skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> FB has a point here, but I'm still hoping Apple wins - I'd rather than tracking model not be viable.

I think it's possible for two things to be true simultaneously:

a) it's bad and wrong for apple to demand 30%, or whatever it is, as a cut of any payment made inside an app distributed through their app store

b) apple blocking tracking and advertising networks at the operating system level (API calls between the app running on a phone or tablet, and the underlying OS) is a net benefit for the consumer end user. obviously apple has a very different perspective on this since they are not facebook, or google, and not dependent upon advertising revenue.
It is both, they need to help themselves and help customers who would be harmed if Robinhood had gone under suddenly. An orderly unwinding is better for everyone.
WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
Speculation:

We know how easy and cheap it is to buy anonymous Twitter and Facebook accounts and use them to create a convenient illusion of crowd sentiment.

We also know that Bitcoin appears to have been pumped and dumped through a number of cycles.

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/interview/cry...

If - hypothetically, ignoring the nominal legalities - it were possible to do the same on Reddit without leaving too obvious a trail, what's to stop one or a small number of players from running a virtual operation that creates this kind of sentiment for trading?

And then betting for or against it - or perhaps both, in sequence - for some very easy money?
Yes, it would be deliciously ironic if Facebook won the case and was then forced to abide by the same mandate of openness.
I admit, I am not aware of their products capacity, but they never mentioned it as an issue, nor has their product crashed this week (that I am aware of). It was a conscious decision to stop trading.

They cannot control the volatility of the products they sell and the subsequent increase in the cost of doing business. They can't control their whole supply chain and do not sell GME and other products out of inventory so have to buy it from someone else.
It may be in FB's best interest, but I would prefer we approach it by asking "Will this help consumers, users, and independent developers?", instead of "Will this help FB? Because if so, count me out".
In my case, I charge $4/month for a developer tool and every week or so I would receive a survey response (that people do after uninstalling it) calling me names for charging money. Apparently there are people who want the tool enough to complete the survey and curse the creator but not enough to pay $4/month for it. So for me, pricing is really hard.
As I understand it, Robinhood had a cash problem because of the various collaterals required for high-risk securities during the clearing process. When each share traded needs a high amount of collateral (1:1, even), and you have a high number of those trades happening, you might not have the cash to pony up.

I think this is a downside to their business model (and probably moreso their scale and age). There are many upsides to their business model.

The interview I saw with their CEO on CNN was laughable. I would have a lot more respect for the company if the CEO could get in the weeds a bit more. The reality is that what Robinhood and most retail brokers provide is a convenient illusion, hiding the complexity of trading securities. Why can't they say that?

Edit: I almost certainly don't know what I'm talking about; but hey, this has been a fun story to follow, eh?
Yes, I was just coming here to say that we've merged the comments with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25961053, which was posted earlier.

We don't prefer to link to things that copy other sources, but HN readers need to be able to read an article or else we just get shallow reactions to nothing but the title (which there's more than enough of already).
I used to think this way but the nature of social media has changed my opinion.

When Trump lied on TV, twitter etc, it worked. Shutting him up was a much more effective approach than "we think you should read this" links offering more information to people who didn't want it.

And that's trump. Who is crawling into the depths of social media to win arguments on /r/TheDonald etc? No one. Partly because its exhausting and partly because they'll ban you. Bit mainly because talking bs is easier than disproving bs by an order of magnitude. It's asymmetric warfare. It's simply not practical to "win the argument" anymore.

And winning the arguement doesn't actually change anyone's mind anymore. No one open minded and rational supported Trump after the last 4 years, yet his vote count went up by 7m.

I feel like we'd never apply this to any other social issue. No one says we should not ban kids from smoking, but instead win the arguement on it with them. No one says we should permit drink driving but win the argument with every drunk arse hole and convince them not to do it. So why is this different?

We're reaching a point where you can have social media without any fact checking OR you can have democracy. But not both.

I don't expect the right answer to be easy. But I has to be possible and practical. This looks like the only option that fits that criteria right now.
For me, and I think the majority, memory is where you keep what your brain thinks that it will use again.

If your job is to make and fix/tweak the style of a web page, and you do it practically everyday, you probably can make a pretty decent css file without even looking away from the editor. But if you then need to make a basic html page, you will probably search.

If you use an ide with autocompletion, you probably won't remember the correct camelCase of even common functions (is it instaceof or instaceOf?) but if you work on an embedded system with a plain console editor you probably remember them all (or at least the most used ones).

I remember when I was actively using Lightning Launcher (an android launcher with JavaScript capabilities) that I could make full scripts almost without pressing delete, when its editor was simply a big textarea (no autocompletion, no colors, not even automatic indentation). I did need to check the docs from time to time, but their limited (and logical) set of basic functions made it easy for me to remember.
Nowadays I need to check everything again, because I simply forgot due to not using it much.

Answering the question: yes, yes I can, a very basic but working one, simply because I like making small tool pages for myself, coding directly from my phone (in a basic text editor). But when I need to do something not so basic, like checking if the user has scrolled to the bottom of the page, I search it.
I don't understand why:

- approval timing;

- contract celebration date;

Has anything to do with the fact that AZ is failing to comply with it's duties.

AZ isn't waiting for EU approval to start producing stock to fulfill their initial order, that makes no sense - it takes WEEKS to build stock for the goal of the 80 million doses. The stock that will be delivered, 30% of what was expected, is being produced before this approval. So this "approval process" argument makes no sense.

Regarding the contract celebration date, same applies - they were expected to deliver 80 million doses in a timeframe, which they agreed upon.

Why don't we do this the other way around, why don't we all be transparent and see if they are also failing to supply the UK? Because if it's supply issues, then it should be a problem of both countries no?

Or they were shifting stock made in Europe to fulfill UK orders?

I really hope the EU gets to the bottom of this, because it stinks.
> Would my being silly satisfy your hopes?

Now that you brought it up, it would make for a better discussion if you dialed down sarcasm.

Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Otherwise the conversation devolves into this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25852297
This. I've been a paying Evernote user since 2008. I realized the other day how frustrating it has become to use. Like my windows just turn black, until I restart the app. Also seems the UI is not as easy to use as it used to be.

Recently I've been seriously considering switching to OneNote.
> The cop who gave that presentation even mentioned getting an IRS call, and said that, they never called back.

The IRS would never call you in a situation where that would matter, and in fact they try very hard to make that public since fake IRS enforcement calls are a very common scam.

So the cop was either lying to you, or was caught in a scam and accidentally scared them off by showing they weren't going to immediately buckle under, without even realizing it was a scam.

Ask for a lawyer, not immunity. And take legal advice from your lawyer, not from cops who, as a class, have neither the knowledge nor the motivation to give good advice.
I'm all for more bulletproof hosting, but political hacks are unlikely to be content-disinterested, especially over the long term. Right out of the gate, they're disingenuously framing a "fight for honest and open debate.". But the latest spate of deplatforming had nothing to do with silencing debate. Rather it was an inevitable response to the Big Lie of "Stop the Steal", a bad-faith rallying cry that resulted in real-world violence - hence even AWS getting involved as S230 only covers civil liability. Meanwhile it seems like the biggest threat to actual conservatives (ie those not trying to destroy our institutions) is coming from the Republican party itself.
Here is my quick math:

Tradeable float: 47M

Top 3 holders: Fidelity, Blackrock, and Vanguard: 27M

Cohen: 9M

Half of Robinhood users own at least one share: 5M (conservative)

That leaves us with 6M shares, and with a short interest of 71M held short and ETFs like XRT buying them, it is likely there aren't enough shares.

The only way to resolve this is i) Gamestop issue more shares/shelf-offering. ii) shorts go bankrupt and/or clearinghouse/brokers take the bill.
Logic vs. Emotion: What Drives Decision Making
Probably not, no. They're already selling as many as they can at the current price -- there's no shortage of Coke out there. They might lower the price and thereby sell more (though they're unlikely to sell twice as much without more than halving the price), but that's not necessarily a bad thing; it means people are having to do less to get the same amount of Coke.
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21378509

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799127

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1227694
Not sure if it's just because I'm not in the USA, but this info (except a headline and small paragraph) are behind a paywall.
Shame on people for downvoting you. You are 100% correct factually, and imo morally too.
That's consistent with them being worried about collateral requirements.
No, I'm an engineer in a corp. To be fair, I've seen much worse forms, I'd rate this one 4/10 in terms of annoyance.

It's just that's very ironic ;)
The main problem with Apple's App Store is that it is a closed monopoly. It is the only way to install software on an iPhone without jailbraking it, and if you do jailbreak it, then there might be other apps that refuse to work.

In Denmark we have a national login system (NemID), and if you got a Jailbroken iPhone, then you will not be able to use the (required) two-factor code-generation app, and then you will not be able to buy stuff online via credit card. I had a similar problem recently, as there was no alternative authentication option if the app did not work. Basically it just showed a popup telling me I had to use the app. That is NOT okay.

If Apple opened up their platform more, then more power would be in the users hands, and Apple would not be able to abuse their power to shut out apps or require huge developer-fees and percentages of app-developers sales. This current situation is more like daylight robbery.

Privacy is really a separate issue, and surely one that has more nuances to it. Flat out blocking tracking is not the right path forward just because it is popular.
“In practice, reliably distinguishing ASD from non-ASD is problematic.“

Agreed, but it’s not clear why that is relevant.

Whether it is hard to diagnose or not doesn’t tell us whether the condition is discrete or distortion on a spectrum.
I think this might help:

Data race vs race condition:

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/490
The fraction became 100% on GME, which is typical for highly volatile stocks. That's why they had to disable trading in it - they could cover the small fraction, but not 100%.
eh, more power to them. Anyone can rent colo and do what they're doing.

Just don't break your providers' terms of services when you're doing so. There's always an upstream vendor.
Didn't Apple fans happily report that Apple collects 120% of all mobile profits?

That majority of phones sold in US are iPhones? That Apple market share became majority last year in US?
Robbinghood
You're splitting hairs about phone lines -- you know what I'm talking about.

You talk like Facebook was the first ever social network and didn't start out of dorm room. You talk like there aren't any other social networks right now. Or that there aren't other media companies.

What's the end game here? What exactly do you want? The inability to moderate? Nationalized? Broken up? I guarantee you can't come up with a single remedy that isn't ridiculous.
Don't do this to me.
Delete Facebook. I’m so glad I did. Instead, I use the time to take a nice walk everyday and I’m studying a language.
You could probably sell and create this as a “coding reality show” with live camera and screen feed.

Maybe a “Big brother season 1” style. I’d watch that.
Awesome. Microsoft themselves had planned this feature for some time, but abandoned it for some reason. Instead they were probably focusing their efforts on making it harder to prevent automatic updates.
Terms of Service do not trump federal law and SEC regulations.
Hack Suggests New Scope, Sophistication for Cyberattacks
Robinhood now limiting trading in 50 stocks, incl. GM, Beyond Meat, Starbucks
Not seeing any issues in my side project's instance (us-central1-b).
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For sake of completeness, you just described a "Married Put"
Yes, that makes sense.

A race condition happens when data/state is mutated because of the order in which concurrent processes occur. This could happen with threads, message passing, or many other ways.

I think this is distinct from deadlock which occurs when there is at least one circular dependency in the order when different "processes" must perform their operations.
unrelated but is there a reason why so many servers still seem to be on mysql 5.6? it's an absolutely ancient version, yet I keep running into it
Or you could use local software– Dictionary.app instead of the dictionary on Google. This article barely argues for free software. It's the Parler-AWS issue.
The jury in 2021 serves the same purpose that it did in the 18th century, especially in criminal trials. A jury means that the government has to prove its case, not just to one person who's employed by the government (the judge), but to some random people off the street. The purpose is to make it harder for the government to just put people away "because we said so" - outside the rule of law. It also can serve as a brake on insane or unjust laws, though it does not always do so.

Now, for a complex or technical civil trial (Oracle v Google, say), it has flaws. That I will freely admit. But the businesses in those kinds of trials can choose to have a bench trial (that is, one decided by the judge). When they choose not to, it's because they think they are more likely to be able to snow the jury than the judge. Unfortunately, if I understand correctly it only takes one side to choose a jury trial, and the one with no real case is more likely to do so.
So explain to me the motivation for raising taxes in an era of rampant, delirious money printing. The only argument is to punish the rich...at the rate we are going, all collected taxes will soon become insignificant relative to new debt...i.e. why collect one dollar when you are printing twenty? Just print nineteen.

I'm not the first to recognize that at our current rate, it would be sensible to simply cancel Federal taxation. This would be an instant, decentralized stimulus that requires no new bureaucracy.
I hope one day we will see an IPFS link
Here's another, claiming it's common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI
Fair point, there is an obvious assumption that the driver was capable of using such a tool at the time. Anyway, I intention wasn't to blame, merely an dark observation.
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In the EU, those would not be allowed. This is also prohibited by German laws, particularly with regards to apartment and employment contracts.

> Under EU law, standard contract terms used by traders have to be fair. This doesn't change if they're called "terms and conditions" or are part of a detailed contract that you actually have to sign. The contract is not allowed to create an imbalance between your rights and obligations as a consumer and the rights and obligations of sellers and suppliers.

This includes...

> Terms which restrict how and where consumers can take legal action and obliging them to provide proof which is the responsibility of the other party to the contract.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...
They're a broker, not a market maker. They don't have positions.
Can't they use that cash to fund my own buys

Is this how people really think the markets work? If it is, it's no wonder that a lot of retail investors will be taken to the cleaners. What you just suggested is so illegal that no professional trader would have had the nerve to even mention it.

I think it might be helpful if RH had some kind of trading tutorial that maybe went through the mechanics and rules so that people joining would have a better understanding. What I've been reading the last few days betrays a massive lack of understanding about how a lot of this works.
I guess it comes down to the legal interpretation of "Best Reasonable Efforts".
Retail investors (and any other investors) submit orders before the new security begins to trade. The first thing that happens on open is an auction.
not really an interview. It wasn't clear they even talked to him at all?

[EDIT: ok, they did talk to him, but this still isn't what most publications would call "an interview" ]
Does looking at old code I've written and have locally count?

What about offline documentation like help() in python?

Without either of those it would be iffy. I could probably do something that updates data consistantly but using a serious database or doing authentication correctly might be a stretch.
Some people are working on being able to run OpenCL kernels on Vulkan: https://github.com/google/clspv
Is this a brokerage? At some point us it something other than a brokerage if they restrict use of funds?
For me, it's always about focusing on proving my idea correct as fast as possible.

I think X would be cool. - How quickly can I test if X is cool with quick and dirty tactics. I tend to use notepad and make notes along the way, so I can flesh it out into something reproducible later. If the idea doesn't work, at least I have a text file of my process and thinking during that time.

If it does work, I find being able to scaffold your projects quickly is key. Build a script that creates a common set of folders and a new git repository. Things like (notes, source, libraries, docs, archives etc). From here, you can just add things to your git repository as you develop/test/build your idea. It doesn't have to be a project that involves code, as you can manage any files from a git repository. They key is having that scaffolding.
I was going to post something along the same lines. I know my framework, I know my code, and I absolutely can create a web app offline without using google.

I also enjoy boats and working from them from time to time.

A lot of people missed the fact that good intellisense style code completion, local docs (rdoc, what have you) are still viable. Also having some PDF’s on your machine of programming books helps you not google for solutions.
Surprised to see no mention of GNUNet. GNUNet arguable has the most complete stack and they have a GNU Name System so they can go beyond public key as direct identifiers.

I would really love to see matrix use GNUNet and GNU Name System as their P2P layer. It just hides so much information by default and its looking for a 'killer app'.
The evidence would have to be overwhelming that it's not helpful, because the prior is so strong.
Can anyone here verify that this was possible while markets were open? Buy call option, exercise, get more shares than RH's trade limit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l82y7u/how_...
I taught myself linear programming because of Factorio. It is easily the single game in which I have spent the most time, probably close to 4,000 hours. It is delightful to see that the team is continuing to improve it, even after the 1.0 release.
PHP developers have been very successfully using Composer for many years. It's actually quite nice having the package management decoupled from the language, there's fewer chances for breaking things between upgrades which helps slightly with long term support.

Congrats on getting a package manager for Go!
I can't and I don't care. I consider my programming skills to be 100% based on my ability to know what to search for and not necessarily on my ability to remember trivial things like the exact sequence of things needed to initialize a framework or whatever.

What I care about is having good foundations that help me to undestand what exactly I need to look for and that's by itself and invaluable skill.
Ask HN: How could Robinhood have avoided the negative PR from GME?
Based on everything I have read so far, it seems reasonable to conjecture that Robinhood had liquidity issues compounded by a clearinghouse that was rejecting orders, causing them to stop allowing GME buys. How could they have responded instead to stay afloat without alienating investors or running afoul of regulations?

I've seen people say Robinhood should've continued to allow purchases from users with cash on hand and not based on margin, but that still wouldn't resolve the clearinghouse problem. Was this always going to be a lose-lose scenario requiring fundamental changes in Robinhood's operation from the start (e.g. having multiple clearinghouses if that is something that can happen?), or was there a better response Robinhood could have taken in their existing condition?

Note that even some other brokers had the same issues, so the negative PR may be magnified by the sheer number of retail investors on Robinhood.
" I guess you invent a short by entering a contract to sell someone gold 6 months from now for a given price." - i.e. a short futures^H^H^H^H forward contract (oops, futures are on exchanges and forwards not, I forgot that being exchange driven is part of what makes it a future vs. forward)

You could short it like you short a stock - find someone who owns some gold, and have a contract to borrow the gold now, and give it back to them in 6 months, while paying them a small fee while it's outstanding.

That's exactly what happens with shorting.
What was the motivation when multiple brokers disallowed buying GME stock using non margin accounts?
^ This.

A great book on a specific example is David Einhorn in "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time". He routinely finds fraud and shorts them, in this case, Allied Capital.
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