skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much does Melvin have? Margin calls are about total value vs short value. If gme was only a small percentage of their shorts at the start they could be well under the 50% capital requirements to not get a margin call. Hedge funds often don't diversify, but they still know the value in it.

Though I tend to agree with those who conclude that they wouldn't risk lieing in their public statements.
Millions of people are moving away from their ubiquitous chat app due to privacy concerns. I think Facebook is going to have a pretty hard time selling phones.
Is it? Spec https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt 2.2 states "/" is reserved and should be encoded vs "-" which is unreserved.

Thinking further: I don't want a secret to identify what it's for. That increases odds it's used when leaked accidentally.
They have property taxes in Canada too.
I know, and I get that we aren’t the average tech company.

I don’t think we are unique, though, and there are many engineers on here who work at all sorts of interesting places with non-standard workloads. I was just pointing out the reasons we can’t vertically scale.
A rough calculation assuming 35% for 5 years is they made 1.35^5, about ~4.5x. Now it's ~2.2x since they lost 53%.

The good news is you didn't get wiped out, but it's about what a "boring" S&P 500 index would have earned since 2014, and would be worse than the index if you had invested after 2014.
More likely it means there will be a few libraries that people who are into this stuff will maintain that cover most cases and they don't have to wait for the browser teams to bless their implementations. And even better if the project doesn't want to support your device you can just fork it and add it
"May" means the same as "May not"
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Sounds like RH is required to ensure the Best Price for customers, but they were fined last month by the SEC for not doing that.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321
> On Wednesday Melvin said it had exited its bet against GameStop and repositioned its portfolio.

Is this true? Louis Rossmann pointed out they would have a huge incentive to lie about this (to prompt people to sell and drive prices down).
...APY, which isn't that bad if you think this meme will blow over in a few weeks.
Are you saying that influence either isn't sold or is spelled out in explicit terms when it is? Why do pharm reps take medical residents out to expensive dinners in nice parts of town (pre-covid), are they just nice people?
I can’t upvote this enough. An heuristic will always be an heuristic, it does not matter of which kind or what you are looking at. These products are not deterministic and they give you no assurance whatsoever.
It's an interesting take. e.g. provide specs/types across module boundaries only. Gradual typing is certainly becoming popular. Meanwhile, statically typed languages are adopting type inference. Some people only write the types for the exports in their modules. The two worlds are coming closer. More statically typed languages are adding dynamic type information (like Go). More dynamically typed languages are supporting static type markup (like Python).
Indeed, I'm saying it's not the cost of if they do a bailout, it's the cost if they don't. Maybe I've overestimated the impact of a ~13bn fund evaporating and breaking a clearing house and the liquidity crunch from all their leverage and the linked derivatives. Not sure what hedge fund leverage is these days. Surely it can't be at 2008 levels. We know about Melvin, not sure about others in there.

As I interpret it, it's not clear what institutions have exposure to these at-risk funds and their leverage who are still short GME, and this is what causes liquidity problems. Not 2008 level, but could be Fed intervention level.

The admin can bail out those funds for a trivial line item by taking on the RH user shares. If they don't intervene, I'm suggesting this is the domino for a crunch.
I'm a non-white non-immigrant in the US. They're not mutually exclusive. That's why I edited my sibling comment to include a source listing that Boise is also very low on the percentage of immigrants in the population, both in the city and metro area (MSA).

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/us-...
It’s generally said that the dollar sign is in front to stop people adding extra numbers to written cheques. Since the end of the number is finished with .00 and the start is $ there is no room to add anything extra.
>> More power to the developers

Are you suggesting developers will gain power by buying in to these APIs? If you are, then let me remind you of a slippery slope known as "lock in". Never, is when a developer is empowered by lock in.
I don’t think the size where you need to horizontally scale your database is as ‘mindboggling’ly large as you make it out to be. There are a lot of engineers working at a lot of companies who are at and above that scale.
> I’m not sure off hand but I believe Australia has interchange caps too.

Australia had interchange caps since around 2006, with several subsequent changes forcing the rates even lower.

I was head of portfolio management for one of the big Aussie credit card companies at the time. Lower interchange fundamentally changed how loyalty products got funded. Annual fees for rewards programs had to be increased. The benefits were cut. High spenders were encouraged to move to products which still attracted higher interchange, etc, etc.
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While Cardano is interesting, I believe IOTA's implementation of a ledger using a directed acyclic graph is much more interesting/scalable.

In addition IOTA's focus on micro-transactions / the machine economy seems like a no brainer and something that cryptocurrencies generally neglect..
Well that may be true it still is another vector for a identity based on hardware since it's numerated.
After the 1982 curtailments, bearer instruments practically don’t exist in the US.

As for gold, gold is a commodity, and one that has industrial utility. You can use it for things, so of course, it’s not particularly controlled.
Does Turkish say “out of ten, four” rather than “four out of ten”?
Wow what? Yes, I wrote that people here tend to speak English rather than Turkish in this forum. Horrible me.
People that invest in hedge funds are looking for risk differences as much as total returns.

A fund that returns the same as the S&P but has a completely different risk profile is a very strong win.
This video has a segment on knowledge which I found very interesting https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM
I mostly disagree, but in a native implementation you probably do have strong data coupling. You can have cdc feed to another system that performs enrichment or transformation.

Cdc also enables all sorts of non obvious changes that are infra focused. It's much easier to update your version of sql server, db2, mongo, etc. If you don't have to worry about every other app and how it connects to your shared service.

You may think that you're being smooth by updating a A record or Cname when doing a migration but very often there's an app out there accessing using an ip.
>[...] are willing to pay the 30% fee [...]

that's per year. If it goes down 30% half a year from now you'll still be ahead.
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I believe this is false. The Vice story that started that rumor (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ak7y/robinhood-stops-users...) has retracted the claim.
> am I supposed to think it’s a problem that German companies are being managed by native Germans

Yes, you are supposed to think that now for some reason.
Yes but what's running now is the hard part. Fundamentally, once you have reliable consensus, the data you reach consensus on is just an extra hash in each block.

There's software engineering to merge the client software, but from a research perspective it's not a big deal at all.
Yea maybe. I don’t see a reason to switch from Steam or not use Nvidia’s streaming service in that case.
Merging the browser and OS has been attempted so often, I'd hesitate to say that Google was smarter than all of us. It's probably more that they had the most leverage and motive to be to be successful.

To me, the interesting development was that we as an industry rushed to native (ObjC) on iOS so quickly once it was available only to later return to web technologies with Electron and friends, but there were reasonable technical arguments for that at the time so it's hard for me to say that anyone was an idiot. Web technologies in the 00s were... not good.
Well, this is all very hypothetical stuff. There might be no downsides at all! Hell, if I could safely make my future children 6 inches taller and 20 IQ points smarter, I'd do it.

But many people have imagined dystopian consequences - creation of a lifelong underclass; negative side-effects that take decades to manifest; having big corporations and government gatekeeping conception; monoculture and loss of genetic diversity; what would become of us pre-editing humans; impact of state control of genetically-predicated personality traits; and so on.
Well this has been going around on the reddits today. See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI

> Says Cramer: What's important when you're in that hedgefund mode, is to not do anything remotely truthful, because the truth is so against your view, so its important to CREATE A NEW TRUTH to develop a fiction...the great thing about the market is it has absolutely nothing to do with the actual stocks
Yep. Extremely common pattern. So long as the tail risk is diversified compared to other options that is a perfectly good outcome for many asset managers.
Great insights.

I also expect that used ICE cars in developed world would be exported more (especially not well aged cars) to developing world.
Interesting, I didn't realize that. I was explaining my understanding of what's legal, but in light of this your claims seem to have merit!
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Hear hear!

I worked at a startup a handful of years ago which decided early on that mongodb was good enough. We figured we'd move to a proper database down the road. Spoilers: That never happened - the longer we used mongo, the more expensive migrating became. We never did manage to justify the migration. As far as I know the team is still stuck with it, and paying the price.

(If you're reading this and you know who you are, I'm sorry!)
I said was. The vacancy rate in San Francisco and the Bay Area hovered around 5% during the recent cycle. 10% is the average vacancy rate of reasonable housing markets, mostly in Asia.
...and here's a financial columnist (ie. an expert) writing about it:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...

>Market makers stand ready to buy or sell stock from or to customers; they try to buy for a bit less than they sell at, and pocket the spread. If you go out into the market and say “hey I’ll buy anyone’s stock for $10,” and a really smart hedge fund comes to you and sells you stock for $10, that’s probably bad. You’ve probably made a mistake. The hedge fund is selling you the stock for $10 because it knows it’s worth $8. This is called “adverse selection.”

>More subtly, if a really big mutual fund comes to you and sells you stock for $10, that also may be bad. The mutual fund is probably selling lots of stock, because it’s so big; it sells you a little, then sells a little more, then a little more, until it pushes the price down to $8. The mutual fund isn’t necessarily smart, but by virtue of being big and doing big trades, it moves the price; if you are on the other side of its trades, you get run over. This is also a kind of adverse selection: You buy at $10 and are stuck selling at $8. Part of the spread that market makers earn in public markets—the difference between their buying and selling prices—compensates them for adverse selection, the risk of being run over by a counterparty who knows something they don’t.

>Market makers, the textbook theory goes, would much rather trade with retail orders. Retail investors generally don’t know much, so if you buy stock from them you’re probably not making a mistake. And retail orders are generally small and uncorrelated: One investor buys a little, another comes along a moment later and sells a little, it’s all pretty random, and you’re not facing an avalanche of steady sell orders that push the price down. Trading with retail is so nice that market makers—wholesalers—will both give retail orders a tighter spread (pay more to buy their stock, charge less to sell stock to them) and pay their broker for the privilege of doing it.
> One of them involves them deciding they'd rather be prosecuted by the SEC for lying than use the bailout for what they said they used it for

Where does the fine for that cap, though?
But some of those other options did the same thing in this instance per the article. WeBull and ETrade both did the same thing as RH and halted buys. TDA and Schwab halted options. The problem RH faced wasn’t a problem unique to them other brokers who didn’t stop buys were just fortunate enough to either have more cash on hand and/or have fewer trades on GME.
Yes. But having a streaming subscription was what was interesting for me. If I have to buy the game I think it’s better to use a different service.
> do please define what qualifies "systemic racism"

It means whatever it needs to mean in a pinch.
I wonder what the ratio of failed startups that didn't engineer for scaling early vs those that did is. Having to rewrite parts of your application to match scaling issues seems like a great problem to have.
> Nemawashi is often cited as an example of a Japanese word which is difficult to translate effectively, because it is tied so closely to Japanese culture itself, although it is often translated as "laying the groundwork."

It's difficult to translate precisely because it's a very vague term in the first place. It means "just get ready for this project - you know what to do". Not that different from the expectations of working just about anywhere, really.
For everyone concerned about the tech being not ready, equality, etc: isn't it better to allow this experimentation in the open with proper oversight rather than attempting to ban it and in doing so drive it underground? This genie is out of the bottle, it cannot be put back. All that bans will do is simply ensure that all of those concerns are even worse: worse tech due to less funding, less accessibility except for the elite due to the whole thing being underground, less scientific review.
I am more interested to know if they closed a lot the day many brokers blocked buying shares? ... so all the buys could have gone to Melvin at a price under 200 rather than over 300.
Sure, for the use case of a device manufacturer who wants to make a niche gamepad and have it supported by many web games, it's not very helpful. But there's other use-cases here.

If you've made a specialized controller that needed something other than generic gamepad support, and a webapp, and you wanted them to talk to each other, your previous option was to lobby browser vendors to add support. Now you can build that integration yourself. I don't see how that's something to complain about
When we invented machines that did many of the jobs horses did, we did not find other jobs for those horses to do. Now for the first time we are inventing cost-effective machines that can see and move things and apply tools without close supervision, which is all that people are doing in a lot of jobs. I’m not confident we’re going to find a similar amount of useful work that only a person could do.
No, it's not. According to S3 data they've not. They're running a massive smear compaign to convince the public otherwise.
Tried the PS4 dual shock demo. Error. this.device.open is not a function. I guess this isn't as ready as they claim. Maybe it should wait for some more testing.
New attack surface just dropped. Good news for team red.
Yes, I suspect it's a function of average-age-on-HN, but certainly remember when teens would have a phone plan based on how many "free" texts were included.
OK, now I understand your point. C's static type system is inadequate to prevent C's security issues - that's kind of self-evident, when you put it that way. [Edit: More precisely, C's type system is inadequate to prevent the kinds of security errors common in C code.]

What's your stance on a stronger static type system being able to prevent them?
You're right, but you don't need to be GitHub for that. Any dev can create an app that integrates with GH, or any other source control service for that matter.
Couldn't you have used web midi to control lights? I thought it was somewhat common application for midi.
Thanks! I wasn't aware of this. Mostly it's for Apple's Time Machine which doesn't support it, but this is neat to hear about.
I think the smell test is when the media stops slandering the people causing the GME inflation. The tone of outrage comes from the hedge funds losing money
Most websites (probably 99.9% of websites) never reach that scale. And I suspect most working engineers work on products that aren't at that scale. I mean, how many websites, anywhere in the world are bigger than stackoverflow? 100?

There's interesting tech out there, but I think adding "interesting" technology to your stack without a very good reason is usually a mistake.
> If your mental model is that the stock market is a tool to allow people to trade a fixed number of concrete objects back and forth, this probably seems odd, but since that's not really a good model of how the stock market works or is intended to work, it's not clear that means much.

I'm pretty sure that's how the stock market is actually intended to work. This should be obvious if you consider things like dividends. There needs to be a fixed number of shares, each with a clear owner for that to work.

The reason it's a bit more complicated in practice, is because historically the technology wasn't there to do realtime gross settlement. So to limit the number of transactions that the central database had to handle, layers of delayed net settlement were set up instead.
> There is no legitimate sense in which PoS _is_ an instance of "rich have more power and get richer" but PoW is not.

In PoW, miners must sell their tokens to buy capital-intensive mining equipment and power to stay competitive. In PoS, stakers have no incentive to sell enough tokens to anyone who could turn around and stake them as a competitor, since that would cut into the seller's future staking rewards.

> The 1/3 bound is for safety-under-asynchrony (a form of safety for which PoW's security margin is zero). If you assume synchrony, then PoS protocols' safety approaches 50% much like PoW does.

First, consensus protocols can be trivially safe regardless of the network's behavior -- you simply require a majority vote for any proposed agreement. Second, any consensus protocol can only remain live as long as there are no more than f faults out of 3f+1 replicas. This is again irrespective of the network model -- Leslie Lamport's proofs do not make any assumptions about the network.
Just getting in here to say someone should edit the HN title to have a date. Hearing about success at WeWork now is akin to being in accounting and finance in the late 90s doling out praise for Arthur Anderson.
I’m sure the author would welcome your patches to fix it
That... seems gimmicky. Like using repurchase agreements to pretend that your balance sheet looks cleaner than it actually is.
> I'm sorry, but it is a fact of banking that you can never, ever, admit to having liquidity issues. If it triggers a bank run, then the firm is dead, and, notably, not only the employees and managers of the firm suffer, but also the clients

I'm sorry, but "we lied to you for your own good" is still lying.
It's kind of a weird play, there is some but not that much speculative short interest: about 27% of contracts sold short by dealers, the rest are sold by miners hedging exposure [1]. There's probably silver held out of the market that is available to sell into the trend too, and the CFTC has a reputation for acting faster than the SEC. I'd be surprised if we come anywhere close to $1k, but I'm not gonna fight the flow.

[1]: https://www.barchart.com/futures/commitment-of-traders/techn...
No, they're UVC (at least the one I have is).
> According to S3 data they've not.

If you have a link you'd be able to share that'd be awesome.
> Hell, just watching Cramer get upset is enough for me to realize the rich aren't happy with what's happening.

The "rich" are a large group. Much larger than the few names that have been on the news recently. There have been plenty of believable reports about funds that already made crapton of money on this attempted squeeze. Now, that everyone's eyes are on $GME, many more will make fortunes riding the stock down. Believe me, they are very happy about it. That kind of predictability on the market happens rarely, and is a gift for the funds.
IANAL but I suspect the answer is that it's not clear if you can or how you can "aggressively waive all of the author's rights to their work" at least in some jurisdictions.
Snap and apt are basically app stores, albeit ones where everything is free. They're just repositories of trusted programs that are easy install and easy to keep updated.
You can turn the reporting/data collection off. I think the windows graphics can be turned down too, removing the transparency. Disk indexing can be either on or off depending on your needs.

That said, I haven't had issues with performance on Windows 10. I have had issues with previous versions after they've been installed for a while. I think it's more likely that you have 3rd party software slowing things down.
>According to S3 data they've not.

And I suppose that's because short interest isn't going down? Aside from the fact that other short-interest sources (all unofficial, by the way) shows that short interest cooled down last week. it also ignores the fact that it's possible to close short positions by transferring to another fund. I'd imagine there's plenty of funds willing to short GME at $300.
And this is why it’s confusing to the unsophisticated investor. Why didn’t they send my money in the first place? They can call it 100% collateral if they really want, but it’s basically payment up front. Once they get the stock I asked for, they take the money.

I suspect there are a lot more complicated trading mechanisms that take advantage of that 2 day gap that make my plan unfeasible though.
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> keep in mind this is a small group of people mesh thing, not something where one device can expect to connect to unknown other people.

I'm curious why you say this. Can a network not support, say, 500 nodes? 5000?

Also, (for a smaller-group use case obviously), is voice over the network completely out of the question?
Aren’t the Basques Europe’s longest surviving indigenous group?
As a skeptic, why should I believe the regulation is effective? (I am asking in good faith, not rhetorically)

Wouldn't one Citadel entity affect the other? In 2008 didn't we learn that some companies are too big to fail (and therefore also too big to effectively regulate)?
Giving someone a nice dinner isn’t giving them a lot of money, though. You get influence by not paying people enough that they can leave, but making it seem like you might in the future.

And yes, most marketing spending is pointless, and that’s just another kind of marketing.
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Nice idea but it already looks obsolette with "PS/2 port: Mouse with Kempston mode emulation and an external keyboard."
A lot of workers have nowhere to pee, for example bus drivers. Often they avoid drinking water for this reason, allowing themselves to be chronically dehydrated.