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> As destiny would have it, that nation broke up in the year 1971. Co-incidentally the cable which augured this was also numbered 1971.

I too was curious of the significance of this article. This isn't really spelled out in your previous comment in such terms, you're assuming a lot of contextual understanding that I would hazard most people do not have of Pakistan.
I'm not so sure it's quite that simple. I've got a prescription to amphetamine salts as well as a marijuana habit. And an injury rehab situation that requires I strengthen muscles I couldn't even consciously access and breathing engaging my diaphragm in a way I haven't since literal babyhood.

Marijuana drastically amplifies the nervous system signal through to my muscles, but I find I have to focus, otherwise I sort of just melt. Amphetamine drastically amplifies the signal as well, but I find I can't let it go unless I focus on relaxing. It very much feels like the interaction that's happening is how my conscious cognition can access the nervous system wires running throughout the body. It feels very possible that some forms of meditation may not necessarily be about utter quiet, but rather such focus that noise cannot exist.

Anecdotal stuff aside, many meditative practices require active engagement of muscles. Yoga is a big one.
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Yes, someone had to say it.
Imagine working for Facebook in 2019 without feeling bad about it.
Exceptions only prove the rule.
That's because there is no demand. If AMD were to move towards ECC the memory demand for those ECC DIMMs would increase and price would go down as more are produced.
They are one of the largest contributors to linux, donate $500k annually to Linux foundation (since 2016. Google joined in 2018), VS code, .net is open source to large degree, typescript is open source.

Here's a list of their open source projects.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/?sort=Stars&keyword=&tag=

(Microsoft may be the world's largest open source contributor

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-may-be-the-wo...)

(Microsoft becomes 5th largest contributor to linux core
https://www.ukfast.co.uk/microsoft-news/impressive-microsoft...)
I'm not sure I understand, in what system would this not happen?

You can say that the goverment should store the extra electricity but that's not as easy as it sounds. Most things need very specific geographical or technical conditions for pumped hydro, compressed air energy storage, boreholes, hydrogen, molten salts.

So in what system wouldn't this happen?
Interestingly my malware and adblocking lists (via pfblocker-ng) has blacklisted this site as a known bad site!
Encoding of keywords and the default string abstract representation are entirely different things.
My read on this was that it's a useful metaphor for the economy, with the state as the rider and the horse as the industrial base. The original communist idea was to direct industrial output in some detail, which worked about as well as trying to control the individual muscles of a horse. The US, meanwhile, directs the economy by deciding "I want $X billion dollars worth of helicopters" and then letting the private sector figure out the low-level actions required to get there. The Chinese are probably an even better example in this regard.
> Why is there a wikipedia article about this?

A sort of incomplete answer would be that the article is covering an important historical fact regarding the sixth-largest miltary in the world (by active personnel). [0]

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/how-strong-pakistans-military-12350...
Examples are very convincing. I just stopped trusting online posts as a way to inform myself of public opinion.

How do we regulate this thing? Forbid bots from social media and chats altogether? Force them to introduce themselves as machines?
10nm has been a trainwreck and is late, 7nm and 5nm have been removed from quite a few timelines they post because they suspect the same issues as with 10 nm (and 10nm isn't ready until 2020, how are they going to ship 7nm in 2021?)
What technology stack are you guys using?
Looks interesting, might check it out later.
Why work for money when you can volunteer your time instead to the local community?
So use the energy to pump the water to where it is needed. Use it to generate hydrogen or methane or something to sell as fuel. Mine bitcoin even. It seems weird and wasteful to just shut off free energy.
Some of my coworkers do work related to orbital debris. I've learned a little bit by osmosis (mostly the right jargon to type into Google to get useful query results).

The Soviet spacecraft were the slightly confusingly named US-A series, also called RORSAT in English. The Wikipedia article[1] is a good start, but you can find some more technical info if you search around for papers on "NaK droplets"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A
I'm not a fan of most reporting of these negative price events.

First, they rarely explain why the price is negative. As the article explains, solar can switch itself off, so it's nothing physical about solar that can cause negative prices, as all solar can switch itself off before it goes negative it would bottom out at zero for those reasons.

In most cases I've seen so far, contractual agreements with gas, coal or nuclear (who struggle to switch themselves off quickly without hurting themselves) have been the reasons for negative pricing and the grid wasn't actually at 100% renewable at the time of the curtailment. In other words, solar switches itself off, while other, dirtier plants get fined (negative price!) for demanding that they be allowed to still run.

In South Australia they're doing pretty well on renewable, so it's possible they actually are at 100% renewable at these times (would be good for the stories to clarify). If that's the case then the negative price is most likely caused by subsidies to wind that are paid per generation. If the subsidies to two renewable plants are different then one will bid the other off the market at that point since the price can go down to the opposite of the subsidy before they make an actual loss.

All in all, these negative prices are useful market signals. I wish the weren't covered by journalists who seem to think negative numbers are taboo for some reason.

The fact that it's the same plant that gets switched off repeatedly (rather than all solar reducing output) makes me think this is either a contractual thing that only affects its owner or a regional transmission thing that only affects its geographic location. Again, would be nice for stories to find out which.
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This makes me wonder how do you stop generating with a solar farm that is made of PV panels. They're entirely passive, right? The light hits them and they output electricity. How do you stop them?

I guess the process is somehow invertible, and once reached a certain static charge each panel stops absorbing energy?

In which case you're sort of already dumping the (non)produced energy in the environment- as heat, on each single panel?
Threadripper is an option there also. The main issue I've run into is that I can't find anything faster than 2133 in ecc
Your whole post both misses the point of this site and misses the blame for the points you raise.

> How about suggesting some solutions?

Why not contact the makers of the site and ask them? It's pretty clear they made this website for a little bit of marketing for a security training vendor:

> Reflare is an IT Security training company helping executives and IT professionals create more secure organizations.

My personal $0.02 is to look at what Salesforce did. They hired pen testers to hack their board members and to reveal to each of them their most personal / valuable / embarrassing data. That breaks the ice and loosens the purse strings. Spend on a security team like a financial institution would. Then the entire company institutes "distributed security": gamification mechanics applied to all aspects of security. Incentivize _every_ _single_ _employee_ and contractor to be involved in security. Give out quarterly tropical vacataions to _any_ employee which improves company security the most. Train them -- every single hire. Compartmentalize + least privilege.

> Haha they hired a CISSP,how lame

The site randomly picks from an array of mitigations:

* made everyone promise to be super super careful
* gotten ISO certified
* gotten PCI certified
- worked with industry leading specialists
- upskilled our cafeteria staff
- hired external consultants
- worked with law enforcement
- bought an IDS
- twiddled with our firewall
- been pretty good about security
- hired some people with 'CISSP' after their names
- watched a YouTube video on cyber security
- told them to not do it again
- said that we are very sorry
- copy-pasted a security policy we found on Google
- hired a Russian dude
- watched the movie Hackers 8 times back to back
- sent one of our guys to Defcon
- put a rotating lock GIF on our website

Hiring a CISSP doesn't seem as ridiculous as the other options, but all things considered, I would rather a company hire CISSPs before they get breached. If they do it only after they get breached, I'd rather the company go bankrupt as a lesson the competition. I'm 100% in support of this website poking at Equifax because the post-breach repercussions have been far too lenient on the company and I hope every company fears bing "the next Equifax".

> Management and C-suite do not get clear,useful and actionable security risk analysis

Management and the C-Suite exist to hire the team that can give them the information + performance they want. It sounds like the C-Suite needs to learn what they don't know and then hire a CIO+CISO.

In the end, there is a risk trade-off. Far too many companies just "accept the risk" or simply buy cyber insurance (rather than investing in risk mitigations) then get breached. Far too few companies get liquidated when they get breached, sending a bad signal to their competition. Most companies don't want to lock down their product to absolute minimum risk (because that is fantastically expensive) and just aim to spend "the industry average" on security.
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You seem awfully quick to declare the poster ignorant.

Under Linux it's entirely trivial to make a different glyph appear on the screen when you press a particular button or combination of buttons. I'm guessing that it's not much harder on other OS. Mac and windows probably have an app with an actual gui even.

Isn't it kind of odd to propose that someone can learn a new programming language but can't learn how to press a different button?
I got the teenagers got into the server room through an empty window and hacked into our coffee pot. We told them not to and it can’t happen again.
>... getting through your tasks in say 4 days...

In my experience, there is no such thing as "getting through your tasks", as you are expected to pick up more tasks from a never ending bucket of tasks [1]. Of course this varies from place to place, but is in general true. Your peers and managers are more likely to notice you leaving early, or "not working" on the Friday, than they are to notice you working your butt off on the previous 4 days, to be honest.

[1] Edit: this is because of the nature of knowledge work, and the difficulty in estimating duration of work, difficulty, and quality. If you finish early, the powers that be are more likely to attribute it to bad powers of augury as opposed to extra hard work. This might sound overly negative, but I have seen this consistently throughout a few decades of experience (yet, I still work hard... go figure).
Ask HN: What's your definition of a technical debt?
What are your parameters or mindset or mental model to figure out a technical debt?

How do you deal with the tech debt? How do you prioritize the tech debt severity?

In general, not restricted only to the computer science field, how is the technical debt described for a particular field?

To me, field: computer science - software, any denormalized database object is technical debt, with a severity directly proportional to the amount of additional code being written to manage denormalization.
List of DL topics with resources for a quick brief, especially before interviews
Because they won’t let you upskill your cafeteria staff?
For origins, see bofh excuses: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl
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No, it's a "burned afterimage", it's a clear observation based on reading HN for many years (and later signing up to comment). I don't base it on specific cases, it's an overall trend.

Cherry picked examples aren't enough to change the fact that the dogpiling is real.
Vision and Language Group, a deep learning group at IIT Roorkee, has made a list of topics of DL with resources which one should be familiar with, and that could come in handy before interviews for briefing up.

https://github.com/vlgiitr/DL_Topics

Feel free to contribute any amazing resources that have been useful for a quick prep before your interviews, and star the repo if it is helpful to you!
Okay, I think I'm starting to get some idea of why someone might find this interesting. While I knew that Pakistan and Bangladesh had split up up at some point, I didn't know the year offhand, or the details of why. Without that knowledge, this article reads very oddly.

Really, though, it still seems weird to me. Would there still be an article about this if it wasn't numbered 1971? I assume that's just a sequential identifier, followed swiftly by Cable 1972, Cable 1973, etc. If the two correspondents were very significant figures in their respective branches, the article doesn't make that clear. It reads like just two mid-level officers in high command shooting the shit. And was the possible future breakup of this weird geographically-separated country really that unthinkable to all but a few visionaries back then? Of course it easy for me to say this now, but that seems like the obvious eventual outcome of such a bizarre setup. Surely people would talk about the possibility all the time.

Like imagine if next year the bottom falls out of the unicorn valuations completely and there's another dot-com crash. And then somebody discovers that Hacker News comment with id=2020, written all the way back in 2007, predicted that the tech bubble would burst sometime in the future. That's not really much of a coincidence because:

a) There had to be a comment number 2020, and

b) People on hn talk about tech bubbles popping all the time. If anything, the enormous time horizon between the prediction and the fulfillment would make it _less_ impressive.

If someone tried to pass that off as having some deeper significance, you'd think they were crazy.

To be clear, I'm not trying to assert that Cable 1971 is historically meaningless. Just that it comes off that way without a whole bunch of additional context that the Wikipedia summary does not provide in even a cursory way.
BSP trees in a real-time graphics simulation was pretty popular in VR walkthrough and visualization apps before the Doom/Quake era. E.g. in our university we used BSP trees in the Amadeus VR plugin (called 3D scene viewer), which was the Windows browser for Hyper-G/HyperWave. The pre-Netscape web browser/editor. https://much.isds.tugraz.at/projects/amadeus/13.htm/
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Yeah, I was trying to figure out how to cool a Supermicro dual socket board in my desktop case. Its a challenge, they really want the big datacenter type rack fans blowing through the system and that is a bit too noisy for me. On the plus side it could have way more RAM. :-)
Increased carbon emissions is interesting side effect of https
> convert it back to electric when it's needed

FTA: "Tailem Bend is also considering a battery storage..." and links to https://reneweconomy.com.au/tailem-bend-solar-farm-officiall... which adds "Vena Energy also has plans for a Tailem Bend Battery Energy Storage Project."
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Who knows, maybe the next set of victims will be people jaywalking to get to an Uber, that then get mowed down by another Uber driving at 39mph which classified them as bicycle / other.
False equivalency.

Israel is pretty much the only Democratic, liberal country in the middle East, with Western level women's rights/empowerment, LGBTQ protections, legal protection for minorites, etc. And a land of massive innovation. US universities aren't partnering with Israel because it's politically convenient, but because Israeli universities breed world leading research in many areas. Which is why most high tech companies have an Israeli division, and which is also why Israel has one of the world's highest per capita entrepreneurship, patents and peer reviewed scientific publications.

Contrast that to Autocratic Saudi Arabia where women weren't allowed to drive, or move about in public without approved male company until a year or two, where the LGBTQ are punished by death, where every non Muslim is systemically discriminated with a religions tax [1], where critical Tweets about the establishment routinely land people in jail, where the actual law of the land [2] is a throwback to the middle ages, with almost no scientific or cultural output of significance!

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_system_of_Saudi_Arabia...
Yea shutting off anything that is producing free electricity to keep a market price stable is moronic....
Mmmm, RSS over e-mail. Is it bad that I want this?
I keep coming back to electrowinning iron. When I search for papers it looks like people have started working on it again in the last ten years. I think it's not particularly high tech. Intermittent tolerant and scalable.
It happens when high inflexible power generation meets low demand. Some power sources can’t be shut down and restarted in a quickly and cost-efficiently. If the cost of stopping and restarting their plant is higher than the costs of selling energy at a negative price for some time, prices go negative.
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Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20901264
Adelaide has a desal plant. It was even in the news today: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-07/how-will-the-sa-desal...
New Zealands actual inflation is way, way higher than 1.5%. You are very naive and gullible if you believe that number. You also have no idea how the cost of housing is determined. Central banks have artificially manipulated interest rates to an extremely low level, where savers are forced to malinvest in things such as housing, which is also encouraged by mortgage rates being way below the reasonable cost, because again, the interest rates are artificially low. The reserve bank governor even admitted they were at fault.
This is why people who work in IT must be very careful with their loyalties. If the charges are true for these two individuals, Kashoggi's blood is on their hands.

We all need to be circumspect about the effects of our own actions, especially as it relates to climate change, mass extinction, and the military industrial complex.
There are economic involved. Long term, it pays to have many variable load generation in the grid, because they are cheap and environment friendly.

But a net needs to be handled exactly to match supply to cost, and demand has a large random component that no-one foresee perfectly.

Hence, negative prices are a normal feature of balancing demand and supply, which is a technical necessity not to have black-outs and brown-outs or, in this case, damage expensive base-load powerplants during emergency shut-downs.
Have you tried using your thumbprints? For me, they never fail to unlock my phone when the other fingers do. OTHO, I only climb plastic so YMMV.
> politics of all the people (executives and rank-and-file) working in the institutions of media, entertainment, and academia, you'll find that a significant majority are left of center

Where is the evidence of this? I know of no surveying so broad as to include the executives and 'rank-and-file' in media and entertainment.

Even if your claim is supported, we have 2 problems. The first is basically the "vegan waiters at steak restaurants" retort, which is to suggest that below the top executive level of the hierarchy employees have increasingly little power over their organisation, such that those at the bottom are like vegan waiters at steak restaurants who have no power to change the menu despite their politics.

The 2nd problem is basically that "left of center" != "progressive". The majority of the ostensibly left-leaning medial is still broadly pro things that progressives are against. Some examples would include single-payer healthcare, animal rights, public higher education, the Green New Deal, and anti-imperialism.
At university (a long time ago) on my first excursion with the Modula II compiler on the Vax, I accidentally inserted a # as the first character in a long source file. The compiler dutifully reported every line in the file as being in error.

I was inexperienced at reading compilerese (and source control and diffing were not commonplace at that time) and it took me a good day to extricate myself from my bewilderment.

I'm still mildly amused that such a small change to a more-or-less working codebase produced such generous output...
Why would I have ever thought that Google would artificially limit compatibility? It never crossed my mind. I just assumed the listed phones were popular examples - and since mine had the same version of Android as the Pixels/Galaxies, I didn't worry about it.

When did you decide to become an internet troll?
This article has nothing to do with disinformation/"Fake news"

It has not much to do with censoring people, and more that this "popularity" of these sites is almost certainly driven by illegitimate means (scripts, botting, popups, malware etc), purely to collect ad revenue. After all who is going to bother with such worthless and out of date articles from a completely unknown "news" org.

The fact its extremely obvious, and Google can't even be bothered bodes poorly for the veracity of the online ad ecosystem.
You don't pump money into purchasing the currency. You pump money into shorting the currency, as Soros did here.
While there are few panel manufacturers for monitors/tv's, there are many technical differences between the panels and the software and calibration.

You'd have to be legally blind not to notice the quality difference between my 200$ Philips screen and my 500$ Dell screen.
It would surely be less load than each of those push-destinations attempting to pull the source multiple times to query for updates
OK, now I get it too. It was difficult to understand as the article does not mention the 1971 coincidence explicitly.
Original link on Meteuphoric: https://meteuphoric.com/2019/11/04/total-horse-takeover/

I'm glad to see this blog active again after a year of quiet.
I work in the public sector where we take these things fairly seriously, but it doesn’t really matter when the auditors are drowned in the vast amount of data.

We have 300 IT systems with 8000 users that take care of 700000 citizens. There is an ungodly amount of information on who accessed what and when. Data security, even post GDPR is a total illusion.

We’re working to build better access control, by indexing data and mapping user rights to job functions, but even then things are going to get lost in the audits.
> Dumping that kind of power is... hard.

Why not route it to a nearby neighborhood? It's free it doesn't matter if a lot is lost in transmission and you don't need to pay somebody to take it.