skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but 5-10 years is a long stretch, considering we are talking about a notebook that you can't upgrade once it is built. Surely there's a middle ground where upgrades should be possible within a couple of years?

Also, 16GB sounds awfully low to me. Why has the laptop industry decided nobody needs more than that? It seems to be the limit for laptops with soldered memory, with few laptops coming with more than that. Anyway I voted with my wallet and bought a laptop that has a Ryzen CPU and upgradable memory and SSD, and a very manageable weight.
I hear that argument then I heard the argument that short selling doesn't reduce the price.
> Always talk to the police -- AFTER YOUR LAWYER TELLS YOU TO SAY WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SAY

FTFY ;)

A cop can't grant you immunity, and most people wouldn't know what it meant if you did have an immunity agreement.
If you aren't arrested, then you aren't charged, and so no, you have no right to an attorney. Police can detain you on site for a little while in order to make the arrest/no arrest decision. At any time you can give police an ultimatum: am I free to go? If the answer is yes, you're done - say nothing more. If the answer is no, you can keep pestering them with questions until you get clarity on how you can or if you can get out of there, but that isn't the same as answering their questions.
All platforms that blocked trading (sorry, I mean blocked buying) use different clearinghouses (WeBull is Apex, RH is Clearing by Robinhood, TD Ameritrade is TD Ameritrade Clearing), so I'm not sure if I buy this.
> and then used client funds as collateral?

But that's not necessarily settled right? E.g. client sells AMC, then buys GME. At this point RH doesn't have the cash to for it (the settlement should clear, but it still needs to come up with the collateral).

(I'm not an expert so take it with a grain of salt, but that makes at least some sense :))
Scientists, not hobbits, are the target of this fellowship. Most scientists spend at least half a decade of their early career in academia and will therefore use "Fellowship" the way it's used in academia.
Anti-spam laws mean you can’t send unsolicited marketing to a personal email, but can to a work one. Hence the qualifier.

You can put your personal email. It just means they’ll have an out if you decide to report them, because you represented it as a work one.
Oh good point about the colors. Right, someone might attribute green to good and red to bad.

Yea, I was struggling to get the right terminology because "interest" might mean "short interest" in the current context of wsb.

Thanks for the feedback.
The second order effects are problematic though. Someone shorting a stock has an incentive to see a company fail. Sometimes people will put out rumors or even go on fiance shows talking about how poorly run some company is. Maybe they make a discreet call to their buddy at the ratings agency and have them downgraded a step. If the market's stated purpose is to help companies find the capital they need to succeed, then short sellers run counter to that purpose.

If however the purpose of the market is to be a big game for people with huge amounts of mostly virtual currency to gamble with then short selling is a vital instrument.

One problem with the market is that value is not based on what a company is worth, it is based on what investors think it might be worth in the future, which is largely just a guess. So the whole thing becomes divorced from reality while investors play games with each other to try to make the numbers go up as fast as possible.
One definition of "fellowship" is actually "a group of people meeting to pursue a shared interest or aim", which describes both the Sci-Founder Fellowship and the Fellowship of the Ring.
>> AstraZeneca is currently struggling to produce 2 million doses a week for the UK [0]. How does the EU expect to use UK production to shore up a shortfall of 49 million doses that they require in February/March?

IANAL but it seems to be part of the agreement. From the posted pdf:

5.4 Manufacturing sites

AstraZeneca shall use its Best Reasonable Efforts to manufacture the Vaccine at manufacturing sites located within the EU (which, for the purpose of this Section 5.4 only shall include the United Kingdom) (...)

In short, AstraZeneca agreed to use UK facilities to manufacture doses for the EU.

>> The doses that exist in the UK only exist because of a manufacturing ramp up done under their own contract while the EU was still negotiating a lower price.

Presumably, AstraZeneca agreed to provide a certain number (censored in the pdf above) of doses to the EU after AstraZeneca had initiated the "ramp up" you describe. They did not object to selling those doses that were manufacture during the "ramp up" to the EU. The contract doesn't mention any ramp up at all.
In the US, socialism is a pejorative term arbitrarily applied to some government services, but not to others. For instance, if the government pays doctors or social workers, that is socialism, but if it pays police or soldiers, that is not socialism. And if the government pays corporations when they encounter financial difficulty, that is not socialism, but if it pays individuals, that is socialism.
Yeah the instructions are poorly written. Also, in my case (ubuntu 20.04) running `sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install sudo` does nothing, the latest version available is 1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2.
To be clear, I agree that by itself, a single stock won't make any systematic difference. I was explaining what the parent was claiming.

Regarding your proposed solution, I fear that thanks in part to Citizens United, the wealthy and powerful have such a strong hold on our government, that any increased taxes will only be funneled back to them through corruption, regulatory capture, and big gov contracts.

Ideally, a large wealth tax on the super-wealthy would simply result in a "citizen's dividend" where each of us would get X amount as a citizen. Using the benefits for government spending will just be used to build a larger federal apparatus that will be used against the middle and lower classes. This should be clear by now.
Whether you get more IOPs with smaller I/Os depends on a number of things. Most drives these days are natively 4KiB blocks and are emulating 512B sectors for backward compatibility. This emulation means that 512B writes are often quite slow - probably slower than writing 4KiB (with 4KiB alignment). But 512B reads are typically very fast. On Optane drives this may not be true because the media works entirely differently - those may be able to do native 512B writes. Talk to the device vendor to get the real answer.

For at least reads, if you don't hit a CPU limit you'll get 8x more IOPS with 512B than you will with 4KiB with SPDK. It's more or less perfect scaling. There's some additional hardware overheads in the MMU and PCIe subsystems with 512B because you're sending more messages for the same bandwidth, but my experience has been that it is mostly negligible.

The benchmark builds to build/examples/perf and you can just run it with -h to get the help output. Random 4KiB reads at 32 QD to all available NVMe devices (all devices unbound from the kernel and rebound to vfio-pci) for 60 seconds would be something like:

perf -q 32 -o 4096 -w randread -t 60

You can specify only test specific devices with the -r parameter (by BUS:DEVICE:FUNCTION essentially). The tool can also benchmark kernel devices. Using -R will turn on io_uring (otherwise it uses libaio), and you simply list the block devices on the command line after the base options like this:

perf -q 32 -o 4096 -w randread -t 60 -R /dev/nvme0n1

You can get ahold of help from the SPDK community at https://spdk.io/community. There will be lots of people willing to help.

Excellent post by the way. I really enjoyed it.
> Maybe I think Company G is worth $20 but not $40, but if you are selling it short at $5, and I'm prepared to be illiquid for a while, don't I send the correct market signal by squeezing you out of your short?

In this example, you'd be sending the "correct market signal" if you sold your shares as soon as it appreciated to $20. Anything more, and you're moving the market away from its efficient price.

The problem with the squeeze is that certain participants are put into a position where they're being forced to buy. And, that creates an incentive for other shareholders to hold onto their shares well past their fair value. Holding onto shares well past their fair value is antithetical to efficient price discovery.
Were can I find this very finely worded statement? The articles I find through Google are all along the lines of "Melvin got out of _its_ position".
Nit: RH is self clearing, most other retail brokerages use Apex. Both Apex and RH had the same collateral issues though.
What I don’t get is: Now the stock is clearly overvalued. Doesn’t this make shorting it now so much more attractive?
> "journalists"

In my experience, gaming journalists are often neither gamers nor journalists.
> Assuredly once the shorters get a hold of a share of stock, they're not gonna let it go because they need it to cover their position.

vs

>They have to deliver it to the market maker which they took up the short position with. The market maker will then put that share back on the open market. If you want to deliver another stock, you need to buy it back from the market maker, at full market value, and deliver it back to the market maker. You can't just conjure up a share in order to cover with.

The second paragraph seems to be the opposite of the first: once you acquire it, you return it to close some of your position, and then it's for sale again... so you can return the same share N times, distinctness be damned? You clearly don't need distinctness for the TOTAL sum of all short positions, because then the math wouldn't work.

No, the person you returned it to isn't going to cut you a sweetheart deal, but they ARE a motivated seller because the price is so high right now.
AMC above GME?
Please don't respond to bad comments by making the thread even worse. That's taking this place in exactly the wrong direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566383

Seems it’s only about 22% of serious crimes which are solved. Of course the beauty of these “facts” is they differ wildly.
Right, the correct solution here for WSL would also be to run "apt-get upgrade" or whatever your distro uses.
Perhaps there could be dilineation zones using white noise generators to separate two discrete parts of a social space.
Dang, I like you dang.
If there is a systematic risk.. surely better to catch it earlier than let it keep inflating
In Islam, there is no difference if interest continues to accumulate or not. A $1M loan with a $10 "fee" is still a usurious loan and is prohibited. This is not open for opinions.

We're not going to have any meaningful progress if this issue is not tackled. Any talk of "equity" is nonsense until then.

> setting it to zero causes all sorts of distortions

It doesn't, because under Islamic law, loans are purely an act of charity. That's how the Islamic world has operated for a very long time now, until relatively recently where some people have succumbed to the Western economic practices post WWII. If you want to make money, you invest it, where the investor and invetee both take on risk, not like the basically one-sided interest contract where the lender is all but guaranteed to profit.
Asking for immunity can be used against you in court.

“Officer, was there anything strange about the defendants response to finding out his ex-roomate had been murdered?”

“Well he immediately asked for immunity to cover his actions in the crime”

Never talk to the police, refer them to your lawyer.
Compiling from high-level lang to GPU is a huge problem, and we greatly appreciate efforts to solve it.

If I understand correctly, this (CM) allows for C-style fine-level control over a GPU device as though it were a CPU.

However, it does not appear to address data transit (critical for performance). Compilation and operator fusing to minimize transit is possibly more important. See Graphcore Poplar, Tensorflow XLA, Arrayfire, Pytorch Glow, etc.

Further, this obviously only applies to Intel GPUs, so investing time in utilizing low-level control is possibly a hardware dead-end.

Dream world for programmers is one where data transit and hardware architecture are taken into account without living inside a proprietary DSL Conversely, it is obviously against hardware manufacturers' interests to create this.

Is MLIR / LLVM going to solve this? This list has been interesting to consider:

https://github.com/merrymercy/awesome-tensor-compilers
Google Cloud SQL Incident
Fun fact: failure to implement unicode is the reason we never got a PHP6. So we're safe from emojis for at least a while.
They appear to be grabbing the html for a website, stripping out all graphics by removing tags, then inside every anchor href they insert textise.net and pass the original href url as a querystring so they can they fetch that url when you click on a link. Here is what you see when you hover over a link on a recent HN page:
https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https%3A%2F%2Fb...
In my mind I was assuming that there is some communication between the two groups. Not at work, and definitely not where you can be overheard, but it just seems crazy to me that they don’t talk at all. But I’ve never been in a position to actually know, im just assuming.
> Usury in a basic definition means lending money with interest, and the collection of that interest. [1]

Good. This is fine.

So we strike various other non-sequitors from your original reply:

> Not even attempts at communism have survived removing dynamic markets.

Free markets, profit making, private property, incorporation for making profit (by providing goods and services) are all entirely orthogonal to the very specific 'debt instrument' of "lending money at interest". Even the broad concept of 'debt' itself is not limited to a specialized form of debt that involves usury.

The solution space of financilizing an economic system is not limited to interest bearing debt instruments. And to insist that any alternative is "communism" does not bear scrutiny.

> Historically, even societies that disallowed usary still needed financiers - they would just hunt them down and kill them when it came time to pay the piper.

I assume you refer to the stormy relations between medieval European kings and their bankers. A gentle reminder that European history is not the entirety of human history. (Just as an aside, who besides the Templars got killed over defaulted debt?)

You mentioned "markets" also known as "bazaars". Did you know that while European kings were allegedly killing their bankers there was an entire thriving civilization next door that disallowed interest bearing debt instruments?

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/3632489

There have been suggestions that usury was instrumental in the social dislocation that significantly contributed to the collapse of food supplies in Mesopotamia. (I can't find the link atm). Regardless, it is an intriguing fact that the 3 Semitic religions that arose in succession in the same "cradle of civilization" after the demise of Mesopotamia and neighboring bronze age civilizations -- that is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- all felt it necessary to put the injunction against usury in the proverbial mouth of God in primary scripture. Rather curious, don't you think?
It matters because SWE interviews rely on coding without googling. Maybe we need to change how interviews are done to test people on their Googling skills. For a given coding task, what do they search for? Do they Google for the right terms? Do they converge quickly on the right website to copy from?
How would I know what immunity looks like?

Police can and do lie to people to get them to confess to stuff. "We'll go easy on you, we promise", or "this is off the record, you can tell us anything now" etc. So what stops them from saying something like "sure, you got immunity, now let us in".
Totally, I don’t think any one perspective is complete & sufficient.

What I like about the 8 kinds of fun is it pushes back against an approach I think you see a lot in “serious” board game circles of a kind of “model/view” perspective on games. The mechanics are the model and the only part worth paying serious attention to, and the setting/fluff/etc is the essentially interchangeable view. The “8 kinds” perspective is a reminder that people engage with games in a lot of different ways, many of which really live in the interaction between the model and view.
I don't agree with this. I'm not going to get into a holy war, but I soundly disagree that it's inferior. Any C/C++/Java programmer can become productive with php very rapidly. The callstacks are familiar to programmers, the language continues to get faster & faster as older legacy structures are replaced with smarter data-structures allowing for JIT optimizations.
Genuinely curious about porn games. They all seems to be either a show of pretty models with somewhat controllable animation or a "nothing special" game with explicit scenes thrown in for your enjoyment.

Some of these games can be excellent, I am thinking about some Japanese visual novels here, but they all seem to be rather formulaic.

Maybe I am missing something big here. I am not too much into porn games, and you are unlikely to stumble upon them unless you are actively looking for it.
Pony has a playground...

https://playground.ponylang.io/

...but the example isn't very enlightening.

Here's a networking example:

https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/tree/master/examples/net

with the Main being in net.pony and the rest being the infrastructure.

And here's the start of an HTTP 1.1 app server (basically, just the HTTP parser at this point).

https://github.com/tmmcguire/shetland
First, it's Robinhood, not Robin Hood.

Second: I'm not interested in the binary of whether or not people are mad at Robinhood. People should be mad at Robinhood for a variety of reasons, most notably that it is an online casino masquerading as an investment app.

I am very interested in the conspiracy theory that says Robinhood halted GME orders as part of an effort to protect hedge funds. That conspiracy was repeated by a number of legislators yesterday, seemingly encouraging ordinary people to follow on this terribly risky GME bubble. The conspiracy appears to be false.

If we don't disagree, we don't disagree.
If I really need that capability, I personally would download a LAMP/WAMP/MAMP setup with all the docs downloaded but needing to Google things isn't inherently bad.
Do you have evidences to back up these claims?

Many PHP projects are successful. WordPress, Nextcloud, Wikipedia, Facebook...

Something about it must be right.
INAL, but I'd say nothing. The contract includes the UK as part of the EU as far as manufacturing is concerned (paragraph 5.4). But kicking AZ already now with breach of contract is a bit wild. As is pushing false numbers regaridng efficiency of the vaccine for eople above 60 (or 65), as happened in Germany. Not quite a good way to motivate AZ to deliver, it rather makes it a legal question from the getgo. Which is, well, not good.
I used to program with 6 thick reference books around me. Has memorizing SDKs, APIs, libraries ever been a thing? Or is this just the daily "everything is bad nowadays" post?
Referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_(finance)?wprov=sfti1
I wonder if there's that kind of profiling; probe MAC addresses and associate them with customer spending power.

E.g. I have Philips Hue lights, the bridge's MAC clearly identifies it to be from Philips Lighting: https://maclookup.app/search/result?mac=00:17:88
USB-Ids.rs
What Happened with GameStop?
Thanks for sharing! It was really nice seeing each step of the process with a visualization.
My instances have stayed up but I am having problems with API calls. If your instance is down, I wonder if it's isolated to CloudSQL Proxy connections. Seems like this could be an issue at the API level.
I'm guessing you could use a .pdf reference manual for a specific language instead of googling, but it does feel like frameworks and workflows have gotten more complex overtime.
Personal attacks are not cool here regardless of how wrong another comment is or how much you disagree with someone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Let's say Elon starts that colony on Mars and you think "Ima move there and write code for a living." You might have the internet, but its 15 minutes each direction. Nothing interactive works, and while they brought copies of Wikipedia, stack overflow didnt package so easily.

Or more simply, can you write a web app without internet access?
super cool - love the miro template. Thanks!
No no no. Don’t ever ask for immunity! That’s your lawyers job.

When your lawyer asks for immunity it can’t be used against you in court. If you ask, it almost certainly will.
>> Regardless of the fact that, this contract does not, to my reading (IANAL), support their position that they have a claim over the UK-produced vaccines: (...)

See my other comment here. IANAL either, but it seems this was part of the agreement. From the pdf above:

5.4 Manufacturing sites

AstraZeneca shall use its Best Reasonable Efforts to manufacture the Vaccine at manufacturing sites located within the EU (which, for the purpose of this Section 5.4 only shall include the United Kingdom) (...)

AstraZeneca agreed to use the UK sites to produce vaccines for the EU.
> This speaks more to the author’s selfishness (more accurately childishness) rather than anger.

I think it speaks more to a lack of organizational skills. Have a single, low-impact moment of indignation on your birthday, then plan accordingly. :)
According to the best evidence, Melvin has no short position (they may even actually be long now). So the entire WSB narrative is a lie being used to pump up the stock. The subtleties matter here.
When I say "clearing house", I mean DTCC. I'm not entirely sure what specific role it plays because I honestly don't care about that level of financial detail, but I do know that it's basically the entity that everything ultimately routes through.
I've never heard of the term "transferism", it's quite a peculiar thing.

I can't not see all of the progressive taxes, heck, even percentage taxes, as manifestations of the same thing: basically, higher earners provide more money into the shared pool for everybody to use (I am ignoring all the tax loopholes used by richer folks for the sake of discussion).

Sure, I don't think compensation between jobs should differ that much, but we are basically going the roundabout way in trying to equalize them.

As such, it seems that everything (like percentage taxes vs "fixed fee") is "transferism" according to the quote you give, thus the value of the terminology is somewhat diminished.
Please do not post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong a comment is or you feel it is. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That version has the patches for this CVE. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2

I had basically the same comment on the first HN posts about it. Just because `sudo -V` doesn't say 1.9.5p2 doesn't mean you're still vulnerable... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25920839
This is great, but it doesn't address GPUs. If you built it for GPUs, from what I understand, that outcome would basically look like tensorflow, or maybe tensorflow XLA. Is that right?
Well then I'm not sure why they'd find the clearinghouse explanation so hard to believe. Robinhood has a history of poor controls. A year or so ago there was a story about a user who ended up negative a million because they failed to do a proper margin call. DTCC is probably rightfully skeptical that RH has the situation under control.
Or just give them free reign to use whatever tools they would use in an actual work environment and see what the end results are. Sure makes more sense than seeing how many leetcode problems you memorized.