skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if there is enough demand to buy shares at the original price (which there should be if the price is definitely correct and the market is efficient enough)

That's true in a weird abstract "perfectly efficient" world where nobody has to buy or sell stocks except for liquidity, and we all just know the correct price.

The normal model of the market posits that different people have different biases and scraps of information, and we use buying and selling to find the "correct" price. Under that model, selling will always reduce the price compared to what it would have been.
“others are implementation choices that don’t have to be true”

Are you able to identify one of these implementation choices that don’t have to be true?
Ah - I have generally understood it as working on a percentage of the trade; being part and parcel of a leveraged strategy.

It's one thing to loan me $100 when we have shaken hands and contractually already agreed that $100 is on its way. It's another thing to assume control of that $100 when the $100 already agreed to is on its way.
yeah except unlike Cramer's picks, his actually go up and make people money
How about just joining them? shorting all those stocks (except the meme stocks)...
Really? You’re going to blame WSB rather than the hedge funds?
go sara!!
Just my suspicion but I think the big thing is going to be what happens when you leave your remote job and try to find a new one.

At the moment, in Silicon Valley, that answer is pretty obvious. . . you can find another job. Outside of silicon valley it's going to be curious to see what happens when you quit your remote job at Google and try to find another one.

My suspicion is the RSU package is not going to be as generous. This is just my suspicion.
But it is not central in any way.
Looks like the article is almost a year old, we should add "(2020)" to the title.
Ah so Dick was the scapegoat. I've been in similar situations. I've been asked to lie to our clients. I think I wrote about that here before I got downvoted and people tried to doxx me to find out which company it was.

when I refused to go along they turned me into a scapegoat. THIS is why I had to do what I had to do.
You are correct. But an emergency loan indicates increased risk of insolvency. Robinhood isn’t going to borrow money they don’t need, and raise their interest costs. Likely the loans were preexisting credit lines, so they were obligated to find Robinhood upon request.

The question is whether it will be enough and if not, whether new loans or investment will be available. Sitting on the outside it’s impossible to know whether this is an eminently comfortable buffer or a last finger in the dike.
Keep in mind that C++ doesn't exist. The compilers all have ways of enforcing compliance.

Intel C++ seems to be pretty naughty in that it effectively has fast-math on by default.
If nobody sells, any seller can charge ANY price they want. 1 trillion per share.

When more is shorted than exists, you’re in a let good place to know that there’s no such thing as the last biggest fool.
It's not about gaming reddit, but rather about gaming the algorithms scraping WSB and attempting to correlate stock tickers with rocket and eggplant emojis as a form of sentiment analysis

(Yes, this is a thing, and there is significant $$$ actually invested into this)
None of these is convincing, mostly because "its better for Gitlab".

I don't care. I want what's better for our company.

And right now, that is not paying for GitLab.

It sucks because I am an evangelist for GitLab, but I'm fighting a losing battle and we will be switching paid Github over free GitLab because of things like this.
PHP in fact had one of the first large online dev & documentation communities. A huge chunk of the web was built with multiple tabs of php.net open looking up which string length function to use.
TBH. I had no idea this was a thing either. I was incredibly confused when I identified a single piece of code that was producing an variation in result.
Sure, “tracking without consent” is an easy one.
Exactly. IMO if there was a liquidity issue / settlement issue they should've gone to the SEC / NYSE and HALTED trading. Not manipulate the market dynamics via volume. It's incredibly shady, and I've already withdrawn what assets I could from their platform.

They destroyed their brand in one day.
Show HN: Download music compilations from YT and split them into mp3 files
I'm amazed that we consider same day, and not sub-second to be an improvement in an electronic system these days.
Why do you think a crash of GME would cause a full blown crash of the stock market?
You'd probably be the only one :-)
I don't know about all that... ElasticSearch I don't have experience with, but CentOS is an example of a project I don't like in a bunch of ways - and I believe (on faith and anecdotal evidence mind you) that developers didn't like it nor choose to use it unless, for some reason, they needed the RHEL compatibility, which means that they need some tie-in to a corporate-commerical-only flavor of Linux.

So, I would argue, CentOS doesn't have an organic raison d'etre. If had one, it would be very difficult to "kill" it.
via Filecoin: "In short: IPFS addresses and moves content, while Filecoin is an incentive layer to persist data."

https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/faq/#ipfs-and-filecoin
You say that, but everything I have seen mentions that Apple does not track users. The recommendations in the App Store depend only on other apps you have bought already, which does not imply tracking across different apps, which is what Facebook is whining about.

If you have a proof that they behave otherwise, that would be useful, but as things are you cannot just write a sentence like that without any supporting evidence.
... and probably some others I've forgotten to track everything...

What you need is a personal data tracking tracking app.
How did you get around the problem of having the doctors actually care ?
He did! I was looking for the tweet so I could cite it, but wasn't able to find it.

Edit: Found it

https://twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1352564580434792452
Thanks. The part I don't understand is this, why upload your private collection to a stranger?

Something as fairly straightforward as music sync and streaming can be done with common open source software.

And streaming demands an internet connection. Carrying 2000 mp3s on any device is not burdensome.

What are the unique conveniences on offer here? I ask that in completely honest ignorance.
What is missing from the discussion on African entrepreneurship?
KDE Plasma also had this many years ago (before Windows' Sets), but they ended up removing it in Plasma 5.

(there is a bug report about it:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690

)
"Performs well" presumably. Like "observant" means "observes well". This is more general than "fast" since there are other metrics by which performance can be measured.
I've been working remote for 7 years. Mostly in small towns in Texas, but a couple in a big city. It was fun and good for awhile. It got lonely and hard after year 5. I didn't do a good job of getting enough rest and time away from work, and got burned out. It took 3 months of part time to get back to normal.

Your team has a big impact on your well-being. If they encourage healthy work/life balance and you have a healthy routine, you'll be better off than if they encourage longer hours and more, more, more.

Very thankful with where I am now, though. I've spent this afternoon working on a patio at a little cafe in the downtown area of a small town. That's pretty amazing.
Hedge funds didn’t bury Robinhood under 100,000 bad reviews. Both the shorts and longs have a vested interest in keeping Robinhood afloat, but the WSB doesn’t seem to realize that.
> Does this come up in practice? What kind of use cases suffer from disk latency?

One popular example is HFT.

And from my experience on a desktop PC it is better to disable swap and have the OOM killer do his work, instead of swapping to disk, which makes my system noticeable laggy, even with a fast NVMe.
Their whole pricing scheme is ludicrous, which they defend as "its better for GitLab!"
I currently have Steam, Epic Game Store, Origin, Battle.net and GOG Galaxy installed on my Windows PC and I don't seem to be running into the problems you describe. What I have is a lot of choice and a bunch of stores competing for my dollar in really interesting and innovative ways which largely benefit me and, often, the smaller developers.
I developed this little tool because I always find some great compilations available exclusively on YouTube and looked for a way to download and categorize the individual tracks. I could not find an existing tool which uses the new YT chapters feature and is focused on audio, so I built my own. Please make sure that you're using an up-to-date version of youtube-dl with chapter support if you want to try it.
... and at MIT apparently:

https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/mit-professor-arre...
I just checked in on this from yesterday and this is just fantastic. Such a clear explanation of T+2 and all the extra stuff specific to Robinhood that's probably a further drain on their cash position. So thanks SO much for this.

Also, it should probably exist somewhere a bit more first-class than buried in an HN thread, because it's just unbelievably educational.
Honest question, do you not have a 401(k) or similar? I certainly have a vested interest in seeing a healthy, sustainable stock market over the long term. Not because I'm part of the 1%, but because my upper-middle class retirement depends on it.
> shouldn't it instead try to enforce determinism in any possible way

That would only fix the build machine's problem, it wouldn't fix anyone else's builds.

A repeatable build without determinism is a fix for all people everywhere.
Apple is all about power and control over their users. The security schtick is a smokescreen
> In the meantime, the computers still work business hours and take off weekends for some reason.

They're just making sure they can avoid needing to pay their computers overtime when they get worker's rights. /s
> do feel EU has dropped the ball on securing vaccines from a wider base

But the EU also bought from pfizer and moderna?
It’s a pretty decent idea, at least in theory. Prior to stocks, it was difficult for the little guy to own a piece of a company. I certainly don’t have the money or time to get a stake of a private company, and I’m glad to be able to participate in the compounding machines that are well-managed companies.
The IPFS website at the bottom left contains a section "Protocol labs", the "About" link of that links to https://protocol.ai/ which says "We're decentralizing storage with Filecoin".

So their end goal might be making money off that cryptocurrency...

Thanks to the GP for causin me to figure out why the wheel is being re-invented here! :)

:|
It's to root out "works [deterministically] on my machine" bugs earlier.
When I saw him bragging, I went long GME as well (even though it is not a stock I would typically buy) just because if it crashes it will be a guilty pleasure seeing him lose so much, but if it goes up, well then we both make money. The latter seem to be playing out.
AMD in 2015. NVDIA same period. Literally all the positions of Citron that Andrew Left missed the mark with over an order of magnitude difference. Many tech companies.
Europe's Vaccine Disaster
Bug report:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690
Can’t we choose places that are a little closer to the rest of the planet?
I think Scena's immersive nature is what makes it so much more effective in video conferencing. 2D video can be so taxing and Scena simply isn't!
It seems like Zuckerberg disagrees with you on that. He seems to think it is a very important part of their business.

I’d like to believe you are right and it’s just an implementation choice, but Facebook seems very determined to be able to continue the practice.
>> Loeb was a once-respected scientist who made important contributions to astrophysics and cosmology, particularly when it came to black holes and the first stars. But his work on extraterrestrial signatures continues to be largely unappreciated by the community — a position as justifiable as ignoring the comparable idea of Russell’s teapot — and rather than address their scientific objections, he’s stopped listening to other astronomers entirely, instead choosing to try his scientific case in the most unscientific place imaginable: the court of public opinion.

This is an attack piece that targets Avi Loeb's character. It's disturbing that the author of the piece is himself an astrophycisist and I have to wonder, if Avi Loeb is calling upon the court of public opinion, what else is this piece, published in Forbes rather than a science venue, doing exactly?

Science is a debate. For there to be a debate, there have to be differing opinions. And for there to be differing opinions, there has to be the freedom of scientists to express their opinions. Even poorly supported opinions like Avi Loeb's. What hurts science is bombastic invocations of "the large amounts of research done by other professionals who specialize in this particular field" - as an attempt to stiffle an opionion the author is not fond of with an appeal to authority.
There are more Java jobs than PHP jobs and Java jobs usually pay better than PHP jobs.
It's a compelling story with multiple, interesting and intertwining narratives.

- An unprecedented and uncoordinated but sophisticated financial engineering play driven by an internet community.

- There is a loose analogy to the terrorist attack on the Capitol, an internet community organizing to destroy existing institutions.

- The ongoing class warfare that was highlighted by Occupy Wallstreet, 2008 crash and bailout.

- The frustration with the completely disjoint experience of the pandemic that the average American has had in contrast to the record highs of the stock market.

- America loves an underdog story.

It has something for everyone. But if you ignore all other context of the story and have tunnel vision on just /DFV gains then it's less interesting I guess.
And I bet you think the public health experts that sat by and watched 70m Americans get obese are just the people we should turn to now, don't you?
From the headline, I was picturing EXIF tags, which would be pretty amusing. Store your photos at this mountpoint here, read 'em from that mountpoint over there, and their locations and camera details get anonymized. But the real data still lives on disk.

Alas that's not what this is about, but now I wonder how hard it would be to make the thing I had in my head.
You are right, but she is a GCP ML advocate, so her job is to distill this stuff down into blog posts or 45 minute talk tracks.
One of the components in our project was churning through thousands of JSONs per second - deserializing, transforming and serializing them.

These JSONs represented the flight information. They included multiple datetimes, such as the scheduled departure/arrival time and the real departure/arrival time of a flight.

The first bottleneck was JSON deserializarion/serializarion. At that time we solved it with ujson, and now there's the even more performant orjson.

The second bottleneck happened to be datetime deserializarion. And we solved it with ciso8601 - luckily, these datetimes were in ISO8601. But this bottleneck later repeatedly occured in the other components and became an inspiration to write dtparse :)
I found this document https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020... which stated about the phase I/II trial that "Weekly COVID-19 PCR testing is performed". However, the phase II/III and phase III trials state "Suspected cases presenting with compatible symptoms were tested for virological confirmation by COVID-19 PCR" (slightly different wording in the two cases)
I dislike Facebook and even without using their platform (account was deleted years ago) my PiHole #1 DNS queries are all related to Facebook. They are the cancer of the web.

If I want a moated ecosystem for my smartphone I am happy to have this option with Apple. If I wanted open I can go with any of the Android options. I have a choice.

I do not need Facebook to remove that choice for me in their efforts to violate my privacy further.
Sure but if the the statement gets too close to admitting a liquidity crisis the market will close their doors the next day.
Yeah, even a glance at the graphs is enough to raise significant doubts. This has the smell of p-hacking to claim/find a correlation where there is none.
Besides the huge push on dogecoin, which is big for onboarding people into crypto (yes, I know DOGE isn't DeFi), the bottlenecking of orders by brokerages undermines people's faith in the fairness of traditional securities and the markets. People will be more interested in decentralized solutions where they can have more faith in exchanges (I am aware that DeFi is not that decentralized or fair, but the majority of the public that is aware of crypto and DeFi thinks it is, just as they thought that traditional securities were fair).
Rights aren't really useful or meaningful if exercising them causes problems. What we should strive for is someone refusing to have their car searched without any problems.
New Zealand is now a city in Australia?
You really hit the problem exactly.

Instead of doing that, they are removing the Starter tier.

I bet next they'll be double the price, then dropping the free tier.

Then five years later wonder why their company isn't doing well.
Model 3 autopilot is exactly as autonomous as I really feel comfortable with - that is, it can handle stop and go traffic and highway lane keeping. I’ll gladly drive the local streets on manual.

This new Model S is a bridge too far in a few different regards. I’d probably go with an EV BMW or Benz in this segment when they are available, if I had the money. Or the new Hummer.
Well your average Joe buying stocks with his hard earned money and then doing whatever he wants with them is not illegal too, but that's being debated by the parties with the appropriate interests.
> The stock market has never done anything for me.

I mean, it could, if you were to invest.

> Shareholders making money out of my work is not exactly in my interests, nor is it in the interest of the majority of the world’s workers.

So instead of, say, encouraging people to learn how to invest, and maybe even incentivizing firms to allocate shares to their employees, you'd rather just have the whole stock market burn to the ground?
It’s not well known, but it exists. I can’t say exactly since when; it was a couple of years ago.
Shots fired at Golang
According to the NYT story it sounds like a convertible note or something similar:

"Investors who provide new financing to Robinhood will receive additional equity in the company. The investors will get that equity at a discounted valuation tied to the price of Robinhood shares when the company goes public, two of the people said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/technology/robinhood-fund...
Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
What can you do without Googling these days?
better teach her about gains over 5-10 years, not gambling on single stocks
BBC Documentary – Winter viruses and how to beat them 59 min. (2013)
A forgotten BBC programme on a desolate YouTube channel that seems even more relevant in 2021 than the day it was broadcast in 2013. Contains gems of understanding, knowledge and interesting experiments pertaining to the corona virus and COVID-19, but years before the pandemic even arrived.
Just out of curiosity, is GameStop legally allowed to issue a special dividend, which would further squeeze the remaining shorts?
However, if Melvin had picked up deep OTM calls before the (literal in both senses) volume started ramping up about two weeks ago, they might have done a little better.

To be clear, I don’t actually think they did.
Super glad to hear that!
I wouldn't trade my remote work for anything in the world. It's incredibly rewarding. The flexibility this allows for is unparalleled by any other single benefit a job can offer other than salary perhaps.

It's given me so much freedom and independence in life. Source: I'm what most people would consider an introvert and I've been working from home since 2006.

I currently reside in a sleepy mountain town in California and I couldn't be happier here.
> What I'm concerned about is the long-term chronical diseases that's been reported

When I looked into it I was shocked at how many people have long term affects after the flu. One of the studies I saw in a comprehensive paper looking at heart swelling and the flu showed a shocking amount of this in even non-hospitalized flu patients! [0]

Apparently any virus that attacks the lungs and.or nervous system leaves behind a lot of damaged people. Most of the time things like heart swelling go away after a couple months. But some people are permanently damaged. This can happen with all viruses, even the common cold kills people. Covid appears to be no different in this regard.

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.685...
I have no idea and I suspect the answer is that most people don't actually commit several felonies per day. However, the point is that there are lots of laws that I'm not aware of and I may have inadvertently broken one of them. I'm certain if a government agency really wanted to put me in jail they could for quite a long time even if they don't get a conviction. It's sad that this is the state of affairs that exist in the U.S.
You've been researching it for 5 years. How about stop researching and just do the easy thing that will bring GitLab lots of money?
Really?
You do realise that's exactly what the EU is attempting against the UK?

Astra Zeneca has contractual obligations with the UK too, and human decency applies to UK people too.

Yet the EU is not only trying to do exactly what you say you dislike, they are also attempting to interfere with totally unrelated contractual obligations (EU-AZ issues leading to "monitoring" of UK-Pfizer contractual deliveries, which has nothing to do with the EU-AZ contract).
Howdy neighbor! I also work for an SF company everyone knows about and I moved to Sarasota a couple of years ago. It's the best financial decision I've ever made. Your analysis is spot on, and the Amish food is amazing.

Also, I'm a night owl and now I can work from like 12pm-9pm. Working on west coast time while living on the east coast is a major life improvement for me.

If anyone is considering moving to FL and buying property, Sarasota is the obvious choice. The amount of construction going on here is incredible. I wouldn't buy anywhere else in Florida.

I also looked into Austin TX and Vancouver WA as possible destinations, but the real estate values seemed more predicable in Sarasota. If you get in at the beginning of a construction project here, you're pretty much assured to make money. I bought my house as new construction at the start of a new development and it was worth more than I paid by the time construction was complete.

If someone is considering moving to FL but wants more of that "tech city" vibe, you can rent a really nice place up in St Pete where there's much more happening, but I wouldn't buy there because the whole thing is a flood zone.
I agree with the article and am a big FSF GNU/Linux fan, but have to admit that I am ready and willing to pay AWS for RDS because it is so convenient for me. No worries about patching, backups, etc. I can always export the data, too, and load it into my own PostgreSQL server if/when I want to do that.

So while I do agree that free software is superior, not all SaaS is lock-in with evil intentions, and many people are eager to pay for the convenience and scale that it provides.
> they need to accept personal responsibility when it turns out that they didn't know as much as they thought they did.

aka, RH is between a rock and a hard place - either the clueless user suicides due to poor understanding, and causing bad PR, or they do what they're doing now.
I believe the term is “retarded”