skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly _feels_ like an organized riot, but I'm not 100% sure that it is. In a riot, there are organizers and instigators, and then there is a mob who follows them. Here, I'm not really sure that the organizers exist: the closest thing I can see is the Reddit user DeepFuckingValue, and all they do is post screenshots of their position in GME without futher comment. And have been doing so for the best part of a year.

The mob seems to have largely formed itself.
That’s a really good point that I hadn’t considered, thank you. When I spoke about bulletin board systems being decentralized, I was thinking more in terms of the interconnected Internet. Facebook is a centralized social network, it has tremendous reach. But a bulletin board system is one phone line (or five if you’re really lucky) and anyone can splin up a bulletin board system. The limiting factor is of course the phone lines, and if you don’t like one, you can go to another.
It is the same parent company, although they sold off the home canning business in the 90s. They still make other types of consumer packaging, though.
The problem is that when hedge funds get in trouble they do not go to jail, are not prohibited from doing business and the penalties (fines) are ineffectively weak.

Given the track record of holding the powerful accountable is terrible, I don’t think this is directed at hedge funds but is a warning to the little people.
Twitter also went openly fascist recently. They killed off thousands of antifascist accounts. Just waiting for Google to follow.

World War 3 seems pretty near with those extreme swifts to the extreme right, and economic downfall of the west.
>What are the odds of a flash crash

Barely more than zero because there are market circuit breakers now and broker dealers are supposed to be limiting order flow so that HFTs can't be submitting huge numbers of orders that are massively far away from what the security is trading at. Of course some broker dealers play much faster and looser than others but if shit really hits the fan the circuit breaker catches it.
I have a feeling that historically, we've always put high-growth companies on a pedestal. It's not something that is unique or novel to this particular time. The way which companies GET there (via VC) is novel, yes, but companies have stood the test of time and toiled quietly building great products before, and they continue to do so now.

The only reason you don't hear much about them isn't because we hype on high growth companies, but because slow careful growth isn't sexy, that's all.
> actions taken by regulated entities

That's clearly not about random people commenting on an internet forum.

It may still be about specific people commenting on an internet forum, but those people would know it's about them.
It's also not as if hedge funds are employing thousands of welders or craftsmen. These are high risk financial strategies by people who qualify as professional traders - "I didn't know" isn't an excuse anymore. If they lose the game, they get to eat their losses.

We will probably see a few retail traders get burned, and I suspect anyone wanting to do trading in the future is going to have to fill out more disclaimers.
Speaking of tired BS arguments...

>When you reach full monopoly on a market you have to be regulated.

Facebook doesn't have anything like "full monopoly" on any market. They don't have a monopoly on the internet, they don't have a monopoly on social media. They don't have a monopoly on human communication. They're not even the most popular social media platform among some demographics.

>FB has no right to dictate what can be said publicly.

They're not dictating what can be said publicly, they're dictating what can be said on their platform which, yes, they have the right to do.
Yes, it’s as simple as moving tick by tick. But there is a lot of stuff. Like everything else, conceptually simple things become difficult at scale.
We get this one a bunch; Up to Date is pretty awesome.

Public data + our data shows only ~1/2 of clinical questions can be answered by Up to Date (or references like them).

Those online compendia employ a small team of credible authors + have massive scale, so they focus on the mainstream questions.

Our custom solution is designed around the long tail of emerging or complex questions.

For example, if you want to know about dexamethasone 4mg for early stage COVID, Up to Date will have it. But if you want to know about dexamethasone 20 mg, you’re faced with doing this literature search on PubMed (which = 2 hours + 4 journals) .

We get this question a lot, and really appreciate you surfacing it here. We made this into a FAQ for anyone that prefers to visualize it: https://www.inpharmd.com/faq

Maybe this is how any startup takes on any large incumbent? IDK. We love your collective wisdom, we learn a ton from you all.
Okay kids, story time.

After the crash of 2008, I spent some time working with Dick Fuld. Yes, the former head of Lehman Brothers. Yes, the one people describe as “disgraced,” among other terms. Here’s the irony, though — Dick was one of the only people I encountered at that level of business/finance who wasn’t a scumbag. Unlike so many virtue-signaling Silicon Valley darlings, the guy behind the curtain was an honorable dude. And again, that’s a direct account from someone who has no vested interest or a book to sell or anything of that sort.

Dick and I worked closely together, one on one. After enough time, after he trusted me, I finally got to ask him about what the hell actually happened. The man had a ton of PTSD — and probably still does — but eventually it became clear that the real story was completely, utterly, unbelievably stupid.

Yes, Lehman was doing a bunch of stupid stuff, and the management under Dick were behaving like cowboys. But at the end of the day, that was the entire market at that time. What sunk Lehman was, in the end, a decision by all of the other big banks and the regulators that they’d let Lehman die because of something that might be best summarized as “lol idk sorry Dick but we’re just gonna let you go and let the Fed bail the rest of us out sorry bro lol.” Like really. That’s how it went behind those closed doors in the lairs of the lizards that control the universe. Lehman had already suffered near-death in 1994 — the world has now forgotten that Dick was the hero that saved the firm back then — and now it was to be made a sacrificial lamb for everyone else’s benefit.

Why am I telling you this story? What is the point? Well, what I am trying to say is that these supposed “adults in the room” who are so much smarter and better than the the “retail investors” are pretty much the same sort of immature, self-centered children as the other side. The difference is, they’ve got the regulators and the politicians in their pockets. So when they say “lol oops” and literally blow up the global economy to save face, nothing happens to them. But for some reason when it’s the retail guys, a moral panic ensues.

In my eyes, the Internet-connected retail investor is learning the power of what I call “massively multiplayer liquidity.” Yes, there’s some growing pains, but let’s not kill this wild new phenomenon before we learn what it can do. Because, from what I’ve seen from the other side of things, I doubt these self-styled “retards” will ever end up as depraved and corrupt as the people they’re disrupting.

Play ball, kids. And as Dick always used to say, “don’t get left with nothing other than a ham sandwich.”
I’m wondering what kind full page response will Facebook make now. :D
Police are largely protected from criminal prosecution because they know exactly how cruel and inhumane the criminal justice system is.

If they are indicted they often have special rules for how and when they will be arrested / interrogated through union contracts. A way to solve this is legislation at the local level that a) makes some of these specific unequal rules illegal, but also b) fixes the inhumane parts of the justice system for everyone.
Mind that the amount of QA you ought to have heavily depends on what game you're making - e.g. with a story heavy game, you 100% want give or take 3 weeks on every update for localization checks, or for a MMO you probably want to run new clients/servers with your testers first for about a week to make sure nothing catastrophic happens, which is especially important in online games(lots of bad PR and real money invested by players - you really don't want to have to roll back "saves").

All depends on budget and quantity of course, but this is what's usually planned for from my personal experience working in that sector.
That was the point of my original post. Not that current events are comparable to historical events as far as the mechanism of crisis is concerned... but that stresses like the ones today have a way of uncovering new and interesting failure modes which people collectively wrote off as unlikely.
Factorio has collision detection and AI as well. Biters. They have to do pathing, collision; all of the usual stuff AI enemies have to do.

Plus, each item on a conveyor belt has collision as well - they can tell when they run up against each other and will stop. Inserters can't put items on a full belt, but if there's a space they will sneak the item in (moving items around it if necessary).
The regular user just clicks "accept" on every prompt they see. Yes there might be days that privacy is the top news. But most people ignore it. $FB is down because of this new cycle but mark my words. Facebook will make even more billions using data people "clicked accept to share".
Been using Maturin for a little while professionally, and it's surprisingly good. There's a few bugbears here and there - I haven't found a way to have Cargo Test & a pyo3 library working at the same time - but overall it's a lot more pleasant than working with Rust and R was.
Doxxing is messed up and it really doesn't seem like it adds much of anything to the story. On the other hand, it again comes down to the question of how big one can be if ever before talking about details of their life is fair game? After all, he just led hundreds of thousands people, made millions, and shook up markets for billions. Is that big enough?
Yeah that’s nice, so at least you can be involved in something where there is no doubt of large scale unfettered manipulation. I guess that certainty is a plus for some.
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Is this still ongoing? I'm having issues that I can confirm that as a result of this, and now three days later things are still spotty. Could be conflating multiple problems, of course.
Since finance itself is a socially convenient system of alignment fabrication, you might as well start subsistence farming.

It's turtles all the way down. You could say trust emerges when people agree to believe in a shared lie.
I guess I don’t understand why manipulating the market is immoral if you’re open and honest about it the way wsb was.
SEC says it will “closely review” restrictions on Reddit-fueled stocks
You can't trust a company until it pivots
I still am wondering how error handling should be done in pony, it only tells you an error has happend, not what has caused it or what kind of error happend.
The nihilistic trend evident here is quite concerning. Traders not even interested in making money, but in just hurting someone they hate.
Previously (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14859844
> Also, there's this huge misconception that the markets are "free", and that means anyone can participate

You just hit the nail on the head. Lots of people believe that in a free and fair market, everyone should have equal access. Yesterday just made it abundantly clear to literally everyone that this isn't reality, as you point out. Which is why everyone is pissed.
Persuading people that they should invest in X company for Y reason is not market manipulation. People who take a short position frequently announce their short publicly, with the express aim of achieving their goals.
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EDIT: Seems that Deepfuckingvalue was not doxxed, he willingly gave an interview. Removed the comment as it may be irrelevant...
Your mistake is thinking that the plan is to move humanity away into space, instead of bringing space (or more accurately mineral-rich asteroids and solar energy) to humanity. That way we can just externalize all industry & pollution to a lagrange point somewhere and let the earth take care of healing itself.
As if more evidence was required to see qanon for what it is: warmed over blood libel with a flag slapped on top. It's not just a laser beam, it's the rothschilds' laser beam!

The old tricks still work really well, more's the pity.
Left and right might as well be called red and blue, banana and cherry, etc. To the common guy (me) there's no real meaning behind it other than "us" and "not us" (= them).

Thinking in these categories and acknowledging their existence is unhelpful to say the least and just highlights how broken the "debate platform" is (and it has crept into journalism as well).

It's a shitfest I stopped trying to comprehend some time ago and a legacy system of times past that overstayed its welcome. Where's the nuance? Where is the meta discussion?
Ah alright. That's an interesting technique!
You can't do that in Elm, you'd have to rely on the technique I mentioned above and regular tests.
> Furthermore, the line between amateur and professional blurs quickly when the amateurs start selling their products. Once someone starts a Kickstarter or opens a store to sell their amateur board game, they are effectively professionals. They tend to start behaving as such.

Yes, in the sense that they have to factor in "professional" responsibilities, such as paying attention to costs; e.g. production and marketing.

However, I think when many people say "professional game designer" I think they may (rightly or wrongly) include "seasoned" (i.e. with a track record).

Of course, both amateurs and professionals may be seasoned. And both may have passion and dedication to their work.
> I kinda wonder what Bogle would have to say about all this if he were still alive;

The next best thing is Warren Buffett, has he said anything on this?
Care to share any examples or references of where Apple is being dishonest here?
Yes, but:

> unless you expect them to be mutated by other code down the line and are guarding against side-effects

Sometimes you hand off a mutable object to some other code and that code mutates it for its own purposes. If you hand the same object to multiple functions in this case, they'll all see each other's changes and if this wasn't intentional then voila, you've got a bug. This is one motivation for immutable data structures: you don't have to worry about whether an object might get mutated so you don't have to eagerly clone it. But in an existing codebase it may not be a trivial thing to simply introduce immutability. This is why, instead, I suggested making that defensive cloning explicit and decoupled from the rest of the logic.
I have a general, all-purpose opposition to financial trading that’s about exploiting weird market structure tricks to screw people over rather than expressing beliefs about the value of the underlying things being traded. Institutional traders too often get away with doing that kind of thing, and I’m hardly losing sleep over the particular targets of this campaign, but we can’t let the takeaway here be “it’s fine as long as retail investors get to play too”.
Have you checked lately? ;-)
You misunderstand the context here. Yes, there's the narrative and the certainty that wealthy people participated in the snowballing/astroturfing and profited from it. But it's still the case that small investors made some money playing by the same rules as the hedge funds, and the institutions have nakedly tried to stop that through any means possible, from curtailing the actual discussion to media campaigns to directly plugging at the source with Robinhood. It has nothing to do with the actual nature of GameStop, but that's part of the message of the stock market itself and the broader economy being more and more nonsensical and divorced from production.

The nihilism is increasing more and more. This is just one instance of it, where institutions are so brazen that they don't even bother to come up with an excuse and just pull the plug after some cost benefit calculations. Eventually there will be the straw that will break the camel's back, which is what I mean by an impetus for change. If more and more people come to understand that working hard and saving is a sucker's game and that any escape from that game is rigged at the institutional level, they will stop wanting to participate in the current social contract.
I have! Used FastAPI as a frontend to do some minor data modification, and passed the data for model inference in Rust.

Works really nicely, although given how little work I'm doing in the Python side I honestly prefer using Rocket instead of FastAPI and then using pyo3 to call the Python library in Rust, rather than the other way around.
Yes, it is broadly illegal to corner or attempt to corner any market, and the law directs the CFTC to step in and and void commodities contracts or take whatever other actions it deems appropriate when it finds that a market has been destabilized. See 7 USC 12a(9).
Whatever pressure is needed to stop the masses from understanding the power they have when working together. Although GameStop is small fries in comparison to other larger stocks, if that many people are willing to get together to vote with their dollars, that should scare wallstreet. And sure, this is "organized" but how is this any different than analysts with large audiences making calls and directing a large number of investors in the direction they want? Or hedge funds publishing their shorts and masses reacting based on that, affecting the stock. The hypocrisy. If they're going to regulate the people to this extent, they better regulate and actually enforce the regulations on wallstreet. Can't just protect one side.
"The left" is a useless term, and your entire post is based on that faulty premise – as a result, it adds no real value to this discussion.

There is no "the left". This is a shibboleth that you have created.
I wonder why this is under Naver company github, looks more like hobby project.
Curious on how they use this kind of project in their environment.
> I don't think the answer is to legally regulate free speech on social media platforms. I want online platforms to have the power to moderate.

I'm very anti-regulation in general, but I think that regulation is absolutely needed regarding censorship of DMs on platforms like Messenger, WhatsApp, and the like. Posts and groups are one thing, but they're also censoring people's private conversations.

There are entire domains that you can't even link your friends to via Messenger. This is a dangerous situation. Much of our society's only contact details for much of their social graph is via these censored platforms that can suspend you on a whim.

Regulation to enforce availability of data and contacts export/takeout after suspension would be good at the very least. Saying something the platform doesn't like shouldn't cut you off from your address book.
Doesn't he have any right to privacy?
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Totally agree- before we started doing anything we had to understand what we could and couldn't say. We probably interviewed as many lawyers as potential customers !

The consequences of wording something wrongly are huge.

To be clear, we stop short of making recommendations. Our goal is to give the provider all the info she needs to make her own evidence informed decision.
It's harder to pursue this if there were hundreds of thousands involved. Maybe they'll go for the people who organized this, or the one who profited massively for it. But I don't see it possible to sue a million person.
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Who was the Russian that escaped to Canada that talked about this? The intellectual idiots, he called them. The ones who blindly wanted the revolution. They're the first to purge after the revolution is a success.
This is an op-ed article which has the world "leftwing" as a self-description of the author right in the headline. The author self-description in the article is "leftwing organizer". To speak of "the left" in this context seems fair.

I do agree tho that it's in many many other circumstances not helpful.
The title of the article is "Facebook is banning leftwing users like me"
I don't think your statement and the person you responded to necessarily conflict.
Not knowing how hard it is to provide the service fo their "core market infrastructure," I couldn't tell if it was just a self-complimentary way to boast or genuine technical feet.

Regardless, the prominence of the note was strange and set an immediate defensive tone.

What made it really odd was the arc of tone to "Market participants should be careful to avoid such activity." An elegant threat.
Dyson Sphere Program looks interesting.

There's also Satisfactory, which is a 3d first-person-perspective factory builder.
You mean on the CPU, right? This CPU doesn't support AVX-512:

$ grep ^flags /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "avx|sse|popcnt" | sed 's/ /\n/g' | egrep "avx|sse|popcnt" | sort | uniq
avx
avx2
misalignsse
popcnt
sse
sse2
sse4_1
sse4_2
sse4a
ssse3

What compile/build options should I use?
There should be more incentives to keep businesses small. That way there wont be an incentive to 'grow for money'. The little guy has a disproportionate amount of struggle.
They don't have avx512 instructions.
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The FOMO is palpable.

There's a hurried rush of small investors hoping to turn their meagre savings into a big win, backed by the anxiety that if they don't try then they'll forever regret missing their one and only chance at a comfortable life.

This sort of event would be less likely if America's wealth disparity weren't so grotesquely skewed.
You really need to stop accusing thousands of people of lawbreaking when several actual securities lawyers with backgrounds in actual manipulation litigation have said it isn’t as cut and dry as you think. Tying the activity to the riots and suggesting similar organization is also beyond the pale. You have cited neither of those positions throughout your ranting here and they’re harmful speculation.

Your commentary in this thread is over the top. I’d use a term you already have (edit: and deleted, looks like) which definitely applies, but I’m not stooping there, and you’re probably on your way to a flag for it anyway. I suggest you step back from HN for a few minutes, at least.
> I'd gotten the impression that Loeb isn't trying to convince the public and scientific community that it was an alien probe so much as is he trying to show it could have been.

That was also my impression. A lot of scientists (rightfully) make fun of the dogmatic view that it must have been an alien probe, but fail to realize their view -- that it must have been _anything but_ an alien probe -- is just as dogmatic.
I just tried to buy AMC options and IB told me I'm still restricted to only closing positions related to that security. I have plenty of funds available.
Seems like a very obvious thing to do.

I’m not really sure why this is news.

I’m surprised the execs of GameStop haven’t completely divested (if they haven’t).
No AVX-512, forget it then