skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I’m too dense to get the hint?
Is this actually true though? It sounds great, but where’s the data?

* we need more than just the occasional anecdote to determine if this is a real issue
Thanks! I can certainly see your points. My whole career has been in and around NYC metro/tri-state area...always as a technologist for large U.S.-based or multi-national enterprises. I've never worked at a small firm, so i can definitely imagine that negotiating with smaller firms might be more achievable in many cases.
But they can only be produced at a finite rate, which may cause competition amongst buyers in the short term as they bid against each other for the finite number that are on the lot.

Further, the resources needed as raw material are finite (unless we start asteroid mining), as is the energy needed in the process: we have only so many gigawatts we can produce at one time.

More plants can be built, but those take resources as well: some of the very same resources that are needed to build the cars we're talking about.
> There are 100 shares. A owns 90 of them, B owns 10. A lends her 90 shares to C, who shorts them all to D. Now A owns 90 shares, B owns 10 and D owns 90—there are 100 shares outstanding, but190 shares show up on ownership lists. (The accounts balance because C owes 90 shares to A, giving C, in a sense, negative 90 shares.) Short interest is 90 shares out of 100 outstanding. Now D lends her 90 shares to E, who shorts them all to F. Now A owns 90, B 10, D 90 and F 90, for a total of 280 shares. Short interest is 180 shares out of 100 outstanding. No problem! No big deal! You can just keep re-borrowing the shares. F can lend them to G! It's fine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/the-ga...
I think that’s GPs point.
Yes, exactly. This is what I meant with "This has the veneer of a crowd sticking it to someone they felt exploited by, but in the end, they're just being exploited by someone else."
99% of them are doing more than just not minding Melvin's issues, they're actively feeding off Melvin. Melvin is going to be (or is already) selling off what they have in stuff like FB, MSFT, AAPL, etc, and it's not the retail traders who are benefiting from this, it's the other parts of the investment banking system. Even the sales traders are going to be on the phone with Melvin going "Sell 200k AAPL? No bother."
To be fair, "law doesn't work backwards" is an estabilished legal principle.
I guess they don't have credit unions in the UK?
This is a financial version of the social media effect we have seen spreading misinformation and causing people to act in real life.

All of the ingredients are there.

1) Use social media to organize motivated groups of people

2) Align the mob to a target that is inherently disliked. Hedge funds and wall street more generally.

3) Cause world wide market volatility.
In this case, it's moving institutional investors out of the market, eventually causing a lack of liquidity that reveals structural problems.
In other words, How many Lehman Brothers does it take to cause a 2008 type crash?
I went the opposite way. When Google started deliberately making Maps harder to use without following their preferred usage pattern (removing 90% of street names etc. so you have to use search and directions for everything) I stopped using Maps. I'm now almost 100% degoogled and while it's less convenient sometimes, I feel so much less icky.
Since crypto pays no return on profits it cannot meet the definition of a Ponzi.

It is more akin to tulip mania, dependent on inflated futures with diminishing utility.

Presently though, it's better than cash, which finds itself in a similar position.
That assertion is nothing new. I believe there were even studies made about that, comparing economies to organisms, and high-growth companies as cancerous manifestations. But don't ask me what and where.
The last picture is now a useless "image hosted by tripod" placeholder. There is a picture here: https://www.alamy.com/ain-dara-iron-age-syrohittite-temple-f...

(There is a huge amount of conspiracy nonsense coming up when I search for this stuff.)
Expertenbroschüre+zu+“Public+Money,+Public+Code”
I need it when working with huge source trees. Windows sucks at that and extra memory that allows for more caching helps. Mac sucks less in that respect. Still git status on Intel MacBook Pro 2020 takes 2-3 seconds while on Thinkpad X280 from 2017 with Linux it took less than a second.
You can blame the Fed for one thing, and only one thing. They provided way too much money on the wrong side.

The Fed provides loans to banks who then provide loans to companies so that they can grow faster. It's about increasing efficiency, not about total possible upside.

However, there is a point after which businesses have enough loans for all the investments they have planned. Every single dollar after that is too much and does nothing.

The next step is to spend money in a way that creates more investment opportunities for those companies. In short you want to balance supply and demand.

The simplest spending target would be to pick a industry that is not in competition with private industry. My personal favorite are renewables and other infrastructure because you will not displace existing companies through government spending.

Carbon taxes also create an incentive to borrow more money and do productive work but they do gnaw at CO2 spewing private industry which is the entire point but there are vested interests that don't want to lose their money.
A dynamic approach to detecting browser fingerprinting
But aren’t the shorts for like 140% of the GME stock? That means if everyone holds with prices, sooner or later the shorters will have to buy ALL that stock anyway at nearly any price to cover for the losses and give back shorted stock.
Foliate fits perfectly:

- [x] colors

- [x] Fonts

- [x] Font size

- [x] Margins/padding/spacing

- [x] Page scroll. no animations

- [x] Keyboard shortcuts

- [x] Footnotes

https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/
This is interesting use case but has nothing to do with invasive KYC (as done by banks), the same anomaly detection and follow up could be done if you were some random identifier “Joe” with any contact detail (email, phone number, telegram handle, ...)
There is a programming language called Racket, let's not associate it with bad UI practices.
I engaged with the paper. They didn't do a controlled test of anything. They ran some stats on BoardGameGeek.
> The vast majority of people simply aren't on the autism spectrum at all.

What about the broad autism phenotype (BAP)? BAP is very common in close relatives of people diagnosed with ASD. And there is no clearcut boundary between ASD and BAP – the boundary varies from clinician to clinician. (On that topic, see [0] which argues that a >30 percentage point difference in ASD diagnosis rates between two specialist clinics is best explained by differences in the culture of the clinicians.)

If ASD is 1-2% of the population, BAP could be several times that.

[0] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/90070
I think the timescales thing you mention is important when interpreting articles like this. The only quant strategies that are sucking are the long horizon, scalable ones available to public funding, which get articles written about them. Shorter term prop quant strategies are making an absolute killing, as they usually do in elevated vol. VIRT's 10Q gives an indication of this, even though they're not quant heavy but still fit into this general category.

People think GME is about money flowing from hedge funds to retail, but in reality the biggest winners are the prop and HFT firms as more retail money enters the market.
> Mountains of academic research has consistently found ...

"Past performance does not guarantee future returns", and vice-versa.

That's a somewhat trite statement (albeit technically true), but it's particularly relevant here where people are betting on disruption. The "concept" behind this movement is that one can influence stock performance through collective action by taking decisions that would not have been taken in the past (for very obvious industry reasons, like those given in your comment).

It's a high-risk bet for some, but noone is going into this hoping for a return based on traditional market performance.
managed to have the shortest edit-compile-link-execute/test-edit cycle in reliable environment

only by undergoing such trial & error one'd gain knowledge at the greatest pace
I can imagine smaller firms might lend themselves to more possibilities for negotiations. I've never worked for a small firm nor a FAANG...I have always only worked for large enterprises - many with names that are easily recognizable globally, and maybe 1 or 2 jobs with enterprises that are major names only in U.S. markets...but those firms ran the gamut with respect to industry (and none in the FAANG or silicon valley/startup sector)...so as other folks have stated, the ability to succeed in these types of negotiations can vary greatly by size of company, seniority of role, perceived value to team or org., etc.
The iPad's over a decade old and we're still not sure what it's for
Those analysts are incredibly specialised. The rank and file developer ‘at the bleeding edge’ spends their day buried deep in a single codebase. The analyst spends their day carefully picking through industry trends.

You say short sellers are using fundamentals as an ‘excuse’ to short stocks ‘they don’t like’. If not from careful analysis of the business, where should the opinions come from?
> That symbol table is part of the shared cache, right? Doesn’t it already follow that bar’s TEXT needs to be at the same virtual address in every process?

Yes, and this is how the shared cache works. If you wish to map the shared cache elsewhere there would have to be another copy of it in memory, which is why this would be a massive pessimization if done without designing for it. Perhaps you might have some idea as to what would need to change to make this not be as bad.
Sure, I added the following assumptions:

- stuff I play myself

- something I can explain to the 70yo parents in a few minutes before the game

- easily available (either recent, or a classic)

Here's five recommendations:

- Cacao (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/171499/cacao)

- Carcassone (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne)

- Alhambra (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6249/alhambra)

- Ticket to Ride (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9209/ticket-ride)

- Samurai (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3/samurai)
Zuckerberg will depoliticise Facebook following violence organised on platform
I totally agree with the OP, check out the protocol I am working on since 2010: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
actually im glad you said this. this is the core problem with this WSB/RH/GME event.

a certain percentage of people in WSB only want to light a pile of their money on fire for the sole purpose of bankrupting some hedge funds. they expect no returns and only want to cause pain to people with more money than them that they dont like.

another percentage of people (i think this group is much, much larger than the first) think bankrupting the short positions is gonna make them huge returns. they think theyre all david collectively fighting a goliath as the proletariat rises up. most of these people are sorely mistaken and will lose everything, but some will make money.

the RH trade halt (EDIT: only buying was halted, a "trade halt" technically means both) is allowing the shorts to unwind more gracefully, making the first group of people angry. theyre not getting their witchburning, or public execution, or lynching - however you want to frame it.

the problem is the second group of people think theyre being defrauded out of huge returns by an artificial exit from the short squeeze. these people are wrong to begin with. most of them were never going to make huge returns. even if they successfully bankrupted the shorts, most of them are left holding stock they bought for $100, $200, $300, or $400 a share (WSB was memeing share price was gonna go into the thousands) that is worth <$90. those people were always going to lose, they just didnt know it. but now they have a scape goat, even though they were on the wrong side of the trade to begin with.
If we let these events continue until they die down, wouldn't that create more of a risk that a death happens than the police intervening to try to stop it?
China executes ex-banker Lai Xiaomin in corruption, bigamy case
The patents expire. The brains have legs.

A valuation of 20 times revenue - and thousands of times earnings - is not justified by saying "a company is more than what it produces".

Edit: put otherwise, how does your comment relate to the fact that Tesla was trading at 5-10% of the current price in 2019? Aren't the patents and brains the same? Why are Tesla's patents and brains worth now almost as much as those of Apple or Microsoft?
If that money was used to build new housing then it would drive economic growth. I'm still split on college education. In theory professors should see higher salaries and thus drive up CPI inflation. In practice universities overproduce professors and can hire them for the lowest salary possible.
The third place, Yeti Holdings, is now double the value.
"Retail trading" is not even remotely close to "the entire financial system." And it's that kind of casual but enormous misunderstanding that leads to casual, ignorant participation I. retail trading itself.
Yes. Like writing reports for a company versus personal writing. You often have to use corporate templates and follow a house writing style.
I read this a lot on yahoo finance, reddit and other investing related discussions, that somehow Blackrock or Vanguard having a big position means they know something and is a positive sign for a stock. There are a ton of articles and documentaries about Blackrock being some secretive bank that "secretly" owns a big chunk of worldwide assets, which fuels this belief in my opinion. And while it's true that they own a lot of assets, they don't own it directly and are actually a rather boring business. They are completely passive most of the time.
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I would've agreed too
Below are some common gateway games that I’ve had good success introducing with non-gamers.

Cooperative: Pandemic

Language Based: Codenames, Taboo

Competitive: Ticket to Ride, Splendor, Munchkin

Card: Monopoly Deal, Exploding Kittens

Notably absent is Catan, which has a steep gap between those who have played before and novices, with an especially punishing snowball effect.
Can someone who's been following the hoopla tell me where $NOK came from if it's not in that list. I see it pop up near GME posts.
To push the metaphor a bit further isn't humanity itself a kind of cancer of the earth?
I don't know anyone who claimed that reusing rockets was physically impossible. The Space Shuttle SRBs were reusable. To paraphrase you, "here we were then."
What I mean is, it would be really nice if someone would build such a toolkit - I know the code exists inside things like Chrome and Firefox, but I'm not aware of any standalone libraries that make it easy to

(a) create a sandboxed child process with some code inside it
(b) talk to that sandboxed child process (e.g. Firefox and Chrome both have IPC libraries)
(c) handle the resulting crashes nicely, restarting child process when necessary
> I agree but that doesn't explain why Bitcoin had multiple bubbles and survived all of them.

For the same reason people still go to astrologers or think that during the playoffs the can't shave or their favourite team will lose: cognitive biases and wishful thinking.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

The fact that the bubbles happen so often and and so drastically is another reason that I avoid it: volatility is generally a proxy measurement of risk, and what reward am I gaining by taking on this risk?

Everyone is bullish on it at >US$ 40K, but people seem to have forgotten that it dropped by half in two days in March 2020:

* https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/bitcoin-loses-half-of-its-va...

If someone wants to have it in their 'portfolio' at some small percentage as part of their "play money" that's one thing, but to make it a significant portion seems foolish to me.

I do feel a bit of FOMO, and may eventually create a trading account with like 5% of my portfolio for playing around in WSB and Crypto and such, but right now I'm fully invested in index and bond funds (80/20), so don't really have spare cash available for any of these temptations.
Can only buy five shares of GME at Robinhood
I know a game designer who does this semi-professionally. He really spends a long time in the alpha and beta testing phase of game design with lots of playtesting in different groups. He recently launched an amazingly fun social deduction game on Kickstarter called "Feed the Kraken" with tons of gameplay elements previously unseen in social deduction games.

I think that professional designers often have a hard time competing with the amount of time invested by these enthusiasts.
me too ! Probably not a coincidence :)
"HSBC" + "decent mobile banking app" made me laugh (though my experience with it is 2016/2017)
> The so-called accumulation of capital which gave birth to the bourgeoisie changed the very conception of property and wealth: they were no longer considered to be the results of accumulation and acquisition but their beginnings; wealth became a never-ending process of getting wealthier. The classification of the bourgeoisie as an owning class is only superficially correct, for a characteristic of this class has been that everybody could belong to it who conceived of life as a process of perpetually becoming wealthier, and considered money as something sacrosanct which under no circumstances should be a mere commodity for consumption.

[..]

> [Hobbes] even, through sheer force of imagination, was able to outline the main psychological traits of the new type of man who would fit into such a society and its tyrannical body politic. He foresaw the necessary idolatry of power itself by this new human type, that he would be flattered at being called a power-thirsty animal, although actually society would force him to surrender all his natural forces, his virtues and his vices, and would make him the poor meek little fellow who has not even the right to rise against tyranny, and who, far from striving for power, submits to any existing government and does not stir even when his best friend falls an innocent victim to an incomprehensible raison d'etat.

> For a Commonwealth based on the accumulated and monopolized power of all its individual members necessarily leaves each person powerless, deprived of his natural and human capacities. It leaves him degraded into a cog in the power-accumulating machine, free to console himself with sublime thoughts about the ultimate destiny of this machine, which itself is constructed in such a way that it can devour the globe simply by following its own inherent law.

[..]

> By "Victory or Death," the Leviathan can indeed overcome all political limitations that go with the existence of other peoples and can envelop the whole earth in its tyranny. But when the last war has come and every man has been provided for, no ultimate peace is established on earth: the power-accumulating machine, without which continual expansion would not have been achieved, needs more material to devour in its never-ending process. If the last victorious Commonwealth cannot proceed to "annex the planets," it can only proceed to destroy itself in order to begin anew the never-ending process of power generation.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"

Mind you, IIRC Arendt didn't argue that the above "leads to totalitarianism", it's just something she wrote about in that tome, too.
I wonder what the results are when you are being paid really well, I suspect some people would have levels of creativity similar to doing it for free and others would lose all their motivation.

There are people like John Carmack who could have retired many years ago, yet they are still creating stuff, and other people like Notch (Minecraft) lost their creativity the moment they got "fuck you money".
It may have become, but it wasn't until we figured the physics out.
> We can’t avoid that any more than the government can avoid criminals having unbreakable encryption.

I mean, we can; we just don't. It's not like there's something baked into the laws of math that says your society is required to be a surveillance state (unlike encryption, where the laws of math do say this is always possible).

It is absolutely within the realm of technological possibility to build a society with largely decentralized infrastructure that doesn't constantly phone home to report on you to the Great Eye. We don't live in that world because normal people are kinda retarded. In the words of the creator of the Great Eye itself: "They trust me. Dumb fucks."
"look here's the deckbuilding part, and over here is worker placement, and look an area control mechanic on a modular board, yay!"

I once listened to a podcast by some board gamers who had gone way too far in this direction. They'd say the name of a game, and describe it as e.g. "it's worker placement with area control", and that was the end of their description and analysis of the game. Seems to me they're missing a fair bit of nuance and more importantly, it doesn't tell me anything about how likely it is I'd enjoy the game. Oh well, to each their own. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Every single manga artist would find this useful.
There might even be some overlap, wall street using wallstreetbets to manipulate.
Buying GME is in fact not linked to destroying a hedge fund as the funds with large concentrated short positions exited the investment several days ago. The situation now is a bonanza for billionaires, as many have gone long the stock or are providing highly lucrative retail options market making services. The entire narrative about gme now being some sort of populist uprising is a sham perpetuated by those who want to bring fresh bag holders into the name.
I wonder if the following feature is possible:

Make it two columns. one column, the left one is the original text. The right column is a paragraph aligned translation, paragraph by paragraph, using Google or Bing or any of those API.

So far I have found no e-reader software capable of doing this.
A ban is ineffectual without consequences. Criminal prosecution of police chiefs is what's needed, IMO.
Thinking about software engineering
Hopefully the article is enjoyable to those that haven't read his blog, I stumbled upon it because I'm a fan on nintil in general, but I think it's interesting even if you aren't familiar with his other writings.
“I’m absolutely convinced that the tragedy was the result of wind and snow deposition, and the fact that they pitched camp in the lee of a ridge,” Wilkinson adds. “I’ve made this mistake in my mountaineering career more than once.” During an expedition to Antarctica in 2012, tents belonging to Wilkinson’s team were pitched inside a circle of wind-deflecting snow walls they made. Returning to camp after three days, his team found that two tents tucked in the wind-shielded wall were completely buried."

I and two friends made exactly that mistake too.. the only difference is that we didn't leave the tent, we just observed how, instead of being shielded from the wind, we got more and more buried! After two days we dug out and moved away. We were young then. A mistake we never repeated. A small slightly sloping snow wall no higher than two or three inches works, a higher wall looks like it would work better.. big mistake.
No it's actually selling the leased house and needing to buy it back after your lease expires.

Selling leased stuff is not allowed for a reason.