skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"British financial technology startup, Revolut stopped users from investing any further in Texas-based video game retailer GameStop and movie theatre chain AMC. The challenger app attributed the move to new restrictions imposed by their technology provider, the US broker-dealer, DriveWealth, LLC."
Thanks for the advice! I expect my problems will just go away with general self-care improvements, but I'll try that if not.

Hmm, is there any relation between this sort of problem and eyelid twitching ("blepharospasm")? WebMD doesn't seem to think so, but maybe you've heard differently.
To be honest I've not done any maintenance on my 25y oldish Beyerdynamics beyond jury rigging a fix to the support of the left earpiece which lost a critical small piece of plastic in a minor impact. Yes - the pads could use a replacement but it's not critical. Yes, they are a bit grimy. But work well :)
The issue with strawberries, I think, is the tart+fish (or in the case of that one misguided experiment, grilling the mess may have been the ultimate culprite). I would be all over prawns in honey wasabi.
Interestingly Arch address multiple bin directories mess by symlinking /bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Stali, an experimental distro (originally a suckless.org project), goes that a bit further by symlinking /sbin to /bin and /usr to /.
> > 20 million American adults had access to the Internet

> That seems like a lot of people to me?

Yes, that's true. 20 million Americans is a lot of people.

But in 1996 the population of US was about 265 million, so I was completely right to say that "quarter of century ago most people even if heard about the Internet they haven't had a chance to use it yet".

> Not sure why you've now decided to go for snark and being snide?

Not sure why you have decided to oppose what is clearly true and accurate statements with illogical sentences. You could have just ignored it or even downvoted if you decided it worsens overall quality of HN content.

But you decided to write false, illogical responses and you should by now know how it ends on HN.
I read the WSJ article on u/deepfuckingvalue, but I couldn't put together if he was behind the trade or if he genuinely thought GME was undervalued, started buying some a while ago, and became a wsb hero during the squeeze just because he happened to be there first, and someone else orchestrated the squeeze.

That article also felt like it missed some key reporting details, and I was surprised he talked to reporters, so I halfway wondered if he did have a larger role, but got this out there to shape the narrative in case the SEC comes knocking.
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>(that is, that does not require the phone to be online as well).

Signal does not require the phone to be online as well. Source: just switched my phone off and still able to send and receive messages on the desktop app. WhatsApp, however, still very much requires the phone to be online for its web/desktop clients to work.

That said, Signal is still not a "standalone" app on desktop because it needs me to have installed and set up the app on my phone to link it to desktop. After this though, they are very much independent clients.
> The first thing I did was to read the entire Wikipedia page on UNIX. I also read this original paper written by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson from 1974

We need more people like you. Kudos for having the attention span to do this. Enjoy your HN top spot, well deserved.
There's also pipewire which doesn't depend on ozone, but is optional I guess. What's even worse, slack doesn't allow sharing from chrome which just works for MS Teams via pipewire.
> Or you start buying a GPU that actually supports linux?

People usually don't get to chose what HW the company buys for them and, anecdotally, "the component X doesn't work with Wayland" rarely makes a difference.

I've tried Wayland many times a year over the past 5 years.

I still only get a black screen.

X11 just works.
I saw this talk at pycon a few years ago and it changed how I think about documentation, great concepts!
But forced verification = people complaining about the lack of anonimity (which I would support too). Whistleblowing would be more restricted (or they could trust Twitter to keep their identity a secret, until a Twitter employee leaks their info for some money, e.g. Saudi money: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saud... )
This isn't the first century in which the press has skewed its coverage of its own business to serve its business interests. For decades, the Associated Press and Western Union had a symbiotic relationship in which the AP got favorable rates in return for, among other things, forbidding its subscribing papers to criticize the Western Union telegraph monopoly. (Here's where I'd link to a reference if it was on line, but it's not: Paul Starr, "The Creation of the Media", ch. 5, p. 184.)
FYI GNU units has currency conversion, with updatable rates:

https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/html_node/Currency...
I don't know the deets, but the founder did some stuff with funds (commingling with personal funds?) that people think was messed up. It's causing a lot of tension in the community.

I hope they get through it. Manjaro is my goto for my Pinebook Pro.
Make sure, you properly backup your HOME-Dir, or make sure to not enable HiDPI. Garuda has a bug, where it deletes your Data if you go messing with the wrong appearance settings: https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/after-deactivate-hidpi-my-ho...
Conspiracy just shifted to the clearing side
There is a mythical incident in the Old Testament where worshippers of Apis [0] are slaughtered by their brothers, who had freshly declared allegiance to Jehovah.

In general, the rise of monolatric religions in the Levant and Persia, religions where there are many deities but only one is worshipped, eventually turned to monotheism, where those other deities were derided and ignored. With this change, there were sweeping new priestly laws which insisted that it was blasphemous to worship those other deities.

You might be interested in a critical retelling of the Exodus [1] which puts in an effort to mention and understand the other deities which were worshipped around the time of these events.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_(deity)

[1] https://vimeo.com/263398514
The site is up now
A friend is seeing a message from Revolut saying that the reason is due to increased capital requirements, and not something they have done of their own volition.

> Trading Update for GME and AMC

> Unfortunately, our broker-dealer in the US, DriveWealth, can no longer offer Buys on GameStop (NYSE: GME) and AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) due to increased capital requirements set by the Depository Trust Company (DTC) in the US.

> While we apologise for the inconvenience this may cause, this is not a decision Revolut has made. As DriveWealth is our broker-dealer, we can only reflect the stocks they make available. We will however keep you informed as and when this situation changes.

> For customers with no holdings in these 2 stocks, neither GME nor AMC will appear in search. Please check the email we are sending out to all Revolut Trading Ltd customers for additional information about this situation.

> Capital at risk. Share prices can go up as well as down and you may get back less than what you initially paid.
I hesitate to ask -- do we really think people are stupid enough to gamble away lots of money they can't afford to lose?

I'm hoping that instead there are hundreds of thousands of people who only bought a couple of stocks, understanding that they were likely to lose the money.
If you read the fine print there is, quite literally, no obligation at all. From the MIT license:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

You will find that most other FOSS licenses contain a similar clause.
Many Americans had heard of the Internet by 1996--for example, it was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1994--but most people who were online were probably just using AOL, Compuserve, etc. and, as you say, not the Internet.
weird that the wikipedia page for "gamma squeeze" was deleted just yesterday...
Related Palemoon Forum thread -
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=26106
Not even the battery? I have a 2015 macbook pro, and battery health is at 78%. It probably has another year in it, maybe two, if I am lucky.
If it was a social media or ad tech company, I'd say let the bees have it. They do more good for society than either of the above.
> I think that the main takeaway for me is the excellent approach to learning

As in the well-known dictum by Richard Feynman, “What I cannot create, I do not understand,” successful design is also a powerful way to show that a design principle has been understood.
Isn't that what Robinhood was also saying?
Unless its, say, a mapping web app. In which case, pinch-zoom adjusts the canvas map zoom, allowing regular zoom would actually break the UX.

I agree though, let me zoom on a blog post. The diagrams are often unreadable on mobile.
There's no 'winning' this discussion. The users clearly want faster horses.
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I'm old enough to remember when offices were cleaned regularly.

I applaud the renewed interest in basic hygiene.
Question, if using NGINX with static HTML would caching still be necessary?

I'm assuming something like wordpress where it hits the database on every request is where you'd want microcaching.
> They run around all year to capture swarms.

There may be a difference in certain regions, but usually swarms are a spring thing, with another small reoccurrence in autumn. Mid summer is quiet and winter has none.

This relates to the times at which a queen can mate - there are no male drones in winter (the females kicked them out!) and so any queen that hatched would be a virgin, and couldn’t lay.

Sometimes swarms will occur due to bees absconding to get away from
High levels of disease. I have never seen this but high levels of varroa can cause it.
> we don't know exactly by who yet, but it's abundantly clear that all these people were lied to

We definitely know who lied to most of these people: themselves. They let themselves get swept away in a tide of rocket emoji and never stopped to think about (or cared to learn about) the mechanics of the trading situation. Sure there are a few exceptions (this /u/deepfuckingvalue seems to know what he's doing, several others too), but I'd wager that 99% of the 6 million new subscribers were either seeing red with "fuck Wall Street" fury or green with greed.
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I bought my headphones (Audio Technica ATH-AD700s) when I was in school. I still use them now and they sound just as good as anything else you could buy.

Not quite generational inheritance but I can't think of anything else I bought back then that I still use. It's pretty satisfying when I think about it.
Why would 6G make it work and why would it be better than hard wired internet?
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Mockering, distribute and post videos that may or may not be true but you deserve to know.
But the energy Credits where not Hidden in the Tesla Filing so what was Nefarious. There's no Secret there and that's why the credits are there to Help Tesla/Other EV makers become Viable and reduce pollution that's very costly to society in the form of health related costs related to Air Pollution!
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> There is no economics textbook that accounts for market participants buying stocks to watch them crash as a form of entertainment, which is true for a non-trivial subset of people holding GME right now.

same modulo motivation holds for the irrational and allegedly illegal shorts these people are claiming to be calling out ...
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of dependencies suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
I like this stonk.
My completely uninformed guesses:

- USA is great at exporting its culture. You don't hear about Estonia's UFOs because you just don't hear about Estonia. I know a lot of UFO stories about my home country - which is not Estonia - and about USA.

- USA people seem to be very adept at believing every kind of conspiracy - of course, not everyone. I mean, just read USA news from 2020. I see a lot of similarities in people who would believe UFOs and people who would believe the new things. UFOs are not as viable in terms of conspiracy due to the omnipresence of recording devices now. This may be related to the poor educational system in addition to the prevalence of religion and other supernatural beliefs that are widespread.

- USA possibly experimented a lot with weird spy flying machines during the Cold War. I bet a lot of these UFOs were weird airplanes under test.
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Have you tried exporting it so the text image opens in the browser? I can imagine this being a really cool way to load low-res images in the browser in an extremely lightweight fashion :)
I'll second that! I have a nice pair of Sennheisers that's probably about 10-15 years old and is still the best pair of headphones in the house.

A few years back I replaced the foam ear pads and also swapped the cable out with one that has a lightning connector on the end so that my wife can plug it into her new "courage" iPhone.

In contrast, my bluetooth earbuds died after about 3 years of use. (Although, to JLab's credit, they replaced them with a new, better pair.)
What about carpenter bees? I've seen a lot of those around lately and have been thinking about checking the roof. Do they have the same value as honey bees?
As we can see with all those Twitter accounts that got bought for their usernames, which is AFAIK not allowed, but here we are, hey? /scnr
Sorry I still don't get what you mean - what has the internet and mobile phones got to do with headphones? I don't get why you brought it up in the first place or why you think it's relevant? Seems like unrelated trivia?
So, a short squeeze is a real thing. The stock going up means that the people holding an underwater short need to rush to buy to close their positions before they go farther underwater. This then makes the stock go up faster. That's indeed what happened last week.

But you don't need to buy back all the stock, just enough such that you have enough flexibility to hold the stock across the inevitable peak and drop. In a consumer brokerage, this generally takes the form of a "margin call" and the brokerage will often buy stock for you out of your margin so they don't get caught holding the bag, and eventually can seize your whole portfolio to make themselves whole (the regulations there get complicated and I'm not expert). It's an absolute thing, and you lose all your money. But that's not how it works for a hedge fund, the nature of which is to have access to financing regular people don't. They can just cut a deal with bigger players to get through, and that's how Melvin seems to have managed this.

To be clear: Melvin made an outrageously inappropriate bet, got caught, and lots a ton of money. But they're out now and the story is over. Now GME is just a bubble like any other bubble, fed by naive investors believing it will go up when it won't.

As far as "what happens if WSB doesn't sell?", the answer is nothing. WSB doesn't hold the full capitalization of GME. There are plenty of other shares out there being traded, and the price of those trades is what you see on the ticker.
Straight from the page:

> This page does not exist. The deletion, protection, and move log for the page are provided below for reference.

> 02:43, 2 February 2021 ST47 deleted page Gamma squeeze (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/83341/what-is-a-gamma-sque...)
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being slightly younger than you, i can not but envy you: i have done zero projects or had fun like you have had. hmm.
Have you been in the presence of a large community before? People turn their brains off in large groups.

It's even harder when it turns into a crowd and people are cheering on whatever is happening. Especially if there's moderation removing any messages of dissent.

Add in that short interest data is either not timely from the every two weeks official report, or incomplete/of unknown accuracy from the third party reports. And that anyway, it doesn't have any indication of what price the shorts sold for, and it's easy to see how people saw 130% short interest a few weeks ago and turned it into a squeeze, and see 130% short interest at the end of last week, and it's not squeezing anymore. Shorts @ $20 got out (at a high cost), and new shorts @ $300 got in, so the reportable short interest is the same, but the new shorts are probably getting out soon at a high profit.
Does it? I run KDE on my desktop PC with has a GTX 1080 inside it, and whenever I experimentally turn on Wayland, I get a black screen. Been like that forever.
He genuinely believed it was undervalued, and it was at the time. There is a lot of opportunity to grow in different segments, from esports to PC Building (there really is a shortage of Microcenters and Newegg shops compared to Gamestop shops).

It was somebody else who figured the short squeeze was possible during mid September.
From Revolut

> Hi,

From today, we will only be able to facilitate the selling of GameStop (NYSE: GME) and AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) stocks for the time being. Unfortunately, our broker-dealer in the US, DriveWealth, can no longer offer Buys on these stocks due to increased capital requirements set by the Depository Trust Company (DTC) in the US.

What does this mean for me?
You can only sell out your existing holdings in these stocks. Any outstanding buy orders on these two symbols made after Monday’s (1 February) close will automatically be cancelled prior to market open on 2 February, 2021.

None of our other stocks are affected at this time and are available to trade as normal.

For customers with no holdings in these 2 stocks, neither GME, nor AMC will appear when searched. This is a standard practice when a position moves to sell only, as we don't want to show you stocks you’re not able to buy at that time. As soon as they become available to buy again, you’ll be able to see them in the app.

Why is this happening?
When a stock is traded, it takes two days for the proceeds to go from the broker to the clearing house. This is known as T+2 settlement. Within this time, the clearing house requires the broker to front cash or capital guarantees to ensure funds are available through the settlement process.

The required amount of capital is usually around 10-15% of the value of a security’s holdings on broker’s books. However, this percentage can vary based on stock volatility. In the case of GME and AMC, the DTC has enforced an increase of capital requirements by 250% upon DriveWealth’s clearing partners. This increase means that DriveWealth is now obligated to restrict trading in GME and AMC, as stock has its own capital requirement rather than a broker wide requirement.

When will they be available again to buy?
This is not a decision Revolut has made, simply one that we are obligated to carry out. We are monitoring the situation very closely and will update you when our partner, DriveWealth, re-enables Buys for GME and AMC. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Team Revolut
> If you didn't know what a gamma squeeze was 48 hours ago, you are their exit strategy

Someone should make this a meme.
Emacs and Steam seem to work for me - I've been using it with XWayland for around a year now.
I think it makes sense, otherwise disputes would spill over emails, Twitter, etc. as a way to escape bans. But here if it's proven that an editor has harassed another editor, even outside of Wikipedia, they can be banned.
The article explicitly covers that one:

> 2. Don’t ignore the domain
It’s part of the role to become a domain expert. This knowledge can be used to act as an effective translator between business and engineering.
> You just have to learn to filter out most of the useless anger and frustration he tends to speak with.

Or, here is a wild idea, we stop looking for some "wisdom" in what people who often express themselves this poorly write. Most of what this "thought leader" writes that I happened to read have the same punchline, and it got old pretty fast.

Sometimes, stuff is just garbage. You don't have to look through 99% of the garbage to find some 1% that is supposedly not as garbage.
> It used to be like this...

It still is. Good quality wired headphones are easily available and more affordable than ever.
It was a very long time ago (long enough for 'xf86' naming) https://www.freshports.org/x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau
Is there an effort to form a consensus around peripherals and driver support for the most widely used OSs?