skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
matt levine talks about this very thing in one of his other posts on wsj

> So if you buy stock with the purpose of pushing the price up so that other people will buy it, that’s market manipulation. If you buy stock hoping that the price will go up because other people buy it, that’s not market manipulation; that’s just normal. Those things are not so different. There is a “traditional four-part test for manipulation that has developed in case law”:

(1) That the accused had the ability to influence market prices; (2) that the accused specifically intended to create or effect a price or price trend that does not reflect legitimate forces of supply and demand; (3) that artificial prices existed; and (4) that the accused caused the artificial prices.
Sorry for plugging in. NixOS has a plan to use DisorderFS in making 100% reproducible build.

https://r13y.com/

As I understand it, currently several packages are not reproducible (like, python, pytest, gcc), so it is not priority, but when those large packages will be done, r13y will start using DisorderFS to uncover remaining reproducibility bugs.

This is too idealistic, but gives lots of pleasure about package space.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=nl&tl=en&u=htt...
b) Apple blocking tracking is only a net benefit if you value privacy enough to overweigh the drop in customers for niche businesses well served by targeted ads.
Good point. Einstein is probably the most famous example of this, doing his early work while working in a patent office.

Gene Wolfe (Wikipedia: "He was often considered to be not only one of the greatest science fiction authors, but one of the best American writers regardless of genre.") is another, he wrote most of his famous works while working a day job as an engineer and editor.
My understanding on how collateral works is wrong. This is more accurate: https://twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/1354952686165225478
They seem to have gotten a couple of comments from him, then fleshed it out with remarks from his mother and a few other online identities, plus some simple background research.

Nothing like I would expect for "an interview with...", which would normally be dominated by the subject's own words.
My friend's uncle said he got a tip that what happened is citadel buys servers from intel who called robinhood on the rico line and told them to kill amd.
Even before the pandemic, there were a lot of mishaps. You can find some of them on VasAviation youtube channel. Passengers are probably not aware of all the times their pilot calls Mayday or PanPan. LiveATC.net is also a good place to listen to air traffic comms. The blancolirio Youtube channel reviews some of the mishaps and crashes.
10-year-old San Antonio boy cashes in on GameStop stocks
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTW7sdBbZ1BXau8Cmrpv5srf38GZi1AiWWBBkv...

There you go. It's not perfect though because a lot of the links still point to live assets. But it captured the important bits.
That seems like sound logic to me. GME has been a vortex this week sucking up value from the rest of the market. Seems smart for the next few days/week at least until we learn otherwise.
Honestly I defer most of those questions to someone that understands the landscape better. It was an underserved market though and lots of people enjoy unrealistic depictions of sex so combining that with games is hardly rocket science.

The bit I find interesting is despite the porn industry in the west being big on tech like streaming and VR it’s not really there on games. Too much reliance on real people or something?

More generally I think it’s super interesting how puritanical the games market is in comparison with books or movies. Even within serious games.
He could have lost 50k, his initial investment, and considering he's young, and has a house, this would not represent ruin for him.
> Know that we don't know what kind of deals are happening behind closed doors in these two last days of manipulated activity.

As the saying goes: If you're at a poker table and you can't tell who's the fish, get up. You're the fish.
$10/mo seems a bit pricey.i would have pulled the trigger on $10/year. also no dark mode.
Is inoculate the right word in this context?
I don't see how; it creates a disincentive to take short positions which are too low (good for price discovery) and provides a reward for discovering and outing them (good for price discovery).
Sorry for the confusion, it seems that in a software monoculture, where everyone has the same iOS version, a zero-day (which in theory will almost certainly always exist in complex system) would travel more effectively than in a system with lots of OS versions.

E.g. a zero-click zero-day exploit that spreads through a zero-click iMessage message could travel the world in a few seconds.
There is a “wrathful Buddha”. As far as I understand he is angry at the state of the world and uses this anger as motivation to reduce suffering.

In the end I think most important is to keep perspective on things and don’t get stuck at anger which so often seems to be the case.
What made you decide to jump in at this point?

If I had a time machine I can imagine jumping in last week, or last month, but I feel like I've missed this bubble and it could pop any moment.
> Everyone has been suspecting for a while (especially here) that a lot of volatility in stocks like TSLA etc was due to Robinhood.

You sure about that? TSLA has a market cap of 750b. GME, now, is at 20b. Before this insanity it was a fraction of that.
Thank you! We're super excited for the future of Scena 360!
There is very little built in, but this is an advantage.

Yes GNU Parallel (that's what you're referring to I assume) can still run under rc, though I'm not sure exactly what makes you think it couldn't!
OTM calls are super expensive because the IV is through the roof (it has been over 700% most of the week).
Yeah. And when you might actually _need_ to change, it could be while doing a 3-point turn in the middle of a busyish street. You really don't want to be lingering in the middle of the road trying to coerce the AI into believing you really do want to change directions...
I think you might underestimate how deeply and inexplicably confused people can get.

I fielded a question from a friend who was furious that his broker wouldn't let him exercise a call yesterday ... a call that he was _short_. But he understood his position enough to understand exercising the call would be very profitable for him. Part of the reason that he thought he could excercise it was because there were notices about call exercise (presumably that it was still available for people who were already long the calls).

It's extremely hard to anticipate all the ways someone might become confused and adding additional material to resolve a potential confusion risks introducing other new and novel confusion. There is a constant trade-off and probably the only universal fix is the ready availability of competent human support, which doesn't exactly fit inside the normal "app" business model.

I think the goal of an actual "everyman trading platform" is essentially achieved by the sorts of interfaces offered on 401k accounts-- geared around not-more-than-daily trades of highly liquid securities (and if not outright curated, at least focusing on diverse relatively safe funds). What RH is doing might be marketed as an everyman trading platform but for many (most?) users it's just a casino.
I don't see any a-priori issues with mRNA safety - mRNA is by design an ephemeral product with no chance of self-replication. Its long term efficacy on the other hand is yet unknown and the supply chain issues are significant (it's a result of mRNA being an ephemeral cellular product being stored artificially).

Of course if you made an mRNA virus to produce some sort of toxic cellular protein then safety would be an issue - which is what the phase 1 and 2 trials are about. Phase 4 is about finding the one in a million adverse reactions.
But it does weaken the argument of "why isn't everyone bringing this up more?"

If they have a normal amount of outages, then the outages aren't brought up because that's boring.
The problem for GME is that it will crash regardless if there's stock market crash or not. When a market crash happens you're much better off holding value stocks of solid companies.

As of mr. DFV, I'm sure he'd like to close his position at the current price. But my guess is that he prefers to hold for his reputation. Since he already guaranteed more money than he would ever need, it's not a bad decision. The other option is that he believes it's going climb even more, which is possible. But don't assume people hold for any reason other than making money. Once the squeeze is over it will fall like dominoes.
Is the feature you mean called Sets?

https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/introducing-sets

Looks like it was removed from Windows preview due to feedback, they may be reworking it in the background.
> the management under Dick were behaving like cowboys

Exactly. and that's why they went under. Let's look at all possibilities :

- Maybe Dick knew that the management under him was behaving like cowboys, and tried to stop it. Then that's sad, but so far no one seem to have given any tangible proof that this was the case.

- Maybe Dick knew the that the management under him was behaving like cowboys, and did not tried to stop it. And he got what he deserved.

- Maybe Dick just did not realize that the management under him was behaving like cowboys. Then the company he was a part of got what it deserved for putting that man - who was not competent enough to realize what was going on - in a position of power.

- Maybe Dick did not realize that the management under him was behaving like cowboys. But the "company policy" prevented him from acting. Then he should have left. You don't reach such positions without playing the game.

Maybe Lehman was not the only one doing all of that. But Lehman was definitely one. As such they maybe should not have been the only one to die, but they definitely deserved what they got. I don't buy the "I was a clueless nice guy that got caught in the middle of it" story. He's not sorry he did it, he's only sorry he got caught, otherwise he would just have left sooner.
> That said, my sympathy for the EU (as an opponent of Brexit) has been diminished by their attempted bullying behaviour.

I'm a EU citizen and I'm with you on this one. Also, I now realise (meaning after Brexit has been actually put in place) that the officials in Bruxelles could have been more forthcoming towards us, the remaining EU citizens, about how UK's exit will effect us. All I was hearing were things like "those dastardly British, they'll pay for it!" while now one cannot receive a package from a relative or close friend in the UK without being flooded with customs forms to fill, to say nothing of the extra money one has to pay for the privilege.
Congrats on year 15! I'm on year 5 of working remotely.

Working in software I definitely think most companies are fine with remote individual contributors, and that it has been shown to work effectively.

If the company is setup for majority distributed communication (slack, wikis, ticket tracker, etc), then I even think tech team leads can be remote.

That seems to be the limit though unless the company is remote first or close to it. I haven't seen any remote employees in Sr. Management roles. Although Sr. Management at the company I'm working for have been working from home, I think when things are back to 'normal' the expectation is that they will be in the office again, although I'll be curious to see if they work from home one or two days a week.

YMMV
For an early career engineer I'd argue finding the highest quality coworkers is the highest priority. Even if it's in a stack that's not one's first choice. So much of this profession is rules of thumb and best practices that we learn from our colleagues.

Then for a mid-career engineer I think your statement becomes accurate.
> We need to break them up into discrete businesses.

Ok...

> Each with their own independent CEO and board-of-directors.

Can be done.

> Each pursuing a single line-of-business.

Harder. Forbid adding new lines-of-business? And what's the definition of line-of-business? Adding a small feature on a top web page could be one, right?

> Each free from any conflict of interests, and potential for collusion.

Even harder. Conflicts arise all the time, big and small. Potential is harder to squish, especially when you want to preserve potential to improve.

> Each large enough to run their own business successfully and efficiently, but small enough that they don’t have the power to bribe Congress, bully smaller competitors, collude across different market segments, and rewrite the rules of the game.

Can "small enough" be too small to be "large enough"? What would be a divider?

> Each operating independently, in a free and competitive market.

That's the goal. What's hard is to have rules to codify as laws.

Current situation when markets tend to slide into duopolies is clearly not good enough. Should we limit market share to, say, 25% starting with market of, say, 1000 average annual salaries? What - and why - can we put into law to somehow improve the situation?
> IMO the #1 opportunity for open source software to gain more mainstream acceptance is focusing on making it easier for non-technical users to use. Which is hard when most of your userbase is technical users. Microsoft deserves credit for realizing they had a usability problem, and having made major improvements to that over the years.

... I don't know. On the one hand, I applaud the sentiment. On the other hand, general computing needs of technical users are already becoming a niche too small for the market to serve. If Open Source community gets into their heads that they should optimize for non-technical users, I fear we'll have a dearth of tools...
Instead of introducing non-determinism, shouldn't it instead try to enforce determinism in any possible way? (E.g. running all processes under ptrace or by using virtualization and thereby making the OS behave in a deterministic way during a build).
Usually the equipment is rented, and returned to the owners.
I spent 4 years in Taiwan working for OSE, a semiconductor packaging company (cutting up silicon wafers, bonding wires onto them, and putting them into little plastic SD cards or RAM chips labelled "Made in Taiwan").

The pick & place machines and ovens weren't owned by OSE - they were on a 30-year lease from other companies in Japan, Germany, etc.

Software updates would void the warranty/lease conditions. One of my tasks was to write a program to measure yields for factory monitoring. This meant figuring out how to use SQL on Windows 2000, with no .NET framework or additional libraries.

My guess is that when the equipment is too old, the original owners either take them back for salvaging, or sell off the pieces as scrap. I went to many scrapyards in Kaohsiung though, and found many treasures like $10 bicycles or old consumer gadgets, but no factory-level machines.
While this is the current policy of the DoJ, to the best of my knowledge it is not explicitly stated in any law, nor is it stated in the Constitution. The President is able to take illegal acts, and it is only the power of the President to obstruct justice that prevents the President from being charged with those illegal acts.

Edit:Though I agree that impeachment need not be for crimes on the books, and is solely at the decision of the Senate. The scope of impeachment is wider than the scope of laws, and the President must be answerable to both.
Just because he's still in doesn't mean that it's actually worth $300 on the fundamentals. I could definitely see the argument that $20 was undervalued, but it's plain to see that the short-squeeze is now part of the calculation of value.

There is no way that GameStop has an actual fundamental value of $300 per share. That price is clearly inflated, and in a few weeks will decrease, probably to somewhere above $20, but not that much higher. The market will eventually correct, but $300 is an over-correction for sure.
In case you're wondering why this is circulating, Google had it on their cloud blog a couple weeks ago:

https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/just-desserts-baki...

I wrote it up around then too. Haven't tried the recipe, but the cakies look legit.
I also just don't see the incentive for companies to go against the grain and pay money to do so. I guess it could be advertised as a perk to applicants?
This could backfire, if people start taking Robinhood's trading restrictions as indicators on what to buy (on other, less restrictive platforms).
I've also seen some speculation that Citadel may have been intentionally amplifying the short squeeze caused by Redditors, and then getting a sweet deal with Melvin capital by injecting money the latter sorely needed in exchange for a share of future revenue.

I don't understand exactly how the math works out there to be able to evaluate if it was an extra good deal or not, but I find it credible that institutional investors jumping on the Reddit hype would be necessary in ordet to sustain the kind of momentum we are seeing.

Edit - or as people on Twitter put it:

any story that doesn't say how, past the retail ignition, the rocket ship was mostly intra-fast money warfare, simply isn't telling the truth

https://twitter.com/zatapatique/status/1354904995901136896?s...
>That other fruits are rotten does not weaken the assertion that this particular fruit is rotten

Services occasionally experiencing unexpected outages doesn't make them a rotten fruit. By that metric, literally every single complex online service in existence is rotten. Given how rare those outages are, and how they are all not happening at the same time across different brokerages, I wager to say it is normal with nothing nefarious going on. Unless you expect a complex online service to have zero downtime ever, which is just unrealistic.
A bearish position is to be long on puts. You don't need to write options, especially naked options which are usually the highest tier of access on every broker and require extra agreements.
There's WSL1 and WSL2. Both have areas where performance isn't great, but the areas are different for each. Most of the issues are filesystem related, especially cross Win/Linux.

Try a 'git clone' of a reasonably large remote repo to see what it's like. Into both the windows fs and the Linux one.
This is true, but if you're not in a good market I think the OP is right that having access to better companies and jobs outweighs that.

I work with a number of people who were hired, both remote and out of network, pre-COVID, onto a mostly co-located team. They have built trust and a strong network within the company, leading to promos and significantly increased comp, and through their excellent performance have built networks that will stay with them throughout their careers.
Good point. Crime is down. Sounds like policing is working. Give the boys in blue a raise. Anyone who thinks police are overpaid should apply for the job.
Looks like something common between the control plane and data plane failed or there is a run-time dependency between the two (bad!) and that dependency failed.
And yet British have James Dyson, Richard Branson and so on...

Old money vs new miney strife is an age old thing and I can assure you none of the tech barons is rubbing shoulders with former barons let alone American gentry.
The EU is fighting with Astrazenica. The UK has mostly kept out of it - only just commenting once the EU decided to change export rules and around the Northern Ireland agreement.
Presumably the crash would occur after the GME price skyrockets and shorts (and then their brokers and clearing houses) go broke trying to close the short positions.

The insurance pays up if they buy your share.

Do you have another idea how it could end?
If you are confident that certain build steps are deterministic, can you enable Dockerfile-like caching for intermediate steps? The way docker does it is take a hash of the "input" filesystem and the command, and see if there's an associated "result" filesystem, and if there is then just jump to evaluating the next command with the previous result as input.
> You'll also be making a shitton of money, even with their CoL adjustment, so, don't be a dick about it.

CoL adjustment is a pretty bad signal. If the company has time and money to pay folks to try to squeeze every penny it can from CoL it's not trying to attract the best talent.

I believe in rewarding contributors proportionally to their contributions, not some arbitrary spreadsheet HR cooked up.
Thank you for sharing, I didn't even know this existed and no one brought it up during the deplatforming debate this month.
You've summed up my experience, both with location descriptions and pros and cons, to a T.
The work done in Debian around reproducible builds is really impressive.
> Are you under the impression GME wouldn't crash right alongside the market?

Well ... yeah. Today it hasn't.
It'd be like rolling a radio dial, except your feet are the dial
I believe this is CYA (cover your ass) language. Given the recent interest in the case, he's likely saying now that he didn't intend to (or that even if he intended to, he didn't think it was within his power) as a pre-emptive defense against litigation.
I'm thinking a lot of countries are regretting joining the EU vaccination scheme considering how slow it's been.
It isn't arbitrary. Services favored by the Republican Party aren't considered socialist (because they're the ones employing the pejorative,) whereas services favored by the Democrats are.
COBOL

Seriously? Anything but floating point if you care about precision and accuracy.
For context, that's roughly comparable to the respective populations of Equatorial Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, or Estonia.
1.4 million is an exceptionally small number of people compared to the size of the oceans.

You could fit all 7+ billion humans in New Zealand if we all lived as densely as Manhattan. [1]

So 1.4 million people on the oceans is still virtually empty overall. Think about it this way. There are 3.2 million Mongolians and Mongolia is quite large -- thus, Mongolia is extremely empty. There are less than half as many seafarers as Mongolians, and they are spread over a much larger area.

That being said -- those seafarers are actually mostly just in shipping lanes -- which are actually quite crowded. So crowded such that when they intersect with whale migratory routes, the likelihood of impacts is extremely high.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3016331/think-the-world-is-crowd...
But tensorflow go brrrr
They do not have different measures of eficacy. AZ did more testing to look at symptomatic infections but that was not used in the primary efficacy calculation.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
He did so against the weakest opposition, overwhelmed with infighting and a lacklustre leader, seen in a generation, campaigning solely on the notion of "Getting Brexit Done (tm)" (barely) after 4 years of MPs arguing about it. Traditional Labour seats were lost based on Brexit fence-sitting. They will revert, especially as those constituents are slowly realising that getting Brexit done meant screwing them over. Johnson's Tories didn't so much win, it was essentially a one horse race.

*Edit: That said, speaking as a staunch remainer, as much as we need to accept that we can't have our cake and eat it, the EU must recognise the same. It's their own fault that they're in this position.
The vulnerability was announced on Tuesday. And vulnerabilities typically don’t cause unplanned outages like this.
This isn't really the place for financial advice. Matt Levine does publish a newsletter that attempts to unpack the GameStop Reddit mania situation and what it means for the retail investors piling on.
If your health requires you to work from bed, why do you live in a 4-storey house?
Sure, nothing prevents a business from making poor decisions that puts them out of business. Why is that specific to ads?