skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the most spot on post ever. The amount of stuff in the world that relies on old, tried and true "a file appears in a directory somewhere overnight and is processed the next morning on 'the other side'" method is probably staggering. But most people nowadays don't know or understand this at all, as they've never been exposed to this. And why would they ever be. And all the fixed column width stuff as well and delimiter based import/exports.

Heck I've had to fix one of these things where it suddenly started failing the overnight transfers and when I went to check why it was because a fricking musician had named their song to include the delimiter used in one of those...
That's because the costs come from OPM. When you work at a prop shop and all the money is literally the money of the employees, things are very different. Sure, everyone makes out like bandits and gets rich if things are going according to plan, but no one, and I mean no one, is wasting money.

If your prop shop blowing up means everyone who works there is now penniless, you tend to get much better results.
Yes, but I think hedge funds will easily be able to cover that cost on new short positions basically indefinitely.
Lunik: The CIA's audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
Let's take a step back:
- the EU has a binding contract with Astra Zeneca
- the idea is to manufacture vaccine before the EMA decision
- one week before the EMA decision AstraZeneca tells everybody that there are only 30% of the agreed doses

Now that is super weird, who would do something like this and communicate something like that in the last moment.

The EU is of course now under intense pressure because people are calling them every day and telling them that they are killing their citizens.
I think comparisons between the strategy of the UK and the EU or even better Israel are stupid, of course the UK and Israel are able to be faster...they are smaller. But the total volume of available vaccine limits the possibilities for the EU. If the total volume of the UK would be avalailable for the EU it would be a drop in the bucket. And I really don't get all the "race" reporting, it's highly unlikely that vaccination speed differences between one to 3 months will make any difference in mortality.
What? Sorry this looks like spam and I don’t want to click this link. If legitimate, explain?
The Europe vaccine disaster has become very seriuos
Maybe we'll see a new class of financial instrument come out of this. Not sure how it would work but I have to imagine that some clever person on Wall Street can find a way to sell shares of:

> Give me $1 and I'll make sure your target loses $5
I think you misread the comment your replying to. He said the difference between average deaths per year and 2020 deaths per year was 12%. Likely this will balance out with a lower death rate in the next year, as the old and weak who would have died in 2021 sadly left this world already a year early.
What other posts is it competing with? Right now all the other posts at the top of the front page are older and many of them have similar amounts of comments and points. It seems that HN just isn’t very active right now.
Did analog TVs have quantization noise?
I mean, I don't get it but people watch twitch coding streams, so #shrug#.
He's not saying 12% of the population, he's saying 12% more then the running 5 year average.
In my studies in college we did not do anything with the Windows API (or any other OS for that matter). While I can appreciate the concept of basically just using standard libraries to teach CS fundamentals in theory, in practice it just means the only things available to you are mostly leetcode-esque academic coding. Would have loved an assignment like this in my 1st or 2nd year. I was probably not aware of stuff like curses libraries until my senior year if that.
Power usage/battery life, on the other hand...
You're going to have to explain how buying shares === workers earning less because I don't follow.
A more realistic approach might be for Facebook to develop their own phone and mobile OS, with an app store to go along with it.

I don't think alternate app stores for other platforms that already have their own "authorized" app stores is an idea with any legs, due to the friction you mention.
Was today not a bloodbath? GME closed Thursday at $193.60 and closed today at $325. That's an absolutely murderous day for a short.
You are confusing "12% more than the prior 5 year average" with "12% of the overall population".

Nevertheless, I agree it's a catastrophe.
It doesn't matter. Personal liberty, freedom of speech (which implies freedom from compelled speech) and freedom of association (and even, arguably, property rights) are scale invariant. And everyone seems to have forgotten that those rights apply to the owners of sites and platforms as well.
The lock down gives Apple the leverage to force good behavior and policy.

If it was left to choice the companies are incentivized to be shitty.

Users are unsophisticated so the incentive will be for companies to track, mine, and sell data and most will do it.

> “You can choose to only download apps from the Apple store that follow those rules”

There will be way fewer of them, if it’s even possible to tell them apart at all.

> “Why do you feel everyone else in the world must live in your limits...”

I don’t - they can buy android and side load if they want to.

Why do you feel I must be forced to suffer an open platform as well? Forcing Apple to do this removes consumer choice, it doesn’t add to it.
UK was unlikely to take on Germany alone, it couldn't mount a unilateral invasion of Germany imo.

Therefore the UK needed to coordinate with a foreign power (France) both strategically and operationally. There are some examples in the battle for France where comms and coordination between UK and France General Staff was pretty woeful.

Germany made one agreement with USSR to divide Poland and then basically shipped it's Army around mainland Europe stomping everyone west of Poland.
It's simpel!

Name your vars $some_list for integer arrays and $some_hashmap (sometimes $some_coll (collection)).

I'm 1/2 joking. I maintain loads of legacy and recent PHP LOB apps. Var-name fixes can do a lot to help the case in any loosely typed langs (I learned the trick from VB4.0)
A trivial (not necessarily smart or optimal, but possible) way for GameStop to avoid that eventuality is to liquidate; close down the business and sell off all the assets - that wouldn't be a bankruptcy, they have more than enough cash and assets to cover their debts, so they would have a nonzero amount of cash left over to distribute to the shareholders.

In essence, you're correct that if the company goes bankrupt, the stock is worth nothing, but you make a mistaken assumption in that a company without a viable business model or future profit must go bankrupt - if they have an asset base, they can restructure or shut down long before their accumulated wealth is spent.
>However as they're both communication networks they do not provide censorship-resistance. The endpoints you're connecting to are central servers and can be taken down.

Can you elaborate on this? This reads as essentially false to my understanding. If by endpoints you mean 'relays', those are not 'central servers'. If you mean directory authorities, then yes, those are centralized.

With that said, I'm still not sure what you mean by 'they do not provide censorship-resistance.'

They absolutely have and do provide censorship resistance.
The same x86 instructions are used for arithmetic on float/double/extended types; the difference is a precision setting in the x87 control word.
They should be tagging the loan and pending settlements (like every bank does when you deposit a check!) not hiding it.
What I don't understand: Most comments sound like the EU wants to take doses away from the UK.

But wasn't the source of the whole argument that doses produced in the EU (with EU money and for which the EU assumed they were reserved for EU use) were exported to the UK before EMA approved the vaccine, so that now only 31 vs 80m promised doses are delivered in Q1 for the EU while AZ delivers everyone else in full?

I can get behind the critic of the tone, but if this description is correct, AZs went at least against the spirit in the contract.

Everyone else (US, UK with AZ contract) prohibits exports of domestically produced vaccines, while e.g. Pfizer/Biontech supplies everybody out of the EU.

I don't think you can blame the EU now to follow everyone's example as their (naive) idea of generous grants but few rules obviously didn't work out to get the population vaccinated asap.
You have discovered: Spinoza's "Ethics," which, in an essay bouncing between the Bible (where I stopped reading every word) and Aristotle and Plato, is notably missing.

That said, she doesn't say that she acted on it (and only implies that she didn't), so a lot of this thread reads as melodrama.
buy-side or sell-side? I don't have any exp with working at a fund or a bank, but I work at a prop shop and the atmosphere is markedly different than what people would expect. Money is not wasted, profits are distributed every month in a way such that every employee does very well (some more well then others ofc), and everyone hustles to generate pnl. When you are fully invested (life savings in the firm) you tend to get much better results. On the other hand, if you're using OPM or not even really trading except to rip off dumb businessmen on high spreads, things probably look a lot different.
The fix is to slow it down at the egress, not within the system.
Why? What service actually transfers your money instantly? None does.
I still don’t understand why EU did not consider the Chinese and Russian vaccines.

Very populous countries are getting them and any distrust towards the reporting of these vaccines could have been scrutinized(Turkey run its own "stage 3" on the Chinese one, got its own numbers and is inspecting the deliveries for 2 weeks before vaccinating the population).

Now we have this situation where EU is lagging behind very seriously and the allied countries say that they should have signed better contracts.

Okay, do your thing on TikTok and Huawei businesses in your trade war but not even considering buying vaccines from them then being left behind and and arguing on contract technicalities is not OK.
12% of the population? No, surely what's meant is an increase of 12% to the usual number of deaths per year.
Imagine if making a bank transfer was as east as sending a spam email.

FedWire works because those banks work very hard to trust each other.
I assume literally the entire job of the negotiating team is to negotiate the price down. If their job isn't to negotiate the price down, what are the negotiators hired for?

If they are just going to take the market price, there doesn't need to be a negotiation team. Just let companies sell the vaccine to whoever at whatever price.

They didn't lose sight of the big picture, they did what they were there to do.
Anyone who promised to provide someone anything in return for buying may have done something illegal, but anyone who shared their genuinely held beliefs on what would happen in the future did not do anything illegal unless they are a market broker etc.

And, anyone who bought shares or told someone to buy shares with the intent of driving up the price also did something illegal - but it's something that is done constantly and considered a fundamental part of the market, either as an attack on a company in the classic hedge fund short->bankruptcy or, more benignly, like buying up shares of a takeover target slowly so people don't notice you are interested and buy it, which would raise the price.
A Year of Coronavirus: How Deadly Was 2020 Compared to Other Years?
'Finally, a recent CDC report indicated that, while the vast majority of excess deaths occurred among the elderly, the greatest relative increase in deaths occurred in the 25 to 44 age group.'
> the regional price that the IA got was $3 per dose, the commission stepped in trying to get it down to $2.

Meanwhile in France, I can do a RT-PCR test paid by the state (around 50$ AFAIK) every other day with no question asked.
> we most likely shouldn't be giving out second shots before more people get a first shot.

It's mostly thinking out loud because sometimes the most effective solution is a bit counter-intuitive. There may be some value in getting more people to a guaranteed 100% protection. Right now, in Canada, we seem to be following an intuitive route. But in BC, they've already administered ~4000 second doses. (Likely only in long term care facilities). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-19-upd...

So it seems like the strategy there may be to get those residents to 2 shots before others.
The dilemma though is that a clear statement of “we are running out of cash” would start a run of customers transferring their money and cashing out, cash RH didn’t have.
Yes. Was just pointing out that this statement is false or dangerously half-true: “as of now, he has not sold his shares”. This, however, would be true: “as of now, he has not sold all of his shares”.

The danger in “he has not sold his shares” is that a retail investor who did not do their research might misinterpret it and imagine a guy who never sold and will never sell; since that guy has background in finance and knows what he’s doing, common sense would suggest it must be safe to invest into this stock right now; meanwhile, in reality that guy has already cashed in big time.
There's nothing to suggest the underlying fundamentals would change. It's possible the resurgence in interest could save the company, but it's not going to turn into a growth company, and won't ever have anything near a massive valuation relative to it's baseline.
Can’t be as bad as a full-screen modal making me accept cookies to read a silly article.
What’s the DTCC and How Did It Stop GameStop Mania?
"Hedge fund managers typically have a substantial amount of their own capital invested in the funds they manage, and a significant portion of their compensation is based upon the absolute, or positive, performance they achieve for their investors. As New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer observed recently, the interests of hedge fund managers and their investors tend to be "aligned", largely due to this combination of the managers' commitment of capital to their funds and the performance-based compensation structure."

https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/hedgefunds/hedge-mfa.htm
On the contrary, load any map and there are bugs everywhere!
A closer analogy is Walmart deciding what goes on its shelves and it being hard for users to buy from any other store besides Walmart once they choose a “Walmart” device which locks them into their choice a bit.

I can see the argument, I just don’t think the power is being wielded for consumer harm - if it was that’d be different.

If Apple was blocking some company from their store everyone wanted because they were competing with an Apple product that’d be an issue. As it is they’re making it easy for their users to not be spied on.

In the analogy it’d be Walmart checking that what they stock on shelves doesn’t poison their customers.

Are they wielding power? Sure - is that monopoly abuse? No.
I read this and think you rarely get angry because you replaced the habitual pattern of getting angry with the habit of asking a question instead.

Choice where there wasn’t any.

Great counselor ;)
Can I put backticks in inline code now? :)

What about making some of my code bold?
If you know the term LPs you should know the typically senior management at hedge funds have a significant portion of their net worth invested in their own funds.
This is a political suicide in many countries+ the likelihood of people wanting to take it may be on the lower side.
I'm a software engineer, so I think I'm more familiar with how apps work than most people, and this wasn't obvious to me! Good thing I only use Robinhood for money I don't care about losing.
No way UK is to blame for this, just pure arrogance of narcissistic EU commission trowing a temper tantrum about how it can't possibly be even wrong after having grabbed all responsibility for delivering the vaccine because it was her moment to shine after the brexit, and then start pointing fingers at the first set back.
2 weeks ago he had 2,000. 1,000 each with different expiry dates.
> we get things like you telling me that you don't know what I consider vile, as if I'm just being unreasonable and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Sorry, but nobody is psychic. You said you had seen some "extremely vile" things, and gave no examples. You were politely asked for some details. Nobody has said they don't believe you at all, in fact the very point that someone has asked you to provide examples rather implies that such things do occur, hence you being given the chance to explain what you, personally, mean by "extremely vile" in this case. Nobody claimed you were being unreasonable, nor was it inferred, AFAICT.

That seems pretty darn reasonable to me. It's certainly not how conversation would likely go on many other social platforms.

Unless examples are given here by yourself, nobody can even arrive at your claimed "truth is somewhere in the middle" point of view — your comment merely becomes throwaway. Which, on this site, generally isn't how things are done — unless of course you are being unreasonable about things (in which case the downvotes will fix things pretty quickly).

Edit: I feel this point from HN's "Guidelines" page (linked at the bottom of every page) is fairly relevant here: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." — the poster asking you for examples is doing this, your response: less so.
Or, you know, explain what's going on in the UI.
This is what I was looking for. That seems to make a lot of sense.

> which wouldn't be applicable to most places in the United States right now

Which begs the question: how do you delineate regions for strategies in a pandemic? Political/provincial/municipal borders are useless when you're talking about disease transmission. Does it then make sense to have different strategies for different areas (and to divide areas up based on completely different concepts -- like proximity to major highways, for instance).
In Canada I use WealthSimple and they don’t even have margin accounts. In the past I’ve been pissed about the 3 day hold period of funds coming in but I totally get it now.
Is there some reason a crash shouldn't happen? If you have a stake in the market, even in diversified index funds, presumably you know the risk is non-zero, and accept that because the rewards are higher than lower-risk choices like, say, stuffing your money under the mattress.
Do RH users get worse prices than commission brokers?
The FDA has banned it I'm the US, it's holding them back.
The web is full of red circles with exclamation points.
Shapez.io is very much in the same spirit.
I still eat sausage and I know what's in it.
That’s basically what AMC did.

They issued 50 million new shares at-the-market last week. They also had a $600M loan that was convertible and converted into stock. As a result, they’re sitting on nearly a billion new dollars, which should help them ride the pandemic out.
Josh Brown starts the podcast episode released yesterday telling this story. It's a fantastic re-telling, highly recommend.

As he says repeatedly in the episode, "Wall Street always changes the rules."

https://thereformedbroker.com/2021/01/29/pigs-get-slaughtere...
Actually, yes, they did. This is why, for decades, photographers collected pieces of red, green, yellow, and blue glass, gel filters, and polarizers to put in front of or between their lenses, seeking ways to increase or mute contrast as desired. Ansel Adams' zone system of photography was all about understanding how to get colors into different zones of grey.
If we're going to be technical about the whole thing,

The history of colour television dates back to the mechanical era - with the first practical unit being demonstrated the same year as the first television station launched in America. Further, the first practical all-electronic colour television was developed in 1944, long before mass adoption of the technology. Finally, by the time television adoption began in earnest (1948), the FCC was developing a standard for colour television transmission.

So while it's true that for many years televisions displays lacked colour, they would have still been judged by their absence of colour by a population well aware of coming advancement.
> That's a real recipe for shutting down, and if that happens, there is no more short to squeeze. Everyone loses.

It seems you didn't understood that for the WSB crowd the definition of winning is getting these funds to shut down, regardless of their personal losses.

This is no longer about money. This is a protest against a rigged system.
As much as I hate ads, as a former small business owner, I can tell you it's not easy growing a biz on word-of-mouth alone.
So I’m not convinced this is actually “billions of colours”. Technically, it means having a 10-bit colour encoding over the wire such that you can express over a billion colours. The distinction between 8-bit and 10-bit is not actually sRGB vs HDR in the same way as dithering a GIF to a maximum of 256 colours lets you display the sRGB colour space but limits you to only 256 colours of it. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/dithering-w...

Similarly, you can turn on that little High Dynamic Range checkbox and get HDR but only have 16.7 million colours at your disposal because it’s output in 8-bits per colour rather than 10-bits per colour.

And it’s really hard to tell the difference sometimes between 8-bit HDR and 10-bit HDR. Like really hard. Like usually only visible when doing colour grading such that you need every possible nuance of data to more accurately shade and re-colour your pixels. https://youtu.be/MyaGXdnlD6M

Of course I imagine there’s also good vs bad dithering and the output to the attached laptop computer screen is probably better than the multiple cables and adapters required to output to TVs and external displays, but... the easiest way to tell whether something supports billions of colours is to go into monitor preferences and look for 10-bit or 422 or 444. If you see 420 or 8-bit, technically you might still have HDR but you don’t have “billions of colours”, technically.
> Downvotes without replies again.

Looking at that comment it might be because it just asserts “there are far more side-effects w/mRNA than traditional vaccines” without any explanation or sources.
A negotiation can be for anything: it could be to include additional safe-guards in the contract for example...

You could even negotiate a higher price in exchange for something more valuable (for example, paying extra per vaccine in exchange for building more capacity sooner...)
It's wild over there now. WSB was always like the kid at school that always got into crazy stuff. Now, they're off their meds, haven't slept in a week, and just did a bunch of coke.
If short squeeze happens[0], the shorts will have to buy the shares back at whatever the price will be. If they go bankrupt the responsibility passes to the brokers and further upstream.

Of course it might not happen.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25945253
Does 80 percent per annum mean that carrying the short for ~9 months will cost roughly the same as closing it out today, assuming the price remains constant for the next 9 months?
Actually, yeah! One example of this is the set of the Adams Family, which famously had a ton of pinks and bright pastels despite being a supposedly gothic set specifically because those colors created the best contrast in the final medium, a black and white tv set :)
Yes humanity has suffered and survived far worse than COVID-19, even if you imagine that nothing at all had been done to mitigte it.