skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't a good hand in Texa's considered luck? Isn't being invited by M. Zuckerberg to help code a side project named thefacebook considered luck (whether or not you've accepted)?
Can you give an example of where doing this is useful?
> Obama has admitted that he continued the drone strikes because he couldn't afford to look soft on terrorism as a Democrat, for instance.

Citation?
I want to switch off from Robinhood which alternative are you recommending ?
My last two points are effectively useless/ fruitless, but what do you qualify as "shit" in my post?
> why didn't a well-capitalized hedge fund cash in on it already?

I would be surprised if there aren't already multiple hedge funds doing just that.
Teen Interning at NASA Discovered a New Planet Which Orbits Two Stars
Explain? I'm aware that giving a host user permission to control Docker is equivalent to root, but that's no worse than wheel/sudo in most cases, and not a "sandbox" failure. So I assume you're thinking of container escape, which I was given to believe is actually hard these days?
what the fuck is wrong with you... https://www.thehindu.com/news/ldquo219-Kashmiri-Pandits-kill...

the hindu reports only 19 pandits were killed
> A total number of 38,119 families comprising 1,42,042 Kashmiri migrants were registered with the Revenue and Relief Ministry till now.

where the fuck did you get the 6lakh figure from?

https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/right-wing-exaggerate...

this even mentions this exaggerated figure

> A total of 38,119 Kashmiri Pandit families were registered with the government, of which 24,202 migrated in January 1990.

4 persons per family is how much? 6lakh? 24202*4-600000???

are this this fucking dumb?
Look, I’m tired of these complicated explanations that let fat cats off the hook. I’m here to be angry and will reject any evidence that doesn’t fit my narrative.

It’s very clear that Robinhood colluded with Citadel and Melvin capital to help stop me participating in a massive distributed market manipulation scheme. I know this, because this is how hedge funds work; they always work together to stock it to the little guy. You would know this too if you read /r/politics.

If it were not for Robinhood, I would definitely be rich or the moon right now. I’m a sophisticated trader and definitely not a stupid money bag holder sitting at the bottom of a huge pyramid scheme.
This puts the onus on others. In my opinion the biggest contributors to luck are observation i.e. the ability to see opportunity, and willingness to execute on the opportunities you see.
This doesn’t explain why the list of restrictions on buying expanded to 50 stocks, including low volatility stocks like Starbucks which is now limited to just 1 share.
You can tell docker or docker-compose to always/on failure/unless stopped restart your containers.
> but some scepticism is definitely warranted

What’s the alternate explanation in which RH is being nefarious? Why would they want to stop buys?
vanguard or fidelity.
Sure, I agree with that. More libraries supporting types would be great. I don't know why they don't, it's not like they need to support any Python versions that don't support types... I guess most just haven't gotten around to it.
You think that one errant command line entry should subject an individual to personal liability that could run into the billions of dollars?

First, control inputs that can cause catastrophic damage require purpose built system-wide multi-layered controls to prevent from being accidentally applied.

Second, it is never the responsibility of a single individual (even the CEO) to ensure this engineering requirement is identified, scoped, budgeted, funded, fulfilled, and regularly tested.

Third, absent actual malice — specific intent to cause damage — the personal liability for a simple mistake caused by a single person should always be dramatically reduced relative to the damages, particularly when the accident was only possible due to lack of proper safety engineering, or an actual cascade of failures.

Fourth, if software developers are somehow supposed to shoulder personal civil liability for potentially billions of dollars of damages due to a single mis-typed command, the simple truth is that nobody would knowingly and willingly accept that job.
AFAIK IBM did want to buy Sun but backed out because of potential antitrust reviews.
THe last time this actually happened, during the Great Bubble of the early 2000s, developers built as fast as they could sell, to anyone who could sign a a paper. It didn't matter if anyone intended to actually live in the buildings. Whole developments were built to stand empty. And when the bubble popped, indeed, prices crashed. Also, stock markets, banks, jobs, income. Foreclosures clogged the market. Corporate real-estate trusts hoovered up the excess housing to convert to rentals. They have not been exemplary landlords in the main. Have the poor benefited in any way from any of this? No, of course not.
Forget about web development for a second.

TeaVM is primarily a JVM byte-code to JS (and WASM, and plain C code) compiler.
It is so effective at this, that not long ago I was able to bring a byte-code only proprietary JVM library to the web and it just worked. This thanks to an almost complete classpath library (based on Apache Harmony) and a macro system [1] that allows to produce POJO to JSON conversion code at compile time.

[1] http://teavm.org/docs/runtime/metaprogramming.html
The entire "Google Union" story has been exaggerated.

Everyone got so caught up in the unionization narrative that they didn't even read the details of the union in the first place. Specifically, this union isn't the kind of union with collective bargaining rights, which is what most people assume when they see the word "union".

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/04/google-...

> The Alphabet Workers Union will push for change without traditional collective bargaining rights.

This pseudo-union is more like a Discord group of 100-200 Google employees who will try to influence change together, without actually forming a traditional union.
Fractional shares are an accounting convention within the accounts of individual brokers such as Robinhood, giving multiple customers a partial claim on a unit of stock the broker holds. They're never tradeable on the actual exchange.
Not gonna happen. Anyone could start an App Store and use GH’s api’s to file issues with developers repos anyway. Microsoft owns App Center (formerly Hockey App) which allows apps to send diagnostics to devs for crashes and the like. I’d expect similar features for GH in the longer term future. But an App Store - prob not. Apple is particularly difficult to develop on and deploy to their store as it is. You can only deploy to test devices with custom policies (app center makes this easier) or jailbreak your device. There’s no way Apple will ever release their monopoly on their App Store. So you’d be looking at an android only App Store (plus windows for whatever that is worth)
I know what it looks like; I live in Portland, Oregon.

In 4 years, we went from 3rd most desirable city, to 66th. They're facing a 17% budget shortfall and are getting rid of people in the permitting department which means it will take longer to get permits for new construction. We are in desperate need of high density, cheap apartments. We have a housing crisis.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/01/20/a-key-indicator-of-rea...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/18/why-portlands-homeles...

We had over 150 days of protests, most of which turned violent at some point. Here's an article going over the first 100 days.

https://apnews.com/article/b57315d97dd2146c4a89b4636faa7b70

Gun violence has risen 166% in a single year. Back in July, at the height of the riots, the Mayor and City Council got rid of the Gun Violence Reduction Team and "defunded" the police department by $15M.

https://www.kptv.com/news/gun-violence-in-portland-continues...

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/defunding-po...

Pedestrians visiting downtown drop 80%.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/01/oregon-insight-p...

Many businesses are facing increased insurance costs, and some facing not being renewed, after the violence and destruction of property in the city. They also found out most of the damage was not covered by insurance due to "not covering civil unrest."

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/downtown-portland-bus...

The violence is still going on. Last night, as with the last several nights, they attacked the Federal ICE facility. The week previous, they attacked the Democrat Headquarters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/portland-rioters-attack-ic...

The district attorney chose not to prosecute many of the people arrested during the "peaceful" protests. Many have been arrested multiple times at multiple events now. 90% of those arrested by the police had their charges dropped.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/multnomah-county...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/7/portland-dro...

Not unlike San Francisco, we have a large poop problem on the sidewalks.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2019/06/portland-has-a-p...

And a massive drug problem. Don't worry though, the solution was to decriminalize all hard drugs across the state. Will that decrease the homelessness and crime? We will see. Something tells me it won't.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54809825
While it's true that Robinhood has its own clearing firm, Robinhood securities is a NTCC member and is perusant to the same deposit requirements as everyone else.

Just as Apex clearing had to raise capital deposits, so did Robinhood securities. That they own the firm just means they wouldn't pay the clearing fee in return for funding the clearing firm.
Because decommissioned 1U is the cheapest entry into homelabbing (check labgopher)
I don't buy the suggestion that DTCC deposit requirements left Robinhood and other brokers unable to facilitate all transactions. It is a backwards rationalization, trying to put technical reasons to a fear-driven decision.

First of all, they limited opening trades for all accounts, not just accounts buying on margin or with unsettled funds. If you have a cash account and you buy a stock, your broker has plenty of time (2days) and plenty of funds (all of them) to clear your trade.

Secondly, many brokerages only blocked options transactions. These don't clear through DTCC at all. They clear through OCC and net purchases of options actually capitalize the clearinghouse and can in some cases actually be advantageous to the broker by getting their accounts long premium (if the broker is net short premium, the OCC charges them more).

It's more likely that the brokerages didn't have enough staff to reconcile the trades, or that Robinhood's fake margin accounts (Robinhood Instant) left them in a position where they had to choose between telling people that they have to wait for funds to settle, or limiting trades.

Any brokerage that limits trading in an asset for which the exchanges and clearinghouses are functional is harming its customers by preventing their market access. Weird hand-wavey apologetics about the DTCC or OCC don't explain why the retail brokerages had to limit trading in cash accounts.
This is super neat, although for $200 I got a really great rack from Amazon that I'm super pleased with. It's really well built, and the wheels make it easy to move around which is important for a house where I don't have a ton of space and need to be able to move it to access storage: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B076VVY212/
How would you define a "liquidity issue"? I would define it as "current liabilities in excess of current assets", using the accounting definitions of each. It's not clear that Robinhood was ever in that situation.

Not to defend the RH CEO, who I thought was very poor about communicating this, but I don't think that particular sentence was a lie.
Portland, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Columbus, LA... I guess you're right, it's all in one-party cities.

But, that's like, almost all of the biggest cities?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

I'm sure there's some cities on that list that occasionally vote for the other party, but I think cities inherently become democrat-leaning because the people inside cities tend to be poor.

NYC seems to be doing alright because they had extreme hardass policies in the 90s (kicking out homeless, literally) but that probably won't last much longer.
> Anyone who has actually tried this have any comments?
I manage a Java/Kotlin WORA toolkit called Codename One that deploys to all the major platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Web, etc..). We use TeaVM for our web platform, and it has been fantastic. It was the first solution to provide support for threads in JS. (i.e. Your java programs can use synchronization, and they will work properly when deployed to the web).

The performance is very good (we tried other options to get a web port working before we found TeaVM, and none could compare).

The developer is responsive to bugs - but it has been rock solid for us. At this point the JS port is one of our most stable platforms.

The development environment is also nice to work with. I work with all of the native SDKs that we deploy to, and TeaVM is my favourite. In particular, the JS<->Java interop is smooth and easy with minimal boiler plate. On most platforms, using a native API is at least a little painful - with some boiler plate necessary. On TeaVM it has annotations to be able to "drop into" javascript without a lot of fuss.
I thought from reading the headline it was a genius idea, but I think after reflection there are at least two major barriers to this working:

1. There is no GitOS. So the target environment would be so variable and high friction that it's unclear to me how GitHub would manage clean builds and installation.

2. I'd say MOST repos aren't anywhere near ready to run. Making an automated binary/msi/apk/ pathway would almost certainly lead to broken packages for the majority of repos.
Lisp is too complicated.

For years I used to say, "I'm keeping a bank of brain cells free for learning Lisp one day." I knew it was important, I knew one day I would sit down and learn Lisp. Eventually, that day came. As it happened, I chose PG's book to start with, and (as is my wont) I began with the Table of Contents. That's as far as I got. Somehow, in the years leading up to that moment, I had acquired the necessary background information to be able to "get" Lisp just from reading that ToC. My mind was blown. Here was the perfect, the complete, the only needful language. And then I got mad. I got mad at you and me and all our peers. For wasting time. For wasting attention. For fucking around with syntax and bullshit for fwcking decades when we had Lisp. All the time and energy and money, burned like so much trash, because not Lisp.

So did I start using Lisp? No, of course not. Python pays (paid) the bills. Sick world.

- - - -

Anyway, in the meantime, I discovered a language called Joy. I'm pretty sure it's the simplest useful language. It is a point-free form that's good for Categorical Programming. It's not based on Lambda Calculus so there are no variables, no binding environments. You can do algebra on it and it's easier than Squiggol ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%E2%80%93Meertens_formalis... ).

I was messing around with Make-a-Lisp the other day but I didn't get very far because, as I say, Lisp is too complicated (not to understand, to implement. It's a PITA.) Joy is simpler. The syntax is trivial, the grammar is trivial, the interpreter is simple, it's just a beautiful elegant formal system.

To be clear, I'm not complaining about Lisp, I think Lisp is the best language (Except for Joy, which is even better, IMO.)
> Keep in mind that Robinhood also gives everyone a margin account by default.

While this is technically true, it is not a typical margin account. People cannot invest more money than they put into their Robinhood account. In order to do that, they need to switch to RH Gold.

RH Basic: I put $100 into the account, I can buy $100 worth of stock before my funds clear. (Robinhood Instant)

RH Gold: I put $100 into the account, I can buy $200 worth of stock. (Actual effective margin)

While both of these are technically margin accounts, most people associate the term "margin investing" with the latter model which requires $2000 in the account and a deliberate choice to upgrade.
This may be a perfectly good explanation, but if this is the case, why doesn't the Robinhood people release a statement explaining this instead of the puff piece the CEO did for PR.
krun?
My mother (who spent most of that year pregnant with me) certainly felt that that year was probably the worst she'd experienced.
...while I make fun of those gullible Trump supporters who believe wild conspiracy theories.
It's funny that people were angry for Robinhood not allowing buying new options while Robinhood was afraid of just the opposite: everybody cashing out.
Yes, we know capital requirements go up, but they cut off buying even for those with sufficient money in their accounts. Money that was transferred from a user bank account and now (I assume) exists in a RH-controlled account. So if RH needed the funds they didn’t they use the money users already sent them?

The Webull CEO made an offhand comment “we couldn’t use funds from our users’ accounts due to regulatory restrictions.” I haven’t found what restrictions those are (so if you know, thank you for sharing!)

I’m guessing the money in user accounts isn’t actually held as liquid cash. I bet they lend it out like a bank which means a 1000% increase in liquidity requirements meant a leveraged bank-run situation.
> they will cave to mob rule just like the rest

Would they? Microsoft is still serving ICE, despite all the "grilling".
My partner-to-be agreed to do without an engagement ring, mainly for pragmatic financial reasons: we considered what better things we could do with the money.

It's fascinating to hear how people react to that over the years, mainly along the lines of "I wish I'd been that brave". So there's definitely a social pressure to conform.
Remember that Astra Zeneca was supposed to manufacture for their contract before the EMA decision. Their first notice that they would only deliver a small part of the planned total was one week before the EMA decision. So I don't fault AstraZeneca if something went wrong at their plant, but imagine they would have told everybody in December that they have problems, there is no lack of production plants in the EU, alternatives might have been possible. This is no way to handle such a sensitive issue.
Did the EU commission act brilliantly all the way... probably not, but it's not like AstraZeneca gave them a chance to act brilliant.
Please don't. This is where I put my code right now. Don't become irrelevant garbage like SourceForge from which we'll all have to migrate anyway.
how much did Melvin pay you to say this? lmfao stay mad, GME to the moon.
The conspiracy theory is that they restricted trading in order to crash the GME price, thereby benefiting Citadel. There seems to be a "legal" way they could've done this, which is failing to be sufficiently capitalized for when the DTCC reqs change.

Hanlon's Razor and all, I fully agree, so I think this isn't the most likely explanation, but I don't think the prior for it is that low either.
Robinhood had many, many issues before. Very often at very critical times when the market moved.

And their business model is a disgrace. As many say, PFOF should be illegal.
Feel bad about this too. Blue Bottle uses compostable cups which sets an example
It’s not the site you’re looking for, but I found https://poolside.fm recently and it’s become one of those quirky corners of the internet that I have come to enjoy. I definitely miss the days of discovering weird specialty sites, and poolside gave me a bit of that new site discovery rush (also the music is great).
Interesting explanation. I wonder if hedge funds that short enormous amounts of stock include this scenario in their risk calculations. I expect that yes, they are well aware that if the price of a stocks runs away too much, these mechanisms will force brokerages to disallow buying, so that they can buy back the stock at lower prices.

However, there is one thing I still don’t understand from the article. Why were hedge funds allowed to still buy the stock? If this liquidity problem really happened as described, shouldn’t the trading be halted completely? I suspect the answer is that they don’t use a brokerage to buy and sell stocks. They probably have some kind of direct access to stock exchanges so they are not bound by the limitations set by brokers.
> We would all be paying 30% income tax.

Only during the first year. Apple does cut it down to 15% - I guess after first year.

There's this also - https://www.imore.com/apple-reducing-app-store-cut-15-vast-m...
This doesn't seem to add to the story. This doesn't explain why they had to keep selling. It only explains why continuing to sell didn't put them in financial peril.

Robinhood took actions which they knew would manipulate the market in a particular way - one which was beneficial to them and their business partners. That's why people are upset.
Brokers are not allowed to touch client money to submit the deposit. That the purchases are settled cash on the user's account makes no difference, because none of that money Robinhood could use to clear the deposit.
> Macros modify code structure at runtime so obviously that is fraught with danger.

You may have inadvertently misspoke, but macros operate at compile time, at least in the Lisps I have used.
No worries, I know more swear words you ***†!! Read, learn to read. The sources are in my post.

I just wanted to be safe & took the highest from the range posted on Wikipedia. 5,98,000 rounded to 6 Lakh.

& Real the originals posts, the other guy is saying some 50% something people migrated. I was proving it's AT MOST only 7% you mf¥¥ker.
Surely RH risk management would see that both the 99% VaR and the gap risk have jumped, and draw the credit lines before their DTCC margin dried up? What's the worst that can happen if you top up the account a little more than you need? Whatever you save on interest can't be worth the reputation damage?

There must be more to this story, as other brokers got in the same pickle. Perhaps it is some modern form of balance management that the new guys prefer, akin to just-in-time.
In development, but there is lfortran:
https://lfortran.org/
Books and ideas that shaped my growth
The usual recommendations are R720 and DL380 though? neither of which are 1U.
> If value is not a numeric type, square is not going to be happy.

That is not necessarily true. In Common Lisp, with its generic-function based object system, you can extend the operation of any function at any time to cover new types. So, for example, one could define a method for SQUARE that operates on matrices.

> What thing that violates a type check would be "perfectly fine to do"?

(define (self-apply fn) (fn fn))
I read that "cash accounts" don't really exist from the clearing perspective, because the broker can't counts cash accounts as part of its collateral.

Cash accounts (which is just a margin account with 100% collateral in cash) protect the broken against client default, but don't protect the clearinghouse from broker default. It's an opaque API wrapper, in programmer language.
That's a good point, although I don't think you could target a planet in any case. You're looking at solar systems, and properly designed a single surviving nano-machine skipping off the atmosphere of a gas giant would be sufficient to start exponential replication.
Why was redis_mlc's comment killed?

Any explanation appreciated.
They were in it, as they wouldn't have been able to deliver the value of the options at that point (that's why they needed the cash injection).

The whole stock market industry is based on fractional reserves.