skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there was a criminal level of ignorance and negligence in financial understanding and planning beyond the basic 401k I'm a good candidate for some jail time. I'm in my mid-40's and just have started learning by doing some basic mutual fund investment through my bank last year and to just help drive my wandering attention bought a couple of shares...Tesla a couple months ago and two days ago bought one symbolic share of GME.

I log in today to get a chuckle, across all of my mutual funds and two stocks, only one is in the green from yesterday. Obviously meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but just funny to see on my screen.
David Beckham is looked down upon by 50% of society (conservative estimate.) The clique of which you speak doesn't seem very exclusive at all.
Yes. It’s not that hard, so long as your definition of “basic web app” is server rendered HTML and CSS. I could certainly do that from scratch in Ruby without Google. If I didn’t have Google I wouldn’t want to use Rails - even though I know the framework well, there’s a lot there to remember.

But I would expect anyone who is (a) proficient with a high level programming language and (b) has ever built a web app from scratch would be able to say yes to this as well, so long as they get to work in the language they know well.

The author of this post specifically does not fit this criteria:

> To be fair, I'm not a web developer so I'm not entirely shocked by this. I only have the itch (and time) to throw together a small web app about once every 6 months.

Also, JS is part of the problem. Even avoiding the chaotic world of front-end by assuming strict SSR using something like Express, Node would be one of the more difficult ecosystems build in from memory, because JS doesn’t have the level of standard library that most languages do, because it changes so fast, and because it’s drunk the micro package kool-aid so hard (aka left_pad).

But for developers fluent in Ruby, Python, Go, Java, PHP, and probably several others, I would think this is a very realistic ask.
It isnot, at least not yet, a legal issue. As you said, it is an engineering (manufacturing) and supply / logistics (distribution) issue. None of which are even remotely discussed, not politially, not in the media, no where. So I suspect we won't see any changes on these two fronts. At least no coordinated ones, the manufacturers will have quite motivated engineers working on manufactring ramp ups, I asume.
How does this address the assertion that there's already been research out of Asia that says masks are effective against these kind of viruses?
Reading between the lines, they ran out of capital to post the required collateral for the trades.

They've been dancing around the subject because they don't want to trigger a bank run, but this is likely why they had to suddenly raise $1 billion and draw down their credit lines yesterday.

It appears they reached a point where they simply couldn't afford to support the buy orders on the volatile stocks any more. They likely had 2 options:

1) Shut down the entire platform until they could raise enough additional capital to post the required collateral. It's difficult to retain users and raise another round if you literally have to turn your service off on the hottest trading day every.

2) Shut down buy orders on the few stocks that were driving the capital requirements over the limit, at least allowing users to continue to sell.

Frankly, I think the narrative that Robinhood users are driving this situation has been greatly exaggerated. A few weeks or months from now, I think we'll learn that the majority of volume came from institutional investors rather than retail users. Redditors may have sparked the situation, but hedge funds are certainly capitalizing on it.
WSB chads vs News led FOMO normies who put their life savings into this stock

Many suicides of average joes will be the result, and a few wsb multi millionaires
Well, olive oil is supposed to be better anyway. Although it seems to me that everytime I find a study that claims health benefits from olive oil consumption it's conducted by a Spanish or Greek university (I'm Greek btw, so made of ~80% olive oil).

I can find salt-free bread from local bakeries in Greece. Also, salt-free rusks (popular in Greece) seem to be a trend, there's three or four different brands that sell them in supermarkets.
> We're trying to be very upfront that this is a for-profit thing for the creation of for-profit companies.

If you want to be upfront, don't call it a fellowship. That word has a specific meaning, especially for scientists. It comes with a stipend and is attached to a research institution, neither of which is the case here.
Ted Cruz is married to Heidi Cruz, a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs [1]. I'm not sure what his angle is but he clearly has a vested interest that may not align with the little guys.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Cruz
> A lot of people are getting a 101 education on how the stock market really works and they are learning just how little it actually has to do with real value and the economy.

I don’t see how you can draw this conclusion from these events. If this level of price volatility was commonly caused by market participants, then it would be such big news when it happens. They’re not common at all, they represent a small number of events where a small number of shares were traded overvalue for very short periods of time. Nobody is concerned that stocks are overvalued because short squeezes are just happening all the time. Squeezes are also short sellers getting punished for trying to profit off somebody else’s losses, which as far as I can tell most people think is very morally righteous. The only time they’re controversial is when intervention occurs to rescue the short seller.
I disagreed with the statement about WSB users knowing what they're doing. Upon closer reading I think our larger points are the same. All over the internet I'm seeing sleazy promotions for GameStop stock targeted at young people who are inexperienced with trading. Anyone left holding GameStop stock when this ends will lose a lot, i.e. most of WSB.
I feel like “resist the urge to post claims about concepts outside your domain/grasp” is clear, actionable advice that improves the community. What if you spent more time policing that, instead of policing of tone of people trying to make it better? Take care of the commons earlier, and then these type of posts wouldn’t be necessary.

I’m not sure why you would question the intentions of the upvoters - do you believe they don’t understand how the upvote system works? It seems clear they had every intention of promoting OP’s message and forcefulness with which it was delivered.
Well there is this quote, often attributed to Einstein himself: “Never memorize something that you can look up.”

I don't know whether he really said or thought anything like that, and I also don't actually agree with the literal meaning. There are some things that it pays to memorize, in my opinion. As I keep reminding my daughters: times tables (or math facts as they seem to be known nowadays) are important forever.

The principal behind the quote, however, I'm fully behind. I live in the docs. Even if it's something that I know pretty well, I often like to check to make sure I understand exactly what's going down. There are too many little details that are easy to forget. If it's important and you aren't sure, look it up!

Finally, I could probably claim to be able to write build a simple web app without using google, but I'm sure I would lean heavily on my editor to remind me of argument order, syntax, etc. Maybe there is a little bit of difference there: if my editor/IDE can tell me what I need to know, it's probably just that bit faster than searching for it in a browser.

Shoutout to lsp-mode.
Robinhood would have no customers if it implemented that system.

And Robinhoods actions affect on GMEs price was likely small. The investing world is far larger than Robinhood, and Citadels own statistics show retail investors have been net sellers of GME since Monday.

And again, every time that GMEs price crashed, Robinhood’s collateral requirements increased. Why would they try to kill themselves?

Saying they manipulated GME trading is like saying one pirhana quitting the school is manipulating the feeding frenzy.
Every time an article says "it's time," it means the right time was far in the past, and the politically possible time is far in the future.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957923
There's almost certainly other developers in your city - even if you're in the middle of nowhere :)

Check out local meetups especially, and you'll probably find a smaller, but interesting group of developers you can connect with.
What about math labs? Isn’t this the county with the prosecutor who likes to hug a thug? Turn loose cop killers? The new guy with the assistants who all quit? Am I thinking the right one?
My MacBook Pro 2019 model is about to take off if I use both DataGrip and PyCharm at the same time.
It's not a problem when you look up the spelling or the order of arguments in the reference.

It's a problem when you search for the solution to every problem with a search engine.

So many answers on the internet are written by absolute beginners, who happened to have the same problem, and then blogged about the solution after spending 5 minutes of googling. Sometimes these answers are alright, but often they are shallow and miss context.

The problem is excacerbated by the fact that 1000s of sites try to get into the top results for programming questions. So you end up with crappy shallow answers, and never learn the underlying details.

And then there's the problem that the more experienced you get, the less you look up answers, so the less you are exposed to sites like Stack Overflow, and the less you contribute to Stack Overflow. So the result is that the least experienced contribute most to the answers on the web.

My preferred solution is to buy books. Find the best book on your topic and read a chapter, and you'll learn more than if you had googled 100 questions.

The downside of books is that it only works for "old" tech. If you want to learn about the hot new Swift UI Declarative Reactive Whatever, your out of luck and you need to scrape together any info you can find from random blog posts...
The best answer to give when a coworker asks you what you did over the weekend
Yeah, I was just thinking of how every developers cube used to have stacks of books and binders of CDs from MSDN.
Sudo also runs, for example, on OpenBSD. Solaris, MacOS, etc.
One of my fondest memories programming was on a sailboat crossing the ocean.

When ever I hit doldrums, I'd pull out the laptop and work on the app to pass time. Luckily I had a good collection of gems locally that I used for reference.

Wasn't a web app, but I'm quite proud of it.
Every game is about adding artificial barriers the player has to deal with. Games without artificial barriers are called movies.
Treat everyone the same, maybe?
I know it's pedantic, but the company is Thorlabs, not Thor Labs. Sure you've built a lab using their equipment?
Who knows, maybe one day Composer will be bundled with PHP. (And bundling Composer with PHP wouldn't necessarily mean that Composer would lose its own independent dev team.)
Lets see how far they actually manage to go with Kotlin/Native, they seem to be trying to make Kotlin the new Delphi.

I don't have any hopes for it besides Android, which is working thanks Google gatekeeping Java updates and pushing Kotlin instead.
The natural state in capitalism is that a worker owns their own means of production - their time. If one wants to trade their time into a collective, that is their time to trade. Slavery breaks this, and one of the more interesting facets of the American civil war was that the North (anti-slavery side) was much more efficient than was the South (which favored slavery), even in agriculture.
They don't. They just distinguish between playing good cop and bad cop.
I can imagine that, but I'm having a harder time imagining it to be common.
And it is a bad contract at that.
I definitely remember a lot of talk from experts saying non-surgical masks don't work and that surgical masks should be saved for medical professionals.
The going back in time question is actually really good. What are the fundamental concepts you need to kickstart stuff? Those fundamental insights are still going to be relevant today, which is why they sparked revolutions and major changes to the landscape.
My favorite is when they denied an insufficiently formal request for counsel.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/suspect-asks-for...
So 1 million new shares hit the market over four days from retail traders. That allowed the short interest to drop from 140ish to 120ish. They call those "paper hands" on u/WallStreetBets.

Still an otherworldly amount of short positions coming due, and an awful lot of degenerates with diamond hands.
No sector of the finance industry is ever honest about liquidity... too much fear of a panic.
The app is a nice curiosity and works as an advertisement but nothing else. Everyone knows IKEA makes the most buck out of crap people buy while coming over to the store to see something they actually planned on buying. It's not a coincidence their stores are like mazes.
Of course not because any written software is the result of learning and we simply cannot learn every permutations that can be called a "web app".

If we are talking about deploying something using framework which automatically generates CRUD boilerplate then perhaps yes.
I think you might be missing the point of the hypothetical
You're right about the prices. My bad. I was at these other things quite a few years ago and either remembered wrong or the prices have gone up. It is significantly cheaper today. I stand by that if you're a tourist with a limited amount of time in Montreal it's not a top 10 destination.
Yeah I guess I was asking if having only partial-immunity effectively acts as a filter or creates pressure so that rarer mutated strains make it through and are given a pathway to infection/reproduction.

From your response: "It might culture a strain that's better at infecting folks for whom the vaccine doesn't prove effective, if there's a common factor there and the virus can use it." it sounds like the answer is yes.
They are often the same people.
Expect to work their time zone, which may conflict with your local time zone. East coast vs west coast is a big deal.

You'll also be making a shitton of money, even with their CoL adjustment, so, don't be a dick about it.
I definitely cannot do this, but the tool that gets me close is using backsearch to find old terminal commands. This might sound really basic, but I have worked with surprisingly tenured devs who jaw drop when I show them backsearch (yes, really).

I'm personally a fan of fzf. ctrl-r has saved me many google searches. If you're just getting into software development it's a lifesaver.
There is a difference between "how do I do this?" And "how do I do this?"

I know without even thinking precisely how I would assemble a simple web app - I do not need help to understand what needs to be done in turns of building blocks. I.e. architecture, how it all hangs together, how data is stored and transmitted etc.

But do I need to search specific arguments for a library function call, some DSL syntax, or other reference material? You bet I do - time is too short to memorise that sort of thing, and totally not worth it IMO (especially since tech moves fast - what is relevant today, is obsolete and dead next year)
Indeed, if you look at startup fellowships for scientists that currently exist, fellows don't have to give up IP or equity. Calling this program a fellowship in this context is highly misleading.
I’m looking in starting a brokerage where we take all your money and then change TOS so you can only have shares in the brokerage, which you can’t sell. Nonvoting. Then I’m leaving town. I’m calling it Don’t Kill Puppies brokerage.
>One constraint is that it shall be working without network connection.

Is the constraint about working without a network connection or an internet connection? Are the terminals connected to an internal network to access files, communicate?

>We need to create/revamp some small internal tools used by our engineers.

What's the goal of that revamping? What is wrong with the current tools?

How frequently will you be updating the tools, and how do you see rolling out new versions? What has been the workflow like for fixing bugs or improving the tools so far?
One time a neighbor knocked on my door. She was concerned. "Can you hear those children screaming?" Stepping outside with her I found I could, just, maybe a few hundred metres away. "We better call the cops" I said. The cops arrived within minutes. It turned out that the local school had invited a farmer to bring some lambs to the school and we could hear the kids squealing in delight. The cops, my neighbor and I had a good laugh about it. This is one of many times I've talked to cops in my life and I've invariably had pleasant and good natured conversations. Perhaps I should mention I don't live in the USA.
Yea, I mean the words “liquidity problem” from a Wall Street or Brokers CEO’s lips is almost an immediate firm suicide.
Good spot! AFAIK Ubuntu under WSL(2) uses the same update repository as a non-WSL variants, so you shouldn't get different results.
I made a couple of reads to try to parse out what was going on... and I just ended up confused. I think the following quote best shows the frame of reference I eventually came to.

> Consider the conflict between the person whose sense of justice makes it impossible for her to give up on her anger, and the person whose sense of justice makes it impossible for her to become angry.

There is a lot of discussion, but I don’t really see the author come to any useful, supported conclusion. The ending comment about people being nicer to each other seemingly comes out of no where.

I’m not sure what to make of it. Maybe I’m expecting an informative article when there isn’t one, or I’ve grossly missed some stated point or necessary context.
The process of shorting involves selling shares now with the intent of buying shares later. Price will drop in the near term bc you're increasing supply. In theory, without short selling, the market would still eventually arrive at the correct price, but short selling expedites the process.
But some pieces can mess you up with orientation. Is that long board symmetrical or not? If you missed that there are three small dots at the left end of the diagram and two on the right, you'll probably install it backwards.

It's happened to the best of us. If you've ever built a LEGO kit and been off by one stud somewhere early in the project, you'll know the feeling.
The significance of the earlier commitment from the UK is that UK manufacturing of the vaccine is now 3 months more mature than the EU plant. It’s not a legal significance but a practical and moral one.
Sumitted because for those who haven't followed the story, Damodaran provides an accessible, level-headed, academic point of view on it that I found interesting.
That's a really slick website. However it still can't tell the difference between 3 letter words (or 4) that also happen to be symbols. Take for example APPS on the Ticket Sentiment (https://swaggystocks.com/dashboard/wallstreetbets/ticker-sen...). I haven't seen anyone talk about Digital Turbine Inc, but lots of people talking about investing apps. Would be nice if Reddit had some autofill feature that prepended $ to symbols. $APPS vs apps. Perhaps a mod feature they could enable?
I guess that depends on what an 'app' is.

Can I knock up a site with some PHP/HTML/CSS without references - sure.

Can I knock up a standard server side app - sure, but I'm gonna want to look up certain functions and what arguments they take.

Can I put together an SPA without? Probably not.
I know what I need to do, but I'm not going to remember which packages I need to install,
or how they are configured, or if package x works with webpack4 or if I have to have Vue2 because a certain thing I want to use doesn't support 3 yet etc.

There are so many moving parts now for an 'app' that it is not feasible to keep it all in your head. Thats why there are so many starter-packages for things, because people forget what they did the first time around, so just create a new git repo with the skeleton to get going again ... only to be replaced in 6 months.

It was perl and flat file site counters when I started, and now I have to google how to make webpack work nicely :D
That's a pretty weak line of reasoning for declaring QI racist. The reason police were given QI protection was because the court felt that the police were shielded by the same laws that already shielded judges so long as their actions were undertaken during the performance of the duties.
The messaging was certainly problematic. But the actions seem to be done in good faith.
The specific case of “White men are so fragile and the mere presence of a Black person challenges every single thing in them” isn't the greatest cause for a deletion and a ban (albeit temporary). Far worse things are said all the time without a peep. It seems like a case for a warning rather than a block.

I don't expect consistency. There's just too much to do. And for all I know the user already had at least one warning, in which case a (temporary) ban isn't unreasonable. It would shift the burden of proof to say that they're going after that kind of racism and not other kinds.

I'll note that I have said similar things myself. It obviously doesn't apply to every single white male (I am one myself), but I've seen it happen so much that I've said the same hyperbole. And if they wanted to warn me, then worse when I continued, I'd accept that -- as long as I had reason to think that they were also applying at least roughly similar standards to other people.
Don't talk, even with a lawyer. Get written questions and give written testimony through the lawyer.
> GPUs don't need to have SIMD instructions;

Except NVidia Ampere (RTX 3xxx series) and AMD RDNA2 (Navi / 6xxx series) are both SIMD architectures with SIMD-instructions.

And the #3 company: Intel, also has SIMD instructions. I know that some GPUs out there are VLIW or other weird architectures, but... the "big 3" are SIMD-based.

> if you give one a fully scalar program it just needs to run a lot of copies of it at once.

Its emulated on a SIMD processor. That SIMD processor will suffer branch-divergence as you traverse through if-statements and while-statements, because its physically SIMD.

The compiler / programming model is scalar. But the assembly instructions are themselves vector. Yeah, NVidia now has per-SIMD core instruction pointers. But that doesn't mean that the hardware can physically execute different instructions: they're still all locked together with SIMD-style at the physical level.
I tried to make a one file java console app the other day. I know I did this in college. I gave up and just did the task in a python notebook.
The pandemic could e over on July 1st 2021, according to the contract. No idea how that is actually defined, I would hve expected some stipulations around the WHo delaring it or something.

Fun fact, epidemics are included as force majeur events. And the Force Majeur paragraph is a carbon copy from the last fulfillment contract I read.
I had never heard of Setext! I do know that, before Markdown became popular, lots of programmers had their own similar format going on - this was mine, from 1998:

Perl program https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/code/HEAD/tree//branche...

Documentation https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/code/HEAD/tree//branche...

I wonder now how much of this was picked up unknowingly from Setext-derived documents.