skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You nailed it.

It has been interesting to watch the WSB narrative shift over time. It's a real-time experiment that optimizes for the best messaging to convince casual Redditors to put their money into stocks in ways that benefit earlier WSB members.

At this point, they've convinced a lot of people that buying $GME at obviously inflated prices and never selling it is somehow an altruistic move to take down all of Wall Street that might also make them so rich they can retire early. Of course, it should be obvious that no one is going to get rich by never selling the stock, but that message gets buried among the memes.

It was fun to watch at first, but now it's just sad to watch so many people pour real money into something that won't generate the outcome they've been promised.
Holy cow! Talk about vendor lock-in! Even AWS is easier to get out of.
They do have some here: https://github.com/search/advanced

I think they made it harder to find - I remember being able to get to it in just the search bar. Having the syntax autocompleted for you would be nice.
I'd be willing to bet at least a quarter is avoidable waste.
I’ve always found myself conflicted about things like this. It’s very common for industry leaders to be paid for their advice and appearances.

It feels like that might make them more likely to give favorable treatment to certain groups or organizations. It also seems like there might be high-ranking career treasury department staff that could very effectively fulfill the role.

At the same time it would seem that we’d want knowledgeable people, the kind of people who’s advice others would pay to receive, leading our institutions.
Wow, this is the mother of all TILs.

(Was that a Freudian slip, I wonder.)
The sheer eye-searing glare of LED headlamps on cars is becoming an active safety hazard at this point.
I've always thought something shifted after 9/11.
It's long been said: if you want good software, get a bunch of accountants--and folks who want to take marching orders from accountants--to build it.
Without enumerating the criteria for "right", you're probably not going to get a sensible answer.

A lot of the debate about pandemic management boils down to criticisms of, "did it wrong," without saying what would tip the threshold in the other direction.

This is problematic because it inspires a lot of talking past one another, resentment, and miscommunication. Ultimately it turns into a churn of frustration, defensiveness, and offense.

But even if you manage to get a response to agree on what, "right," means, the depth of their example is likely shallow. (e.g. "Such and such had only 12 infections because they such and such.")

This, too, is problematic, because it presupposes a ton of equivalent variables between the two countries. Population demographics, geographic structure, legal structure, culture, economic stratification, etc.

Conflation between a, "did it right," and a, "did it wrong," country is practically impossible, at least in the context of pandemic response. And anyone who tries to suggest otherwise is either ignorant, lazy, or obtuse.

If you get a satisfactory answer to your query, I'll move to the moon.
Only if civilization doesn't collapse.

But there is no reason to expect better. All the signs point there. Global climate disruption destroys crop yields in tropical and subtropical places, creating political instability. Millions, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions of refugees flee toward higher latitudes. Nations at higher latitudes elect fascists to repel them. Fascists start wars, wars disrupt trade, economies collapse, nuclear weapons come out, boom.

It would be nice to be wrong about this, but it has all started already. 70M+ Americans voted for fascism. Brazil, Turkey, Hungary, India already got it. Germany, France, UK, Italy, Poland threaten. China and Russia fell long ago. Europe is already strained by the first few million refugees.

Sending the hundreds of millions of refugees on to Siberia and the Yukon could work, in principle.
The mention of Lakos' book "Large-Scale C++ Software Design" reminds me of the epiphany I had when I read it. You could almost boil the entire book (and it's not a small one) down to "eliminate circular dependencies". That's trite, but Lakos walks through all the problems that large C++ projects had and lays out how all of them boil down to the dependency problem. Particularly interesting to me, at the time, was his analysis of how compile times got exponentially longer as interdependencies grew, to the point where even a small change required recompiling the entire code base.

The section in Lakos on how to identify and remove circular dependencies was worth the price of the book.
No. As I’ve explained, the crucial cutoff point is that the squeezers have to hold more than 100% of the long interest to squeeze the shorts. Whether the short positions add to 90% or 110% of the net supply matters only a bit.
The actual organisation is extremely toxic, I don't disagree. As a social movement I think it exposes a real problem but did it in an awful way.

My prediction is we won't see much of them until 2024.
It can be seen as a legal form of bribery. What information could possibly be worth so much, and in two speeches and some 'webinars'? I don't think it can possibly be ethical to accept such sums from corporations that you ultimately will be tasked with regulating.
To think we once made a guy sell his peanut farm.
How does the process work?
That's the absolute Max though. You need to justify that.

It's infinitely easier to make on 170k happen in the private sector, then as a federal employee. Unless the government wants to create like a special ops tech department which doesn't use the government pay grades, more money can be made in the private sector.

I'm only mid-career or so and I'm already at around 200. But I don't, at least on paper have the qualifications to architect out a whole system. And while we all want to act like we could whip up this entire thing with VueJs in a weekend, pretty sure there's some God forsaken legacy system it needs to hook into.

Since most engineers don't want to work with legacy systems for less than market pay, the engineers who end up working on this stuff tend to not be all that great.
>Side note: many people you imagine to come from a smoke-filled room of evil (Citadel?) are much more reasonable once you get to know them.

I work in the industry, at a competitor, and while the people at Citadel may be reasonable, Citadel itself is absolutely a horrific monster, the Godzilla of the HFT space, destroying and devouring everything in its path. It makes a huge chunk of revenue from payment for flow, which is arguable of little economic value (and banned in many countries), securing an unfair advantage to itself through political means (lobbying etc. to enable this) rather than through honest competition in the market.
They needed to hire somebody better. Palantir would probably have gotten it done for much lesser, faster.
You're saying that people are creating brand new HN accounts to support the Indian government? I don't see that. I looked at all the comments by green accounts in this thread:

Pro Indian government: 1 comment, 1 account

Anti Indian government: 8 comments, 4 accounts

Unknown: 2 comments, 1 account
Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester
Pure capitalism (anarchy) is just people exchanging things via barter. Government is generally to blame when things get too centralised (either by fiddling the market or by not enforcing antitrust).
Is it creepy that my eyes are almost always open when I'm in public?
First of all, hedge funds and banks are very different institutions. Banks hold and invest money in more secure ways, hedge funds usually pursue more aggressive strategies in order to hopefully get returns that are uncorrelated with the greater market.

Second, the narrative that Reddit drove the short squeeze is mostly a lie that has been repeated over and over again both because it's cute and because people want to believe they have significant power. In reality, many institutions also saw this coming, and when they saw the WallStreetBets subreddit getting ready to pump (yes they watch Reddit), they also piled on. They've mostly done it quietly so as to not disturb the convenient narrative that this is a David vs Goliath story, but really this was driven by big money. It's just a nice side effect that a lot of early retail investors have made a lot of money as well.

And yes, it is absolutely true that the end result of this will be retail investors getting slaughtered. Especially because of all the hype on WallStreetBets and elsewhere, there is a LOT of dumb money in the market who have no exit plan, and their lunch will get eaten when the large institutions exit at the top and trigger a GME free fall.
NYT Begs Court to Dismiss Veritas Defamation Lawsuit; Admits Inaccuracies
As someone who is not white, the thought of using a time machine and ending up in 1950s america is a terrifying thought.
I'd like to be able to search for active and most active forks. I'd also like to code search fork commit additions.

If someone fixed my issue in a new commit in fork somewhere, or already added the feature I need, I'd really like to know, so I don't reinvent the wheel!
> and use Excel as the height of their digital literacy

In Germany we literally use fax and enter data by hand. A project that successfully moved things to an emailing Excel sheets based workflow would be absolutely revolutionary.
The video is actually from Nine Inch Nails.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_(song)
I just tested this with a private repo and confirmed: currently if you search for text that appears only in old commits and was removed, I see nothing show up in the search. I would like to search not only for text in the latest state of the repo, but the entire history. This would be a KILLER feature.
Yah, but dropping 80% when you've inexplicably climbed 10,000,000% (depending on the timeline) sorta shows that you're anchoring the reality to something that is already incredibly, ridiculously distorted.
They only have to be better than the Deloitte grifters
Ease of exchange. I can’t (easily) give you 100 GME to buy a new car. We’d need a particular arrangement which isn’t easy to come by in the current setup.
The GitHub page for those who found it hard to find:

https://github.com/airwindows
Plain old HTML is responsive. It stops being responsive when you start trying to make it look good.
After reviewing the many options posted (thanks everyone!), I think this is probably the right answer. A barebones CLI program that can accept commands over TCP. It looks like it would be fairly short.
> The market is rich with GME stock buyers who don’t care to listen to any of these traditional buy/sell signals.

It is this week. But let's be honest: (1) wallstreetbets isn't a very large community compared with the whole market, or even the capitalization of GME or AMC and (2) these are investors engaged in a fun revolution.

This won't stay fun for months. These folks want to trade in those portfolios. And if this doesn't go up any farther (it's been flat at ~$300 since Thursday), how many of those will get bored and sell so they can trade whatever the next meme stock is? Not that many, sure. But enough to push the value down lower, to a threshold where more Robinhood traders decide to get out. And we have exactly the kind of feedback loop described in the linked article.

GME is going to fall because there's no reason for GME to stay high. Once the short squeeze is over and the lols play out, it's just another failing company.

(And I continue to believe that this is going to turn out to be a big astroturfed scam when this is all said and done and I'm betting a bunch of the early players will turn out to have been executing a pump and dump.)
San Francisco Schools, Radicalism and the Pandemic
> a data type that you haven't reified

Insightful. Once you learn to see dependencies as implicitly revealing abstract data types you haven't yet teased out into existence, you start seeing all kinds of places where behavior that ought to be explicit and handled by an abstraction is smeared across multiple other concepts.
The problem with Deloitte is that it's massive and organized as a partnership.
A massive company requires several layers of management to be able to organize, and a partnership expects billable hours out of everyone. So you have this massive, sickly, distended torso of middle-management whose only purpose in life is to recieve decrees from on high and push the thumb down on the people doing the actual work. And the only way they keep their jobs is to figure out how to stick their hours on the client's bill.

So you quickly see large numbers of leads, directors, managing directors, managing partners, and partners show up into meetings with 1 or 2 SMEs to make a show of "managing the project", whose only purpose in life is to suck the oxygen out of the room.

And I mean literally suck the oxygen out of a room. The meeting rooms are tiny--cuz real estate isn't billable!--so when you get more people than chairs in a room like that, the CO2 levels literally start to put you to sleep.

I spent a year and a half at Deloitte, building Augmented Reality projects. Every single project I worked, I was only brought in during the last 10% of the project time. The time was always not enough to do a good job. The one project that I cared about--incidentally also the only one that got any traction with any actual clients--got canned during a restructuring from working within Deloitte's "government" division to it's "industry" division. Except we always worked blended across industries and the app was targeted at industry, not gov. To this day, I really think the entire point was to just waste money, and my app getting traction edged too dangerously close to one day having to show efficacy.

I'm now the head of VR (yeah, I never actually wanted to do AR, and didn't even get hired for it, but that's where Deloitte stuck me) at a small company that does foreign language instruction for gov. A year and a half in and we've got an exciting project that has tested well with some limited number of students and is soon deploying company-wide. Barring some natural disaster, I'm extremely happy to never change jobs again.
James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere
This guy gets it. Development is literally the simplest part of the problem set.

The intersection of domain expertise, contracting/procurement creativity, and technical evaluation is the tough part to wrangle. Getting to the point where development can start is 95% of the battle in my experience.

Not to trivialize the actual development portion of the project, but most missteps happen early, dooming projects before anyone sits down to code.
Human societies must have a free road to organize themselves and grow in a organic way.

Unfortunately our virtual world are built in a way to addict us with content we create ourselves giving a few monopolists total control of our virtual presence.

I'm boarded in a project to think in another approach, in a way the give us more power and freedom to shape our virtual collective consciousness..

Without us figuring out a way to get us all out of this trap, i don't see a very bright future for us, and the current political and social status-quo are a clear sign of what all this is making to us.

The power and control is too concentrated in the hands of a few, and its easier than ever to pull all the strings from a couple of places.

Eg. If we have a dozens of key people to agree into some plan to permanent power and control, it will be impossible for us to take our freedom back, of course it will not look like any sort of government that we have witnessed before.

I know this is a conspiracy theory and i dont like it myself, but its pretty possible and easier to happen with all the technological status-quo and tech monopolies we have nowadays.
> protected India's farmers from the free market

What does this line mean in the article? The author is highly biased against free markets.
You’d have two separate sets of cores. The general purpose cores will have all the usual extensive you’d expect.

Meanwhile, the GPU cores will be simple cores with huge vector engines. This honestly seems somewhat similar to RDNA at a high level where you have a large SIMD unit with a scalar cores for branching and one-off calculations.

The big payoff is cohesiveness. Your RISC-V GPU shares the same memory model as your CPU. This should have a payoff in easy integration. Likewise, sharing a good permission model can probably help with all those GPU exploits in third-party code (like webGL).
I’m sure that the people working at Citadel are perfectly likable people. I also believe they provide a service that doesn’t benefit the average American because it’s inaccessible. Even if they could, does it provide value or does it exist only to add inefficiency and extract wealth for those who are already more wealthy?

I think many people see the extremely wealthy such as those running Citadel as the people who play by different rules than the rest because of their wealth. Does that make them evil? I don’t think so, but I’m not going to pretend that having the wealth and relationships to get political favors means you earned your wealth fairly.
At some point, someone should compile a bullet point list of all these consulting train wrecks on a simple website, like www.consultingfails.com.

Then, whenever you hear another multi-million dollar catastrophe, add it to the list. The brand damage will accrue - as it should - over time.
>Why would you sell candy without telling people whats inside them? Most people don't like all fillings.

Why don't all countries use metric? Not everything in this universe needs to follow a perfectly logical explanation.

As for the pictures, I can say the most famous brand people are most familiar with where I'm from is sees candy chocolate boxes. I've never seen Kraft candy, that company is mostly known for cheese. If sees candy did label their candies I've never seen it and therefore it must not have been very evident.

Regardless what you think, the quote exists because most people usually don't know what they're eating when they put these candies in their mouths. See here for the quote: https://youtu.be/egkrxkiUnoo?t=43

If you squint you'll see that's a Sees candy box.
I think everyone thinks of Curtis this way yet they're still interesting.
As someone that’s been using Apple products for a few decades I don’t think I can agree that they make “for the masses, not the few”.

Their market share figures would show that if that’s their aim then they are failing. IMO Apple makes premium products for a specific kind of customer and have little regard for issues like backwards compatibility. Which is absolutely fine. But probably not a model you’d want the government to follow.
This is a totally naive way of looking at the situation.

You're right there's no smoke in the room, there's only a massive multi-billion dollar corporation buying influence from someone powerful in government in the room. That this is not totally obvious to everyone is extremely worrisome.
What you say contradicts the article. Can you provide some link to your claim about the law?
Yes, but a whole lot easier to deliver a printer than a functioning civilization, when you can just print a civilization.
Bitcoin is peer-to-peer digital cash. I don't need to go to a bank, and I can send money to friends around the world without worrying about currency controls or other bullshit. It can be both. It can be one or the other. If you don't care about these things, that's cool. But this is a drum that's been beaten for years... not sure how useful continual discussion of skepticism of something that's been around for 13 years and seems to be working as expected...

I personally like the idea of a unit of exchange, investment vehicle, and store of value that isn't exclusively backed by America's fleet of destroyers and aircraft carriers and trillion dollar war-machines, and that isn't forever devalued due to inflation. Given that a single BTC is divisible into 0.00000001 satoshis, maybe one day a BTC will be worth $100,000,000 USD per BTC. Probably not, but it's not entirely speculative.

You can buy many things with BTC. People choose not to because they expect it to rise in value. People spend dollars because they either have to, or because they want to put it into cashflow generating assets.

The dollar has lost 7% of its value in the past year because of ongoing emergency measures by the Fed. This is great for aggregate asset inflation, but is terrible for anyone's savings.

Arguing about bitcoin's utility after the last year's monetary policy is a little funny to me.
With PythonAnywhere https://www.pythonanywhere.com and Web2Py http://www.web2py.com you can develop at webbrowser.
You can hardly blame someone for accepting huge speaking fees.

While I do think that the revolving door of government and private industry is a problem, I think if we set the bar too high, then no one will ever be pure enough.

How exactly would one find an experienced industry expert, especially in finance that hasn't at some point been highly paid by industry?

We could go with lifetime politicians, I guess... or academics, but we all know how the people usually respond to those types of appointees.

Are we to presume that these industry insiders were paying huge speaking fees to Janet Yellen just in case the 75 year old received another high profile political appointment?

Do companies worry about hiring a CEO who used to work for a competitor? I just don't see a problem per se unless there is evidence of undue influence.
Aren’t this the multi master / MM from back in the day?
That description of Citadel sounds like it could be Google and its advertising engine scraping the top off the global economy.

I don't have a magic policy answer here, but any long-term solution will not involve finger pointing at individuals doing legal things.
Consulting can be a boon or a curse.

This case it was a government client, and one could argue there is no singular point of authority/ responsibility that may have caught on to the troubles early on. However I have also it happen in private companies where 350-500$/hr 'consultants't do not provide anything more than code lifted from code samples or community tech forums.
Let us be stronger.
Would make a great toy, implemented along the lines of Universal Paperclips.
I looked at the comments by green accounts, and most are actually anti Indian government, rather than pro Indian government.
> people are demonstrably using and acting upon literally

Who did they hang?
Why would it be the one that you care the most about? Air pollution gives you cancer and breathing difficulties, noise pollution causes stress and hearing damage, soil and water pollution poison you and the environment.

In contrast light pollution deprives you of a good view and messes up some nocturnal animals. Sure, it’s not great, but compared to other forms of pollution it’s almost a non issue.
Sure, so what is your point exactly? That local customs trump women’s right to be treated as humans? Really, please look into the practices and then tell me you could ever want that for another person. By that logic Hindus should still encourage/force widows to burn at the pyre with their dead husbands.

It was truly disgusting to see the entire left lobby, the self proclaimed champions for human rights shamelessly protesting the repeal of triple talaq.
I need an easy way to see how a single file has changed over time
I see, it took a moment to understand what they were describing as I'm not familiar with Freenet, but this makes it much more clear.
> Calling a collision or allision an "accident" is what you do because otherwise you could be admitting fault.

I think you’ve got it backwards. The point is don’t call it an accident, because that implies no fault, and instead call it an incident or collision or similar that implies nothing.
https://youtu.be/9vyZK_CKkZo