skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would also be important to know, not if ads can produce great results, but how many companies do they provide great results for? Even better, what percentage of all business that run online ads get a positive return on their investment, and what is the average of that return.

My personal experience is that it is pretty hard to get consistently good performance running campaigns on FB or Google. It requires a lot of learning and a lot of trial and error. On top of that, they constantly push you to spend more by giving you dubious recommendations on how to “improve” your campaigns. Very hard to believe that the average small business is actually capable of running good campaigns and consistently make money from them.
Being able to have private conversations in a large call is a game changer. Looking forward to what the Scena 360 team will build!
Yep, I've been quite exposed to [almost] pure FP for 4 years and something now -- by working with Elixir. Definitely not as hardcore as LISP or Haskell but I feel it already made me much better than before. So in terms of being exposed to new programming / comp-sci paradigms, I don't know, I am sure I haven't seem them all (stuff like Coq and Idris 2 comes to mind as an example) but I also don't want to only invest in being a walking talking (and useless) encyclopaedia. :)

> This is something you don't have in Rust or Elixir at all (to my knowledge).

Maybe I am misunderstanding you but Erlang -- and thus Elixir -- has the best actor system invented so far. Message passing, copying data between actors, immutability, Erlang's OTP (fault-tolerance and tunable restarts of crashed actors), all of those things were the entire reason I moved my web work to Elixir at all. Well, the amazingly well done build and task executing tool `mix` turned out to be a huge and pleasant bonus, not to mention the very welcoming community and top-notch docs and best-I-ever-seen REPL experience.

In fact Erlang's actor system is so good that those in Scala and .NET were very heavily inspired by it. Akka in Java land as well.

Rust is getting there too -- the async semantics, the const functions and the various runtimes definitely are converging to much more efficient and machine-native actors with zero copying semantics and dynamic multiplexing on all CPU cores. I am extremely excited to see where Rust is headed in the next 5 years. It has the potential to get very close to the end-all be-all language.

> If you want to specialize, learn Rust in and out. :D

Completely agreed! There's so much work to be done out there that requires efficient use of hardware. So many companies have legacy systems still limping on ancient C/C++ monoliths and 2-3 brave souls are maintaining them, but the business wants either new features or the tech debt is preventing any improvements -- reasons abound.

Rust is extremely well-positioned to disrupt a lot of companies with legacy systems. I am planning to cash in on these opportunities. So it's a good advice from you, thank you.
So Linus was wrong on his rant to Dave about the page cache being detremental on fast devices
Your org and team need to support remote first. This means lots of documentation, slack and zoom calls. Otherwise you need a key partner e.g your manager to keep you in the loop. So your written comms need to be solid. That and you have to be really good at planning. I also find I work more. When you have collaborative projects you really need to have excellent communication skills and excellent documentation for dependencies.
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nothing. I'm in the social media business and I can tell you it's very easy to make 5 figures/month gaming reddit(as an individual operation) using farmed accounts and it's been going on for years. Not necessarily with stock schemes. they got next to none security when it comes to stuff like this. agency that I worked at a few years ago literally had thousands of aged reddit/twitter accounts in their portfolio. there are whole apps available for sale that manage your reddit farms including fingerprint faking, proxy management, captcha solving(outsourced to developing countries), etc. the market for it is pretty huge.

Edit: hints = look at porn subreddits, /r/entrepreneur, stock subreddits. By the way, some of the moderators are making a killing too (by promoting their "own" people)
What a very convenient point of view for the people above the law. I hope they're passing some of their gains on to you.
Look at DFV's account. He's been talking about GME since mid-2019.
I live in Sarasota County, FL and work remotely for a company in San Francisco that everyone here knows about. Sarasota is a city of less than 60k inhabitants, but the surrounding area houses <250k people. I live in a somewhat suburban part of the county that trails off into farms less than a five minute drive from my house. The Gulf of Mexico is less than 15 minutes away with traffic. There are lots of great restaurants, and the arts scene pre-pandemic was booming.

20 minutes from me is an international airport, and New York City is this less than 3 hours away. Tampa is an hour to the north by car, and Miami is a 3 hour drive away. Orlando with its theme parks is 2 hours away, and I like to visit the Space Coast to watch rockets go up from Cape Canaveral.

Now that you know where I am and what’s here, let’s talk about who’s here. I’m old enough not to care that the median age of residents in my area is about 50 years. If you’re looking for a humming dating and club scene (modulo pandemic), you’ll likely find it somewhat lacking. There are plenty of young people, but not in the numbers you’d have seen if you had gone to New York City in 2019.

I find it refreshing that I don’t bump into engineers, VCs and project managers on every street corner. I know people in non-tech occupations, and their perspectives help me stay grounded in the real world. The mid-to-upper social class here is much more diverse than in NYC or SF. People’s occupations range from industry to sports to medicine. They hold diverse political opinions and vote accordingly. No one’s at anyone’s throat all the time because of “inconvenient” politics: we coexist peacefully with each other, left- and right-leaning alike. This is a kind of diversity you won’t see in big coastal echo chambers.

Proximity to nature is another aspect that I find quite important. Between the ocean and farms and state parks, there’s no shortage of green space and fresh air. I know some Amish farmers who supply me with fresh eggs, pork, veggies, and chickens. There’s a large locally owned dairy operation (Dakin) whose milk dominates the local market.

You might be surprised to find out that when people’s living quarters don’t occupy every inch of land in sight, it turns out that everyone can live comfortably and cleanly.

In closing, I’ll say that this lifestyle suits me a lot. I don’t miss the “tech city” I moved here from, and I enjoy working from home using the office setup of my dream, for which I have space without inconveniencing my family.

P.S.: Gators don’t bite if you don’t get up on their faces.
Well, actually that's the place if you're interested in the Raku Programming Language. Which has its roots in Perl, but is now a programming language on its own path.
> If Apple was wielding this to harm users that'd be one thing,

The ones who have been killed in Hong Kong by Apple throwing protestors under a bus might disagree with this.

Or a variety of sexual subcultures, or sex workers, who Apple relentlessly attack.
That was because of liquidity issues.

There's no guarantee hedge funds will be the ones who end up holding stock at the end of this.
> Yes, HTML is a widely supported standard, but it is hopelessly elephantine. Let's think, who can afford to develop/support a proper HTML engine? That is roughly one-and-a-half companies in the world. Hence the interest in a minimalistic hypertext markup language.

There are dozens of proper HTML engines. Implementing a proper DOM and CSS is the hard part, which is why we have few full-featured browsers.
It’s a balance, because instant transfer has some bad side effects.

E.g. if a scammer steals all of your money, it would be good to have a day to try to cancel that...
If it makes you feel any better, their attempt at redaction was poor and the whole text is present in the bookmarks of the PDF:

https://twitter.com/lijukic/status/1355164987212390402
From https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...

This is not stuff most people worry about most of the time. Generally if you buy a stock on Monday you still want it on Wednesday; even if you don’t, we live in a society, and you’ll probably cough up the money anyway because that’s what you’re supposed to do. But at some level of volatility things break down. If a stock is really worth $400 on Monday and $20 on Wednesday, there is a risk that a lot of the people who bought it on Monday won’t show up with cash on Wednesday. Something very bad happened to them between Monday and Wednesday; some of them might not have made it. You need to make sure the collateral is sufficient to cover that risk. The more likely it is that a stock will go from $400 to $20, or $20 to $400 for that matter, 6 the more collateral you need.

But I suggest you read the entire thing - it does an excellent job discussing what's going on and showing why the current GME narrative makes no sense.
IANAL. I'm not touching GME with my money, but I'm happy to stand on the sidelines and cheer the memers on.

You need to define your terms. You don't get charged and go to prison for "pump and dump", you get charged and go to prison for "securities fraud".

Right now, people are saying it's worth burning a lot of money just to stick it to Wall Street. As in, if you do this, you're probably gonna lose a lot of money, but you should do it anyway, because it's the right thing to do. (note: I'm not arguing the merits of this argument, I'm just stating what I interpret the argument to be.)

The thing that's illegal that will put you in prison for securities fraud is to claim that if you buy GME and hold it, you will make a lot of money. This isn't illegal because it's fucking over Wall Street, this is illegal because you're lying. The crime isn't "pump and dump", the crime is "securities fraud".

Also note that traditionally, in a pump and dump scheme, you buy first and pump later. People right now are buying and pumping at the same time. They're not (just) pumping by telling other people to buy the stock, they're pumping by buying the stock. This is a significant difference.

That being said, since Everything Everywhere Is Securities Fraud, I guess this is securities fraud too. (/s)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
For chests of drawers I certainly recommend powered screwdrivers (IKEA sell cheap, and for this particular use, adequate powered screwdrivers). On the other hand, are you assembling some Ivar shells there’s hardly any screws.
> The UK will soon have a surplus of vaccines (and in fact has extra stock already by some accounts - people are being given unused doses).

Eh, that's just a sign that you have to administer an entire box of vaccines after opening the box.

After all, some no-shows are inevitable and it's not like they can turn away the people at the end of the queue to avoid starting a new box given the people in the queue are there by invitation.
Thanks for the links.
When I searched for the info, I hopped that those .gov and nhs ones will be most credible. :/

What I am finding very interesting from disinfectants list is number 14.
It's a bunch of parts they don't have to manufacture and assemble.

The stuff about reducing friction seems like a snow job to me. A typical leg of a drive involves 3 shifts and probably lasts more than 5 minutes. Not real arduous.
Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story that the 'OK' button is only labelled that way because in user testing people read the original text - 'Do It' - as 'Dolt'.
I appreciate your reply comment. What would is your opinion on private platforms such as Reddit, Twitter et al. and their obligation to not shut down or restrict dialogue or discussion.

It is my opinion that since they're a private company and explicitly state so in their terms they're under no (legal) obligations whatsoever to maintain users ability to comment. They're not the government and therefore can do as they please in this regard and people would be wise to remember such lessons when investing time and energy into privately owned platforms.

I'd be interested in your opinion however.
For a mass-market low-education target demographic? The defaults matter here.

Retail investors shouldn't be restricted from having such capabilities, but that doesn't mean it should be the default
Anyone here moved to a rural area or homestead type scenario?
> RH deliberately did not do a good job of A) Putting limits on newbies (like no margin!) so they do not get themselves into trouble

But someone who has initiated a money transfer and then used that pending money to buy stock, technically on margin, is not getting themselves into margin-related trouble. There is no good reason for there to be limits here.
Maybe it’s because I’m Swedish. ;)
Looking at the company’s behavior and incentive structure is definitely more relevant than trying to read the tea leaves of motivations.

Facebook’s business is getting paid by companies to help them sell goods and services to consumers. Facebook is claiming that Apple’s changes make it harder for them to do that. Don’t Facebook’s claims match its incentives here?
"Unlike other vaccines being trialled, the Oxford team had been taking weekly swabs from all volunteers to check whether they were infected but showing no symptoms."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55308216
The fact that the EU and UK are already fighting illustrates how imporant the EU is. Imagine if the EU didn't intervene in the vaccine programme and it was 28 rich countries trying argue to 28 contracts with AZ instead of just two -- and all the complexity that emerged from just two contracts.
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Citadel (who loaned Melvin a lot of money) and Citadel Securities (who pay RH for order flow) are not the same company - they used to be, but have split up.
> Sure, but consumers should be free to make that decision themselves.

Why? The state makes a variety of judgements that corporations cannot leave things up to user choice because that's too dangerous to wider society.

Apple can't sell an iPhone that occasionally electrocutes users and out it down to "user choice." We rightly ban that.
Is that somehow different from how Real Socialists brutalized, arrested, and exiled people they didn't like?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
I aim to please. Now tell me: what about my comment is wrong?
Oh cool! That might be all I need. Thanks again.
I work remote now and like it, but I'm not really sure how well that would have played out for me right out of school. Almost all of my social network, from friends to future wife, flowed through those in-person jobs. I was (am) very introverted, but the "Hey, we're heading out to grab lunch, wanna come?" experiences at that time allowed me to meet people.
Couldn't those with shorts buy otm calls to hedge the possibility of a squeeze?
so as a Canadian, remote work in US is easier to find if you remind them of w8-ben, even if they are only listing REMOTE inside USA?
Is it for Windows 7 only? Will it work on Windows 10?
At a certain point whatever COVID risk this prevents is surpassed by the inhumanity of not letting these people go to their homes, to see their families and loved ones. I think a lot of what has been done in the past year will not be judged kindly by history. Bare life is not the only thing that matters.
Thanks - your explanation gives a lot of clarity.

I assume a lot of people are reading it as “the EU is defined as just the U.K. for the purpose of this section” but you are right that it’s just saying “this section is about the U.K., not the EU”
If after bubble pops it's shown that an elite group of WSB traders made huge profits while a large amount of retail traders lost their entire investment, I think there's going to be plenty of public appetite for nailing the market manipulators to the wall.
ya sure, i get it .... but he took a bet and won, He could have easily lost everything. For every winner in the options game there are probably 99 losers. It's call survivorship bias.
> Well if a stock market crash triggered by this is realistic (which I agree is), doesn't it make sense to hold a bit of GME for insurance

What is the reasoning here? Are you under the impression GME wouldn't crash right alongside the market? This isn't BTC or gold we're talking about. It's just another stock.
This guy infected himself with hookworms, because his allergies were so bad he was desperate. He subsequently started promoting the idea, and I think was even trying to distribute hookworms for awhile.

https://www.amazon.com/Epidemic-Absence-Understanding-Allerg...

Edit: I read a more recent article about the guy, and it said he subsequently backed off the idea after his allergies came back.
But he didn't start a short squeeze, he invested in it before thinking it would be a short squeeze.
I worked at a hedge fund as my first job on the IT and Dev side. I will never put my money in a hedge fund. Just the way they spend money to boost the sense of self importance, etc. is nauseating. I once Fedex-ed a ream of printer paper from NYC to a partner on vacation in Miami because he was too entitled to drive to the nearest office supply store. I literally found a store like 10 minutes away but was told to just Fedex the paper. Then there were the allegations of PIPE and various other SEC investigations that always end up settling without any admission of guilt.

There are quite a few genuinely good people in finance so don't be surprised to find good people doing good things who also work in finance but finance also attracts a lot of people who are amoral at best. I shake my head at the memory of one of the partners screaming at someone over the phone, "This isn't even illegal! How is it immoral!?"
It's quite literally one of the first things mentioned in the trial protocols and journal articles

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04516746

"The efficacy of 2 IM doses of AZD1222 compared to placebo for the prevention of COVID-19 in adults ≥ 18 years of age [ Time Frame: 1 year ]

A binary response, whereby a participant is defined as a COVID-19 case if their first case of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR-positive symptomatic illness occurs

≥ 15 days post second dose of study intervention. Otherwise, a participant is not defined as a COVID-19 case."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

"The primary efficacy analysis included symptomatic COVID-19 in seronegative participants with a nucleic acid amplification test-positive swab more than 14 days after a second dose of vaccine. "
They skim a little bit off each trade, but in a way that doesn't cost the consumer more than the sticker price. It's basically a commission and every broker does it, so no red flag.
in the php world you usually have decent man pages for webservers handling php requests and generally speaking php frameworks and packages have good inline documentation. also there is a package for anything you may need and and ide will usually give hints based on that documentation.

most frameworks come either with examples or commands to get your started. symfony even had their docs available for local reading as well.

with python i always have to delve into reading obscure documentation that either makes no sense or is not up to date. and there are too few packages for what you normally need in a scalable app. so yeah you can write php code without googling, as long as you are not a complete noob in web development.

if its 2021 and you still write code using vim and niche languages then you are doing it wrong, and indeed google is your only hope.
I think this is just a normal part of the scale up process, and why things are time consuming.

The AZ vaccine seems to be the best candidate as it can be distributed at fridge temperature. It looks like the novavax vaccine (protein + adjuvant design) may actually prevent invection. The goal of the 1st generation of vaccines is to prevent severe illness.
Then you haven't been paying attention to WSB. WSB knows full well they will lose everything. We call it Loss Porn and it gets us going. When you see 5,6,7 figures in losses you get desensitised to it. It's a casino, yes we sometimes make money, we call that the first time, you know, the first one is free.

Besides the jokes and the memes, Chamath went on CNBC and argued that WSB provided very good due diligence in some instances. Yes a lot of it is utter garbage, no doubt, but when there are specialists there able to call each other out, you get to see good analysis.
We absolutely need cops, courts, prisons, jails and all that. The issue I have is with how they are deployed as tools to correct societies behavior. The way the USA uses them, it doesn't work and only serves to suppress a group of minorities from becoming participants nor leaders in society.

Jail is supposed to be for those who did wrong and need a "timeout" so to speak. A wake up call or reality check on their behavior. Prison is more longer term rehabilitation. Problem is, our society's tolerance of crime and sentences for said crimes lands people in jail more often than not. Difference being jail sentences are up to a year, prison year+.

Not to mention the absurd bias towards minorities in how we police, how we judge, etc. to fill said jails and prisons which are increasingly becoming For-Profit by leasing prison workforce labor out at 1890s labor costs of $0.27/day. It's legalized slavery.
Reddit admins have been rather supportive of WallStreetBets[0], even helping the mods with special technical support and tooling to handle the load of users. They seem to have a good relationship.

Also kn0thing endorsed WSB yesterday. He's no longer officially affiliated with reddit, but it still says something.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l7yc12/wsb_...
There is no misinformation in there. It's average people buying, and the market is doing its thing. The eye-opening part of this is how brokerages like Robinhood are reacting.
This does not mean that this is reflected in the efficacy numbers. Read the paper and protocols they very clearly specify symptomatic disease confirmed with PCR.
The computational hardness of pricing compound options [pdf]
Freenet doesn’t make money for speculators like ipfs. Making gobs of money is an important feature driving wheel reinvention, I think.
All banks offer overdraft protection when you open your account, and they clearly explain what it would mean for your account to go negative.

Definitely not a good comparison.
... and if bitcoin is any guide, people can hodl forever, bacause they are no longer doing it blindly. Who will blink first?
> It's picking right back up because the people the shorters wanted to sell, didn't.

I know people believe they know about who's doing what in specific, vs seeing just the aggregate numbers, but I haven't yet been convinced that anyone actually knows this. I'm seeing news coverage, I'm seeing people lobbying others to buy more, I'm seeing speculation about what short sellers are doing, I'm seeing people saying their newly going short... I'm not seeing up-to-the-minute specifics on "Melvin Capital has lost $X dollars" or "still holds Y short positions." Yet the logic behind the "squeeze" assumes that specific knowledge.

I see how what you say is a possible explanation for what we see. But I can also imagine other explanations.