skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1, fully agreed. There are definitely people making stupid bets and losing (like they should, IMO), but the notion that markets are this black box beyond human comprehension is laughable. That's especially true when you filter out the noise and find companies with solid fundamentals.
You are continuing to comment, directly or negligently, misinformation without sources.

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> by continuing to allow trades, Robinhood was taking on major legal risks

There is no one else sharing this talking point that I can see.

I will continue to call you a shill. Please see my comment history to understand that this user is quite interested in spreading misinformation, and given their previous topics, looks to be being compensated for doing so.
The stuff they are doing to trans people - hormones to change the traits, cutting off genitals is very strange, and the people who enable that are sick.

https://i.imgur.com/p1AFgjL.png not sure if this is real, but might be.

The same sick people are giving orphan kids for adoption to pedophile parents in Germany
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-authorities-placed-children-wit...

All this stuff is used to confuse people into submission to nonsense, and after some years when the trans narrative is worn out something new will have to appear, and looks like pedophilia is a good candidate.

I also think we will have implanted cips in the future. Everybody ridicules people that say that Bill Gates wants to cip people because it's too ridiculous. But I think we are not too far away from that (maybe 20 years). Social Credit Score is doing well in China, and there is https://id2020.org/ by Microsoft and Gavi The Vaccine Alliance. When I read the website I can't not laugh. They present the idea in a nice way but if you look trough it is actually just enabling government to have maximum control over you. Also there is this phrase: But doing digital ID right means protecting civil liberties and putting control over personal data back where it belongs...in the hands of the individual.
No comments on this? This is
the most interesting description of the phenomenon I've seen yet! Really nice writing.

Is there a way to know the amount of naked shorts that were sold? Wouldn't most folks (including market makers) agree that Naked shorts are obviously evil?
Thank you, I’ve been reading about this all day but this is the first time I see this referenced.

I guess the billion dollar question is, legally: does buying stocks in anticipation of a short squeeze, and communicating the same to others, count as manipulation?
That's what you might think, but since the Volcker rule, a lot of the kind of 'liquidity provision' (aka trading) done in the banks has now been forced into funds like Citadel.

Meaning 'too big to fail' applies to hedge funds now just like investment banks. Ala LTCM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Genius_Failed
Where my mind initially goes is to have a pure function going from id -> records, and then pass those records off to a separate procedure that persists them to the database. The same records can then also be passed around to the UI or whatever else.

> Often this would get called several times for the same declaration id, usually generating new records, so it's easier to have the function return the id's rather than trying to reconstruct what it did.

Are the "new" records meaningfully different in some way, or are they just new instances in memory of what is fundamentally the same value? In the former case, there's state somewhere that's causing each one to be different (there is not a pure relationship from id -> record set). In the latter case, you don't actually need multiple instances (unless you expect them to be mutated by other code down the line and are guarding against side-effects, in which case you could defensively clone the pure function's result as needed instead of calling it multiple times).

Edit: it's possible I misunderstood, and that what's happening is you're inserting data into a database which has its own auto-incrementing IDs that it then returns to you. If so, the coupling between value creation and state/mutation exists in the database's API itself, and so is outside of your control. There's not much you can do in that case because you don't own that code.
That doesn't say short squeezes are illegal, it says manipulating the market to cause a short squeeze is illegal - but that's not what's happening. People are buying stock to profit off of a short squeeze or to hurt the short sellers. Some people believe GameStop will go up and others think it's an opportunity to profit off of a naturally occurring short squeeze and others think it's a way to hurt the hedge funds. None of that is manipulation.

By contrast preventing a million people from buying a stock at a critical moment is clearly manipulation.

"Although some short squeezes may occur naturally in the market, a scheme to manipulate the price or availability of stock in order to cause a short squeeze is illegal."
for real! some later versions of the X1C have had S3 patched in but when the X1C6 was first released this was a surprise to me. Apparently Windows is moving towards S1-only and that gets reflected in firmwares originally designed for windows computers.

For the uninitiated, without S3 closing the laptop lid will either continue to drain battery pretty damned quickly (S1) OR cause the OS to take much longer to resume completely from disk (S4 aka hibernate). As SSDs get bigger/faster/cheaper in comparison to RAM, S4 will start to seem more equivalent, but to make this sensible on an ultrabook you might want to opt for that 1+TB NVME so you can hibernate on lid-shut without eating a significant fraction of your disk on swap.
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I'm on schwab. I had a hard time executing my sell. Luckily got it around $450 haha. But only 1 share for fun. I think I had to try like 8 times for it to go through. I also had a hard ish time canceling pre-market limit orders.
Anyone using the words "plain text" for a file had better mean either ASCII or UTF-8.

And for almost all purposes these days it should be the latter.
I find it a bit ironic that the author of this post references a New York Times article on how difficult it is to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription without any mention of how difficult the New York Times makes it so cancel a subscription to their own service. If you have a New York Times subscription you can only cancel it by calling them on the phone during working hours or using their support chat which is only available during working hours (for everyone except Californians, kinda odd how they won't make that available to the whole country, huh?). Why not just have a simple cancel subscription button on your account page?
clearing is totally separate from flow
A bar is purely for entertainment though, and that is what everyone expects. A stock brokerage is a service people count on to be able to execute their trades, some people even make a living from it. So it's more like if the electric company just decided to shut off power to your factory one day, or the bank just decided not to open one day that they were supposed to be open and you were unable to withdraw money that you needed. These are things you might reasonably try to sue over if they caused you tangible damages. And even more so if the other party might have a vested interest in stopping you.

Of course you might not always win. In the case of Robinhood, since people could still close their existing positions there might not be a very strong case to be able to prove damages. But to me it's still not a crazy lawsuit to attempt based on how many people were expecting to be able to use RH to buy this stock today, and that's what the legal system is there for.
These apps include several common packages such as numpy, matplotlib, pandas, etc

Pyto - a Python 3.8 IDE fo iPhone and iPad
https://pyto.app

Carnets - standalone Jupiter notebook. Now with Python 3.9
https://twitter.com/carnets_jupyter

I haven't used Juno or Juno Connect
https://juno.sh
very interesting link, thank you. The exact language is

> Although some short squeezes may occur naturally in the market, a scheme to manipulate the price or availability of stock in order to cause a short squeeze is illegal.
This is a really interesting idea, but I'm skeptical this specific implementation will be particularly effective.

Not sure how to articulate this, but to get my attention when I'm forgetting about or ignoring something, I would need to see an unexpected change -- it's not enough for something to just change colors inside of the box, because my brain can still just filter on the concept of "box". What breaks into my brain is surprise and irregularity, and a color just doesn't trigger that. I don't even notice the fonts if I'm not looking at it. I almost feel like the 10 minute window would have been better, because then at least I wouldn't be getting used to it constantly changing color.

Not to mention that for this to be used as a sticky note, I'd need to have it as a window on top of my screen. Typically when I create a sticky note, it's because I can't do the task right now. So to have the task just on top of everything else, animating... even if it is annoying enough to get my attention, then that kind of guarantees I'm not going to get much else done in the meantime because it'll be distracting me.

The idea behind a sticky note for me is that it's a reminder. It's not meant to be omnipresent, it should just show up every once and while like a recurring alarm -- in a perfect world, it would only show up when it's actually time for me to do the task, so it doesn't risk breaking my concentration if I'm doing something else that's productive.

Good idea, and maybe it's something that'll work better for other people. But I can't see myself getting use out of it in its current form.
I don't know enough about this subject to form an opinion on the legality and morality of what's hapenning right now but if the only rub is whether the squeeze is intentional or not I recommend that you have a peek at the wallstreetbets subreddit right now. It's very much intentional and out in the open.
Yeah you keep linking that too, it says market manipulation/schemes are illegal.

It's absolutely unclear if that's the case here, and in fact based on the few extreme times short selling has been illegal I'd say this definitely does not get there.
So, my non-lawyer, worked-in-finance-software-but-not-actually-trading layman's understanding of the situation is that:

1. The problem with RobinHood's behaviour here, is that they are doing price manipulation (By only allowing sells, instead of buys.)

2. Price manipulation isn't really a crime against their customers, it's a crime against the stock market. Their customers will sue them, but probably won't get much. It's a bit hard to make a case for "You stopped me from trading, when I was planning on making a lot of money from trading, by cashing out right before a bubble popped."

3. The SEC is supposed to deal with crimes against the stock market. They may or may not sanction RobinHood, but I doubt the sanctions will be serious.

4. The SEC might look into the obvious collusion problems, where the owners of the GME shorts may have reached out to the exchanges/settlement networks, and tried to block retail traders from buying GME. This may or many not result in financial penalties. Even if sanctioned, this may be worth it for the owners of those shorts, because the alternative is bankruptcy, complete financial ruin, and the sale of their children, their grandchildren, and their great grandchildren into sixty years of bondage.

5. Your thesis is sound, but the SEC works with, and for large players in the market. Those players want a mostly-fair market. If the counterparty on the other end of these trades were not retail morons on reddit, the SEC might be a bit more heavy-handed in their enforcement. The thing is, most price rallies are not driven by retail morons on reddit... So, if your business plan consists of "Short a stock to 100%, then call up all the exchanges and settlement networks, and tell them to only allow you to buy stocks," there's going to be a lot of really wealthy counterparties to your trades, who are going to be really, really pissed, and you will probably lose all your money and go to jail.

#5 is unlikely to happen here, because the narrative around this is 'Ha, look at all the dumb retail money driving a bubble, we are just deflating it before retail traders get burnt.' And that narrative is partially true, which is why it's making the news cycles, and serious talking heads on the television repeat it with a straight face.

... Also, I would like to point out that there is nothing wrong with shorting a stock, or shorting a stock past 100%. Yes, it can trigger a short squeeze. No, I don't really think there should be rules against it, or against short squeezes. These are institutional investors, who surely must understand that short-selling a stock carries unbounded risk. If they wanted bounded risk, they should have bought puts.
This reads like GPT-3 output, like what on earth are you talking about. I don't think you understand how options market making works and for the record citadel is not a prime broker. I'm no citadel fan but the descent of this sub into lunacy conspiracy is something to behold.
It's going to pop no matter what actions RH (or anyone else takes). Who cares which needle pops it?
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In addition to use exploitation, there's a lot of shallow visual-appeal hooks but no interest in making things useful or better for accomplishing tasks/goals.
Interesting POV on simulation vs. prediction from agent-based modeling startup
There isn't a case because every user signed an arbitration agreement that prevents a class action from moving forward[1]

[1]https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/Customer%20...
What's wrong with buying a stock you like and never selling it because you like the stock itself? Etherum's NFTs are entirely built around this idea.
I mean yeah, plain html/css scales well for any site that just exists to serve a couple lines of text and images. I can't think of a single site (outside of maybe craigslist) that can get by with that functionality today.

Newspaper sites are the obvious example you'd think of... but they need comments, advertising (or login functionality), moderation tools, etc.
The people who don't have $600 to cover an emergency don't have a stockbroker at all, much less one they use to take bets they read about on the internet. There's, as an absolute measure, very few people actually in on this.
Waaaaay back when, I had a plan to turn my months long tweaking FreeBSD (6?) on my laptop into becoming a reseller of laptops with BSD pre-installed (this was back when Dell did not ship anything with linux on, and laptops still had some kind of margin).

Like most of my ideas it withered on the vine of bills and rent but every time I look at an Apple Mac there is still a twinge that says "Lenovo makes 100,000 laptops with exactly same components for huge corporate A and B, so there is room to tack on 1,000 more to keep the hardware base stable and release a run of perfectly stable machines, that just work.

Or ... frankly my dell refurbished laptop runs three flavours of linux quite fine thank you. maybe I just cannot go back to BSD ... which is a shame.
How do you think the suitability standard plays into this? I see nobody else talking about it anywhere.

https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/key-topics/suitability
What brokerages hit you with a margin call when you're UP on a stock? Margin calls are for when you fall BELOW a certain liquidity event.

His shares are for $118.93. He's up over 60%.
You don't get a margin call if your house or car is underwater. You can just keep making the payments until you own it.
I have to admit I'm missing something in this story. If the shorts do not have to sell, what's the endgame for WSB? Is it just the margin requirements will be too high, thus forcing lots of them to close their position? I see lots of references to the short squeeze happening tomorrow, so there must be something that force people to settle their position tomorrow?
> The SEC is supposed to deal with crimes against the stock market.

They identify (possible) crimes, the Justice Department deals with them.

The SEC only “deals with” civil wrongs, not crimes.
I don't know, but FYI it seems someone wrote a script for 1Password: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/tree/master/misc/...
The FBI doesn’t protect your data from breaches. On the contrary, they desperately want it and will do what it takes to get it.
The Monthly Minimum Fee is $10.00 a month for Interactive Brokers.

I can cancel my netflix and then it's about even.
I love that movie it shows them 'fixing the House' / messing them around in other ways. ratings houses refusing to downgrade MBS rates and the banks that wrote Burry's trade refused to execute until they also were on the right side.
Amsterdam does not strike me as the kind of place that needs to put up a polite fiction in front of drug usage.
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What is actually interesting to me is that it would be shocking of Robinhood didn't anticipate getting sued over this. It smells and looks like halting trading because their owners didn't like the result.

Maybe the lawsuit will fail, but they will obviously take a giant reputational hit and it is fascinating to me that they chose to do that. What is the upside? The only thing that makes sense to me is that the owners of Robinhood have too much conflict of interest with the hedge funds that were losing money (and so are acting against the best interests of Robinhood itself in favor of their funders).

Alternatively, maybe they're being honest about it and what's going on at this point has nothing to do with hedge funds and everything to do with what appears to be a scheme to pump up the price and the people that are controlling the narrative sell first.

It's unclear what hedge fund is getting it stuck to them at this point, didn't they say they covered their position already?

If that is true, then it really does start to look like what started as an interesting way to penalize hedge funds doing this has turned into a bitcoin-style bubble. Which can also be a useful point to make, but a point that is completely disconnected from the desire to screw over hedge funds.
why? seems like that would make any large scale business venture completely impossible and would cut us off from important economies of scale
Apologies, non native speaker. And I don't get your reply..

So I misspelled lose with loose. But loose in this context can also be a play of words with lose? What are de-corrections?
This may be obvious, but you need to look at their current portfolio and ask them about any of their current investments which may be potential conflicts of interest.
GNOME has an input lag issue due it being handled on the same thread as everything else. This has been fixed for GNOME 40
Robinhood has no stake in whether or not individual trader actions are legal, and the entire distinction between legal and illegal here is based on being able to determine individual trader's motives. Robinhood is acting illegally by your own argument by manipulating the price and availability of a stock.
Robinhood auto sold people's positions
I had such a hard time cancelling The Economist last time, I joined their web chat to ask them if cancelling was as easy as signing up and if it was I would subscribe. Unfortunately my place in the queue kept _incrementing_, so I ended up buying myself a gift subscription so I knew I wouldn't have to go through that again.

Didn't California pass a law saying you got to cancel as easily as you signed up?
I appreciate your citations.

What court cases prove your interpretation of the law? That's the rub.
Me too. Couldn’t make any trades, nor sell off my position as trading continued elsewhere and was dropping precipitously. I ended up selling off at $132 and lost 7k from a 10k investment just before the end of trading last night.
> You could deduce the working directory from the sequence of commands in your history file, so the working directory is implicitly contained in the history file.

I didn't think of that, but I don't think it's always possible. E.g. suppose you run "source somefile", and somefile contains a cd command.

Unfortunately I'm using bash mostly, so I'm afraid the suggestion you gave for zsh doesn't work for me.

By the way, another thing I'm interested in is how people manage their history files over multiple machines.
I can’t agree enough on this point. It wastes so much time to overexplain things every time they come up. It doesn’t matter as much until it’s senior people communicating with one other, at which point you can save countless minutes/hours by just trusting each other to be competent on the subject. This is why you should just ask questions when you don’t understand what someone is talking about— let them give you the quick version assuming equal competence, but ask when you DO need clarification. It not only saves time, but builds trust.

Sorry this turned out being less about writing and more about communication in the workplace.
A great metaphor I heard was that it's like you're playing blackjack, and have just placed a huge bet. You're cards are dealt. The pit boss walks up and says "this is a baccarat table now", but you have to keep playing with your blackjack hand.
“nihilistic rage of WSB seems to be spilling out into the world”

I think it’s the other way round - there are millions of people who feel disenfranchised, cast away, left behind. Their rage has been manifesting in events such as Brexit & the election of Trump. Currently the most visible expression is the GME saga, but the undercurrent of rage is the common factor & I expect it will be more common & more obvious over the next few years, as the elites try to pretend it’s back to business as usual.
and I guess we will see in court how enforceable that is in this case
I started a new job before covid hit. Some other devs started to annoy me. Just those silly things many people have. Like sighing every other second and never ending chit chat. I mean, I can tolerate it. But WFH is so much better. I can wear pyjamas, scratch my sack, do short power naps.

I'm in hardware, so I still have to make trips to the office. Those are way more fun. And those trips turn into social events. It's like catching up with friends.
Too bad every user signed an arbitration agreement which prevents class actions from moving forward
https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/Customer%20...
Wall street tries be subtle most of the time, but in reality this is what they do everyday. Think about it: the big companies (Morgan Stanley, GS, BofA, Ameritrade) are selling stock to retail customers, and they know for a fact what companies people are selling/buying in volume each day, so they can make trades confident that they will make money. Nobody outside this group has direct information about the sell/buy levels of each stock, so this is a rigged game for them.
And then what? Will they be fined even half of what they stand to lose? Or be fined a "record-breaking" 5 million
Robinhood has been letting inexperienced investors open huge margin positions, and that is still an issue.

They are also, however, not letting people buy a selected set of stocks the regular way even if they have a large enough balance in their accounts.

They are both valid problems, and don't necessarily contradict each other. Add to that their massive conflict of interest with Citadel's involvement in this entire thing. The fact that you can still buy Bitcoin on Robinhood kinda puts the whole "we are only looking out for you" argument to bed.