skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the owner is perfectly happy with his position. Why would you increase your work load and working hours to "grow" if you're living a good life already ? fomo ? lack of other meaning in your life ?

If your business supports your lifestyle what's lazy about just ... enjoying it ? Isn't that the very purpose of "work" ?
This is the right answer. And with the amount of volitility GME was seeing, and the amount of trades of it, created lots of money for the user, but RH was still days away from the transactions actually settling, thus they didnt have the cash from the sale yet.
Isn't that fairly misleading?

> Ortex said the figures are based on the change in trading prices between the start of January to Wednesday’s close, and the number of short positions.

The shorts might be down 70 billions, but won't most hedge funds hedge their position with something more complex than just a short?
A lot of companies in pursuit of "growth" provide their goods/services at a loss and/or break laws or behave unethically in the process.

Often when investors finally seek a return on their investment and the company adjusts their prices to a realistic level (or that law enforcement catches up) the company withers away, often leaving devastation behind (such as wronged employees, business partners or customers).
Evolution pressures reward adapting and surviving. Unlimited growth is fatal. Bacteria in a closed jar will consume all resources put inside then die out.

Sentient species can learn to limit their consumption to maximize their survival.

Companies with sentient leadership can too.
Second this if it annoys you to the point you wouldn't take the job then why waste your time and theirs.
It wouldn't exactly bail them out. It would in effect crystalize massive losses. And, were I asked to advise the GME board, I would tell them it's in the best interest long term of the company at this point (because it is). It would also have the benefit of effectively cashing out all the GME longs at once. Otherwise, there'll be a frenzy on the way out the door, and the most connected/sophisticated people will beat the retail traders.

Also, you can't run a company into the ground by shorting it. A firm's stock price has no inherent effect on its day to day operations. There are plenty of operating companies that are bankrupt. Equally so, GME doesn't benefit from the run up in its stock price at all. The only time the market price actually effects a company is when its time to raise or return capital. So the only way GME will actually benefit from this episode is if it sells stock.
Shareholder value above all else is what is important. Unfortunately, VC money needs to be returned to their shareholders too. It's a ponzi scheme and somebodies next big idea will be the catalyst for additional money and so on and so on. It almost feels like startups are the get rich quick scheme of the moment.
>Also, there is a difference between 100% of the stock and 100% of the float.

With GME both of these are abnormally high. Either of them is enough to explain the short squeeze.
And one way that happens is covered in the article: through cancer. The other is obesity. Both make the article's point.
Oh my god, I needed that. I always felt that there's something wrong with this obsession with growth but could put it into worlds. Bit thank you to that human being for doing that for me.
Your totally right especially about these emails. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25952525
That's a great article.

I'd rather see a market full of small independent, ever growing operators than zombies drinking VC money before getting sold for a billion to some giant and become terrible.

Those small independent companies are all people who traded a life of soul-less employment for the digital equivalent of a mom and pop store.

That's the life and the society I want.

An interesting question may be, how did we get here?

Why there is so much money to invest? In other words, why there is so much inequality?

Part of it is natural, the Silicon Valley created a lot of value through technology and it's been rewarded nicely.
But I think the answer is deeper and lies in the centralised economy we have, in corrupted government officials assisting monopolies creation through regulation and the government being a monopoly itself.
A very similar game called Dyson Sphere Program came out in the last week, I've been having a great time with it! Basically Factorio with planets and solar systems you can fly to. Early access but tons of content.
Doom on resource-limited iCE40 FPGA (demonstration and technical details)
The rational analysis was the basis. What's happening the last weeks is just the noise of WSB once it came through. Now it's a lot of noise and a lot of money that's going to be lost by people wanting to get in on this -- far too late.

A rational forum would be everyone marvelling at what was already pulled off, not this free-for-all where everyone's pretending there's a big battle going on right now and pretending there is anything to gain left.
There is a maximum size after which individual cells will split. It becomes harder to regain your old shape because when you lose weight the existing cells shrink but never shed, so you can end up with new cells you can’t get rid of.
That's a really great name you came up with! Embodies both parts of your focus, stays pronounceable. Does the 3 relate to the Python version or are you mimicking some specific molecule that I can't think of?
But you would just collate the data you want to manage on this service, correct?
He problably just mean "not owned by state". The public/private meaning in English is a false friend for lots of non native speakers.
Coinmarketkap Lists WallStreetBets
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These are weird times. It depends what you want. I think for most people being able to buy GME yesterday is not an important factor in choosing a broker. If you just want to buy some stocks as an investment any modern broker is probably fine. I dont like RH because it gamifies something that should be serious but for most people it works great and low cost is very nice. For me I 'd rate brokers on 1) Security, 2) Cost 3) availability of products like foreign stocks 4) gui usability 5) reliability 6) tax statements 7) margin costs 8) other products like debit cards/crypto. This list should be different for different people.
Rent controls don't work very well. Much better to remove the barriers that prevent creation of more housing.
Not putting in insane hours is a feature for many.
Certain software becomes finished over time, especially POSIX-conformant software. It seems like today's young kids get very agitated if a project hasn't seen multiple commits per hour, but those of us who are a little older and wiser appreciate when software becomes finished.
Indeed! Looked at
another way:

A company seeking to sell a customer an automatically-renewing subscription to its services, that grosses n 000 USD per period, that comes with considerable legal protections against non-payment, might spend a considerable amount of time and money to close the deal.

Edit: I’m assuming full-time employment. (The term “interview” pushed my thinking that way. IMHO freelancers should avoid presenting themselves the same way employees would.)
this is great, the new train logic allows for completely modular factory building, can't wait to start all over again.
Yessish ....

In many instances a 16 bit computer would need more instructions to perform the same work.

TO address beyond 64K it would need to issue commands to direct where to find the various parts. I once worked in an environment where we were maintaining software that natively ran on a 16 bit machine. The CPU did have separate Instruction / Data space. The addressable memory was broken up into 8K chunks. To reference an 8K chunck that was not already mapped, you had to call a special routine to change one of your 8K chunks. So you put your main routines in one 8K chunck, your common subroutines in another, then you managed the rest in the 6 levels in between. You would have several overlays, typically. The overlays could get very messy trying to sort out what can call what.
A species that grows so much that it outgrows its own habitat will often end up destroying said habitat due to overpopulation, with ramifications usually going way past the species that actually triggered it.

That's why not everything that is natural is automatically "good"/sustainable.

Because if we go about it that way we might as well never have come down from those trees, as humans we can think ahead and conceptualize possible long-term consequences of our actions. That's an advantage not many animals have, we best make some proper use of it.
Effective Dart
Squirrels who don't like the nuts, complaining about the tree.
Ansible integrations and popular use cases
I don't think both kind of games are on the same complexity level.

The gameplay is simple (aka: it requires few kind of user interactions), and the physic engine (source of most bugs in big budget open-world games) is far far far simpler as well.
In business school, we'd say that, for growth to be value-creating, the return on invested capital has to exceed cost of capital. All that means is that a dollar invested in a company has to turn into something more than a dollar in earnings, by how much more depends on what rate you estimate your cost of capital to be.

With respect to money-consuming, high growth tech companies, we have to figure out if they're cable companies or airlines. Cable companies required lots of capital to grow for a number of years. Once they built out their networks, their capital expenditures went down and they could post major profits. But airlines, probably since deregulation and perhaps even since their invention, have likely been net capital destroyers: they keep having to buy/lease new aircraft to keep up with the competitors. Even prior to COVID, airlines had to buy new planes or risk losing money on each flight due to higher operational costs vs. the competition.

Tech companies that lose gobs of money, if they want to avoid becoming airlines, need to be building some sort of moat. Too often, investors and founders look at 20+% revenue growth and think that's good in itself. Or they think "industry X is going to be huge in the future" and they invest willy-nilly in companies in that industry (often at seemingly any implied valuation). But even if they're right about massive industry growth, they could still lose money if competition is high enough. In 1999, tons of people believed the internet was the future and they were right. But very few people realized which companies would succeed and even fewer people held on long enough to realize the gains of the ultimately successful companies.
J&J's single-dose coronavirus vaccine is 66% effective against Covid-19
If my experience with old versions is to go by, you just update the server binary and fire it up. No need to download + upload!

Factorio is a very stable game, do a backup and give it ago!
I was not commenting on the article, I was commenting on your claim.
"I watched the CEO on CNN tonight, and while I found him pretty difficult to watch, this is a very difficult position to be in. If you admit on TV that your company is experiencing liquidity issues -- even if temporary in nature such as with clearing custodianship requirements -- you run the risk of triggering a greater panic through customer withdrawals/redemptions."

A Bankrun!
This kind of boils down to preference in humanity as well. Do you prefer a group that makes dick/retard/cuck jokes for laughes or prefer a group that laughed when they ruined the economy, put people out in the streets and coerced the gov to bail them out because they were too important to go out on the street?

Politically correct speech is bankrupt in all forms of ethics and morality if it favors the second group just because they have kinder words. Generally why lots of people are disgusted by PC rhetoric. It's bullshit to its core because it holds no real core value, it just keeps things superficially pretty for the predators of society.

I'm enjoying this ride and wish there was more I could do because it's become bigger than the money. This whole thing is pulling back the curtain and we're getting to see the frail ankles of the wizard.
I know HNers will hate me for this but how about Electron with Vuejs?

You don't need access to network, have full access to file system, sqlite, etc and engineers for Javascript/HTML are dime a dozen so may not need to learn a new language. Also in case you need to switch to another OS it's cross platform by virtue and can be easily ported to web easily should the need arise one day.
Had a blast with Krastorio 2. Thanks for your Industrial Revolution recommendation!
> I'm sure the nation-states have the money and people to work it out for themselves

I'd suspect it's less a matter of preventing them from developing the capability and more a matter of making them spend their own money to do so, rather than getting it for free and using those resources to develop some other capability.
I have such fond memories of Symbian. I had the Nokia E90 communicator. It felt like such a powerful device for the time. And I mean the true sense of powerful - not processing power, but the ability of a pocket device capable of multitasking, audio/video recording, GPS navigation (it had google maps and TomTom), 3G data (which felt similar to our home broadband at the time) and a nice wide screen with a keyboard. It browsed the web before mobile pages were a thing - so you always got the full website. It felt so liberating back then - I felt that no matter where I travelled, I has such ability and power to do what I liked. Booking hotels, couriers, getting train timetables, never getting lost etc..

I don't know when the inflection point happened that smart devices became a ball and chain. Maybe when everyone had one, and instead of being magical, it became standard. That and the attention-grabbing addictive nature of social networks never being more than an unconscious reach-into-the-pocket-unlock-and-browse away.
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>When people unlawfully break into a building, why the heck shouldn't facial recognition be used to identify them?

Because trespass by itself is not a big enough crime to handle in that manner. Trespass is a crime that exists solely as a means to prosecute people for other not criminal enough to violate the letter of the law type behavior. There need to be other factors to make it worth tracking people down (theft, vandalism, stalking, etc). A pure trespass charge is not worth it. By all means prosecute the people who smashed stuff but in this day and age you don't need to go after everyone in order to do that.

>We are not talking about using cameras on the street to give people jaywalking tickets.

Do you know what the MA state police use their ALPRs for since we don't really have a car theft problem big enough to warrant running plates all the time? They park on a main road by an intersection and automate the sending of expired inspection sticker tickets. Government programs are under immense pressure to justify their budget. This is why you have swat teams responding to BS, gotta use it or lose it. Dragnet crap inevitably gets used on petty crimes in order to justify it. All the incentives point that way so that's what you get.

>If you owned a business that was looted, and you had video of the looters, wouldn't you want them caught?

Looters, not trespassers.

> We are not talking about using cameras on the street to give people jaywalking tickets.

But that is exactly where it winds up leading. But because it's not politically popular to prosecute jaywalking and rich people jaywalk they do things like prosecute all the weed dealers and backyard mechanics for not obtaining all the proper licensing and paying proper taxes.

Also as an aside I find your username very fitting.

I've lived in half a dozen states and only the DMV areas gives the Boston area a run for its money when it comes to approval of doing anything to enforce the law paired with blindness to downsides of enforcing the law to the letter. (Yes I am aware this is a sweeping generalization but I think it's an accurate enough one that I don't feel bad about making it.) Though I will admit that I have not lived in the wealthy suburbs of NYC and I have my suspicions about them.
I have the same issue, Microsoft Visual C++ doesn't help me make my Linux software.
The purpose of every living being is to spread and grow. Bacteria, virus, animal, human even universe and unfortunately cancer. Companies are no different.

Author's statement reminds me of Agent Smith's statement about humans, virus and cancer. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5foZIKuEWQ&t
Don't worry sir, we'll dispatch a camera drone immediately. Please keep within a well-lit area. With video evidence the perp will almost certainly be convicted.
Perl, Julia, Python with PyPy, bash (but pretend it's something else)
Funny that I've been using this analogy for a while in comments on HN. The perpetual growth model really is the root of most evil.
That’s not how “private equity works”.

That’s how 1 small part of private equity, LBOs, work.

Private Equity encompasses a lot more than LBOs.

Secondly, if it’s so obvious that this is how LBOs always work, then why do the people giving out the loan agree to do so?

Like if you went to a bank and everyone in the world knows that your intention is to borrow money and then declare bankruptcy to avoid paying the bank back, they will not lend you money.

Why should that be any different for the larger companies? The reality is that entities lend them money because they largely succeed overall.

Next, your claim that LBOs buy healthy companies is almost certainly wrong. But even if that’s what they are doing, they are able to buy it because someone is selling it. IOW, because they are paying a premium on the current value placed on the company by others. So if they’re willing to pay a premium and still manage to flip it for more, isn’t that a sign of success? You took a business and increased its value dramatically. To the point where it pays for your many failures as well.

The problems with LBOs lie around the fact that the way they achieve a lot of their success is by making a lot of hard decisions that need to be made but the original ownership cannot. This might be the right thing to do to make the company more functional but it has a lot of side effects since it leads to significant and rapid job losses, etc. In a country where people are largely in debt, and rely on their company for almost everything including healthcare, this has serious knock on effects not just on the individual but their communities and then the entire country.

The solution isn’t to make companies less effective by making hiring and firing harder. The solution is to find solutions outside of this.

These could include universal income, better unemployment insurance, providing limited pauses on debt payments on losing a job, etc.

But it’s a lot easier to complain about evil PE firms instead so that’s what people do. Besides, talking about systems attracts fewer eyeballs than evil corporate overlords so that’s what we see.
True about RAM's failure rates being really, really low. But when it fails in such devices, the very expensive option available to you for repair is replacing the whole motherboard! And no easy upgradability means if Windows or Ubuntu tomorrow increases its minimum requirement for RAM to more than 8 GB, you are stuck with sub-par performing device.
Yeah I forgot about a credit card payment that was due a number of years ago, before I had online banking. I went in 2 days before it was due and paid it cash. I still got a late penalty added brcause cash takes three days to clear.

A bill under £2 and got hit with a fee of £20
The flying spaghetti monster may also be real (just not supported by this particular study).
That's a bit overblown. Dog piling into a single stock is one thing. An entire market (that was) primed to collapse (housing) is another.
I could have written this post. Same sequence of novels read, same feelings. I keep getting tempted back into the Banksiverse when his name pops up on HN, but then I remember how disgusted I was at the end of the Hydrogen Sonata.
Digital marketers share what’s next in the ad space in 2021
That’s the most insane thing i’ve ever heard.

They’ll often offer the pay you but demanding money for an interview is crazy.
Yes, and they are killing the host.
Or maybe happy with earning enough for himself and 10 others. If that worked for 30 years, that owner achieved more than most. And might do so for the foreseeable future.
"Is there any reason to believe Robinhood is worth $1B?"
How the F#@! would you replicate the capabilities of say lockheed martin or something with a thousand tiny companies on a massive top secret plane project. That's absolutely ridiculous.
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Life is cancer
I believe you are mistaken, Factorio is an incredibly complex game.
> GameStop's financials were and are pretty solid.

But aren't stock prices almost entirely about future performance? So will GME's business model work tomorrow?

I think the answer is yes. They're the best option for buying used peripherals that I've found. I can get it right away, can exchange easily if a problem and can see the item before I buy (or at least when I pickup).

I've just wasted too much time trying to see through the Amazon reviews gaming, do what feels like national security background checks on eBay sellers or go through the hassle of FB marketplace.

Maybe it's just me, but as a casual gamer and fan of legacy consoles, I like shopping at Gamestop. Whether online with "at the door" pickup or in the store. The locations around me have employees that seem genuinely happy. Maybe they're good at hiding their misery.

If Gamestop would expand into more hobby shop items, it could really take off. Board games, miniatures, etc. And why don't they stock energy drinks (my locations don't anyway)? Post-pandemic add small cafes with rentable game systems. I think people will be desperate for actual human interaction once that's possible again.

Finally, with this ongoing retail apocalypse maybe their leases will get cheaper.
Related: RustPython - A Python interpreter written in Rust.

https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython
IANAL, but I was under the impression that the police have no obligation help people. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columb...
While I completed it, I personally did not enjoy my time with Factorio. In my review I specifically used the term "complexity fetishist" to describe the kind of player who might enjoy the game too much.

Which isn't to say there's anything wrong with the game. It actually felt kind of weird to not recommend it since it was a pretty darned good execution of what it set out to be, I just couldn't ever actually suggest to someone that they play it. Either they wouldn't like dealing with the needlessly ever increasing in complexity goldbergian monstrosity, or worse they actually would.

I think the game's popularity among developers highlights a core problem with our industry. Look at Factorio, then look at all of the over engineering, the layers upon layers of abstraction, the obsessive need to keep making software larger and more complicated only to eventually tear it down and rebuild the exact same thing with the new-hotness widgets...
Replicators using directed mutation to compete in a free energy medium will inevitably discover uncontrolled replication. Doesn't matter whether its viruses or cells or businesses or memes.
I would be interested in knowing more about the tradeoffs between their system and ours, if you could expand a bit?
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This is clearly a slippery slope. Regulate once, regulate twice, and so on...