skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fake or Counterfeit Chip has been a thing for a very long time. So chip shortage didn't create this problem.

More people are discovering it because they are desperate for chips and they have to take a bet from unknown supplier. Normally you get like 10 box of solid chip with 1 box that are either counterfeit or fake. Now may be two or three.

Some Manufacture are willing to bet because even if the chip cost 5x or 10x as much, it is still relatively small increase from their total BOM. Think Car as an extreme example, who cares if you pay $100 for chips that used to cost you $10 or even $5 when your car is worth $10K+? Not to mention your operation cost losses when you have no cars to sell.
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Fox "News". It's all about the clicks.
There is very little information regarding the project unless you create an account. I’ll be honest, it made me not want to create one.
Would need to get rid of dark pools, or at least completely open up their visibility. (should be more transparent anyways)

And would need a way to backwards-track trades to make sure a single entity isn't placing millions of small trades...which would also require individual verifiable identities being linked to each trade.
I played with countertop induction.

My take is that most of them are crap. They usually have 10 power levels, which is too few. Some also have temperature-based settings, but I suspect the sensors are too removed from the food surface to be accurate and they're basically ornamental.

I think you need good cookware that can spread the heat. I don't know what cookware is good, but most cookware just scorches your food in a ring-shaped pattern.

I do have one friend who spent a boatload of money on a gaggenau induction cooktop he loves. it seems to have elements spread out on the surface and adapts to the size and number of pans.

He also dedicated a 220v circuit to the thing, so it can pump out lots of energy, especially compared to ~1200 watts from a 110v countertop one.
For anyone who doesn’t know what pathlib is: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html
What’s the limit on that? If it’s like 100-200k then i got bad news for you… also as other thread says they will deny everything that is even remotely chronic and likely also that wasn’t preapproved with them before the visit
If you don't trust news sources, why would you trust this person?

At least news sources have editorial processes, reputations, trained, experienced, professional journalists. They aren't perfect, but they're much better than random bloggers.
Sounds like most of the channels moved to the irc.libera.chat network. So the net change in IRC use is less than it looks.
In a form in which it can be removed? Like a printer?
What was slow death about it? It was quite active, and had a huge number of popular and quite active channels across a range of technical topics.

It wasn't Discord/Slack/etc, but for an awful lot of people on it, that was a feature. Text. Lightweight. Simple. Doesn't require a bloody Electron app with hundreds of megabytes of memory to connect.
That's quite a bad take. You can bank on PGO+LTO of a C++ server being good for 20% throughput easily, and not compiling for k8-generic when you have a modern machine also makes a big difference. I would agree that just flipping compiler flags might not get you very far, but there are key inputs that you shouldn't leave on the table.
How to build back under budget
The news helps me with some sentiment of the day.

There is a fun strategy trading the sessions in the US market. Basically some days the selling pressure can come from Europe, and as soon as those traders go to sleep (mid US trading session) the market reverses where Americans have different sentiment.

Just something to watch for and assume happens just like you might assume your bollinger band wedge breakout doji is telling you anything too. Itll probably fail a backtest, or you buy some SPY dailies and are right one or two times to retire.
Author here. These lawsuits involving Lee are also of interest:

https://corrupt.tech/1708590130-ocr-compressed.pdf

https://distfiles.dereferenced.org/stuff/ltm/1760687104.pdf
Right, thanks a lot for feedback!
And people might not have turned off their autojoins. It's not like lurking in a different server takes any effort.
> Not sure what the Eastern Roman empire was doing with respect to conquering and Christianizing, but if they converted anyone, I don’t think those pagans contributed imagery back to Christian holidays as we know them in America.

Carol of the Bells
Why would you want 100 people doing the job of 1? You'd be purposefully eliminating economies of scale and making the market less efficient.
I really don't advise getting attached to lines in somebody else's database. HN is more or less a social data harvesting system. What I'm doing is bad, very bad in the sense of the Bolsheviks. It's a style of revolution, a gestalt, a zeitgeist, a poetic renaissance if you will, the par excellence of lyric expression. So what if my style is dissociated press mixed with psychological mad scientist? Strange internet persona is not mentioned in any of the rules, and this place could use some imagination, or perhaps I should says psychedelicality?

Oh dear. Please don't tell me you're uneducated. I'm so sorry.

Look, I buy weed from the cocaine cartel in [REDACTED]. The local police pay no attention to them, zilch. You know why? Those guys are professionals, and they have nowhere to go. They're stuck. Moreover, it is common knowledge that the CIA controls the drug trade.

These guys are basically baby sitters for drug addicts.

You have nowhere to go. Your nurturing instincts are taking over, and I'm turning this into a historical moment, making this comment the spark that ignites the revolution!

Who makes a bot that goes on message boards and tells people that cocaine cartels have nurturing instincts? Ha!
Nah that would mean the news know what will happen and are consistently wrong.

But that's not true either. They know nothing, as much as the rest of us.
> Doing so helped me to make lots of money in the second half of 2020 betting on pandemic-sensitive stocks (not Hertz), since most investors were too pessimistic about vaccines for much of that period.

You can make money by betting against politically-motivated "common wisdom". Trump said the vaccines would be ready before 2021, and everyone else said it was impossible. Some said it could take two years. That became the common wisdom. But in this case they were wrong, and the stock market roared back when the results were released right after the election.

Many people realized Trump had a clear motive to shade the truth on vaccine readiness, but they didn't realize that anyone who opposed to Trump had a motive to shade it in the opposite direction.
Also even if I don’t finish the task (think debugging), often I get over the big scary unknown horizon and learn enough to make sleeping on it potentially productive.

Then I sleep on it :)
Yeah, those basic computers were fun, but having an entry level computer you could write basic programs on wasn't going to help you automate business processes, whereas writing an office macro would. That's kindof the point - to embed the functionality with the data and existing applications, so you can think of these "low code" interfaces built into online apps as the cloud version of those old MS visual basic macros. Except some of these added various drag and drop functionality to graphically add some logic, lowering the bar a bit further.
Anyone else burnt out from the outrage cycle in recent times?

I don’t know if it’s selfish but I just don’t have the energy anymore to care about what bad thing person X or company Y did this week.

My current philosophy is to treat news/Reddit/social media like email in the old days.

That is: log on to a desktop computer once a week and read the highlights. It is not accessible except through the desktop computer.

The funny thing is this approach is completely opposite the “stories” trend in social media. It makes you really aware of the FOMO-by-design pattern these days.
One definitely resigns when they leave one company for another.
> Building tight, all-electric, with solar will provide a comfortable, clean, long-lasting house, but it will be quite a bit more expensive. Possibly 30%+ more expensive than using standard contractor choices.

Maybe a 30% higher price, but likely a lower cost when you factor in externalities.
honestly FHE is voodoo to me
Still running an 8 year old version for that reason. Tried switching to MacJournal once it became free but kept going back.
I'm certainly reminded of the current semiconductor shortages, not to mention early-2020 toilit paper shortages. People see low stock of an essential product, buy up what they need and some spare to cover an anticipated shortage, and the stock runs out, causing a shortage. Other people then try to buy whaxever they can to build their own buffers, extending the shortages.
I wish the issue is as simple as what the title suggests. Just read both sides, our political divide can be bridged. Well, what if the two sides don't agree on the facts. It may be a good idea to have centralists on policies, but the notion of centralists hardly applies to facts. It may be possible to have compromises on policies only when both sides at least assume good faith of the other. In today's American politics, I don't see an easy solution to agree on facts or good faith. It is sad.
> one channel who previously supported lee

Serious question: why? I'm sure there exist perspectives where Lee is not the villain, but they're hard to imagine and I'm really curious.
Once I discovered Darebee, https://darebee.com/workouts.html, I don’t need any other fitness workout database. The size of the set of exercises, the clarity of instructions and the fee (zero) are hard to beat.
At this point I am not even angry anymore.

Instead, I am insanely curious about why they are doing such a large amount of very inflammatory actions in a short timespan!?

They must for sure know that they will 100% certainly destroy their platform. Why are they doing it anyway?
My little pug dog goes crazy sometimes. Like proper crazy running back and forward, tail down ears back and grunting all the way. The first time my Wife's best friends mother say this she looked on and said "What is happening now?"

Every time I read an article on Freenode I hear her voice in my head, in a thick African accent, "What is happening now?"
A handful of jerks that don't have their comments removed immediately means a subreddit is infested with alt-right racists.
Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our tech to become Slack-first
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/simultaneous-hack-of-ev-cha...
>He claimed that his investigation began with an “open source” search for information on Hu, which turned out to be a Google search on the professor.

>Sadiku admitted to telling university officials that Hu was a Chinese military operative, despite having no evidence to back up that claim.

You cannot tell me the United States isn't a police state. Completely revoked a US citizens rights and made his life a living hell without any evidence. Also Hu has wire fraud charges against him, again with no evidence. This is pure insanity. It's breaking like three amendments in the bill of rights alone and we're just going to sit back and act like this is warranted? All because of a singular google search and a whim?
I noticed Borland/Novell Quattro 6.x (for Win 3.1) is available for download, from before Corel bought the product and rolled it into their Office Suite:

https://winworldpc.com/product/quattro-pro/6x

Too old for my purposes, though. I need to convert circa 2002 .qpw files to something modern... And I found I could get there by going older... Using Quattro to save as .wb2, which LibreOffice handles quite nicely. A conversion to XLSX from there mangles things up, but even complex formatting is preserved well saving to ODF/.ods files. LibreOffice 1, Microsoft Office 0.

I see archive.org is hosting the 2000 Linux version:

https://archive.org/details/CorelForLinux
Ya I find it wild that Walmart employees for example run around an actual Walmart for fulfillment. Can’t be worth it.
This video on ADD/ADHD was very beneficial for me. With Thomas E Brown, PhD

https://youtu.be/ouZrZa5pLXk
Kind of funny that Amazon recommends it be bought with thermal paste
I don't know, all I know is their quit message includes some lee-side.pdf
1. Your view that there are only two sides is too simplistic. To be in the center doesn't mean you're in a 1-dimensional line you could be on a 2D circle or worse n-dimensional space where there are several competing and opposing views on many different orthogonal axes. To be in the center means not to become beholden to one political view and on one side of a very specific axis.

2. Whether or not opposing content can be merged is irrelevant if there are many different ways of thinking about a topic than a simple binary right or wrong. Often reasoning from first principles yields vastly different results if slight changes are made up and along the chain of reasoning. And different people can have vastly diverging points of view even though they did their own thinking. Therefore to be in the center simply means not to drink the Kool-Aid the latest politician is selling.

3. I think you could reasonably argue being in the center is itself a valid political position if you agree that, again, there are more than two sides. If there are many more viewpoints some not even discussed by current politicians why must everyone pick a side that is currently most fashionable? To be in the center doesn't mean you'll be the net sum of each side, it means you have your own opinion and do not necessarily buy into the narrative that is being sold by either political parties.
Is there a free/open source version of same or similar product?
Some people love to be contrarian and believe in things just because they don't want to be part of the herd/sheep.
This seems pretty revolutionary, if indeed arbitrary C++ programs can be written as FHE. Are there any key limitations?
By that same token, all use of free services should be charged from the time of use of said services, since previous agreements are nill and void.

By using said services you have provided your information given the understanding that your information will be used by the companies that provide the services
I take umbrage at the use of the word storytelling to describe news media. Stories have narrative arcs of growth and resolution. Most of what the author is talking about is a repetitive information game with society, a form of social entertainment that hooks people into a feeling of participation. The “narratives” of the day are better described (as they’re coming to be) as memes.
I hope there's a good postmortem on this in 5-10 years that explains what on earth all this nonsense is about, because it makes literally no sense.

Buy an IRC network, fine. If you want to use the domain for something else, just turn off the servers and do it. There's no need for this absurdly complex, Rube Goldberg-esque process of pissing everyone off, then impersonating services, then dropping the services database entirely, then partitioning the network and joining people to a new network, and pissing more people off, and passive aggressive global messages, and...

I cannot wrap my head around what they're even trying to do at this point. I've been on IRC in some form another for the majority of my adult life (including running my own IRC network for many years, starting out with some SE/30s), I'm quite tolerant of random stuff going on, but I literally cannot find any sense at all in what the new owners are trying to do.

It's like they had a great party going at their house, a few people started leaving, and then they started waving around a gallon of gas and a lighter, threatening to burn the house down if anyone else left. And people, reasonably enough, continued to leave. So, i guess this stage is the "And they lit the house on fire, but moved all their friends to the shed and pretended it was still the house" part of the analogy...
I think the tesla ones can do ~20 kw:

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/wall-connecto...

Early tesla vehicles could actually charge from two home chargers simultaneously (though I'm uncertain how many amps total).

and of course, there are homes with more than one car.
Soccer does have less management pressure induced strategy because the rules and flow of the game demand that.

Soccer is about flow not stoppages so you only can sub 3 players and the game doesn't stop as much with injury time added on later. Players are being asked to make more meta decisions.

Doesn't make fandom only make sense though in baseball. Fandom is so much bigger in soccer, it includes national struggles and regional struggles and is so engrained in local culture. Soccer hooliganism exists where baseball hooliganism doesn't.. baseball has a long term view on passionate (if my team loses it is okay because we have 160 more) where in soccer one goal decides a match and every match means something always to some group of people.
People still use Robinhood. From Freenode, there was a mass exodus. From Robinhood, people mostly just complained and kept using the app.
> Better just to buy a bunch of USB sticks, wipe 'em all with random noise, use a couple for mundane files, and use a couple for sensitive files — deniably encrypted so as to look like random noise. Then, you can plausibly deny that they contain any sensitive files.

You're creating a situation where you have a set of encrypted and non-encrypted devices that are indistinguishable, and expecting the police to let you off. But there's nothing stopping someone with only encrypted devices to claim the same thing. I'd be worried that approach would fail either by 1) the police calling your bluff, or 2) indefinitely holding you in jail for contempt of court until you decrypt a drive that has un-decryptable random data.
I believe Microsoft had a hand in many such downfalls -- HP's WebOS tablet and Gateway's Amiga, for instance.

Ironically Microsoft also saved Apple b/c the Government was breathing down their neck with Antitrust litigation at the time.
There's too much money in sports for anyone in power to give a damn. Cheating doesn't interfere with the cash flow from fans so why should they care? Take something where cheating does interfere with cash flow: academics. Your first incidence of cheating means you fail the course and the second means you get expelled from the school. Imagine if using sticky stuff in baseball, deflating the ball in football, or taking dives in soccer meant the player was suspended for an entire season for the first offense and banned for life for the second offense.
Why would you want 100 people to have wealth instead of just one? I feel there's some related questions about utility being non-linear that matter here
Indeed. Who is the plausible user base for Freenode at this point? It's unlikely that IRC will ever be able peel users away from Discord/Slack, no matter what improvements Freenode makes. Meanwhile, anyone already using IRC is probably aware of this drama and will stay well away from Freenode.
Emphasis mine.

> They may need or wish to perform additional checks on their side. Etc.

So they get all the data in the off chance that a Stripe customer might want to do something with the data aside from the basic “yeah our large global identity verification service says this person is legit.”

I’m not super clear what a company might ”wish to” do with that data that isn’t served by the basic “this person is who they say they are” function (Does Stripe need their clients to act as guinea pigs to see if the service actually works as intended? If their mysterious black box “wishes” turn up a case where this isn’t working as intended, are your customers required to share that data with you to ensure the overall reliability of the Stripe Identity service? Or do they just get to build a database of info they get from Stripe Identity?)

> While many of the businesses initially building on Identity wanted access to the raw information, it may well make sense for us to enable them to restrict themselves in the future.

Oh nevermind, asked and answered! Just turn on the data hose to whoever has a website and will pay Stripe for identity data and maybe adjust it later if you catch some flack for this practice?

It’s kinda hilarious that the whole “people trust Stripe with their data” as part of the sales pitch as if this didn’t come across to me (a layperson) as a direct violation of that particular trust.
Original PDF: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20889498/adherenc...
I think this is a perfect description. Thank you for sharing.

Someone very confused had the resources to do what their confused mind told them to.
Skip forward rapidly until something interesting is being said.

When it is, skip back a bit to find the start of that segment.

As with others, I make heavy use of mpv to (mostly listen to, occasionally actually watch) video, on YT and elsewhere. It's exceedingly good at pulling media references out of random URLs, though not bulletproof.

Earlier today I had to scan through the downloaded HTML to find, and fix, the audio URL for a This American Life episode covering Reality Winner. Then I rapidly scanned through the downloaded audio looking for the start of the segment I was interested in --- 37 minutes into a 1 hour programme.

Much as you don't have to read an entire book to find the chapter or passage of interest (I'm mostly referring to non-fiction here), you don't need to placidly sit through full audio or video sessions either.

You can, of course, also repeat sections of particular interest.
I'd watch that documentary. Preferably on whatever open content platform replaces Netflix.

Surely Freenode's downfall was Kafkaesque?

Your analogy sounds right but I'd like to add the shed is full of oil soaked rags. And the host is still holding that lighter.
The data doesn't seem right, wasn't the opioid epidemic pretty well covered in the media, even in 2016? Or did that not meet some criteria?
Apple responded:

> I have identified the regression point and assigned the bug to somebody. Thank you for the bug report. We will try and get this fixed ASAP.
> wipe your disks

Actually wiping the disk would take way too long. Assuming that you're running Linux and that all connected drives are fully encrypted: overwrite all keyfiles in a secure manner (ie flushing all caches and etc), write random garbage to the entirety of RAM, and trigger the equivalent of `halt -ff` (note the double --force).

Potentially of interest: `__noreturn machine_real_restart` in reboot.c (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/5bfc75d92efd494db37f5...)

Bonus points for additionally finding a way to trigger the "secure erase" firmware feature of all attached devices as part of the above sequence. That's likely to prove a bit tricky though since that feature is generally locked out (for obvious reasons) once you leave the bootloader.
Only Daisy cottage cheese will do!
> and one of them was wrong

Then you get to play the "how and why was it wrong" game. Was the image online wrong? Did the pick the wrong item? Did the UPC code mis-scan?

In my case, it seems like the manufacturer was sloppy and put two different incompatible versions in the same bag. The one I got wasn't even sold by that company. Possibly in a production line change switchover.