skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand, pump-and-dumps are illegal if you make untrue promises about future behavior or otherwise are shown to deceive or lie about it. Or if you are coordinating to have a certain group all sell at an exact same time to leave others holding the bag.

I suppose it's a fine line, but to me this seems much more loosely coordinated. I don't think there's been any particular time to sell that has been agreed on, and all the communication is out in a public forum. And the demand for the stock is all based around public knowledge that it was shorted 140% of its market cap. It seems like the difference between insider trading vs if information leaks to the public about a company's plans in which case it's completely legal to trade based on.
I've had to use apple's subscription to nytimes as an indirection so that it's easy to cancel
So, just like a stock buy back, just a bit more complicated..
Where are they going to go? Every company is using dark patterns. Maybe there are a few small ethical companies but that is very small number.
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How is it legal for it _not_ to be? Keeping that information hidden drastically incentivizes naked short selling -- and there is an exploit for naked shorts that will be incredibly difficult to prevent going forward ... no -- the exploit does not really rely on collective action -- it relies on the perception of collective action -- which is definitely fake able in an automated way with current technologies.

Naked shorts at this scale are gonna have to go away and no one will have more incentive to reach that goal than main street wall street ... ideally they can and should do this in a way that simply involves making more information public ...
Psychology is undergoing a severe replication crisis at the moment, it doesn't surprise me that there's systemic fraud that the academy refuses to address.

Until we drag the ivory tower down a few pegs it's not going to get any better.
I really hope they issued some shares now.
Adolescence vs adulthood is the timeline here.

Consider this: you read this anecdote and thought “I’m going to belittle this guy.”

Says a lot about _your_ morals.
My initial reaction is not running space missions, but that it will be a replacement for graphite/grafana - our company's telemetry is the web requests hitting the main site or database queries on the new server or trial sign-ups achieved, email reminders sent etc?

In short - Watching day to day operations and looking for anything unusual.

I think this kind of platform is wide open country - every corp has something like this, large chunks home grown or massively customised. And they all suck to varying degrees.

My prediction - replacing that mess with a "mission control system from freaking NASA" is going to make big in-roads.
I like it! It needs more display options, like line-height, and margin size. I also accidentally scrolled with my touchpad and was moved to the very beginning, then very end when I reversed course (Chromium on Linux FWIW).
Over half of Robinhood account holders had a position in GME as of yesterday, you can’t tell me those people had done that without knowing about WSB.
> can't this be solved by putting the "burden of PR" on the PR-er? A long checklist of "I have read this" and "I have tested this" should raise the PR bar high enough to make the code review cost worth it.

People definitely do not read those. The less useful their PR is, the less likely they are to have read any of the stuff in the template.
From what I read on the internet, in order to have benefits a human being would need to get infected with worms in childhood.
Citadel the fund has invested $2.75 billion into Melvin last week. Its likely they want to see an ROI.
I’ve found many who are very outspoken in these communities have little to no filter in real life.
This is probably the most fascinating thing I've read so far on the subject. Given that many other brokerages seem to be doing the same as Robinhood, is it safe to assume they also are not accounting for such situations?

Also, another user shared a link above where Robinhood claims there are two types of brokers, introducing and clearing, and describes themselves as the latter[0]. Is that at all relevant here? If I understand correctly, "clearing house" is still a distinct concept that is very much involved.

[0]: https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/whats-clearing-...
The system worked, science and capitalism delivered technology and wealth.

Our problems now are organizational and psychological.

In terms of concrete suggestions for accelerating the economic shift to a post-scarcity world that really depends on one's current situation.

If you've got money, put it into regenerative agriculture and "green" tech.

If you don't have money, you're gonna have to hustle, but there are opportunities everywhere and lots of help available.
One of the things that was not at all clear in the late 70's was the direction of things towards device convergence plus consumer internet. There were plenty of commercial visions of dedicated-task machines that were quite a lot more limited than anything envisioned at PARC. Those machines did find some markets, in some cases even into the 90's, but bit by bit, they got knocked out by commodity computing into a relatively small number of form factors, with machines sufficiently open that most computing and I/O ideas are realizable, albeit with specific parts that are proprietary.

What hasn't been addressed, and I think this is really underlying the sentiment that innovation hasn't happened, is that we're still not really much better at concepts of software literacy. It's still a professionalized realm in spirit, if not in practice, and the software world has a far greater ability to reinvent wheels and avoid standardization. What we have instead are hundreds, maybe thousands of niches where there are professional developers who are using these commodity tools in surprisingly different ways from each other. That kind of experimental data and deep domain knowledge just wasn't around - there were no "VR developers" or "software engineers in test" in 1978 - and I see it increasingly informing newer generations of development tools and practices in a craft-tradition sense.
If someone is saying "This morning Robinhood conspired with Citadel to halt trading", that is a claim. If I ask for source on the claim and they say "It's in the logs, go see for yourself?", my, and most other people on this sites assumption is "This person has no evidence of this claim, or any evidence they do have is eminently debunkable". Handwaving the claim away as "It's obvious" when to most people, "no it isn't obvious whatsoever", or in the worst case "It obviously is not", marks you at best as uninterested in having a real conversation, at worst a conspiracy theorist.
> Nobody actually cares about Gamestop's actual worth as a company, it's just a metagame effectively.

How do you know that everyone who bought it actually doesn't care about Gamestop's worth? There isn't really any way to prove that every single person (or even a majority of people, or really even a good portion of the people) don't care about GameStop's success and are solely doing it as a metagame.
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Yeah, it certainly seems that way. Even Vanguard Brokerage Services, of all places, is offering $0 stock trades. They were never really a discount broker like Schwab, Fidelity or TD Ameritrade. (Schwab offering $0 trades, on the other hand, was very predictable)
I don't think you understand - the assumption that they already got out doesn't hold because shorted shares/float data is publicly accessible[1]. Now I'm sure what happened today allowed them to cover some of their losses partially, but not even close to all of it.

[1]: https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GME
Just minutes ago, I got out of a design meeting for rocket engine test mission control software. Shame our deadline is too tight to actually use the NASA package. Hopefully next time.
Stories about enterprise open source are so frustrating. They never mention Selenium & the ecosystem of companies making millions of dollars. Selenium basically doesn't exist at all whenever anyone asks "BuT wHeRe aRe tHe OpEn sOurCe sUcceSs StorRies?!"

Selenium and Appium are Apache 2 licensed. I started a SaaS service based on them. So has Amazon. The sky has not fallen. The licenses will not change. But apparently this story DOES NOT EXIST.
> When he reached our table I ordered a dozen for me and a dozen for each of my two friends. "That will be eighteen dollars" he said. As I was paying I told him that it was a lot of money for three dozen tamales

I mean, 50c/tamal isn't bad. Growing up in SoCal, homemade tamales bought on the street were 30c-$1/ea (sometimes less, in bulk). And that was without a tamale extruder. Honestly, I don't even see the point of this machine. People that could afford this won't enjoy the profit margins of making tamales and people who make tamales can already do it plenty fast for much cheaper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EYf5h8HFc
Disallowing margin buying is one thing. Not letting you use our money to buy a volatile stock, that's fair game. But not letting you use your own money, that's a scam.
There are plenty of tech companies not using dark patterns (I used to work for one). Granted Amazon employees might not be able to get paid as much elsewhere, but that's the choice you make.
Also, if NASA is working with USDS, then the playbook is Play 13: "Default to Open". Not sure if they are but could be likely!

> When appropriate, publish source code of projects or components online

source: https://playbook.cio.gov/#play13
Elasticsearch moving to GPL/AGPL/etc would not have blocked Amazon since Amazon already freely releases the sources of their contributions. That is why Elastic instead chose the niche license SSPL.
The AirBNB listing showed that banks favor their friends and clients in an IPO, when the price surged well before the debut allowed us Little People to buy. A direct listing would be cool and I hope they pursue that.
The Redditors will lose their profit, the SEC favors all these corrupt hedge funds, wasn't Robinhood established by hedge fund associates?
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25910496
Who would accept GME as collateral for a loan?

RH is a pretty awful broker. Anyone who cares about such things pulled out a long time ago
I can't speak for the creator but I often read Japanese ebooks in my browser because it allows me to lookup unfamiliar words quickly with Yomichan and then create anki cards for them (if I want to).
I read on wsb that Apple has disabled the ability to rate the Robinhood app on their App store. Can anyone confirm/deny?
If a position is shorted under 100%, does that give the shorts enough wiggle room to close their position?
Forgive me I don't know a lot about this. I think he is talking about protecting intermediaries like the clearing houses and the exchanges themselves. The exchanges only work if counter party risk doesn't exist. To solve this, the exchanges back stop every trade and act as one common counter party [0].

He is concerned that there is a $15 billion loss out there due to options on GME. This could wipe out the intermediates guaranteeing the trades. Further that $15 billion can grow arbitrarily as GME is in a short squeeze and disconnected from reality.

[0] - https://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/risk-management.html
Permalink: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2020/fall/fsf-at-35-why-free-so...
As soon as they had a big enough short position and unloaded their long is when the spiral happened. They were the ones setting the swaps prices since they were the biggest market maker for mortgage backed securities.
For clarity here, the barber wearing the mask protects others. This stops larger droplets, spittle, etc from easily reaching others.

Non-n95 masks / etc don't filter much when breathing in. We wear masks to protect others...
I think you put that extremely well. One thing ...

> until the concept of power itself is what is at stake

You mean we need a reach a point where power is not needed? If so that’s a fascinating idea. Thanks!
I don't go to a building and dance and sing to my belief of no diety.

I do not go and seek out others who believe in the lack of a diety to associate and grow together.

I don't go on to claim wars over the land holy to my belief of no diety.

I don't go on to terrorize my children and tell them they are unloved because they're born in a way that offends my belief in the lack of a diety.

I don't go on to terrorize my neighbors and tell them they are unloved because they offend my belief in the lack of a diety.

I don't go to other people who have different beliefs and tell them they are wrong due to their belief in a diety. And that my belief is the only way they can be saved.

Atheism is NOT a religion, it is not a system of beliefs in any meaningfully comparable way. You can rearrange words all you want, but the difference in result (not word choice) is anything but subtle.
A related ongoing thread that was pretty good earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25945397
All of the big social media networks are corporate property. It is not a public space. So it is their house rules. And rightfully so. If you took their free cookie, choke on it, but don't complain.
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It's also worth mentioning that the misconception of thinking UX as being solely related to aesthetics is getting dangerously more and more common, even among professionals referring to themselves as UX designers.

Aesthetics is important, but, in some sorts of systems, it has much lower priority than other non-functional requirements, like overall speed, maintainability, testability and so on.

I don't know if my experience is the same of most of you, but I've seen more and more systems getting aesthetic pleasant but painfully slow and/or buggy these days. It's easy when you can simply quit using the software, but when your bank, your broker, your airline, your accountant, the company that operates the subway ticket machines, when those sorts of businesses start to embrace such vision, things start to get complicated.

And, unfortunately, all those examples I mention here are real and this is not an exhaustive list.

Besides, I'm not sure those companies (at least the ones in my examples) do that as an attempt to exploit users. I believe they do that due to plain lack of competence.
> This is a specific broker

Several did it. I heard WeBull did the same. I know I got a TastyWorks notification when they did it (and a little while ago when they turned it back on).

The more I hear, the less convinced I am that RH in particular did something nefarious.
Yeah, having that feature would prevent a lot of misunderstandings. I’m absolutely open to that (also so I don’t waste time creating PR’s).
Bought a bit of SPCE out of principle
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HN sure does like to circlejerk over pure html.
More like...corn dumplings or Mexican(/Latin American) ZongZi. They can be sweet (sugar added to masa, then filled with raisins or other fruits) or savory (more common, salty masa filled with spicy or flavored meats).
I think their opinion is rather liberal-- simply, "Don't attempt to maintain dumpster fires, and be open source."

It's an important commentary on bluetooth that it cannot be included in such a system. In that sense OpenBSD is a valuable filter, even if that makes it impractical to run on a laptop for your use case.
Strongly suggest using Let's Plot from JetBrains instead. It's much closer to ggplot2 in api and results.

https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot
One of the top posts on WSB this morning was a supposed Robinhood engineer who overheard a call between their CEO and the White House instructing them to stop trading $GME. The /r/The_Donald comparisons seem apt at this point.
Note that, had Elastic chosen to move to GPL/AGPL/LGPL, it would not have blocked Amazon since Amazon already releases the sources of their modifications to Elasticsearch.
Neuron: Future-proof note-taking and publishing based on Zettelkasten
So basically, “heads I win, tails you lose” for the institutional investors because you’re worried about the possible fall out?
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I understand that RH is not a MM. So then why does RH have to manage its risk from the holdings of it's own customers?

I am not a finance professional but I thought RH is just like a custodian and facilitator of trades. It's not on the other side of any of these trades. It never holds any positions. Why does it have to manage its risk and why does a GME event create extra risk for RH?

I thought this kind of risk is only for the MM's like Citadel.
So it's manipulative to look for free floating data and make your own decisions? What the actual heck?
It is not a search of your house if you broadcast your web cam on the internet, just like it doesn’t violate the 4A if you house emanates a strong smell of drugs or has a massive heat bloom visible from IR cameras on a helicopter flying over the neighborhood. I wish we had stronger protections against these conditions but we don’t.

And when has ever had a legal right to political speech at their workplace? Unless you have an employment contract which explicitly guarantees (such as teacher tenure) your employer can fire you for tons of reasons. Some states have labor laws that require “for cause”, but if you are talking politics at a workplace where that is not the core business, it’s not hard for an employer to argue your discussion adversely affects business.
Cached version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210128223057/https://creativeg...
High or low short interest doesn’t directly/absolutely correlate with ability of shorts to close their positions.

There’s not a yes/no answer to your question.
Sweet tamales are definitely a thing and, though a little less common, plenty common themselves.
> Robinhood has been letting inexperienced investors open huge margin positions, and that is still an issue.

Yeah I think that definitely warrants more scrutiny.
Yes, digging in the source, I see it's using Epub.js v0.3 and PDF.js v2.4.163.
I have found coffee carts not uncommon in the US (midwest and california). I think aside from the michoacana guy, food trucks and carts in the US tend to stay put for a long period of time, and really, you don't need more than a cart that you pick up with a truck at the end of the morning. I've seen coffee carts post up at entrances to offices as well as along bike and walking trails.
More like “you didn’t read your contract”.
You don't have Instagram? All their apps should be treated the same.
Robinhood Says it Will Reallow GameStop Trades
Patent trolls buy politicians and judges to make their trolling profitable.

Patents were originally intended to give inventors a period of ownership over their ideas to ensure new inventions were available for everyone to use and build upon, and not hidden behind factory walls. The goal was to increase the rate of inventions and benefit everyone.

But today the most obvious ideas can be patented by people who don’t ever intend to use them to make anything, and don’t even build a prototype to establish the idea works. Instead they patent merely to shake down many who developed the same idea independently, and actually made it useful by investing and risking their own time and money.

So we ended up with a system that actually penalizes the real developers of new inventions, and essentially rewards lawyers.
Also, these stops are supposed to be written into the rules BEFOREHAND and should have clear rules for when they can and cannot happen.
Cryptocurrencies are also extremely volatile but I don't see them disabling the "buy" button when the prices shoot up.

I personally am going to switch away from them to some other brokerage. Their app is very well made though so I hope the competition catches up
The "you can always go work somewhere else" argument will never stop being a cop out. Your employer controls access to your salary, healthcare benefits, and potentially more. Leaving your job is never a completely safe move and there's an abundance of reasons why it's simply not an option to most people, and it doesn't matter what tier of middle class occupation you have for that to be true.

Moreso this argument isn't one to be taken seriously because it assumes every collective failure is a failure of millions of individual choices rather than any of the cultural inertia or environmental influences that steer our choices.
I think the bloat comes from a few places:

Developer productivity: Making complex pages and reusing components across pages is much easier with a library like React than with more vanilla approaches. For a lot of companies with large numbers of engineers, making sure that engineers can be productive without intimate knowledge of HTML/CSS ends up taking priority over things like performance and accessibility.

Branding/customization: The built-in HTML controls are difficult/impossible to style or customize. A lot of UI designers will design some fancy looking select dropdown, not appreciating the fact that they're forcing developers to reinvent the wheel in order to implement their design. Alternatively, there are cases where the UX for built-in controls is lacking enough that you're somewhat forced to implement a replacement (e.g. <select multiple>)
I'm not sure I'd use the term "improving" but would instead say "changing." The perception of those changes has certainly been weighted towards "improvement" but some of that perception is a hangover from the popular mid-century views that most people held regarding science and technology (others held such views prior to that time but I wouldn't say they were the majority).
The question is, would there be any consequence if he lied about it? Given the huge amount of losses, it’s not unreasonable for one to lied about closing their position in hopes of the price falling down.
Well at least you can cancel by phone. I was moving out and wanted to cancel my internet subscription last year. Months in advance, I went to their website and located (with difficulty!) their cancellation page. There was either a form online you could fill where they would call you back, or you could call them. I did the former, waited for a couple of weeks, never had an answer. So I called them, got someone who told me it would be cancelled in 3 months as requested and forgot about it. I even received a survey about how my cancellation process went.

4 months later, I received a bill for the first month after it was supposed to be cancelled. So I called support, which told me that cancellations could only be processed by registered letter, and that they had sent me a mail regarding this (which I never received). She then told me that the service would be cancelled in 2 months since it's the minimum delay, but it would be shortened to 1 month since I was moving to a place which already had a subscription with them, provided I gave the name/address/customer number of the place I was moving to. I asked if she was sure about the details and she said yes.

Now, 2 months later, of course I still received a bill. Called them again, turns out you actually need the signature of the person holding the other contract for the 1 month thing to be valid... Apparently, they sent me another mail, which again I did not receive. (I did, however, receive a late payment notice with massive fees to my new address...) I sent a letter complaining about the whole situation, and just got told to "read the contract attentively next time".

Fuck you UPC Cablecom.
Thanks for the link! I signed up for the Slack and will follow up on the other links.
Flashing high/low/high/low from behind here in Austria at least means “you are annoying me but not in a way that immediately threatens my safety” (beeps are reserved for slow starters at lights or near-collisions). If going in the other direction it means cops ahead.