skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I estimated for a friend of my that Roger Penrose's "The road to reality" would take about 20 years of intense study to master from scratch.

Leonard Susskind's books and lectures are very good on this, and they are very approachable.
I could rename myself to Presley, but it gives me no standing to Evlis' estate.
But how much work is Amazon extracting from them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/02/amazon-...
ok, but what incentives does anyone have to actually look at potentially fraudulent situations, especially if the stock is ripping, as in the case of Valeant Pharmaceuticals? In fact the incentives are so perverse that it pays _not_ to state your research on why the company is not worth what it is. Even the time value spent on research is non trivial.

Your example would make more sense if the car they were selling a what may seem as a perfectly fine Lambo, but in actuality it was a lemon. And the only way to find out if it was a lemon or not is to tear it apart piece by piece.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone using (:, and I'm a bit younger than 24-ish :)
This absolutely. There is so much software that implements malicious and unethical business practices: cheating employees, deceiving customers, violating privacy, etc..

Certainly designing and developing such systems violates the codes of ethics of professional societies such as the ACM and IEEE.

Every time I encounter such a piece of software or read a story like this HN post, I think "who on earth would think that writing software like this is even remotely OK?"

It's disappointing that there seem to be so many ethical lapses in our profession.
"We" by Zamyatin is one of the best books I read all of last year. It's out of copy right, so freely downloadable too. Found it much more compelling than either a brave new world or 1984, even though both those books are also great. "We" seemed much more coherent and thought through.

Reading his back story makes this even more interesting, given that he was living in a totalitarian state. I'd recommend reading his Wikipedia entry too.

In short: highly recommended reading.
Short squeezes are not good for the market, period, but they only happen in extraordinary circumstances. And actively encouraging people to cause short squeezes in order to reduce the potential for future short squeezes seems... counterproductive.

If you want to reduce the number of people shorting a stock, creating artificial short squeezes would work, yes, but then I again ask: why do we want to prevent people (or hedge funds) from shorting a stock so much? What does that accomplish in the bigger picture?

The logic is almost like: we want there to be fewer car crashes, and more cars = more crashes. If we ourselves cause crashes, drivers will be afraid to drive, so therefore we will have less crashes.
If you do that, there's a real risk you'll end up having to pay more than your max price. Say your max price is $2500, but you bid $1 million. Then it turns out 10 others have a max price of, and bid, $10000. You are now on the hook for $10000, significantly more than your actual max price.
The shorts don’t take money from the company, they take money from people unfortunate enough to invest in a failing company. In some cases that money could have helped the company land, in others it was going towards something doomed and possibly fraudulent, but either way it doesn’t come from the companies coffers directly unless the company does a buyback from the shorts. The people losing money are other investors.

What if smart money had to bet on a competitor or growing some other investment instead?
Maybe—just maybe—we shouldn’t be encouraging the general public to trade options? Triply so with margin accounts?

This is isn’t “democratizing finance”. It’s literally just a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich. It’s putting fish at a poker table full of professional sharks backed by billions of dollars and teams of analysts, and encouraging the fish to put their life’s savings on table.

Index funds are boring as fuck, but have done more to put market returns in the hands of the average member of the public than anything in the history of finance.

I’m not saying people who want to shouldn’t be allowed to trade options. But putting the ability in the hands of anyone who has zero financial experience but can download an app isn’t helping things.
Fair point, though I'm not sure there are enough people who are wealthy enough to pay $550 for headphones to meaningfully contribute to e-waste.

Regular AirPods, which are not repairable AFAIK, are more affordable and widely used. But they are also very small, so even if people replaced them every 2-3 years, the amount of waste would be minuscule compared to their waste from takeout containers, food waste, and other refuse. I suppose you could also factor in the energy spent producing and shipping the units, but it's not as if repairable headphones (all of which are much larger than regular AirPods) don't also incur these costs when they are produced and repaired.

So while I agree that it would be great if we could have more repairable things, I'm not sure that this is an especially good example of a product that will meaningfully contribute to e-waste.
I was at amazon from 1994-1996. That's what I mean by "early".
Obviously. But everyone in Italy is fairly reasonable.
Getting things on the front page of Hacker News remains a good way to get people to contact you. Source: have had people contact me with job-related things for that reason.
Yeah - options are taxed on exercise, not on grant (that’s the dispute with your original comment).

Also, you’re taxed on the spread at exercise between the strike price and the fair market value at the time of exercise.

If you’re able to exercise when the shares are granted (which early employees can often do by early exercising unvested shares) then there is no spread and there is no tax (at time of exercise, you still pay tax when you eventually sell the shares). Doing this and filing an 83b election with the IRS is important for people joining a startup where they hold lots of equity that’s valued near zero.

It’s even a little more complicated than that if you get ISOs since you can exercise some of them tax free until you hit AMT (but AMT has not increased over time so this is less useful than it used to be). NSOs don’t have this ability.

RSUs are different and you do get taxed on grant and some are withheld to cover (FB started this and they’re colloquially called FB-style RSUs). This is a relatively recent invention that started because private companies with high valuations had options with strikes too expensive for normal employees to exercise prior to the mandatory ten year expiration. Also old employees who held the option contracts wouldn’t be able to pay the exercise tax on the spread you mention and would hit the 10yr expiration (at which point they need to make a loan shark deal or risk floating a lot of cash). This used to not be an issue because companies didn't stay private this long. With RSUs employees don’t have to worry about any of this, but they lose more on grant to income tax than they could by exercising and holding options optimally.

RSUs aren’t strictly better though because if you can exercise options you can hold the stock for 1yr and get long term cap gains which is 15% up to 400k and 20% after. This is a lot more potential upside than just getting hit with income tax. Though in CA you still get hit with a large percentage state income tax on it anyway. (13% after 1M I think).

All of the above commentary is unrelated to a wealth tax (or capping net worth) which I think is dumb policy.

This grew into a kind of long comment, but if you’re dealing with equity it’s worth learning this stuff for yourself since leveraging equity effectively is probably the best way to actually get wealth in a timeframe shorter than a lifetime of index funds investing.
Ok but the idea that you can’t buy stock at a time when it is most advantageous to buy it seems like a flaw in the system. So what is the solution then?
Symbolic execution happens before deployment, and often can be incorporated into the compilation pipeline, much like a classic static analyzer. One of the most popular implementations (at least in the FOSS community) is KLEE: https://klee.github.io/
How much can they have really learned in a few days? Certainly not enough to be "trading".
I loved the explosion. These guys get stuff done. Move fast and break things
Except Yahoo was already one of the biggest names on the internet and it was a head scratcher to everyone I knew on first hear.
I'm on two years on my K240 mkII and the last pair I gifted it to a friend when moving, it was 5 years old. I just changed the pads which was like 7 bucks.
The past few EU laws had some modicum of reason and I thought people blocking the EU were stupid.

But for this one, if I were running a Peertube instance I would block EU IPs and tell people to use TOR or at least ssh to a lineode if they wanted to see things.
Yep, and even more oddly:

> It is also known colloquially as "The Beeb", "Auntie", or a combination of both (as "Auntie Beeb") [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
He went to Princeton because he was smart, not because his family was rich. It isn't a school of billionaires or something. The majority of Ivy League enrollment is regular kids from working class families. They all have the best need-based scholarship programs in the country.

His dad was a Cuban immigrant who worked as an engineer at Exxon.
I like to use mine as a hammer and then bring it inside to record guitars with. Dual purpose!
Sounds like you've still got some time to do some projects for fun and be like him?
That is unlikely the case. Closing the short would require them to write massive losses. Their best strategy has always been wait it out. They most likely purchased a bunch of options to lock in their losses from getting worst and are waiting for the price to drop back down.
> So, someone deciding whether to use this might consider whether they just want to publish a tamper-evident log, or whether they are publishing something that looks more like a dataset with a temper-evident change history.

The tamper-evident log is useful as an ancillary tool. You can write your keys or perhaps hashed records into the log and then use it later to see if the database has gained unlogged records or has lost logged records. And, if so, where in the sequence the deviation occurs.

I've used dumber versions in the past: hash chain fields on a single table, plus row signature. This approach has the nice property that it's very general and comes with proofs.
Which comes first? The trade or the settlement? Are you going to instantly reverse the trade too if they payment doesn't come through? What happens when there is a fiber cut or other network issue? Trading halt because one broker can't connect? Or just that broker's clients get stuck?
This why I don't fully agree with #2. I often avoid default assignment because it only works for undefined and not null (or was it the other way around?) which can be surprising and cause hard to find bugs. || allow falling back from either. Should be used with some care though. I used to use || more frivolously.
Using brokerages that are sufficiently capitalized to clear the trades you want to make. You might have to pay fees to do that. Having other people assume credit risks on your behalf usually costs some money.
The incentive already exists in the form of long investors doing their due diligence.
Perhaps, but I'm not sure it's so clear cut. The best practice should be concrete - it should have code examples. It should be beginner friendly (since it's beginners who will use it most often).
I love to see any movement to protect user's privacy.

But I can't believe a company like Apple is only thinking about us users.

I bet something fishy will come from Apple in the near future.
Fwiw, there have been instances of Google straight up not being able to restore deleted content. When you go to delete videos, you do get warnings that deletion cannot be undone. I wouldn't be surprised if Google didn't have great records of deleted content.

Maybe Google deleted this tiny channel, or maybe it was user error by Project Censored (the apparent organizers of the conference), or maybe it was a publicity stunt by Project Censored. All three possibilities seem about equally likely.
It’s only pathetic if you assume everybody in those organisations and roles share your political views but they didn’t have the balls to act on them. Whilst it’s possible that they don’t care or they disagree with you.
So far the lack of vaccines is the main problem in all countries except US. It seems completely managable so far.
Sure, I don't mean to suggest that it can be a replacement for RCTs for vaccines.

But there's a lot of information we left on the table. We had an opportunity to systematically formulate a controlled acute spread, studying the virology in a longitudinal way, studying the immune response in a more intimate and controlled way (from antibodies to the immune response after antibodies fade), and to examine the prevalence and role of innate immunity.

Beyond research, we had a chance to have tens of millions of people with verifiable immunity in Spring or Summer. People who then were in a great position to render aid to the marginalized communities who are instead bearing the brunt of lockdowns.

Instead, we traded all that for zero upside. And we have to deal with the enormous side effects of the horizontal interdiction as well.
I don't think that's true. They raised the additional capital so that their customers could continue buying shares of those 8-50 companies. Had they not raised that capital, they would have just had to keep blocking those buys, but they would have been fine otherwise.
yeah that explains why some high profile reddit accounts posting on r/wallstreetbets have started to deactive themselves.

I wouldn't be surprised if SEC has been archiving r/wallstreetbets. Actually they might not need to as it is impossible to delete your comment history.

I predict that we may see lot of people get penalized and perhaps even jail time for pumping up meme stocks, although it will take years.
Jeff Bezos Ousted From Amazon By r/wallstreetbets [satire]
That’s a fine position to take so long as you recognize the vast majority of long money also doesn’t go to the companies coffers unless the do another offering.

Your argument isn’t a moral one.
> the $10-20 fee for a fedwire is no longer much of a factor

That is almost entirely your bank charging a mark-up.

The Fed charges its members between 3.3¢ and 84¢ per wire, depending on things [1]. (It can go as high as $1.20 for a $100+ million wire from a bank that handles fewer than 14,000 wires a month.)

My bank, for instance, doesn’t charge anything for wires.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/file... page 34
They aren’t a grocery store. If they were out of GME stock to buy nobody would hold it against them. That wasn’t the case.

I clearly don’t understand the regulations around this. It seems to me that when stock is volatile is exactly when I should be buying and selling and if my broker can’t make that happen it’s a problem, no? And it’s also a problem that their inability to trade that stock affects the price. So what is the correct solution here?
Vacuum engines can’t be used at low altitudes, exhaust underexpansion cause flow to delaminate which will damage the nozzle which goes the way rocketry goes
Legend says Steve Jobs told his two cofounders, who were scratching their heads over an innovative name, that if they didn’t find a name within 24hrs he would incorporate as Apple.

Which is good enough and no reason to hold up the whole process for a decent name.
I also don’t think short selling as it is currently practiced is a net social good, but I don’t know anything about it’s importance in the agricultural sector. What does short selling provide there?
> We sell more than board game tables

Had to check and verify that claim. I'm familiar with the brand in general but had no idea!
‘Gaslighting’ has been around as a colloquial term since the 60s and isn’t inherently progressive.

Further, refusing to hear an argument because it has a term you don’t like is much more about you than it is the other people.
I believe there are still people maintaining paid X servers on Windows, on Linux not so much.
I run 4 applications: Chromium, Xterm, Gimp and IntelliJ. Am I unsecure?
I don’t give any advice. I was probing to see the reaction .
It is amusing to look at postings glorifying the pundits advice. They are not your friend.

Have you actually placed a limit orders? Do you practice this advice with your own $’s?
Do you know how much taxes you pay for a trade considered day trading? If the limit order is executed same day it is considered day trading. What is the point then?

Why retail investors are penalted for that but hedge funds are not? Are you retail trader or on the other side of the table? If so why you are giving advice to retail investors? The motivations?
When I used to follow the pundits “advice” they were always wrong - limited orders were immediately executed. These “fluctuations “ causing execution of limit orders are never reported in the historical data . I used to purchase historical data for thousand $’s and never found these fluctuations in the official dat I saw on the screen. Meaning you can never rely on historical data for analysis. If you had the same experience you would know. Learning from practice I’ve different way of making $’s.
If things were set up correctly you'd expect the content creator to want to use YT's ads. They can be personalized to the user, can change over time, etc. The fact so many embed their own ads shows some failure in the system IMHO.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26008536.
The battery life in mine has dropped somewhat, but I use only one at a time since I'm not keen on having them transmitting signal through my brain. (I know there isn't science that says it is bad for you, but AFAIK there hasn't been testing of this type of transmission quite so close to the brain.)

One upside of this is that I am charging one AirPod at all times, which basically means I never run out of battery.
Is ending anonymity on social media the answer?
Where are you reading that they would have gone bankrupt even with the trading restrictions they put in place?
Please don't post predictable flamewar comments to HN. We're trying for curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Extensible search with Elasticsearch and its Query DSL

Omg thanks. I'm so sick of Confluence inability to search through some documents. I really wish I had all of my Confluence spaces on disk so that I can `grep` it all.
yeah the "Deepstate" is now "Hedgefund + Mainstream Media"

if you actually swap out the words, it reads almost exactly like the Q conspiracy and the other crap Trump supporters been echoing in their chambers.

I wonder if there is a math formula to these conspiracy/pseudo realities. They seem to have very similar structures and literally just the variables are different each time.

Coupled with attaching legitimacy to numbers (your account is too new therefore untrustworthy, you have lot of karma points so you can't be lying), it would be very easy to paint any type of narrative while signaling trustworthiness.

Also, people often claim to be part of X or in position Y without any verification to win confidence.

Literally the psychology of confidence man has now taken the form of some integer attached to a username in a database somewhere.

We also see this blind trust in large numbers on Instagram and Youtube where the number of subscribers and likes automatically signals importance, legitimacy when all of it are easily manipulated, paid for.
> The issue with x86 is that instructions can be any length, and that their length is a nontrivial function of their encoding.

x86 is an old design, but why did Intel design it this way?
First thing I thought of too. Mixed cases when all the directory names are single words seems completely unecessary.
And you can't have a copyright in that name, specially if you are selling books.
Ah thanks. There is some justice in the world.

Still waiting for Equifax to mail me a check for leaking my personal bits all of the internet. Luckily the lawyers in that court case got paid!
Sorry, but fixing one wrong with another is not the way. Are you honestly saying that stock shorting is the only incentive someone has to look at fraud? I don't buy that one bit.
That’s not obvious. They don’t have diplomatic immunity, issue passports or visas, have the power to pass laws, do not have the power to detain, arrest, prosecute, convict, imprison or kill, and they have no military power.

In what way are they like dictatorships by engaging in commercial activities and being worth a large sum of money based on what their shares are bought and sold at?
Downvoting again? Rather than articulate a response?
A/B testing is awesome for first order problems with your web site design. By the time you’re down to third order problems it’s reductive and cynical.

Immoral techniques always find support from amoral tools. Dark patterns are justified by A/B testing. And shitty people.
Congrats Omri, and I love the new design
None of these things show any disconnect between the market and reality. There are plenty of examples of that, just not in this thread.

Things in this thread that apparently mean a company is doing well: paying the CEO an industry-standard 7-to-8-figure salary.

Things in this thread that apparently mean a company is doing poorly: laying off low-end employees when there is no work for them to do.

The market evaluates a company based on one metric: how much faith they have in the company turning a profit in the future. Laying off employees can increase profits. Paying a CEO a standard CEO salary and bonuses can increase profits. The only way "reality" doesn't match the market is if you think that working for a company that's doing well in the stock market will translate into free job security.
Hold the Line
Amazon's search and recommendations were never any good, though. You've always had to search a page or three, and buying a TV recommends you more TVs.
I am the other user like him. Where are your imaginary users?
How does that make any sense? If the stock was growing 15% year over year without any indication that there are any issue, why would any investor want to provide any information or do any research on why that isn't the case? If an investor knew that there was fraud going on they would probably keep it to themselves and simply invest in the company anyways, because the financial incentive is there.
That’s fair, but again if I am not trading on a margin and using my own money, where exactly does their capital come into play?
Kansas in the midwest. Depends on what you mean by "Mild" haha. We had snow in October, followed weeks later by 90degf temps. Very wide swings.
Just try with your own $ and you will learn from practice. Good luck following recommendations. Practice is the best teacher. Now - do you have thousands $’s to learn from your mistakes?
> (I've not seen any of the usual right wing free speech faction stand up for these...)

Hi! Part of the right-wing free-speech faction here! (Well, I don't consider myself a rightist, but you probably would.) This incident sucks just like all the other ones! Hope this helps.
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