skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem to have that effect. It also seems to have other effects. And it seems to be mostly other effects. If funding companies requires all those effects, it seems legitimate to question whether it's a net benefit.
Doesn't "securities fraud" require false information or at least misrepresenting information? The data cited in this (and many other posts) are often publicly verifiable but people didn't know where to look until then.

It definitely looks like "market manipulation" but I think that's where the "public" aspect will play a part.

The defense will make the case of "why this group of little guys and not the hedge funds" against the SEC selectively prosecuting Redditors while giving hedge funds a pass.. in 2009-2010 under Obama and again under Biden.

I'll take the odds on WSB.
I found an article from 4 years ago saying that 20% of youtube's traffic was QUIC: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/youtube-driving-more...
Serious question? Why is that hyperbole?

The SEC could step in to resolve the squeeze and everyone who bought at 350 left holding the bag when the price drops to 30.
Sometimes I read conversations about software engineering concepts by career developers and I get this sense that there is this entire hidden world of other engineers that I have somehow managed never to encounter.

Every engineer I've ever met who has been doing it for more than a couple years universally decries circular dependencies. Every one of them has come to that opinion via hard won experience dealing with real world problems they encountered. And yet comments like yours reveal there are other engineers working in places where apparently the opposite is true. Whenever I see that I wonder how this sort of self sorting manages to occur.
You're describing perceptual clipping, which is orthogonal to dynamic range (DR) compression. There's no reason you can't do both, but HDR photography has traditionally been about capturing a wider range than the camera's sensor can handle and then mapping that data into a narrower range. That "narrower range" is determined by what the display technology is capable of and what common file formats assume. Nonlinear perceptual response curves and clipping can of course be factored into the mapping, but that mapping process is still DR compression.

None of the above has anything to do with data compression which JPEG does to decrease the number of bits needed to store a file; that's a different concept from DR compression.
We already have "demand pricing". I know of some companies who transitioned to electric vehicles (think skid loaders and other yard vehicles) who had to install their own battery systems and generators because by the time the vehicles needed to start charging, they were hit with way way higher than normal electrical prices.

I dont know the specifics- i.e. if not all of their vehicles could go a full day of charging- but only that yes, there are mechanisms in place to force those who can afford it to adapt.

Everyone else has to hope they can plug into a smart grid that only actually charges when the price drops.
That's ridiculous on it's own. I mean... got out on the street and listen to how people talk.
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Why should it be worth $8 a share? Do you really want GameStop in your retirement portfolio? It's pretty clear to me that it will, and should, be worth $0 eventually.
This Windows only embedded engine has long been part of Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory servers. The API was public but not well documented. Berkeley DB was a quality cross-platform alternative but I suspect that some permutation of RocksDB now dominates this use case.

It should be noted that local SQL Server using fast IPC communication is quite good and rumors of Microsoft Exchange replacing ESE with SQL Server have popped up many times over the years.
My wife inherited my Oneplus One and uses it (running LineageOS); I'm still using my OnePlus 5T and don't plan to change it ever (unless the audio jack makes a comeback).

Note that the One without any Google spyware still lasts 3 days no problem. I'll probably switch my 5T to Lineage without any Google stuff sooner or later.
That is an interesting observation. I wonder whether the cycling in chemistry is more about information flow then like (negative?) feedback, it helps in making a stable system.
You’re absolutely right. A short squeeze in and of itself is absolutely not market manipulation. Sometimes it just happens. But creating a short squeeze can be market manipulation.

> "Market manipulation" itself is not necessarily illegal, if you just mean doing things that will effect the market in a way to bring profit to yourself.

I’m not quite sure what you mean by this. Market manipulation is a concerted (and sometimes coordinated) effort to artificially influence the supply or demand of a security. Market manipulation often relies on false information but false information is not at all a required element of market manipulation.

Where things get interesting (and fuzzy) here that I’m not quite sure where the line is between a group working together to influence the market and just... the market. I suppose its theoretically possible for everyone in the market to coordinate against one or a few players. To my knowledge there’s never been a situation with such a large coordinated effort.

That said, there are definitely a handful of individuals on WSB who got the ball rolling and have profited heavily. I definitely think the SEC could make the case they've violated the Exchange Act and potentially the '33 Act depending on what % of $GME the group controlled.
I think the fact this discussion is so back-and-forth, with nobody being absolutely confident that this behaviour either is or is not market manipulation is interesting. To me, it points out that either a) nobody in these conversations knows anything or b) the laws themselves are inadequately described.

Surely a large group of people getting together and saying "GME is way too shorted, buy buy buy and don't sell until $5k" should either be absolutely definitely market manipulation, or absolutely definitely not?
> GM announcing this means they have secured their battery supply.

GM has announced that they're moving away from fossil fuels, not that they were going all-electric. Granted, electric is most feasible, but they could also be hedging their bets with alternate sources like hydrogen.
Do you think that I think that that is a good thing? Speculation is good for a lucky few and very bad for lots of people when it goes off the rails. Which is the whole point of having governing bodies regulate the market.

Are you proposing that we rein in speculation in a wider sense? Then please, sign me up! But let's not do this with mobs and all the screaming, please.
Youtube is delivering video over HTTP. HTTP3, i.e. it is transported over QUIC.
True... except they don’t call themselves investors. They relish using terms like autists, degenerates. Basically they enjoy sending across a message more than making a fortune today.. it’s like a cult
I have a fiancee,
I have a 10 year old child,
She has 9 and 7 year olds.

We live together, I work from home, they school from home.

I manage to not get bored.
I am not white washing hedge fund managers, but any hedge fund manager that would put in writing in an auditable system that he is considering manufacturing a short squeeze to hurt specific investors and went ahead and did it would have a tough time in court. No one with half a brain would do that (not that in recent history there hasn't been a handful of sub-half-brain bankers who documented their misdeeds in writing).
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I am sure Poland realizes how much it benefits from EU membership. Let those nationalist parties have their nationalism, or stop violating human rights. The EU could argue open and strong: Have it your way, or play for the collective. Don't let them use populist interpretations, confront them transparently.

What's Poland without the EU? They don't have the economy to even fade like the UK. They would lose everything.

We don't have to endure their shit, their nationalistic, misogynist and homophobic populism in the EU politics.

Sure we depend on them geopolitically, but so do they. They are afraid of Russia much more than the rest of the EU. And they are nothing without the EU economy.

Mind you, I am advocating for the enforcement of human rights and social progression, nothing more.
I bet it doesn't make any more profit than an equivalent service managed fully online, but making all the people in the current operation redundant is "politically" difficult (or even impossible/very costly depending on employment laws) so they continue as-is.
> natural disgust at seeing edgy material

Disgust is a cultural learning, not a natural response.
> Yep, it's really great that markets can create speculation that are not tied at all to the fundamentals of a security.

To take the other side of the argument, the linked post is not about a value "not tied to the fundamentals of a security." In particular, it claims:

>> For reference: if $GME was trading at the same P/S multiple as $CHWY, the share price would be $420.

Now, this argument is wildly speculative to me, but it is in fact an argument about the long-term proper value of the company based on a fundamental.

The most recent hype train of "hold diamond hands to the moon rocket" is indeed disconnected from the value, but note that the current stock price is still within a small multiple of the above-quoted long-term level.

> If you want to trade stocks, do some research and invest wisely for the long term.

That's undoubtedly the safest advice, but this does not make short-term investment illegitimate. Stocks reach long-term value as a series of short-term movements, after all.
Also, serialization and object versioning challenges. I think I mentioned this in another comment but the lack of static typing in erlang/elixir tends to fence your composition model to where these sorts of problems are elided or explicitly handled in code.

But AFA Async, I guess I have thoughts.

> With akka actors, instead of just dealing with the actors and actor pools, they suggest you make actors non-blocking. The way you do this is with Futures.

I don't know how things work in JVM/Akka specifically but on the .NET side the use of async is 'Tolerable'. We have a ReceiveActor that lets you wire up your message type to an async method and it handles all of the stashing/etc internally until the future completes. You have to type a couple extra words but they're the same words you have to type everywhere else you use async.

With the other sugar .NET gives you it's really not too bad. In the system our team built, the main piece of 'blocking' code we have is a call to a C library that does not have any real 'async' bindings. The rest were things like loggers, although typically if 'logging' is blocking either you're logging too much or the rest of the system is probably not in a good state anyway. (edit: FWIW, the 'block' is 80-100ms and constant, we can live with it for our case)

> How do you identify the bottlenecks of the system? Maybe your execution context is full - actually I'd love to know how people debug their execution contexts in general.

Interestingly, Akka.NET doesn't quite have this sort of problem.The default Dispatcher (At least that's what we call the base type) runs on the .NET Thread pool which has a good degree of 'self tuning', and you can peek at the number of threads vs what the pool maxes out at with 4 lines of code or so. However in .NET we have 'SynchronizationContexts' which result in the need for special dispatchers for things like a UI update (as most UI frameworks have their own context for handling UI).

> One of the benefits of this arrangement is if something is going slowly you can order the list of actors by biggest mailbox and you can see where your bottleneck is.

You could probably hack together something off of akka visualmailbox [0] as it shows how to grab metrics from 'inside' a mailbox. I did a toy port to .NET and while on that side I had to do a lot of 'configuration' and still need to create metrics collecting mailboxes for all the types (we don't have traits...) but it seemed to actually work not-bad.
and maybe they will be off-grid just say, this thursday.
You're all over the place. GME is a black swan aberration borne out of current market conditions BECAUSE of hedge funds and institutional players. Retail investors involved in short squeezes like GME are not going to cause a crash.

In fact, I would argue the GME episode has made life suck a lot less for plenty of people - some made money but a lot of people have just had fun laughing, making memes, and putting some money in because, well, what else are you gonna do? The stock market is not F'd up because of retail investors. What should we do - just sit on our hands and hope the free Ford stock Robin Hood gave us goes up? Why not have fun and dream a little and learn about the market in the process?
tmux lets select with just the keyboard, even when tmux is on a remote server and you are using it through ssh, you can select to your local clipboard. This is for iTerm, don't know about other terminals. No idea how this works, just tested in Terminal.app and it works too.
Funny the mention of the surviving copies being the Portuguese translation.

I started computing around 1986, the books from Tempos Livres were available in most libraries.

I only got a couple of them, occasional bought by my parents as gifts, and nowadays when I happen to see one in a some book fair where they are trying to get rid of them, I rescue them from certain death.
So the lack of intellectual stimulation then ? you need a harder job :D
I just bought a brand new 2020 Honda Civic EX in November and I love it, I just hope it wasn't a mistake buying a gasoline engine. Here in Canada, the carbon tax is supposed to raise the cost of gas 30 per cent by 2030. I'm not anti-carbon tax, but am I going to be driving a relic a decade from now?
Because as a developer, none of the software packages you listed matter to me. They are as far removed from my line of work as is notepad.exe.

You have to realize, that a lot of the software you listed is only relevant in the creative / media production industry. So, it is really not software that most people use.
To me, it seems like people just noticed something absurd in the market (a short % over 100) and were pointing it out.

It was a perfect set-up for a historical short squeeze if the right catalyst came along. And that catalyst wasn't simply the people on WSB, there were other catalysts such as the Chewey founder coming in, and then earnings reports.

Once those factors played out, the people who noticed the precarious position the hedge funds had put themselves in got to watch their exact predicitions come true.

I don't see how that can be confused with a pump-and-dump scheme or any sort of market manipulation.
Haha, it sure was.
Wish it would get Android 11 damnit
This is the problem with popular conspiracy theories. If a lot of people believe that a shadowy group is regularly breaking the law then that emboldens them to break the law.
In addition, there's a significant subset of people who's only program they use is a web browser.

This is obviously quite doable with basically any distro.
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A conspiracy doesn't require one organiser to command the others, any willing participant is just as guilty. Which is why it is hard to prosecute, you need to prove intent. And it seems that it is exactly what those guys documented on reddit.
This came up in an application I had modeling college football. A Team is a member of a Conference and a Conference is made up of Teams. But during realignment a few years ago when teams were switching all over the place it became apparent that Teams and Conferences were truly independent of each other and that their association itself was a first class object which also needed to capture the Season/Year.

Not really rocket science but some times your model is telling you something if you’re willing to listen.
Security & App performance for starters, YMMV.
Lol it’s not the people on Reddit’s fault for exploiting an opportunity. Maybe your anger should be directed at the hedge funds who were shorted 140% OF AVAILABLE FLOAT. Wanna know where the instability is coming from? The hedge funds don’t want to pay up and lose money. Redirect your anger towards the proper people.
The Intel 700 and 800 series NICs have a DDP for QUIC.
So they are open sourcing Jet.
I don’t know if this attitude is a cause or an effect of the failures in the American education system. In many other countries, especially in Asia, teachers are respected if not outright revered. Their status is often comparable to medical doctors and other professional classes. So people who choose to teach are not seen as unfit to engage in other endeavors. But in America there’s this undercurrent of contempt for those who would choose to teach. It just seems like a rather self-defeating attitude for a society to have, especially in a world where knowledge is the ultimate competitive advantage. It seems like our current anti-science, pro-ignorance culture is more or less an inevitable outcome of such an attitude.
But aren’t there plenty of “BUY BUY BUY” posts that result in nothing? My understanding prior to this was that r/WSB was typically a lot of hot air being blown around trying to drum up enthusiasm. No different than your uncle saying at the table “I’ve invested in... and it’s going sky high!”

The bar to qualify this random association of people as organized seems pretty high.
Programming graphics is always fun. I liked having pixel shader running in phone's home screen background. It was a box-breathing animation that would make me slow down the breathing anytime I saw it. It's a nice conversation starter as people often notice animated background.
Here's the question that we are all hanging on: was the WSB sub engaged in manipulation of the price of securities. For this they (we) need to decide:

- is the 'game plan' above evidence of that.

- when someone posts a screenshot of their position and emojis of rocketships, and a bunch of people respond with This is the way. and other meme-y jokes, is that manipulation?

If the second is true, we're in for a rocky road ahead. We are going to have to decide as a society how far we wish to go. People post Buy This, Sell That, I did this, I did that, all over the place and not least on retail financial news sites like Seeking Alpha. There are comments there, too.

Should we ban all comments and news from non official channels out of fear of getting sued or investigated for securities fraud?

A dystopian possibility is Reddit shuts all stock subs. Seeking Alpha turns off comments. HN bans talk of securities. YouTube pulls stock analyst videos and comments. Google fiddles with results to avoid people who aren't CNBC or an approved site getting hits.

Remember how they banned crypto YouTube videos?
I first learned BASIC in high school, learned Pascal shortly after that.

I think a great thing about Pascal was its origin as a teaching language. As a result, the textbooks placed a heavy emphasis on learning good programming techniques, and the language supported those techniques. I think maybe it's no mere coincidence that good teaching tools also become good general tools for those of us who are not destined to become full time pro's.

Learning BASIC and Pascal side by side was a great lesson in how to write good code, because you could make your Pascal programs so much more readable and organized. Even today, if any human has a faint hope of reading and using my code (in Python or C), it's thanks to the skills I learned from Pascal.

When I got my first computer, a non-PC-compatible MS-DOS machine, I remember my dad asking me some vague questions about it. He had heard us talk about Pascal (my mom and brother both learned it), and the Wall Street Journal had a glowing article about it. He had no idea what it was, but got me it for my birthday. And it followed the "rules" of MS-DOS, so it ran on my weird computer! No graphics, but who cares, I was up and running with Pascal.

I found a magazine article on how to attach a serial port to my computer, wrote a terminal emulator in Pascal, and found an old 300 baud modem. I was able to complete my computer assignments from my dorm room. In FORTRAN.
The problem is going to be the dealers.

With the limited maintenance, regular servicing and less things to break where dealers have historically made their margins. EVs are a threat in this regard and you've already seen this play out with the Bolt/Volt to a degree.

Heck, they wanted ~$300 to run a DPF regen on our truck when it went into limp mode(yay for open-ish OBD protocols so we could do it ourself).

I just don't see them wanting to sell them and without a channel it doesn't matter how good of a product you make.
Market manipulation is defined as intentionally causing an artificial or misleading price in a security.

This definitely qualifies, because the stated intention is to move the price of the shares, not to acquire a position for any other reasonable purpose.

I work at a trading firm, if I outlined a plan to do anything like this I would (rightly) be fired instantly. If I actually did it I would go to jail.

The law shouldn't be applied differently for redditors, but probably it will be.
What concerns me when reading such articles is that if lying is so prevalent and there is still no action against the bad actors, then the GDPR tracking checkboxes on many sites are likely also just sent to /dev/null?

At least in my experience, one gets subscribed to many things they explicitly opted out from. It is very easy to say later if somebody digs to just say yes was clicked instead of no or there was a bug affecting a small portion of their traffic.
> What would be interesting would be to organize modules into named layers--instead of just explicit 1-by-1 module dependencies (i.e. edges). I have not seen a language do that yet.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you're describing namespaces here
Tao is arguably one of the most famous mathematicians on earth, I'm pretty sure he's on a decent salary.
The motor yes, but a gas tank lasts forever while a battery doesn't. Batteries have gotten a lot better, but I think you need to look at the whole car, not just the motor, to make a fair assessment of durability.

I do think that electric has a lower maintenance cost, even accounting for the battery, but it's not that low that i think you can make up a 30k price difference.

If you plan on keeping the car for 10 years and drive 1000km per month. The up front 30k are 3k per year or 250 per month. That's quite a lot of an additional fixed cost for not having moved yet.
If their math faculty is of similar quality to (or worse than) what we had at my top 25 university, they aren't going to lose much of value. I was a math major. Our math department was so bad - because the faculty was truly, magnificently inept at teaching - that our engineering school created their own versions of every required math class so the engineers could actually learn the required math.
My views on the ban on cryptocurrencies are same as an average HN user although I don't have any. But my views on official digital currency in India could be different i.e. I would welcome it.

Just because if it enables in the distant future the ability to monitor where every paisa of my tax was spent on down to the lowest level e.g. It was used to buy the tiles for the construction of a public toilet in X village; it's certainly possible with blockchain.
But CRUDs also benefit from load balancing that is going to be much more expensive without hardware support.
For the other problems, mostly satisfactory solutions exist.
People are now trying to look for the next GME to get quickly rich.. this can be a dangerous bubble in itself with the last one left holding the bag.

IMO, it’ll be hard to do such a short squeeze ever again as the institutional investors know the repurcussions.