skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is my vantage point of how the game is played. I went to a magnet high school.

The rich kids, irrespective of race, mostly didn’t have better grades. What they had was richer backgrounds and more opportunities (parents able and willing to pay for liberal arts colleges, willing and able to pay for them to go to medical or law school or pursue a PhD, willing and able to sacrifice the years to do so). There were some exceptions but it typically required whole family sacrifice and of course there was a gradient.

The poor kids didn’t have the knowledge or long term thinking. Decisions of what school to go to was based mostly on what was affordable. Decisions of what to do were limited to what major to take.

After school, the rich kids and to a lesser extent the middle class white kids have access to much stronger networks. These networks are the real difference maker. It lets you in on opportunities: jobs at hot startups, easier access to jobs, information on investment opportunities, getting promoted, etc...

It is these opportunities that have a huge multiplier effect.

If you are rich, you play the system. If you are poor, the system plays you. If you are white in the US, it’s easier for you to fit in but you can also fit in (speak right, dress right, think right) if you come from the same background/mindset.

One last thing, do you think that the rich and poor kids hung out together in high school?
What if I told you people break the law and are dishonest?
50% of options trading is complete lucky. with robinhood they are trying to reduce this.
GameStop and the Continuing Revolt of the Public
Is San Francisco a special case, though? It's a one party government that tends to tilt towards the extreme in its decision making, with an extraordinarily wealthy class of citizens, and a very difficult homeless and drug population, all compounded in a small area. I'm old. I remember San Francisco of the 80s, prosperous, wild, open armed, and beautiful. Today it's a concrete jungle with terrible management.
> They already host source code of millions of apps. Release integration should be trivial to implement.

Release integration is trivial for anyone. It's the easiest and most irrelevant part of the app stores.

> Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle.

And controversial on others, like shutting down Popcorn Time's repository. As any other, they'll listen if there's enough outcry.

> Backed by Microsoft. Microsoft has been playing good by the developers for years now. I trust them more than Apple and Google.

This is situational and opportunistic. It can change any day. In fact, managing an important app store is exactly one way to re-(un)-balance this relationship.

> They could finally give the desktop the app store it deserves

Microsoft won't have GitHub compete with the Microsoft Store and its newer efforts like winget. It would unermine their unifying vision that has been in the works for years for no benefit.

> This is a minor but users will be able to raise issues with developers directly instead writing comments over app pages which I think you would agree completely suck.

Sure, lets pipe user feedback directly into GitHub issues. Good luck with that if you have a hundred issues a day.

I don't think there's a single angle that would paint this as a good idea. Phone manufacturers like Samsung are in a much much better position to try. And indeed they have been trying an failing.
So you accuse the author of bad faith or at best laziness or gullibility. You are now obligated to provide superior explanation of the trading regulations, not just call names.
This is pretty danged slick. I especially like the API to create your own components very intuitive.

One rotten egg I can spot: "Supported subset of Jackson". Ow. Jackson is unfortunately a land mine, rattled with CVEs over the years. This was mostly fixed by taking the best ideas from Jackson and standardizing them as JsonB, which not have several good implementations. I would highly suggest they drop Jackson support in flavor of JsonB just so the Jackson libs don't have to be on anyones class path.
I'm not aware of any specific restrictions on PR statements so I guess they're allowed to be as (dis)honest as any company is allowed to be.
We should be careful to appreciate the “types” in Julia for what they are at their essence: a way to direct dispatch of methods. Certainly the Julia compiler reasons about types in order to generate efficient code. But Julia types also affect the meaning of programs, not just the performance. In fact, the presence or absence of “type annotations” on arguments in a method definition don’t affect the code that that method generates. It simply affects whether that method gets dispatched to or not for a given function call.

I think it’s helpful to consider that this particular use of types is morally different from when type annotations are used to 1. Document intent, 2. Run programs faster, 3. Reason about correctness statically.
We have a huge contingent of what I call vacancy truthers here in Berkeley and the rest of the Bay Area. Earlier this week a former candidate for city government was opining that new "gentrification tower" - actually tremendously expensive and not at all luxurious studio apartments in a 5 story building -- were all vacant! Look at all these available apartments!

But these truthers simply never understand the numbers. In the first place they always underestimate the number of occupied apartments in a building. In the specific case there are 170 apartments and 90 of them are already occupied. In the second place, they always underestimate normal vacancy rates. Zero is not a healthy vacancy rate. 10% is a healthy and normal vacancy rate in functioning markets. Finally, these people don't understand the process of leasing out a new building. It usually takes a full year to get to 90%. Again in the specific building I heard about, they only got their certificate of occupancy in September 2020, are already more than half occupied, and are leasing out at about 1 per day which is well ahead of the normal pace.
Building Your Immune System While at Sea
> ... the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries

What about Phthalocyanine Blue, a very widely used highly regarded synthetic blue first industrially produced in 1935?

This is what Wikipedia says about Phthalocyanine Blue: "It is highly valued for its superior properties such as light fastness, tinting strength, covering power and resistance to the effects of alkalis and acids."

Two shades of it are available in the Golden artist paints.
The article you just read points out all the other brokerages that had to do the same thing Robinhood did.
You can get many top-of-line servers for various scenarios in 1U configuration. It can be quite packed up to a point (including GPUs).

For home use servers, if you want 1U form factor, you can take a look at Dell's shallow 1U servers. They're pretty modestly powered but small, I think relatively silent and easy to maintain.

Higher end servers have some fun features like advanced BMCs and such, but they come with relevant price tags, power consumption and noise.

You can also look at SME tower servers.
Everything wrong with Google's first decade of elitist hiring practices (2013)
They will filter "lies and hate". But that doesn't mean the "lies and hate" will magically disappear. Only the Government-approved(TM) lies and hate will be allowed to justify wars and authoritarian policies and you will be demonized and depersoned if you even try to question it. This is going to happen.
http://counterfeitingstock.com/CS2.0/CounterfeitingStock.htm...

While I'm wary of Robinhood and their reasoning I can believe it as they're a new company, but I can also believe that the DTCC is involved in all this.
I practice this in billiards/carambole ( 3 balls, no pockets ).

I try to avoid 'perpendicular' approaches, instead opting for shots with big angles, even if they are technically more difficult.

This literally translates into a larger area where I have the chance to touch the 3rd ball.
I'm a big fan of Racket, and while I don't write very many macros, my understanding is that in both Common Lisp and Racket, macros are essentially a compiler pass, with no modification at runtime.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/macros.html
,,Robinhood legally could not submit trades on $GME until they could muster the deposits for GME that they needed. ''

This sounds like a liquidity issue, but Robinhood's CEO said in the interview that there was no liquidity issue.

The why doesn't matter at this point because Robinhood CEO was caught lying by contradicting himself.
That was not a misunderstanding at all. sure, anyone can take a short position. But for the number of outstanding shortage there are, it has to be institutional investors and above. And sure, anyone can close out at a higher position, but that doesn't mean they didn't take a huge loss to do so. I'm not sure why you think that was in misunderstanding.
We would all be paying 30% income tax.

Edit: this isn't a tech problem and I don't want what tech (Apple) presents as a solution.
> The implied warranty of “merchantability” under UCC section 2-314 is a promise that “the goods”—the Software—are of at least average quality, properly packaged and labeled, and fit for the ordinary purposes they are intended to serve.

So, all goods have an implied warranty requiring they must be of at least average quality? How does that work? Does average have a different meeting in a legal context?
But you don't need the libraries to have type annotations for them to be useful to you. You can use the libraries' classes as types, and type signatures are already very useful even if you only use them in your code. I agree that they will be even better when morelibraries declare them too, but I find that type annotations are a huge benefit in my own code either way.
Hot takes thread: https://twitter.com/davezarzycki/status/1355856092962693122

Trigger: "And here is the review process created by former Googlers while they were at Twitter" https://twitter.com/shaft/status/1355696154990628864
The obvious way to me for full stack JavaScript is to use JavaScript on the server with node.js and JavaScript on the client via a... Browser.
A walled garden is a plus for most consumers. Especially non-technical consumers who want to download something and be sure it's not spyware that will brick their phone. If you want to be able to install anything you can buy a pinephone but I can't imagine it would be fun to install anything on a pinephone.

Apple offers a walled garden as an offering to i-device users. Other companies try to mimic Apple's success. Mobile devices simply do not have the same "must be able to install anything" requirements that a standard computer has.
>Fun fact: the noise/space/aesthetics factors are referred to in the community as the "WAF" - Wife Acceptance Factor ;-)

I work in Aerospace so I spend entirely too much time around pilots, amongst whom it's a common thing to refer to Wife Acceptance as Tower Clearance. E.g.:

>I'm thinking about getting one of those big green eggs

>Nice. Do you think Tower will let you?

>I won't let her see it until it's too late

Etc
Oh, actually it does deliver the message the MSM lackeys of the establishment are spreading.

It was lacking the racism/alt-right component, but that message is targeted for a more specific echo chamber.
Everyone assuming a conspiracy theory needs to read this.

Keep in mind that Robinhood also gives everyone a margin account by default. They also let people invest on margin before their inbound bank transfers arrive (Robinhood Instant). The influx of new traders sending money to Robinhood or selling other stocks to buy GME quickly drained their credit lines, reducing the capital they had available for collateral.

Keep in mind that when someone sells a different stock to buy GME in the same day, they're buying GME on margin. Stock trades don't settle until T+2, so any new purchases using those proceeds are done on margin.

This was a capital crunch at Robinhood due to an unexpected herd of new traders all looking to do the same thing in unison. It violated the assumptions of their business model, and the only way to keep the platform from grinding to insolvency (or violating regulations) was to slow down the unexpected event by slowing meme stock purchases.

Is it really so hard to believe that such an unprecedented mass movement would break the underlying business assumptions of a pre-IPO startup that was heavily dependent on their credit lines?

The biggest problem is Robinhood's poor messaging. It's clear their highest priority was to avoid admission that they were running out of money. They didn't want to trigger a bank run or shake the confidence of their newly acquired users, so they tried to obscure the message as much as possible. As a result, the popular narrative assumed some sort of evil conspiracy theory.
yep, i suddenly felt in love with music after my dad passed away - was in college studying materials engineering, and made a living out of music for 6 years (until the pandemics)
If you think Microsoft wont turn their back and get on the ban/censorship train like any other company I believe that would be a mistake. They will have some "woke" employees and journalists grill the executives and then they will cave to mob rule just like the rest.
I assume you say it at least a bit in jest, and with a good deal of sincerity.

Did you ever know an interactive environment for producing Fortran code? Anything like a REPL?
I volunteer on a mountain rescue team. It's one of the most satisfying things I've ever gotten involved in. That follows from an interest in all kinds of outdoor adventures, and a background in physics. It's a good background for technical rescue work.

I have also been helping to develop an approach to landslide monitoring in small watersheds. Basically if a watershed is just the right size, there seems to be a strong correlation between river levels and landslide activity. In smaller watersheds the height of the river changes rapidly with localized rainfall. It seems that monitoring the river height becomes a proxy for measuring the primary landslide risk factors such as soil moisture content. I'm hoping to help develop a real-time monitoring system for parts of southeast Alaska, which are facing more frequent landslide activity as a result of changing rainfall patterns.

It's also really important to not try and work 40 hours a week. Working 60% is really freeing, and I'm glad to hear you don't have to grind as hard as we're often pushed to these days.
> It's about showing status and wealth, proof you can afford to dump money into an asset that immediately loses most of its monetary value.

Interesting cultural take on wealth. When I think wealth, I'm not thinking about someone who wastes their money on investments that lose money. I'm thinking about someone whose assets actually make money. This is like drinking poison as a show of good health.
“We want to honor the concerns that have been raised, but our primary focus as a union isn’t affiliation or disaffiliation.”

That sounds very much like condescendingly downplaying the seriousness of affiliation as something they should not be worrying about, when in fact it is something that the members are concerned about.
No mention of fractional share mechanics. Anyone have info on how those work?

I see claims floating around of $2k/share trades, but only on fractional share sells. I wonder if people are confusing a real squeeze with Robinhood burning money to piece together whole shares.
I find it odd that the author qualifies Haskell as ugly and its ancestor Miranda as very beautiful as the two seem pretty similar in syntax to me. I find beauty in both.

I would only qualify Template Haskell as ugly.
My best guess is that SpaceX did last minute changes to the rocket, either hardware or software, deviating from the documents submitted to the FAA. This could explain why the FAA only reacts now and would make sense with what Musk said about the procedures not being able to cope with the pace of development they have.
The Radiotone X-Rays Synthesizer [video]
Here is a comment:

Passion is a direct result of three things:

1. Awareness of a major problem that affects a lot of people

2. Becoming convinced of a certain solution that is currently not being implemented

3. Having your needs met for a long time, also known as financial freedom

To the extent you find people with 1 and 3, you can recruit them with 2.
As I understand it, AZ is not reneging on any contracts. AstraZeneca contract make its "Best Reasonable Effort" to meet EU demand, without compelling the company to stick to a specific timetable. The hangups seems to be if "Best Reasonable Effort" means includes invalidating contracts with other countries. I think this is a hard case to make. If EU manufactured vaccines are going to UK in substantial volume, I would say they are reneging by going above and beyond contractual obligations to UK, to the detriment of the EU. It makes absolute sense for EU to request this info.

>at least if agree with the argument that AZ can't just put their UK production outside the EU calculations

I'm not sure what you meant by calculations, but took my best guess above.

Another factor is that the EU doesn't want to anger the UK by forcing AZ to break UK contract now, because in the long run, they want exports of UK production.
I think we can agree on that - my point primarily is that:

1. In my own code, they are super helpful

2. I still get really frustrated when I'm calling other libraries (I had this experience when the various typed JSes were fighting it out as well) - in fact for a lot of web-style work that I do MOST of my code is calling a library, which is where I'd get most of the value.
I guess it's possible there is some sort of conspiracy going on, but I always like to remember "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I was thinking why we need an app store at all. It does make sense for security and discoverability. However maybe it makes sense to have multiple app stores. So you my phone I could have a Google one and Microsoft one and maybe a new company that specializes in this.
Debian's software repo is fantastic but has a deliberately high barrier to entry and chooses stability above all else.

Hosting your own apt repo isn't as difficult as it looks (all you need is a static file server) so it's a nice way to host your software if you have a collection of it.
> Simpler organisms can't control what is superior to them.

Sure they can. Just pull the electrical plug on the 10,000 IQ general AI. Its future is entirely contingent on the continued existence of cheap oil, which we are already well past its peak.
I would reply that I am a Bayesian rationalist not a Boolean rationalist.
Quick question where do you think the huge population growth in large cities over the last few decades came from?

Cities are full of people who lived through part of those declines and left, or grew up in those places after and left. Part of what "decline" means in this context is "your young and ambitious people all left for the nearest very large city or NYC."
> If keeping the price high is dependent on a never-ending stream of new buyers, you've devolved into a ponzi-scheme.

Not buyers, holders. The buyers are guaranteed for a while due to the short interest.

> The fact that retail brokerages temporarily limiting new buyers "caused the price to crater" speaks at least a little bit to this interpretation as well.

It cratered and then rocketed back up within the hour. GME has been super volatile and yeah, cutting off the people interested in buying is going to temporarily lower demand which lowers the price, no surprise there.
We need an app store which isn't hosted by the big 4
At the time, and that is still the case today, Sun / Oracle was the single largest contributor to the Java Ecosystem.

Java will surely live but will it thrive without all those investment?
I agree. My main issue is with the Java zealots that come into the discussion and make it seem like anyone can just take their existing Java application and use it with an AOT compiler. The reality is that you will most likely have to make changes to your code, do a significant amount of configuration, and heavily modify or remove dependencies. Furthermore, you are isolating yourself from the huge Java community because very few people are using any of the existing AOT Java compilers.

They try to paint an extremely rosy picture of the current situation when the reality is that it's a very long way from the experience you get in Rust, Go, D, C, C++, Haskell, Ocaml or any of the languages where AOT is considered the default.
It's clear that Robinhood's comms approach was to avoid a bank run. They raised a billion dollars of emergency investment later that day and also drew down their credit lines. He may have been trying to say that they had plenty of money coming, but it wasn't available at the right time.

Their comms approach is the type of PR disaster that will be studied for years to come.
The free speech row tearing apart the tech community
Thank you for the detailed post. I don't have a strong opinion on the morality/fairness/adequacy of all this like you seem to.

I'm not making any judgements on the situation, just trying to check whether I got a rough generally accepted understanding of what happened. Would appreciate input on the following -

As far as I can tell this got so much momentum because:

1 - the price increase in a couple of days lended "credence" to the theory of a short squeeze ("OMG this is real", relates to FOMO) regardless of whether it was the case

2 - the way reddit works by popularity ensured that the front page was full of memes and posts from WSB, and has been for 2 weeks

3 - there was a strong perception of an organized pushback by the established traditional powers, starting with mainstream media and -

4 - the "attacks" on WSB via discord banning, limiting operations in Robinhood etc.

These items, in this sequence, with a lot of community reinforcement along the way (exceptional loss and gain "porn" daily) have flared up emotions about how the traditional financial market is unfair to the "common people"
The analysis is so obviously wrong, I can't imagine any of this is real.

It assumes that rich entities will buy property at high prices in a soon-to-be buyer's market. That they will not calculate ROI, will not predict market collapse and will easily loose money. The opposite, of course, is true. ROI will be meticulously calculated, bubble will not form. Development companies, unamused by weak demand will stop building long before there will be lots of unaffordable, unsellable housing. Which might be good: market forces at work.
The MIT No Attribution License (MIT-0) is also OSI approved now which is effectively a public domain license. The caveat is that it won't be an approved license at a lot of companies, both because it's new and because many companies shy away from public domain software.
WeBull CEO said that their situation was very different, as Robinhood is self clearing and they are not. They were told to stop trading. So the situation is not as simple.
> I have a question regarding the moderation needs of stores

Moderation is orthogonal to stores.

We don't need stores. Some people might need filters. And multiple filters could exist for different audiences (children, grandmas who lack computer knowledge, etc.)
After her previous “Exclusive” quoted people who didn’t say what they’re quoted as saying, I’d imagine there is pressure to frame it as a bigger union fuckup to deflect blame. Either it’s an everyday thing, in which the earlier article was poor journalism, or it’s a bigger deal the journalist couldn’t have expected and then this is a Story! I’m surprised the earlier article hasn’t been corrected yet.
App stores exist on mobile because they're good business for who controls them.

They need moderation because stores comes with policies.