skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although it does seem a little meta, I'd like to do you the favor of telling you why I downvote every time I see someone complain about their downvotes or their post being grayed out.

It's boring. It doesn't make for good conversation. It's not falsifiable and there's nothing to be said about it. You're just unhappy about it, and it just bores me.

Maybe you feel like you're being censored, but really there can only be so much noise amidst the signal. And really, truly, an overlong and doubly updated comment where you are telling us to have our way with you is the least signal you could possibly have generated.

There are lots of complaints to be had about HN, but this is not one of them.

And to be even kinder and open to changing my mind, I thought I might see which comments you were unhappy about having cast into the gray. Would I see some glittering gems worth rescuing?

Unfortunately (predictably?), said comments employ double question marks or otherwise read angrily, or otherwise are simplistic and disagreeable and bring very little insight to the table. (And, you have a number of comments that have not been downvoted, so it's not like this is complete randomness or an inability on HN's part to accept basic facts. There is a correlation to be observed, one that perhaps you're ignoring.)

HN isn't perfect, but I think you doth protest a bit much.
Ah yeah, the Haskell problems you mentioned are indeed annoying. However I think the compiler extensions are actually not a bad idea. Haskell is an old language and the extensions allowed it to improve over time.

Languages like Rust or Go will find themselves in a spot where improving the language will become hard - same for Java and look how slowly the language improved and improves still.

Can't say so much to your remarks about OCaml, but was interesting for me to read.

So, why not try Scala or Crystal? :)
The previous thread on this is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947697. For pointers to other vertices of this story graph, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933543.

Large threads are paginated. If you want to see all the comments you'll need to click through the More links at the bottom, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951390&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951390&p=3

(and so on)
Where do they find these people
I don't see any overlap between Google's executive board and Robinhood, but it's a small world among power players at that level. Someone could have called in a favor (or been trying to curry one).

Without more information, it's hard to say whether this was a good faith move by Google, reflexive algorithmic moderation, or another example of American extractionalism.
well the point is that OpenBSD does not support it, so having OpenBSD on a laptop removes the laptop-ness.
This came out after the market closed, but the limitations were put in place before the market even opened.

Plus, they never give a reason in this. They make vague references to things that could be a reason, but don't clearly state what the reason was. Leaving it unclear like this is horrible PR, and will continue to let the conspiracies spread.
Maybe start by writing a better headline? Clear about what? Does it show me how to be as clear as a piece of glass? ... sigh
Joe Biden, the Irishman
TastyWorks explains in three lines what took Robinhood an entire article
I don't normally subscribe or unsubscribe to services and so the NYTimes unsubscribe process really surprised me at the time. In the end, having to go through a chat system wasn't as bad as I thought, but it did annoy me at the time that I couldn't just hit a button to cancel.

Since then, I've been wary of signing up for anything new, knowing that there is likely a painful process on the other end to cancel my account.
It's right now great as a long term store of value. To get to other functions, it needs to grow up first...it's still just a teenager.
seems like buying wasn't really stopped on the hedge fund accounts. So there were some buyers available
Some in the music business are more candid:

The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus.

-- Frank Zappa
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For anyone looking for a proof:

Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20210128202220/https://play.goog...

Now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood....
Given a lot of the comments I've seen today, I think a lot of people are upset they have been monetarily screwed, but do not actually understand the reason why they got screwed, and are just repeating stuff they've heard, regardless of its truth.
What about the rest of the drugs??

Your answer just further illustrates my point.

Have you ever been cycled through different antidepressants? Anti anxiety meds? ADHD meds? Meds for sleep, meds for wakefulness?

These drugs are all very potent and your body cannot distinguish between intended and so-called "side" effects.
And the news pits us against one another because God forbid we all get along and work together. That would be the real threat.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN. We want thoughtful, information-rich, curious conversation here. This is obviously not that.

Maybe you don't owe big money which runs everything any better, but you definitely owe this community better if you're posting to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951489.
I’d imagine option two is much better. I have a hard time blaming anyone for not expecting the chaos that has happened and I expect the PR narrative would go that way. Especially if robinhood had managed to stay on the side of the little guy in the public eye.

As it is, their customers got so pissed at the option one assumed story that they had to put out another post saying it’s option two anyways. Now they probably have the worst of both worlds.
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Yes, you are right. It was pointed out to me elsewhere that it's not available in the UK, which is where I am. I was searching via desktop, and didn't get the "not available for your device" message on the app's page, but did get an "add to wishlist".

So, thanks once again. No mystery here after all :-(
In this case, Georgia.
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Sarcasm? While I don't read German, this is actually a pretty good design for a news site. It's clean, consistent and uncluttered. It loads quickly and doesn't have any obnoxious animations or advertising. The font choice is clean and well spaced, but let down by poor definition of link vs title/theme colour.

It's clearly a massive improvment on the last design:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210101011826/https://www.tages...
This helped me understand the difference, thanks!
It strikes me as awfully naive to simultaneously:
* accept RH's statements with no evidence and zero knowledge of their reserves and cash flow.
* ignore RH's conflict of interest. Specifically, that RH sells user trading data and that Citadel, which has a huge short position in GME, is a major customer of the data.
This was very helpful thank you.
> When I was a kid, I just used to press one button on the front of the tv and it was on in less than a second.

Yeah, but if you turned it on late at night there was nothing being broadcast
Any idea how this BP device actually works? Is it optical? How is it possible to measure without a cuff?
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Well except that outside of mathematics and statistics they quite literally are to the layman
Not an idea, but I wish Inbox by Google still existed. I particularly miss the intelligent "bundles".
Thanks for taking the time to explain that. Food for thought.
Robinhood was not the only firm blocking buying new positions. Schwab did, TD Ameritrade did, and ETrade did, IBKR did for varying lengths of time. That is the majority of retail.

Here is a fascinating interview with the CEO of IBKR where he literally says they prevented buying for retail and closed large short positions for others:
https://streamable.com/ycdec9
It's a big club and he was in it.

When he died his net worth was estimated to be around 10 million, but that came pretty late in life. For a lot of his life he was probably comfortable but far from wealthy.
Which hominem do you think I am attacking?

You can have any opinion you like, but if your opinion consists of passing around second hand sneers, it's a crappy low-value opinion. "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - "haw haw look at all the dumb sleeping people being this new". That's not an opinion, not a valuable commentary, it's just sneering.
Pretty sure right now you will be looking at more than a slap on the wrist. DOJ and SEC will be looking to take their pound of flesh from anyone who did anything outside the letter of the law on this thing. Not good to be the sacrificial lamb they hold up to show the public they prosecute Wall Street scammers.
WSB is overflowing with false information but it's hard to distinguish lies from rumormongering and jokes.
This makes sense. And it would make sense if they implemented this like a regular exchange-style trading halt -- no new positions in shares or options.

However, Robinhood disabled the ability to buy, but not sell.

Why?
> If Robin Hood was allowing people to sell but not to buy, and most other Citadel involved brokerages were doing the same, who was able to purchase the massive volume of shares being sold?

I think you answered yourself, but you may want to consider that RH is not the only trading platform out there.
Then why doesn’t he just remove FB from the App Store like he did with Parler?
The recursive nature is what i was not understanding, thank you.
Mostly because I don't feel they will teach me something new. But I might be mistaken, who knows.

Another factor is the so-called T-shaped skills. I feel I've been going wide (learning every possible technology and paradigm under the sun) for waaaaaaay too long. I now want to focus on several skills and learn them to near perfection before going wide again.
Yeah. It's always a conspiracy until it isn't.
Glib reply really does not do justice to the harm of the war on drugs.

I mentioned it elsewhere, but where is the panic over prescription drugs and their harmful side effects?

This is a non story. Marijuana is popular because it's potent. Compare it to other legal drugs, the obvious being alcohol, and again tell me about the relative harm.
I read your Matrix link and it's not top-down deplatforming, it's user-driven moderation:

> What if we had a standard way to let users themselves build up and share their own views of whether other users, messages, rooms, servers etc. are obnoxious or not? What if you could visualise and choose which filters to apply to your view of Matrix?

The closest to actual deplatforming is:

> Admins running servers in particular jurisdictions then have the option to enforce whatever rules they need on their servers

But honestly, in a federated system I always assumed the server owners could do that. As long as it's not mandated from on high by the Matrix team, anyone can host whatever they want by setting up their own server.
Just wanted to remind everybody that Robinhood is not the boogeyman here. The government and its collusion with wall street are.
Thanks, this cleared up my (mis)understanding!
This is what happens when a political party is taken over form the inside. Qanon is just the latest iteration of what came previously with the Tea Party and so on.
Misogyny was just an example. All great people (and arguably all people) have good and bad traits - particularly if you go looking for the bad.
More like $4,000 now!

Crazy.
Short Sellers Lose $5.05B in Bet Against GameStop
short interest is typically only disseminated by the exchanges once a month
Heres the text from Robinhood's email:

An update on market conditions

Hi ...,

It’s been a tough day, and we’re grateful to you for being a Robinhood customer. In light of the extraordinary market conditions this week, we temporarily limited buying for certain securities this morning. Starting tomorrow, we plan to allow limited buys of these securities. We’ll continue to monitor the situation and may make adjustments as needed.

This was a temporary decision made to best continue serving you, and was not an easy one to make. We know it’s led to frustration and confusion, and wanted to provide some clarity.

As a brokerage firm, we have many financial requirements, including SEC net capital obligations and clearinghouse deposits. Some of these requirements fluctuate based on volatility in the markets and can be substantial in the current environment. These requirements exist to protect investors and the markets and we take our responsibilities to comply with them seriously, including through the measures we have taken today.

To be clear, this decision was not made on the direction of any market maker we route to or other market participants.

The past year in particular has shown us that the financial markets are for everyone—not just institutional investors and hedge funds. We’ve seen a new generation enter the market, and they’re sparking conversations about what it means to be an investor. We stand in support of you, our customers. Democratizing finance for all means giving more people access, not less.

We’ll keep monitoring market conditions and will update this Help Center article with the latest changes. We also published a blog post regarding today’s events.
Thank you again for being a Robinhood customer. We’re so grateful for your support.

Sincerely,

The Robinhood Team
People may have taken him more seriously if he didn't eat the crud off the bottom of his own bare foot and sexually harass female colleagues. Dude undermined his own message by being a complete creep.
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We created a simple VSCode plugin to autocomplete Python with a transformer model trained on code from awesome PyTorch list.

Github repo: https://github.com/lab-ml/python_autocomplete

You will need a GPU for it to be responsive.
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Shame that you're getting downvoted on HN for such views - most consumers don't care about devices designed to be long-lasting and if the technical population doesn't too then it's totally a lost cause.

I've recently purchased a used T530, which was the last model to feature a removable battery, removable CPU, unsoldered RAM, etc etc(for the pedants - yes, later models still had some of these features, but none of them had all of them). It's a fantastic machine that runs everyday tasks without a hitch and with having the option to easily repair it I hope it will last at least another 10 years. The only disadvantage I have compared to the newer T490 model that I use is that it's about 1kg heavier.

I think it's reasonable that some consumers would prefer a lighter and thinner machine, even if that includes sacrificing modularity/repairibility, but I doubt those make up the majority and most are just apathetic and willing to go the way of disposable consumerism that corporations are pushing to drive profits further.
I wasn't comparing Carlin to an Oligarch, I was complaining about the culture of quoting Carlin. If you posted "everyone except me is dumb" you'd get downvoted. If you post Carlin saying "everyone except us is dumb" you get upvoted.
Github repo: https://github.com/lab-ml/python_autocomplete
the US budget deficit is rising, soon out of control IMHO. Raising rates is no longer viable without severe consequences.

Nobody has seemed to realize that it's the rate of change in interest rates that has an effect, not the absolute level of them (within reason).

The stock market is one giant bubble.

People talk occasionally about negative interest rates, and wonder how A) that might work and B) how not to have people realize what a house of cards it all is.

But sure, rates are low and everything is great!
> And in terms of performance I fear slow, ad-filled websites slowly trained users to accept bad performance in applications outside the browser as well. At least I don't know how to otherwise explain the widespread indifference toward those things, often even among developers.

Yeah, I don't know either, and I think yours is a very good hypothesis.

I'm currently working on a windows project after spending four years exclusively on Linux, using mostly vim and Eclipse. Visual Studio feels now way worse than it used to. You get more conscious about the time you're wasting.

And, most interestingly, the same happens to users. It's not a matter of being text based, it's a matter of getting useful stuff done, and fast.

Users can and actually enjoy using the keyboard. Users don't want to be delighted with our stuff (speaking of the enterprise here), they just want a system that helps them to get their job done and, after that, get out of their way.

Designers and more and more developers seem to forget that animations, complex colorful screens, all this stuff has to be built, tested, processed by user's hardware which is already having a bad time supporting windows. So, instead of shipping something fast, something we are able to build and fix and test quickly, we deliver something detrimental, in many ways, to user experience.
Just a side note but Robinhood does not allow shorting on their platform.

Options (calls/puts) are permitted.
You can like your own niche without holding a strong opinion about ‘letting people in’. Not going out of one’s way to be welcoming is not an indication of gatekeeping or any other ill intent.
Ethiopia effectively started a civil war, but I don't think it's source is the pandemic.
Interest rates are the cost to borrow money. Money isn't scarce, so its worth less, and as a result, costs less to borrow.

Devalued currencies tend not to be consistent with historical stability - they tend to arrive around the same time a society "resets".
> That behavior is the essence of the crypto space.

That behavior is the essence of any entity that (a) concentrates too much power and (b) has no Skin in the Game.

Whenever you have this combination, Bad Things Happen (tm). Don't think it is exclusive to crypto. It doesn't matter if it is Bitfinex, Tether, Coinbase, JP Morgan, the Canadian Government or the IMF; the one thing to avoid is be at the mercy of entities that concentrate too much power and have no Skin in the Game.

> Peterffy is saying you're welcome to close your position but don't open anything new right now.

What he is doing is showing how the game is rigged and that's the only way that people can play. What he is doing is making it clear how much of a systemic issue it is. You are right, it has no comparison with what is happening in crypto. Hacks and crooks in crypto force the environment to become stronger and more robust to adapt and survive. Hacks and crooks in the Govt act like Bob Rubin: build up hidden risk, cause catastrophic failures of the system and make others pay for their mistakes, just like others will pay for Melvin Capital's mistakes and its CEO will walk away with clean hands.

> I think they're misguided and wasting everyone's time.

Let's put it this way: each shenanigan that Wall Street pulls like this means at least a few thousand people who will rather buy fucking $DOGE and UNI tokens instead of trusting these institutions. The shift is happening and is inevitable, it's just a matter of how fast we will be able to build it.
Thank you, I definitely will! Much respect for making this tool and open-source it even. <3
You all don’t recognize a revisionist account when you see one. You all don’t realize that the only firms still market making in retail options are hedge funds with GME short positions. You’re falling for the reasonable technical explanation. The “clearing house” they are talking about is Citadel. They hold (more held, probably) large GME shorts among others, and fund other hedge funds that also held those shorts.
this literally happened last march. they had an outage as the market tanked.
>So while before Robinhood had to pony up collateral for a few shares of GME for every hundred it traded, it now had to, at close of business, pony up one hundred shares' worth of collateral for every hundred it traded. That creates a cash crunch.

Why is this an issue? Shouldn't robinhood already have the cash, since the trader (who bought the stock) deposited the money into robinhood prior to his purchase?
> ... currencies haven't been debased ...

We’ve printed trillions of dollars and Congress is en route to print trillions more. The price for that has yet to be paid.
This is what upsets me the most about what's been happening in recent days. There is now a popular narrative that the market is rigged against the little guy, but as a little guy who's been investing for about a decade now I know this couldn't be further from the truth.

The only reason this situation with GME happened is because no one person has power to control what investor decide to buy and sell (with this perhaps being one of the few exceptions I've ever come across). I don't really understand where this claim that retail investors can't take the opposite side of a hedgefund's trade is coming from. Hedgefunds that are over-levered go bankrupt all the time because retail investors along with professionals take the other side of the trade. It's worth remember a lot of hedge funds lost money shorting TSLA this last year too and that trade was largely retail driven.

I also think a lot of people are being really spiteful. I understand why hedgefunds get a bad rep, especially after all that happened during the GFC, but most hedgefunds are doing honest business. I don't really understand why Melvin Capital deserves to be put out of business and for their employees to lose their jobs because of what some other hedgefunds have done in the past.
Because you can’t prevent people from closing their positions. You can still buy to close a short.
This doesn’t explain why dogecoin was frozen on RH
Almost all US equities are settled by DTC. Settlement is not clearing, clearing firms still have obligations to DTC
> this just entrenches the idea that big money is vastly more powerful than small voices.

An “idea”? It’s like saying there is an entrenched idea that the Earth goes around the Sun.

The political class tried everything in the book to divide this nation. And in just one day, at least among the “retarded”, there is unity. No wonder they are all coming out of the woodwork to claim support for the retards. They are worried.
>How many Robinhood users are aware that when they open an account, transfer money, and buy stocks all in the same day they're actually buying on margin?

Maybe I'm out of touch but I would guess the answer is "most". Having to wait a couple days for money to clear after being transfered to a financial institution is extremely common.

When I first deposited on RH and saw that the money was available for trading immediately my first thought wasn't "Oh the money cleared instantly", rather it was "Wow, I'm surprised they're willing to take on that risk with new accounts". Turns out, maybe RH should have given that risk a little more thought.
Who is pushing users to use OpenBSD?
Sir, this is a site run by an investment fund, I'm afraid you've stepped a bit out of line there.
I know there are a lot of Wall st guys here. Can someone explain what's really going to happen here in regards to the short squeeze? Is it really so simple? How will the shorts be able to cover?

Also, is this page correct in saying that GameStop is the only stock on all listed US markets that's shorted over 100%?
Discord have an hard limit of 250 000 users so that's a lie.