skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They had a naked short position, one that could not be covered, and when the price rose too high, they would be margin called.

When all the shares on the market are synthetic (fake), and retail and investors own more shares than are issued, then there is a serious problem that can either be brushed under the rug, or untangled by force (liquidation)

Citadel itself is a hedge fund AND a market maker, it has two arms both ran by Ken Griffin.

The path they were going down pre January was to short Gamestop into bankruptcy with no means to raise capital, much like Toys R us was. When Gamestop got a new CEO, and changed direction, they had already gone 'all-in' with their shorting with no way out.

Main thing about shorting, it's an infinite risk position, but hedgefunds have historically been able to short into oblivion.
PoS is a pretty broken system imo, it essentially codefies "rich gets richer" into the protocol. The biggest holders now control both the supply on the exchanges and the protocol itself. It creates all kinds of weird issues (for example, what happens if an attacker gets a hold of a significant percentage of the coins, now they also have a great control over the network). Stakers don't have the same pressure to sell their coins because they are not actively spending money on hardware and energy which makes the system more exclusionary over time.

I can go on and on. For all of it's problems, PoW is simple and just works. It ensures that there will be constant supply of coins for sale and ensures that nobody can just become richer because they started rich.
For those interested:

https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes
I always suspected that if US millionaires like Cuban, Musk or Ravikant and the like, eventually hop onto the Bitcoin wagon, they will have to learn some hard lessons..
Failing to account for bit flips and HW failure is too common in web/service coding. Lookup how Google dropped a massive Big Table instance in prod, and traced it back to a cosmic ray bit flip that made a WRITE instruction into a DROP TABLE instruction.

I laugh when I compare my day to day coding to that of an avionics programmer in the aero industry.
His big plunge into Bitcoin was an obvious move of ignorance given the well known energy cost of Bitcoin mining.

There are other better cryptocurrencies for facilitating transactions, in terms of speed, fees, energy cost, etc. He should have known some of this before publicly jumping on the Bitcoin wagon.

Then when he did clue in a bit, he made the move to Doge and chirped about how it required less energy than Bitcoin. But it is still much higher consumption and much slower transaction speed compared to something like Stellar.

All this leads me to believe that nobody was educating him, and he wasn’t speeding enough time to come up to speed.

I don’t expect him to be an expert in everything, but he could have at least consulted with some experts.
> This is the closest anyone has ever come to convincing me to use GPL instead of MIT license.

> But I still want to support small developers with anything I produce for fun, and I'm not willing to give that up to spite the big developers.

Another line of thought that may help you choose a license: Do not think only about other developers. Think about the final users of your code that will be running your algorithms on their computers. The GPL protects the right of these users to see and modify the code they run (your code). So-called permissive licenses, on the other hand, let middlemen to strip this right from your users.

Users of your code are in fact freer thanks to copyleft licenses.
The people on reddit that cry about their lost life savings probably wouldn't agree.
Quite confused about this comment as many of the latest tensorflow V2 releases aren't reliably uploaded to conda forge. IIRC there's only like 4 or so of the V2 releases uploaded.

You can conda install the CUDA dependencies and then install the required Tensorflow version via conda pip. But that's not much different to installing CUDA manually and then installing tf from system pip.

It's much faster and easier to pull a tf Docker image as it's their "officially supported" way to get up and running.

So... as a tf user and a sysadmin... Nah. No conda for me thanks.
Normalisation of Deviance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

See Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents and The Next Disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrow
> Battery technology isn't very "green" … while Hydrogen can be generated from … methane.

Methane steam reformation is now green?
I really like the Netflix series “The last kingdom” , it is a nice blend of both!
At minimum he's never presented it as a savvy investment the way Cuban (who talks of crypto projects specifically as an important part of his investment portfolio) has and most if not every single time he's posted about it has been in a meme/joke format.
Terms have different meaning in different context, I think both terms are valid in this case, thus a qualifying word to remove ambiguity is the normal solution.
It's the data layer of https://www.passwordstore.org/.
Why does the simplest possible thing - you give me a dollar, I put it into my bank account and give you a token, you give me a token, I give you a dollar from my bank account back - not work? Why is this extra complexity necessary to maintain a constant exchange rate of one?

If you can get a token for one dollar, no buyer should be willing to pay more than that, if you can sell a token for one dollar, no seller should be willing to sell for less than that. Sure, there will be some imperfections, there will be transaction fees, people might want to buy or sell some tokens faster than wiring money around, but can this really push the price significantly up or down? If, how? Some chain of arbitrage opportunities? Would the price at least stabilize or is there a runaway tendency without active management?
We should keep in mind that the product is still in beta / technical preview.
venv + requirements.txt is simple and works. Why are people so obsessed with replacing this simple toolset/process with poorly maintained tools like Poetry/PyEnv?
The safety in your steps is reading the script, not in avoiding curl | bash. An installer being signed doesn't guarantee it's not malcious; if someone has overtaken a host and replaced the binaries, they'll just sign them themselves. Unless you're manually inspecting the signature matches your expected source, running a signed binary doesn't save you.
I remember having to leave the theater during "Public Enemies" because I couldn't understand the dialogue. No idea if the mix was bad, or something was wrong at the theater. The volume was loud, but I couldn't make out words at all.

Googling around a bit, others complained too.
> If Firefox had told people they would collect data for law enforcement there would be more noise there as well.

Erm... Firefox has told people that they would hand data to law enforcement. They have to! Everyone has to!

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/

> When do we share your information with others?

> When the law requires it. We follow the law whenever we receive requests about you from a government or related to a lawsuit.
But a billionaire presumably wouldn’t trade value of their name/brand just for small gains in a pump and dump. These guys aren’t stupid…
CXXGraph Header-Only Library
This is my personal work.
I try to make a simple interface in c++ to use the most common, and also the more rarely used algorithms on Graph.
The goal is a performing code with a simple interface to create, edit and manipulate graph data.
I am looking for someone who can help me in this open-source project.

The project is an open-source project stored in Github Public Repository at link https://github.com/ZigRazor/CXXGraph
You wired it but didn’t build using actual hardware? I don’t understand.
Hydrogen fuel cells use platinum catalysts. Platinum also must be mined and unlike lithium is very rare.
> appears to easily meet the standard of originality

It's an algorithm. In the olden days, you couldn't copyright an algorithm, even an original one. There's only so many ways you can express an algorithm; the best ways are using code. So is it the intention that rewriting in Python an algorithm previously expressed in C would be infringing? Suppose the algorithm is re-expressed in English?

Allowing copyrights on algorithms is tantamount to allowing copyrights on thought-processes.

Here come the thought-police. Take cover.
Hack_curio
A perfectly cromulent word.
I tracked most of it as it was happening, and TBH the number of fairly well known people who played along was just staggering.

Although there is some flak being taken about making this "too real", I have an impression that many people played along because it was, in fact, very symptomatic of the hype-driven approach to tech the industry has these days.

So it wasn't just about recruiting, and resumé keyword stuffing (in fact, the recruiters aren't really to blame for the way job postings are written). It's more about how we've turned "lifelong learning" into "lifelong marketing" and buzzword bingo.

I still think it was worth the spoof, because, very much like a stream of consciousness Monty Python sketch, a lot of what people said immediately, without prompting (especially on Twitter spaces) was so very close to reality that the slight gap was hilarious.
Well, Farage himself has the second to lowest voting record , only beaten by Brian Crowley of Ireland who has never at all voted.

I’m going to just grab a couple from my phone but I’m sure it would be easy to dig into many others, it’s not a hidden thing really but most people don’t even check who their MEPs are let alone hold them to account on voting records:

Tim Aker, voted against subsidising farmers from volatility (a key impact for UKIP voter base and a campaign promise of UKIP: protecting British farmers) and voted for renegotiating to give Greece more capital: https://yourvotematters.eu/en/profile/ec/tim-aker

and Stuart Agnew, a prominent UKIP MEP has intentionally slowed things down with farcical no confidence resolutions https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96897/JOHN+STUART_AGN...
Running becomes a habit and the more you do it the easier it gets. The 10 minute rule is a great way to approach it, because on the journey to getting into running shape you will have days where your body just doesn’t really want to do it, but the important thing is that you lace up your sneakers and try to do it. Eventually the days where it feels good and you are running longer distances will come.

Also maintenance is easier than letting yourself getting out of shape, so try to do that 10 minutes a day. With that said, sometimes life gets in way and you do get out of shape. Just no you can always work your way back, no matter how tough it is in the interim.
How can they be competitors if they do totally different things? You can't watch TV with only a sound bar, but you can do the opposite
Well I mean the market for hard drives is already over 1 zettabyte a year so it seems a little ridiculous to make that comparison without taking into context the whole picture. Although yes, you're right, some resource needs to be consumed for any blockchain or database to work — in this case it's storage space (not necessarily hard drives).

To my mind, Chia puts existing underutilized space to work so it's not really wasting anything. The data seems to support that conclusion in the report I linked.
> Mark Cuban has called for stablecoin regulation in the wake of the TITAN collapse, telling Bloomberg in an email: “There should be regulation to define what a stable coin is and what collateralization is acceptable.”

is kind of ironic given this:

> One place that these organizations are VERY DIFFERENT is that they are not based in the USA and they are not corporations. They are foundations. They are Decentralized in their governance. NO ONE owns majority control (although the founders certainly have significant influence). This is not only because of the ethos of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOS), but also because of the ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY of our regulators forcing some of the most impactful and innovative entrepreneurs of this generation to foreign countries to run their businesses.

From the original blog post at https://blogmaverick.com/2021/06/13/the-brilliance-of-yield-...

In fairness, I'll grant him that it's possible that regulating stable coins in that way is not the same kind of regulations that drive entrepreneurs to foreign countries.
My heart rate goes up as I get warmer more than from fatigue.

Much of the health benefit from running is also available from briskly walking a couple of miles on a regular basis. Higher intensity training builds cardiovascular capacity, but the health benefits happen at intensity levels that don't really do that.
I don't really see hydrogen going anywhere for cars (except maybe as range extender there might be case). However, for certain applications batteries become to heavy to be practical, i.e. aviation, shipping, large trucks etc.
Note also that the SQLite devs, chasing 1% perf improvements every year, continually rewrite huge chunks of the entire library, sometimes replacing entire components. Their comprehensive testing ensures that there's no API or ABI breakage, and of course the fuzz testing does catch many bugs, it also ensures that SQLite always has a constant flow of new bugs.
Were lockdowns in the US so hard that the kids were not allowed to leave the house during the time or is it more a problem of their own doing in the sense that they actually could have done sports (running, cycling, hiking, bodyweight exercises if the gym is closed,...) if they had only wanted to? Scheduled activities would have made it a lot easier to overcome one's weaker self of course.

For context: having a walk or doing sports on your own were allowed even during lockdowns here in Germany, while I know that Australia had implemented very strict measures for example.
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From what I have seen, the broken outgoing links mentioned in other comments point to the Perseus digital library [1], which I would suggest as a first stop for your classical literature needs.

[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
I have to yet have people tell their most pressing need is auto-scaling. It's not, it's a straw man - and true, if you are Google or Facebook - but 90% of companies won't need that at all.
> I'm not going to comment on the quality of the article or whether 'giftedness' is a meaningful construct

Just that it is made aware, instead of leveling a counter-argument, you are only appealing to authority.

Everyone, all the way back to Freud or Jung, would be fair game to criticize for such a young field as psychology, because new paradigms and data do surface often. I don't care if they made this their life's work, the author does not once talk about the personality traits especially regarding neuroticism, which is either independent of IQ or inversely correlated, which falls counter to their hypothesis. Empirically speaking big five has much more backing data than their conjecture based on a single 1950's psychologist. Doesn't make it automatically more true, but it would need to be accounted for.
Not a sound engineer but that sounds like remixing and remastering a rather large percentage of the film, if not the entire thing. I think you would have to have a director really push for that expense.
That being said, these places are a godsend when you're lazy.
We will still find a way to fight with ourselves through it, luckily.
>Price discovery means that buy/ask spread changes based on supply and demand, were this the case, and there was no collusion, then there would have been no need to shut down trading.

1. they didn't shut down trading, only forced positions to go into close-only

2. they absolutely needed to do that, given that they were at risk of not being able to meet deposit requirements, which would mean they would have to suspend trading for all stocks

>Calculations based on married put/calls shows that 190% of GME has, and still is shorted. There is no way to close the short position without increasing demand.

1. shorts in excess of 100% doesn't indicate anything nefarious, due to synthetic longs created by shorts

2. I'm very skeptical of these "calculations", when official numbers put short interest at far lower than that, eg https://fintel.io/ss/us/gme.

>Yes, this is conjecture, but the author is well respected,

Is he? Respected by whom? The superstonk community? The financial community? If it's just the latter it doesn't mean much.

>It's all seems quite cultish over in superstonk, but no-one believed Michael Burry back in 2008.

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

-- Carl Sagan
In every Michael Mann movie I can think of, the gunfire is really loud compared to everything else; I can understand wanting to show off after recording all of the gunfire in the Heat shootout for real.
For passenger vehicle road trips charging time is already into "doesn't matter" territory for a number of models. I have taken a 1000 km+ trip in a BEV that I used to take in gas vehicles. We didn't have to stop more often or stay any longer than we would have with gasoline.

Really think about the time you spend stationary when stopping for fuel on a road trip. It's not just pumping fuel, you also go to the bathroom, get some food, and stretch your legs.

Extremely fast charging a Tesla trick, Hyundai Ionic 5 (starting around 45K before incentives) can charge 10-80% in 18 minutes, which is enough to travel around 330 km. That's roughly 3 hours of driving in most counties.

I could see hydrogen making sense for fleets with local operation that need to be operated nearly 24x7, like the support vehicles at an airport, city busses, and taxis in cities with strong night life. It also makes sense for heavy industry. Doesn't make sense for passenger vehicles; the cost of batteries has crashed too far and the power grid is way too ubiquitous.
Containers are great for web services or anything that primarily communicates through a port.

Less so for CLI style projects that read and write to the local file system. Yes I know you can bind mount directories but it’s clunky and you also usually have to fight with file permissions issues.
The quote isn't clear, but I think the author means people don't generally run pip with their system python. I.e. they don't run /usr/bin/pip or whatever, but use some virtual environment solution.
> The power of smart contracts is very limited. The hype around them is based on a lot of lie, from the people that are not very different from those criminal hackers.

Can you recommend any further readin on this?
Money Talks: A Short History of Roman Currency
Tesla accepted Bitcoin in big part as an investment vehicle/place to park money, and there's few fast, cheap, energy-efficient cryptocurrencies that you can put $1.5B in. Hell, Stellar's market cap was what? $5B total at the time?

Musk, separately from Tesla plays with Doge. As far as I know Tesla hasn't accepted or invested in Doge.
How long until AWS releases Infinidash as a self-defeating prophecy?
Fair point on the sweeping statement, I'll rein it in

Thinking about it the main factor is an emotional one. I'm disappointed. Butthurt if you will. It sounded great but it tripped over so far away from the finish line that I've turned against it. I'll excuse myself from any further copilot threads

Of course I can never meet the requirements of your post wanting something more impressive than Copilot. Copilot itself falls far short of that. Nothing I give you will be enough as there'll be flaws you will attack to make your point. Bit of a time sink that, lets just assume you're right :)

No, I've never successfully built anything as ambitious as, and definitely nothing surpassing, copilot. Have I tried? Absolutely. Have I failed? So far yes.

Of course by that logic though I still win this conversation if you've not succeeded in making anything more ambitious than my failed projects, is that correct? :P

For the sake of not wanting to come off as blagging (also I want the holes poked in this one tbf) my most ambitious project I've not figured out how to make work yet is a new (afaik) type of business model: cohan.me/profit-share
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You can try the Dolby Atmos demo file - on the Dolby Atmos intro page - to get an idea of how good/bad the encoding is.

On my (studio) headphones it was more spatial than stereo, but certainly not a jaw-drop moment.
This is a good point. There is a lot of outrage now, but the product when finished might have every single wrinkle removed.

This one, for example, seems it should be pretty easy to fix. You could even make a hack that replaces ALL sufficiently long and sufficiently random strings with garbage/zeroes, at the point of recall. The difference from the case of regurgitating GPL sources is that the information that it looks like an API key can be deducedd from the output of copilot, so you don't need to track it through the system like you would with a system of attribution.
https://youtu.be/k73_jIUfBw4
> he's just meme-ing and not making huge bets on it but just playing around

But that’s SO much worse! He’s coaxing his followers to dash out in front of a steamroller to help him — a billionaire — pick up pennies. He’s “just playing around” with peoples’ life savings.

It would be far less reprehensible if Musk held sincere but misguided beliefs in Doge but “just meme-ing” is unconscionable. Especially for someone with his exorbitant wealth to do so at the expense of those with far fewer resources.
This part is solvable.

They encrypt the data using 100,000 keys in 100,000 parts. You pay 1/100,000 the ransom and pick a key. You test. You get a random 1/100,000 of your data back. Repeat.

There would be better ways I'm sure.
It looks like they didn't learn from what happened to Gab.
I will never understand why they don't use a mastodon or pleroma instance instead of trying to maintain yet another centralized social media platform.
"here is a revolutionary trustless system of currency, but you must trust a group of anonymous developers in the non-extradition offshore not to screw you with premine" and trust them to make immutable smart contracts 100% bug free to prevent scandals like DAO onwards, and trust shady mining cartels, and unregulated exchanges, and the shadowy cryptocurrency oligarchs manipulating prices, etc.

The fact is that this "revolutionary new financial system" doesn't remove trust - it just shifts trust to the less trustworthy.
This is such a massive troll on Macron... Knowing the French, it's gonna get a lot of them massively triggered.
One thing. What happens to the power grid, if power needs double?

Certainly, new power plant construction, even if green, will be financed by additional cost to the consumer.
They are so similar because they show a basic principle behavioral economics.
I just had a look at the OpenAI website.

They advertise an English-to-French translation service powered by AI. But it appears that nobody who is French native has even reviewed the service presentation. When the marketing material is just a joke, what can you expect in production if as a customer you use the service?

Just this example tells me much about the internal organization of the company.