skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But as the original stock holder what happens when if the loanee defaults? The broker just calls you up and says "you had the share in your account but we lost it, here's some money for your troubles?"

It seems like the holder wouldn't care if they were just selling it, but if you were transferring the stock out to another brokerage, they just give you the alleged ask price of the shares (which actually doesn't exist because the shares are illiquid) because they made a mistake and lost your shares?

I also find this confusing for voting rights: if my brokerage is loaning out my shares without my knowledge, then I don't actually have the voting rights that I think I do, since the share is actually held by someone else?
They could put a tiny microcontroller that has a USB HID host and translates to PS/2 connected to the FPGA. So you have a USB socket on one side, you plug your normal USB keyboard or mouse into it, then that socket is connected to the microcontroller, and there are two wires (PS/2 clock and data) connecting the microcontroller to the FPGA.

Some hobbyist and educational FPGA dev boards do that, because handling PS/2 on the FPGA is so much easier than raw USB. Here is one example: https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-log...

"The Auxiliary Function microcontroller (Microchip PIC24FJ128) provides the Nexys A7 with USB Embedded HID host capability. "
"groups can group together to have very powerful and unusual effects."

Yes, like you know start political parties, fight for independance, or whatever. I fail to see why it continues to facinate people that WSB is just as valid an organisation as Greenpeace or IBM.
At my work we’re one step past where it sounds you’re at. I’ve been around since the very early days so I’m both part of the original problem and the solution. Now our biggest problem is we don’t like to work with the things we built to handle scale. I’m not sure how common that is but I don’t believe we’re alone. A lot of the problem from my point of view was trying to chase trends.

We have Kafka in places the article’s author would suggest are inappropriate. We have a lot of “one true systems” that hid horizontally scaling instead of making it easy to build clusters of micro-services. Now we’re riding micro-services pretty hard and that isn’t going well since we have too many mixed architectures in use.

I think it’s correct to push out worrying about scale while you seek product market fit. I think that once you do need to scale you really need to put thought into the process. This is difficult if everything is on fire and failing. If it’s not, burn some time to plan. It’ll pay off. Be sure you don’t reinvent things you can cheaply buy. Make sure developers still like their day jobs after the changes are made before making more changes with the same underlying design theories.
Would HFT traders flip a stock 10 times among each other just to fulfill a single Redditor's buy order? (Honest question, I don't know enough about standard HFT practices to confidently guess.)
Yeah I did a full 3.5g for the first time in the dark on the bed alone.

It didn't make much sense. I was basically stuck with time/reality changing and moving onward, even though I was resisting it. I think I was physically moving myself in a circle on my bed, trying to resist reality.

Then it ended and that was it. Wasn't enjoyable, and didn't learn much. Perhaps just a metaphor that you can't resist the true reality and moving of life.

Next time I'll definitely do out while hiking instead.
Sure and so it was garbage money; good money never had this problem yeah?
> I'm sorry, but it is a fact of banking that you can never, ever, admit to having liquidity issues. If it triggers a bank run, then the firm is dead, and, notably, not only the employees and managers of the firm suffer, but also the clients; and they suffer more than if the run had not happened. So, what you portray as a huge nefarious plot here is just a CEO of a startup trying to keep things going until they calm down again (which, incidentally, seems to have worked).

I dunno. The webull ceo discussed why they had to shut down buying, and his explanation actually made sense. He explained the T+2 system and why that was causing them to run into issues. The Robinhood ceo could have said something similar, and it wouldn't have caused a bank run + it wouldn't have felt like the ceo was hiding something from us (arguably even worse).
The USB controller would handle it.
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AFAIK the problem with that figure aggregated so that you don't know who did it and which side they're on. That means you can't tell whether it's just background noise, or a specific person constantly failing to deliver a short.
I know it's not illegal, but how is being that big and lying, not market manipulation?
It is impossible to drive the Exxon share price to zero through shorting regardless of how much capital you have. And even if that somehow worked, Exxon the corporation would still exist.
That's a valid analogy but also on a much longer time frame. Bitcoin increased in value orders of magnitude quicker than the value of land in the US. If somebody who bought a house 5 years ago was selling it for 100 times today, you bet your ass people would be mad.
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Anti-social behavior is undesirable if everybody does it, but its also what makes a leader. Look at the discussion around CEOs having dark triad traits. We simultaneously know that we dont want most people to behave this way, but also gravitate towards those that do.

I think there is a spectrum: on one end are sheep and cows where everyone is social and as a group they are dumb but plentiful. On the other end are tigers, where everyone is antisocial, everybody is an apex predator but as a species there aren't that many because they dont cooperate. And then there are humans, ants, maybe wolves, where there is a nice mix of conformity and leadership, social and antisocial, that lets us come up with new ideas, but then fall in line behind executing them.

So yeah, society full of antisocials is pretty ineffective, but so is a society of conformists.
Sure, but I'm not trying to be reassuring. I'm trying to encourage healthy skepticism of random claims on the internet.
Probably a hedge fund bought it.

Other hedge funds are making it seem like it's cool for retail investors to HODL GME.

Then they're gonna pull out and take all the money from the retail.
It would be illegal for them to lie about it.
I think everyone should read this, really opened my eyes to how the system is rigged.
Melvin may not be trading on RH, but they are trading on a prime broker who has a personal risk tolerance expressed as a function of mark to market losses. Once you exceed your collateral the broker is on the hook for your losses and “shorting GME” is not part of a prime brokers business model.
It’s sad that as a society we still haven’t moved to the point where you can say “fuck” without a bunch of people getting mad. It’s not racist, not bigoted, not sexist etc.

Is there any logical argument to be had for why these words can’t be said? Kids hear these words from peers at school by like the 3rd grade.
> Also I see more and more shops which stopped asking. Finally.

I've noticed that this is mostly down to the cashier recognizing you and not some kind of policy change.

At my regular EDEKA some of the cashiers know me and know I don't do points collection, so they usually don't ask but sometimes still do just out of habit.

Cashiers that don't know me will still always ask.

Another EDEKA, where I only shop every couple of weeks and nobody recognizes me, I always get asked for the card.
The other oranges were from https://kingorange.com/, however the orange I ate didn't have any label (It's likely it was a Kings River Orange though)
Yeah...or where it's possible to develop, but a feature that -should- be all of a week, is a multi-month effort.

In fact that seems like the norm for any Java project that has been ongoing more than a year.
I made no statement about who contributed to Java and how much. So what does that have to do with anything?

Are you actually making the argument that had Oracle not bought Sun that Java, one of the most widely used commercial programming language then and now, would have .. what? Gone away? Disappeared?
How is this different from the likes of https://vercel.com/ ?

It doesn't need to be – but understanding the difference / similarities with other tools that have a similar sounding proposition helps with user acquisition / defining your niche.
This is not what happened, I don't know why people keep perpetuating it. The entire source of the "Melvin Capital has closed their positions" thing is an anchor on Squawk Box on Wednesday morning saying that he just got a call from Melvin's fund manager who said that Melvin closed. There hasn't been any other comment besides that one, which is why people think it may have been less than honest.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddi...
Worked in gas station, tons of people stop just to use restrooms.
This is why interoperability is so important: it lets you move from one platform to another gradually rather than all at once. I've done this myself; my friend group was on XMPP for a while, then we moved to Matrix, but there was never a point when we all switched at once. It was a gradual process, with us bridging our group chats between the two, and slowly people started moving over (and in fact some of us still use both). I have never had a transition that successful between proprietary chat platforms.

To quote a recently-posted piece by Cory Doctorow:

> Interoperability lowers “switching costs” – the cost of leaving behind whatever you’re using now in favor of something you think will suit you better. When my grandparents emigrated to Canada from the Soviet Union on a displaced persons ship, they incurred a high switching cost: for more than a decade, they had no contact with their family in Leningrad except through unreliable, slow word-of-mouth with the rare person who got a visa to travel there.

> Contrast this with my move from the UK to Los Angeles in 2015: we are in routine contact with my in-laws in London and Wales, as well as my family in Toronto. My laptop and books came with me, as did our other personal effects. We left most of our appliances behind because they ran on a different voltage, but there were a few things we loved that we brought with and either changed the plugs on or connected to our house’s electrical outlets via transformer or adapters.

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
Incorrect. S3 only shows aggregate short interest. That data does not in anyway indicate Melvin's specific position. Almost certainly what happened is that while Melvin was unwinding other hedge funds were opening up new short positions at the current extremely dislocated prices.

And this is exactly why WSB's short squeeze theory is doomed to failure. It's not like once you beat Melvin that all of Wall Street just declares "okay, Gamestop is officially a $30 billion company and we will never bet against it again." The more WSB drives up the price, the more lucrative a short position becomes in the long run. And the more it attracts even more hedge funds into shorting. It's like a video game that has no ending, just the levels get harder and harder.

The difference with any traditional short squeeze is that there's always a catalyst that prevents the shorts from keeping their positions open. In the classic case it's a third party buying up a bunch of shares, then recalling them from the stock borrow market. In the Volkswagen squeeze it was the expiration of derivatives tied to Porsche's attempted acquisition of the company. WSB's original theory was that the gamma squeeze from options expiration would be the catalyst. But as of last Monday, those options were all deep in the money with crazy high implied vols. There's no gamma left to squeeze. WSB no longer even has a thesis, just memes.

With $3 trillion of AUM in the hedge fund industry, the only feasible end game is if WSB makes Gamestop the most valuable company in the world and criples the global financial system. Is it possible? Sure, lots of things are possible... I wouldn't bet on them.

I can virtually guarantee you that there won't be any meaningful short squeeze at current levels. The share price will be well below $100, before the short interest falls below 100%.
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It is being allowed with proper oversight. These people are just experimenting underground.

The problem with this tech isn't just the Übermensch (or should I say, ÜberTiāncháo) that we will have to deal with, but more subtle. For instance, a percentage of northern europeans are already partially genetically immune to HIV/AIDS [1]

People with sickle cell anaemia are already somewhat immune to Malaria [2]. Some gibbering genius in a laboratory might decide to cure the human race of Anaemia and inadvertently cause millions of people to start dying of malaria or dengue.

There are plenty of "problem" genes that we carry in our genome that scientists will want to "fix", and then we will discover the hard way why those genes are there in the first place. This absolutely needs to be controlled. The coming man will not be an Übermensch, but a CRISPR-castrato

[1] https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/hiv_resistan...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html (select 'sickle cell')
That last part is what really confuses me... what if the seller never resolves the failure to deliver? The buyer is walking around believing they own a share that the seller never actually gave them... I understand that the types of institutions that can engage in this behavior will true up their balance eventually, but why allow it in the first place? I can understand playing fast and loose with derivatives, since they are created out of nothing anyway, but securities should be treated in a manner consistent with their name.
I have never used bedrock linux in anger, but it fascinates me. I'm glad it finally made it to the front page.

Edit: I've been fiddling with NixOS and reading up on pros/cons vs scripting everything and having a good repo with all the necessary stuff. It seems like Bedrock could provide a good foundation for making it safe and easy to rollback with said scripts, or maybe even divide the scrip up into pre Bedrock and post bedrock with easy rollback capabilities.
As a European teenager I always laughed at America for having to pay for SMS receipt. Ours were free and sending was free up to some ridiculously huge amount.

Then I started dating a girl from another town and got a $500 sms bill. Oops

This was before data, WAP was barely a thing. Circa 2004. We texted our days away at school. Got very good at touch typing under the desk.
You may also be told that your version of Windows was licensed for your hard drive, not for your computer;

This may be what was intended, but I have often replaced hard drives and worked the 'Recovery Disk Magic' with them without any issues whatsoever. [apart from the glacial speed of the recovery software - but I assume that there is a sector-by-sector check of the hard drive in there as well]
Let's imagine that ... we had decided to make make web apps (full-blown-apps) separate from web pages

Java? Flash? NaCl? Somehow JS+HTML+CSS beat them all.
From Wikipedia on navel oranges:
Today, navel oranges continue to be propagated through cutting and grafting. This does not allow for the usual selective breeding methodologies, and so all navel oranges can be considered fruits from that single, nearly two-hundred-year-old tree: they have exactly the same genetic make-up as the original tree and are, therefore, clones. This case is similar to that of the common yellow seedless banana, the Cavendish, or that of the Granny Smith apple. On rare occasions, however, further mutations can lead to new varieties.
That’s what I used to do. +3 to +4 hours
Why did they settle slower?
"Computers that are Four to Seven Years Old - Although Windows 10 supposedly goes on forever, your computer may not have the necessary hardware to migrate to the current version of Windows 10 during this time period (or in some cases even earlier), and you will be forced to move to another operating system if you wish to continue to be "secure" on the Internet."

This would be news to me. Windows 10 version 2004 requires an x86/x64 CPU that is 1Ghz or higher. If you install the x86 version, you should be able to install on P4 systems that are closing in on 20 years old.

The biggest upcoming change looks to be completely dropping support for x86 (Microsoft dropped support for x86 with OEM installs in 2020). That should still leave CPUs going back to the Core 2 Duo era (and some P4 processors) compatible. That's still 15 year old computers that can run Windows 10 in 2021 with the latest updates.

I have core i5-2500 computers at work that have no problem running Windows. With the slowing of Moore's law these machines are maybe half the speed of the fastest you can get today, but not really noticeable for basic usage and web browsing. The best upgrade you can make is going to SSD, if you haven't done so already.
That technique doesn't work at the casino. Even if you had a huge amount of capital the house still has a slight edge so if you keep playing long enough you'll eventually lose everything.
>At the time, and that is still the case today, Sun / Oracle was the single largest contributor to the Java Ecosystem.

So what? What does that have to do with what I argued?

>Java will surely live but will it thrive without all those investment?

Are you really trying to make the argument that had Oracle not bought Sun, that Java, one of the most popular programming languages, would have gone away?
I think if you had started with "sometimes they don't offer as much price improvement as they promised" that'd have been more accurate.
I was going to suggest the same. Body weight workouts are fantastic and you can add progressions that increase difficulty or emphasize different aspects. You only need appropriate clothes, space enough for a yoga mat, and maybe a jump rope if you want some good indoor cardio.

Push-ups can be started against a wall or table until you’re better at them. Crunches and sit-ups on the floor. Dips with a chair. Rows with a sturdy table. Squats, jumping jacks, burpees, flutter kicks, leg lifts, mountain climbers. Yoga poses and routines like you suggest. Similarly static poses like wall sits and planks if you don’t want to seek out yoga lessons yet.

All of these can be made more difficult or easier with various progressions. Most (assuming you’re not doing crazy number of reps or times on the static poses) can be done daily. I used to do a circuit an hour during the work day to keep me moving. String together a set of exercises and reps for each that can be done in 5 minutes or so and repeat it throughout the day.

And like with weight lifting, you can fall back to easier progressions if something gets too hard. If you want to do 50 push-ups, but struggle after 20, drop the knees and do something to finish up. Try to go further each time.

And if you have a bike, get an indoor trainer. They’re aren’t too expensive, park it in front of the tv or put on a podcast and just pedal and look out a window.
This post is misleading. It's not about Kafka. It's about need for a messaging system or not which is a completely different question.
Yes, but there's also value in services automatically revoking leaked credentials, which is made easier by including such an identifier.
Here is another(1) that I was talking about and:

"Tesla Motors has once again made clear its interest in metalcasting technology, filing a patent application for a new series of aluminum alloys that the automaker claims can maintain high-yield strength while achieving high conductivity. More than this, the “high-performance diecastable aluminum alloys” described by Tesla also have “a high flowability and low susceptibility to hot tearing when diecast.” "(1)

(1)

"Patent Filing Indicates Tesla's Material Progress

The EV developer's research efforts reveal a plan to melt and cast an aluminum-nickel alloy with high-yield strength and high conductivity.
Mar 22, 2020"

https://www.foundrymag.com/materials/article/21126759/patent...
For sure. My objection is that I think that move was more obvious for Google than it was for, say, Microsoft or Apple, who still had a native-mindset and wanted to lock people into their existing platforms. Arguably, Google's move was a response to the threat of native lock in. Once they started, it was easier to execute on than smaller web-centric companies because they had the unique privilege of advertizing the Google Browser on... Google.

That web technologies actually became wildly popular for native-style apps probably owes more to the diversification of platforms and difficulty of writing native apps for all of them, otherwise it would have become yet another platform that no one writes apps for. I don't know if Google could or did predict that.
You mean regulation as in net neutrality?
This is true, but you can also go broke if you mess up your entry point. What if it happens to triple before it falls back down? Will you have the ability to sustain those losses, psychologically and financially?

I knew a guy that wound up going short on a stock that was going to the moon. He was down almost a years salary at one point. I'd rather go with a longer-term put option to keep the risk under control. It just lets me sleep at night. Everyone is different.
Not saying that's the solution (they gotta go somewhere), just observing that it's remarkably clean for it's size. And that's probably the reason.

Sadly, whichever side is in power, nothing seems to help reduce the homeless problem...
>I confess I wrote a bunch of Java applets back in the day

Heh. Nothing to confess. Before the HTML5 set of standards (circle 2008), there were certain things you just couldn't do in the browser with JavaScript. That's why there was space for plugins like Applets, Flash, ActiveX, RealPlayer, etc. I did quite a bit of Flash/AS3 (along with the Flash wasm/asm precursor named 'alchemy') development back in the day. If I was able to do it with JS/HTML/CSS I would have done that instead - but you just couldn't.
Meetings. Lots of meetings.
MDMA is so cheap to manufacture anyway, and analogs that are cheaper are usually massively qualitatively different (of course if you’ve not experienced MDMA yourself before that doesn’t help much) — but it’s also easier than ever to send off some of your sample to be tested in a lab if you’re concerned. A benefit of that global market, too!
On top of that, Florida and especially Miami is not exactly a common destination for tech-immigrants to come to. And I don't think the average SV engineer would want to move from California to Florida.
And many people are happy making fortunes riding GME up. Why does nobody ever talk about those stories?

If the rich get richer playing the same game as everyone else - good for them! The point is we're playing the same game.
What makes it a framework rather than a stylesheet?
The outbreak in Victoria in May-Sep 2020 was the source of the majority of all COVID cases in Australia.

Sharing a land border with Victoria did not make it impossible for New South Wales or Victoria to get back to zero - and that's states, not countries, so the extent of the border infrastructure is a few "Welcome to Victoria" signs.
I’ve never heard a simpler statement of the fundamental Achilles’ heel of modern finance: “various forms of promises”

The system has become so intertwined that when someone breaks a promise, it’s too disruptive to actually hold them to account so we just paper over it to keep the wheels of commerce rolling.
number of shares shouldn't matter much though. especially now that all these brokerages offer fractional shares. I guess it does matter a little more for options since those lots are bigger and fixed.