skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my perspective it's more important to protect the commons from going up in flames.

Generic warnings about "bias and groupthink" have no helpful effect anyway, let alone snarky putdowns of others. Apart from adding off-topic noise, they polarize the audience into a "like and agree" tribe and a "dislike and disagree" tribe. Then the two go after each other in increasingly nasty and unthoughtful ways.

If you actually want to reach people you have to do it differently. If you (I don't mean you personally, but all of us) don't actually want to reach people, but just to vent bile, that's not what this site is for, and there are other places to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Why can't the database be updated ~instantly though? Is it just because of legacy systems that handle settlement in periodic (daily?) batches?

The legacy systems reason is a big one. There are banks with mainframes built in the 80's as part of the critical infrastructure. Another reason is that everyone doesn't communicate directly with the main clearing house. e.g. brokers clear with other brokers who then clear with the clearing house etc.

> To me, "Your cash can't be spent yet because the TSLA sale you just made hasn't settled" would seem a lot more understandable than "We're halting GME purchases".

There have been interesting solutions to disputes. e.g. I think it was NYMEX that had a rule for floor traders along the lines of "If Trader A and Trader B have a clearing issue, NEITHER of them gets to trade till it is taken care of." Given that these traders traded with each other multiple times a day coupled with they were making no money during this dispute, both parties were incentivized to come to an agreement.
BayBal, since you're an expert in Semi, I wonder if you can fill in the blanks?

EbenUpton(Raspberry Pi's CEO) , on Twitter:"We get ~20k die per wafer""

A Tsmc 40nm wafer costs about $2300.

How much do you estimate the full chip manufacturing cost for this would be ?

I wonder, because Eben Upton talked about "business model hacking" in regards to this chip, so they may want to do some interesting stuff in the mcu market.
Charge everyone with market manipulation the same way that everyone who caused the 2008 recession was charged? Sincere question, because if they decide to charge individual investors who commented on a Reddit thread with market manipulation after my generation witnessed the downfall of the economy due to sheer lies and blatant manipulation by banks, with no major charges against anyone of importance, I, at least, will be very angry.
Except Apple does provide very detailed information about the sorts of data it collects, why it collects it, and how it uses it.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/

Its bundled apps do not track users across the internet, which is the crux of Facebook’s issue.

Just because Apple’s bundled apps aren’t on the App Store and don’t have the same nutrition facts scorecard it doesn’t mean that they aren’t communicating their approach to privacy loudly and in detail elsewhere.
It could be, but I think vaporware requires a certain amount of time to have passed without it turning into something real. I don't think we've met that threshold yet.
Using your analogy, Ford/Toyota would own the roads. IANAL but this strikes me a lot like the lawsuits Microsoft was being slapped with in the 90s/2000s[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commissio...
What's up stop b) from being "goodbye api" and completely removing it?
I'd assume at some point any App could be expected to make required updates for a variety of reasons. Like any other tool: what obligations does a manufacturer have to continue creating replacement parts?
They're still short roughly 100% of float.

That's almost 23 billion dollars. With this much short interest the borrow fee must be close to 100% APY [edit: 35% APY]. There's really no good way to wait it out for the shorties. They're getting squeezed by the borrow rates, margin, and WSB.
Yea, I wonder if Robinhood can survive into next week. Clearly their DTCC collateral requirements are skyrocketing and tapping out their credit lines wasn’t enough.

50-50 chance that Robinhood files bankruptcy and WallStreetBets traders get stuck waiting months or years for their positions to settle.

That would be the ultimate irony after the tantrums they threw yesterday while Robinhood was drowning.
It's sort of a general question though. What happens if I use a C library from Pony that does or can potentially do unsafe things. I'm not sure I understand how such situations can be solved without some kind of a locking mechanism.

I mean, the answer can be 'just rewrite the underlying library in Pony'. Which would be fair enough.
I definitely see that as one of many things the article talks about. There's a lot of ideas, but I don't see a narrative in it.

> Does that interpretation ring with you?

Not really. I have no frame of reference for understanding either group.

I struggle with extreme emotions all the time, to the point where everyone considers them to be inappropriate. For the safety of everyone, I've learned to read and accept my emotions while also letting them go.

I find their friend problem particularly irritating. All anger do is prompt me to logically double check my relationship with the person. Then I would determine if my anger is either justified. If it was justified, I would have to decide if I need to act on it or not.

For most people, this is not a conscious process and they spend a lot of time rationalizing after the fact. If I'm going to act emotionally, I don't need to justify it.

My therapist loves me... I'm not sure if that's good or bad. :)
You must have never ridden public transportation. Must buses have certain windows with levers and need to be pushed out or kicked out. Trains have release levers to open doors and some have close buttons, at least the CTA does next to the red pull knob.
Members of the Political class sold after private briefings on coronavirus months before it became known to the public.
> I didn't know controllers could swap between TLC/QLC and SLC.

I wish I could control the % of SLC. Even dividing a QLC space by 16 makes it cheaper than buying a similarly sized SLC
Deadlock is one common symptom of a race condition.
nd everybody is having issues with supply, regardless of when contracts were signed. AZ has issues, Moderna has issues, Pfizer has issues. Instead of playing a blame game, I would have argely preferred to see a coordinated effort of getting the ordered doses earlier, and have deliveries coordinated with vaccination campaines. We have neither, and at least in germany I doubt we have anything like a planned vaccination campaig. None of which can be blamed on the suppliers or the EU.

And none of the urrent discussion are helpfull in solving any of these issues.
I love them. Lisp can use lists for everything, and PHP arrays ;)

Thanks to their mixed nature they're very versatile. People even make small DSLs out of them. And they're order-preserving, so they won't inject non-determinism just to smugly teach you a lesson about real hash tables.
Title is misleading as they wanted to do it without any online resources, including online documentation. Using docs is a lot different from googling. I'm not surprised at all that they couldn't do it without documentation. I would have been a bit surprised if they couldn't do it just without google/SO, though I would have blamed that more on poor documentation.
What's so important with Robinhood making it out alive?
“This story is so much bigger than me,” Mr. Gill told The Wall Street Journal in his first interview since the unboxing this week of a volatile new stock-market game. “I support these retail investors, their ability to make a statement.”
Yes, he writes "If you start at x and I start at x then your MCMC run is no better than mine." and surrounding text is making this point.
The Misfits Shaking Wall Street
tl;dr: Article has little substance and instead points reader to a podcast.

Ugh.
I’d like to see Facebook’s ‘responsibility to society’ examined first.
Tenev said they didn't have a liquidity problem. I think he lied about that, but I think they're solvent. The reserve system required by the securities people mean they have to have a cash position proportional to the total flux of trades. There were some laws passed a few years back that reduce how quickly you can turn unsettled trades into new trades. Without that they'd probably need a much larger cash position.

I suspect he was thinking of bank runs. If people think they aren't solvent, then it becomes true. If he says they have a liquidity problem (which I agree the loan they took out is a confession of that fact), then they could have a solvency problem if everyone without a margin account cashes out.
Amazing device! I love the ESP32 (and derived boards/chips), it is a breeze to develop codes with Arduino.

I'd love to hear more about the battery life of this device:

> Combined with the e-ink, M5Paper can last ages on a single charge.

"1 week" is an age for an Android, but "100 years" is probably an age for a human. ;-)
It's just a minor UI discrepancy. Take it easy man!
Without assuming naked short selling, how could the 71M of shares sold short find "locates" for their positions?

I would imagine that a short seller locates the shares, borrows them, then sells them. That is say 100 shares on loan. The other side of that trade - the buyer - now owns the shares. That buyer can lend those same shares out to another short seller - say 100 shares again. Now we have 200 shares on loan.

I don't see why someone necessarily has to lose money unless you introduce credit risk (which in the non-theoretical case you absolutely should). Wouldn't you just have to unwind each of these loans?
An Introduction to the io_uring Asynchronous I/O Framework
That restricted list has some odd ones in it. Starbucks and GM are both limited to 1 share per day. I really wonder what's going on behind the scenes.
Indeed, serious people now use gamer computer parts because it's just faster!
The rallying cry of the apocalypse
Apparently DTCC raised that to 100% for a few of the meme-stocks (GME).
Time Uniform for CSS Animation
Not only that, but it lets you launch windows executables too.
They had AMD and Starbucks on the limit of one share ownership? Huh, these companies aren’t even part of the Reddit frenzy.
In my experience there's a performance hit in filesystem-heavy work like opening and closing a lot of small files.

Still, its more than offset by the convenience of performing bash operations on Windows; remembering `du -csh ./* | sort -h` (sort directories by size) is easier than whatever Powershell would have me type.
> If someone wants to do something and free software is not available to help them achieve it, telling them to just not do it is not a good solution.

I would be better served if I quit my music addiction on proprietary YouTube. Some would be better served with a paper todo list than proprietary Google Tasks– which lost several of my todo items. Robinhood's users may have been better served not buying stocks at all. Almost all people are better served turning off proprietary ad software.

My point is– when proprietary software is so much "better", maybe we don't need to "replace" it, because while it has short-term benefits, it has negative consequences lurking beneath.

To directly address your argument, I think we need to come up business models that make free software just as profitable or more profitable than nonfree software.
Apple specifically details what data is collected under the "About iMessage and FaceTime & Privacy" link within the Messages preferences.

And their description listed under the Privacy section, "The Apple advertising platform does not track you" couldn't be more clear.

Maybe you can outline exactly how Apple is tracking you ?
if i'm browsing www.someproduct.com and they ask me for my work email address to view a white paper i usually enter marketing@someproduct.com to view such document. it usually work.

last time i used this trick to view cockroach's cloud report (https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2021-cloud-report/ -- scroll to bottom, click "Read The Report", try the trick yourself) and it worked. I hope they're annoyed as much as people are when they get spammed by them.

I kinda think this should become a standard practice.
I'm going to try it out.
Building Greater Accessibility into Facebook.com
Scientists discover how remdesivir works to inhibit coronavirus
I guess Trump was right. Who is to argue with the scientists? Fauci isn't a scientist.
For shorts and trading on margin that all makes sense, but I still don't get why that would prevent retail investors from buying regular shares with their own cash. Where does the broker assume risk in that transaction?

Edit: nrmitchi below explained how the broker is legally required to have some extra collateral on hand in between accepting and clearing the order.
From what little I've read on the matter if they're offering you the ability to trade instantly when you send them money, they are allowing you to trade on margin.

That is to say that the money you've sent them won't actually settle in their account until several days later (depending on their clearing house). Therefore they're actually taking on a loan to allow you to use their services "instantly" - this is entirely transparent to the user.
the other half of their time was spent making sure you can't disable that blue full-screen "Let's finish setting up your device" nag.
They're legitimately experiencing a liquidity crisis right now, and their CEO went on the news and lied about it to the public. I'm out of other explanations; GM moved 0.7% today, and it has trading restrictions? Are they afraid that people will mistype GME?
Before google it was exactly like that. When I was younger and junior and eager to build whatever my boss wanted, coworkers would rely on each other for figuring things out. No fear of being labeled “incompetent”, “unskilled”, or “underperforming”. It was more team oriented.

Trying to reverse-engineer some crazy DHTML javascript algorithm used by one site so we can reproduce it in ours (for their members portal).

Coworker came to me asking if I could help her deconstruct the hair ball javascript code into something meaningful. It used variable names like “a, z, t1” etc.

While you can quickly google something and get back a barrage of answers, usually on the same solution, this is software we are talking about - there isn’t a One True Way and there never will be. The more we try to make a “right way to do things” we invent a new way.

Do I google when coding, sometimes. Do I need to? No. Does it make me faster to put my thinking cap on the wall and just go with #1 SO answer? Unfortunately yes.
Elon would take care of it : Tesla Code X© - whether you are underwater,on the moon or Mars, we got you covered with Reddit, HN, Stack Overflow dumps in an easy searchable database. Add-ons for PornHub are available separately.
> bursting would be much harsher as you would only have sellers

I'm not sold on how much of a cushion that is. Shorters want it to fall as much as possible, in an ideal world all the way to zero so they don't effectively owe anything. There's no reason for them to buy until they think it's hit bottom and they also have incentives to drive the price lower with bad press and any other manipulations they can think of.
Illegally stopping all buying and only allowing sale of an asset or stock is market manipulation.
Do not use C/C++ for numerical code where accuracy is needed. These languages are not specified to conform to IEEE 754 and you are absolutely asking for trouble.
RH might well be incompetent - I dont understand why we are discussing them when their offering is inferior to basically all other brokerages. people should switch away from bad products / services
Not all short sellers entered their position at $5. Many have come in at $100 and $200, etc. They will not necessarily not face the same short squeeze, but you're right they will probably still face the same borrow rates.
Nice to see the half of RH holds GME factoid still in circulation.
Actual link is:
https://www.businessinsider.com/robinhood-restricts-gamestop...

I don't know what this newsnow thing is, but its acting suspicious.
Another cheap trick if the time column is sequential is to split the string into date and time components, cache the date part and calculate the time part just with some multiplication

Major caveat is timezone handling, but this only applies in a subset of situations
https://rochester.edu/robinhood/images/altshuler/WizardofID....

from one tedious play on words to another
> We should work on fixing the system so talking to the police is a good thing.

I don't think I will live long enough to see it, at least in my country. The French police is less dangerous than the US one, but they're still dangerous, even for those that committed no crime, and and not only for minorities. A (white) delivery driver was recently strangled to death by police officers in Paris in broad daylight, despite repeatedly telling them he could not breath. No administrative penalty was applied, though an inquiry has started due to the large popular outcry.

In a broader perspective, the worst terrorist attack in French history was in Paris in autumn... not 2015 but 1961. The French police wanted to terrify the Algerian people (which had French citizenship at that time). Police killed 150-200 unarmed people in a single night. The man in charge (M. Papon), like many other members of the police, had played an important role in the deportation of Jews during WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

There was a recent commotion when French policemen could be heard joking about this event, especially about "drowning the Algerians". Some sociological studies prove that the racist terms dating from the Algeria war are still pervasive in the French police more than 60 years after the war.
Go to a broker, search for the security you're interested in but don't have a position in. Hit sell. You will receive cash, and you will see a negative number of shares in your account.
Er, no. Using my analogy T-Mobile et al own the roads.
I try to evaluate these BigCo vs. BigCo battles individually rather than always dissing one company or being a fanboy for another. In that vein, I support Apple in its attempts to clamp down on FB’s egregious tracking and data collection. At the same time, I support Epic’s attempts to break up Apple’s stranglehold on in-app payments. On that last issue specifically, I am even sympathetic to FB’s claim against Apple.
the instant availability of funds likely was a growth decision for better on boarding UX. imagine getting a referral from a friend who said hey get in on this stock, installing the app, and having to wait 2-5 business days for ACH to clear. guessing during normal operation this is an acceptable risk for robinhood and users, obviously this isn’t gonna fly when things go wild like the last couple of weeks
There are debuggers that nicely handle real-time with "many threads, many hosts, many replicas of the same service".

If you don't mind paying, Concurrent has stuff for it: NightView, NightSim, NightTrace
https://www.youtube.com/user/ConcurrentRealTime/videos

Other approaches include whole-system emulation, digital logic analyzers, and SystemTap.
>In Denmark we have a national login system (NemID), and if you got a Jailbroken iPhone, then you will not be able to use the (required) two-factor code-generation app, and then you will not be able to buy stuff online via credit card. I had a similar problem recently, as there was no alternative authentication option if the app did not work. Basically it just showed a popup telling me I had to use the app. That is NOT okay.

That doesn't seem an Apple issue but rather the maker of the app decided to add a check against jailbroken phones.
The capacity to manufacture it in UK was developed by a UK government grant that was issued in May and a UK government order that was issued soon after. It is being produced at cost by AstraZeneca. The UK acted quickly, realising that each week of lockdown costs a similar amount to their entire vaccine expenditure. They got scientific advice and backed a range of different technologies.

Meanwhile the EU acted bureaucratically and treated this like a procurement exercise, squabbling about spending and placing orders in December. It is now scapegoating andsuing a company that is producing the vaccine at cost.

GSK has every inventive to scale up capacity and produce as many doses as possible, and has no profit motive to divert doses. It is simply abiding by its agreement with the UK to use UK funded capacity to supply the country first, whilst making best efforts to iron out kinks for European orders.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-coronavirus-vaccine-s...
This is the difference. Apple is explicitly opt-in. (In fact, a very large number of people opt-out of Apple's as soon as they get the prompt.) The non-Apple ones are completely opaque to the user.

They should all be opt-in.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Sir John Dalberg-Acton

The beauty of the internet is that it does not forget and all the proof one needs it out there if one knows where to look. Many people lack morals and ethics and seek only to better themselves using their ‘power’ and some law enforcement entities are “absolutely” no different. One may believe the law enforcement as well as government is always correct and infallible yet everyone reading this at this very moment in time likely recognizes this fallacy. Each reader can likely provide their own unique individual point of proof as evidence, see my link and provide your own. In my past business endeavors I have personally witnessed a ‘fall from power’ event around someone's pure egotistical narcissistic greed so from my personal experience I would encourage everyone to ALWAYS get it in writing and save EVERY form of communication. You NEVER know when you will need it NOR the value it will make/save you in that future.

To prove my point from my words above bringing all this together in the topic at hand you may find great interest in this yt link.

youtube.com/watch?v=Qm4LHak5WZY

Be honest, be kind, be true, be you! All others will be discovered.

Stay Healthy!
Microsoft had a dominant market share within the computing industry.

At one point it was as high as 95%. Apple is not remotely close to that.
>5) RH then "margin calls" all of the people who had money transfers pending at the time of GME purchase.

Is there any evidence of this? The article seems to only say that some people got margin called, but didn't say whether those people were using "real" margin or was using the "instant deposit" margin.
As far as I can tell the most public examples are both larger and smaller than what I feel would end up where a tech coop company would end up. Larger because examples like Mondragon corp is just much larger and much more stable than a starting coop would be. Smaller because much coop organization and literature is oriented to something like a coffee shop or restaurant.

A direction might be putting together financing as a coop to purchase an ongoing company that a single founder is maybe ready to turn over or sell - lifestyle companies ready to turn over are maybe an interesting category for this kind of transition.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loadstone says both are correct?
The mRNA vaccines are obviously the gold standard, they're what you want, if you're in a position to pick.

The traditional vaccines, like this one and the Astra Zeneca one appear to be efficient at preventing hospitalization/death. That's great - it will ease the extreme load on the hospitals, and also reduce deaths greatly.

What I'm concerned about is the long-term chronical diseases that's been reported (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...), hitting a substantial part of the infected.

We need more clarity to which degree the non-mRNA-vaccines prevent these pretty horrobile chronic diseases.