are you using melatonin during the day to take naps?
A piece of California's Highway 1 near Big Sur collapsed into the ocean
The Self-Governing Internet Organizations Manifest
> I remember it as one of the most productive periods of my life but it was incredibly anti social and got the strangest looks from management.

The modern WFH culture has probably made it easier to do that than ever before (plus the lack of social schedules from the lockdown).

I did a modified Uberman sleep schedule while I was home taking care of my dad & working - the forced isolation, the fact that I would have to wake up every 3 hours to check on him & living in India, while working US hours anyway messing up my schedules of sleep supported the transition.

The process took almost two weeks to get into it, but lasted a whole two months & if I had to go back to it, all I would add to it is some exercise to sync up with the sun rising.

I think we as a species are naturally capable of doing short nap rests, at least for periods of several months, because that schedule of ~1 hour of rest for every 3 hours is literally what taking care of a newborn demands.
Exactly, this is the same thing. Hindu nationalist govt controlling media narrative.
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Is it any different from widespread adoption of HTTPS, e.g. with browsers becoming increasingly discouraging towards unencrypted HTTP?

I'm not the one you're asking, but I think it's not, and I have the same concerns with HTTPS too.
Fair enough but I am not sure which news outlet can be considered "credible" these days. FWIW, here is Time of India. You can search "Singhu border SHO attack", there are plenty of news portals reporting it.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/farmers-protest-in...
While regular afternoon naps may be linked to improved cognitive function, regular afternoon naps after food are strongly linked to my stomach aches.
Are you perhaps referring to the emerald-inheritance-richy-rich child-slave-loving-cobalt-mining 3rd-world-tweet-coup-leading union-busting-racist-workplace-of-terror-managing thai-pedo-twitter-bully covid-denier Elon that weird homeless hippy writers, wallstreetbros and proud-moms who didn't buy any $TSLA like to get their outrage chubs for?
I genuinely don't understand why the US can't learn from other countries to improve itself.

There's a pretty broad assertion buried in your confusion.

Like for healthcare, the issue isn't that we can't look at other systems and see that there are advantages, it's that there is widespread resistance to moving away from the existing system. There isn't any single reason for it (lots of people like that they are making lots of money, other people have ideological concerns, etc, etc). Trying to reduce that down to "US can't learn" isn't really very interesting, as that isn't the problem.
I can understand your cynicism, but a simple Google search will show plenty of news portals reporting the same news.
Pasting a Republic link is incredibly disingenuous because they frequently peddle fake news, not to mention, are extremely biased towards the current government, so much that their main person had access to sensitive intelligence information.

Search: "arnab leaked chats"
No it isn’t. As law. It might be accepted as practice.

They are different.
> when developers follow the way of the Jedi
Thanks for the explanation. Yes, they would need to pay more than once for it. In any scenario, the demand would outstrip the supply and hence there is still a short squeeze on the table.
What differentiator is there really beyond pay?
Ahead of its time.
> if they reach <100%. I assume at that point it becomes less of an we against them

In order to cover their short, they actually need to buy shares with willing sellers. So it wouldn't be a case of everyone against everyone. The amount of holders will decrease proportional to the short percentage.

They just need to make sure they aren't buying while the sellers are decreasing their exposure. But that's quite easy to tell as the price would shoot sky high from all the short sellers buying.
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Honestly, it's very common at the largest public corporations and most corporate r&d groups in the US. It's not like we don't already do black box development or have strict vpn only enforcement rules. I wonder how risk assessment sees these kind of federated protocols because in theory you are right about it reducing liability if they run the system.
They're just different forms. Films, multi-film series and connected series, miniseries, episodic TV, serialized TV, blends of episodic and serialized, anthologies, shorts, etc. are all different and have their own pluses and minuses.

It's obviously fine to prefer some and not others.

You can equally see TV seasons as giving the opportunity to take a break from something for a while.
> IB's CEO Thomas Peterffy said on CNBC that their intent was to protect large market participants, including clearing houses.

This is the same thing I'm talking about, just arguably phrased poorly. If the clearing house is in danger you risk cascading financial failure that endangers everyone, not just people buying GME. Yes that includes large market participants but it also includes Joe Blow holding AAPL or TSLA.

There is a conversation worth having about DTCC's potential conflicts of interest, but it seems clear to me that DTCC cannot be allowed to go down. They need to raise collateral requirements, regardless of the PR fallout that small brokerages might face.

> The article you cited quotes the WeBull CEO saying that Apex dictated restrictions on specific stocks. That is at odds with the story that it was just a matter of brokers not being able to meet collateral requirements.

I think being careful with terminology is important here. WeBull is what's known as an "introducing broker". They deal with clients through their app and such, but they don't really do any of the back-office work. They offload that to a clearing _firm_ called Apex, who ultimately is the one that must post collateral to the clearing _house_ DTCC[1]. According to WeBull's CEO, Apex realized they would be unable to put up the collateral and so called up all the brokerages they work with to tell them that GME would be halted.

Robinhood and most larger brokerages such as TDA, Fidelity, and Vanguard are all self-clearing. It's essentially like if WeBull and Apex were the same company. So while technically speaking it was the clearing firm portion that couldn't post collateral, the introducing broker and clearing firm are the same company so people tend to just simplify and say that the brokerage itself couldn't meet collateral requirements.

> One consistent theme seems to be that clearing houses are behind this, and that their restrictions were not dictated by a formula, but were more arbitrary.

The clearing house (in the US, there's really only one) is definitely behind this, but I don't know that the restrictions were arbitrary. It's pretty standard practice for the DTCC to raise collateral requirements on volatile stocks, and they generally inform clearing firms until the morning that restrictions go into place, giving clearing firms only a few hours to provide additional capital[2]. Whether that's a good standard practice is certainly arguable.

1. See here for the difference between a clearing house and a clearing firm: https://www.money-zine.com/definitions/investing-dictionary/...

2. See page 49 of https://dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/policy-and-co...
No, you can't marry the Efficient Market Hypothesis with any kind of inefficiency. Even less one that isn't compatible with a market settling into equilibrium.

The hypothesis is just false. Markets do seek efficiency, but not the way it states. But the Efficient Market Hypothesis leads to tractable mathematics, so people try to approximate the real world into it.
I’m far from an expert in these things, but to me the benefits of bitcoin are: 1) giving individuals a way to exchange money digitally without it being tied to their offline identity directly (cash) and 2) providing a currency that can’t be manipulated directly by government monetary policy. I assume banning it and replacing it with something from the government is intended to avoid those things intentionally, and isn’t some accident they stumbled into.
This looks very useful. Thanks!
For context - Just last year a different protest resulted in a massive riot in the same city, around similar time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Delhi_riots . This resulted in murders of at least 53 people, including a highly gruesome lynching of a police officer.

Also again for context, as Kashmir internet ban keeps coming up in discussion, ni the 90s 500K minority (Hindu+Sikh) people were forced out of their houses in Kashmir, many of them still living in refugee camps. Thousands were murdered, thousands raped. This was coordinated using loudspeakers. I personally shudder to think what kind of genocide can be coordinated using Internet technologies. Especially when there are motivated, well funded enemies like Pakistan involved in both regions.
You missed the point. The best dev in the world will be slow if he has to work with a huge mess created by many bad devs over a decade. However if the best dev in the world got to create his own architecture and compete with the people working on the mess he can beat a team of hundreds depending on the domain.
> I am all for peaceful protests, the constitution has given every citizen the right to protest

They have been peaceful protesting for literally months now. One bad incident does not mean anything and there is a lot of information about how the government goons infiltrated the protests.

If you are all for peaceful protests, you wouldn't single out one single incident but that's exactly what you are doing and I think it's malicious. Which you are free to do, but please don't pretend otherwise.
But then he points out the growth of Shopify.
Ask HN: Is Web Scraping Legal?
Is web scraping legal? It seems like a grey area. Wondering if there is a definitive answer on this question.
We are within 500 years of creating millions of self sustaining spaceports. We are within 500 years of AGI. We are within 500 years of understanding quantum gravity. We are within 500 years of fixing biological death. The order we get to those and how they interplay and change the world matters so much that it doesn't make sense to worry about making predictions.
Assuming someone was dumb enough to put any potential shady deal in writing. Wouldn't be the first time, but it requires a special kind of incompetence to do that.
> Even worse is when you connect an external monitor which is not HiDPI and now everything is bigger than usual.

This has been a real bugbear for me. I'm a big fan of small sharp bitmap terminal fonts, but as my new laptop is now the same resolution as my external monitor I have a choice between comically small on the laptop display or comically huge on the monitor.
I have a very difficult time falling asleep if I know I have to wake up shortly.
Have you ever tried? Coffee is easy to cut. Just don't have any at home.
It’s sad since the majority of the protest was peaceful. There’s even the usual sorry state where reporters actively told camera men to stop rolling when they accidentally captured police caning protestors.

The capitol insurrection angle is also a new line being tested in the media for consumption.
guess this is better than masturbating during the day and copious amounts of cocaine and prostitutes
The weird thing here is that buying the shares themselves to exploit the potential for the short squeeze, in itself makes a short squeeze more likely, no?

But yeah, it's possible if you have that intent in your mind, somehow it makes it illegal, the laws don't always make sense and I'm not an expert here.

I am pretty confident that large traders do this all the time though, have the intent to cause a short squeeze. But I wouldn't be shocked if there's something illegal that traders do all the time anyway (without advertising it on the internet!).
This seems really cool, if worked upon well, can actually be a thing, plus it made me smile lol.
Lemme know if I can help in any way :)
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Thanks for your work Ken. I am learning so much from you.
Here's an original thought. The presentation asserts that Tesla has eaten the entire auto industry, and this is because of slipping battery costs. It does not, however, correctly credit China for this change.

What other changes has China recently led? Video conferencing, mass-adoption of mobile payment, death of the desktop, home food delivery (pre-COVID), online grocery, e-Health passports.
If we think about the limits of the physical laws, one possibility is having a civilization that maximizes the available computation, and I suspect that this looks like some kind of black hole expanding with the speed of light.
I think what you are asking is given a time series (x_0, x_1... x_n), what is the 6 month high (or low) on day i? In other words you want the max (or min) of the sub series (x_{i-180},x_{i-179}... x_i).

x_0 is obviously the 6 month high at day 0 (since there is no previous data). If x_1 > x_0 then x_1 is the new 6 month high so we can discard x_0 on day 1. If x_1 < x_0 then x_0 is still the 6 month high on day 1, but we cannot discard x_1 because it might become the 6 month high when x_0 expires on day 181. So we need to maintain some sort of data structure of potential 6 month highs such that we can lookup the current high and remove these highs as they expire or get replaced. The easiest way to do this is with a list of pairs [(x_i1, i1), (x_i2, i2)...] sorted by increasing x_i. Because it is sorted, the current high is always found on the element closest to the end of the list. Furthermore when a new element (x_k, k) is added, it replaces all the elements which come before it (thus they can be removed). As a corollary, because the newest element is always added to the back (after removing what's in front of it), the list is also sorted by order of expiry (with the oldest (x_i,i) at the end). Start with an empty list and i = 0

Find the sorted insertion point in the list for (x_i,i).

Remove everything prior to the insertion point.

Insert (x_i, i) at the start of the list.

If the element at the end of the list (x_n, n) is expired (n < i+180) then remove it.

The 6 month high on day i is found in the element at the end of the list. Store this in a new series h_i.

Increment i by 1 and repeat.

This method trivially works for finding the 6 month low as well.
Examples of where it is not?
You can have a dash cam in any car, but having several cameras around the car recording is more rare. (And very helpful in case of an accident)
Just curious -- why not?
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I don't know if there's definitive research saying this, but this ability to fall asleep quickly may be due to sleep deprivation. However, polyphasic sleep is linked to lower academic performance and increased daytime sleepiness. [0] That makes me think that the "benefit" is possibly an illusion due to the antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation.

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[0]: Studies linked here: https://www.verywellhealth.com/pros-and-cons-of-a-polyphasic...
Three things:

a.) your German friend would likely have not been in the kafala system since that is for the labour force.

b.) the kafala system has been banned in the UAE since 2005, with a pretty punitive fine regime, although that hasn't done enough to eliminate it (Govt. lenient treatment for its cronies vs independent contractors, both who follow the practice). It's still in force in other countries in the region.

c.) Your friend will likely have been staying at a township for workers, which is often the common pattern for mining towns in most countries in Asia. Conditions usually tend to be luxuriant, and nowhere near the labour camps (which are actual camps).
>Isn't creating the appearance of this kind of consensus exactly what would happen at a pump and dump scheme at the height of the pump?

This is fully in the open and all information is public. Pump and dump schemes are usually the reverse of this.
People are buying BTC to hedge against the coming wave of inflation. They're buying immunity.
Or in the case Wells Fargo, they're threatened with being fired if they don't meet sales quotas using unethical and illegal means. Then they're fired anyway when they are caught.
Think about it this way: if you choose to wear a helmet, you already have done a personal risk evaluation. You are also, with a high probability, an avid cyclist. You are more likely to invest in quality equipment.

On the other hand, if you are getting a helmet because you have to but don't really want to, your selection criteria will be different. You are less likely to invest in quality equipment.

The problem with dodgy headgear is that a badly fitting helmet will not feel right, or align well with your head movements. This in turn means such a helmet is a source of low-grade irritation and distraction - and due to bad fit, may actually limit your field of vision when you turn your head around. The latter clearly increases the wearer's risk.

Hence, a cyclist who wears a helmet only because it's mandatory is (sadly enough) more likely to get into dangerous accidents. They are unable to give their surroundings their full attention, and may also be suffering from ill effects of their chosen gear.

Net effect? More dangerous situations, with smaller safety margins between the cyclist and their surroundings.

Full disclosure: I prefer to wear a good, lightweight helmet that fits snugly and doesn't accidentally impair my vision. I have also experienced badly fitting helmets and consider them hazardous. This is the reason why I am against mandatory cycling helmets - regulation can not guarantee ergonomics, so with mandatory helmets the truth is that more people will be in the traffic with headgear that will make them less safe to themselves, as well as everyone around them.
San Francisco School District’s renaming debacle has been a historic travesty
> If my guestimate is right, a cold file would go from hitting memory 4 times to hitting it twice. And a file in disk cache would go from 3 times to once; the CPU doesn't need to touch the memory if it's in the disk cache.

You're spot on. I have a slide that I like to show NIC vendors when they question why TLS offload is important.
See pages 21 and 22 of: https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2019-ktls.pdf