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>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.

TBH, that, for me, is the real scandal here. We have such an antiquated system that we can't actually be confident who owns the stock at any point until you do some super-slow settlement process that takes two days[2]. And so, enshrined in law, we have this bolted-on system where you have to put up extra collateral just to be confident of something that shouldn't need said collateral.

There is no reason, with all the identities attached, and auditing procedures, and digital signing, and protocols we have today, that we shouldn't be able to know who owns the stock at any given point, and not have to rely on these super-slow resolutions.

In this case, they had to add that collateral, even when buying with money that pretty obviously was there (had been deposited years ago).

Plus, some articles are claiming[1] that even stock you do own, whose purchase long ago settled, is being lent out without your direct knowledge by the broker for a profit, which is like ... what?

[1] https://yudkowsky.medium.com/r-wallstreetbets-is-trying-some...

[2] Incidentally, people like to ridicule Bitcoin for taking an hour to settle since you have to wait an hour to get six confirmations. But that's actually fast compared to this (centralized!) system, since you have to compare to the time after which you can "take the stock/cash and run".
> The pendulum has shifted, and it's swinging towards PWA.

It has for some things, and for others native is king. Native just delivers experiences that PWA can’t (yet).

To take a simple example - let’s consider a ‘timer app’. On iPhone I ask Siri to set me a timer for 5 minutes, it sets the timer and I walk away from my phone. 15 minutes the timer pings on my watch where I can accept it. There are multiple steps in this user story that a PWA currently struggles with, including:

* (Reliable) backgrounding

* Siri integration

* Notifications

* Apple Watch support
>The fact that the media has attacked and vilified the proletariat with nothing to lose instead of those with billions and everything to lose suggests there is more to the story than a bunch of fiscally irresponsible and self proclaimed retards and autists tanking the market [6,7,8,9].

I've been trading for the better part of 40 years. There has always been a certain segment of the media that shills for the big guys daily, including people like Jim Cramer. They use this media leverage against each other and anyone that threatens their dominance... it's just WSB turn to be subjected to the wrath of the financial media.
It is. Assassin's Creed games are often set in places and time periods where they can have the assassin climb on famous landmarks and ancient architectures.

Rome was a location you could visit in at least one of the games (I want to say both Assassin's Creed 2 and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood), and you could even climb the Colosseum itself. So when I saw the video, it instantly made me think of the game.

As for the haystack reference, a common trope in Assassin's Creed games is to reveal a region you have to find a tall structure and climb to the top. Usually they let you jump off from the very top and fall into something to break your fall, usually a haystack. It's super unrealistic but saves you the effort of climbing back down again.

You can see the Colosseum climbing in action in this video, although the time period in the game it's a ruin already, including the fall into a haystack: https://youtu.be/gkHTYydSPks
What exactly is wrong about that sentence that it made you laugh? Or is this a result of the Wikipedia conspiracy myth?
No one ever accused Robinhood of being competent.

Although I think you're underestimating the difficulty of pulling billions of dollars out of nowhere. Robinhood was forced to sell equity to meet the deposit requirements - that's a harsh ask.
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>What about UK? Why don't they come forward and say they also have a block for vaccine exports?

I am not following the argument. Are the UK government under any obligation to disclose that to EU?

>> It's binary: AZ can't, or won't, move stock from UK.

Let just say AZ demand a price increase for moving stock from UK, then what? When the contract for that price was signed, even though it did not explicitly state from which plant, the price are considered as a factor for production location. Hence the best effort. Morale issues aside this is no different to literally all supply chain in other industry.
Right now there's no such feature in place, but I imagine keeping the buffer from before denoising and mixing it into the denoised result (plus the multiplication) will do what you're describing? It may increase volume, I might need to reduce the volume of the denoised audio first. I'll play around with it, and am open to hearing what you've got to say about it.
Yes, that’s what I meant. For some reason my ICE’s brakes were so rusty after 5 years that they had to be replaced.

VW uses drum brakes for that reason now, at least for the ID3. Those don’t really rust AFAIK.
It's slowly getting better, but a lot of it can be real bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTKEx0N0DCY
Currently, lisp is not a single language, but a family of similiar languages that originate from the LISP.

The languages' inherent flexibility gives you too much freedom of expression to handle, especially for those who come with experience of strict languages.
The minimalism of syntax and the ability to create in-effect a (sub-)language of your own also adds to that expressivity.

But we need guards to protect us from the freedom of too much expressivity, see for example defmacro vs. syntax-rules/syntax-case etc.

From my perspective, I want a language which gives me freedom when I want that, protection (''guardrails'') when I want that too, both if possible at the same time.

On invariants, what dependent typing and property testing are giving us now? How is the room of improvement on that matter?
> As a so-called minority union, it isn’t recognized by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and can’t require Alphabet or its subsidiaries like Google to negotiate a contract for its members. Its power comes in part from uniting Alphabet workers and swelling its membership base to mount public pressure campaigns.

So what makes this different from say forming a Facebook group for like minded employees? Or how is it different from internal affinity groups, most of which are heavily political in US tech companies?
Oh no, poor literary agent caught posting on Gab, a far right white supremacist website, and losing her job. Thoughts and prayers.

More seriously if you think that's a problem IMO the solution is to ask for better employee protection laws so that people can't be fired at will. This is not a free speech problem IMO, it's a worker right issue.

And if it turns out that her contract did mention that she shouldn't publicly engage in something that would damage the company's image or something of the sort, well, that's just the way it works really.
I like my company Thousand Eyes blog a lot on IT, cloud, and the internet. Most of the articles are written by a mix of product management, product marketing, and engineering teams. Check it out whenever you get a chance:

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> it takes days to settle those transactions

The question is: why? There's absolutely no technical (e.g. nightly batch processing) or process (e.g. physical cross-country mailiing of paper stocks) reason any more. It's 2021 not 1960, technology should have evolved over the last decades. To wait days for money and stock transfers is ridiculous
Older protocols such as HTTP are grandfathered in; if the web was invented last week, browsers probably would be blocked periodically.
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I'm trying to compile this virus but it says it didn't find any makefile? What am I missing?
With all due respect, you are just trying really hard to be pedantic. Your convoluted, contorted, corner-case example does not invalidate anything that was said here. You even had to resort to the word "rounded" to make it work. Without "rounded", most would be below mean.
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> Antitrust efforts against Standard Oil did not prevent the downstream effects of the business model, i.e., ecological disaster.

Even worse, it was seminal liberal makework. The owners of Standard Oil were saw their holdings double in value as it was broken up, and were now the owners of the resultant entities. It was money and effort burned for no purpose other than to support the careers of the kind of "progressives" that don't have a class-based critique or worker orientation. It was a pseudo-technocratic solution that didn't even really have a clear theory about how it would solve the problems that the size and market control of Standard Oil had raised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Tarbell

When it comes to surveillance, I'm not sure that anything short of a Butlerian Jihad can stop this train. Limiting government surveillance powers just allows them to farm out surveillance to favored companies. Breaking up those favored companies just makes trying to stop the aggregation a game of whack-a-mole that no one would have the authority or interest to play.

We need to create enforceable rights based on values that are new. But the people who profit from surveillance will be powerful enough, if they aren't already, to destroy or silence any voice that endangers their business model.
I'm guessing they don't like the stock?
You say it's bizarre, but apparently the regulations are written so that customer funds can't be used until the trade settles.

Going by what you think is reasonable isn't going to answer the legal question.
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Unfortunately, there is tooling, and a subculture that builds tooling, that uses configuration files in the same directory as the source code.

Say you're deploying with cool-deploy-tool. cool-deploy-tool finds the password for the server by looking for a file called "Coolfile" in the project root. You have to create that file to use it. Now you have a footgun lying around.

I associate this stuff with the Ruby community, but it's spread far and wide, notably to the Node and Go communities, which i think have large Ruby emigrant populations.

As a prototypal example, consider dotenv, which began in Ruby:

https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv

And has travelled to Node:

https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv

And Go:

https://github.com/joho/godotenv
For that price, you can get a custom version on Reverb covered in your choice of tolex.
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Margin is a red herring. Robinhood cannot use client money to meet its clearing fund deposit requirements. Whether the buys and sells came from margin or not doesn't matter.
The reason for this is the fact that large businesses profit from being the middle-man here. Moving towards automated settlement on a blockchain reduces cost and increases efficiency,it's a win-win for everybody except the middle-man
> Aside: if you ship software and run any sort of stripping/minification on it and want to claim it is for the size benefits exclusively, you are honor bound to provide the information you removed, whether that is DWARF or a source map. No exceptions.

Is that entirely fair?

Let's say you strip symbols to decrease size, but also in general don't consider inspectability to be particularly important (which isn't to say you're against it, merely neutral). You might decide that providing a source map simply isn't worth the effort, even if it's minimal.
> Just realized that DTCC changing the deposit requirements seems completely non-transparent and arbitrary

There’s a difference between something being so esoteric that most people don’t know about it, and being non-transparent. As the article points out, the deposit requirements follow a known formula, it’s just one that most of us had never heard of before all this.
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In that case the stock price would simply be assets-liabilities.
If they're not willing to be honest with their customers, I'm not willing to sympathize with them when their lies result in conspiracy theories. They made their bed.
Of course they'd do that when it comes time to actually fund the trade. That's not what Robinhood's limitation was and not the subject of this article. The funds in question required to be posted to DTCC are a broker responsibility to serve as mutual insurance wherein the risk of a broker failing are shared among the brokers in some proportion to the volume and risk that they represent. These must be posted using broker funds (obviously, you can't protect customers from things outside their control by pledging customer money to be used in the event of a default).
> 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.

This was my impression too, especially from RH CEO’s interview on Chris Cuomo. He tried to communicate that they were effectively getting margin called, but without explicitly saying it, vaguely referring to SEC and exchange rules and regulations, hoping the audience would read between the lines. But not giving a straight answer just fed the conspiracy theories.

In hindsight, considering RH raised $1B additional capital a day or three later [1], it would have been better for him to have just been explicit about it.

“Yeah Chris, here’s the problem. As you know RH enables no-fee trading and instant trading the moment you join. We maintain margin accounts with our exchange partners to risk manage this.

However, the massive rapid influx of new users combined with the unplanned-for three-sigma increase in volatility in these stocks caused us to hit our margin limits with the exchanges. We’re getting margin called at unanticipated levels and just don’t have the capital buffer.

We’re raising additional capital as quickly as we can to fund our margin accounts and re-enable trading, but until that’s accomplished we have no choice but to disable buys on these high-vol stocks.

We disabled buys and not sells for two reasons: 1) only buys require margin in our system, and 2) if you think traders are angry when you disable buys, they get even angrier when you disable sells and lock them into a position that could suddenly go against them.

To our customers, we’re terribly sorry about this and are working overtime to solve the problem. We’re raising additional capital to increase our margins with our exchanges, and are updating our risk models to better accommodate such black swan events going forward. We’re listening to complaints and suggestions and evaluating additional ideas we hear to improve our service.”

Something like that I’m sure WSB would have bought, and eventually forgiven them for.

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954539
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I guess because then you need a registry to keep those strings unique?
Awesome well I'll try and work upon it. Feel free to post whenever you see something that might suit. But thanks for the feedback!
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I think--like most outsiders trying to have a technical discussion--you can peel back the onion only so many layers.

A true insider would alternatively laugh or cringe at our crude analogies and simplifications of what's really happening inside the factory.
This idea would take it to another level, because it would also mean that the "big tech is in control of my source code and release process".
At the moment, only human posts, but will look into this. Thanks!
I think it's a mix of both. And you could add Animal Farm to the mix as well.

Animal Farm is a book that is often forgotten and I think it's a must read. After you read it you can see things in politicians that you wouldn't before.
Dr Corn Flower (Blue).

That was our nickname for our worst customer. Some wannabe nerd promoted to CIO, probably to keep him away from patients and the other staff.

His most substantial contribution was divining the precise shade of the highlight color used by our theme.

Our "portal" had labs, scripts, meds, notes, referrals, and on and on. Stuff like lab reports were industry standard (we had domain experts on our team). Dr Corn Flower had opinions on all of it. Not detail too small to argue about. Every pixel mattered.

We eventually got to the point where two team member's full time job was babysitting Dr Corn Flower, while others were permitted to do real work (skunkworks style).

And that was just one hospital. We had dozens of other customers, and 100s of partners.
Python is very well suited for being mapped to a block coding environment because it has such a large number of helper functions which enumerate all the things each module/object/function can do.

I have considered doing a similar project for javascript, but I had assumed it would require an entire new codebase for each programming language given how different every language is under the hood.
i believe the bmw i3 rex does exactly this
Presumably, decreasing the file size of an executable has at least some minimal impact on memory usage while running, no?
I suspect the problem is the types begin to get fairly heavy weight. It can also start requiring you to make many atomic operations so that your invariant holds across larger chunks of code. And, that often isn't easy or really necessary.
The amount of dues given is entirely optional. 1% is a recommended amount and not enforced.
Could you explain how it multiplies your risk in the case of RH?
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There is also another Enso on github but it seems to be a visual programming language.
Yeah, I'm not sure why this is such a problem. At work we tried out using detect-secrets[1] for a while to make sure we didn't accidentally commit anything important.

It was a huge pain, it picked up nothing but false positives.

After a few months we decided that our pre-existing practices: have secrets passed to the app in environment variables which are set during deployment, and use fake secrets for test and dev, solved the problem in a much less painful way.

Is it so hard to keep real secrets separate from the source code?

[1] https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets
Boba as we know it originated in Taiwan, not China.
I feel like rather than glibc, "selinux permission denied", would fit better these days.

..but on second thought, hat's actually selinux doing its job if the executable is a real virus.
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Wow, aren’t you scared of accidents when refilling the water?

I personally never had a water/coffee accident, but Louis Rossmann’s YouTube channel is full of laptop board repair videos due to water damage.
It's a Linux fs-devel joke about people wanting filesystems to do everything they want ... and oh-ponies (so someone implemented it as an April fools joke).

Here's the background:

https://sandeen.net/wordpress/uncategorized/coming-clean-on-...
It does appeal to the "oh they're still a startup" mentality, perfect for the HN crowd
Hardware is not so easily audited
No, they shouldn't. Centralized App Stores isn't the way to go, look at recent examples of (temporarily) removed Apps like Matrix from Play Store. A decentralized App Store (e.g. based on IPFS) would be great.
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> There were literally like a dozen or so firms that halted buying

My understanding is these firms halted buying on margin. Did anyone else halt for non-margin accounts?
If only a public shared ledger was available for these institutions to settle trades on.

People love knocking Bitcoin here, but this is why the technology exists. No reason to continue letting these institutions run smoke-and-mirrors with everyone's money
It’s not trivial to use CLI tools to search in a clone only in comments. I could use that feature.
Colin's cofounder here :) Excited to hear from you all
>ng feat, but please, don't overdo it. Most of the time, you don't really want complete ambient noise elimination, as human speech appearing from dead silence sounds unnatural.

No. Most sane programs don't do comfort noise because it is everything but comfort. Iff you speak data should be transmitted.
I know almost nothing about buying/selling stock and brokers. (With two exceptions [1], all my investments have been the "buy shares of a mutual fund and hold it forever except for occasional exchanges with other funds I'm going to hold forever, or when I need to make a big purchase like a new car" kind of investments). Thus, I'm quite confused here.

What is this "deposit" in this case?

Could someone walk through what happens in this case: I have $X at my cash account at a broker, and I direct that broker to buy something that will cost $Y (including any broker fees, commissions, required tax withholding, etc.), where Y <= X.

I presume that ultimately I end up wit the thing I wanted to buy, and my cash account ends up with $(X-Y)?

So what happens as a step along the road to making that happen that requires the broker to use money that is not money from my cash account?

[1] In 1998 or 1999, the newsreader I used on Red Hat started corrupting my .newsrc after an update. I tracked it down to a change in one of the ctype macros in the C standard library. The newsreader assumed that all the flags fit in a char, which had been true before the update, but now wasn't. I submitted a patch that changed one declaration in the newsreader from "char" to "unsigned short". When Red Hat was going to IPO, I was surprised to get an email telling me that since I was a contributor to Red Hat, I could buy Red Hat stock at the IPO price. I bought a few thousand dollars worth that morning at $14/share, sold them that afternoon at something like $70/share, transferred the money out, and never touched my ETrade account again.

Who says submitting patches to open source doesn't pay? :-)

The other time was when T-Mobile gave every customer one share of stock. Eventually they got tired of having to deal with having a bazillion people who owned one share each of their stock, and told us we had to transfer our shares to the broker of our choice or sell. I sold.
I have one as well but it's mostly gathering dust at the moment. It really needs some kind of a soft mat on top of it which I've been too lazy to procure.
The music could play on the phones of everyone that has the app when it's approaching!
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> This is the same trade-off as you would get without it.

Using the compositor method makes everything blurry. It's not the same trade-off.

> then don't enable scaling in the compositor.

Turning up the font size as you suggested is not at all a proper solution.

I want to pass fractional scaling on to the program whenever possible. If it can't handle it, then 2x followed by shrinking can be the fallback.
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You might want to add a tuning coil to that list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxhole_radio#Designs_and_oper...
Did they block buying, or did they block opening new positions (i.e. could shorts still buy to close)? The latter is completely consistent and all this outrage would be unwarranted.