skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn’t naked short selling. Naked short selling means A skips the borrowing part, and just says “I have a share to sell”, but doesn’t actually have it (nor have they arranged to borrow it). They sell it, planning on buying it before they actually have to deliver it. This is illegal.

My example was not naked short selling. At the end of the transactions, only E has a real share. B and C both have an IOU for a share.... they can’t loan it out again or sell it unless they recall the loan (which they can do at any time).

If you think this is a Ponzi scheme, just wait until you hear about fractional reserve banking! Every single bank loans out money it doesn’t ‘have’.... it loans out money account holders put in. That means there is more money in circulation than actually exists, because the person whose money was loaned out still has their full balance in their bank account.

You can read about stock lending here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-shake-loose-change-...

To your question of “if both people demand their share back they will not get it”.... this is exactly what a short squeeze is. You are right, if the lenders demand their shares back, the short sellers have to scramble to get them back... they have to buy a share on the open market to sell.

Now, in normal times a short seller would just borrow a share from someone else to return to the person demanding it back, because normally there is always someone willing to lend their shares (for more and more interest as demand goes up)... of course, if all the shareholders refuse to loan out their share, shorts are screwed... and will have to pay crazy amounts of money to buy back shares that are really expensive.

This is what wallstreetbets is trying to do... get all the shares owned by their users who all refuse to loan them out, driving the price ridiculously high.
The US response to WW2 took years. We’re still in the months range. You can’t parallel use the early sequential phases; you can’t fabricate this equipment — nor the expertise to manufacture it from nothing in just a few months.
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> the truth would have come out shortly about the company's total lack of care for its users

The truth had come out, hadn't it? Even before the 2020 election, people had been mocking the network for arbitrary post removal and the requirement to show official IDs for at least some features.
> inadvertently

Separate icons on ones launcher go a long way toward maintaining intent.
Two former Trump officials to be investigated posting papers denying climate chg
This is like kindergarten arguments.

You: You have concentration camp! you're evil!
China: No we have re-education camp.
You: Ha, busted, you admit the camp existed, and re-education camp is concentration camp.

I'm out.
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As a proportion of the total amount of content, Parler is/was vastly more violent and hateful than either of those platforms.

And in any case, they own their own DC's.
> (Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post)

Maybe it's only a veneer of independence, but I like that WashPo is reporting on this.
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> The FTC alleges Amazon changed the way it paid drivers in late 2016, lowering the hourly rate and then used customer tips to make up the difference. Amazon continued to tell drivers they were receiving all of their tips, even after receiving hundreds of complaints from drivers, the agency said.

How is this not simply theft? Why does this attract civil charges and not criminal ones?
Those groups all got closed, so far as I know, many of them long before the 6th. Do you have specific one's you're worrying about? It's fair to argue that Facebook should have done more, or did the wrong thing, but they were pretty transparently trying to clean things up at least. Parler wasn't banned retroactively as punishment, they were banned because they were continuing to do no meaningful moderation even days after the attack.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I read the AWS response. Nothing there seemed to be much worse than I've seen on Twitter (actually, Twitter stuff was far worse).

Regardless, this is besides the point: all a competitor has to do is post some garbage and point to it, and boom, you're dead. That's not ok.
You mentioned accelerators - usually they operate by investing for a percentage of the company.

> “ Yep, the one that guarantees women the rights to inheritance”

From the link: “As for women of whom you fear rebellion, convince them, and leave them apart in beds, and beat them.”

> “It's quite simple really. This isn't a "no true Scottsman" fallacy, it's going back to the Law books”

See the quote from the “law book” above.
How about his work with Toots Thielemans, ‘Affinity’. Such an unlikely combo but certainly kindred spirits.
this approach seems quite similar to the one taken by jamis-buck in “the raytracer challenge” (from pragmatic).

if you have not checked it out yet, try it. it is quite enjoyable.
I got one used from a university for around $50. I can mount my phone onto it (aftermarket attachment) to get pretty cool images. I don’t have any handy now, but here are some I took with my phone just in my hand.

https://imgshare.io/image/ppVR4g
https://imgshare.io/image/ppVlc7
https://imgshare.io/image/ppVaiq

My kids really enjoy it, so that’s good enough for me. I’d definitely take a look around for cheap used stuff!
The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship
I think the idea is that you'd have a Python object that behaves exactly like a list of ints would, but with Arrow as its backing store.
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Since you ask, but let's end here: To me, it's the simplest theory that explains the available facts.

First you wrote a short one-liner comment that said (roughly summarizing from memory) "google's motto used to be don't be evil, lol". Users flagkilled it almost instantly and you, embarrassed, deleted it. Then a moderator scolded you, which is even more unpleasant and embarrassing and you started writing lengthy defenses pretending the embarrassing thing you deleted was some Voltairean epigram, talking about how you 'stand by' a thing you yourself deleted. When this inconsistency was pointed out to you, you pretended not to understand the issue and went on to blame other users because, I assume, the whole thing becomes even more embarrassing if we recall that it's, in fact, about a comment that said (roughly summarizing from memory) "google's motto used to be don't be evil, lol".
> I hope no one is saying Privacy Sandbox is worse than third party cookies

It doesn't need to be worse for it to be unacceptable to privacy-concerned folks which don't trust Google. It is just about the same to them since an untrustable entity like Google is stewarding it.

Which BTW makes it worse since the solution is basically putting trust in Google which just brings on more and undefined privacy issues.
This may come as a surprise too but the person you’re talking about was a lifelong Democrat. He didn’t express views like that openly until he was sure he had a shot at the nomination. He said what the party was thinking or wishing.
>Regardless, this is besides the point: all a competitor has to do is post some garbage and point to it, and boom, you're dead. That's not ok.

In this case, they pointed to it weeks prior and it wasn't removed.
No, people all over the demo scene did. All I have done is to collect them and share the collection so they are not lost to time.
One example: The road from security to revenue is a bit windy. So suppose chrome gets a revenue crunch after getting spun off, and lays off a bunch of the security group. Well, it turns out that security group is actually handling security for ALL of the browsers, because security is expensive, and none of the browsers are really making money, and chrome is open source. So now you've got reduced security in all of the browsers. Whoops?
Monkey.org
Good idea - you’re welcome to submit a pull request.
Off topic maybe, but I was surprised to see that this site's RSS feed actually has CSS for styling! I don't think I've ever seen that before. Pretty sure I've only ever seen "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."

The RSS feed:
https://atthis.link/rss.xml

And the linked CSS:
https://atthis.link/rss.css
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Considering the same person who is asking the SEC to investigate WSB just received 800k from citadel, and no one went to jail for the 2008 shenanigans, I would agree that the SEC is not effective at its job

There's some videos of Jim Cramer also taking about bribing the SEC back in 2006 so I wouldn't be surprised if it's still happening
They sell watches with time zone functionality, nice watches in fact. Rolex makes a few different models of the submariner with this functionality, so does Tudor.
That's not evident at all. The vaccines appear to be effective enough against the existing 'notable' mutations, and we don't really have much information about what rate of concerning mutations to expect.

And then on the other side of it, Moderna has a vaccine against the South African mutation in a trial. And production capacity on the mRNA vaccines is pretty clearly not maxed out in any long term sense (and then the other vaccines apparently have a better path to volume; J&J still sounds like they will make 1 billion vaccines this year. The viral vector vaccines aren't as immediately adjustable as the mRNA vaccines, but they are similarly targeted, choosing a protein to be expressed).
I wonder whose side the FSF would take.

Amazon shouldn't be making these decisions, and certainly not without giving the other party ample time to make other arrangements. This should have been litigated in court prior to taking deplatforming actions.

Imagine if Amazon was a Chinese company and Parler hosted information about the plight of the Uyghur people.

Community websites have the right to enforce rules. I'm not so sure common carriers do, and AWS is a common carrier. A good rule of thumb for American hosting companies is if the FBI won't seize the website for the content hosted therein, the website shouldn't be removed.

For context, I'm a liberal and dislike the content on Parler. Defending free speech is more important than zapping the republicans. Imagine if the tables were flipped and talking about abortion was what conservatives wanted to ban.
Can browsers look up a different server addresses to send requests to that way? I didn't think that's how DNS worked but I'm no expert.

Advertisers can't trust content people to forward requests because it would be too easy to fake them.
> People get this already, as they put them in their home for IoT, or to stream whatever, etc and so forth

I use apple HomeKit, which requires a "home hub" to be always on (just select apple products basically). So I think its def possible that this could be thing, but I would be skeptical that this can grow too much in the mainstream. I occasionally unplug mine to move it around, and the thought of missing something would scare me out of moving it much (or using it much)
I like your way of thinking.
So you just put it into production without permission? Makes sense that you two went on to Google.
Israel seems to do pretty well, by which I mean Tel Aviv. They always go US or global first for obvious reasons but there’s no a priori reason Europe couldn’t have a genuine startup hub.
Row data is an array of structs, with each struct representing a record.

Columnar data is a struct of arrays, with each array representing a column.
Netscape Navigator supported PBM (at least in some versions you could even write directly into a frame/window via JS in order to compose an image on the fly).
Neither the MyPillow guy nor Robin DiAngelo, grifters though they may be, are elected officials.
"Law precludes the agency from additionally fining the company." Does it also preclude criminal charges? This still seems to be theft of interest.
This is an 8 year old article, why is this back?
He's cashed some out. "and has held most of it"
Sure thing, my email address is in my profile. I left that job like 2 years ago, but I’m still close with the CEO and have done some other health tech projects.
You convince them in the same way you convince a PM to give you time to write tests for your work: you don't give them an alternative. "You want this done? That'll be 20 billable hours." And your estimate includes the time needed to do work you're willing to sign your name to. When I hire a plumber or an architect, I tell them what needs doing, but I expect and trust that they'll put in the work (and bill me accordingly) to ensure that it gets done properly, even though I don't understand all of the specifics of what doing those jobs properly entails.
That's probably the end for them, who would trust a company that kills products that are so central to the whole software building ecosystem, with such a short notice? We are moving everything we had in there and will certainly not be looking back.
in some ways one of the most influential living guitarists. you can really hear his influence on julian lage, and actually im pretty sure bireli lagrene has been influenced lately based on some of his recent recordings. i cant think of a single guitarist, or really any musician i know who doesnt love him.
Mozilla is a non profit that has had a substantial positive impact on the world, this is a vc funded startup to slightly improve fact retention
> What's different about Parler besides the ownership?

Facebook is 233x larger, profitable, and self-hosting - they don't have to keep their cloud service provider happy.

Parler was dependent on AWS for services but didn't comply with their terms.
The ~130% of the shorted shares? This means that there are some shares out there that are basically IOUs and not actual shares
On top of that, market makers are legally allowed to sell naked shorts as long as they find a share to cover that short within 3 days, likewise with naked puts and naked calls but with different time spans:

http://counterfeitingstock.com/CS2.0/CounterfeitingStock.htm...
I find the $200 credit expiring by May 31st in particularly bad taste (doubt the new Mac's that developers would want to buy would even be out by then!)
Until someone runs it in eshell, which is a shell but not a terminal emulator and you have to configure an override just for that special program so that it isn't dumping unreadable garbage into the buffer.
Definitely check out Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" (fiction short story) for a really fascinating take on just that idea.
I'll take the exact opposite side on that one. Here's the red flag:

> The knowledge base should be primarily in your head

This is exactly the same thing as saying "you shouldn't need search engines, you should be able to find it yourself." But Google proved that if you can change the way people find information, you can literally change the world. It is precisely in building new tools, new fundamental primitives by which we interact with information, that we can make the biggest impact.

It remains to be seen if he can execute, but the idea of decentralized, personal knowledge databases sounds like it could be one of those indispensable tools in the future.
Oops. What I meant is, Pipenv manages python versions for you. You tell it what version of python your project uses, and pipenv will make sure to create the venv using that version of python. Great! Solves managing python versions.

With Poetry, the venv is created with whatever version of python that Poetry was installed with. So if you (like me) follow the setup guide on macOS, Poetry will always create python 2.7 virtualenvs until you uninstall it and re-install it under python 3.X. Annoying.
In Seattle, the going price for a vaccine was $10,000, which of course created quite a scandal.

But I bet if this were legal, the vaccine companies would find overnight ways to produce more vaccines. Instead, we have severe shortages. Shortages and gluts always happen when the government tries altruism instead of practicality.
To be perfectly honest, I inserted the semicolons because I wanted it to make at least a little sense... I wasn't paying close enough attention to the old-timer reminiscing to recall his precise keystrokes. But thanks for the link!
School me- I always thought those process numbers were more marketing metrics than directly comparable measurements?
Grow Facebook Reached(SEO) by Using Jokes and Memes
Can you recommend some resources (Books/Articles/Websites/etc.) which explain usage of all/most of the AWS offerings to do stuff as you have done?
> partially undressed women, but nothing NSFW.

You must have one hell of a relaxed workplace if partially undressed women are considered "safe for work".
Thanks for the nice reply. Enjoy the evening!
> Trade and specialization are completely orthogonal to the centralization <-> decentralization spectrum.

Hmm, i don't know. I think the increase in specialization means the ability for "the one single best" actor. Like how NYT is one of the only thriving newspapers as many collapse, or how fewer companies make a bigger % of the cars in the market
You're breaking quite a few of the posting rules with your comment here, most notably the first one - "Be Kind" [0]

High quality discussion is what makes HN a unique place on the internet, so I ask that you re-read the guidelines before posting again as it benefits the community as a whole.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is not that the HN community is diminishing your credentials in applied category theory or in any other fields, more so the inherited snarkiness in your short comment provides no one a favor and surely doesn't add any value to the discussion.
what hell is that ? it looks interesting.. lol
He is saying what he needs to say to get the next clubhouse of impatient, misguided rich people to fund "vision". Standing on principles my ass.

The only thing I am happy about is how fast the cycle is operating these days ie how quickly mindlessly ambitious self important people who get propped up through pandering to the right clubhouse get discarded.

Thats a good thing.
Typefaces nor bitmap fonts are copyrightable.
Manchin is 73. As with most people his age he is technologically illiterate.

By the time he became aware that the internet was a thing he was 53 and should avoid embarrassing himself by presenting opinions on how to regulate it.

This bill would be disastrous especially if logically combined with secret lists of suspicious people who may be denied some of the rights afforded to the rest of the citizenry with no recourse or even acknowledgement like freedom of movement.

The only rational response from any internet service would be to automate reporting of ANYTHING that might remotely be considered suspicious. Since there is no penalty for over reporting and under reporting could lead to a corporate death penalty under a deluge of lawsuits. This means that in addition to creating an indelible record that could in the future harm your life and freedom it would result in a deluge of mostly useless data ensuring that even if someone is legitimately trying to prevent terrible harm it will almost certainly go unnoticed and uncorrected.
Software does indeed exist for animation localization.
> Amazon shouldn't be making these decisions, and certainly not without giving the other party ample time to make other arrangements

Amazon is still working with Parler to export their data off of AWS.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...

> We will ensure that all of your data is preserved for you to migrate to your own servers, and will work with you as best as we can to help your migration
Everything below is my opinion, or information to the best of my personal knowledge. I don't speak for Google.

That lawsuit alleges that Google was tracking people (with analytics) during incognito mode, which is different from opting out of ad personalization. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552967 for HN discussion on the topic.

If you use Firefox, you can install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/interest-adve... to also opt out of ad-personalization.

Turning off ad personalization doesn't turn off tracking; it just prevents that data from being used in ads. If you want to turn off data collection altogether (for your Google account) you can manage activity altogether https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols. (I don't know whether this affects analytics; I assume it does, though.)

If you want to disable analytics tracking when you're logged out, you can install another extension (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) or just install a content blocker like uBlock Origin that blocks the analytics.js/gtag.js scripts altogether.
I disagree with your last statement. People may care about being tracked even though they don’t understand the mechanism, or even that it’s happening.
I've only had a quick glance but this book looks fantastic, saved for later reading and will definitely consider buying the ebook.

I've been teaching myself 3D/CG programming in my spare time using free web resources, I've been trying to learn it "the hard way" by doing everything relatively from scratch, instead of using a high-level engine I'm using low-level libraries writing my own shaders and implementing my own scene graph etc. This book really seems right up my alley and looks like it'll teach me a lot.

For anyone else similarly interested in learning to do CG from scratch (particularly on the web), some other great resources I've found are:
https://thebookofshaders.com/
https://webglfundamentals.org/
Gab doesn't federate with the rest of the activitypub ecosystem.
I feel like the article wasn't about any protocol-level of centralization. It reads more as a social/business level article than a technical one.
If she did it IN PUBLIC instead of allegedly doing so behind closed doors, maybe I'd think she was only 99% human garbage.
I'd argue the insurrection narrative is as much of a farce as Kim Jong Il hitting 11 hole-in-one strokes on a golf course, because if you voice doubt about the absurdity of the claim, it marks you as a dangerous subversive. Everybody knows it, and they're just too afraid to say so because they're worried they will get put on a list. Some conspicuously unarmed people trespassed and even managed to bring camera crews.

Tech companies make these grand unctuous gestures because it distracts from how awful they know they already are. Everybody knows. The Parler CEO failed to create an alternative platform because he thought he could bargain with people who are not only not-above mendacity and deception, but it is their stock in trade. He's just a coach who lost in the play-offs due to unforced errors.
Google's version is Capacitor

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/inside-capacitor-...
This is why I tip in cash. Instacart, Doordash & Amazon peas in a pod when it comes to stealing tips from hourly wage earners.