skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be interesting if there were evidence suggestive of non-retail entities having a hand in the squeeze. Attempts at correlating the hype of r/wsb comments and stock price movement have, in multiple past instances, shown that the wsb hype is a lagging, rather than leading, indicator -- that is, wsb is being led by one or more other sources' actions. Looking back, wsb hasn't had consistent success with their bets, though one could argue that it's an open community and anyone can join to talk up a bet. Overall, I think wsb is a worthwhile community to have.
I think you’re right. I am a customer but it doesn’t feel like a company that needs a $350M injection.
yeah but who cares and why do they care

I could be in my most empathic state after a heavy acid trip and still wonder where this unnecessary paternalistic attitude comes from

what do you guys want to happen, another paragraph added on page 73 of the regulatory disclaimers?
On engagements like these most billable hours are spent waiting on the client to make trivial decisions or give access to data/systems. Deloitte doesn’t usually hire dummies. IME it’s always the client being a total swamp creature.

The high bill rate is for your pain and suffering from having to deal with them.
Would you have kept reading if it said "Information technology is entering its second 50 years"?
> It is convenient for everyone

Maybe in a semi-ideal world, but not in a country like India. Less than 30% of Indians own a Smartphone, which is where a lot of the "convenience" of going cashless comes from. The Indian government made a recent (superficial) push to get up to 80% of Indians a bank account (up from ~50% form a few years ago), but it doesn't take a FAANG engineer to realize that the majority of these people don't have easy access to banks, banking apps and especially something like crypto.

Going "cashless" has tremendous negatives for the world's poorest. India's demonetization push, which forced people to exchange their old notes for new ones, is a clear case study of how major change to currency has a disproportionate impact on the poor.

source for the bank account stuff: https://scroll.in/article/923798/over-80-now-indians-have-ba...
The G-Machine in Detail, or How Lazy Evaluation Works
GME stock will undoubtedly be carried for some period of time after the squeeze is over (is it already over? I don’t know...) by momentum and hype. But the inevitable outcome is that it crashes, because GameStop fundamentals are simply bad.

Bitcoin is a completely different proposition however, because so much of the demand is driven by black market commerce, and other equally inscrutable factors. Both the supply of and demand for Bitcoin are completely volatile. There’s basically no hope of performing a reasonable analysis of where it’s value might be heading.
It makes practical sense that DOJ cannot imprison the president because president is the boss of everyone working in and under DOJ. So s/he could (and probably would) simply give them the order not to lock him or her up.

But after s/he is out of the office I see no reason why s/he could not be imprisoned by the next president for the crimes committed while in office.
>Sure a couple of us can do it, but lets not forget that the average IQ here is far from represent median of the people out there.

Such arrogance. Such elitism.
FWIW, feel free to take a look at this contract from the BC government for a centralized education website (http://docs.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/D29078314A_Response_Package_E...). This is what it looks like (https://i.imgur.com/fmUVYhG.png), and for comparison, here is the old website (https://i.imgur.com/IW5J9gS.png).

This is projected to cost 95 million dollars over 12 years.

Yep.
Obviously there's no way this can actually be true...right?
To avoid hassling on NYT, just turn off javascript on nytimes.com.
Free speech is two things: 1) the legal protection which you already defined and 2) a guiding principle of democracy.

Cutting anonymous speech out would be just as dangerous. Same for demanding Twitter regulate "lies". If Twitter was around in the early 00s then they'd be deleting popular and dangerous conspiracy theories such as "there are no WMDs in Iraq".

There can only be one solution, which is to teach the average pleb better critical thinking.
But most of the rest of it in these huge contracts could just not be done. The myth is that all of the rest is necessary when only a tiny fraction really is.

I have worked in tiny very early stage startups and old dinosaur companies. What comes across loud and clear is that early stage companies could use a bit more organization and dinosaurs could cut huge portions of what they “do” and then both would be in a similar situation to get things done reasonably well.

The bulk of the waste is an attempt to get people who don’t know what they’re doing into a position of getting things done. Sometimes it works.
Even the "controlled environment" might not be adequately controlled. People go to take ayahuasca in ceremonies with a guide who can supposedly keep them steady, but they still come out of the experience claiming that DMT really opens a portal to another dimension inhabited by godlike beings. Happened to two friends of mine (unknown to each other) who did the controlled ritual, and they get very offended at any suggestion that this psychedelic simply messes with one’s neuroreceptors for a time.
Greetings from Germany, where we pay 24 Eurocents per kWh and poor people still do laundry.
You always had to. There’s no magic universe where an app has the full privilege to do everything you as a user can do while also preventing it from doing things that you could do. Whatever mechanism that enforces those restrictions is the sandbox.
You can charge for a few minutes too.
This is core to the onion routing protocol.

And a huge knowledge hole on the p2p/dweb and IETFF people both.
I also do not understand the valuation. Cars are not platforms and do not have network effects. Every few years a consumer is back on the market for a new car. It's not like they need to keep buying Tesla because all their apps or data or way of doing things is tied to the platform. People are more likely to switch car manufactures with absolute no loyalty than they are to switch between Google and Android.
I have compiled libraries from source and made them used with DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. I haven't tried in a while but I think that doesn't work anymore without disabling SIP.
An Archeologist’s Guide to Beer Cans
Not to mention employ the politician's constituents.

I don't know if it's ever been conclusively proven, but it's been alleged for decades that the major defense contractors deliberately structure their big projects into subcontracts that can employ people in as many Congressional districts as possible. There are allegedly people in 300+ districts working on the F-35 program, for example.
That is not the point. America fancies itself as an exceptional country (and it certainly is in certain respects) so it is only fair to expect exceptional results from the American leadership.
But then you are driving a gas car. It's smelly and unresponsive.

It makes sense if you are really into gas cars or an eletric car doesn't work for you, but the charging problem for people living in apartments will be fixed eventually. It's already fixed in a few cities.
As someone with a degree in software "engineering" and more than a decade of experience in the industry I'd gladly take a stable government job creating or maintaining important applications that help the government provide high quality and necessary services to people. I would take pride in working on such a system as a vaccine administration management platform. Instead those jobs are doled out to contracting firms whose sole purpose is to fleece the government.

Can you imagine how much better it would feel to work on important and needed systems than working on the 100th food delivery app or yet another social media facism incubator?
>This was my experience so when people tell me they were "peaceful protests" or the news says "statistically, they were 99.99999999% peaceful" but I look at what I saw with my own eyes, and also what was on TV in other cities... I can't be convinced that they weren't violent, destructive, and plainly, evil, no matter how much other people tell me what to think.

Your point is well taken. I live in a large city. The area where I live, while mixed, is majority minority. My own experience was quite different. No one assaulted teachers from my local school. I saw no businesses burned. I don't know anyone who was directly impacted by the months of daily BLM protests.

Those are my experiences. Why are you telling me what I should believe?

I mirrored my experiences against yours to point out that your anecdotal experience is not the whole of the story. Nor is mine.

Now for some facts that neither you nor I actually experienced:

Where I live there were a few instances of violence against police (and in every single case, nearly all the folks involved were both white and from out of town).

There were also numerous instances of police instigating violence against peaceful protestors.

There were a few instances of looting, and the police and local government addressed them quickly and harshly, as just about everyone, including the protestors (many of whom were captured on video chasing would-be looters away) was horrified and angered by such actions.

There were (and are) violent miscreants who should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. However, those folks were a tiny group compared to those who peacefully protested.

When you hear folks say the protests were "mostly" peaceful, they are empirically correct. Something like 20,000,000 people around the US peacefully protested against police violence.

At most, a few thousand people committed acts of violence and vandalism. Let's say there were even 10,000 (a high number, I suspect) folks who committed violent/destructive acts alongside the peaceful protests.

If that's correct, 99.95% of people protested peacefully and 0.05% of folks were violent/destructive.

I'm not sure how that could be construed as anything other than "mostly peaceful". in fact, I'd characterize it as "overwhelmingly peaceful".

I'm most certainly not telling you what to think or believe. Just presenting my own experiences and a few facts.

Don't take my word for it. I'm just some random asshole on the Internet.

The facts speak for themselves.
Technically, it's SRTP with keys derived from the handshake of a DTLS connection though. That DTLS connection can be used for SCTP, the underlying protocol for WebRTC data channels.

So yeah, that won't work to stream to a WebRTC endpoint as you said!
<$25,000 cost of getting the speaker in to talk to your audience.

25,000<x<100,000 -> case by case

>$100,000 -> legalized bribery, pay for play etc.
You must mean the privilege of being beaten by my father from the age of three after he came back from Vietnam. Or, the emotional abuse my mother handed out because she got pregnant in high school and blamed me for ruining her future? Or, could it be the privilege of being thrown out of the house after high school with the clothes on my back and $300 in my wallet. Maybe it was being taken advantage of the landlord that took my money for a room in his house, only to slip into the room at night to molest me, then throw me out after brushing off his advances. It must be all that privilege of being homeless, bathing out of a toilet bowl in a public bathroom.

But of course, I am a white male, so all misfortune in my life must be my own damn fault.
If you restrict yourself to Google Chrome, Chromium-based Edge, apps using Electron and apps recently written by Microsoft (Settings, Timer, image viewer, video player, etc), then display scaling is very slick on Windows 10. (I didn't try with multiple monitors, but I did use the Settings app to change the scaling factor frequently.)

On OSX in contrast, if you change the display resolution in System Preferences, most apps do not automatically adapt, with the result that you have to close their windows, then re-open them before your system is usable. And at non-integral scaling factors, everything is blurry at least on the non-retina displays I tried. In constrast, there is zero blurriness in the apps I just listed in Windows 10 regardless of which scale factor is chosen in the Settings app. On a 1080p monitor, the choices are 100%, 125%, 150% and 175%.

Gnome also lets you choose the scale factor in increments of 25% and in a few months after more apps have been adapted to work "directly" with Wayland (without the intervention of XWayland) promises to be as slick as Windows 10 currently is. (In fact, I personally prefer Gnome because on Windows changing the scale factor by 25% can result the stems and lines of the letters becoming abruptly twice as thick, but I vastly prefer either to MacOS's blurriness when the display is not being run at its native resolution, but again I had the luxury of being very choosy about which apps I used on Windows, relying mainly on a web browser and vscode.)
> For YouTube

For the CDN/edge this is irrelevant and should not even be part of the discussion. It is obvious it will not change (or will be even better) for them.

The comment you are replying talks exclusively about the "middle boxes". They will have a hardtime with quic, not matter what. (IMHO, a small price to pay, too bad it is something flawed like quic instead of a true distributed solution)
All of this is the symptom of a deeply troubled economy that has been propped up by low interest rates for far too long. There's nothing to learn from this, because there is no way to fit the deeply irrational notion of "meme stonks" into an ideally rational market.

Corrections are coming.
My former business partner back in the Web 1.0 days (hey D) had remarkable experience in scaling large systems. Studied under ast. Rolled his own ETL language to power primary research for a Nobel-prize winning social scientist. Could sound like Werner Herzog on demand. He’s the kind of man anyone shuts up and listens to. While helping him clean up a failed $25mm Deloitte project circa 1996, we got drunk in a Manhattan bar. Sometime around martini #3 he said:

“The next 10 years of software will be very boring. The entire field of CS will be employed turning paper process into digital process, at great cost. Almost all of these projects will fail because Americans are admirably earnest but tragically over-confident. You underestimate paper.”

“Good money for us though. But have a hobby to occupy your mind or you will be miserable. Zum Wohl.”

And that’s how I ended up order an ill-considered 4th martini. He was correct, although the interregnum was perhaps 2-3 years shorter than he predicted. Or 15 years longer depending on how one judges these things.
You're implying that either all protests are justified, or all protests are not justified? Or that the two protests you're referring to are somehow equivalent? You should elaborate, rather than making vague sarcastic statements.
Intimacy
> It's true that ordinary property can't be copied, but its use can be quite scalable.

What you're describing is not "scalable" use. It's just an example of physical property whose "use" amounts to some number N of people doing something using it, where N is much larger than 1. But N is still based on, and limited by, the physical nature of the property; it can't be increased arbitrarily by just making more copies, the way it can for digital "property".
Well, if they are turning a profit it, wouldn't it also mean they could be investing more than they are?
Plain old HTML stops being responsive as soon as you try to do anything more than text. A plain HTML table would be horrible on mobile. If you want to reflow anything that isn't text you will need flexbox. There is literally no reason to not use CSS to make a site that works well on mobile and desktop.
This makes you realize the state of IT in 2021.

Humanity can make an mRNA vaccine in 6 months. That's literally (almost) instructing your cells to make a particular protein.

But one of the largest consulting company in the world cannot develop a freaking website.
Ego would be an oversimplification.

Skepticism is usually mind's main working mode of those that most of the time working in logical things. Most engineers are in this group. They whitelist good incoming informations, not blacklist bad informations.

Such a person, if they previously understand thee fact-sets A,B,C will be alerted unconsciously when fact-set D is introduced and it coincidentally contradict (not contrary) A. (Both A and B are set of facts)

"10Xs don't exist because among 1000 people I work with I haven't encountered 10x" where their own 10x definition itself may be muddled.

Such an alert is normal in skeptic mode, and lingering in the skeptic mode for too long might trigger that alert in subconscious, creating a feeling "This new information is false, I know it, but I can't trace how"

While it is counter-productive, we can't blame them to be skeptical subconsciously. Because it is human.

It is most important to constantly challenge one's subconscious, to put feelings under scrutiny to see if it's valid under current circumstances or not.
> Dry water, an unusual form of "powdered liquid", is a water–air emulsion in which tiny water droplets, each the size of a grain of sand, are surrounded by a sandy silica coating.[1] Dry water actually consists of 95% liquid water, but the silica coating prevents the water droplets from combining and turning back into a bulk liquid.[2] The result is a white powder that looks very similar to table salt. It is also more commonly known among researchers as empty water. ~ https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dry_water
Perhaps because you are ignoring the people who are saying that making a profit is not their motivation. A lot of people bought GME with the willingness to lose their stake.
So killing without impunity is provided by which law exactly?
Functional only actually can model this kind of real world circulair dependencies easily without having circular dependencies in the language level. Not sure what it even has to do with functional style in general though.
Awesome! Love your Twitter feed!
It’s currently being widely reported that RH actively closed users’ positions without their permission and refused to let them cancel the trades. While I can’t personally vouch for this being true, if it is, I would expect that’s a little different from “refusal to execute orders.” (As always, take these anecdotes with a grain of salt: even if widely reported, it could very well be untrue.)
People have a religion. And most of the times their religion is not the same as yours.

Get used to this fact.
Wow! the next article should be about who signed that contract!
Let me try to explain using analogies.

Organisations are like people. Their culture is like someone's personality. Dealing with easygoing people is much smoother than paranoid delusional people with OCD. In the same way, dealing with government agencies is difficult because their corporate culture -- their personality -- is not what most people would categorise as normal.

These deals aren't normal deals. They're the equivalent of specialist treatment for someone with mental problems.

Take for example an organisation like SpaceX: They simply do things. If some manager goes to Elon with a rational but inherently risky proposal, he'll weigh the risk and then more than likely give the goahead. Other companies have a lower risk appetite, but they will take occasional risks. Sometimes huge ones.

Large federal government organisations are the diametric opposite of this kind of agile, low-overhead, no-bullshit private company. Their appetite for risk is precisely zero. That's difficult for people to wrap their head around. It's like a superconductor. It's not just a "really good conductor". It's not a "little better than copper". No, it's something fundamentally different. This kind of zero tolerance squeezes out entire lines of thought, just like a superconductor expels a magnetic field.

Notice how in this article the blame is on Deloitte and the "problem" is that there was a failure. This isn't a fault, this is the system working precisely as designed. Nobody will get fired for picking Deloitte, their purpose all along was to take the blame for the low-low price of a mere $44M so that a government employee making $100K won't have to have a couple of uncomfortable meetings.

The problem isn't that there was a failure, that happens all the time with software projects. The problem is that risk in government agencies is managed by people with essentially infinite source of free money that they can draw down on in order to protect themselves.

If a magic genie gave you a million dollars every week to spend on your own safety with no strings attached, wouldn't you? Would you say "no"? Really?
What you've said is great. I'd just like to add that the idea that Reddit is holding strong is actually wrong already. Although all over the net you only see people posting about HODL and [rocket emoji] [rocket emoji] GME to infinity!!!!!, in reality many retail investors have been exiting positions and quietly taking their profits. I suspect that many are early investors who run with their money and then just don't post about it to avoid being ostracized for "squeezebreaking."

Matt Levine saw the Citadel order flow (so Robinhood investors' orders) over the past week[1] and, contrary to what you'd expect, there were only more net buy orders than sell orders on Monday. Every other day, there were more sells than buys, to end the week overall at about a 1:1 ratio.

What to make of this? I think that this is pretty clear indication that early WSBers (who got in at sub-100) are smartly taking their profits and running. What we're going to see at the end of the day is a pretty significant wealth transfer, but unlike what the news is parroting, it is going to be a wealth transfer from the starry-eyed lowest rungs of society to the upper-middle class and large institutions who have gone long on GME. When those driving the narrative on WSB and the Wall Street trading desks exit, the mom and pops who heard about this on the morning news and got in at 200+ are going to be left holding the bag.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...
Super hot take here but I genuinely find it disgusting how many money American Universities spend on sporting events and sports, while also somehow not paying their student athletes.
You probably don't want to think about the “financial risk” for wrongful death liability that lots of people expose other people to if the financial risk for property damage through improper driving that supercar owners expose people to seems unfair.
And this situation is different how? The CDC needed a website that works. Deloitte did not deliver a website that works. If it had, it would not have been abandoned, flushing $44M of work down the drain.

You could also apply this weaselly BS to Boeing. Their "ask", if there was one, was to make a plane that customers would buy and that would pass FAA review. Not "a plane that works".

No one's contract just says "make an X that works", even though that's what everyone wants. Because an X that works is hard to define. Fundamentally the system depends on honor and trust. Which is why we despise losers that just try to get paid and fuck the customer.
> But some EVs do have a lot of cameras, and that’s part of the cost people complain about

I’m still trying to figure out why EV owners rationalize the inclusion of basic consumer electronics to somehow add thousands upon thousands of dollars to the price
Because governments outsource everything possible and end up with no persistent talent that really understands whats going on so you end up spending all the money on interfacing with contractors.