skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a financial advisor and this is not financial advice.

I understand your response. There is one assumption that I think marks the difference between what side of the line one falls on.

My understanding of your belief is that you think Melvin would not lie due to there being a large risk associated with lying.

One might also assume that Melvin would not be dumb enough to short over 100% of GME stock.

In exercise, I believe this to be the crux of the speculative argument that Melvin is dumb enough to use psychological warfare (which may have legal ramifications if they get caught) to try to get GME stock back down.
Malicious Home Depot ad gets top spot in Google Search
Not sure 'creepy af' is something a consumer-facing corporation wants their brand associated with.
It looks like nesting got too deep, but for bkh, you are correct.

> In this case, they retain a fraction or none of their voting rights, I presume?

If you have a margin account and want to vote with your shares, you need to let your broker know prior to the vote, so they can be sure and not have your shares loaned out when they're figuring out everyone's voting shares.

Some time prior to 2010, I heard some heads rolled at my firm because such a request was screwed up for a major client, and they had fewer votes than expected for some important vote.
I find it funny when NIMBYs are called far left. LOL!

Far left is literally against conservatism, that is the driving force behind NIMBYs.
End of what story?

Most people cannot make money while locked down. Who pays their bills? Are they expected to burn through all savings to become destitute enough to qualify for aid? Are landlords and mortgage holders supposed to deal without any revenue?

Is caging up your citizens to avoid a disease that has a miniscule chance of death (for all but its oldest citizens) really necessary? Is it ok to saddle future generations with government debt to pay for these lockdowns?

There are many “stories” to tell here.
Amusingly, the voting shares are currently worth less than the nonvoting.
heh sorry, maybe it wasn't as strong a primer as I was recalling, since there's lots of noise around the message I was cherry-picking for my comment :)

This one's more to-the-point maybe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcgbLwn_yYE

It's basically saying at every level of existence and perception, actors that see fake versions of reality outcompete and drive to extinction actors that spend energy trying to see truth (and as a corollary, try to socialize truth). Shortcuts always win. Like not just one given level we might try to look at, like our mental heuristics, but at EVERY level.

At its core, it's basically saying "truth" is not energetically favoured in systems.

This gives me tons of pause for thought, in that I wonder how a truism like this might play out at the cultural level of organization, where evolution remains a force at play. I feel aware of the power of stories and lies to create simple narratives at all levels -- is this a manifestation of this sort of information energetics playing out? For e.g., the overton window being a constrained version of truth that [previously] created stability. Or the fact that democracy doesn't appear to actually function according to the folk theory we all tell ourselves, but maybe the simple (fake) story of democracy is what makes it work.[1] Or how we deceive about our own internal state in order to keep social homeostasis with others. Or that truth maybe doesn't have enough benefit to survive unless it has the cover of larger lies/deceptions to offset its penalty...? So what lies allowed the dominance of science to operate up til now, and how might we be shifting that balance within our new digital landscape?

I dunno, I have some background in this stuff, but haven't been in academia for a bit, so it's a bit armchairy :)

[1]: https://www.amazon.ca/Democracy-Realists-Elections-Responsiv...
Yeah. Even with massive infrastructure investment you still hear stories like children climbing 800m on vines to go to school.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/05/27/europe/china-children-edu...

And there are other reasons to move too, like air quality, a pressure cooker educational system, extremely high housing cost as a multiple of salary...
> In Spotify, music listens to you

Nice touch.
Note that you can scroll down (white screen) and scroll right (only background) if using Android mobile device, even post recent fix. Still cool, though!
Everyone's different, but for me, a Mac that can't boot from an external drive might as well be an expensive hot plate or a cutting board.
Stuff like this will just have me on bandcamp exclusively. Spotify has been a terrible experience, but for the sake of my teenage son, we decided to get a family account. Spotify is too obsessed with telling me how to consume music, I don’t need an album shuffled by default, the artist picked the track listing for a reason. The way Spotify cues music is bizarre. Their user interfaces are confusing and clunky. For a platform trying to go all in on podcast it’s near impossible to know when new episodes are released (unless I’m missing something). I don’t need something to spy on my mood and suggest music, I’ve figured that out - Dub techno while working Ambient while reading HipHop when hanging with the homies and Slayer when I’m working in the garage!
'Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!'
The technique works very well at the casino under the right conditions. So much so that casino workers know to look for it, and to boot you. If you play it as an infinite game as you imply, you WILL lose. If you make it a finite game, you can win.

Here's what it takes to work

1.You have to remain liquid long enough to hit a win. It doesn't take many doublings to break yourself.

2. You have to end the game at the right time. The side that chooses when to end the game is, almost certainly, the one that will win. This is why casinos will give you the boot when they realize that you are doing it BEFORE you have a chance to go up.
Right. And to the GP’s point, would it have happened without the meme squeeze (the small growth potential) - yes.

I considered GME calls in December where it was hanging out in the $17 range. Ryan Cohen and the Chewey cohort added to a positive outlook given new leadership. Similarly, there was bullish sentiment that the next gen console sales would manifest at April earnings. People thought by April earnings it could go to 40.

So yeah, buying that early with those two growth prospects was sensible.

The squeeze became the second part of operation, but the first was a sensible position based on modest assumptions. In fact, it was truly crazy of the hedge funds to think GameStop would be out of business this soon with ps5/xbx just launching.
Personal experience allowed me to bridge the gun-control divide.

I was a strong advocate of gun control, and was dating a rancher's daughter, and she said, "my dad keeps a pistol in the glove compartment because there are rattlesnakes all over the ranch, and when he sees one he kills it so that it doesn't bite his granddaughters."

As a result of that conversation I changed my view on gun control, though I still firmly believe in strict gun control in urban settings.

I find that friendships also allow me to bridge moral & political divides. When the anti-police movement (ACAB = All Cops Are Bastards) erupted in San Francisco, I became angry at my fellow liberal kindred--some of my friends are cops, and they're good cops, and I didn't like seeing them being demonized.

Friendships help bridge many divides: It's hard to be homophobic when half my friends are gay. It's hard to hate Trump supporters when at least one of my rugby teammates is a Trump supporter (I don't agree with him--I think he's misguided--but I don't hate him).
What if no one gets tails on a flip?

Is it the first person to first get heads or does it have to be consecutive
Some of those third party clients will abuse user data, and then the original platform will be held responsible for allowing it.
> The problem with the short interest being %140 is that the notional value of shares to cover that extra %40 is in fact, infinite.

No, this is misinformation.

When someone shorts a stock, they create a synthetic long.

113% short interest translates to about 53% short when you include the synthetic longs.

S3 Partners includes this info: https://twitter.com/ihors3/status/1355249817048522755

WSB is all about pumping stock, so they've been perpetuating this myth that anything over 100% short interest results in an impossible position to cover, which isn't true at all. The number of Redditors buying into this trade with the belief that the stock must go to infinity if they all have "diamond hands" is terrifying at this point.
But why? Transfer pricing regulations are just countries fighting each other over where taxable value was created. Making them more complicated only harms SMEs who already pay a far greater portion of corporate tax revenue than they should. It just a very ineffective attempt to fight the capital flight caused by double taxation. Perhaps if profits were only taxed once there wouldn't be a capital flight problem to begin with. Maybe companies would even start paying dividends again...
How is gold stable? Have you seen it in the last year? The last ten? Hardly stable IMO.
we talked about it in the early but there were some fundamental technological limitations that made it seem like not a good fit. At this point I think meshtastic is more feature complete and has lots of areas not serviced by disaster radio (ie. python API, ports to many different types of lora boards, extremely good battery life).

I think the only feature we miss wrt disaster radio is dual radio support and full DSR.
This was a common investment scam in the past. Create an email newsletter, split it in half and give opposing advice to each side. You then keep ramping up the fees to the winners until eventually they become one of the losers. Once the list gets too small, create a new entity and start again.
Putrajaya in Malaysia (est 2001) is an interesting comparison. It's also overly ambitious and oversized, but it's not quite as nuts (the empty highways are 3-4 lanes, not 10), it has a comparatively far more sane location (between Kuala Lumpur and its main airport), and its actual population is around 90,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrajaya
> For the OS-managed databases (photos, contacts, music etc), the exposed APIs vary wildly in how they manage permission

That's the key indication that there aren't capabilities underlying the databases. If there were, access would be more granular and uniform.
What does the new kernel mostly rely on? I'm not sure what part of the cycle we're in for development although I am interested to see who wins this generation.
On Thursday, Citadel reported overall retail GME activity was 50.2% sellers and 49.8% buyers[1]. Assuming they aren’t lying about this, retail as a whole isn’t “diamond handing” and holding to the moon, just a few outspoken redditors who stand to gain the more others hold.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...
Both articles say the command line tool asr (Apple Software Restore) is the only Apple-approved way to do make a bootable copy. CCC says they're using asr. Both articles also say asr currently won't make a bootable copy of an M1-based Mac.

Both articles seem to imply Apple is dropping the ball on supporting tools for the partition/system changes they're making. The CCC seems more like a rallying cry:

> If Apple ships macOS Big Sur without fixing the underlying utilities that facilitate creating a bootable backup, you can choose to defer the upgrade. There is no urgency, no impetus to upgrade to macOS Big Sur. If we defer the upgrade choice, that sends a clear message that we're willing to wait for Apple to deliver quality software, rather than hitting an artificial deadline with an OS that's not ready.
> I don't know whether he orchestrated this or it grew out organically, but he's essentially the Jesus of WSB now.

None of his DD was actually related to GME being shorted. In fact he mentioned a few months ago that he wasn't betting on the squeeze would happen.
Good point, I was just considering the messaging part. It'd be useful to be able to opt out of contact discovery, as I'm not sure you can do this on the current client.
I don't think that working at a startup tells you anything about starting one. You're better off listening to entrepreneurship podcast, audiobooks, youtube, ycombinator blogposts, etc.

I also don't think working at FAANG is hurting you, as you can always find a cofounder through ycombinator "founder dating" or other networking events. (What about your university alumni network?)

They say to be successful as an entrepreneurship you need to give it 100%. And that's after finding an idea worth monetizing. Before might be the same. Do you have some cash saved up, and can you work full-time to find a side project that can become a startup (or sole proprietorship?)
Trump and the GOP.
Except that the local "progressive" NIMBYs have prevented "a restroom being built in that new waterfront park". Then complained enough to bar you from going to that Target. Etc...

It's considerably harder in US to get to a publicly accessible toilet, than in many countries that I've lived in.
I run Ubuntu with an AMD Ryzen CPU and Nvidia RTX GPU. I'm all for open/nonproprietary drivers, but RTX giving me +20% perf/$ in Blender rendering over Radeon is a dealbreaker.
Hi! I'm one of the devs. If you have questions you might like our (friendly/helpful) forum: meshtastic.discourse.group.
> When did apple become [...] the good guys?

The piece you're missing is that there are different groups of "fanboys". When a particular news story reinforces one group's ideas, you hear a lot from them in the comments. When news is ambiguous or non-threatening to a group, they stay silent in the comments. (If it's threatening they come out to defend)
In the past, you could copy a bootable volume just by dragging its contents, and you could run Finder straight off the install media. Today I guess Apple finds it eccentric for a user to expect to create a simple backup.
Aren’t there mega powerful people on both sides?
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The same era also had Ricki Lake and Jerry Springer. Definitely not allowed where everyone was patient and loved each other. I think your vision of the 90s is too rosy :)
Don't worry, patents are hardly ever indicative of a company's actual priorities.
Like Tesla stock? In the past year Tesla has gone parabolic, which looks very much similar to Bitcoin. How are they different?
Uh ... a 5 day lockdown due to 1 case per day in a city with over 2 million people! Talk about an overreaction.
I am in Yangon, Myanmar now, if anyone has any questions.

All Internet and TV, phone service, cut off. However fiber internet land lines are still working. Most ATMs are still working but very long lines.

Soldiers and tanks in many parts of city. City hall if full of soldiers.
I don't particularly care about the details. I want the mixes or radios or discovers to be interesting to me. I'll give them lots of information if it will help them get it right.
I feel like changing it to "Tim Cook gave a speech" but that would be passive-aggressive.
So I’m not lazy!
I would recommend looking at what DFV looks at himself. He talks a lot about reading Seeking Alpha. Seeking Alpha has a lot of bearish articles, but always read the comments as there is always the bullish counter view.

I think it’s worth the subscription if you are looking for ideas.
https://archive.md/rTcAg

> Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background noise in order to gauge emotional state and location type to serve up the appropriate soundtrack. Not creepy at all!

> Spotify has received a patent that will allow it to use speech recognition and sound analysis to assess a user’s demographic attributes, determine their emotional state, and even glean insight into their location. The information will be used – hypothetically, at least – to pick the perfect song to play without requiring any conscious data input from the listener.

Straight out spying, basically. It's what people were warning about with Siri, Cortana or whatever it was called. And it was dismissed with "I don't care, I'm not doing anything illegal and I have nothing to hide".
Yet their client still utterly blows as a podcast player and manager...
...only if they issue shares, which would surely tank prices.
Myanmar’s Military Stages Coup, Detains Aung San Suu Kyi and Other Leaders
> But MAP, REDUCE, and APPLY are, and they all have the same problem as self-apply: their static types are infinite.

Huh? Any semi-decent static type system has no problems modeling higher-order functions, and static types can easily be infinite via parametric polymorphism ("generics").

> Static typing is either constraining, or it is a Turing Tarpit

You're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Static type systems can be beneficial even when they don't solve every conceivable problem.
Don't leave without a concrete goal and a timeline. What do you want to work on, with who, and why? Don't give up the pay and benefits until you can answer that, and make sure that you budget for N months/years out of work. Idealism doesn't always pay well.

IMHO, don't sweat the IP stuff to much, until you start spending a lot of off-hours time on a serious project (website, incorporation, etc). If you don't have a specific business plan, don't sweat it.

That might be an unpopular opinion, because it probably would leave you vulnerable in most at-will employment contracts, but as long as you don't take anything with you when you leave, big companies are unlikely to aggressively enforce anything.

And this should go without saying, but leave on good terms. Do right by the people who you work with and don't leave them holding any bags. It's the right thing to do, and you might want their recommendations if things go belly-up. Plus, part of the reason why the company is unlikely to go after you on technicalities is that they want to hire creative people like you in the future.
I have to admit that not being able to boot from an external drive really caught my attention.

This is Apple really turning the screws on "You will not install an OS except from our official servers."
bitbucket app store.
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Real-Estate Startup Knotel Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
I am the only FTE in engineering. Have 10ish cloud-run services plus a full K8Ss cluster, all in GC.

and it is pretty good. So even, in a one person situation, i decided to split services sometimes into two.

Main reason for having separate services is - a different privacy/security context or deployment time:

So one service had so many native libs that it needed that i didnt want to wait 3 minutes to build to deploy when independent code had changed.

So far I would say the setup totally practical for our use-case. A monolithic setup would have been slower. Mainly, with regard to quickly iterating.
I remember the first time I saw the milkyway in real life down in tulum. It was unreal. I can imagine space itself is out of This world.
I know of some people externally of Myanmar trying to communicate with their families - has anybody in this tech community been able to make contact? As I understand, all phone lines and internet is down.
If going to a startup, do you have a desire to be the CTO, or a key contributor. If CTO, or top person in charge of the technology, you will learn a lot about how to run the company. If as a key contributor, it will depend on how many are on the team, as if you aren't working core with the founders themselves, it will usually feel like a normal job. Not that that is a bad thing, but just usually the reality.
Only went Nvidia because my friend snagged a 3060ti founders on launch while waiting in line to try to snag an AMD cpu. My next build will be AMD.
You don’t know what you’re taking about. You just read news articles.

- ASSK/elected government never had any power over Rhohingya situation.

- Only outcome of UN trial would be sanctions, which would not help Rhohingya and further harm Burmese. ASSK was choosing the better option by trying to avoid sanctions. Knowing full well that she would be vilified by media.

- ASSK good friend and personal lawyer, U Ko Ni was Muslim and assassinated for trying to protect civilian government.
My advice:

- Never sell. Ever. (Until retirement). [1] The natural extension of this is... always buy. Buy now. Buy.

- Keep a pool of cash on the side (whatever you can afford) to be ready to capitalize on any "fire sale" of stocks. This should be about 10% of your portfolio as a very liquid non-volatile asset (cash).

[1] Obviously life hits you hard sometimes and you HAVE to sell to cover unexpected bills. I am obviously not suggesting in those situations that you hold your stock to the detriment of your healthy, of a family members health, etc.
They never should have let the same company own the wire and provide retail service. The retail part of AT&T should have had to pay the same rates to the wire owner as everyone else. And penalties should have been applied to the lineman's employer if they caused a loss of service without properly checking the database of the wire owner company.

Alas, as you say, that's not how it happened.
It depends on the issue. When it comes to privacy apple are the good guys AFAIK, they aren't in the surveillance tech business like google, facebook, and half of silicon valley.

When it comes to empowering users to control and modify/repair their own devices and the software running on them apple are the bad guys.

You'll see different responses depending on the topic at hand.
The Chicago Art Institute is a treasure. Large collection of the Impressionists, from Van Gogh to Monet, to post-Impressionist Seurat to Georgia O'Keefe. And that doesn't even scratch the surface. It's a great place to spend the day. Very cool that they're opening up their collection to the Internet, especially during a time like this.

> Using our open API, people outside the museum have done some pretty awesome things, like allowing Alexa to browse our collection and creating a text message service that sends you a randomly selected Art Institute artwork. You can even add works to the video game Animal Crossing using the Getty’s Animal Crossing art generator. (Just click on Import using IIIF under Step 1. Manifest URLs can be found on our open-access artwork pages.)

I hope this inspires other museums to follow suit.
You'd just get banned if you write this there.
Don't you think Mac are not used in Prod?
I actually mean owning it - I think many people are completely unaware of the concept of borrowing a share.
Are there PLBs that let you actually text now? I’ve been told that many have been abused and are not treated as urgent any more, so a device like an in reach where you can actually communicate your situation is preferred. It also means rescue could arrive with the supplies needed for a particular injury, which makes a huge difference in some evacs.