skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been my question as well. Especially when you overlay the charts for gme and amc and bb, they move almost identically. I really struggle to believe it's all gressroots. This entire thing was astroturfed if you ask me.
It's hard to put down a technically legal, as far as text of law goes, practice. Especially when there are no complaints to use as a base because all contenders for the contract were similarly shady. And sometimes some $RANDOM gets the contract because nobody serious will take it, thanks to anti-corruption/anti-loss measures that the populous voted in that made the contract impossible. So Honest John Federal takes the contract and finds a suitably desperate student/outsources it to cheapest vendor possible.

Meanwhile auditors (unless burned out) would love to get the contractors and buyer staked in court, but technically all checkboxes on the checklist are checked (pun intended) and there's no obvious better candidate to use as counter example.
Can you explain exactly what you mean by that?
A strat that quant funds use are algorithms that look for movement in the market. When they noticed an uptick in gamestop they bought in. When they buy in the price goes up which signals to other algorithms to also buy in. Thus raising the price and causing a tsunami.
Considering how unpleasant it is to talk to a GameStop employee (they upsell you on like 5 different things a purchase), starting a business where people stay longer and talk to them more doesn’t sound appealing for the customer.
Whats the next Bitcoin or Ether thats going to pop?
Is there a crypto thats going to pop soon? I was lucky to buy ETH at 15$ because it was not yet well known - any similar deals currently?
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And even the case of sickle-cell is extremely straight forward compared most genes and what traits they influence. Even hair color is controlled my multiple genes and is not full understood.

It’s why I am personally a bit watery on predictions that CRISPR is going to be a miracle cure anytime soon. CRISPR is like having a modern machine shop complete with high precision CNC machines in the Bronze Age. You know there is big potential but do you really know what to do with it, or how? Can you use it to its full potential?
WeWork had about 1500 engineers at its height (the rationality of that is a separate discussion). At that scale the limitation isn't having to maintain some technology but rather decoupling interfaces so communication and bureaucracy doesn't block engineers from getting work done. You can use Postgres but then getting access, schemas, resource management, coupling, and so on become the limiting factors on usage. Paying for 5 more engineers to maintain Kafka and unblocking 50 in the process is a net gain.
> The problem with the short interest being %140 is that the notional value of shares to cover that extra %40 is in fact, infinite

There’s a significant amount of disinformation regarding the 140% figure and what it means in practical terms.

I’m curious, do you see a difference between a stock with 99% short interest vs. 101% short interest? If so, what is the difference?

(In my mind, there’s no difference - curious if you see it differently)
>defy reason once again.

Nothing I've read about this hints that reason was ever defied. If anything reason was used cunningly.
This isn’t that big a deal. LTCM was levered up 100 to 1 when it got bailed out on its 3 billion notional. Bear and Lehman were levered up 30 to 1 on their billions of assets. I don’t see that kind of leverage or counterparts risk here. A hedge fund or two blows up. Maybe they take a small investment bank with them. The system can survive that shock.
That is too simplified look about what he is complaining about.

Internet in current state doesn't offer meaningful way for humans to communicate and connect with each other - it has turned from Agora into a dog walking space with erected poles to urinate on them - that is a great way to communicate for dogs, but a really big setback from the hopes that internet initially gave(for humans).

facebook demographics has changed a lot as well - it is getting popularity in non-English speaking world, but it is on a path of decline. I do not use facebook(and many friends are off facebook as well), but my mother interestingly does use facebook a lot, because it is a great tool to do marketing - even if the marketing consists of spreading ideas.
The problem about mentioned social apps is that facebook, twitter, instagram can't be treated as something more than tools for marketing and approaching them as communication tools is a failure. Blogs initially offered more as a tools for communication, though most of them nowadays have evolved into online TV, to better serve the audience. Even some journalist I was following and reading articles now does regular podcast on youtube - though most of the reason for it is that this way is easier to earn money.

"The web wasn't killed by companies, it selected the companies that catered most to what most people actually want out of the web."
That is false statement from the marketing point of view, where people actually do not know what they want. There are many clones of apps out there and even with better functionality and all the problems fixed that are present on current apps an we can wonder why no one uses them...
There are also too many examples of how some of the great companies were killed off by intent and has nothing to do with how web is functioning whatsoever.
Related question: will Bitcoin go back to 3000$?
Every time I try out a dynamic language, I miss static types. I just love them so much for refactoring and the ability to more fully describe how components should interact with one another.

Then when I factor in the incredible performance and efficiency of a language like Rust, thinking about all the extremely difficult performance problems I’ve had to diagnose in even fast JIT languages like C# or modern JavaScript runtimes, I just can’t stomach the idea of choosing a language like that if I have another choice.

So maybe Lisp would be a revelation, but I just can’t bring myself to care.
> while also spreading widely the propaganda to cause developers to use the new parts --- even if not actually necessary

There's a good argument to be made that WebHID is exactly that. There is already a HID API. This new one is just supposed to be "better" ... somehow... in some way... I'm not exactly sure what it is... but some googler on the internet says you should support it.
Maybe the future potential of dividends?
> Is there any provision to stop a malicious driver from generating fake input,

I have the opposite concern: is it guaranteed that accessibility software will be able to spoof the kinds of inputs a site expects? And will my browser be able to generate dummy input data of the format a site demands, for the occasions that I don't want the site to have live access to that particular sensor/input?
He said they’d used their credit lines, just that there wasn’t enough of a liquidity problem to affect the rest of the business. And then they got another $1B the next day.
These fonts give me the warm fuzzy feeling of opening the CPC Amstrad or developing back in my first language, GW-BASIC, and the awesomeness of discovering Word 6 (in DOS with window management!!!) or every subsequent iteration til designers walked in and made fashionably stylish fonts.
I last used Kafka in 2015 and I really miss it. Used it as a message broker for loads of cellular IOT devices. It was critical for helping us extract services out from a Rails 2.3/PostGIS 1x monolith, especially its ability to store messages for a period of time while a consumer was offline.
> I've seen terrible code with plenty of quick hacks on top of that, which was running very stable, because it was battle tested for years in production.

"Battle tested" is not what is meant by testing here, though. And I've seen software that was "battle tested" and rock-solid despite barely being _actively_ tested at all. Mind you, it was at least part of the economics of the software itself - "battle" (i.e. "in production") testing was perfectly viable in its case.
There are 802.11ah chipsets advertised, but I've never seen one in action. See e.g. https://www.newracom.com/product/nrc7292/

Ubiquiti's Rocket M900 and AFAR are also "wifi" over 900 MHz ISM band solutions as well, though I'm not sure what if any standards they use.

edit: looks like you can actually purchase a chip that uses 802.11ah: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Silex-Technology/SX-NEW...

along with a rpi compatible dev board: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Silex-Technology/SX-NEW...

There is so much crap (e.g. cordless phones) over the 900 MHz band that using this probably only makes sense in remote environments though.
This is extremely unlikely. I'm saying they wouldn't have survived to see $300. You think they managed to live long enough to short at the top tick without being margin called and having their prime broker pull the plug on them?

The doubt around this situation is uncritical. This is a firm motivated by money. If you're seriously interested in making money, you don't lie to the public about closing your positions (boom, securities fraud) and stay in it when the volatility of the thing has destroyed your thesis (boom, breaking fiduciary duty). You get out to trade another day.
It seems less risky to buy puts, not short directly. I wouldn’t want to be short if this goes up another 10x, even briefly. It will go back down but you might get wiped out first.
"True" short interest is much lower - 55% - if you take into account that shorting creates new virtual shares. It's like fractional reserve banking.

https://twitter.com/ihors3/status/1355969693841051650?s=19
It's a pretty standard practice for shader editors(which are surprise, heavily math based!) and some game scripting engines.

The systems that I've seen handle large-scale titles usually had a mechanism to define a "function"/"inner-block" with inputs/outputs and visually show values at the "edges".

I haven't seen a system handle refactoring/large scale changes but I saw some pretty impressive things put together by our art/animation/design part of the studio in it.
If you gave me a lot of money, I wouldn’t need to do anything for you because I’ve already got your money ;)
Ask HN: Best Demo Day pitch videos?
Am gearing up for a seed, looking for some inspiration for a 2 min loom pitch.
I think the idea is that silver suddenly being 1000 USD/oz is more likely to be the result of something happening with the value of USD then it is the value of silver.
Yet the US is is the most racist country in the world with "systemic racism", so much so that even China asked the US in UN to reflect upon their systemic racism instead of attacking other country's human rights.

Seriously, the US is a really fair country. You want to assert that the US is a racist country, do please define what qualifies "systemic racism". Don't be like that URI professor who hates everyone who "asks for data".
In my opinion this is pre-cloud thinking.

It used to be that distributed systems were a big trade off. They were operationally complex, they had limited apis (NoSQL), but they scaled. The best solution used to be to build things using a non-scalable but easy to use and run system, and then re-write it later if it needed to scale (often in a big hurry).

This is just not the case any more, though. Why? Two reasons:

1. We’ve gotten much better at distributed systems so the apis aren’t nearly as limited. It’s no longer that you either choose hard-to-use things like Hadoop/NoSQL or elegant but unscalable single-server databases. You can have both good abstractions and scale.

2. The cloud makes it possible to get systems as a service so there should be way less ops than running a single node system yourself

In the case of Kafka, I’m super biased as I’m one of the original authors, but I think the abstractions Kafka gives, stream processing capabilities, connectors, etc are just way better than a lot of the traditional solutions. Using something worse until you “need” Kafka might make sense on premise, but not in the cloud.

Confluent offers a Kafka service which is fully managed so you don’t do any of the upgrades, security patches, midnight pages, etc you just use the APIs. This is super affordable for the kind of simple apps the article describes. The price varies by cloud, but e.g. on GCP it starts at $0.11/GB for reads and $0.10/GB stored. That is a lot cheaper than using a single node system and then rebuilding everything if you need to scale, but not only that, it is also lower operational overhead (effective none) and a better interface/abstraction.

I think this isn’t unique to Kafka, either. There are great managed systems that are built to scale for most of the kinds of data systems you would use—-CockroachDB, Spanner, Aurora, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, Bigquery, etc.

Basically, you can have nice things now, just like the big tech companies.
Everybody at a company experiencing scaling issues feels the way you do.

The argument however is if the past went the way you wish it did, arguably the company you currently work for would not exist, because they would have lacked the knowledge that you have now to know which areas were the ones that would matter. Absent that knowledge, they would have built “scalable” systems that still had bottlenecks they could not yet see and also would have adopted extraneous technology that ultimately would be thrown out as the product discarded the parts that ended up not being critical to the value proposition uncovered. And of course, this whole process would have burned time, energy, and cash, not to mention shifted the nature of hires and the composition of the team itself, such that in sum it may have been a sufficient opportunity cost to jeopardize the whole business.
https://global.strike.me looks to address that use case. See https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-strike-global-2392b90... for more context / backstory.

p.s. thanks for your work on Ardour
Just read everything in this thread. Have nothing worthwhile to add other than having created a Gitter chatroom dealing with developer burnout / happiness where like minded devs can hang there together - this is the link in case you want to be part of this group (think Developer Anonymous) https://gitter.im/DevUnwind/community
I respectfully disagree.

The whole point of inflation is to monetize the crazy debt spirals by empires. Its why the romans did it, why the Germans did it, why the british did it , and its why we do it. It doesn't take an econ degree to know that. That was the reason the gold window was closed in the first place.

If the whole point of inflation, mind you, is to encourage investment, then why does the fed react by spiking interest rates in the , 60s' 70's, 82 to address inflation...yet introducing a bona fide investment meltdown ?
Thats what reveals the facade. If the purpose of inflation was to encourage investment, it is certainly an odd to react to inflation by increasing interest rates, and destroying business investment in the process.

>>>>>>You’re not supposed to save money under the mattress, s you’re supposed to save value by purchasing assets.

This sure sounds like you know better than everyone else. Its probably an attitude that would be frowned upon by someone that believes in freedom of choice, like we do in USA.

>>>>Wages have on average kept pace with inflation.

I don't know if that is true since you have no sources, but the total count of people living in the US under the poverty line is exactly where it was in 1959, and now, post pandemic, it is certainly far higher. So even if wages kept pace, which is uncertain, with technology advances and the dollar as the reserve currency, you would expect the total number of people to be lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Number_in_Poverty_and_Pov...

>>>>>>>You keep a small slush fund for a rainy day in a savings account that at least partially offsets inflation and you invest the rest. You don’t save money, you save value. You transact money. If you’re saving money you’re doing it wrong.

This is valid because there is inflation. But it saddens me to think that you think it is perfectly rational and acceptable to steal money from the savings of hardworking people, who often have to fend off scams left and right...and thus keep the money for themselves, for no real reason other than that it is what... you think.
People have been expressing that sentiment for nearly 10 years. At what point do you accept that you were shortsighted? 20 years?
I think this is a really really bad idea. No more app stores. As a developer, app stores have always seem totally stupid to me. I remember when computers were actually things that you felt like you owned completely. Now, your computer is owned by people that run app stores. Github still seems like it's a company that understands its role as an intermediary. It hasn't yet tried to take over the world like everyone else and I hope it never does.
So, Let's Encrypt just uses a very big piece of iron for their database server, they don't scale horizontally.

Stack Overflow also famously buys the biggest hardware they can get and upgrade their database server accordingly.

I always wonder if horizontal scaling is really always the right answer, when you can just buy a bigger box (of bigger VM) and spare yourself a lot of issues.
Not really. It just enforces that specific properties (status field) can only be manipulated with methods decorated by an FSM transition. Allows enforcement of what actions are taken during a state transition so that some random view doesn’t change to “in progress” without the necessary actions occurring.

https://pypi.org/project/django-viewflow/ Is from the same developer which is a workflow/rules engine built on top of FSM.
Mozart interpretation is weirdly constrained-- most performers certainly know that a lot of Beethoven's weirdo techniques came from him-- like the sudden dynamic contrasts, or the many formal innovations of mashing things up. But they refuse to experiment with emphasizing those aspects, at least to the same degree they do in their performances of Beethoven.

Take the last movement of Mozart's String Quartet in E-flat Major, K 428. Mozart begins it without a lyrical melody (one which only appears in the final statement of the rondo theme)-- all four instruments are just playing an accompaniment to nothing. Then a contrasting phrase with an overactive melody in the first violin speeds its way into a half-cadence, after which the initial accompaniment material is developed in more substantial imitative polyphony.

On paper this looks completely reasonable-- starting with a little mystery, gaining some momentum, then developing what it started with. The problem is there is a repeat sign after the speedy melody-- that means the players are forced by the tradition of the form to go back to the banal accompanimental pattern right when the music should be moving toward development[1]. It's a clear a musical joke-- these forms force the listener to hear everything twice, and the composer is using that fact to ruin what would otherwise be a sensible flow. It's equivalent to getting up from one's chair and running vigorously back to one's chair to sit and do nothing.

In every performance I've heard, the performers underplay the weirdness of the first phrase and smooth over those hard edges at the repeat sign, thus hiding the joke. It's a shame because if they made it sound as weird and jarring as it's written, even people who don't listen to classical music would get the joke.

[1] And the performer can't simply leave out the repeats as performers do with sonata repeats-- in a rondo this would disrupt the proportions of the phrases.

Edit: clarification
Wow how many HN users went straight to hyperbolic comparisons to the worst people in history and conflating protests with conceptual activism.

Call the kettle black though eh.

PS: BLM manifesto was legit. Any of you actually read it?
Features beyond mere URL blocking are what made uBlock popular in the first place.
As far as I've hear Github works significantly independently from MS.

>The core message everybody on today’s call stressed was that GitHub will continue to operate as an independent company.

>n our interview, he also stressed that his focus will be on making “GitHub better at making GitHub” and that he plans to do so by bringing Microsoft’s resources and infrastructure to the code hosting service, while at the same time leaving it to operate independently.

>We are committed to being stewards of the GitHub community, which will retain its developer-first ethos operate independently and remain an open platform
> Citadel is in bed with Melvin.

> Robinhood is in bed with citadel

The underlying relationships don’t exist because the two companies named “Citadel” here are different companies.
NBC has double the primetime product placement of it's next nearest competitor, fox.

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00101603/00001
> News companies should aim to tell us as much as possible what is actually going on.

Key phrase: "what is actually going on". The humor and manner of speech of that subreddit has nothing to do with what is actually going on. It's just superfluous details intended to discredit them without having to explain what is actually going on.
I was really weirded out by this too, almost felt like the cursor was snapping!
The media portrays it as "Redditors take on hedge funds". In reality, the volume indicates there's hedge funds, as well as a broad group of retail investors from outside Reddit, who have all jumped on the train. Hedge funds are on both sides of this.
Planning for scale that will probably never happen is a specific instance of the YAGNI principle, and no doubt a particularly expensive one.
Coinbase. Bitcoin tripled and I think Coinbase is up much more.
And what happens when the side bets begin to wag the dog - when it becomes more profitable to manipulate the underlying and pay the fines there in order to save a bigger position in the side betting market?
> Miners will refuse to accept a transaction which conflicts with the one they saw much earlier.

At the very least there's no guarantee of that. If you send a conflicting transaction with a higher fee, a miner should (rationally) discard the older one. And last I checked (Ethereum, a few years ago), that was indeed what they were doing.
Well, "having" it first. (Still owned by the guys you borrowed it from).
> I've been through some interviews where I'm the oldest at the table and they tell me their stack and I try to keep a straight face.
> Well, yeah, with every acronyms AWS could come up with, using them all for no reasons at all (except S-C-A-L-I-N-G), you could build it all rock solid on a mid-size linode and do it with 5 dudes

I've been through some interviews where I was the youngest person at the table, but it otherwise sounds like I had a very similar experience to you (they had ~1000 total users - their "scaling issues" were entirely due to poorly architected code). In my case, I politely questioned it during the interview and they actually ended up letting me take over and simplify things.
They can’t halt sales because brokers aren’t allowed to halt sales.
All protests can attract bad actors that take advantage of the emotion and pain. This is honestly a non-sequitur argument unless you apply it to the "other side" as well.
> or sometimes anyone's money

Medallion...
You’re right that a lot of people say this. And not just random people, but people with large audiences, and people who presumably have some expertise.

What is Robinhood’s relationship with Citadel then?
> %53

What's with that weird way of writing a percentage numeric? Some weird "i'm an insider, trust me" signalling?