skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a valid concern but in general you should be most worried about code you actually run. If you have curl in a container but your app only uses it during the startup process, the fact that it has an issue with, say, FTP almost certainly has no effect on you. OTOH, if you’re using something like libjpeg your Go code needs to be recompiled either way and you might have to manually backport a patch just like a Linux distribution will.
I haven't read the books. Do any of the free market characters ever end up failing?
> I can't imagine it would be fun to install anything on a pinephone.

It's actually fun to do "apk add audacity" (yeah, there's also multiple gui frontends...) and have it installed and working as well as on desktop. OK, that one uses a traditional desktop interface, but it is still usable. Plug it into a docking station and use a mouse and keyboard + screen if you prefer.

Okay, that's not really sideloading, especially as each distro has its packaging format. You can use flatpaks for this (and they are sandboxes), some CIs provide builds as flatpaks (KDE does this).

One issue is that Linux executables are still very much architecture-dependent.
Check this out, your opinion may change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I (12:03)
Netflix deserves a mention:

https://netflixtechblog.com/
I just wanted to say, IMO, "nailed it." This is why I moved to Mac OS X in 2004, and why I began de-Appling my life in 2019 (for WSL). Too many anti-features across all Apple hardware and software, not to mention killing good software like Aperture.
There's no difference between conspiracy and hypothesis.
Came here to say this. Just finished reading it and there are so many parallels between the book and our current trajectory. Namely, as technology continues to abstract struggle from our daily lives and entertainment becomes more of an immersive escape, the motivation to solve true personal and societal problems slowly disappears.
We Americans are experts on what can't be done. Things that are routinely done in many places around the world, like universal healthcare, free education, and schools without shootings, are routinely declared "impossible" in America. Whenever you suggest even the slightest societal behavioral change to fight some public problem, you have hundreds of thousands of people simply dismissing it because "Americans won't do it, or the law won't allow it, or Wall Street doesn't like it, therefore it's completely impossible."

This is from a country that fought the British Empire, helped turn the tide in WW2, put a man on the moon, and made many scientific and technical achievements in the 20th century. But somehow, now, we can't seem to accomplish anything.
The main conclusion I draw from this is that contemporary university level philosophy studies are evidently intellectually mutilating.
It’s scary how much conspiratorial thinking is gaining traction in the GameStop story.

Despite the narratives about people buying GameStop for altruistic purposes or for sticking it to Wall Street, it’s obvious that most people bought because they were told the trade couldn’t fail and this was an easy way to double their money (or more).

When it doesn’t work out, I’m worried that people will reach for more conspiracy theories instead of realizing that the latest GME buyers were always guaranteed losses.
I'm not convinced by any of the arguments the author points out which would actually address the problem of App Stores.

Essentially they are arguing for Github (Microsoft) to host and have an App Store on their platform and control it because they listen to their users, which is quite frankly a very poor reason.

Cydia and F-Droid packages are already 'App Stores' which you can install apps via pressing 'Add to Cydia' or 'Add to F-Droid' buttons on the publisher's website. You're free to add whatever app and install whatever app you want without Apple / Google stopping you, and its decentralised.

The same has been said for desktop apps (Native or Electron), which have been hosted on the publisher's websites for years, without the need of an App Store. I can imagine an 'App Store' equivalent for Desktop which works like Cydia and F-Droid which allows users to discover and install an app with a simple deep-link into the App Store. Linux has this already, equivalents for Windows and macOS are possible but it should not come from GitHub.

The above approaches are already there and are completely decentralised. Unlike the author who is going for another centralised App Store in the hands of GitHub / Microsoft (again).
I remember years ago, when our university TAs decided to unionize, the parent union they decided to join was the UAW.

I thought to myself, "you have no idea what you're getting into, do you?"
> non zero expected value

day trading has always had -EV :)
Probably was an automated ban...this is a goofy take.
Issuing new stock might be somehow restricted. I am not very familiar with the US laws around this, but on Friday the SEC released a statement which contains a warning about "contemplated offers": https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/joint-statement-ma...

> issuers must ensure compliance with the federal securities laws for any contemplated offers or sales of their own securities.

Does anyone know what that means?
WSB users are known to exploit Robinhood problems for fun. There was one case a few years back where they found a way to evade margin requirements and get arbitrarily high leverage, for example. If I were Vlad Tenev, I'd be seriously concerned that a detailed description of which kinds of trades cause problems for Robinhood would be used to collect WSB accolades by knocking the company over.
Lol that's because it's speculation and backwards rationalization. I'm sure they will eventually update the apologetics to somehow address the low-volatility instruments as well.
It wasn't only Robinhood.

> Bad Brokers - Restricted purchasing of certain tickers
E-Toro - Proof

E-Trade - Proof

Ally - Proof

Public.com - Proof

Merrill Edge - Proof

IG Broker - Proof

Trade Republic - Proof

Webull - Admitted they were forced to by clearing firm - Clearing firm is Apex - They'll be moved to neutral once they publicly confirm Apex was sole reason the trades were restricted.

Neutral Brokers - Restricted trading, publicly naming their intermediary
Freetrade - Proof, blames Barclays - CMO Interview - CMO Tweets
M1 Finance - Proof - Blames Apex Clearing
Trading212 - Proof - re-enabled, caused by intermediary - Intermediary is IB

Tastyworks - Proof, blame Apex Clearing
Stash - Proof, blamex Apex Clearing
TD Ameritrade/Canada - Proof - Proof2 - (Margin requirements increased, Covered call and short put orders may only be placed with a broker and support times are > 2h, other trades restricted) - Neutral because they didn't restrict the purchase of stocks with cash.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/l8rhr3/weekend_gme_...
> I would define it as "current liabilities in excess of current assets"

That's solvency, not liquidity. If your liabilities exceed your assets you have gone bust.

Liquidity is having the cash to cover your outflows. You may have enough assets but if these assets aren't liquid, you have a liquidity issue.
I had to deal with this sort of thing once while I was living in London. A letter was sent around, I guess up and down the street of flats (I don't know how far) which explained they were planning to have a blowout party for some significant reason and that things were likely to get very loud. There was contact info in case someone want to discuss the matter beforehand.

The party went off and it most certainly was very very loud. The place was one or two buildings down from me and I could hear it till ... rather late. The meaningful thing, how ever, was they _had_ sent out a letter beforehand ... which was pretty courteous in my view. I guess no one complained (or the English are just so very polite...) and the party did not get shut down.

The parent comment did not state anything like this... so I think his response was quite reasonable. A one off thing that gets out of hand...ok, you can let that slide in the interests of getting along. But to do it again without any sort of heads-up or something of the sort is definitely a motivator for setting some boundaries. Perhaps people complained and the party thrower got defensive and so did it again out of spite. I infer from the language used they're in America, so 'freedom!' and all that crap....

So the reason your comment is getting downvoted is quite understandable; I suggest you try to really place yourself in the actual 'shoes' of the parent poster and try to think of what they might have left unstated. The passive aggressive nature of the response is certainly something to point out, but then again, America is awash in guns. And if I am right about America, then areas in America are quite varied (I am American) and so social/cultural norms are different as well as urban/suburban/rural settings from place to place. There are lots of variables here to consider that have been left out, it seems.
I highly advise you write down somewhere what sort of event it would take for you to change your belief that this is nothing to be concerned about.

Then, at least do a cursory check to see if such an event has occurred already, it may well have.

https://mobile.twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1354194374...
I like how you criticise the above comment for saying "I don't buy" based on high-minded notion of better spirit of discussion, and then in your second paragraph imply it's a "conspiracy fantasy".

Bonus points for your completely failure to address the arguments of the comment.
So I'm glad this is not the case yet, but Apple specifically have been doing this more prominently than others and it starts with platform handicap (for instance make it almost impossible to create applications in other ways beyond their proprietary API aiming things like the Web).

FAANG's are feeling that the antitrust guillotine is near their heads, so things will be a little quiet for now, but once the dust have settled they will probably keep doing what they were doing before, unless of course a proper legal framework come to rescue.

But as the political class have more urgent matters to take care of, i think this legal sophistication we urgently need will not be a priority.
Is requiring attribution copyleft? I thought copyleft implied needing to make source code available.
That's too bad. I couldn't get past step 3. My system has unmet dependencies that are unable to be resolved.
My salary is taxed. And yet when I spend it, it becomes someone else's salary, and theirs is taxed too.

How come the silly "double taxation" meme is only brought up when we're talking about rich people's money? (ie corporations, rent-seeking structures, etc)
I see no evidence of collusion so far, but if there is any, it would be for Randian self interest, so I don't see your point.
I tuned down the rhetoric a bit as that's not how I wished it to come off. I think the article is very good actually, I just wanted to introduce some scepticism regarding the PR explanation we're getting at the moment (and there might be something I'm overlooking that debunks what I've said, very possible).
Could you elaborate? Is this a pop culture reference?
A better solution would be an entirely community driven app store that is not beholden to any corporate influence.
This specific joke worked better in 00s when GLIBC compatibility issues were far more of a hassle than today.

But the joke still rings true today: not necessarily with GLIBC anymore... but maybe systemd vs initsystem, or XLib vs Wayland, and other such "non-backwards compatible changes" that seem to occur in the Linux world more often.
Re 1, this was due to a significant mismanagement by Market Makers (too many contracts that ended up in the money forced them to purchase the stock), in particular that gamma squeeze helped build momentum, and the other nearly parabolic increase before the heavens nearly fell and buying needed to be halted due to liquidity issues.

Re 2, there are two things at play regarding how reddit works, WSB was one of the biggest non default subreddits even before the whole ordeal began, the other catalyst is the sheer volume of awards given within the subreddit that help push it up.

re 3: rightfully so, the amount of misrepresentation and vilification only increased the perception of organized opposition, to the point where wsb was labeled as an alt right group. Talk about politics of any form is banned, period. The only instance of politicians that i have seen is Trump dancing (he wasnt ridiculed in the meme), and the fact that AOC and Don Trump Jr agreed.

re 4: You can not begin to imagine the amount of bots posting absolute nonsense during the time. Had it not been for the mod team and the reddit team, the whole reddit would have shut down.
what is a editor based version of Lisp?

fwiw, I really like Racket. It's definitely the most clean/elegant Lisp around.
Can someone here build a radar/sonar based home surveillance that works at any time of day & also maybe aid in capturing/targeting actual robbers faces when someone enters a property? Such a device could easily be camouflaged to avoid detection/destruction as well.
Actually, if you sell you don't have to wait so long. And you don't have to pay $75 in fees to RH.

Why would you prefer to transfer? Just hit the bid and move the cash IMO.

EDIT: wasn't thinking about the tax implications for those who intend to carry positions greater than a year.
If we used company's webapps, or our own local webapps or selfhosted webapps, everyone wouldn't need the app stores...

They could use GrapheneOS, and be safer.
Then there is Saint Louis, Missouri, that lost its claim to be the capital of the Midwest to Chicago because they neglected their infrastructure, just as Bruges went from major economic center to quaint historic town because they let their canal to Zeebrugge silt down, impairing their access to the sea.
How is this “inclusion” typically done for a project that is deployed in compiled format and contains hundreds of libraries with dozens of different licenses? It must be especially difficult on devices where it’s difficult to accept user input or display licenses.

In commercial desktop software I have shipped, it has been a section in help>about with a long list of third party libs each showing a text document.
Lots of articles like this out there about Lisp. To quote Linus Thorvalds:

> Talk is cheap, show me the code

If you think you can write better code in Lisp, well, show us some examples of that.
> Our research has revealed the existence of an institutional strategy to spread the virus, promoted by the Brazilian government under the leadership of the President.

It seems that the "politicians making war against their own citizens and trying to cull as many retired/poors/other party voters/ as possible" hypothesis is gaining support.
This presumes home building rates in the lead up to the GFC were unusually high, when in fact they were at a 50 year low: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3569920
No, compassionate society is weak and prevents John Galt from achieving his true potential. Wasted 2 of my crucial formative years reading those books when I should have been studying for university entrance exams.

There are some interesting ideas. But my personal guide is Thoreau, who says "that government is best that governs the least". I've never heard anyone call Thoreau a libertarian, but I'd rather be a Thoreau libertarian than Rand-ian.
Which should be, and probably is, super duper criminal.
Why does everyone keep lumping jQuery in with vanilla JS, in exalted reverence, as if jQuery wasn't a massive source of bloat during its heyday? The practice of pulling in all of jQuery just to add an event listener for showing and hiding a div is _why_ web development looks the way it does today. Normalization of deviance is the vehicle, and jQuery was the payload.

I come across stuff "only" using jQuery today, and every time, I end up ripping it out because it's totally unnecessary and often ends up being the source of breakage and logic errors. What's worse is that its APIs are awful, and it's impossible to debug in its blob form. The fix always ends up being to just get rid of it.
You mean "conspiracy theory" and "hypothesis". And yes, there fundamentally is a difference between theory and hypothesis:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/difference-bet...
We need to label inauthentic speech. As well as have verified authentic speech.

Not ban inauthentic speech. I'm NOT saying ban trolls, bots, insurrectionists, and vexatious people like Nadire Atas.

I'm simply saying that if we also have authentic speech, people (culture) would have a tool to discern inauthentic speech. And then hopefully wise up a bit.
What the hell is a "corporate IOU"? Why don't they say convertible bond?
I dunno; proximity can be important for HR stuff. A former client brought in a recruiting consultant mostly because she was black and was an alum of a 'traditional' black school. The kid had many connections and brought in some serious engineering talent (good h/w engineers are more difficult to find than s/w engineers in this industry segment).

FWIW, I am an older white male that is both conservative and progressive.
At what point does the client's money belong to Robinhood? You're not buying stocks from Robinhood.
I lived in Portland from 2001 to 2007. In the early 2000s I occasionally saw poop on the sidewalks and it felt to me the homeliness was confined to certain areas. I went back last June and was shocked about how the homeliness problem had grown. The city also had become very dirty. But to me the largest change was how vacant the streets felt. I am sure COVID was part of this as was flawed memory but it was a pretty summer day and no one was out.
> Rent-seeking by itself is morally neutral, like guns. Like a gun, it's how you use it that determines if you're contributing positive value to overall society.

This strikes me as a bad analogy. What differentiates your statement from

Theft by itself is morally neutral, [...] it's what you steal that determines if you're contributing positive value to overall society.

You might be willing to endorse that statement, but I think most people would not.

I think that if you want to assert that rent-seeking is tool-like, with multiple uses some positive and some negative, then the burden of proof is on you to provide some examples.
The funny thing about these "reasons" the article writes, is that it does not give any reason why GitHub would want to create such an app store. Most the reasons stated are basically what we will supposedly benefit. There is literally no reason from GitHub's point of view why they would be interested in creating such a product to begin with.

Of course, there might be reasons form Microsoft to create an alternative to the App Stores say for a gaming marketplace etc. But specifically for GitHub I cannot see why they would be interested in the overhead.
What about funded accounts with no clearance in progress?

This explanation only makes sense if RH allowed the above situations to buy, yet it seems they restricted globally.
I don’t think that the ability to enforce the restrictions was the most important success criteria.

Australia, NZ and the other countries that have succeeded have a pro-social culture of collective effort.

The US, and increasingly Canada as well, do not - they have an “everyone for themselves” culture.

In the end if people are not going to follow the rules it won’t matter what you try to do - you will fail. In the US and Canada people only halfheartedly follow the rules when the situation is grim, the ERs are filled and freezer trucks parked in the hospital parking lot.
> t2bot.io hosts a few you'd be able to use with your own dendrite

I meant with dendrite.matrix.org. I suggest anyone with their own server should self-host their bridges, for performance and privacy/security.
No longer true:

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/corona-test-digital-...

And it wasn't really true before either, most of the Ämter used the Demis system.
To add more info. TLS 1.0 is prohibited from usage by many regulations and it will be immediately flagged by any security audit/tools. The government contract most certainly includes clauses about security and following recommended practices.

In short, anything below IE 11 is de-facto out of the picture.
There is no limit on the number of problems easier to solve using dynamically typed languages. For an individual hacker, dynamically typed languages make a lot of sense. I don't forget what types my functions accept as I am writing a program. All static typing can accomplish is slow me down when I'm trying to bang out something. This is why Python (for instance) is loved by data scientists, researchers, and startups. And they're right to love it! Purely anecdotal, but I can accomplish more faster (from a clean slate) with a dynamic language like Python than I can with Haskell, Go, or Rust. The difference is small, but non-negligible.

But static typing has a few key benefits:

* No searching through comments for type constraints.

* Better autocompletion.

* Better compilation.

* Better serialization/deserialization.

I do think static typing pays for itself in the long term. Sometimes, we shouldn't care about that. Engineering means managing tradeoffs: short-term velocity vs long-term performance and maintainability?
Home WiFi – LAN, WAN or Pan?
I've been thinking about this issue since reading Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson. It uses the concept of a Purdah: A pseudo-anonymous online identity. It's related to concepts of trust, fingerprinting, etc.

It inspired me to built a WIP website where you create an identity by linking accounts in various locations, that the site proves you own. The idea is, you build trust / an identity through content you've written on a site - then someone who reads your post on another site knows something about your trustworthiness. I think an especially potent use is in reducing the change a given user (poster, reviewer) etc isn't a bot or marketer.

We'll need to think about this more in the near future as internet communities (and public opinions) are more heavily influenced by bots and other forms of manipulation.
> This is a minor but users will be able to raise issues

I don't think people understand what an average (and below average) cell phone user is like. Just read some of the App store reviews (fraction of the people that use apps actually write reviews).

This pipe-dreaming would come crashing down from being a minor issue to major, the wrath of an average user is insane.
Average has exactly the meaning it has in all other contexts. It seems to be a bizarrely common (and obviously incorrect) meme on HN that half of all elements of a set are below average.
If they had blocked selling and it later came out that they didn't need to, people who had wanted to sell would be understandably pissed as well. It's a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation.

I think they chose the least-bad of the two paths, because even if they blocked their own customers from selling, customers holding GME at other firms would be able to sell. Would you want to be with a brokerage who blocked you from selling when they could have allowed it?
Bad luck may follow the same formula: what you did wrong times how many people that affected.
Who will get to the Moon first, SpaceX or NASA? How their latest rockets compare
I have used aspectj in somewhat unhealthy dose in my project. Mostly for reasons not even intended as an use to aspect. We have to work on giant configs reified as giant java objects. And I have was able to collect enough metadata about the code using aspects and keep them tied to the live objects in such a way that I was able to simulate creation, transformation and move of method calls.

yes, a byte code parser and reflection might have achieved the same, but the library made it breezy. Maybe, java is not a hacker's language but ecosystem comes with hackers toolbox.