skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having expressed this understanding of WSB's benign intent in their use of the term "retard", surely you see why some random person at Discord taking offense to it and whimsically banning the entire community is messed up, right? Discord is host to a massive variety of nominally private (you need a link to join) communities that have real, deep value to those who participate in them. Over time they develop their own unique history and culture that has a complex context that can't be assessed with simple, surface level judgements by some Discord employee to whom said community is the n+1th problem of the day. Banning the community comes off to me as an arbitrary exercise of an unearned moral authority, and feels deeply arrogant and ethnocentric in all the negatives that term implies.

Obviously Discord is a private company etc etc. They're also the dominant platform upon which ~140 million people [1] from all over the world communicate, in all the messy ways humans do. I don't know about you, but I'd rather they focus on keeping the platform running, collect their revenue from their customers, and mind their own business. This is what everyone who uses the service expects them to do, after all.

1: https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/17/discord-raises-100-millio...
Google did the same with Google maps and GPS coordinates: at first you could easily get the coordinates but now I have no clue how to get them.

I've given and started using google maps. I hope antitrust action destroys them.
And I think that this switch subroutine mirrors one way of compiling the BCPL switchon statement (on which C's switch statement was explicitly modelled), though the BCPL compiler I used in the mid-1970s was smarter if the cases formed a compact integer sequence.

C was based upon B, which was based upon BCPL. Clearly, the Bell Labs crew were trying to give themselves some BCPL goodness, even in assembly language.
Sounds like a great employer ... asking permission to move. What’s next? Provide them with spousal income figures so the employer can adjust your pay accordingly?
Responsibility for what, exactly? They don't have a responsibility to publish any particular review in the store. They're free to include/exclude/weight the data they receive to give you star ratings for apps in any way they'd like. Vote clumps like this one tend to make star ratings less trustworthy as a measure of the true quality of an app, so I'd expect an app store operator to discount them.
From the manual:

> The PDP-11/40 was designed to fit a broad range of applications, from small stand alone situations ... to large multi-user, multi-task applications requiring up to 124K of addressable memory space.

I'm young, and it's crazy to look back and see how far we've come.
I want cryptocurrency to succeed long-term, and it has some genuine advantages (and some wrinkles to be ironed-out long-term), but protection from the puppet master cabal secretly pulling the strings of high finance isn't one of them.

There are much more mundane explanations for Robinhood's actions[0][1] than a high-finance cabal hiding in plain sight.

Is there some institutional conspiracy theory version of Hanlon's razor, something like "Never ascribe to a secret cabal that which is ascribable to finite resources and inflexible regulations"?

Disclosure: currently short to the puppet master lizard people cabal from Nibiru a double-touch knockout option on my soul ;-)

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8bpx/experts-say-robinhood...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25950685
It prevented people that bought on margin from selling during tomorrow’s short squeeze, since it auto-liquidated their positions.

At the same time as it auto-liquidated the positions, it blocked attempts to purchase the liquidated stock.

One of their major investors directly benefited from the resulting market distortion.
If that was the thinking, they would be shutting down the groups that are organized and protesting in the pacific northwest.
Of course a company that steals from the poor to give to the rich would be named Robinhood

We totally live in a simulation
Stocks have been digitally backed since the late 60s. To quote the inimitable Matt Levine:

> Nobody owns stock. What you own is an entitlement to stock held for you by your broker. But your broker doesn't own the stock either. What your broker owns is an entitlement to stock held for it by Cede & Co., which is a nominee of the Depository Trust Company, which is a company that is in the business of owning everyone's stock for them. This system sounds convoluted but actually makes it easy to keep track of things: If I sell stock to you, I don't have to courier over a paper share certificate, or call up the company and have it change its shareholder register. Our brokers just change some electronic entries at their DTC accounts and everything is cool.

That simplifies things a bit, but basically yes, no paper transfers ever. There's a warehouse somewhere with all the paper certificates in it, they all technically belong to Cede & Co, and when (say) dividends are paid out, they all go to Cede & Co, who transfers the correct amounts to the various brokerages, who transfer the correct amount to their customers.

There's a hilarious story (by Matt Levine, from which that quote is from) about some of the quirks in the system here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-07-14/banks-...

(Although it should be noted, it works fine for an absurdly large volume of transactions; the story is interesting because it is unusual, not because it reveals any deep flaws in the system.)
The tricky bit is they all need to get out at the right moment or they will be crushed.
Parent is wrong indeed, but your reply also misses the point (sibling comment by ‘swang gets it right). For a streaming media provider, infrastructure costs are a rounding error compared to the fees to license the media for distribution (which can be negotiated any which way, so you can’t generalize the impact of service utilization by customers, although swang makes a good point about leverage).
> other non-functional requirements, like overall speed, maintainability, testability and so on

If your title is UX designer, and the UX problem is 'overall speed', how do you solve that given your skills and responsibilities?

As software engineering has grown from someone hacking in their basement to large corporate teams practicing SAFe agile, the responsibilities of the individual software engineer have been reduced. The lone basement hacker is responsible for everything, but the corporate engineer is a cog in the machine with requirements handed down from project managers and ux designers.

Overall speed is a systems quality encompassing the whole system. It's something a lone engineer responsible for the whole system can tackle and be diligent about, but the corporate engineer must rehash the design over and over with ux designers and project managers until an efficient design, not just an aesthetically pleasing design, is what is used.

Another systems quality besides speed is security, and you'll notice more and more systems are less secure than they used to be.
Tech companies do this all the time when the cheap servers they run their businesses on can't handle the traffic.

I find it hard to believe that anybody would find it hard to empathize with the fact that your company failed to predict a wild meme craze leading to an overload of your systems.

Now that its said, it would have made more sense for Robinhood to just nuke its servers and return 500s to their users rather than deal with this whole mess.
I'm pulling everything out tomorrow because I'm seriously scared of them becoming insolvent and collapsing at this point.
Liquidating still involves a 5 day hold before funds are "withdrawable" in robinhood
I always thought of app reviews as being reviews of the applications... not of the companies or services behind them. So it's kind of jarring for me to see the app taking a hit when it's the service people have a complaint about. The app didn't misbehave, right? It's not like a different app interfacing with Robinhood would've worked any better. So while I don't particularly like what they're doing, I think I can understand it if this is their motivation for removing these reviews.

Edit:

Never mind—it turns out Google literally says "Your reviews should reflect the experience you've had with the content or service you're reviewing."... apparently they do want you to review the service... or at least at some point they thought they did. Pretty confusing to see how they're dealing with this now, if they truly want that.

https://play.google.com/about/comment-posting-policy/
Really cool. Thanks for the response.
I'm not an apologist, but the fact is that Robinhood has gotten beaten up by the SEC over the years for not looking out for their users enough (rightfully so). But that also means I can see why they'd tread very carefully around protecting their users from losing their savings on GME. It's hard to have it both ways.
it's 50/50 new messengers and sunsetting the old messengers
Yeah, “media doesn’t certify the...” I think I’ve heard that before. Some government process does it all according to Hoyle, sure. Sounds familiar.
Internet Health Report 2020
The comment you are responding to is talking about more offensive stuff than the "benign intent" of the core WSB community. I've only been in a handful of discord communities, but none of them would tolerate even the "benign intent" WSB stuff.

Also, "benign intent" does not make offensive behavior less offensive. Intent can matter, but it certainly isn't everything.
If you are a supercar maker you work around the rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcmWknKtJkk&t=347
I Launched my side project on Product Hunt, here is what I learned
What regulators do you assume give one good crap about Facebook?
Not only do they sell it, your Insurance company aggregates and sells it, as does your pharmacy, and anybody else that can get their grubby little hands on it.
The only communication I saw from Robinhood is that they had to stop trading due to volatility. I think people jumped to the conclusion that it was them trying to act in their users interests.
You can't scale moderation with a social network without making serious sacrifices on moderation quality.
One could argue that removing the UPI QR code from the app would be the truly malicious act .. and at least they're keeping it in. If they could do that, they would. NPCI regulations require these payment services to interoperate via UPI. If they hadn't required that (I love NPCI and their work), you can be guaranteed that the UPI code will not feature in the app.
Yes. The calculus in their heads that the SEC fines for doing this would be less than their losses from allowing trading to continue needs to die. The penalty for violating the law must always be greater than the consequences of following it.
This is addressed directly in the first section of the README:

> By default, job ids are per-directory, but you can set $NQDIR to put them elsewhere. Creating nq wrappers setting $NQDIR to provide different queues for different purposes is encouraged.
Wayback machine from Jan 30, 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20191031110812/http://www.highsh...

Some things don't change.
Yes, this is generally the path to maximizing power. It is helpful to test limits periodically.
At least for cash and bearer instruments, you can acquire them in good faith, even if they turn out to be stolen.
Well, in Germany, that is:

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/englisch_bgb...

While cash is the settlement vehicle of choice for dealer-less used car sales, certified checks (only legally issued by the federal bank) are preferred or even mandated for in-person government (surplus) auctions.

If you talk to the dealer in advance, to make sure they know about these certified checks, I'd expect them (over here, in DE) to hand you the title in direct exchange for the check, within an hour of you first setting foot on to the lot (assuming you called in advance so they have time for you and the car you want).
Just curious, no offense intended: what is your level of fitness and BMI?
As other have pointed out, this wasn’t applied as a blanket ban.

I was able to trade GME options in IBKR today without any restrictions.
Agree on the first part, but the second part doesn't seem as though it would practically work. Subreddits are the closest approximation and they still fall under a monolithic umbrella (and struggle to cope). Also, in terms of balance of power, breaking up all the different communities into separate smaller units gives too much power to the government IMO. It's essentially the ideal situation for a government who would like to pressure anyu one smaller community. Much harder to shush/gag/silence/stealth takedown a Facebook or a Reddit than it is a small entity. Divide & Conquer.

Facebook is definitely stuck between a rock and a hard place here though. This is why I think Mark Zuckerberg is actually being authentic when he says that "Facebook needs more regulation". He's already seen this problem and knows that having that subjective burden offloaded onto the government is the only true solution, i.e. "just tell me what the rules are and I shall play by them". Conveniently, these additional rules would also make it much harder for a new entrant to come unseat Facebook. So more regulation from the government is, in reality, win-win for Facebook.
Considering the rating is back to normal, I'd say it was protected.
edit: deleted, not worth it.
An online sales boom is killing supermarket profits
Stock market is a 0 sum game. Someone is going to pay in the end. It’s not the hedge fund, they already covered to the tune of $2 billion and someone has pocketed that money and it’s not retail investors.
At Melvin scale it most likely is illegal, if they didn’t have a reasonable chance at getting the shares they needed (which at ~140% of float, they don’t).

https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/2009-172.htm
For this app, it is inseparable from the services it provides, they are one and the same.

Edit: imagine reviewing the Instagram app, but doing it only as a review of the app part and not of the service too? If Instagram is likely to lose your data, or otherwise misbehave, and its not the app code but the service itself, it still has a big impact on the app experience. I can't think of a single app review that's only based on the app code, everything is also about what the app lets you do, the services attached to it.
I've seen somewhere that there was someone working on making a DE like workspace in VR.

I like the idea, and it looked useful. Have never tried/seen it in meatspace though, so who knows.

Edit: Spelling.
Indeed. And they should listen to the actual users and product managers as well (assuming product managers know the use cases very well). Instead, so many UX designers behave like "they knew better".

That perfectly describes what happened to the software provided by my stock broker. They changed the interface so that tools stay on fixed positions, with fixed sizes.

Now the interface looks nice but it also makes some sorts of operations simply impossible.

They completely fail to realize that the "mess" of the old platform was actually obeying to customers ongoing needs for monitoring a specific set of assets, and we didn't f.. care about how the interface looked like, we just cared about numbers and that was all.

It's so depressing how fast even conservative sectors like finance are forgetting some decades-old stuff which could just be taken for granted until some years ago.
That's not really what this is about though. It's not about pardon the pun..Robin hooding the wealth from the rich to the poor, it's about casting light on practices that are disproportionately in favor of the wealthy. Hence bans on groups trying to do this in clever ways.
Robinhood is an app made for children, complete with gold stars and achievement celebration noises. What's this about interacting with adults?
How though? The website behaved the same way. By that logic it would be impossible to review the website? And it's not like it's hard to imagine an app with a worse interface in front of the same service. A worse app for the service should receive a lower rating, right?
I spent all of high school on hotline servers but it was never very decentralized. Not compared to a real federated protocol. It's client-server where servers register themselves with trackers which keep lists of server and return the list to clients when they ask.

KDX is the "modern" open source implementation of the Hotline/Caracho concept.

I still think usenet is the way to go. It's a robust federated system. Sure most people will use a few servers but there's always the easy open to switch to a new one. I even posted on misc.invest.stocks today using eternal-september.org text only access.
It feels like picking votes in a democracy. An interesting concept.
Molasses – Why did I build a feature flag startup?
chances are if you were leaving a review on the app on today of all possible days, and a one star one at that, it was most likely a knee jerk reaction to the company policy change (which they were basically forced to do) and not the app, and not a thoughtful one.
lack of training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZTa8Nh0VlE
Ehh.. Being blocked by congress and federal judges at every turn doesn't really seem like a position of 'ultimate power'..
In this case, RH's actions negatively impacted the service which their users depend on. The app is an interface for that service. It's common for app reviews to be influenced by the quality of the backend service.

If Spotify purged many popular musicians from their library, I'd expect app reviews to reflect that even if the app itself is still fine on a technical level.
I'm totally sold on server rendered, HTML over the wire web apps. What I'm not sold on is websockets for the transport layer.

Unless you truly need real-time, I'd argue that something like HTMX (https://htmx.org) is a much simpler and more reliable route. Simple HTTP calls keep the request stateless and give architectural freedoms that shouldn't be taken for granted.
I've heard this criticism a lot, including the opposite accusation that he was a dictator/fascist/autocrat. We'll never know whether the situation was as you described, a big con to absorb the real middle-class frustrations of large segments of the population, or whether he was too naive to properly appreciate how corrupt the system is, and how the odds were stacked against him implementing any change.

*Edit, in any case, the US Presidency is not a "position of ultimate power".
Could be way worse given the amount of existing brokerage alternatives and the fact that nowadays they are all basically the same.

I put a request to transfer today for just a single reason and it has nothing to do with me me being mad at them for halting trades. I simply don’t trust Robinhood anymore. I feel they are too leveraged and too exposed to the cross-winds of retail investors. Flashmob trading is officially a thing and Robinhood will be the most exposed brokerage when it comes to volatility and lack of liquidity.

After what happened today it’s clear they can’t be trusted with my securities and even less with my liquid cash.

I don’t want to have any kind of money in Robinhood because I have the weird feeling it could go down. That’s how much I distrust them at this point.
If they really halted transactions because of lack of liquidity, imagine what could happen with them if we experience a bubble burst or any other major economic event that impacts public markets.

I’m certain I’m not the only one feeling like this. If I could I would sell and re-buy at another brokerage but I want to avoid a tax event.
It’s not ‘freer’, it’s just far less likely to be opposed to this particular group. I doubt that a freewheeling discussion on the evils of soviet imperialism would be toleration a Russian hosted mastodon server...
> Clearly, a company advertising encrypted drives could and should do better than this. Good on this researcher for calling out shoddy workmanship and posting about it.

I'm not even convinced these companies can implement the core functions of their firmware properly. Why would anyone trust their proprietary cryptography solution? It's just insane.
> When you transfer money in, Robinhood doesn’t actually get that money until a couple days later. They allow you to buy stock immediately, but that happens (transparently) on margin. Robinhood is loaning you the money to make it happen.

Then they can reduce the purchasing power for certain stocks to just the money already transferred.
Inflation is absolutely here. Assets are way up because "safe" stores of value - what money was supposed to be - haven't been keeping pace with inflation since 2008, so you have to either join the casino or watch your savings erode.

A lot of younger people don't seem to realize that this is new. That you used to be able to put your money in a bank and not lose it. While rock-bottom interest rates are good in some ways, I don't see this as a positive trend overall, especially given how shark-filled the financial waters are for most people. I'm a big fan of the Vegas dictum - "there's a patsy at every table, and if you don't know who the patsy is, it's you". As a retail investor, you're pretty much always the patsy.
The app exists to provide you a service. You only have the app installed at all to use the service. When the service sucks 1 star is entirely reasonable. It's not a review of the developers effort. It's a review of using Robinhood with the app. If people hate it, that's their right, surely?

Good on Google for making it utterly clear how dishonest they are. They're facing new monopoly regulation, how does this buy them political favor?
Things I should have done.

1. Bought bitcoin when it was worthless

2. Followed DFV's footsteps when I watched him go in GME options around a year ago.
An official statement would run afoul of the law, yes. A concerted effort to whisper to many people in an effort to manipulate the market would be fairly easy for the SEC to uncover in an investigation.

A single false statement or two, said to a reporter as a confidential source, would be much more difficult to prosecute. The reporter might not willingly give up their source, and the company could deny everything, fire the person who "inaccurately represented our position", and claim the party acted of their own volition. Modest fine, at best.
You sound like a person who has never spilled beer on a casino table.
He only ever talks about the hedge fund collapsing, but never mentions who is next in line (brokerages, clearing houses, and ultimately brokerage customers). SIPR only insures up to $2.5billion against systemic risk, with an additional $2.5billion from the government.

Everyone's brokerage account holdings could be transferred to GameStop holders, or government steps in and tweaks things to allow it all to unwind.
I can set limit orders, so I don't particularly care about someone being able front run me.

Sure, I might be losing some amount over time, but I'm still executing orders at the rate that I want
“ Those who spend more time in the office will develop stronger networks and relationships, will be able to advocate for themselves more easily, and thus will be more successful. People will snowball back into the office as they see this happening.”

Completely disagree with this. The future is going towards decentralization of work using tools like virtual reality and other communication mediums that have yet to be created. This area is already hot and huge sums of money are going to be spent to optimize for it.

Workers that rely on the traditional staying in the office to gain relationships and schmooze with the boss will be left behind. Besides, why is it assumed that the bosses will be in the office?