skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN!

I built this website last year for family members who enjoy playing jigsaw puzzles on their computers. I decided to build it because I frequently heard complaints about how slow some of the more popular jigsaw apps are and how they are filled with annoying advertisements. So, over the course of many weekends and weeknights, I slowly developed this site with the helpful feedback I received from my family and friends.

The site is completely free to use. No advertisements, and no selling of user data. However, I do offer a paid tier for users that want more jigsaw puzzles, a harder difficulty mode, and a few other perks.

On the technical side, I'm using Svelte on the frontend with a tiny bit of wasm, and Rust for my backend API. I hope the site feels snappy, it's one of the main reasons why I decided to build it.

There's a demo puzzle linked on the home page for anyone who doesn't want to sign up! I'd recommend trying it on a computer or tablet as mobile is still a little rough around the edges :)

Happy to answer any questions about it!
" if you have to state multiple times in your plan that what you're planning isn't illegal/manipulation, it's very grey at best."

I don't think this is logical. One could also say, "If people are accusing you of doing something illegal/manipulative and you don't respond by stating that it's not illegal, it's very grey at best."
Woah, I had to look that up. Nominated 12 times, never won. Jaw dropping.

https://www.eastcoastdaily.in/2020/11/19/why-was-mahatma-gan...
Let's point out that being a slave in those societies until very late in their existence did not always mean being locked with a chain.

You would take out a loan or lose a costly war and there were whole shopping districts like Keramikos (pottery shops area) in Athens where the slaves had shops and tried to earn their way out of slavery. Any similarities with present societal structures purely circumstancial ofcourse.
I never said that, just that legal immigration to the US is basically closed to everyone, which is historically unusual for the US. I also think it's antithetical to the American project.
> But the point is that NONE of this information or analysis was secret, conducted in back rooms, or even hard to find.

There seems to be a massive misunderstanding that somehow because these discussions happened publicly on reddit everything is fine and dandy. It seems people are conflating insider trading (which has nothing to do with the $GME short squeeze unless you’re wearing a tinfoil hat) and market manipulation. I would be surprised if the SEC went after redditors (this time, at least) but there is no “we did it openly and conspicuously” safe harbor or defense when it comes to charges of market manipulation or securities fraud.

There’s a reason market commentary comes with a whole bunch of disclaimers in the footnotes with language like “not intended as investment advice” and “references to specific securities and issuers are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as, recommendations to purchase or sell securities”.
To a caveman your desire to eat regular meals, live past 45, sleep in warmth and not have to fight to stay alive each day would seem "coddled".

As a society we get to decide what is a reasonable level of comfort and protection and it will always be a value judgement.
It’s a bad thing when the cost of higher education is rising at rates 8-10x than inflation due to this excess administrative overhead.

If you’ve been out of school for >10yrs, I’d strongly encourage you to look at the current cost of your alma matter - it may well shock you.
> much larger mass of non-WSB retail lose their shirts.

Can we agree this is hyperbole?
Yes! In fact I own one of each. A Bolt, a Volt, and a Tesla "S". Each are good in their class. No major problems with any of them. (Actually, the "S" has been in the shop more times than the other two, which have never needed a repair other than routine service.)

It's a shame the "Volt" was discontinued because it was a great concept and the car works well. Unlike the fake "Plug-in Prius" -- which can't go faster than about 30 MPH without the gas engine kicking in -- the Volt is 100% electric on its ~ 50 mile range before the ICE will turn on. I got it for the occasional long drive I need to do.
As always, the Four Horsemen were acted upon first. Only this time around it is "actual Nazis" (not actual Nazis, no matter how much "literally shaking" was done). And who could defend that? (The ACLU, and the left, should have, we all should have) And complaining about it is obviously the slippery slope fallacy (or the camel's nose in the tent) so it can be ignored until it is just too late. And now there's a whole series of well-honed defenses ("it's a private company!" "go make your own!" "freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences") ready to back up these bold moves, along with the handily-set precedent.

Whatever shackles are being forged against your worst enemy, do not be surprised if they end up on your wrists at some later date.
I used mine until a year ago when I got a new phone through work.

It still runs the latest Android thanks to LineageOS and still was fast enough for the web (thanks to AdAway).
Just an amusing anecdote, I learned Pascal in 1982, but also some limited exposure to C. At the time, I was absolutely dead certain that Pascal would win out over C. While I understood what was happening under the hood, the business of programming by doing math on pointers seemed like such a bug factory that I dismissed it out of hand.

Today when I program in C (thanks to embedded work), it seems like many of the modern improvements to the language consist of making it more Pascal-like.
Amazon has 15 years of shopping history from me that includes multiple physical books each month and 0 kindle purchases. Its possible they don't consider that and default to kindle for everyone, but they at least have the info to know that kindle versions are not what I'm after.
Who are you to arbiter who gets to trade stock and on what terms? Isn't this play literally about fundamentals? The stock was undervalued and overshorted so Redditors saw an opportunity to crowd source a short squeeze. WallStreetBets is full of jokes and memes, sure, but there's also consistently top voted posts explaining the logic and due diligence behind GME. There's nothing untoward happening here except the insane outrage and hypocrisy of Wall St CNBC types.
This can happen easily in Bayesian hierarchical models, where there is a hyperparameter that controls the variance of many lower-level parameters. When the variance is small, the probability density for these parameters is high (their distribution is sharply peaked), when the variance is large, the density is smaller (maybe many, many orders of magnitude smaller). So the mode will be where the variance is small, even if the data make this a much less probable region of the parameter space. (Note: the probability of a region is the product of its volume and its probability density - the total probability can be low even if the density is extremely high.)

You'll also typically get an unrepresentative mode for a neural network or other ML-type model, since the mode will be a highly-overfitted point.
Why is publicly saying "hey, a few companies are selling shorts of gamestop and trying to drive it into the ground, I think that's bullshit. If you think it's bullshit, too, here's how you could do something about it." such a questionable thing to say and do?

Do you also want cancer charities to stop asking for donations? Should start up founders not be allowed to ask for investor money?

I could totally see the market manipulation argument if this was done in backrooms, with multiple accounts to hide the moves, several shell corporations holding the funds, etc. But these folks are publicly declaring their intent. And the first person to uncover the gamestop shorts has been saying it for over a year. Out in the open with frequent updates.

The short sellers have had a year to get out and leave the company alone, but they were so obsessed with watching a company die that people got pissed and wanted some blood.

The chain of events doesn't start with "we buy a lot and blah blah blah" - the chain of events starts with someone declaring over a year ago "fuck these guys for going all in on destroying a quality company for no reason other than the lulz."
No, it just means of being one of the first goverments to take control of the cryptocurrencies, which will end up making these "billionaires" worth $0 (or "come clean" by paying big taxes for their money to transfer them to the official currency), and others who continue trading or offer support for it, go to jail.
kicking out Poland, means isolating Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and at the same time, giving a freeway from Moscow to Russia. It would be a bad move thinking from the geopolitics point of view.
Current estimate is around 70 billion lost so far, which of course the vast majority of that went to other Wall Street firms. The only ones that will win at the end of this is Wall Street and the few retail that got in VERY early. Retailers will get left holding this bag. The great irony out of all this is that all this volume in trading, just made them even richer.
A friend of mine worked there in the 70s. German civil engineer, and the conditions, albeit luxurious, have been what I would call a labour camp. There seems to be a pattern there.
As someone who used to live on another continent as where my employers office was, I coded while flying at least 6 times a year, sometimes even more.

And while most would not fly that often, being able to code when internet is not available or in a bad shape is not only a 'nice to have' option, but almost a 'must have'
http://www.highshortinterest.com

If you check this... GME is still way over 100%. That means the game isn’t over yet.
From Knowledge Graphs to Knowledge Workflows
a rear camera would not be useful at all for an on-screen walkthrough as it would be facing a wall or a surface. my face on the other hand, added for a personal effect, to an on-screen recording or so you can easily match my voice and my mouth to better understand me. perhaps you haven't seen a face + full screen desktop walkthrough? https://www.getcloudapp.com/. very useful.

a facetime call with my wife does require video, because it's a facetime call. i want to see her.

my kids school remote calls do require video because their teachers require video on. they do this because kids from ages 6-18 may not actually be paying attention in class, so the hardware camera is used to help the teacher.

if you were to look on youtube for walkthroughs of products, or twitch streams, you'll frequently see front facing cameras added to videos because people do actually like, enjoy, and find value (you can follow along to voice/face/emotion) in them
SSRN only let me view the abstract. Here's a link to the pdf that worked for me.

https://alo.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Statistic...
Absolutely not, it's just an open discussion of ideas.

Straight from this post ...

> This is not fraud. There is no manipulation here. We aren’t forcing anyone to do anything. It’s going to happen with or without us. But I want to ride.
You can still get updates

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/oneplus3
>You can absolutely attempt improvements in one dimension while othe r more important ones are sorely neglected.

Yes. And you will be harming yourself and your country by doing so, by prioritizing the wrong things.

Ending up "better than now" (by prioritizing the wrong things, but still improving some dimension)

is worse than

Enging up "much better than now" (by prioritizing the most important dimension to improve)
Curtis would probably argue that seeing no connections where there are connections is equally dangerous.
I think it’s likely that defeating those main selling points is not accidental
I had great results switching my payment method to recurring via PayPal and then using the PayPal interface to cancel the recurring charge, FWIW. Any time a merchant with recurring charges lets you use PayPal you can usually cancel the subscription in that way.
I recently saw the video about one cell to salamander on HN. I was awestruck. How can you access such amazing topics without accessing HN? Or do you access it once a week?
Where would you rank the marginal university administrator?
I don’t think you answered my question. I don’t disagree it’s market manipulation, and I agree no one is “sticking it to the man” here (though I’m always happy to see hedge funds lose 20 billion).

What I’m asking is why market manipulation is a bad thing, as long as it’s happening out in the open and everyone trading GME knows it’s a manipulated stock.
Shorting was brought into thr market to prevent short squeezes? That doesnt make sense.
One example is their "subscriptions" to products. It's very easy to accidentally order a recurring subscription to a shipped physical product, rather than just a one-time purchase.
I mean heck, even Obama got one.
There’s nothing new about this.

This strategy has been used for penny stocks for decades.

It’s just with the scale and reach of social media these days combined with the ability for things to get viral, makes it possible to target larger stocks.
One simple strategy designed to capture active buyers
Did you think to maybe give your article a more self-explanatory title? It's harder to spread the message when the primary qualified source for this is titled "Element on Google Play Store" instead of maybe "Element (Matrix chat app) banned on Google Play Store".
It's actually really depressing reading about this :/
This is a job for a generator such as:

https://www.harborfreight.com/3500-watt-super-quiet-inverter...

$850 US, supplies 3000 watts, runs 11 hours at 25% capacity on 2.6 gallons of gasoline. You'd be at 66% capacity, so fuel consumption will be higher. Bring 20 gallons of fuel?

If you go solar, figure you have 6 hours of usable daylight, you'd need seven rooftop sized panels (330 watts each) to supply 2kw for those 6 hours, so you need battery capacity for the remaining 18 hours, or 36 kWh. That's a sizable battery. You'd need 36 of these:

https://www.jackery.com/products/explorer-1000-portable-powe...

(That's obviously impractical so you'd have to custom build a solution.)

I don't know... I'd go with a generator and gasoline. Much cheaper, more compact, and available off the shelf.

Maybe you can get Rivian to lend you a truck for PR purposes. It has four on-board 120v outlets and a 105-180 kWh battery.
Already almost does

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchil...
That's hilarious. The Root discussion forums are an endless mess of issues like this, for which the answer is uniformly 'pay attention to the other players and don't let that happen!' (With the added problem of being Root, so that knowing what other players are up to takes about two dozen games if experience.) And yet root is still a pretty high rated game...
> I'm pretty sure YouTube uses QUIC for video streaming today

Is there any media transfer protocol based on QUIC?
Just because you can't see the information doesn't mean the information is made up. Short interest reports are public and publicized by NASDAQ/NYSE, etc.

You can find it yourself easily.
- ISPs generally keep your IP logged for 6-18 months.

- Reddit has your IPs logged for 100 days.

- The SEC knows all financial transactions.

Shouldn't be too hard to triangulate u/TigBitties_450 if he actually did any trading on the stock.
I think this is only the beginning, as bitcoin becomes more and more popular, countries are going to start becoming scared of it. Bitcoin cannot be controlled by the government and it is almost impossible to trace. There are bitcoin mixers available which can obfuscate transactions too. Black Money is a huge problem in India, and bitcoin transactions pose a major challenge to law and tax enforcement. As it starts to become a problem in other countries, I'm sure they will follow suit.
It's morale breaking to be reminded you're just a line item on a spreadsheet first and foremost. Especially in a tech organization of a non tech company.

It sucks but at least we have high relative salaries.
None of the kinds of people you listed are good at trading (esp economists). From experience, professional traders do tend to use passive indices for part of their PA, but also actively trade a portion.

But you're right in that if you don't have a passion for it, you'll never be able to truly outperform spy on a risk adjusted basis. However, if you do have the knowledge and the passion, I definitely think you can.

Investing is personal, and just holding spy doesn't fulfill everyone's objectives.

Here's an example of a strategy that outperforms spy in most cases: 1/3 of your portfolio goes to upro (3x leveraged spy) and 2/3s goes to a bond fund/etf. As long as the bond etf returns above the upro expense ratio (~1%), you will outperform. From my backtests, this strategy will earn you an extra 1-2% return a year, while also having a slightly higher risk adjusted returns.

I list the above as a great example because it's the kind of strategy that is great for a PA: easy to manage, doesn't require babysitting, and backed by solid academic research. When people think active vs passive, they think actively trading single stocks vs just holding an index. My point is that you can use some quant-lite strategies that tilt your portfolio to eek out a little return. You don't have to be trading everyday or even holding anything except ETFs.
> People like my wife and me want a safe, privacy environment and Apple delivers

I agreed with that and have been an Apple fan for ages, until Apple banned Parler and not Twitter. Now I'm a little jaded on their privacy brand.
>And when it will all collapse, everyone will point fingers at the rigged market, instead of realising they shouldn't have thought twice before jumping in this senseless buying.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l8b92a/cnbc...

Are you sure?
Isn't predictability the problem? It seems that many hardware and software attacks, at a very very high level, amount to being too predictable.
I'm not saying they aren't. What I'm trying to get across is that people are more used to and, therefore, inured to their dark patterns. There's a learning curve for navigating any website's dark patterns, so I'm more comfortable using a site whose dark patterns I believe I can recognize and avoid than one I haven't used before and am consequently more likely to be victimized by.

I'm definitely overestimating my own ability to avoid Amazon's scammy tactics. I, like most people, am reluctant to admit that I'm vulnerable to manipulation by things like these dark patterns (and ads, PR, etc.). But since I'm talking about my subjective feelings towards the websites, I think how good I _feel_ I am is relevant.

I totally agree with everything you've said, but just want to clarify my initial comment. I'm not trying to let Amazon off the hook, though they are less problematic than almost all of the other examples in the article.
> but just try to explain in plain English what you learned

Maybe the point is not to learn but to think? It's food for thought.

If you make something for audience that consumes information actively (thinks), you can make a very deep, complex and narrow opinionated argument. The viewpoint is not fully developed. Audience neither accept or rejects it (hopefully).

(does not apply to specialized fields, like scientific writing with their own standards)
True, it could be summed up in one sentence, but it's not insubstantial. Subway has a history of... blunders, so to say, so it makes sense to watch them more closely - even though I really doubt this particular case is true.
If you really on logic for everything, people are eventually going to walk away from you. Don't ask me to logically prove that because all I have is the anecdotal evidence of experience.

Not every conversation is a scientific debate. If you want to learn, you should still participate in them.
I have a good friend who has avoided big-co software work his whole career. He writes software for telescopes. Often, it's in Haskell.

He does not have this problem, but I suspect he's left lots of money on the table as a result.
One thing of note is that communities that can rely on trust and thus have lower transactional cost overhead should be able to out-compete those that can't rely on trust. An example of this is with the Hasidic jews in NY's diamond district. This is something that Thomas Sowell touches on in a few of his books.

EDIT: Found my note

> What economist William Easterly has called “the radius of trust” varies greatly from group to group and from country to country. Within groups like the Marwaris of India, the Chinese in Southeast Asia, or Hasidic Jews in New York’s diamond industry, transactions involving substantial sums of money can take place without written agreements or recourse to the legal system, giving these groups competitive advantage over other members of their respective societies who cannot safely engage in similar low-cost ways of doing business. Whole nations likewise differ in the levels of honesty. Bicycles can be left parked without locks in Tokyo but doing so in many other countries would be a virtual guarantee that they would be stolen. [1]

[1] "Economic Facts and Fallacies" Thomas Sowell
The use of Ctrl+C as a control character, to mean "ETX/end of text" goes back to ASCII at least, so 1960. And as Cancel/Interrupt to the late 1960s at DEC and of course Bell/UNIX.

Apple (really Xerox/PARC in this case) needed a key combination for "Copy" in their first GUI, and decided not to break the usability of that preexisting standard (and all of the other Control chars, some of which are still useful today).

Microsoft Windows came along shortly afterward. They copied Apple/Xerox's choice of C/X/V for Copy/Cut/Paste in the GUI, but they broke the well-established standard meaning of Ctrl+C in the process. (IIRC, this is especially ironic because they were also breaking the meaning of Ctrl+C from MS-DOS.)

And sure, Microsoft then went on to become dominant, and by virtue of their dominance created a huge number of people who believe that the misuse of Ctrl+C for Copy is "standard".

But it still breaks functionality. Then and today, 35+ years later.

"Copy" should be the same action in all applications. If it is not, the OS/GUI is failing the user.
Tell me more about some used of DeFi. So far I have only seen DeFi being talked about in the context of yield farming which isn't an economically productive activity.
Debunking Misconceptions from “The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine”
9. Give the people an alternative to defecating outdoors into the water supply
If you have some nice idea of how to find a good starting value, then you should certainly use it, not just rely on burn-in.

But having used your good starting value, you should still discard some burn-in iterations. This is certainly true if you're running more than one chain, since including them all with this same starting value will bias the results (in a real, not just theoretical sense, though the magnitude of the bias will of course vary with your problem). Even if you're running just one chain, you should discard at least some burn-in (say 5%) even if you have no evidence that it is necessary, because you really don't know that your supposed good starting point is actually representative. (That is, you don't know this a difficult problems, which are the ones I'm discussing.)