skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than banning crypto, why not tax it? Impose a 2% tax on all crypto transactions, which would serve two purposes:

1. Legitimate use would be allowed, which is a good thing.

2. Illicit use could be pursued by tax auditors, who are in many ways far more effective at achieving an outcome than are prosecutors.

A ban is just a tax anyway. A tax that you pay, in risk adjusted terms, by being forced to pay the costs of dealing out of sight of the tax authorities.
But that’s fine and why I don’t buy GME or Tesla! It’s just not the type of investing for me.

It would be hard to see how anyone was hurts by GME speculation or organized buying. (Assuming nobody gets government bailouts.)
> Its predatory that they generally encourage customers to front more than they realise they're fronting.

This isn't entirely true. Margin accounts don't have an unlimited bottom. If you put $1000 in a margin account, you can buy more than $1000 worth of securities. As soon as the value of those securities drops below $1000, those shares are liquidated. Typically, you are never on the hook for more than your initial $1000.

From Investopedia:
> " The Federal Reserve has a 50% initial margin requirement, meaning you must front at least half the cash for a stock purchase.
> This requirement gives you the ability to purchase up to $20,000 worth of stock, effectively doubling your purchasing power."

It is very risky to invest in volatile stocks with a margin account because you can hit a margin call fast. Suppose you put $2000 into RH and get $2000 worth of GME. If GME drops 50% in a day (highly possible), you get a margin call and poof your $2000 is worth zero.

> Many customers think they're betting £1000, they don't realise they're actually betting their house.

This isn't true on either part. To see why, take a peek at RH's FAQ on margin: "Access to margin is not automatic to everyone, and requires you to upgrade to Gold."

In other words. To make leveraged purchases, you have to deliberately upgrade your account to gold and have $2000 in your account. The whole reason people upgrade to gold is to get access to margin.

It is possible to put yourself out there quite a bit further than you want and lose everything you invest, but it's pretty hard to lose more than you invest. (I'm not even sure it's possible).
> The Starlink satellites are clearly not responsible for the loss of the starry sky. That process has been underway for more than two centuries and has been the consequence of what are now much more mundane technologies that we hardly think of at all. But I began to think of the ambitions of the Starlink project as somehow amounting to a final twist of the knife. Perhaps this is a bit too dramatic a metaphor, but if we think that the loss of the star-filled night sky is a real and serious loss with significant if also difficult to quantify human consequences, then the final imposition of an artificial network of satellites where before the old celestial inheritance had been seems rather like being tossed cheap trinkets to compensate for the theft some precious treasure.
I believe that the fascinating thing about WSB is how they are communicating. Using invented language and rapidly changing memes makes it very hard for an actor to do spam/bots at scale.
Maybe this is the future of language that is resistant to misinformation, symbols/word change so fast and the only way to communicate is to use the most community accepted viral alphabet.
for most people app selection on ubuntu is big enough to never need anything more
only professional/rare software sometimes has no support/suitable alternative
Haha. U/TigBitties_450 and 500K others just bought 1 to 10 shares of GME, does the SEC see it as good use of their resources? If they are going to be fined it should be proportional to what hedge funds and banks get fined for similar transgressions.

They should take this in the chin as a massive failing on their part to regulate the market just like they did in '08 aftermath when trillions of dollars and the world economy crated because of those same banks and hedge funds.
There is a concerted effort to misrepresent the short positions in GSE now. Not to mention tons of misinformation claiming that GameStop is actually a successful and valuable business. I'm not sure about the law but lies + financial interest often equals crime.
I remember using Turbo Pascal in high school, in my AP Computer Science class. This was in the early 90's, running on a PS/2 model 30 (8mhz 8086.) It was lighting fast, even on those low end machines that were several years old at the time! Fun times.
Why are we not funding this?
that is the beauty of cryptocurrency - you cannot steal it away from people. haha.
> The so-called mishap investigation

Who is calling it so? This practice of using "so-called" to manufacture unsubstantiated descriptions of events or people is poor journalism at best. See also a more notable and previously-critiqued use of this langauge: https://www.ft.com/content/ac7389f1-41d8-46b6-bc42-32ac603b7...
How many of these downsides are inherent to the protocol compared to simply not being optimized yet? I get that a QUIC optimized NIC is unlikely to be right around the corner (these things take time), but is there anything that makes such a thing impossible?
what about bing?
I don’t remember his stuff being conspiracy theory. More that he is telling of these emergent phenomena he sees and the various forces he sees that created them. Usually forces that aren’t organized, and that take place over long slow timelines. They weren’t unified and coordinated with intent to end up at the final picture he paints.
Fair enough. The point about aging that I had in mind doesn't change if we redefine 'natural disgust' as 'culturally taught disgust' In general, the older you get, the further you get from mum and dad dictating your behavior, and so the less enjoyable it is to, for example, be rude/crude for its own sake.
S and P is up 15% on its precovid levels while 20% of the poorest quintile in America are unemployed.

That’s the only thing unethical here.
Linux is definitely improving when it comes to gaming. A lot more games either support it natively, or they work quite well using Proton. Like you say, anti-hack/cheat algorithms on multiplayer games can be a problem. I dual-boot with Windows for those games that just don't work on Linux, but I find myself booting into Windows less and less....

which does not bother me one bit.
Yes, I said so in second paragraph. And there is nothing wrong with that. It also won't make you out of touch from peers nor harm your social development. No matter how unusual your parents hobby or interests, parents making you interested does not do harm.

The social harm can potentially happen if parent is preventing contact with peers and their culture too much.
> a light pattern

These terms are getting a bit out of hand XD
1. That was the SEC, not brokers.

2. People could still buy and sell.

3. I'd classify 2008 as a big deal as well.
Sure, but aren’t we all adults and isn’t this a free market . Somehow when hedge funds do it in secret then no one is to blame but now that game has caught in somehow people not in suits are to be blamed .
Either way there were always suckers and always will be . I would rather have information out and then decide rather than a bunch of hedge fund bro’s frat secret.
If it's 2 million people with $250 willing to make a bet, it's manipulation, but if a rich hedge fund manager like Soros has the money upfront to do something like short the pound and induce a Black Wednesday event [1] all by himself, that's fine and not manipulation at all? Just taking this as a random example. Any fund with enough money can move a market. This is their basic modus operandi.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
> What would separate them from the jobs that they're on the same level with today?

I'm imagining jobs with (for example) a high emotional toll, disgust factor, risk factor.

I believe those aspects are presently undervalued (described above as jobs which "anyone can do"), so I imagine there would be a reassessment of how those tasks are valued. They would likely require relatively higher pay before people were willing to do them.

Jobs with generally poor working conditions, or a high degree of managerial control and low autonomy, could be re-factored into jobs with better working conditions, as people are more able to be selective on that basis.
Thank you for the link - I particularly enjoyed section 4, which really helped drive home that they're referring to patterns that induce a loss against some ideal: individual autonomy, societal welfare, etc. The paper puts much less of an emphasis on situations that are transparent to everyone. But they still had good examples of obviously harmful patterns like forced registration. Anyways, thanks!
Yes, that's why deplatforming happens.
I think it absolutely wouldn't have. If this wasn't Gamestop, but was some random wheelchair-tech company from MI, I don't think the community would've jumped at the chance.

Some of the sentiments from comments are literally just "these guys thought Gamestop was dead? fuck them, we won't let it die"
> a lecture series or seminar by a researcher specializing in social justice movements, civil rights leaders, abolitionists, etc. Possibly focusing on insights from newly discovered primary documents.

"Newly discovered primary documents" something makes me doubt that this is what the professors are looking into...
Think how many image posts and messages there are on Facebook and Messenger. Assume your Deep Learning model has 99.9% recall. It will still miss millions per day.
No, but the residual on a new 6cyl+ (today) after 10 years is dwindling.
Atlas Stripe C-Corp for EU founders
B2C founder here. Has anyone here set up C-Corp in Delaware while physically registered in EU?

Would greatly appreciate any guidance on double-reporting stuff — we currently live in Germany and have set it all up via Atlas Stripe. Thanks!
"Whee, the magic number went up, better upgrade".

Despite Google meddling with the standards, "HTTP/3" isn't HTTP.
Wouldn't an audience self-identifying as consuming information "actively" inevitably fool themselves into adopting narratives and consider them to be the product of thought?
I like this approach and thought about it as well.

The only thing holding me back is that it's just so much effort. It's frustrating that we need to work-around MacOS. That's why I decided to refuse to update and I want to sit out Mojave until EOL. There are a few known problems, but the workarounds are well known. My experience has been good so far.
Electron is cancer, though. 1990s performance on 2020s hardware. I'd rather make my desktop GUIs in the Godot game engine.
So What Is Short Selling? An Explainer
SGI's were amazing! In one of my first jobs out of college (mid 90's) I had an SGI Indy on my desk. The company was a DEC shop and nobody wanted to deal with it. I used it mostly as an X terminal. A couple years back, I bought an O2 off of Ebay.
I’m sorry but you have written several blowhard comments along these lines and it’s just wrong. There is no such thing as “creating” a short squeeze. There is just a buying strategy based on hard work of appraising the fundamentals and speculating correctly, and you are perfectly free to tell others you plan to do that and coordinate with them.

Calling anything the retail / WSB investor crowd did in this scenario “manipulation” is ridiculous and insulting. “Coordinating” by explaining a strategy and inviting others to participate is not “manipulation.”
Lots of financial apps & cos treat OS names different than stock OS blindly as tampered/rooted for no reason. Maybe not on your daily driver but secondary phones will only survive with Lineage or community efforts.
Anything other than a pipenet will be fingerprintable at some level. A pipenet is a network in which all links run at constant utilization, with dummy traffic (indistinguishable from useful traffic) sent over the links during idle periods. Pipenets are of course inefficient, but everything else is going to reveal some kind of signal distinguishable from noise at some level.
Just commit and sell the car, our driving was about double that and we do not miss it a bit now. Still drive about 1000 km/year in rentals, but we are trying to minimize that.. It's especially nice as a family to primarly transport yourself in other ways were you get to spend time together interacting freely instead of being stuck in a car.

Economically it's more or less the same, but a better quality of life.
There is no doubt that Gamestop is a much more valuable company now than they were a month ago. They've probably gotten hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertising without spending a penny, which is going to result in a feedback loop that is only positive for the business. As they say, ANY news is good news, and this certainly rings true here.

Now would certainly be the time to accelerate their plans to move more to eccommerce from brick and mortar, and re-adjust what the stores are selling from video games themselves to hardware (read: consoles, accessories, PC gamer parts et al)

They could sell additional shares into the market to raise money to fund projects and pay off debt, but this is a double-edged sword. The SEC might not look favorably on them doing this (read what Hertz did during the reddit craze there during bankruptcy) since it could be construed that they were taking advantage of the whole situation. Also, releasing new shares into the market could unwind the squeeze scenario trade by providing more liquidity to the shorts to cover at lower prices and dilute the amount of existing shares driving the price down.

Because of this they've probably been dead silent realizing that anything they say is going to drastically move markets.

Gamestop is in an interesting situation here from a management perspective - I'd love to be a fly on the wall in their board room right now. This will be an MBA case study for many many years.
It's UDP which is generally blocked
I imagine that HTTP/2 use will almost entirely move to HTTP/3, and HTTP/1.1 usage will decline but there'll still be plenty of it around.
> when someone posts a screenshot of their position and emojis of rocketships, and a bunch of people respond with This is the way. and other meme-y jokes, is that manipulation?

Its hard to take WSB in earnest as a criminal element. If SEC or FED respond disproportinately, ut mught lead to the global "high finance" becoming a meme.
Does this mean it's no longer officially supported?
Sounds like the H1-B
I think if it turns out that (and I have no idea if this could be the case) some of the "key" figures in riling up WSB were holding GME prior, and sold like 2 days ago, that would be a pump-and-dump, right? I'm not totally sure, but I believe that fits the criteria.
That's a good summary of the introduction, but the real stuff is a lot more fun (and awful):

Curtis traces two failed socio-political movements, the US neocons and the islamic jihadists, who both have similar and similarly idiotic ideologies. The reason they failed is that they relied on the masses adopting their idiotic ideologies, but the masses simply saw no reason to do that.

Then they found each other, and the rest is history. Each movement could use a grotesquely distorted and magnified projection of the other to justify its existence and power, the power of the nightmare represented by The Other.

Each bit (the idiocy, the similarities, the parallel failures, early practice with projections, the finding each other, the magnified projection etc.) is fleshed out in great detail.
> I'm buying to squeeze the shorts

You are buying in specifically to manipulate the price of availability of an asset in the market.

> I'm buying because the shorts are overextended

You're buying in based on some perception of the market, but not attempting your action of "buying in" to have a direct impact.

Ya, they can be very similar, but as with a lot of legal aspects, intent matters (but is still hard to prove).

Regarding investing in a targeted managed fund, I think it's different because the rules are sort of different. A fund has to have an exit strategy that is a net positive for the whole fund. A fund can't make a profit for half of it's investors, and a lose for the other half of it's investors, on the same position. If there is no exit strategy, the position/play/trade/whatever doesn't make sense.

The current WSB exit strategy seems to be "hope to make it out before everyone else loses money".
Does LineageOS work well on these? I'm not sure I could leave Android for a different phone OS. Un-googled LineageOS seems like the best balance, but also it's difficult to find phones that have great support. For example, I have an LG V20 running it, and the experience has been kinda buggy. Ultimately, I wish I could use it on a Pine64 PinePhone, but that effort looks to have stalled last year.
A short position when the stock is at $350 is probably more of the idea that the fundamentals point to a much lower price in the future.
It's his presentation style, which is difficult to tell apart from conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories also throw a series of images and narration at you and expect you to make certain logical connections, which may or may not be valid.

I think his early style was far less unique, but much stronger in making an argument, see "The Great British Housing Disaster" (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5VorymiL4
Smenu: A powerful and versatile selection tool for interactive or scripting use
This is actually a really enlightening example. Everyone thinks about throwing to kill, but what about throwing to not die? It's so novel when another animal has it happen to them; they wtf out of there. Could vastly increase our survival rate.
When they work for a $1/hr and put actual contractors out of business you understand why it’s like slave labor.
My assumption is that a HUGE chunk of developers around my age (50) started out with line-numbered GWBASIC or similar, and then had Turbo Pascal as their first "real" language.

I have had a million technical books in my life, and I held on to many of them for a long time past their technical viability just out of sentimentality. Now I limit myself to half a shelf. On that shelf are my well-worn K&R, a similarly dogeared very early O'Reilly Perl book, the Peter Norton Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC, and a Waite Group book on Turbo Pascal 5.5.
Somewhat interestingly, there is a great deal of inconsistency in naming in the type design world — both in marketing features like this, but also down to terminology for specific parts of letters. I agree that it would be very useful, but for whatever reason it never seems forthcoming. My assumption has always been that type design is a fairly distributed discipline (at least amongst latin-alphabet-using countries), but remains niche, so there’s more or less only regional terminology without much consistency. (This is purely observational, so take from this what you will)
What's your opinion of Ackman going on CNBC in March and announcing that the world was ending, right AFTER he set up a giant hedge to short a bunch of industries. There are articles from March 2020 you can find.

Regarding last week, what about the blocking of a number of symbols from being bought (but not sold) on retail platforms while the folks on the short side could unwind their positions? These were stocks with high short interest. How did Robinhood and IB and TD get the list, from analyzing Reddit in ML?
This is the second time I've seen an article rise to the top of HN after I've heard it on CBC's Spark.

Interesting...
Even Alcatraz didn't do that. "You are entitled to food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. Everything else is a privilege" - Alcatraz rules.
There are a LOT of channels unmoderated in the matrix directory that could have been reported, so this isn't surprising. I have abuse complaints emailed to your abuse address that have gone unanswered, so I don't believe that you're taking your terms of use seriously.

You can find my complaints in your inbox. It's good to know Google is taking action - will send the same complaints to them in the future since that seems to get more of a response from the devs.
Carbon tax going up and demand going down, driving the price of gas up.

Buying old technology that might not be as well supported, the same reason I'm holding off replacing my Intel iMac right now (waiting for an Apple Silicon iMac but a second generation that might be supported better/longer).
I'm really hoping that the electric car future doesn't involve every manufacturer having to build their own network of charging stations.
"This is part of a long history of Facebook treating leftwing activists as if they were far-right extremists, and a pattern of silencing those who speak out against racism and fascism."

I'd think leftwing activists should be treated exactly like rightwing activists.
No, you're presented a false dichotomy.

There's no "we as society" that can just magically "provide the resources". The resources must happen, i.e. somebody actually needs to do the work. In other words, it's someone's job. There is no feasible way to run a society without people doing the work. In fact, the pandemic has been a good example of this, on so many levels - farmers in UK complaining that the strawberries are going to rot on the fields without immigrant labour (because of border lockdowns), shops almost running out of food (because of supply chain breakdowns, which governments took a lot of effort to protect/reestablish), mask & PPE shortages (because there's not enough people doing the work in factories - particularly in Europe), food deliveries (i.e. someone needs to actually do the work of getting in a car and driving around), ...
Worst case scenario is $0 resale value and $2 per litre gasoline. It'll still be a good car.
You can't really solve the head of line blocking problem in TCP
I think it's because most software most people use works fine on Linux. E.g. browsers, email, steam, websites, etc.

The ones that don't aren't necessarily widely used software. They're just specialized software for specific fields. Another example is CAD, not necessarily something everyone uses.

I also wouldn't mind using my Mac as my main computer, the problem is that my 1080p 23inch monitors don't work well with them due to pixel density.
I'm not American so I don't know what CNBC's coverage is like, but I'm not seeing any outrage or hypocrisy from the Financial Times, the Economist or the various Business sections of Irish media outlets. Maybe I'm missing something.

The worst I've seen is maybe a paternalistic attitude of "some inexperienced day traders are now at risk of being taken for greater fools," which I find hard to disagree with, to be honest. Or else they're slightly sniffily pointing out that short selling is not inherently immoral, and that many Wall Street firms are actually delighted with the windfall in fees from all this extra market activity.
> The fact that the title is still the same means they like it

Or they may not have seen it.
> One thing we looked for is evidence of apps sending my phone’s unique ID, known as its Apple IDFA. That’s the keys to the kingdom for companies that want to track you — nearly as important as your name or Social Security number — allowing them to connect up data they get from one app with lots of other sources.

Well, there you have it folks. That’s the crux of the article. The author is complaining about an anonymous, mutable value that can be changed at any time. It’s the technology constructed and promoted by Apple to track conversions.

And no, it’s nothing like your social security number.
It's only www.reddit - change the 'www' to 'old' in the url: https://old.reddit.com
Dogecoin was the original meme asset