skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a short squeeze, not just a bubble?

I bought a single share near $400 for the memes, so I wouldn't say "nobody".

Some retail investors will likely lose, sure, but the biggest losers will be the shorts, and retail/longs will win as a whole. That's why people are mad, with Robinhood's manipulation they are setting it up so only the shorts win and almost no remaining retail.
> 1) The Kenosha shooting was self defense.

We'll see about that when he goes to trial.

> And if you arbitrarily lump things together, you can probably find an arbitrary number of victims.

Which is what you're doing. Why arbitrarily lump together BLM and looters, when it could make more sense to consider them different groups that happen to be in the same area reacting in their own ways to the same circumstances?

> 3) That's not CHAZ cooperating with authorities, but authorities cooperating with CHAZ. Just because "your people" welcomed the secession, doesn't make it any more democratic.

The point is it's not a succession if you continue to recognize the government by calling on it to reform.

> Anyway, let's end here. There really is no point. It is just always interesting how warped people's perceptions can be.

Yep.
I have. ThinkOrSwim (TDA) is amazing. But they’re operating in a different segment. Newbies would be overwhelmed in using TOS.
You've never worked with a generator before? That's a stateful function. For throwing after a file handle is closed, something like -

const read = (fileHandle) => {
return () => {
if io:isOpen(fileHandle) && io:hasNext(fileHandle) => {
return io:readNext(fileHandle)
} else if io:isOpen(fileHandle) {return undefined
} else {throw "File is closed"}
}
}(myFile)

read()
read()
io:close(myFile)
read() //throws
What a terribly dogmatic way of looking at things. Some things don't change because they work fine, like core network protocols. Other things have improved so dramatically that they're indistinguishable from magic to anyone who lived a century ago (real-time HD video conferencing, deep fakes, VR, speech assistants like Siri), but according to the author these are merely "incremental improvements".

Computing is the area that has seen the most innovation since the seventies. This is the point Peter Thiel often makes; computing has gone through a Cambrian explosion while other fields like medicine have been comparatively stagnant (cancer still isn't cured).
This comment really is at odds with a lot of current research, especially with respect to harm reduction and medical usage.

The exact opposite of your theory is pretty clearly demonstrated in the medical literature with respect to risk escalation. Cannabis use is correlated with reduction in mortality rates, and lower frequency use of hard drugs in chronic substance abusers. It facilitates a risk deescalation for hard drug users.

Literature does indicate that those abusing a substance are more likely to abuse other substances, however there is consensus that there is no gateway effect. Essentially, there's no way to determine causality in these situations, as poly-drug addiction is a complex illness. Lastly, these results were for people who's use disorder escalated to the point where they were checked into an inpatient care facility. That's not the type of quasi-medical use you describe.

See, for instance:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1080/095952399967...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15265...
Tastytrade wrote very clearly that it was Apex Clearing that forced their hand.
And costs five orders of magnitude less to do five orders of magnitude more than in the 1970s.
Google doesn't care whether Robinhood succeeds or not. It cares whether people trust the Play Store ratings (and more broadly, trust the Play Store itself). They'll do what's needed to achieve their goals, not Robinhood.
People did the same thing with Beanie Babies and lost entire life savings.

People get into credit card debt and eventual bankruptcy buying any number of luxury items. Should we require credit reports before you can buy Gucci or expensive wine?

People lose their houses in Las Vegas.

If we want to protect people, then I don't think it's fair to single out the stock market as the only place we do that.
Short squeezes are illegal, and Robinhood continuing to allow blatant short squeeze activity could be construed to be aiding and abetting it, giving it huge legal liability. Hence, the shutdown of trading.
I use this daily and love it. I used to use R just for EDA and visualization and Python for the rest but plotnine hanged that for me so I can do everything in one language. So much better than Matplotlib IMO.
Agreed. It would be nice if you could click on one and see the top X most recent mentions, or at least the links to those comments.
Reforming an entire country's tax and employment law to enable a few hundred people to work for companies too lazy to comply with the law is impractical at best. It's an edge case, and many of those laws are there to protect workers anyway.

Frequently the issue isn't so much that compliance is extraordinary difficult, it is that there is no section in the HR manual for handling it, and they don't want to deal with it. Most of the time it would take two days of labor at most, and a small percentage of the employee salary to make it kosher. In Canada it is so common that there is an entire industry that will arrange legal employment of Canadians by foreign corporations with no local presence. Most US companies don't even want to hear about how easy it is to comply.
Seriously. I've never seen anyone who is simultaneously this fluent in applied mathematics while having this level of visual sensibility as an illustrator. Truly a polymath.
"Best solution is to keep code somewhere other than github. Is sourceforge still around? "

How about just stating in README about your PR policy in big letters? And if then people get angry because they were too lazy to read, .. well you cannot and should not please everyone.

Anyway, and what bothers me with GitHub is Microsoft, even though so far I cannot really complain.
At least they have not sneakily bundled adware with OSS installers, like sourceforge did. So they really lost all reputation and trust for me and are never a alternative again. I rather go with microsoft and that says something.
It's topical to many people beyond hipsters. Huge hedge funds, the backlash against companies controlling too much of online discourse/transactions, institutional control, rigged games for retail investors, and so on.
The GME move is costing BILLIONS to hedge funds, at that scale I’m sure the costs of a million dollar fine is taken into account.
Scoop bucket for Windows Subsystem for Linux distros
https://github.com/punchplatform
January 28th, 2021: we witnessed the most corrupt financial act of our lifetime as a one-sided stock purchasing restriction was placed on MILLIONS of people across the United States in the most critical time of “financial battle”.
GitHub Actions written AMA now Live
Just found a book on raytracing from 1951!
Inside of about 3 hours, Alpaca, went from blocking sales of some stocks to allowing sales of the same stocks:

AMC - AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.

BB - BlackBerry Ltd.

EXPR - Express, Inc.

GME - GameStop Corp.

KOSS - Koss Corporation

NAKD - Naked Brand Groups Ltd

NOK - Nokia Oyj

I guess they don't want to get sued (the biggest fear of most companies)
This will be the main mechanism positively correlating BTC price with Coinbase's stock price. The correlation will be weaker than that with MARA and RIOT though.
This lawsuit will go nowhere. At best a tiny settlement after years of litigation. Congress will have a few hearings for show, so reps can get face time and claim to be "for the people". SEC will wag their finger, might even levy a few hundred thousand in fines.

Citadel and gang operate this casino. If they think they're losing, they change the rules so they aren't.

What it tells me is that they're getting increasingly desperate if they're willing to brazenly manipulate the market like this. Seems like they didn't close out their short position, like they claimed they had 2 days ago. It'd be interesting to see if the casino wins this game.
Fraud Rampant in California Unemployment Office: Audit
A high short interest is not a sign of any sort of malfeasance. There’s no upper limit of shorting, since shares can be borrowed, sold, then borrowed again.

Short interest above 100% is perfectly fine. Stocks can and do go over this imaginary line, without any fraud involved. It just means that many people disagree about the price.

Allowing speculators to build up large short positions is a good thing, because it helps prevents overpriced bubble from forming. Read the actual academic research from my original look comment. If a hedge fund is willing to take the risky and thankless job of taking a large and concentrated short position, the public should be thanking them for their contribution to market efficiency.
I am not a lawyer and I haven’t fully parsed the complaint but the class might be defined as anyone who owned GME and suffered damages or something like that, so not necessarily robinhood customers.
“ANTHONY DENIER: Well, it wasn't our choice. Our clearing firm gave us a call and said we're going to have to stop allowing new opening positions in the three names, AMC, GME, and KOSS. Highly volatile, and what happens is this is not a political decision. And unfortunately, it got political. I think, you know, I think it was once said that don't let any good crisis go to waste. And that's clearly what's happening here.

And we're seeing politicians jump on the bandwagon so they can get-- so they can start trending on Twitter. But in reality, what's going on is that there is a two-day settlement between if you buy the stock today, those brokerage firms that you bought that stock on have to fund that trade with the clearing central house called DTC for two whole days. And because of the volatility of stocks, DTC has made the cost of the collateral of the two-day holding period extremely expensive.“[1] from the CEO of Webull.

[1]- https://finance.yahoo.com/video/heres-why-robinhood-restrict...

Edit: Non amp link.
If it doesn't, does Robinhood really want to go to arbitration with all of WSB? I wonder who pays the upfront cost for the arbitrator?
The rumour is that Citadel renewed their shorts.

https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1354853920762253315?s=2...
Because it is a technology company built with traditional fiat investments.
The buyer could be anyone. But if the stock is so overpriced that no one will buy it except people forced to by margin calls, then what you are describing is a short squeeze... short squeezes are illegal.
Citadel is not a Robinhood customer like retail investors are customers; they're a) an execution partner who executes Robinhood's trades and b) a source of revenue because they actually pay Robinhood for the privilege of doing this. It's worth it to Citadel because they can use the information in the order flow to front-run the retail market.
And how sterile and boring computing culture has become... it's really a shame how overpowering the business aspect is to CS teaching and employment. We're losing something important...
I'm not sure why that's getting passed around. Citadel does not own Robinhood. They perform trades for Robinhood though.
Tested IBKR today - I was able to place a simple Limit order for GME stock which was good till close but when I refreshed to view my list of orders it shows as Cancelled.

Tried it twice, did the same thing each time.
If a SPAC is floated to do this retail investors might still have a chance
I don’t think I would visit HN if the voting system worked like this. I like hearing the popular opinion, but I also like hearing the popular contrary opinion and very often - like with your comment - the popular contrary sits right below the popular.

What I don’t like reading is “zinger” comments - stuff like “X is bad and people that think X is good are dumb”.

From what I’ve seen - these are the comments downvoted the most. I don’t dislike these comments because they cause me outrage, they just don’t make me feel the same way that well thought out comments - popular and unpopular - make me feel.
> you refuse to accept mine and others’ arguments about PEK

Not at all! I agree with you COMPLETELY. You want a zero knowledge backup product, Backblaze offers that and makes a large amount of money from it (millions of dollars annually actually), and we think you (csnover) should use that product because that's what you want. I understand the arguments, and you are COMPLETELY correct and I accept your arguments - that's why we built it and sell it, because you are correct.

One of our OTHER product offerings (in addition to the zero knowledge backup offering) is to host public websites. Public websites just can't have zero knowledge. We offer both products SEPARATELY, I've explained this over and over again, but you'll just post in two more days saying "Backblaze thinks zero knowledge is bad" (spectacularly false). Public websites (by definition) cannot be zero knowledge, do you comprehend this?

> I don’t tell intentional falsehoods

You keep saying we don't have a zero knowledge backup system (wow, spectacularly false) and say we think zero knowledge is bad (again, spectacularly false since I've stated repeatedly that zero knowledge systems are THE BEST security). Then you say you don't tell intentional falsehoods. Come on, it's obvious something is going on.

> I’m trying to kill your company with criticism

Is that it? Why do you care? Did we do something to you? I have a hard time believing you put in all this effort because you flipped a coin and decided you would try to kill Backblaze. Why us? I can't fix what I don't know about.

I look forward to your 200 future posts about how Backblaze doesn't offer zero knowledge backups.
Thanks for the reply, The-Compiler, and for your project.

I assumed my problem was related to the QT issue because it started at the same time, but I was wrong. It's just a configuration mistake. I had `session.default_name` set to no value, and because I typically exit qutebrowser with "ZZ" (`:quit --save`), the last session I created was getting overwritten by the contents of my last-viewed windows.

Wouldn't have checked if you hadn't responded. Very grateful.
I agree, I put in a market order to close the position last night and it filled at market open, so I am safely out.
Why, it's nothing more than a waffle iron with a phone attached.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701148/characters/nm0810379
There is a very simple definition for things that absolutely aren't productive. Things that produce nothing are not productive. Owning land is not productive, and should not be profitable at all. It is settled economics that the profitability of non-productive actions (often called rent-seeking) is bad.

It doesn't matter what your threshold for affordability is. Rent is increasing faster than economic growth, on average. It will continue increasing at this rate until a large part of the population literally cannot afford housing. You're never going to be able to solve the issue of people not being able to afford rent once it stops being economical to increase density, because there will be no incentive for landlords not to push up rent until people can't afford it anymore and start to move out (which is what we don't want to happen).

There are no cases where rent control literally did not affect mobility. There are many cases where there is rent control, and high mobility. The city in which I live has around 40% of renters move each year, which is more than enough mobility, and rent control. You do this by using the additional regulatory framework to make it easier for people to move.

Your first paragraph is literally meaningless. No one here said anything about zoning except you. If you want argue against someone else, then argue against someone else. The arguments I put forth and your response were completely orthogonal.

The rest is simply pure ideology. If you want to convince people or build a coalition with people that disagree with you, put your free-market absolutism aside and focus on solutions and problems.
I suspect by the end of 2021, we'll see more 50% work from home, particularly for new engineers.

I like remote working, and I've done it on and off for more than 2 decades. It suits me.

In my experience, mentoring junior devs and new hires on my projects is much harder for everyone involved when you're not in the same office. Sometimes you're lucky and get someone who'll speak up and ask questions when they get stuck, but often (especially with juniors) people will just try to figure things out on their own in order to not look bad at their job or incompetent or something. Some devs would rather spend a whole day on a problem and only bring it up in the following day's stand up than show they can't solve it alone. That is really bad for a project. I find I have to poke the quieter juniors regularly on Slack just to make sure they're OK, but then people get annoyed about being micromanaged. This is something I really want to solve...
Check out Puerto Rico.

Only jurisdiction in the entire world where an American tax subject can go and pay ZERO federal income tax.
Thanks for the detailed answer.

Many years ago, I considered adding an embedded browser (or just HTML renderer) into a game, as a simple way to build the game menu. The requirements mostly were:

- We needed the raw pixels as output. This was SDL, and the game was purely pixel based. Should also support alpha channel / transparency if possible. Also we would need to be in full control of all input events (keyboard inputs, mouse clicks), and have some easy way to handle some events like button clicks etc.

- Cross-platform (at least Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, and potentially more). Should also be easy to build, and not have much dependencies.

- It should be a small dependency (WebKit was way overkill; or maybe you can build a stripped down version?).

We gave up. Although we didn't really needed all the modern HTML features, and also no JS. I guess for a projects like yours, you have somewhat different requirements.

I wonder if it is worth it to fork an existing browser (Chromium, Firefox) for your purpose. But this is probably impossible to maintain and keep in sync with upstream.

I wonder whether there are other simple ways to hook into the browser. After all, you are in control of the OS, and you can inject some code. On MacOSX, there was actually some nice way to script things like this. But I think they restricted that very much now.

https://github.com/albertz/Pyjector
https://github.com/albertz/chromehacking/blob/master/chromeh...
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/874/src/chro...
There is a big difference between a website TOS which is mostly legal ass covering and a loan agreement with is what margin is.

If you take a loan and didn't check the interest rates, term, and basic conditions, that's on you.
Robinhood is a customer of Citadel to execute trades. Citadel lent $2.5 billion to the fund that shorted Gamestop. If that fund goes bust, Citadel won’t get its money back. It’s possible they pressure Robinhood to disallow buying Gamestop shares so the price doesn’t increase and the fund won’t suffer a fatal blow. It’s also possible Citadel simply doesn’t accept Buy orders anymore and Robinhood reacted to that by disabling the Buy button for Gamestop shares.
You seem to have upgraded the claim that "banning encryption is implicit in the resolution" for a far broader claim that I can probably summarize as "assume malice". But yet again, all I find to support the latter claim are sweeping statements without evidence.

Can you provide me with examples of EU law that you consider abuses of power and that remove human rights?

(Also, the "EU government" does not exist, so with "governmental power" you maybe mean the power of the Commission?)
suggest you use a non-amp link:

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/heres-why-robinhood-restrict...
The irreparable harm is triggering a crash. Or just an unnatural price correction. Irreparable because no one can predict how the price would have moved under non-manipulated conditions.
You beat me here! I was surprised that I didn't find "Altair" in the source article. Thanks for posting.
When I first moved to the US I was struck by how certain makes of car that were synonymous with bullet proof reliability in Europe were widely regarded as "over complicated, overpriced, unmaintainable crap" etc. in the US.

There's a difference in the culture of car ownership and maintenance for sure. In the US, people seem to expect a wide margin of over engineering. I can't count how many times I've encountered people driving cars with timing belts and interference engines, and no idea that they have to change the timing belt periodically. Or people who "upgrade" their cars with aftermarket stuff and then complain when it breaks. They expect it to just work unconditionally.

The video seems to be based on the complaint that a gasket failed (20 years old) and was hard to get to. Well, there has to be some parts on a car that are hard to get to. They can't all be easy. The E46 is a great car in my opinion, and one of the easiest cars in it's class to work on.
Why does fascism come up with you every time your comment is more than 2 sentences long? We aren't talking about fascism, we are talking about climate change. Could the two be ideologically linked for you perhaps?

Your car speeding towards a cliff analogy presupposes your argument. I'd argue that a bumpy road is coming, not a cliff. I'd like you to show me why you believe it is a cliff, and that it is coming within 9 years.

Facts I'm in doubt about: that global societal collapse is coming by 2030. You could change my mind here, I'm practically begging you to do it, all you have to do is show me.

I don't doubt that coral reefs bleach, but I do doubt that it is really that big a deal, and I have reasons why. Here is one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982020/ they are not collapsing. See what I did there? If you could do that, just once, that would be great. You might even convince me that total societal collapse will occur by 2030.

I'm in doubt that climate change will cause famines that create a 200M migration problem worldwide. If you could give me a reason to believe that, and that it will happen by the year 2030, I'd really appreciate that very much.
It's not about friendliness, it's about difference. As soon as the legal situation changes, many companies immediately get cold feet.
Are you aware of how much Phillip Exeter costs?
the "guarantee" I'm referring to comes from these two assumptions:

- the price is overvalued and will correct

- the prevailing sentiment on the wsb subreddit is "HOLD NO MATTER HOW HIGH IT GOES" (seriously, that's what they are saying)

So, sure, maybe gamestop will magically become a company as valuable as its stock implies it is. But realistically no one would bet on this.

So given that it is overvalued by everyone's definition of the term, and given that the hivemind has decided to "HOLD NO MATTER WHAT", it becomes obvious what will eventually happen - the hivemind will keep holding, since that's the meme, and memes drive stocks now - and Gamestop will correct. And that will be that.
We're in the procedural world, but a typical case we have is a variation on this theme:

A function takes some declaration id, generates one or several records based on the declaration data, commits them to the database and returns the record id's so they can be used in the UI or similar.

Either the record id's are displayed to the user directly, they're used for filtering in a grid, used for generating response files to external system, or something 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.

Could be there's an easy way to map this to pure functions, I haven't thought about it. Would be interested to know though.