skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has to be a terribly naive question, but where does the information about a fund "short selling" a stock come from?

Is this information just in the wind, because the fund is talking about their trades in an effort to further drive stock down and improve their buy back cost?

Or, are there some kind of disclosures which must be made while they hold this position?

What information was WSB community going on?
I've negotiated contracts for a single server at a data center. You don't have to be huge to have some negotiating power.

Now it's possible you are so extremely deplorable that nobody is willing to take your money but I think that is society functioning as it should. People are still willing to put up with a lot when money is involved.
As long as you got a strong package manager and good ecosystem around it everything is ok. Many languages don't have built-in package manager.
So two things: first, they are opening the app up to anyone (and on Android) in the near future (timing TBC of course). It'll be interesting to see if the hype they've built will last all the way through to then.
Second, I fully agree with you that opening the app up is actually problematic for them. It's almost like the opposite of the network effect, where I think having more people on the platform is going to potentially make the quality deteriorate. Right now, it feels authentic but somewhat curated (i.e. we have moderators who invite high-profile and very interesting panelists on to speak) - I'm not sure that will be maintained when it becomes a free-for-all.
it doesn't take techie knowledge, but I'll admit it takes financial knowledge.

Which IMO you should have before you do anything "complex" like invest real money.
I think the way it works now is great, being able to go short on naked options with a proper margin maintenance is way smarter than restricting everyone to go long on options or only allow people to sell calls on covered options (which kind of defeats the purpose of a bearish position when you are required to hold the deliverables).
Ugh, I know. Honestly, I will be more than happy if RH doesn't survive this. Gamifying investing and all but encouraging gambling behaviour, defaulting to allowing trading on margin, and now their behaviour over the past couple of days... there are far better options out there these days.
This is true, but has to be weighed against the fact that you may land a job that is a better fit for your skill set, which I would argue trumps everything. Remote allows you to find work where you're a star, IFF you're willing to hunt for it. This is more likely to matter if you already have other career skills though (i.e. mature applicants transitioning from other work)
I don’t know how long it was since you put together any IKEA furniture, but even things like these are hard to miss nowadays. I don’t know how and if they tests their instructions, but they seem to know quite well what kind of mistakes people tend to do and adapt their instructions accordingly.
Hah! A friend just shared this with me, I'm Maurice the original author, long time anonymous hn lurker. This was a labor of love, I still remember the sheer exhilaration when I made my first sale!
He posted his daily update today, he has not sold his shares through all of this chaos.

Talk about "diamond hands".

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l846a1/gme_...
100% this. Price manipulation to trigger a short squeeze is explicitly illegal. https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm section 7.

Anyone who told others to buy and hold with promises of short covering and higher prices is party to market manipulation, and it is absolutely, definitely illegal. Whether they'll be able to unmask and charge people behind the anonymity of WSB is another question though.
https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/disorderfs/-/ra...
That’s for development - the population doesn’t really matter for the creation of the vaccine?
Well if a stock market crash triggered by this is realistic (which I agree is), doesn't it make sense to hold a bit of GME for insurance?

I understand that there's no guarantee one will be able to exit it successfully even if it flies so high that it crashes the market. However I don't see a better insurance for people who don't have access to options/inverse etfs and don't want to sell their stocks.
I’m in logistics too, although deliveries seemed pretty flexible from my perspective. 5 days is a huge window (retailers will fine you if you arrive outside their 2 hour window!).

Delivery into any specified single NDC seems sensible.

More specifics around delivery requirements and regulations will differ on a by-country basis regardless.
Exactly. The whole world is your workplace -- you can work from anywhere really easily in tech, and you can hire anywhere as well. Plus for team retreats and such (after COVID of course) you can head to a new location each year and visit a coworker. Bangalore, Prague, Springfield IL, Panama City, etc.
‘One can just as easily say “Apple doesn’t care about the users, they’re just trying to make money selling phones and getting a bigger cut of transactions that happen on the phone”.’

Yes one can, and one can make a case for that based on the aggregate of the companies behavior and statements of their executives.

If you don’t look at the actual companies, it’s easy to make a false equivalence like this.

In this case actually looking at Facebook’s behavior, incentive structure, and the statements of its executives support the position I have taken.
Anything on the extreme of each "side" is by its very definition extreme.

To Americans I am quite left leaning. By Uk standards I'm probably just to the right of centre.

However, it _shouldn't_ matter what "side" you are on, if you're being a shit, you should be punished.

However that doesn't excuse doxxing, pileons, knowingly spreading fake news. We have to accept that we live in information bubbles unless we activly seek the edges. Its perfectly possible to deliberately ignore bad/illegal behaviour if we think it perpetrated by "our" side.

For example in the US, the majority of the "right" are sympathetic with the "insurrection" but don't like the rioting and looting. However they are not going to speak out because the people doing it are "one of our own"

In the same way that those who align more with the BLM movement will not publicly condemn the rioting and looting that happened in the summer, because it happened by "their side".

Rioting and looting is wrong, and more often than not causes more pain to the people the rioters are supposedly trying to stand up for. But, I have empathy for those who are rioting, its fucking fun, thrilling ans intoxicating
P.S. as evidence of my incompetence I couldn't even operate the comments function correctly and posted twice ;)
Well, you could, but then you only would have generated something "new," probably without any sense - something bizarre. That's why the authors measure usefulness, too. Only if both - novelty and usefulness - come together, you create something really creative. There is a lot of research about this, especially in the field of psychology.
Their 'Fences' app is excellent (which was the app I bought the bundle for).

In particular, the ability to create a view on the desktop onto another folder. This lets me split my desktop into 'local' and 'cloud' areas by having a fence containing a view onto a Google Drive-hosted folder.
> To this end, we began to investigate how we could handle this transition with grace. It soon turned out that we had to re-write a lot of the JIT system, a core component of the JVM itself, which was something we had little to no experience in.

Why couldn't they just merge the (presumable) upstream OpenJDK support into their fork?
Hey, Daekun here! Super happy to hear about that, and thank you for the endorsement!
A quick google for "homemade integrated circuit" brings up

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/

At the very primitive end of the technology, integrated circuits can be made in the home workshop.
Maybe more approachable, but I don’t think more clear.
I forgot to mention, here's a TLDR visual story if you aren't a fan of long-form:
https://stories.nws.ai/1288496439/how-clubhouse-went-viral/
The question is not about stackoverflow, but googling in general. As in, without project documentation accessible.
> In short, AstraZeneca agreed to use UK facilities
> to manufacture doses for the EU.

Section 5.1 of the PDF seems to imply that the "Initial Europe Doses" are to be manufactured within Europe [0] "following EU marketing authorization".

Section 5.4 which you quote from specifies that "this section only shall include the United Kingdom". As written, this section does not relate to the distribution of the initial doses in Section 5.1, but instead is about where AstraZeneca _could_ choose to manufacture the vaccine. That is why it explains the process by which they might get prior written notice for non-EU manufacturing sites, and discusses how they could be contracted with if they are unable to deliver doses.

I think that gives them some leeway to ask AstraZeneca to increase capacity in the EU, but it strongly suggests to me that the capacity has meant to come from EU facilities, particularly for the "Initial Europe Doses".

Somebody also linked to this [1] which implies that AstraZeneca stated that they would have no other contracts that should conflict with the "Initial Europe Doses", however, I can imagine AstraZeneca will argue that this is achieved by segregating production in the initial doses stage and that the problem is due to low yields in the EU facilities and not due to competing arrangements.

[0] https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1355120024378335238
[1] https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1355137923411279878
It's cheaper to do it slower - banks don't have to constantly talk to each other all day. Russia actually gave up on same day settlement and called it a modernization.

https://www.fintechfutures.com/2013/03/moscow-exchange-adopt...

Also, you may still be able to pay for stocks with checks at some places, so the cash isn't always available.
It's sad, but at this point, I don't think we should let them back ashore. There's a point at which these sea people can't really adjust and are a danger to society. Something similar happened 3198 years ago and it collapsed all major civilizations. Egypt was never the same again.

We'll have to try seasteading or something.
I've been in and out of this site for many, many years now. I came back a few months ago, having been away for quite a while. It was noticeably different even then. At that time, it was all about the US political situation. It's not necessarily that the focus has become more political — although it undoubtedly has — it's more that the comments are skewing more towards memes and triviality. Sad to see; let's hope it's just a phase.
They did do more PCR but that isn’t reflected in the efficacy numbers. The end point for all trials has been prevention of symptomatic disease.
Not long, around five years after full production.
An Intro to Python Virtual Environments
Totally not a problem in the world of .NET + Visual Studio.

Create new project -> web site -> you get a template filled in with auth and minimal database.

No need to google function arguments, because in statically typed language autocomplete provides nearly 100% discovery.

CI style deployment would be a problem, but manually you can deploy from the project menu.
I'd genuinely recommend just letting such things be a permanent fixture of your profile. It would save you a lot of headaches and wasted time dealing with people who'd ultimately not want to interact with you, and likewise with whom you'd not want to interact.
add to that that his father was a big boss in the industry at the time, so they couldn't apply openly all the harshness that would be applied otherwise.
> Are they better than no masks?

This is the important question. Well are they? I’ve seen a lot of people wearing N95s and almost every one of them are wearing them incorrectly. Is this better than a cloth mask? I don’t know. But having huge gaps on the bridge of one’s nose where air flows is really bad to reduce risk. And my favorite is seeing them work with beards that prevent a seal.

I can’t find any tests of cloth mask vs bad n95. Saying “common sense” as the reason is not a compelling reason to try to get 300M people doing something.
I think the 'political optics' win for Johnson is going to more likely be: "We are the first major country to reach near full vaccination".

Bibi in Israel is facing intense political ambiguity, and they are paying 3-4x (for the vaccines) what other countries are paying, and have apparently been doing some behind the scenes shenanigans for acquisition, I mean it's Isreal, that's what they do (no offence to those who might take it that way but they are the most realpolitik country on planet earth). They are way ahead of anyone else and I suggest this is Bibi's political salvation plan.

Boris, similarly.

It's a little bit conspiratorial, but wouldn't be surprised if there are some behind the scenes actions by UK gov. to make sure the UK is first.

Also consider that the EU is frankly playing a losing hand and they look really bad from this.

This is a major existential crisis and if China, US and UK end up with full vaccinations months ahead of the EU it's going to be very, very damaging.

At minimum, the EU has to make a very big public stink about it to ensure people know/believe that the EU is doing what is possible, to mitigate the damage and possibly to be able to push the blame a little bit to others.

Finally - there's nothing wrong with the UK offering the EU help, and that it would also end up being good PR. The problem with the claim is not that it's 'sickening' but rather it's frankly not a huge material PR win. It's a nice thing but it's only worth a news cycle or two.

Having the UK immunized a few months ahead of the EU, irrespective of the underlying realities, is going to be something that will be remembered and analyzed for a decade.

Frankly, in the end, I actually think it's far too risky for any EU/UK politicos to be playing underhanded games, the blowout would be devastating. I just think it's a matter of operational reality that the UK is doing well on this (note they are doing very poorly on infections), though I do feel EU has dropped the ball on securing vaccines from a wider base. Even Canada has put in options to purchase from a variety of sources.
> He had no intention of creating a squeeze

If I am not mistaken he did say in one of his videos that there is a chance for a squeeze to happen.
Seems a key change was to name the button "Start" instead of "System". It's a built in instruction!
It's been explained by other people in the comment section already much better than I could do.
Edit: Actually can you show me where RH even says you can trade covered options without Instant? I've only found evidence to the contrary, I think you're lying.

https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/options-investi...

> NOTE: If you start options trading in your Cash account, we’ll automatically upgrade you to an Instant account.

Maybe if you've downgraded they won't upgrade you, but it's neither here nor there, covered options aren't what have allowed this to happen

If Robinhood only had covered options you'd be right back where I said it'd be: not supporting the way people are using it to enable all this.
Funny. I never liked the taskbar at the bottom of the screen on Windows, so I always move it to the top. To this day, it still screws up new window alignment, twenty five-ish years later.

After I moved to Linux and 16:9 monitors became mandatory I moved my gnome/mate taskbar to the left side, where it has stayed for about a decade. It is a bit clumsy in the vertical position, but does the job.
Most people don't even know what a world would look like in which power was taken away from large companies and a genuine market of services would exists that gives power back to the users and developers rather than platform owners. The hold that Apple has on its billion users and that Facebook has on its 2 billion is too strong to be solved by some magical third party. None of the large firms which control our digital infrastructure provides an actual protocols.

The government should absolutely force it on Facebook and Apple and Google the same way the American government forced it on railroad barons a hundred years ago, when they were forced to make their networks interoperable.

Imagine if Volkswagen owned the streets and you could only drive your car on 30% of all roads. Sure you can go to Toyota, you just have to drive in circles. We'd laugh anyone out of the room who actually defended this. Yet this is literally how the internet is structured right now. We live in little fiefdoms where Android users can't talk to imessage users because feudal lords have decided to draw a line across the territory.
> for a price

At risk of seeming like a shill (I just like Groupy!) there seems to be a 50% discount code here, making it the price of a coffee: https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/groupy
its funny how its always a certain class of people "we didn't get", the answer isn't to shrug your shoulders and say oh well.
Buildbarn, a build cluster implementation for Bazel that I maintain, can also run build actions (compilation steps, unit tests) in a FUSE file system. Though the primary motivator for this is that it reduces the time to construct a build action's file system to nearly instant, it has the advantage that I can also do things similar to disorderfs. Shuffling directory listings is actually something that I also added. Pretty useful!

https://github.com/buildbarn/bb-remote-execution/blob/eb1150...
And where is your source for that?
The vast majority of them are along shipping routes, which are generally pretty crowded.. at least relative to the open ocean.
They were doing that for years, indeed. Later after the pandemic China will replace with copy and paste clones of all fat US citizens.
I think everyone knows it wasn't simply that though, hence the outrage.
> I'm pretty convinced there's some kind of organized manipulation attack going on within r/wsb

Do you have any proof for that? If not then arent you the one who is spreading misinformation?
> Complicated enough that it took the invention of Bitcoin to take it out of the bankers hands and move it to the digital realm.

That's not at all what bitcoin does or helps with.

Settlement is not complicated. ACH is complicated, but ACH isn't just settlement. Bank to bank wire transfers are just settlement, and are regularly same-day (even same-hour) with immediate fund availability.

Hell, FedWire has been doing real-time near-instant moving of money between accounts since 1920 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedwire
i applaud the obscureness of this joke.

(for everyone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples )
Oh, nice example. I wonder if repackaging a viral content of '<meme>' as a conversational cartoon, 'A: "<meme>!" B: "LOL!"', might increase the likelihood of it being spoken? Perhaps yielding viral content spread, with oral storytelling leaves. Or maybe even A: "<idea>" B: "Neat! <question>?" A: "<answer>" to scaffold further conversation and thought?

There's a common professorial comment, that they didn't really understanding some topic, until after preparing for, and teaching it. So the exploratory question is, how might 'preparing for, and teaching it' be made a greater part of the science education content and outreach experience. For the additional motivation of sharing the knowledge with others. And for the incentive towards clearer, more integrated understanding - eg, to be able to answer non-toy real-people questions.
How to generate one?
That is helpful. I was thinking that a race condition would only include a data race, but this blog defined it broader, so that it would include deadlock.
That isn't quite the same a what this software is or what Groupy does, but that is a fascinating article. I loved this part:

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For instance, one study subject took twenty minutes of staring at a Windows 3.1 desktop before being able to open a text editing program. Finally, a programmer spoke up that this was unacceptable, to Oran’s relief. But that relief would be short lived: “Our customers are morons!” exclaimed the programmer.

This was frustrating enough, Oran says. But then they talked to that user, and it turns out that he was actually a propulsion engineer for Boeing.

“He was literally a rocket scientist,” Oran says. “And even he couldn’t figure out Windows.”

---

IMO the #1 opportunity for open source software to gain more mainstream acceptance is focusing on making it easier for non-technical users to use. Which is hard when most of your userbase is technical users. Microsoft deserves credit for realizing they had a usability problem, and having made major improvements to that over the years.
So when he posted back in June, his GME holding was $121k. According to his YouTube video from then, that represented ~2% of his portfolio. That puts his portfolio at ~$6M.

So much for "poor people fighting back" LOL.
I don't think there is any downside in having a remote job in a tech vs non-tech city, unless you:
a) enjoy going to in-person tech meetups
b) want to have the option to also find local onsite jobs

If you already live in a non tech city and you've been offered a good remove job, I'd consider that a big win. Take it! Once you start working remotely and build a resume as a good remote worker, it's also easier to get future ones (i.e. companies know you're used to it, you like it, you'll work efficiently that way, etc).
I was surprised at these narratives being repeated so many times here with only a few people refuting them:

* GME was illegally shorted 140%, maybe by one company, and a stock being shorted 140% is somehow intrinsically bad/evil/shady. None of this really seems to be the case regardless of the utility.

* GameStop was being driven to bankruptcy by hedge funds shorting it. I'm not sure what the logic is here.

These narratives almost seemed designed to rationalize the manufacture of a short squeeze; something the SEC seemingly has some strong opinions about.
RH isn't free, you can upgrade to a paid account.
Seems like something with very little margin for error and catastrophic if you screw up. I'm not sure why this was a major feature they needed to ship or what problem they're solving for...
VS2019 but Windows 7?

A similar app is TidyTabs: https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs

Has anyone tried it? It's not open source, but "free for personal use".
> it's crushing a few hedge funds

To be fair Robinhood also had to get extra funding to cover its liquidity issues.

IB CEO also said they had to stop GME buying or else it might take down the system.
> He fumbled and stumbled into premiership

He took a razor-thin majority and turned it into a huge one. He’s PM because he ruthlessly executed a plan to become it. He won almost every brinkmanship point with the EU that he took on over the last year.

He’s not who I want as PM, and I think his record is dismal, but if you think he “fumbled and stumbled” his way in then you’ve fallen for his con: he’s bright and ruthless.
While it's an interesting proposition, I don't really understand the problem you're solving here. Could you perhaps elaborate? If anything, I prefer getting paid monthly — I pay my expenses monthly and do it all in one go, it's very convenient. Getting paid small lumps every day I'd have to put a lot more time into budgeting imo.
I'm not sure the HN crowd appreciates his style on this picture. I love me a bandana and am known to use some ironic wolf tee once in a while. I felt so inspired when I saw the photo and am not even joking.