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Ask HN: What to Do about huge Waves of decentralized mobs?
We now have an interesting phenomenon.

Free speech memes (anti vax, election was a fraud, etc.) generate a huge snowball that big tech tries to deplatform. It threatens stability.

And now, free trade memes (short squeeze, or long-term ones like HODL to the moon) generate a huge snowball that may end short selling. It threatens stability.

This is true whether it's people organizing for Navalny against Putin, or against Lukashenko, or protesting the election, or reddit bros coordinating a short squeeze. Flash mobs organize. Stability vs Freedom. The people who enjoy stability are also blatantly profiting off their privileged position and access to the levers of power. The angry mob gets some short term wins but ultimately the loss of stability may drastically decrease overall wealth for everyone.

The question is ... how would the people who are in favor of stability even regulate or enforce the ability of flash mobs to get together, if there is no centralized organizer, just a meme or an idea? This is how revolutions occur. But often, the result (anarchy in Libya, 20M dead in Russian civil war after the revolution) is worse than the situation that came before.
I very rarely see this style -- which comes from "Setext", IIRC, which might be patient zero of the "human readable plain text markup styles" -- in the wild anymore, and I suspect it's probably for the reasons you're describing here. I almost never use it myself, except in contexts where the "source file" is just as likely to be read as a rendered HTML version. README files are a good example.

> In some editors/IDE, the underline even gets highlighted / boldfaced, thereby exacerbating this effect.

I think a lot of editors just don't know about this style of heading, but they do know that a line of three or more dashes is used to create a horizontal rule, so they're trying to highlight that.
Yup, parasites are really cunning life forms and often very neglected also by science. I used to be very interested by them in the past.
I don't get why loaning out an already loaned stock is legal. Short selling should be limited to first gen loans. Otherwise it's like Beavis and Butthead in the Candy Store episode where they keep loaning the same dollar back and forth.
The idea that the shorts are for sure going to pay a higher price is super misleading and is the fuel for this ponzi. Everyone already knows the value of Gamestop is a tiny fraction of its price, so even if some shorts have to close, others will open short positions. To the people who believe they won't be the bag holders because of high short interest, this basically means the stock will always go up, and when enough people realize that's not true, the party is over and the ones opening short positions or closing long positions recently will be the only ones walking away with actual money.
That might be a compelling argument if they weren’t making money off of us in the first place.

When the choice is status quo vs actually hurting some of them even if the rest get the status quote, it’s an easy choice.

>Just another day on Wall Street

If this was true then none of the current events this thread is discussing would be occurring. You don’t need to destroy all of your enemies, you just need to prove you’re a credible threat to make the rest be wary
how about making the PR experience less garbage on keeping track of comments across changesets
Is the program available for people that are not US residents? Or not currently living in the US? thanks.
It usually means something like "fast enough" or "faster than expected". In this title "fast and performant" is using redundancy for emphasis.
That comment might be for programmers coming from languages where filenames do matter to the compiler, or languages like Java where the convention is so universally followed that many programmers don't know you can break it. Someone programming for the first time already "knows" that filenames don't matter, so it's probably not for them.
After all the good advices in the article my first idea was to check where they are now after 2 years.
The site is down, dead in the water. So maybe the advices where not that good ...
10 days ago someone posted a similar idea and how he failed.

"I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825917

I hope your project succeeds.
Thanks for giving details and to make clear that this is their global policy. They should indeed be commended for that.
Elon Musk blames FAA for holding up the next Starship test (SN-9)
>we're able to serve about 350Gb/s of real customer traffic.

I still remember the post about breaking 100Gbps barrier, that was may be in 2016 or 17 ? And wasn't that long ago it was 200Gbps and if I remember correct it was hitting memory bandwidth barrier as well.

And now 350Gbps?!

So what's next? Wait for DDR5? Or moving to some memory controller black magic like POWER10?
If you had posted this explanation in the first place then it wouldn't have been flamebait. The problem with what you did post is that it was snarky and unsubstantive, as well as a partisan provocation. Certainly that breaks the site guidelines—more than one of them, in fact.

It's fascinating to me how common it is that people's second comment (e.g. after a moderation reply) will give a detailed substantive expression of what they actually meant. I think we all assume that what's in our mind will come across in our comments, but actually it doesn't come across by itself—it needs to be formulated explicitly, as you did in your later reply.

If you don't share it explicitly, but only give a quick pointer to it, people will fill that in with what's in their mind, which is a huge range of possible interpretations, many of which are inflammatory or even attacks, whether you meant it that way or not. Commenters will respond to what they perceive you as saying (and feeling, and thinking, and doing), and it's your responsibility to minimize the gap between that and what you actually mean. (I don't mean just you, of course. We all need to do this.)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
It's not like people actually take the time to determine exactly how many stars is considered fair. I believe that if this rating system were replaced with a binary vote, like thumbs up/thumbs down, Google would've still removed the thousands of votes.

I understand the argument for removal, since Robinhood likely had no choice but to stop the trading. Ratings are meant to inform consumer choice, so a brigade of downvotes due to some recent controversy/memery is more likely to hurt consumer choice since it reduces the amount of information available. It means that one detail is drowning out all of the others, and regardless of whether a new customer would care about that detail, the fact is that it's the only one they'll be able to base their decision on while those votes stay up.

But on the other hand, app ratings are one of the very few powers consumers have to affect change in companies they do business with. Brigading the rating system (which has the effect of turning away new customers) is no different than bad word-of-mouth, where angry customers go out of their way to prevent others from doing business with the company that screwed them over. Even if a disgruntled customer goes a bit too far with hyperbole, that's their right. And it's a good thing that those things are possible, because it forces companies to always stay on their toes and think twice before doing something to hurt consumers.

It's the question of whether a consumer should have to "suck it up" when a company screws them over, or whether a company, whose full-time job it is to provide a particular service, should be held to a higher standard and be hurt when they provide bad service.

IMO, Google really should have not gotten involved here. This is an issue between Robinhood and its customers, whether or not you think what Robinhood did was fair. Google, a company being investigated for anti-competitive practices, just took another anti-consumer action.
> So you think IQ and race are correlated.

Of course - we have several decades of twin and sibling studies confirming this effect.

> I can't believe I just read this on HN

Sorry, I dropped a word from my comment - I meant "the connotation of being Asian is not bad". That is, no one really has a problem with Asians or thinks it's bad to have them around.

> Who are you to gatekeep what is offensive and what isnt

I'm making an observation, not "gatekeeping". There are definitely slurs that are more offensive than others.
Nothing particularly interesting or shocking about the parts that got un-censored. The important part seems to be 5.4, which was already readable before.

To me that section seems so suggest that production facilities in the UK should/could indeed be used to supply the EU, which is what the EU seems to want and AZ/UK are denying. But I'm sure there are a lot of highly paid lawyers looking at this from all sides right now.
But that ... that's not exactly incompatible. The WHO makes very simple blanket statements that are safe in general.

A doctor usually looks at an individual. (And we know a lot of pregnant women got infected with COVID. We know that hospitalization was higher for them, but also that mortality is the same - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6925a1.htm?s_cid=mm... , so the immune reaction should be the same too)

The real problem is that it's impossible for a non-expert to gauge the expertise of any of these entities (your full-sized real-life walking-talking doctor who you know for a deacade, the WHO and anyone in between). Even simply asking many questions is just the illusion of getting informed (not just because there's rarely any time for proper answers as you mentioned), but because the answers are biased, so this naturally biases the next question too. (Unless there's enough time and effort to go through years of science and try to falsify whatever theory is being communicated with very targeted questions, it's close to useless/futile effort.)

> But they are not really vested in you in particular, you are just one more,

Yep. Agreed. Also usually primary care physicians are better at "bedside manner" and pattern matching than at real medical science. (Because it's not really their job to have 20 doctorates in every subfield of biology.)
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I don't take what Robinhood says at face-value because they have proven to be a sketchy-ass brokerage. That said, I still find their statements infinitely more valuable than baseless conspiracy theories floating around. Why would Citadel risk jeopardizing their lucrative relationship with Robinhood just so they might be able to successfully manipulate the market?
Please note the extraneous, curiously specific detail 'via Telegram'. It's nice to see Zuck's PR working overtime.
> Most people don't go to a website to have an "experience".

Well, with the things that people do routinely, they rarely do it for the experience. But that does not mean they do not experience it. That experience should certainly be prioritized while keeping the goal of the users as a top priority.
Right. I'm less sympathetic to this argument than I was years ago when I first started paying more attention to police corruption, because since then I've watched widespread protests happen over police brutality, and I've watched prosecutors literally just refuse to charge the officers involved.

The protests didn't matter, prosecutors would not consciously attack the people on "their side."

It's an argument that sounds good, and in a system that wasn't so fundamentally broken, it might even be true. But it doesn't hold up to the reality we're seeing with police departments. We're past the point where we can describe the problem as just being about education or awareness. The current system is brazen.
Another day, another story about the digital powers that be rearranging the furniture to make sure the plebes don’t run amok.
Or to quote another software saying, RTFM
Show HN: gumroad-responder – run custom code and workflows as you sell
"A camel is a horse designed by a committee." (Although I heard it as 'A donkey is a horse....'.)

I don't question the professional designer's skill sets: just that they have a committee that has to vet the idea/game. And that's where things could sour.

As I have heard professional artists (writers, film-makers, musicians, journalists) describe it, the professional begins to self-censor: not even pursuing ideas they perceive will likely fail to pass muster with the "committee".
You can drag the slider. Clicking doesn't seem to work.
This example shows you how to get webhooks from Gumroad every time you sell a product. I used the example to pipe the sale into a slack channel - and then later automated a free email upgrade offer.

Gumroad is a great platform, but to get more than one custom workflow in Gumroad it costs ~ 120 USD / year and this way you can run any code you like.

If you get webhooks from Stripe, there's a very similar post here from the community.

https://myedes.io/stripe-serverless-webhook-faasd/
This is the "uncensored" version. Parts in red were originally censored but have been revealed.
No they did not. The Robinhood co founder stated in every interview that it was not liquidity issue.

Listen to his explanations, he never says what were the legal or business justification for stopping the buys and only allowing the sells.

His only explanations were that the company took the actions just because.
Even if AstraZeneca gets away with it legally, they will be a leper to the EU and be crushed in whatever other medicine negotiations they end up having with the EU or its constituent national governments.
Burning the goodwill that gets you access to a relatively rich 450 million consumers market is pretty boneheaded.
No doubt, but if your date parsing saves you 1 second per date parsed but each call into the faster library costs 2 seconds, then your performance actually suffers. The only way around this is to make a batch call such that the overhead is O(1).
> CDC director is still telling people not to wear N95s

This is an interesting point. The statement I read from her is saying that N95s are hard to wear for long periods of time, so people will wear them improperly. So the overall adherence is higher with cloth coverings and have a net higher benefit.

She’s not saying “don’t wear n95s” she’s saying “we don’t recommend it because...”

This is an important distinction.

Also N95s have to be fit tested to be effective. So randos buying N95s and wearing them will frequently not work.
I don't even agree with all of the design but Thank Goodness for a regular grammar, domain specific syntax transclusion, and only one syntax per feature. Love it.
I'm sorry but why should we take WSB posters at their word? Here's an alternate view (also from a reddit post):

"WSB's power users are younger finance bros. It's 30s investment bankers and portfolio managers memeing with each other and cosplaying as 'autists.' If you didn't know what a gamma squeeze was 48 hours ago, you are their exit strategy and the down payment on their next Porsche."

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l7bl3z/brokers_o...
I agree; no mention of Ikea who are thought to build their NiMHs in the Eneloop factory (same capacity at 2.450 mAh for AAs, made in Japan) but much cheaper.

The price in the US seems to be $7, for a pack of four.
Credit absolutely can, and actively does, exist in the crypto world. If I have 10 bitcoins, I can lend them to whoever I want. I have to rely on the legal system to get them back in the case of a bad actor, but there are other emerging coins which encode the idea of credit into the blockchain itself. I doubt they'll work very well; the legal system is still critical to ensuring credit functions, and that doesn't have to go away with crypto.

Credit systems are not created by the government. Sure, the government is the biggest player, but at the philosophical level, credit systems are created by anyone who has an asset but doesn't need it right now.

The bigger thing that crypto does actively do away with is actively managed monetary policy. The populace hates on the people in power (banks, funds, government) for their quest for wealth and power, but for all the wrong that happens, monetary policy has been the single biggest driver in providing creature comforts and a modern lifestyle for the average citizen of the planet.

There absolutely is a substrate of "holy shit nothing is actually anything" at the very core of our economy. We print money to pay off loans given to us by other countries bought with their printed money. Nothing actually is anything. But, computers aren't cool with that; there is very real, hard math in the deepest parts of cryptocurrencies. You can take one of two sides in this argument, and I'm not sure either is absolutely correct (partly because, I'm not even sure there is a definition for was "correct" means in this context): Either you believe that substrate should be hard math, and modern economics is a farce, or that you believe monetary policy is the only way to ascend an economy beyond trade and barter, that we need men in suits at the top pulling levers and twisting dials to keep this machine running another day.

Maybe its alright that nothing is actually anything, and it can stay that way forever, chasing infinite growth as we expand into the cosmos. Or, then, maybe someone hacks our computer and changes the value of the Blemfark from One of its itself to Zero of itself.

Here's what I do know; whether or not it would be better, people seem to increasingly desire less top-level control and less delegation of so much power to wall street firms. Crypto is going to continue to get more and more popular, even if its against the best interests of the people, because our government and wall street underestimated how much influence the 300 million people that aren't them actually have. That's the cost of democracy and a free society; it sometimes takes the wrong path.
Poachers will just steal the bikes or ransom them.

https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/38650/that-time-ari-vat...
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I think you both are hitting on that thin slice; the Venn diagram of strong design, managerial pressure, and resources.
AZ is holding the vaccines for the UK and the EU is moaning about it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55822602
> Honestly, Americans don't know how good they have it in the free speech category.

Not for much longer. Everyone supports censoring someone, so it's just a matter of time before it becomes a policy.
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There's a confidentiality clause in the contract (page 26 of the link).

Perhaps AstraZeneca asked for it and the member states didn't think it was worth fighting over?
From what I gather from the media here in the UK one problem is that AstraZeneca's contract with the UK government is that they will not export vaccines produced in the UK until the British government's order is fulfilled.

Pretty smart stipulation by the UK government but it may be putting AstraZeneca, which agreed to it, in an awkward position...
> On Thursday, in a statement to The Washington Post, the FAA said, “We will continue working with SpaceX to resolve outstanding safety issues before we approve the next test flight.”

> An official with knowledge of the FAA’s thinking pushed back against Musk’s allegations and said the agency had been in constant contact with SpaceX over the flight and was very close to issuing the modification to the license required for the flight.

> The agency is “not purposefully slowing the process down,” said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal processes. The FAA has “a responsibility to the American people and particularly those who live in the southern Texas area to make sure they are not put at undue risk.”
Not everyone lives in America which is what most of this thread seems to be about.

No idea why you're mentioning Catholics in the UK Parliament. Unless its an attempt at discrediting the previous commenters statement.

We certainly refer to them as the civi-police in the military. Though we don't have the gun issues the US has, but that seems based on an antiquated amendment even older the Peels analysis.
EU is massive and has a lot of negotiating power.

Allowing everyone else to see the contract would give other countries stronger leveraging positions against AstraZeneca.
> "Uncensored"

So what are those black out parts?

Maybe just partly "uncensored"
Yes! No obligation to be living in the US -- you can do from anywhere as long as you will have access to resources you may need to perform your work.
The parent commenter claimed that brokerages were colluding to drive the price of GME down to benefits the shorts. That is QAnon-level evidence-free conspiracy theorizing. The clearing houses were demanding more collateral and brokerages couldn't afford or didn't want to put it up.

> whether shorting 136% of the stock counts as outright manipulation

I refer you to the snarky top comment about how all the Dunning-Kruger victims who claim manipulation do not actually know what manipulation is. Shorting a stock is not manipulation and neither is lots of people deciding to short a stock. 136% of the stock is shorted because a lot of people were shorting it, not because Some Guy decided to single-handedly short 136% of the float.

> Reddit kids have done nothing but pop an artificial bubble

So GameStop was an artificial bubble at $10 but not at $500? Really?
Sexual fantasies revolving around power dynamics are incredibly common. Enforced chastity is one expression of that where the controlee gives up power over their sexual gratification to the controller.

As they say, the largest sexual organ in the human body is the brain. For people who are into this sort of thing, knowing someone else has control over them in this way can be incredibly exciting.
> Science + technology + capitalism is a hugely potent combination

Wait till you see what science + technology - capitalism can achieve!

But more seriously, we're also seeing the problems of capitalism here. Apart from the problems with its price, especially for the third world, I also think it's important to realize that the main motivation for vaccine skepticism is capitalism and the bad incentives it creates for companies. People understand that it's in any of these companies' best interest to lie about effectiveness and safety of these vaccines, and that they have more than enough money to hide any potential wrong doing for a long time.

I am NOT an anti-vaxxer. I take flu shots every year, and I will get this vaccine as well as soon as I am offered the chance (I'm neither at risk nor working in a crucial industry). But the pharmaceutical industry deserves its reputation to some extent, and it is mostly capitalism's fault that we have these huge behemoths that can act with impunity.
A big part of the actual success of a game is the aesthetics and the marketing. How good the actual game is doesn't necessarily correlate.

Indie games these days are as conservative as regular studios. Loads of a proliferation of the last big thing etc. The real standout indie genre is porn games and even those stick to a generally similar design.

The problem for developers from larger studios is that the bizdev side of things is largely kept apart from them. So they might make something within a niche that's great but is never going to find an audience.

Which is a long winded way of saying no one bar hobbyists or people taking an extreme roll of the dice are operating without commercial constraints.
I think they're alluding more generally to the idea that the EU's bureaucratic sluggishness caused its member states to not have a contract in place with AZ until three months after Britain, putting them proverbially to the 'back of the queue'.
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Here you are:

https://youtu.be/MSVNm7XbnYA
that's a service delivery problem, just like when a restaurant runs out of a popular dish. Go to another broker.