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That seems possible, but literally half of all presidential impeachments have targeted trump Trump. Bowling Alone came out when I was a kid, but I don't have any reason to think that it's conclusion that there has been a statistically measurable decline in the social life of Americans is wrong or stopped. Interesting one of the more likely candidates for the cause it comes up with was TV. There are also statistics backing up the notion that politics has become more polarized relatively recently [1]. And like while new things are always happening the storming of the capital was definitely not something that's happened before. I think this is just a blip on generally upward journey and I could be convinced it has nothing to do with social media or the internet, but the blip is definitely a thing

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-po...
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The injuries is from tumbling around in the avalanche, a tent (if nailed down) will just be flattened.
Unless you’re paying for trades you’re routed to someone buying order flow. E*TRADE, Ameritrade, etc sell order flow for revenue.

IB charges for orders and doesn’t sell order flow but also cut off GME. What’s the theory around that broker?
It still applies. It applied when we were talking about conservatives, it applied when people were wondering about the "slippery slope" which we are clearly at the bottom of for a while now, it applies now.

I don't care how people get there. New platform. Use the correct technologies to be more impervious to top down arbitrary decisions, build a real appeals process, build representatives.
To be perfectly honest, given the way that narrative of the entire debacle has been built up to "hoi polloi stick it to the evil financial gurus", I don't think there is anything Robinhood could have done that wouldn't have immediately been spun as "THEY'RE TRYING TO BAIL OUT THE HEDGE FUNDS!"
This article is so confusing. Facebook suspended the group on Jan 7 and already reinstated it. Why are we hearing about it now?

The article says Facebook did several things, including banning the group, giving a notification "that the group violated policies on 'adult sexual exploitation'", reinstating the group, saying the ban has nothing to do with the "ongoing stock frenzy", and calling the group a "dangerous organization". When did each of these things happen and in what order?

The way it mentions the Discord group is also confusing.
Well, TIL... thanks.
I guess, you can't pull a good analysis of investment strategy only taking into account latest year at any point in time in history.

Every year is different. If quants and value investors did poorly this year it tells exactly nothing about how will they perform the next month or year or decade.
I sometimes wonder how much the share price affects management's opinion of its own performance. If valuation is viewed as a report card of sorts, then management is likely to seek financing and damage control when shares are cheap. Doubt of that nature could have a negative effect on their ability to perform. Not to mention that share price likely plays a role in their personal wealth.
> I think a lot of people don't understand what I can only describe as the physics of the system.

Market microstructure is a term I've adopted when studying options and the circumstances where they influence the underlying market prices more than any other factor.
The article suggests thorium lanterns for the radioactivity.

The other points are all obvious - nature taking its course. Scavengers (probably mainly birds) will eat the soft parts first.
The effect is measured to exist, but any attempt at explanation is just conjecture. That said, it seems pretty clear to me that racially homogenous groups tend to have closer social ties and are therefore more likely to unionize.
LOL! This is great. I hope people will finally start using decentralized solutions to this problem that have been around for years like memo.cash!
pump and dump at a global scale, because GME was mostly US market. They are hoping the global numbers can replicate the short squeeze.
> naked shorts are this exposed

See, this is why someone is going to jail. This explanation is wrong. Someone lied to you, and they probably lied to you to make this look like a sure bet so that you'd buy (and thus pump) a stock that is otherwise going to crash, so that they can unload their position before it does. You got scammed, and the person who did it is guilty of a crime.

FWIW: Short leverage higher than 100% is not naked selling. It just means (as an example) that you borrowed a share, sold it, then later on that buyer loaned the same share back to you, and you sold it again. This is not a good idea, but it's not naked selling (which is itself securities fraud).
You can keep driving your car looking to the rear mirror as long as the road keeps going straight, but you will be out on the first bend.
How can it be too high when there was a know market to buy them? Short seller positions are public, and they had already agreed to buy the stock by such and such date.

The price looks just right to me.
That’s a tax write off in the US.
Explanations for all of those are mentioned in the link.
How would one tumble in the avalanche while in the tent? Is the thought that the group heard the avalanche, came out, and got caught in it?

I should read the paper more carefully. I'm going off what I remember from Dead Mountain by Eichar.
Your site does not seem to preserve scroll state correctly after clicking back on iPhone. Go to the homepage, scroll down to repos, tap on a repo, tap back, find yourself at the top of the homepage.

Wouldn't an old old web application exhibit this behavior too?
Hacker news is just a bunch of hateful people inciting violence. There, DoS in one sentence.
Can it be transparent, a con, and manipulation all at once?
A platform that is a victim of misinformation is one thing. A platform that profits off this misinformation is another thing. Facebook is the latter.

Also, just because Apple has a business incentive to push this narrative doesn’t make the other side any less despicable. At least Apple’s business interests are aligned with their customers’ unlike Facebook & similar who make money exploiting their users.
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i find it funny the H1 being on that list due to the dangers of sparks/fire. (i have no idea if this has been resolved in on-shelf units and whether it has been resolved better than "use nylon screws"). even if they do entirely fix it i think they will have to rename the model to get rid of the bad mark on the name.
I think this is a mistake. They already issued one correction from "20-member" to "20,000-member". The author seems to have serious problems with numbers. Look at the first paragraph:

> Facebook Inc took down a popular Wall Street discussion group, Robinhood Stock Traders, in a move that its founder on Thursday described as backlash for conversations buoying shares of GameStop Corp and other companies this week.

First, a typo, "buoying". But it also says "this week". So what they meant is probably Jan. 27.
> 50% of the top 200 packages were compatible by the end of 2012.

Which meant you could not usually convert, since ALL dependenices had to be converted. The chance of doing that successfully then with 300 libraries (including transitive dependencies) was approximately (0.5)^300, which is practically 0.
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The concept in question is original antigenic sin [1], and is real, though it's unclear whether it applies to immunity in this case.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_antigenic_sin
My point was more that what most people want to express is “guts”. But they’ll go for “balls” because it needs to be about sex and hormones, what else could it be, right ?
East Asians are well off economically.

If you’re confused about any of this, your model is broken. All you need to know is that East Asians are high IQ (within 0.3stddev of anglo or Germanic whites). This predicts everything else, including economic outcomes.

Asians don’t get “diversity” points because they can’t be bribed with status subsidies; they are already high status (doctors, engineers, etc.) because of their intelligence.

Slurs against Asians are less offensive because the connotation of being Asian is bad. No one would seriously use Asian as an insult. If there’s an ethnic group where calling someone a word for that ethnic group is horribly offensive, it’s because deep down people understand that this group is usually low status. Slurs like “kraut” or “nip” don’t really have any weight because they’re basically complements.
> investing with the specific intent to give it the resources needed to do well

Buying shares only sends money to the company if they issue new ones. I am not aware of Gamestop doing that.
Silicon Valley is definitely much more evil than Wall Street.
I missed that you wanted to a PDF reader. The Paperwhite is terrible for that.
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Fakes not Mocks- I hopped on this train and am super happy.

I start out with a small & simple fake for something as I'm working on the layer above it, then keep flushing it out as I move on to higher and higher layers.

In the end I have a suite of completely customizable fakes for all of my external dependencies that I can tweak to my every need.
You're both right in a way, inane comments complaining about downvotes aren't substantive, but I also see a lot of thoughtful and frankly poignant comments bite the dust because they're just slightly outside the decidedly narrow Overton window of HN discourse.

At the end of the day, on a smallish platform like this, the downvotes do also hurt. Some days it seems more users feel like downvoting everything than upvoting anything and unlike reddit, very few downvotes immediately result in censure.
How are users on wsb openly discussing GME any different than huge banks with analysts saying “we rate GME as a strong buy”? Also, look at some of these hedge funds and their leverage—-a $3B fund with 10x leverage is going to be able to “manipulate” a stock price with big orders in almost any way they choose, and they do it in secret!

Now I don’t personally think GME is worth $300/share, but the people buying it think they will be able to sell it for more, and that is their right. They aren’t being “tricked” with deliberate misinformation, there are indeed a lot of shorts still out there that will eventually need to cover.
Well the attacker could probably DOS the victim anyway by rapidly sending crashing messages. The update just means the attacker only has to send the message every 20 minutes.
You must not be familiar with several exchanges including Coinbase doing this exact thing a few years ago. Cryptocurrencies still have to go through an exchange, usually.
> we have never really had much of a true lockdown here.

And parts of europe had more of a lockdown than the US and the population fatality rate is worse. I wonder if covid just doesn't care about lockdowns; the countries that haven't gotten hit badly are 1) an island. 2) an isolated continent. 3) an island 4) a country that sits on a peninsula that has a hugely militarized impermeable border. and 5) a group of islands. Even within the US, the state that has the lowest per capita covid rate... Is an island. Even at the micro level, the city in the bay area that is one of the least affected... Is an island.

On the other hand the UK has a higher CFR and a higher per population mortality than the US, so...
There are a lot tech companies helping people "outsmart evil". There is a limitation of the infrastructure to put it to better efficacy.

Silicon Valley collectively has not been able to penetrate the exchange and liquidity infrastructure that the cadre of banks of clearing firms have. This is built on relationships and an abundance of capital, the latter comes from relationships. The finance sector has a network of prestigious schools (or the finance departments in those schools), the retirement plan of heading the government agencies, and control of the money supply. This is not currently solved with technology as humans that want to recognize other humans are involved.

There have been several west coast trading venues and exchanges, nobody wants to list there.

Other Silicon Valley companies just want access and respect and integration with the current financial system players.
Slack is a prime example of this. Simple things like switching a chat room, which was instantaneous in mIRC on my old 166mhz PC, can take seconds in Slack. But at least there are round corners everywhere, plenty of padding around elements, and animated gifs /s
This is awesome. How does this compare with Firecracker - https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Why only TCP is available? Network stack needs to be implemented?
Ah yes, that has a single RAM slot. Crucial only shows an 8GB module for it:

https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/lenovo/thinkp...

So I don't know, that may well be the limit. OTOH, if there a larger compatible module from another manufacturer, it wouldn't surprise me if it just worked. Lenovo generally doesn't put arbitrary restrictions on RAM size.
Read this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
If you had a sizable fortune at stake, you'd go to a major financial firm like Goldman Sachs, which handled the collar for Cuban, and they'll build you something custom. Almost any arrangement can be worked out, with a fat fee to go with it.
Natural monopolies don't have to continuously buy up emerging competitors. Facebook's network effects are strong. But they aren't insurmountable.
It's little-endian, same as x86.
Explains why Chamath was ranting about shorting hedge funds on TV...
I'd say this is a vast oversimplification of the situation, don't you agree?
You do realize most hedgefunds lose money and that active trading isnt as effective as just buying and holding shares in index funds. This is Warren Buffets famous bet.

What WH has democratized is now giving retail investors the opportunity to also lose money with active trading.
I'm sure the average Robinhood investors volume is low enough that an Office Space penny fraction skimming scheme is a pretty meh thing.

But combined, it's sure is something.
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These situations tend to blow
Up both sides, more or less.

A few lucky Redditors will get out with profits. Most of the late entries are going to take steep losses. Those losing Redditors will be paying the winning Redditors.

The narrative that this is hedge funds losing to Redditors isn’t fully accurate.
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GameStop filed in December with the SEC to sell up to $100M in stock at the market, from time to time. Now it seems like a laughably small amount.

I think it is common for public companies to sell stock below market though. If they set a price ahead of time, unlike GameStop in this instance, then the market price will change, right?
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Pretty sure he’s referring to multiple brokerages making it so you could no longer buy certain stocks (GME, AMC, BB, others), only sell.
After online brokerages restricted trading in GME on Thursday, Gill posted that he had lost $14.8 million that day alone, but was still up $33 million overall.

Aside from millions of dollars, he was just an average Joe like the rest of us. Long live the 'revolution'
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It doesn't need to go to infinity. GameStop just needs to get to parity with totality of the collective assets of every short seller. Then to make good on their debt, those entities will be fully liquidated.

They took on unbounded risk and have no leverage if all of the stockholders refuse to sell for anything less.

The stock is less a company than a contract that can be purchased that says the other party has to pay you any price you set (assuming the stockholders are able to hold until the shorts must close their position).
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> Obviously its going to be a bumpy ride as the whole of society suddenly has to learn to cope with so many views, learn the critical thinking it takes to grapple with false information, learn who is trustworthy and who is not etc. but in the long run we will be much much better off for it. This is merely what society wide growth looks like - its not going to be a straight line up. Pulling the plug on that is deeply, deeply wrong no matter how scary it seems.

Why, what makes you think that nurturing more viewpoints leads better outcomes? You've just agreed with me that recent experience tends to say it doesn't. Why do you think that part of the adaptation to this new world we find ourselves in might not be a bit more control. I think exposure to views is fine, but it seems likely to me that social media doesn't just expose it converts. It gives people the impression that their niche viewpoint is widely supported and our brains are hardwired to go with consensus so when presented with one they hop on, but because it fragments that consensus we're left with hundreds of fractions each lapping up a nice densely connected graph of agreement.

On institutional failure. I agree that institutions have failed us. It's hard to look around and argue, but not all institutions and not all the way. The vaccine is getting out. The US is in top handful of countries in terms of distribution and well ahead in terms of total doses administered. While the death of the single provider household is partially to blame Bowling Alone a book about the decline in social capital in the US credits a lot of the fault with TV with some interesting natural experiments to back it up (it came out in 2000 so social media wasn't really a thing yet). Burning institutions to the ground basically never happens and is incredibly destructive when it does. Like great leap forward levels of destructive. I for one am not ready for that to happen.
https://www.sipc.org/cases-and-claims/how-a-liquidation-work...

Except with SIPC itself being defunct. You hopefully still have priority over GameStop holders that didn't cash out yet and have busted trades from a bankrupt clearinghouse and priority over other creditors. No SIPC to cover your legal costs pursuing your claims. I think margin accounts may be behind fully settled cash accounts in line.
Ye, just wanted to provide an alternative for the "spooky" parts that people like to bring up =)
Real talk though...if you polled slack users and said "You could have instantaneous room switching, but you have to give up animated gifs", what percentage of users would actually take that trade?
Shorts are a little unique in that the risk is technically infinite. Stocks you own can only lose whatever value you bought them for. Stocks youve promised to buy later from someone else, though, can lose you however much money they decide to charge you when you have to buy. They could have thousands of profitable positions and lose 2 billion off one very unlucky short call because of a meme.
Sway has other problems, like null pointer crashes, crashing based on weird layout bugs. I'm still suffering from a bug which makes the clipboard on Firefox just hang, perpetually. This is Firefox with the wayland backend enabled, which I had to switch to because the Xwayland backend would crash the entirety of sway in some weird resizing edge case.

Sway is still unstable. Even if the bugs have gotten less frequent, having it crash is not an uncommon experience. And because they tied its feature set to i3, the scripting experience is really not great. I say all of this as someone who has:

- used i3 for many years daily

- used sway for many years daily

- written both a Rust (https://github.com/norcalli/ksway) and Lua package (https://github.com/norcalli/lua-sway) for sway.

- written about a dozen or more scripts for sway

- contributed patches to Sway

The bugs are so irritating and wayland is so irritating that it's driven me to have already started making both my own browser due to firefox's issues, and my own alternative compositor. I'd rather make something outside of both wayland and X that only runs programs that I personally wrote and have QEMU as an escape hatch than use either of them full time. And one day I'll port it to Raspberry Pi on a unikernel or just off of the bare ISA.

E: Oh yeah and screen capture, IME, and various other things are still basically experimental.
This was one scenario were the shorts really did have it wrong. GameStop's financials were and are pretty solid. There was no reason to short the stock so heavily, which is why they're in the trouble that they're in right now.

You should watch Roaring Kitty's video from June 2019 I believe (maybe its 2020?) on YouTube about this. He goes into great detail, with something like an hour of analysis on why $GME is a reasonable investment.

Remember also, Dr. Michael Burry was buying into $GME (it was 5% of his fund in fact). Other big institutional investors like BlackRock, etc. had major positions as well.
What a coincidence! I am also building a web book reader( only pdfs for the moment) with the difference that all my books are already stored in google drive so I wanted a way to access all of them easily without downloading them one by one on all my devices and sync the last page I was reading.

https://gitlab.com/wolfgang000/cloud-books/

If you want to take a look, the MVP is already functional(at leat the dropbox integration until google approves the google drive one) but I haven't made the landing page

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I think you have a very high bar of "minimum viable"!

IME you don't need to have Java experience previously, you can just pick up needed bits of JVM as you go - which is less than you make out. I'm sure you can approach things from a Java expert angle as well and leverage your tooling etc knowledge from there, no doubt it helps a bit in the beginning.

I think (3) would be an equally valid requirement for a Python, JS, C++, or Java developer.
Why is Reuter’s doxxing this guy? It says he declined an interview, what benefit is there to outing him? He came into a lot of money and should now be more worried for his safety, this seems very irresponsible by Reuters.
>SDF is still just a surface/boundary representation

Meshes and Bezier patches are parametric representations (defined over R^2, evaluated with vec2, output vec3). Implicit functions are volumetric representations of surfaces (defined over R^3, evaluated with vec3, output float). This is a key difference between parametric modelers like AutoCad and implicit modelers like nTopology.

>density grid instead of a SDF if you're dealing with anything volumetric, such as clouds or smoke.

These functions of time change every frame. In the implicit paradigm, it's not necessary to evaluate the smoke ahead of time since sphere tracing can reduce to marching adaptively when we are within smoke. Image quality will not be bound to any resource resolution other than the screen (a low res smoke grid would appear blocky).

I agree with you that the current triangle-based RT implementations have faster alternatives that accomplish similar things on the surface.

Thanks for the links!
Not a typo, a totally appropriate word. The conversations buoyed the shares, they did not buy them.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/buoyi...
Regulations state you should always get best price and there has been modifications to law to prevent gaming. I can’t speak with knowledge on effectiveness of the regulations.
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