skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I even own Tesla stock. But Tesla

1) still has a lot of scaling to get through before they reach anything close to the sales volume of their competition. Elon talks a lot about scaling but Tesla is still microscopic compared to other manufacturers. The business operations of a much larger company will present challenges in communication, structure, quality assurance, legal liabilities in various jurisdictions, not to mention the struggle of sourcing battery components. Tesla scaling is not as easy as spinning up additional Kubernetes pods.

2) The competition WILL electrify. Tesla is not likely to have more than 6 models in the coming years yet they will compete with hundreds of models from different companies that cater to different niches. Any company that offers an electric vehicle with physical buttons instead of a touchscreen has my attention.

3) Tesla workers will unionize and/or mature away from the company. I grew up around Detroit and witnessed a lot of labor dynamics with the UAW. Assuming Tesla succeeds in preventing a union the workers will eventually cash out their stock and leave for better offers at other automotive companies or spin off their services into tier automotive groups. Why write software for Tesla robots when the robot company will hire you to write software for all auto companies?
He probably means Big Joe and Pyramid, not many surfers go there it's really dangerous and a .5km paddle just to get to.

I was one of the OG habitat kakayers, there was no surfers back then, none. I saw maybe 1-2 kayakers a month, usually the guys from the old riot factory, no one knew about it. I found it only because my friend happened to live at habitat.

To be honest once people found out about it and the surf school started it was ruined, I never go anymore, Big Joe is still empty though most of the time, you have to be nuts to bring a suft board way out there, I think in 5 years I saw maybe 3 surfers out there and 2 arrived by jet ski.
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Also why would they not send a message out ahead of time if this was the case? Surely they were aware of this potential risk? Completely unacceptable to not inform users ahead of time.
They can but they have not yet. They’re not going to be able to do it by 29th (doubtful) and it’s a day of max pain.

On the other hand, pissing off a whole bunch of your customers and investors does not seem like a wise idea. Hell, they’ve more money to buy things now.

I should also mention that the GME balance sheet wasn’t even bad back in July, and they’re doing everything to improve it, even without the short squeeze (think closing stores etc).
Theyr're at least gonna use his name for clicks as long as it keeps working
> nobody has gone to war

I'm pretty sure USA will start a new war in 2021-2022. Most probable targets are Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia.

Russia is the most lucrative target but because of nuclear weapon, most likely more and more protests would be organized to attempt to destroy the country from inside, like they did in Ukraine in 2014.

If this strategy fail or is taking too long time, Iran or Saudi Arabia should be prepared. Saudi Arabia is an ally but it's so rich in resources, that there will be some Casus Belli found.

Besides there's no longer even a need for even remotely plausible explanation to start plundering other country. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter will explain it all and block all the discontent.
Legally, they are.
It's interesting because none of what you say is true. Hedge funds definitely collude and not behind closed doors, but also out in the open. Hedge funds announce their picks and go from hedge fund to hedge fund explaining the decisions they made and why they made the stock pick they did. Thousands of analysts in the stock market influence the stock price based on what they see as future investments to be made and are very vocal about it. Wall street bets is no different, reddit just seems to have beat them at their own game.
If the only other people left to sell to are Robinhood investors, you're in trouble anyway.
I do my best to wait 5 minutes before taking the first reading and 2-3 minutes in-between readings
Many factors for the decline in interest rates, but past few decades 80's onwards I would factor in:

1) The recessions of the 70's and subsequent bumps showed that high interest rates in such times hurt the populas deeply.
2) Lower interest rates enable economic stimulus
3) QE can be used to keep interest rates down and stimulate the money, so it may stimulate the economy.

The future - we are seeing things like negative interest rates come into play.

Personal view is the whole shift to silly low interest rates has driven people away from responsible money management and from a save for a rainy day towards have now pay tomorrow. The real downside is that low interest rates discourage savings and those that do save are now not so well off.
I'm fairly confident it's going to be a while before a stock is shorted over 100% again, barring some big regulatory overreach. As soon as it happens, we'll meme it again.
And further, nobody outside of the extreme of the extremists actually wants to eliminate the potential for achieving a "wealthy" status. People will always be able to achieve high levels of success. The argument is that we need to pick a point where amassing so much wealth can start to be deemed anti social and start to taper things off there. There is basically nothing you can buy with ten or eleven digits that you can't buy with nine, except entire corporations and countries and absolutely no individual needs that power or the prospect of that power to be fulfilled in life.
Yeah, good catch

https://decrypt.co/55136/coinbase-to-launch-secondary-market...
About $2.6 billion.

Which means selling shovels is still roughly 30x better than buying shovels.
Which broker do they go to instead? The big competitors at least temporarily halted GME buying today also.
Keeping a record of phone numbers or email is asking for trouble when you get audited. Keep it more random than that and encrypted.
OK. Is your third political party pro gun or anti gun? I need to know before I can commit... see the problem yet? We’ve been divided with wedge issues.
For pointers to other vertices of this story graph, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933543.

(Sorry for the annoying repetition:) Large threads are paginated. To see all the comments, you'll need to click More at the bottom of each page, or do this sort of thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25952659&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25952659&p=3
I'm pretty sure my Nissan Versa has one of these and I'm going to give it a shot tomorrow I think.
Obviously Fidelity is taking on some risk by letting you do this if the transaction does not clear. However, normally, customers depositing are going to buy a variety of normal, not too volatile assets. If your deposit doesn't clear, they just sell whatever you bought and get their money back.

If a large percentage of their customers were new, young, fairly low income (and thus more likely to have their transactions bounce), and they all wanted to buy long positions in a stock that very likely could drop 90% in the next two days, the risk is far higher.
Telegram doesn't require your phone number? It did for me to sign up.
I’m not sure what you mean. Variability in physically identical specimens is handled as probability. KO mice are basically the same organism, when they react differently to the same stimulus it indicates something about all KO mice. When two humans react differently to the same stimulus it tells us something about two humans, but nothing about the rest of the humans.
Complete this sentence : If the product is free, who is the real product ? ______________
SEC violations are civil violations and you don’t go to jail. I mentioned that in my original post.
Hopefully wsb goes to war against citadel next
This is exactly correct, but you know without a doubt folks knew they were in deep last Friday the 22nd (with 0 OTMs). RH's risk department must have taken the week off, and shown back up the 28th at 4am Eastern.

The issue I have, is that I completely understand and expect this to happen, but not as laziee faire. FINRA should have been (also could have been, we don't know) up every orifice on every floor starting at $70+ a share for GME.

Also for as many many contracts to be written at insane IV, this isn't just RH who is at fault. This was literally thought to blow over and didn't -- that's not risk mitigation, that's laziness.

So the problem I have is that they didn't limit the margin requirements last week, got greedy on the potential 'gains' on the fees, and got slammed.

We will see if the 0-fee environment stays -- I hope it doesn't. It completely changes the risk profile of the individual trader were a $5 per trade fee on your one share only covers 1/2 of your fee.

But don't give 'solidity to pure wind' here[0] -- this was absolute negligence on multiple parties.

[0] https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

Edit: I've also always thought that the secondary market is a moral hazard. Primary Offerings are more pure in their 'economic productivity' than secondaries. Sure we can make long winded arguments that the stock price incentivizes executives to make long term decisions, secondary prices help your subsequent offerings, converts, etc... but the short of it is, at the time of a secondary transaction between Alice and Bob, $0 of effective capital is deployed to the actual investing machine... that's quite wild.

Edit x2: And the secondary moral hazard is compounded by this 'liquidity' boogyman that we must keep satisfied -- or else people will actually have to hold their positions until they get a good price.

Final edit: If you want another take, here's another view of the mechanics of it all, and again, it didn't start today... it was a boiling pot they thought wouldn't boil over:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/13549526861652...
This energetic response from so many huge players even outside of WS have really elevated this meme stock saga to a monumental art piece.

Another interesting aspect is the back-and-forward. Reddit throttled and seem to have restored the sub. Discord reversed the ban. FB & Google jumped in.

Not to mention all the WS action, obviously. Financial press started with an emphatically anti-WSB position but public opinion and regular media went sharply in the other direction. I suspect tomorrow's press will be quite different.

WSB nutters believe they have withstood an day of coordinated market manipulation efforts. They're very pumped for round 2. Meanwhile, it seems like brokers, clearing houses, market makers and the markets are getting ready to reopen trading again.

The whole thing has become symbolic, and that might mean even more demand tomorrow.
It's not an option. It's common stock and a long position.

A margin call you can settle with cash. There's nothing here that says "you didn't deposit cash so we're selling your position(s) of value to make margin"

I mean it's possible, but I'm in no way going to default to that explanation absent evidence.

Edit: it explicitly cites the "risk of brokering your position" in GME shares. If this isn't faked it's an astoundingly, jaw droppingly, nakedly and utterly amazing thing to do.
owning puts is the opposite of writing puts
They convinced themselves that Nokia and Ericsson are doing big things with 5G.
Laughs in conservative. It musts be your first time.
Eh - the poker table doesn't have a concept of dividends. (A free drink or two not withstanding)
GameStop Corp. NYSE 138.08% interest rate.

And people wonder why hedge fund managers with short positions on GME are scared by the squeeze! They will do everything they can to stop retailers buying GME. They got caught naked!
>"I don't really know how to read your comment. All the wireless protocol that we use are actually "raw" radio whatever that means."

Sometimes the most profound of truths, the most elegant of truths, are so simple, so as to be overlooked and/or written off by people.

In this case, you see, if "everything is turtles" all the way up, then at the base layer, the turtle all the way at the bottom, the turtle who rests on no other turtle, well that turtle is "radio".

Let's change the topic and talk about cars for a second.

You have drivers, people who can drive a car, that is, people like you and me.

But then you have a subsection of these people, who are mechanics, who can fix most typical problems that a car might have, but there are limits to their capabilities; they couldn't make a car more aerodynamic, or reengineer a gas car to be an electric one, etc.

Then you have, as a subsection of Mechanics, Car Design Engineers (all Car Designers are in effect Mechanics also, because their knowledge is a superset of the mechanic's knowledge).

The Car Design Engineer can do "miraculous" things that an ordinary Mechanic cannot -- he or she could make a gas car electric, an electric one gas, could design for higher MPG, could swap out systems, etc., etc.

The Mechanic works at a lower level of abstraction than the car driver does, and so, can do many things that an ordinary car driver cannot, but the Car Design Engineer works at a still lower level of abstraction than the Mechanic -- and thus he or she can do "miraculous" things that the Mechanic cannot...

"It's all raw radio" -- is the simple, elegant, most profound truth at the bottom of the stack of turtles (compare to the concept of common denominators in Mathematics), it's the lowest-level abstraction, it's the abstraction level that, should we work from it upwards (rather than pre-built protocols, drivers and stacks) downwards, we'd find that we can do things that we otherwise couldn't, if we were forced to work within the constraints of all of those pre-determined systems.

Finally, the Internet itself -- the Internet itself -- IS A SERIES OF ABSTRACTIONS -- a series of "Turtles on top of other turtles".

The Internet itself...

Meditate on that one for a second... I did, and the implications of that meditation were profound!

Why shouldn't someone commit to learning about all of those levels of abstraction, and gaining the corresponding power of amazing engineering (aka, "abstraction working") abilities -- should that knowledge be gained?
> the plot is rendered as a Vega-Lite spec JSON object. The JSON spec stores the entire dataset, so it limits you to using 5,000 data points

Use "named datasets", specify data via URL, etc. Do not ever specify data inline with the spec. It might get loaded into a JSON object under the hood regardless, IDK, but it's remarkably faster and simple plots of ~100000 points will work on the average computer/vm
what is an "exotic instrument"?
When I shop for products on Amazon the problem is such that more or less all reviews are negative. In that case it doesn't matter if it's 1k or 10k, they simply drown out the positive/neutral reviews, even though I'm pretty safe to ignore the "this product was DOA" reviews. The review incentive structure is fundamentally broken.
For those who don't want to download the entire PDF, here's the one graph you want to see: https://ibb.co/Q8fqdrH
Famed GameStop bull 'Roaring Kitty' is a Massachusetts financial advisor
I don't think BBSs were decentralized. You phoned a specific server, usually it had like 5 lines and you had to wait until one is free, and you had a session time limit... where's the decentralization? How is it different from HTTP->TCP->IP->Ethernet connection to a server?
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I found it underwhelming for the admission price. The habitats are not very large and the entire complex isn't very large either. There's just not that much to see compared to similarly priced famous exhibitions (say San Diego Zoo, NY Botanical Garden, etc.). I understand it's a little different from a traditional zoo, but I wouldn't make a stop if I were just a tourist. There are better things to see in Montreal if you have a limited amount of time.* It's just not that biologically diverse and very expensive per square meter of viewing space.

*For perspective, I go to Montreal multiple times a year for decades now, and I only went to the biodome once as an adult. If I lived there, I would probably take my kids.
> My old thinkpad maxes out at 8gb, even though I could change the stick to a 16 or 32gb.

I don't know what model of ThinkPad you have, but on most of them for at least the last 10 years, if the RAM is the right type it will work.

ThinkPads traditionally have had PSREF and datasheets that specify the max RAM based on the modules available when they were released. But generally they will also work with larger memory modules of the same type. They just don't list them because they weren't available for testing at the time.

Which ThinkPad model do you have? Perhaps it is one that I or someone else may be familiar with.
Please stop posting ideological flamebait. You've done a ton of it in the last 24 hours, it's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it—regardless of which flavor you favor or how strongly you feel about it.

Fortunately your recent account history doesn't show much of this before the current episode, and many of your comments seem downright excellent. That's great. Please go back to that and don't do any more of this. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, we'd appreciate it. The idea here is substantive, thoughtful conversation on topics of intellectual curiosity.
> Do you blame people who are doing the best any human can do in their position when they have absolutely no control over anything?

If someone advertises a service but cannot provide that service due to ineptitude, mendacity, or bad luck, then they will be almost certainly be judged on that regardless of their efforts. Their efforts may or may not be taken in to account but this is not school, we are adults, and as such we are all judged based on performance before all other considerations.

For those who wish it to be otherwise then that's fine, just don't charge.
If so, it requires someone to take action against them. Since the CEO of the Nasdaq suggested a trading halt to let hedge funds "recalibrate"[0] it's going to take State AGs or similar to take action.

0 - https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/nasdaq-ceo-suggest...
> Of course, they have the right to do whatever.

If they collude to manipulate the market they are committing a crime.
Imagine if Excel had 1 inch padding around any cell, a gray large font on a light gray background, no cell borders and autohiding row and column labels because "cleaner and modern UI" :-)

Wouldn't we use Lotus 1 2 3 in some emulator?
I also put in a transfer request today, but from Merril Lynch->TDAmeritrade. ML blocked me from buying AMC this morning.

The message they displayed was:

Due to recent volatility in certain securities and to reduce risk of market volatility, we will be placing restrictions on certain securities, including increased margin requirements and/or limiting transactions. Game Stop (GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) are now blocked for opening transactions and they have also been moved to a 100% margin requirement for existing positions. Additionally, opening orders for GME and AMC will be cancelled including Day and Good-till-Cancelled (GTC) orders.
Finance bro martin shrkeli pulled off a pretty epic short squeeze on KBIO
The display on my 6th gen has developed flickering issues after only a year and half of light usage. I think the quality on these has gone down a lot recently.
Kinda makes me wonder how hard he worked (was he all talk?); we'll never know. He certainly caused us to think though.
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wow, they didn't do much research for this article...
It's "wrong" in the sense that you go unheard but "right" in the sense that I can make a more accurate assessment of the product. I care more about the latter and so does the sales platform.
Surprisingly Peterffy came across as super transparent, trustworthy and honest unlike Vlad. He stated outright this was a joke and and that GME is a $17 stock trading at a crazy price because of some games (short squeeze) and he's not sure the people on the hook to pay up for the shorts are going to be able to- which is why they have to stop and get a handle on it. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/01/28/pro-watch-cnbcs-full-i...
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Well, your dad decided to side with one or more large, faceless hedge fund managers known for burning down several companies to the ground. He bet against the retailers and be bet against GameStop company. There will always be losers and winners but at least you should own your position/side. I guess loosing on the wrong side of the fence feels even worse.
I did not mean a thread race condition. Classic was the wrong word. I mean race condition between acquiring a swapchain (for the current window and size) and finishing drawing to it. There is no way to stop the compositor from updating the window in between. The correct way of doing would be to change the window sizes when presenting the new swapchain.
Wow, it's almost like private companies don't want to be seen supporting terrible people who have done terrible things, such as damage a democracy by incompetence and malice. Or encouraged and emboldened extremists cumulating in an attempt to actually harm the leaders of a country, or illegally obtain a gun, shot several people, then was seen associating with extremists who regularly call for and perpetrate violence.
Robinhood screwed themselves thrice over. If their clearing outfit wouldn't handle these transactions anymore at reasonable prices, that's out of their control. Fine.

RH didn't have to send out a patronizing "we're doing this for your own good" email.

RH didn't have to continue failing at anything resembling forthright communication. (Including their tweets, blog posts, and outright false in-app messages that implied users sold their own shares and cancelled their own orders)

Worst of all, RH absolutely didn't have to sell people's shares out from under them at a dip in GME's price.

They were going to burn some amount of goodwill, but that could have been reduced from company-destroying magnitude to mere bad day had they simply not acted shady at every possible point. That last point is probably going to land them in severe legal hot water, their ToS won't mean much especially if/when the SEC comes knocking.
"yet"
It’s not just about funding your account, it’s every single trade. When you sell a stock and then immediately buy another one, the cash from your sell doesn’t actually land for a few days.
Unfortunately, NASA has to follow ITAR, which means that a lot of stuff has to be kept closed - for example, basically anything on the topic of computational fluid dynamics (e.g. [0]). US persons can request a copy of much of this software, but they have to sign an agreement with NASA promising not to redistribute it without NASA's permission.

Are China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, al Qaeda, ISIS, really disadvantaged by not being able to access NASA's CFD software? I'm sure the nation-states have the money and people to work it out for themselves, whereas the non-state actors wouldn't know what to do with it.

[0] https://software.nasa.gov/software/ARC-14400-1
The Imbalanced Programmer
Long time investor doesn't mean good trader, and shorting is trading.

Only fools stay short for a long time. Fees, theta, and margin interest will eat you alive.

Plus there's the near infinite downside if you're wrong.

Fantastic thread on shorting:

https://twitter.com/HedgeDirty/status/1254767346784313344
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted at all. What you say sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

An interesting technical explanation for why brokers ALSO had an incentive to block buy-action...

...doesn’t mean they couldn’t have also had other incentives/pressures.