skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can. However, it tends to be a rather manual and long (days to weeks) process.
I agree that Citron and especially Left is indeed ironic in this situation (and the refreshing reminder that a: American English is derived from English English and b: the internet is not just Americans). The small-scale market (as a group) is doing the exact things as him in other instances, but the call for restrictions is, to say the least, confusing.
That's the most hilarious part of it. It's a given that someone is going bankrupt big time and someone is going to want to be made whole. They will threaten the stock market until the USG bails them out.
> But that’s not what happened. The brand is irrelevant. It’s just math and vengeance and in the end...a lot of retail folks are going to be left holding the bag as prices drop down to earth. That cannot be a good outcome for anyone. I don’t think we want a system to function like this.

Not sure what you suggest be done about it. Hopefully people learn their lessons but it is not like we can eliminate the possibility of doing dumb things, and doing so would be quite illiberal.
You may be right about this. However I would expect massive blowback from their target audience which has a big intersection with the WSB movement.

Whether justified or not if they get blamed for letting the hedge funds off-the-hook it will not be good for their business.
Yep, didn't know about that one. Guess my Google-fu failed me back then.
> one of the top comments as of right now justifies burning a year's worth of income, just to stick it to Wall Street

For the past week, a majority of “stick it to Wall St” comments have been saying (a) don’t buy it if you don’t like the stock, (b) only buy with money you don’t care if you get back, and (c) if you really really just want to stick it, then buy in order to take the share off the market not to make money, only buy a share or two then put them under your mattress.

Can’t speak for the top comment, but a majority of the advice has been in the “only spend a few dollars for entertainment and political value, and only spend if you never expect to get back”.

Some are being explicit, saying, think of your buy as a political contribution to Occupy Wall Street.
> But most of the the time it's just *bleep*.¹

In other words, Sturgeon’s revelation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law)

¹(as my browser displays it bc https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/23624-profanity-filter)
There used to be an emulator as part of the SDK.
I think the sentiment will shift when people realize that some of these hedge funds invested people's pension money, or university endowments, or any other number of people's funds. WSB has promoted a cartoonish version of Wall Street where hedge funds only hold rich, evil people's money. That's not really how this works.

A lot of people are also going to be disappointed to learn that some Wall Street firms profited massively from this situation.

And finally, a lot of retail investors who were late to the party are going to lose a lot of money on this. Some of that will flow to early Redditors who got their exit timing right. Some of that will flow to hedge funds who cleverly scooped up the naive money in the chaos.

I'd go so far as to bet that journalists are already working on articles with all of these angles. They'll start to trickle out just as soon as the market euphoria wanes.
Unfortunately, the hedge funds will be 100% fine and probably capitalize on this event and somehow still come out ahead. The WSB folks who started this have probably already sold out so they're fine. It's average everyday folks who bought into this robin hood (not the app) story and purchased stock at recent prices who will lose a lot of money
https://twitter.com/PigeonsK/status/1354824493982773249

Argument for cascading.
Riots are dangerous situations, I think they need to do both. Put in place a physical security presence to contain and limit the damage, and address he worst cases involving violence, but also consider that escalation may not be appropriate. In a riot it unlikely you're going to be able to quash it and clear it up completely, so you also need to make sure perpetrators don't get away without consequences.

In the 2012 riots did the police really have no street presence at all? That's not what I remember.
yes the GME crowd-source scenario is definitely market manipulation, it is the very definition of it. the question is, can any single person or group of people be identified as culpable? that is the beauty of it, in a way.
It is actually. The housing market had real collateral even if it was overly appraised.
On Signal's Outage
> I've only been in a handful of discord communities, but none of them would tolerate even the "benign intent" WSB stuff.

On the other hand quite a few of them would probably support stabbing each other in the back. I may have had a run in with a few too many people that like to abuse simple stuff for power plays.
I'm pretty sure bringing up fundamentals is intentional FUD. Nobody is investing in any of these because of fundamentals. It's the public vs hedge funds and GME et al is the battlefield.

The more people take part and have strong hands, the more the losses will be democratized, on the way to the real desired outcome against naked shorting hedge funds. I don't mind losing a couple hundred bucks investment for this.
It is an interesting research. I can not imagine how hard it is to design multiple board games, so that every one is fresh and new.

With Summon The JSON it was easy for me, because it is a well known card game format but combined with programming learning gamification and set in fantasy world, a genre that i always loved. All of these things were known to me and was passionate about.

That was the main part of the success. But there is really a limited number of things a person can be passionate about at a given period of time.

Maybe that is why hobbyists seem to be sometimes good at designing board games.
I tried that but now I can't remember why I didn't end up using it. But yep, it works.
I think at this point the only reasons to go beyond 2U are to make room for either 3.5" hard drives, or GPUs.
Growth, is however, an emergent property of capitalism by virtue of the competitive model, that is very hard to counter.
No that’s dumb

Interview at a company that pays for it if you want to be paid. Airflow offered me $500 upon acceptance of their coding challenge. I would never ask, that’s dumb. If in the 0.001% chance they do pay, you will cost yourself the job.
Indeed, 128 EPYC cores in 2 sockets (with total 16 memory channels) will give a lot of power. I guess it's worth mentioning that the 64-core chips have much lower clock rate than 16/32 core ones though. And with some expensive software that's licensed by CPU core (Oracle), you'd want faster cores, but possibly pay a higher NUMA price when going with a single 4 or 8 sockets machine for your "sacred monolith".
If someone comes interview with me and it turns out their resume is “padded a bit”, I don’t invoice them for wasting my time.

Think of it more like a first date and you each pay for your own meal.
I disagree. The brand isn’t everything but it isn’t nothing. Look at the targets so far. Companies for which there is a nontrivial amount of 90s and 00s nostalgia. If wsb is driven by 20-30 year olds, a narrative involving a fondly remembered company is going to stick better than one that nobody knows. I don’t think people truly believe in GameStop as a long term success, but the story travels faster if people can remember the name.

Look at Tesla. Musk’s cult of personality is clearly a component of the interest in the stock. I don’t think these are just abstract objects made of balance sheets.
99% of all investor relations is black-hat.
> nothing prevented them from offering an alternate, more amateur-friendly platform, without turning the traditional one off

This is exactly the gripe I have with my broker too right now, so we might be using the same broker.

They try to squeeze the entire platform onto a mobile app, when I'm sure 95% of their user base trades from a PC. In the end, it results in botched functionality, a shitty UX of hiding things away, the works.
The bubble may become more visible if a chain reaction is started.
The game Destiny went this route to increase GPU throughput by 50%. An extra frame of latency, the dev's said, was hardly discernible on a controller.
you cant tell if someone has a naked short position on. they are exceedingly rare, and most likely ephemeral, and most likely caused by a back-office error rather than deliberately. i dont think you know what you are saying
> Ubuntu 14.04 felt so fast coming from Ubuntu 20.04

gnome 2 ?
They're allowed to lie to suspects, not the courts where parallel construction happens. A defense attorney can't get evidence stricken when it came from dubious sources when they lie in court about the source.
You can redefine it, or give it a different name other than "fundamental value", but the point is that these buyers from wsb may be paying to play the game, not for financial profit, but for the lolz. Like house-odds gambling (which, has negative "fundamental value"), people still do it.

Now, as for whether there are enough of these crazy types to actually push the price of GME up this much - i'm skeptical. I suspect that it's a battle between different hedge funds who first caught on to this small group of crazies on wsb, and saw an opportunity.
Why is now when we start caring about that, though? I don’t think the current position of GME is a reasonable one, but neither is the situation in which 140% of its shares have been shorted. And it’s not just academic: that makes it difficult for the business to grow. The hedge funds are literally trying to suffocate it into bankruptcy.

And yet no one raised the alarm then. No one worried about retail investors with a long position in GME, or the workers who could be laid off. The truth is that almost no one at all cared about the market being detached from reality or the ordinary people left holding the bag when the hedge funds were set to profit. But now that they’re losing, suddenly everyone is beside themselves with worry.
If the incumbent erects a paywall, free challengers will come up and they won't be the big player for long.
Someone played too much SimCity2000.
Without looking at it I wonder if it's using the Python language underneath, or the python vm. Either way this is pretty cool.
The story isn’t over yet.
Andrew Left of Citron Research today announced that Citron will no longer research and invest in shorts. They will now cover long positions. He's trying to reverse his image with WallStreetBets. I hope it is in good faith, he likely just sees an opportunity.
The first thing I notice is the chain. Ars Technica had a story earlier this week about the Sondors Metacycle: similar power, similar weight, but no chain. Also, $25,000 cheaper.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/01/this-electric-bicycle-c...

Granted, that the Metacycle isn't an off-road bike, but I wonder which is better for reliability in an area so remote that you need solar charging: a chain, or a hub-mounted motor?
Policing in North America as we know it today arose in the south from Overseer's and slavery. [0][1]

Their job has always been to protect the rich, keep minorities and the lower classes oppressed.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-...
[1] https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/brief-history-slavery-a...
Most 3D games don't _render_ objects that you can't see. They still must simulate their actions each tick so that they will be in the right place when you can see them.
Not so much? The profit-driven economic progress over the last century is astonishing.
Headaches: +Types,+Causes,+Symptoms,&+Treatment+-+Health+Lines
I agree with you, and on the flipside we need hedge funds and other “pro” investors to abide by the same rules. Big banks sure didn’t feel much pain in 2008...
I’d be curious to know how lithium ion batteries compare given that they’re now available in AA.
I meant growing your population when speaking about living begins. Author of the article probably implies growing in size (growing your company). Looking at the evolution [1] life evolved from single cells microorganisms to multi cellular complex organisms like for example mammals. Growth is the result of the evolution of those organisms and increased complexity of its parts and the whole system. If a company rapidly grows because of its success and increased complexity of doing business (Organic growth) then good if it is artificially inflated growth then it is bad and such company will collapse sooner or later. Organic growth is the most healthiest one but inorganic growth like acquiring market share by doing mergers and acquisitions can also be a way to grow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
They probably don't want to share details for the sake of the family's privacy. I assume it's the typical online harassment stuff: threats to the family's physical safety because of Left's opinions.
The solution is simple, do not bail them out.
WebDAV and [expletive] OData??

How about https://remotestorage.io?
But according to statements from e.g. Melvin Capital they closed their position at a loss already. It's very hard to tell if this is actually the case but assuming it's true that ought to change the situation, no?
His battle is only partly about Oumuamua. That is just a vehicle for his arguments. The real issue is the bias against life detection experiments generally. Want to sample soil on mars and measure oxygen absorption? Great. We will put your sensor on the next rover. Want to pour nutrients on that soil and see if anything eats it? Go away you crazy person. Want to detect methane in an exoplanet atmosphere? Here is your telescope time. Want to detect CFCs, a likely technosignature? Good luck getting them to return your emails. That bias against definitive binary life detection efforts, solid yes/no answers, underpins Loeb's points on Oumuamua. If we are serious about life detection we should be looking for indisputable artifacts of both primitive and complex life, the later of which includes technological life.

Loeb must also fight against widespread public assumptions about the hunt for life, specifically that people think SETI is a giant organization always scanning the sky. The public thinks the scientific community is actually putting in a solid effort to look for aliens. They aren't. We as a society spend more on candycrush than the entire SETI project. Want a definitive answer on whether the next Oumuamua is a light sail? Cough up the money so the scientists can buy the telescope time.
I don’t know why people keep saying it won’t be a good outcome for anyone. That’s irrelevant.

This is like going to war, all will give some, but some will give all. At least we’re talking about money and not lives.
It is kinda funny how the Constitutionally protected right doesn't have laws ensuring fair treatment, but stock trading does. Why should they have to allow for equal access to investors? Sure, the law currently requires it, but if we made a law saying First Amendment now applies to all private businesses people would be fine with it because it is now the law? I think not. So, given they are a private company, shouldn't they be free to do business with who they want and how they want?

As for the penalty of breaking the law, if it is enforced it will likely still have been the cheaper option for those who made the call.
Permanent deflation usually ends in hyperinflation. At some point the thing that your magic internet money represents disappears all at once.
Discord banned WallStreetBets for violent calls to actions. Thet is hugely different from Google removing bad reviews wholesale, with no apparent effort to distinguish genuine reviews by actual users from spam. Actions by zero-cost trading platforms are the most problematic because they favor data customers over end-users in a way that materially damages end-users.

Not every restraint on speech is censorship or venal commercial interest. And some of what was done is going to cause platforms like RH to deservedly get into considerable regulatory and reputational trouble.
A child could see through that.
I think you don't understand what wallstreetBETS is all about.

It's not investments. It's playing the casino. They are betting. And proud of it.

And this is one of the first times they have an advantage over the rest of the table. Because a couple of hedge funds overplayed their hand on a stock small enough to be influenced by the people active in that sub.

They are ready to lose it all just for the lulz. It's entertaining. Expensive, but thrilling.

The same counts for BTC "investments". There are no fundamentals. It's all irrational bets. Bad for the solvency of some, but that's what all casino's are.
Habitat 67 is a monument to what happened when progressive idealism met the Quebec construction industry, imo.

The few examples of modern "sustainable," neighbourhoods that emerged organically were the result of a community (often illegally) adapting industrial buildings for mixed use, and then a cycle of gentrification that makes them desirable. Letting owners convert residential to mixed use also does it. The central planning route just creates subsidized luxury housing for the politically connected.

Architecture expresses economics, and Habitat 67 was an artifact of using federal largess to bribe Quebec to stay in confederation in an age of naive social engineering. When I last saw it in the 90's, the way it continued to absorb subsidies to maintain it on behalf of people who worked in publicly funded culture industries, was basically the most Canadian thing ever.

I often say that Canada is british democracy with french efficiency that only persists for lack of many natural predators this far north. Habitat 67 is kind of a monument to that absurdity.
It's a Dodd-Frank rule apparently. [0]

[0]: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cash-strapped-robinhood-sc...
> The brand is irrelevant. It’s just math and vengeance and in the end...a lot of retail folks are going to be left holding the bag as prices drop down to earth.

The hedge funds have retreated, yet WSB is doubling down on the frenzy.

The posts over there are just insane. QAnon levels of delusion against an enemy that has already retreated.

Wall Street is just a straw man now, and WSB is using it to cannibalize WSB.
A problem with capitalism may be that it is a very broad category, and that currently we have a particular nasty flavour of it, that deserves its own name (e.g. hypercapitalism?) to avoid the endless discussion & confusion whether its all good and natural, or utterly broken (at least for the common folks participating in it).

It seems to me we had a form of capitalism that flourished (piggy-backed) well on top of democracy, and now it has morphed into a form that thrives best in a plutocracy (where democracies are eventually just Putin-style husks of their former glory).
The vast majority of people simply aren't on the autism spectrum at all.

Well, that's the bit I'm questioning, although I'm definitely no expert. This Astral Codex Ten post would seem to back me up, although on re-reading it's more ambiguous:

Autism is such an annoying thing to have on this list – just when everyone finally agreed there was an “autism spectrum” and no clear difference between neurotypical-people-with-some-autistic-traits and high-functioning-autistics, along comes this meta-analysis to say nope, it’s a taxon, neurotypicals and autistics are two clear objectively separate categories. I did hunt down the studies here and they actually seemed pretty good. But none of these results are strong enough to be more than suggestive, so I am going to keep believing in an autism spectrum until more research comes in.

I don't know enough to rate the research here. But it does seem to me a bit strange to work so hard on communicating to laypeople that there isn't just a single condition called "autism", it's a whole spectrum with degrees of severity, but at the same time to still insist that only a small discrete set of people "have autism" and the rest of us are completely free and easy. As other commenters have noted, all the symptoms of low-level autism (social awkwardness, sensitivity to overstimulus, difficulty in communication, etc) are things that almost everybody experiences now and then. So it seems much more helpful to me to think of autistic symptoms as things that everybody has to a greater or lesser degree; so the autistic spectrum has room for everybody.
> I think the parties would just be exchanging money in lieu of stock

but stocks are marked to market - the lender of the stock will ask back the market value, which if it was being pumped, is going to be high. If the shorts are settled by cash, it's not only not going to make a difference to the bottom line of those shorting, it will also not change the price of the stock.
A group of 20 year old musicians wrote a better song than professionally trained composer with 40 years of experience... once.
Dutch Insider Attack on Covid-19 Data
Kinda weird that Nasdaq needs ads to survive, or is it just out of greed?
It’s an SEC rule to guard against brokers going insolvent. Trades are not instant transactions so there’s a lot of credit being floated for days. Good thread explaining this, though still complex: https://mobile.twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/13549526861652...
Wall Street moguls will have their revenge. Count on it.
Agreed. There's a good reason why so many of these hedge funds held short positions -- $GME is a business facing significant headwinds beyond what you'd see from the pandemic and a typical P&L statement:

- Their primary product is used game sales, and the biggest players in that sector are making active moves against such sales (see: the disc-less PS5 and Xbox Series S consoles).

- Digital storefronts make purchasing new games much, much easier (and a borderline impulse purchase).

- Free-to-play multiplayer games cut Gamestop out of the customer acquisition loop. The most $GME gets is a cut of any prepaid cards, but those cards are commonplace nowadays (my local chain drugstore has an end-cap with dozens of prepaid cards of various types).

- Their primary model is to lease space in malls. With the pandemic, malls are either closed or seeing substantially less foot traffic.

- Consoles are typically a big driver of purchases, but their limited availability also limits $GME's potential. That said, that can be counterbalanced by very profitable bundles made more attractive by the limited availability of unbundled consoles.

I don't play the stock market, but even if I did, $GME wouldn't be something I'd look at in a buy-and-hold strategy.
Can’t wait to see how the HN censorship circle jerkers are going to justify this one.

How does it work when you can’t call the otherwise nazis?
Something like `seq 5 10`?
Double irony. The story is not over.

When the GameStop valuation jumped to ridiculous levels, it was obviously noticed by others who started shorting.

The end result of this is that some in the WallStreet are making even more profits than Citron Research. This time it's on the backside of those retail investors who think "holding the stock" is protecting it's price.

Citron Research was caught on surprise by WSB, these new speculators have the benefit of weighting and analyzing WSB group action. They can take account possible short squeeze risk and duration and take a long view.

https://isthesqueezesquoze.com/

>GME shorts have not begun to close their positions in substantial numbers.

>the situation (1/28 5 PM ET):

>- short interest: 100% of float by Ortex, 123.25% of float by S3 Shortsight

>- change in short share availability: +9,000

Matt Levine covers all scenarios nicely, must read as always: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-28/knowin...