skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not really public v hedge funds, because the vast majority of both of them will be on the losing side. The reality is that market makers are probably gonna be the only winners here.
It's crazy just how extensive this was. The police operation has been a long-term effort and took a huge amount of cooperation.

Props to those involved in taking it down.
This is a great article. Thanks for writing it up and sharing.
And alcohol. There is precious little inquiry as to how much alcohol was present at the campsite. Some of the strange behaviors make more sense if one is open to the possibility that some people may have been drunk.
I think calling it Py2O3 would be a bit confusing though.
I don't know about bikes, but in electric bicycles engine in the back wheel is much worse for offroad because of weight distribution. The huge, heavy battery these bikes have might change this.
If we're going to be picky, they used the word "platform" as a verb, not a noun. Actually they used the negative, "deplatform"... maybe we could claim they used the wrong verb. I think they were trying to make the argument that high tech sector is finally providing services that are clearly in the public's interest and could/should be treated like utilities. I think they're right - the government should get involved in balancing the scales between service provider and users.
My point is that the problem with complexity fetishism is that one adds complexity where none is necessary simply because one enjoys the complexity. That's fine for a game, but our industry is very often doing it at work with products that are ostensibly meant to make people's lives better.
Building a Passphrase Generator in Haskell
I believe code quality to be closely related to the quality of communication between developers, and it’s a lot easier to achieve high quality communication in a smaller team.
That the Roman Empire was to some extent decentralized doesn't matter though - they had all of the power and were able to extract all of the surpluses from their vassal states.

They definitely "the accumulated and monopolized power of all its individual members" -> 66% of Rome were slaves i.e. literally property!

They collected all of the surplus wealth of their vassal states through tributes and had absolute direct power. Imagine they 'owned' those entire national economies and accumulated wealth through those 'dividend payments' of tributes.

"the growth of capitalism was disconnecting responsibility for the population from the accumulation of capital. "

2 issues:

1) Since when did the Roman Emperors or the Feudal Nobility have any responsibility? The only thing they did was ensure that their territories were not invaded. That's it. Everyone was a serf.

By your own example of 'Feudal Lord' - his responsibility was to 'keep his slaves just barely alive'.

2) Again the Adam Smith: you're not counting surpluses. Economies create vast amounts of consumer surpluses. Whatever the capitalists are able to hoard away in their bank accounts is small in comparison to the value created by consumer surpluses.

eg: the guy and/or corporation who invented the dishwasher pocketed 0.001% of the value he unleashed by freeing up entire societies from having to wash by hand.

The Merchants beat the Nobility because they did useful stuff. Like make railroads. Dig mines. Transported food and materials. Make stuff like steam engines. Made grocery stores. Created financial services, banking, accounting. Made textiles. Built buildings.

From the entire history of Greek Antiquity up until probably about 1500 - GDP 'per capita' of most places economy barely grew an inch.

When merchants and capitalists took over, the economy skyrocketed and hasn't looked back.

It's not a paradox that people are immensely more wealthy in capitalism despite however 'unequal' the distribution of accumulated wealth is.
Doesn't WSB also use things like homophobic slurs and similar language casually? I can see where the opportunist allegation comes from but I'm really not that surprised that someone would ban them.
I'd be more concerned with how illiquid Robin Hood apparently is here.
"Go big or go home". This seems to be a uniquely north-American attitude. Germany, or maybe Europe, is full of so-called "Mittelstand" companies that are good in what they do, have 500-ish employees, have been in the same family ownership for generations and provide a good solid living for everyone involved. What is wrong with that? It goes without saying that staying mid-sized doesn't mean staying complacent, but you can innovate without growing huge.

Here in Ottawa, there was a debacle a few years ago. A typical such company, Swiss Pastries, changed ownership or at least management. The new attitude was "grow at all costs", they overextended themselves, went bankrupt, and Swiss Pastries is no more. Ottawa now has no local source of soft pretzels along with other delicacies that they made. It's almost a scorched earth approach. If you can't make the company huge, you might as well destroy it, because not being huge means you've failed.

The previous paragraph is based on reading a few news articles at the time. If I'm wrong, I'm guessing it still makes a textbook example of "go big or go home" going wrong and I'd love to see more details.
no saying "Eternal September" ruins it. That or "correlation does not equal causation"
Oumuamua raises some questions, but the one my mind keeps wandering to is “how common are these interstellar objects?”

It poses a serious existential threat to us. We are a tiny target, but we have been able to observe these objects for a very short period of time. Unlike regular solar satellites, they are only visible for a very short period of time. Like comets, if one hit us it would end life on the planet. They don’t need to be massive with how fast they are. We can estimate how many comets are out there with orbital mechanics models, but what about objects originating from outside the solar system? We could one day not wake up because we couldn’t even see one of these coming before it hit us.
You could require the software to have a warrant number entered in order to do FR. This means you need probable cause first and you need to be able to convince a judge it is warranted.
There are more types of consequences than just penal ones. For example, I imagine if they are indeed banned, and a case against a defendant is built around the usage of the technology, then that case would get dropped. That is a consequence in of itself as it wasted valuable prosecutorial resources, department resources, etc.
Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility
People on WSB tell you these things all the time:

Never use margin trading.

Only invest what you can lose.

Remember, they have grown thick skin and know what losing money is like. It only takes one lesson to learn that.
This feels like "damning with faint praise": "Yeah, yeah, sometimes they break the rules but they say there's no significant court case they lost."

>They are very open about the fact that they or their clients may already have short positions in the stocks concerned and as I said, most of what they say is publicly available information. Clearly, they are not doing anything illegal, or even underhand. They have been sanctioned a few times by regulatory authorities and lost legal battles overseas but, as founder and Executive Editor Andrew Left has frequently pointed out, they have never lost a significant court case in America.
>one of the few thing a democracy can not tolerate is intolerance

...within the confines of what is legal.

agree we can not tolerate what is not legal.
The financial institutions will be fine. Meanwhile some unsophisticated investors who saw this as the financial opportunity of a lifetime will lose their shirts and their homes.
Just PyO or Py_3 O_4 could have been used as well, does not matter that much.
Written directly on a phone using Python for S60. Whoa.

The photo on this Wikipedia page brings back memories — "Python Shell on Nokia 6120 Classic":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_for_S60

There was a strange moment in smartphone evolution when the devices were hacker-friendly pocket computers trapped in 1990s mobile phone form factors.
How to Blink an LED with Raspberry Pi Pico in C
It's a smear campaign plain and simple. Louis Rossmann the apple repair guy on youtube has laid it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oNLeMuxvg
> At least we’re talking about money and not lives.

Are we?

https://www.businessinsider.com/robinhood-office-installed-b...
I actually agree with you. That probably prompts the question: "how on Earth could you possibly hold both of these stances simultaneously without being a big, fat phony?".

Yeah... okay, admittedly it probably doesn't prompt that question because you have better things to be doing, but I have nothing better to do, so I'll explain myself anyway!

The comparison to 7/Vista/XP was not accidental. As you may know, there is an 8 year time gap between the release of 7 and XP. Moreover, Vista was a huge transitional change. Under the hood, 7 and XP are different animals, even if they do share common ancestry and deliver the same baseline functions.

Taking these things into consideration, it's not terribly pedantic to insist that Windows 7 is, in fact, built on top of Vista and not XP. It's still a hair pedantic, but only in the context of this fact being used to correct someone with a less strictly correct (although, I insist, still true) interpretation. That's the feeling I was trying (and failing) to convey with my comparison, which happens to actually be in agreement with your counterpoints.
I am not clear what other options we have here. If we ban censorship (the defecto result of repealing section 230) then we accept that fake news will become a way of life. Any attempt to correct or remove intentional lies will disappear. For all my personal commitment, I don't think we can handle the amount of misinformation we're already drenched in...
> Child pornography, calls for violence and political misinformation

One of these things is not like the others...

Saying that it is okay to censor "political misinformation" is just saying it is okay to censor any political speech you don't agree with.
I've seen this argument several times and I don't understand it. Why can't they buy >100% of the shares in exactly the same way they were able to sell >100% of the shares? They buy some shares, return them to their owners, and then buy them up again?

They don't even need to buy up 100%. They only need to buy up 20%. Then they're back in the situation of being under 100% shorted, and problem no longer applies.

With such a large short interest it means that a motivated or coordinated buyer can force them to cover it at highly inflated prices, and that's their fault. But doesn't seem to be impossible just because the interest is >100%, merely very expensive (perhaps bankruptcy expensive).

Am I missing something?
I wonder if "huge pages" would make a difference, since some of the bottlenecks seemed to be lock contention on memory pages.
I’m sorry if I’ve just missed that in your linked text but doesn’t sec text concern only short selling and not actual buying?
Give me a break. Enough with this 1619 style revisionist history that views the history of the world through the lens of black people being slaves. It doesn't even pass the sniff test. It's way too lazy to assume that everything has such a simple answer.
Almost every platform with a meaningful user base is going to have "violent calls to action" depending on how it is framed. Most especially those with slow/poor moderation.

I'm guessing "violent calls to action" on first person shooter game channels received much less attention. Particularly given the timing of this reaction to "violent calls for action".
It is - that's because regulators managed to mostly keep the market smoothly running. Controlled combustion, not explosion and not choking the engine.
> ...even among professionals referring to themselves as UX designers.

I believe this is a part of the problem. Because there is a word "designers" in "UX designers", a lot of designers expanded their credentials to include UX. In my experience, they invariably suck at it (at least the ~5 I had the pleasure to work with).

The proliferation of high-fidelity wireframes (and tools like Adobe XD, Figma) is another testament to that; impressive looking designs that hide basic UX mistakes. Low fidelity wireframes would make them obvious, but who wants to look at the "wires" when you can have colors?

I think the designers simply prioritize aesthetics over content / usability and it is difficult for them to get past that. The best UX designers I have worked with in the past were either engineers or coming from completely unrelated fields.
I worked for 27 years, for a company (Japanese) that is over 100 years old. It is world-renowned, and one of the top brands in the world; a synonym for "Quality."

I won't name it, because I don't want them to have to deal with my random stuff (although I won't say bad things about them). It's easy to figure out, if you care enough to look at my profile.

Although I often had fierce disagreements with their management and engineering process, these folks had "Quality" in their DNA, and inculcated a basic mindset of quality in me.

To this day, I actually get physically uncomfortable, if I know of bugs in my work. My goal is to write 100% bug-free software. We all know that's basically impossible, but it is possible to write software of such Quality, that the bug count approaches zero. In most cases, I don't bother setting up bug tracking systems, because the reports are so few that it's not worth the agita. GitHub Issues is fine for me. Most of the interactions that I have are about usability and UX. These tend to be more casual, and "back-and-forth," than formal bug reports.

I have been sneered at for this attitude.

I find that annoying, but it doesn't stop me.

I'm currently working on a fairly ambitious project, where my approach is very much appreciated. I would be unable to do it, if I applied the typical "churn out crap to reach MVP" that seems to be de rigeur, in the industry. The Quality of my work, means that I can develop a platform, alone, that usually requires a team.
it's gamblers vs other gamblers, the size of their stakes dont matter much for purposes of sorting them.
I think there are two internally consistent approaches here.

Either you go full on Eugene Fama and claim that you do not even understand what market manipulation means as long as there is no hidden information, as markets are efficient and it is just market reflecting unidentified changes in the fundamentals or random fluctuation around the correct value or whatnot.

Or, you can say that yes, this is just exhibit N about how prices can be manipulated, which means that prices are not always correct. Which means that we can't trust blindly on markets to allocate resources efficiently, but we need to have careful discussion about in which circumstances it is prudent to restrict the market operations (including price, supply and demand).

What is weird, is how rare it is to find either of these approaches in public discussion. (For the record, I am in the latter camp. And no, I do not propose fullo on communism and regulated markets, but "to have careful discussion about in which circumstances it is prudent to restrict the market operations")
Practically, mindshare, because that translates to longterm support and ability to get help if you need it. I know lots of people that use babashka but not a single one that uses closh. Of course, I see the irony in making the popularity argument for a lisp! :-)
The stock will resettle at something far lower than it is now, most people realize this. They are trying to ride this thing until the margin calls come in and a substantial number of short positions are closed. If that happens there will be blood in the water and big money for anyone able to sell during the frenzy. After that, it's everyone for themselves.
But Person A etc after lending no longer own stock, as they have lended it. They no longer have possesion of stock, If they now wants to sell their stock they first would need to get it it back from Person B, Which needs it back from Person C etc. Only one person can actually sell stock which is person E, as he has possession of stock.
So if there is actual demand of selling a stock a high enough price, So in case person A wants his stock back he will either demand premature cancellation of his lending/leasing of stock, or wait for his lending period to end.
Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors
Hi HN-

My name is Ashish, and I’m the CEO/ co founder of InpharmD (https://inpharmd.com). We take questions from doctors and return curated, evidence - based answers.

I was a clinical pharmacist offering a remote service from a University for 10 years. Ask us anything, we begged, and our team of pharmacists, residents, and students would look it up, get through the paywalls, and provide the answer.

I passed out business cards around local hospitals. They were lost over time.

Then I passed out business cards with magnets. They stuck around, but there aren’t that many places in the hospital with the magnetic surfaces.

Eventually, people stored our number, but we’d ask so many questions when they called, they couldn’t ask theirs: who are you, where are you calling from, what’s your email, spell it, etc, etc, etc. Often, they’d hang up on us, and I don’t blame them. The average doctor now sees five patients an hour.

I realized I wasn’t alone, and hundreds of other academicians, all leading their own teams, had the same problem. So, we formed a network and interviewed hundreds of our customers about how they’d ideally interact with us. What we needed to build was simple: one touch request.

My co - founder Tulasee built that and since, we learned that AI can transcribe PDFs faster (but not yet better) than our pharmacists. We started with 5,000 of our own study abstracts, assigned weights for corresponding content in their respective PDFs, and now we continuously reassign the weights until the algorithm can completely make our own abstracts. Our latest test revealed 94% accuracy against a matched human control, but with medical information, this will need to be 100% before we can rely on it.

We think Watson was a missed opportunity, so we called our algorithm Sherlock. We’re launching a partnership with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists® (ASHP- https://ashp.org), using their database of 1,300 vetted drug monographs, so Sherlock can field questions at the point of care.

We’ve been fortunate to find early adopter health systems to pay for our service: WellStar, Ochsner, University of Maryland, Georgia DPH, and St Francis. We’re typically compared to the cost of their healthcare providers manually searching, and we end up cheaper.

We love this community and we’d welcome your ideas/ experiences/ feedback on what we’re building!
If anyone wants to find out more about solar-powered, off-grid bicycles, the BEHEMOTH (big electronic human energized machine) solar-powered (recumbent) bicycle really inspired me as a kid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dItCJUuFY4U
I mean, "this user never even downloaded this app" and "it got 100000% more reviews today than any other day" is probably a decent enough heuristic for removing fake reviews.
If you were a hedge fund on the sideline last week, wouldn’t you be quietly shorting GME @ 300? The outstanding shorts aren’t necessarily held by the same firms.
I would actually love if some actually reputable brokerage bought Robinhood and just offered it as an (optional) interface to their current trading platform. It's no doubt that part of Robinhood's success is that the UI is much better than a lot of current trading platforms.
Mindustry is absolutely fantastic, especially the recent 6.0 update. As addictive as factorio and I think that the whole combat aspect is much more fun.

Combat in factorio is an aside, almost a nuisance, but factorio could be better if it would copy some things from mindustry on that front.
The company would just send back an invoice for the cost of recruiting, HR, background checking, etc. and the prep and interview time of the engineers interviewing the candidate, who would definitely come out on the losing end of that deal.
Linux pagecache doesn't use hugepages, but definitely when doing direct I/O into application buffers, would make sense to use hugepages for that. I plan to run tests on various database engines next - and many of them support using hugepages (for shared memory areas at least).
That is 100% on HOW the police do it.

In the BLM protests, the police were entirely the aggressors, looking for a fight.
Ask HN: Tell me why r/wallstreebets is wrong
and why hedge funds will hold out longer than the mob which will blink first

and why people who bought in at 200/300/400, expecting it to go up to 1000 will lose their YOLO money

Do the shorters really HAVE to buy at $1000 ?
The thing I was attempting to describe is a vote against an app because (eg) its parent company donated to Republicans, something which isn't about the app or service.

The Robinhood review bomb isn't that, it's a proper and serious complaint against the service.
My biggest problem is that there's not a single electric car in my financial reach. I can buy some old gasoline car for $2.000 to $4.000 but I just cannot afford an electric one for $40.000+.
KVM-over-IP Hat for Raspberry Pi
Solid recs. Got them. Thank you!
A small tool to split .docx files by headings
The problem is that not all will give some. The market makers are raking it in hand over fist.
Timecoded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd0025SOSro&t=4h01m10s
This is a distributed movement, some people have been holding the stock for over an year+, others bought into it on the past few weeks.
There are people who bought it as a meme stock, when it was relatively stable, as the devaluation from the market transition towards digital media had already mostly been factored into the price. Steam is not a new thing, after all. The fundamentals at the time supported the price, in hindsight it was about the lowest price the share has ever been at[1].
The CEO change precipitated other people to buy into the fad. This combined with the short overexposure counterbalanced the speculative attack from the hedge funds.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/gme/advanced-c...
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I would hesitate from calling WallStreetBets or Reddit the 'little guy'. That's the part that gets me about this story.
Both sides are immoral and wrong in manipulating the market and both sides have committed the crime of market manipulation.
Re "spreading misinformation" - not sure which pieces you are specifically talking about. In case of r/WSB I doubt anyone has any illusions what it is about. It is done either for lulz or as a form of protest/activism. In a way - it is form of speech.
> "Baking in" randomization into a binary before installing it is rare

OpenBSD relinks the kernel with new randomization on every boot ("KARL").

Fun stuff, but probably a nightmare to make it work with signature checking :D
"Guys, we had to lie to everyone! It was for PR!"

And why exactly did they have to let people sell GME shares? In light of the current situation, it sounds to me like the responsible and impartial thing would have been for them to temporarily suspend all trading of GME - not just buying.
China to stop recognition of British passport that allows HKers to come to U.K
> ...it's a €1,000 ($1,210) deposit to get in on the scheme.

A scheme is right. This is nothing but a PR puff piece.
I know it is besides the point, but just to illustrate the scale of Coca-Cola, they produce 108 billion bottles per year.