skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never understood bailouts of hedge funds, whether by government dole, or by corporate collusion as Robinhood is now doing.

On a fine day, these buffoons are all Ayn Randish free marketeers. They should be willing to live by their principles even in downturns.
"I haven't found a way to do promises yet". TeaVM provides Java wrappers for most JS APIs, including promises (https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm/blob/master/core/src/m...). If you require an API that doesn't have a wrapper yet, it is dead simple to create your own wrapper. Or just use the @JSBody annotation to write your own ad-hoc Javascript.
It is a bit more than that. Members give 1% of their TC to the union (which is exceptionally high, by the usual standards of union dues and the actual member services the union provides).

The model of unionism you reference isn't universal or even the most common cross culturally. Even within the US, pre-New Deal minority unionism was the dominant form of worker organization.
LA Times' integrity makes them look like a joke.
My city... look what they've done to my boy...

So sad growing up here. I imagined I would live life as an artist in a cheap flat. It was safe, beautiful, fun, and cheap.

Then Portlandia aired and the worst of the worst came to the city flooding out the local residents.

Growing up, I never understood why being poor was considered a problem. People in our city were poor, but we were decent people. I was one of them.

At some point, I realized that the new poor coming to our city on a dream fucking sucked. They shared none of my ideals and seemed to want everything for nothing.

edit: not to mention the gentrification.. holy smokes, it was a mix of these terrible people with no impulse control, and extremely rich playboys that would overpay for everything. Caused rents, restaurants, and everything else to glamorize. Even after a tech employer gave me a chance, I struggled to afford much here. I'm now happily living away.
A bunch of rich people from whom Robinhood takes payment for order flow stood to lose money if shorts continued to squeeze quickly, and selling pressure from spooked longs provides an offer to shorts who need to cover.
Brokers can't use client money to make the deposit.
Please don't post drivel, even sarcastically. It's still drivel, which is spam, even if you say you disagree with the substance of it.
> If you want to be able to install anything you can buy a pinephone but I can't imagine it would be fun to install anything on a pinephone.

If an application is properly sandboxed, and I can fully control the permissions of that sandbox, then I see no problems with that.
It is in large part a tech problem though. The solution may or may not be more tech, but a huge part of the problem is the explosion of new tech uncoupled from any assessment of social good.

I’d estimate a tech CEO understands the problem at hand better than an octogenarian lawyer, at any rate.
Dr Shady Nasser's Book on “The Tansmission of the Variant Readings of the Quran”
> the correct grammar is what is used, not what’s ordained.

There are no ordained rules but if that grammar and lexicon is confusing, as in the case of 'they' noted above, then it is de facto invalid.

The purpose of language is to communicate in an unambiguous and expressive manner. Not to make shortcuts for the locutor.
Thanks so much for this! Will get to work on these
> Why doesnt he run for president?

His profile is similar to Buttigeg. He met with some resistance during his campaign due to that and was not able to go beyond a certain momentum. I believe something similar would happen to him (Cook) also if he ran. Or, maybe he's not interested.

Why don't you have a word with him and try to pursue - tim@apple.com ?
Is hand-wringing over "woke" bogeymen the next evolution of grousing unironically about "SJWs"?
Does Newton’s Constant Vary?
If you're thinking of doing that for Adsense or Amazon Affiliates, I'm pretty sure that's against the ToS. So, you may end up getting banned for it.
You can express those invariants using dependent types. Look at something like Lean.
Perhaps love is actually the thing that makes us different from animals. We will ruin our lives for it. It is not that it is 'not special' but rather the antagonism (being stuck on someone and never being able to really full reach them across the abyss of the real)that creates our subjectivity.In love we recognizes ourselves AS universal (vs as an example of universality)through the act of falling, risking, trying to mean something. These are the ideas of the Slovenian Philosophical group including Dolar and Zizek right now. (Sex and the Failed Absolute is a good start)
Why Is * Trying to Punish Charter Schools for Their Success?
I agree with the other commenter that it's a boiling point issue. Things looked ok at the surface but...

- rising cost of living, propelled by foreign investment in housing, pricing out even upper middle class

- more taxes

- more crime, and less policing

- shitty schools

As soon as you don't need to be in the expensive city for work, it's like hmmm, why the hell am I putting up with this? People with kids may be slightly less flexible, but anybody young and single can basically move very easily. People forget that companies can move easily too.

In terms of amenities, city governments forget that the whole microbrewery/dispensary/expensive coffee shops/hot yoga/avocado toast ecosystem has basically been franchised out at this point and is trivial to stand up anywhere. Sure, it's not an opera house in Manaus, but lots of cheap places in the US have more culture than Bellevue or San Jose.

Expensive cities will argue people will return, and sure, some will, unless the city is too dangerous and completely broke from the tax base leaving. If you are young and single, and want to be around other young single people, and let's say a little midwest spot becomes hip and has the basics, and lots of people move there, you don't really need NYC (at least not everybody). And $500/month rent for a nice 1 bedroom (or a mortgage) is appealing.
The article does not really answer the question in the title. Yes, it shows why they still had the ability to execute Sells. But the question most people have is: If you are forced to halt Buys, isn't it fairest to also halt Sells?

Now, I can see the counterargument: if you halt Sells, you are effectively preventing people from withdrawing their money from Robinhood. But, by allowing Sells (which are being bought by another party somewhere) you likely to influence the price, and you're putting your customers in a strange position relative to clients of other institutions who can still buy, and indeed, buy from Robinhood customers. I still haven't seen this question properly addressed. What are the precedents? When forced to restrict trading because of regulatory obligations in the past, has the normal response been to halt all trading or only one side?
The IWW for one.
The best idea is to turn it upside down, put casters on the bottom through the "top of the table" and then you can load it upwards. You have about 9U of space available but you can line up one table on top of each and connect them.
Nope Reliance has dedicated towers they dont share towers.
But it’s not client money the second the trade executes?
isnt there already f-droid which is doing a slow but nonetheless a great job?
People wanted Lego bike lanes, and Lego is finally listening
Or 0 to -100x more stuff. The vast, vast majority of code is limited by the application’s workload and architecture, not the language runtime. I remember a colleague spending 3 months trying to beat Python using Go, eking out a single digit increase because it turns out that the Python stdlib C code is not easy to beat. For web apps, this is especially common: if 95% of your runtime is in the database or other external services, Amdahl’s law reigns supreme.

The other experience point which a lot of people forget the first few times is maintenance: if using Go means that you have notably more code to write and integration to support, you’re shipping fewer features and have less time to optimize the architecture. That Go code I mentioned earlier was much larger and required time to identify, integrate, and debug third-party libraries for things which are in the Python standard library.

This isn’t to say that Go is a bad choice but again a cue to make sure you’re solving the problems you actually have rather than someone else’s situation. If you’re still exploring the business case you should hesitate before copying a decision made by someone with both a well understood problem, large scale, and more people working on it.

In this thread’s context, I would highly recommend focusing on keeping the architecture easy to support and replace components when the business expands to the point where you really need to hammer specific optimizations. This is especially true in the 2020s where a large fraction of problems are either never exceeding single server scale or can be handled by trivially autoscaling containers on-demand for less than it’d cost in developer time to optimize them beyond the level you can hit in a language like Python or Node.

Again, that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with using Go – it’s a perfectly fine choice and has some great libraries — but it usually won’t be transformative the way some advocates claim. When you hear about huge benefits from rewrites look for how often they mention rearchitecting based on what they’d learned from the first system.
Comments that start with saying "I don't buy" the real-world non-simple explanation, even in the face of mountains of real world evidence, are not in the spirit of any site that pretends to be some kind of better place.

Conspiracy fantasies should be moderated down by the administrators. "Wide eyed curiosity" comes second to pragmatism, realism, lack of narcissism and entitlement.
They have "Releases" which can be improved to provide binaries considered as "App Store".

Just download the proper release for your platform and Rock'n'Roll.
This doesn't answer the question, an App Store for what?

iOS / Mac? Appel doesn't even allow anything alike on iOS, and for Mac, Apple could pull out developer certificate for whatever reason.

Android? Will that be bundled by Phone markers? If not how are the 2.5B of Google Android users going to get it?

Windows, what are the benefits?

I am not understand the reason other than I want an App Store that is not coming from Big Tech. And arguably Github is part of Big Tech ( Microsoft ).
check labgopher -> https://labgopher.com/
I don't know about wine and coke being a faux pa. Kalimotxo is a fantastic addition to a drinking game.

Just...don't use the good stuff.
How to tell your roommate you’re moving out
I would love a github logo on other app stores; verifying the tag hosted on github was compiled and released to the app store without modification.
Seems like there might be at least a cottage industry in small wearable devices that would foil this kind of thing.

Though, extending this thought experiment a bit, if you asked the average shopper how much they would pay for such a device, I’d imagine the most common answer would be nothing, since the average shopper cannot perceive the cost to them of this surveillance.

Which in turn suggests that maybe a better countermeasure would be some way to show consumers what those costs to them are, in estimated dollars.
(The NYT, that is)
> First of all, they limited opening trades for all accounts, not just accounts buying on margin or with unsettled funds.

RobinHood’s UX was built around the concept of hiding margin details from clients. All Robinhood accounts are margin accounts by default. Inbound funds transfers give people margin buying abilities before the trades arrive.

Is it really so hard to believe that they hadn’t pre-planned the ability to limit margin purchases on a single stock? This is an unprecedented event and it happened very, very fast.

Robinhood likely only had a few options to roll out immediately. Let’s not pretend they could have reworked their trading platform, tested and deployed the changes, and implemented the action in a matter of hours.
that sounds really awful, not "fine."
I want to believe you but then I see how the short sellers think about these kinds of situations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMuEis3byY4
wouldn't that drive the value of stock down and threaten the company itself?

I am financially illiterate, but I understand the reddit posts to mean that short squeeze is inevitable because GME is >100% shorted and issuing more shares would kill the short squeeze and drive the price down
> If you have a cash account and you buy a stock, your broker has plenty of time (2days) and plenty of funds (all of them) to clear your trade.

If they have two days to pay, DTCC is taking on some counterparty risk. Isn't that reason enough for DTCC to increase the deposit requirements when they see risk increasing? (Not a rhetorical question, you seem to know what you're talking about so I am curious what the answer is.)
sure thanks for the explanation. at the end of the day the user is trading with borrowed money, which is the problem.
I think I detect a bit of sarcasm here somewhere.
Way to miss the joke.
>I really don’t care about credit or leaving behind a legacy or such things.

Then use a different license. In 1-clause BSD and Boost licenses the requirement of preserving copyright notices applies only to source code, while 0BSD and CC0 don't require that at all.
There is no definition of fairness that a substantial majority agree on.

Equality of opportunity? Equality of outcome?
Low penalty for failing?
Low penalty for breaking the law?
Eye for an eye?
Whatever you pick, remember to transfer instead of selling. But it might take days to happen. Maybe even weeks with current RH situation.
I'm not really sure how a virus that can infect a server wouldn't also target linux desktop unless it's targeting SSH or Ampache or something. It would still have a chance at hitting poorly configured developer machines, and yet people barely experience them

edit: lol at the article
People are raising some good concrete objections but I wonder if there isn’t the kernel of a good idea here.

Maybe GitHub should be offering additional services to better help pipe projects into all kinds of app distribution mechanisms. App stores, platform package managers (apt dnf ports homebrew), language package managers (gems pip maven CPAN npm etc), stand-alone installers (dmgs install exe-s), maybe even containers.

These services could form a layer with some autonomy from the underlying project — the author of the project rarely handles alll (or sometimes any) of the distro channels.

Anecdotally I feel like most of this stuff happens outside of GitHub, which is fine and actually good, but maybe there are things GitHub could do to smooth the process? To help the original authors arrange things in releases or set metadata in a way that’s useful downstream to packagers?

But some of it happens in projects already, sometimes for a desktop type app you’ll see a dmg or some other installer right in the project files. This could probably be more standardized.
At that point the stock should have been "frozen", if you disable buy but not sell it means the stock can only go down.
> your broker has plenty of time (2days) and plenty of funds (all of them) to clear your trade

I think you’re thinking about it wrong. All brokers contribute to this posted collateral and those funds, collectively, serve as a fund of mutual insurance in the event of a failure or near-failure of a participant. These are not "partial payment of customer trades, with the rest to come later".

In order to prevent customers from being affected by that near-failure, the clearinghouse first goes to that struggling broker and then to this mutual insurance fund. That is the reason why this must be funded with broker funds rather than customer funds, so the fact that you 100% paid for your shares doesn’t mean that the broker has “all of the funds” required because they can’t use your money to post this. (Otherwise “to protect customers” is not accomplished.)
Yes, you could describe it that way, I suppose. TeaVM is just the "VM" part of it. The developer has a "sister" project called "Flavour" that provides a UI framework. https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm-flavour
> Why were hedge funds allowed to still buy the stock?

They use a prime broker, which is a fancy way to say Goldmans, JPM, Citi, etc's institutional brokers, which also have the same relationship with the DTCC. And their prime brokers did not leave too little cash at the clearinghouse.

That's if you buy the story here. I'm still mulling it over. I used to run hedge funds, and indeed PBed with these big names.
Looks very similar to Enso (formely Luna): https://medium.com/@enso_org
I have several good friends living in Portland, who grew up there, who work in a variety of non-software areas doing artsy cool shit, all in their 30s. They are all planning on leaving this year as their leases expired.
Yes, they are, as you can most easily see because Musk getting "punished" didn't stop him from continuing to break securities law on Twitter.

The punishments are smaller than the benefits.

I'm not saying Robinhood was breaking the law or lying here though.

At any rate, hostile questions on cable TV are not official sworn statements under Sarvanes-Oxley or court hearings. It's unfair and inappropriate to hold someone to a standard of perfection in live hostile questioning on TV.
I think you are giving the EU more credit than they deserve. As far as I know, They don't have control over the Pfizer supply chain, and this vaccine starts manufacturing in the US before going to the EU. Because they don't have end-to-end manufacturing in EU, they have to cooperate.
This is an excellent video from Veritasium that discusses luck as a factor of success: https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I
Users spend most of their time on other websites (2004)
> Is it really so hard to believe that they hadn’t pre-planned the ability to limit margin purchases on a single stock?

Yes, this is impossible to believe. Different stocks already have different margin requirements. Turning off margin trading for specific stocks is a fundamental system requirement.
Futurists prefer "forecasting" rather than "prediction" since the future is constructed from the past (that is, data) and not from the examination of pigeon entrails, tea leaves, or flakey models with deus ex machina solutions.

David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming would be a good choice. It's a snapshot of forecast reality, not near-future sci fi, and scary.

https://smile.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warm...

Also worthwhile, David Pogue's How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos. Similar to the Wallace-Wells book, but from a different perspective.

https://smile.amazon.com/How-Prepare-Climate-Change-Practica...

Cormack McCarthy's The Road is a disturbing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive when life on earth dies off from the bottom up. It is set a bit further in the future than the others, at a point where the die off of humans is happening. Collapse and death is mostly low tech.

https://smile.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895/...

It does seem like we are living in a utopian sci fi novel these days (pandemic aside). We have ignored the warnings of pending collapse until there is no longer time to correct course or even adapt. So it's likely we wail be living in environmental chaos for the next 20 years and then slip into extinction over the next 10 as we experience first hand the last great die-off.
hype cycle, near next 10 years: https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/5-trends-drive-th... I think quantum computing bring break through for computing.
We had a weird ultra-fan at a storage startup where I worked in the 2000s. He used to call in and berate techs for hours. It was a small support team so everybody knew him. Once I had to jump on a line with a new hire he was absolutely tearing up, inform the customer he was being unprofessionally abusive, and end the call—the only time I’ve ever had to do that in my career. And yet when we corrupted his data (terrible terrible C code), he actually went to bat for us with his management and ended up buying even more.

Finally one of our field techs met him in person. Turns out the guy was 700+ pounds (300+ kg) and just absolutely miserable. He was as hated at his own job as he was at our office. Somehow he saw us as his surrogate family and I guess decided to treat us the way he’d been treated. Really a sad case overall. I often wonder what ended up happening to him after our company folded.

There are some strange, strange people out there. Coddle them at your peril.
> Being a transit hub is irrelevant

Well, if your country isn't a transit hub, then you avoid hub problems completely. If you are a hub, then you have additional problems that New Zealand doesn't, that you have to work to mitigate.
> The news was an unwelcome surprise to union members who expect the Alphabet Workers Union to run democratically.

Sounds like the AWU members need to unionize and form an AWU Members Union to make their voices heard within AWU.

Sarcasm aside, this really is a bad look for a group that needs some non-controversial wins to gain support, rather than focusing on just “gaining turf” as quoted in the article. I get the impression CWA is trying to use this to get a foothold in big tech at all costs, AWU members be damned. Maybe they can call it growth hacking.
This is lazy analysis.

1. Lots of industrial inputs are priced based on value they provide the consumer. That’s not what makes land special, and there are many mechanisms to have non-developers capture the value of land (cf. LVT, inclusionary zoning, impact fees).

2. Focus on developers is misplaced. There is no reason developers are structurally incapable of making their profits by building lots of units at low margins instead of a few units at high margins. The fact that 100% subsidized nonprofit developers deliver projects at nearly the same costs as for profit developers suggests that the drivers of costs are not developers themselves.

3. San Francisco is majority renter yet makes no local policy changes to alleviate the supply crisis. The incentives at play have a lot less to do with greedy developers than you describe.

4. Low interest rates can either manifest as lots of units offered at cost or high multiples on ownership vs rentals. Which one you get is a policy choice. I don’t know what you mean by “artificially low” and how that’s even relevant.
Suppose I sell you an oil filter for your 2019 Mazda. When you get it home, you realize there's a big hole in it, and it can't be used to replace the one currently on your car.

You call me up and I say "I never said it would work in a car, I just said it was an oil filter (true) which would fit into a 2019 Mazda (true)."

The law says "nice try, you can't be that pedantic. The ordinary purpose of oil filters it to actually filter oil in a car, so when you sold it, there was an understanding that it would work for that purpose."
Would love it if someone would write a detailed article addressing the conspiracy Melvin Capital (and others) not exiting their short position. Melvin Capital says they did, yet the sentiment on virtually all of reddit (not just /r/WSB) is they didn't. I haven't found really anything to support reddit's conclusion.
The 70s version has a B/W button on the TV.
What do you mean by

> deliver the value of the options

Do you mean they wouldn't be able to give people cash if they sold their options?
Show HN: Gita – Manage many Git repos with sanity
NumPy/Pandas is one of the reasons I'm stuck on Python. I'd prefer a strongly typed language like go/java/rust but there isn't the same library or community. Any recommendations? Its for applications not just DS/ML so Julia isn't really in scope.