skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
roughly 3/4 of your energy consumption is maintenance (fe keeping body temperature). So you walking/biking might even be irrelevant. If the outdoor temperature was low, this would probably be number 1.
It's the matrix basically. The value is obvious imo just the technology is still at least 10 years too early.
I can agree about Musk being essential to the success of his companies. Zuckerberg strikes me as more of a "right place at the right time" kind of guy and many people in the same place would have done as well or better. Bezos ... I don't know what to think of that guy.

Just because someone is a billionaire doesn't mean they owe those billions to their own skill. Untangling the web of who contributed what and where luck came into play is hard. Reasonable people can disagree, and this is why the outrage exists about CEO pay. The people that are outraged see the CEO's as profiting from the hard work of their workforce, and not contributing in proportion to their pay. Again, reasonable people can disagree about that, and it may be impossible to objectively determine what the truth is.
I don't trust password managers at all. I ended up creating a trust-less password manager for myself (which generates passwords based on a master password and a service name one-way hashed). You can check it out here (but probably don't use it, I don't want to be responsible for your password security): https://horuspass.com
> This is not accurate, weightlifting with a reasonably difficult weight for your strength level is one of the most effective ways to burn calories.

It wont make you loose weight however. It will likely make you gain weight as your muscles will grow. Which is explicit goal of many guys who start lifting weights.
I mean, the world almost came to an end in 1983 when the Soviet early detection system detected with 100% confidence multiple missile launches from US heading towards Russia. The only reason we are still alive is because one man, officer in the Soviet Air Defence forces, took a personal decision to wait for radar confirmation before informing his superiors(who would have almost certainly ordered a counterstrike before the missiles could arrive).

The most terrifying point in all of this is that multiple systems were all coming up with confirmation that the attack is really happening, he had his entire department checking and checking and checking everything over, and it was coming back as 100% positive.

I don't think Soviets ever publicly said what the issue actually was, we can only guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
"Dieting is universally a mood killer, because kilo-joule deficit equals starvation."

I practice intermittent fasting a lot and I cannot say that it affects my mood negatively. But I was very grumpy when I ate "five small meals a day".

It seems that the digestive system is more OK with being totally empty than being just half full all the time.
Just out of common, and professional courtesy.
This post resonates a lot with me for several reasons:

1. I know exactly how this passive state of mind feels to me. It's good to hear that others feel the same.

2. 3 days might not be much, but it doesn't matter, if it is long enough to give one clarity how the own mind works, to reflect on a bad habit, and, which is most important, come up with rules how to further break the bad habit, as the poster did.

Saying this, I'm gonna go to the rock climbing gym now ;)
Hi!
this is fantastic article! Years ago I was able to visit the "Wendelstein 7X" stelarator-type fusion reactor in greifswald (Germany) when it was still assembled. It was so cool.

Do you think this approach of controlling plasmas also translates to these types of reactors?

Reading your article I didn't understand a lot of things and wondered if there was some kind of fusion-reactor-physics word-list where the most important keywords are explained a little. (without reading a whole book on plasma physics :-))

Also the timescales are fascinating. How long is 200ms in a tokamak? How long does this reactor need to ignite or shut down the plasma?
I've lost 40 kg (88 lbs) just by exercising: never counted calories, lots of pizzas and whatever. When people say "you can't exercise out of a bad diet" my first question is "What do you mean by "exercise?". And then you discover that exercise in their mind is 30 minutes of brisk walking, 3 days a week and nothing more. That's not exercising, that a sedentary lifestyle.
We saw a very large reduction in caloric expenditure in people who were already very fit runners. So body weight changes over the course of the experiment are unlikely to explain it.
Counting calories is still very useful, because you learn what's "worth it".

For example there are protein bars that are supposedly healthy, but they have 150-250 kcal per 50g bar.

On the other hand there are these watery ice creams that have about 65 kcal per piece and feel just as indulgent if not more.

Other things that are very much "not worth it" on the enjoyement/kcal scale is bread and other pastries.

2 buns with ham is 500 kcal and feels like nothing. A whole pan of hot vegetables with some meat is +- the same and feels like a proper dinner.
One does not only lose weight because of the exercise itself, but by retaining muscles since they are a major calorific expenditure factor. Large mass muscles burn calories e.g. glutes
Well, what if there is someone waiting in the wings who could do an even better job? Cook did better than Jobs, and nobody expected him to.
Read the memSQL blog I linked to; it talks about why not B-Trees for their workloads. It also points out that the concurrent and lock-free nature of Skip Lists was overall a win, despite cache-locality (and other such) concerns. Though, if one can tame allocs (ref: https://archive.is/kwhnG), then they may have cache-locality (just don't expect it to be at Judy Array levels).
Do companies still buy laptops with 4GB ram? I partly have to work on a horribly slow work laptop with a crappy CPU, but even that one has 16GB memory.
Perhaps, but a simpler situation is that the C-suite is focusing on their own financials. But either way, it is clear that that Mozilla is no longer the free browser developer we need.
I'd be surprised if it was caused by adding the DNS record, and not for example you visiting the test site. In any case, sooner or later those attacks will come, so omitting a DNS A record won't cure it.
It is toxic when you ingest >20% of your body weight. Let's just say that that sort of thing won't happen by accident.

(And to point out the obvious, every other liquid apart from drinking water is more toxic when you ingest literal bucketfuls, including harmless household liquids like vinegar, shampoo, ethanol, olive oil.)
Then my compliments on your efforts. When I stumbled upon my own trouble writing a tokenizer, I wondered if the C# compiler had the same issue and maybe you couldn't have {} inside interpolated strings. I wrote my earlier expression with many nested {} expressions to see if your compiler would handle it and I was very happy to see it did.

Although you did deny me an excuse to not have to start over. If the C# team didn't bother, why should I? (Except you did bother.)
TDEE = Total Daily Energy Expenditure
Think about what's going on in the controller running any page access SSD.

You have wear leveling trying to keep things from blowing holes in certain physical pages. In certain cell architectures you can only write to pages that have previously been erased. Once you do write the data to the silicon... it's not really written anyway, because the tables and data structures that map that to the virtual table the host sees on boot also have to be written.

It is entirely reasonable that a system that does 100k honest sustained write I/O per second would come to its knees if you're insistent enough to actually want a full, real, power cycle proof, sync.

To do an actual full sync, where it could come back from power off... requires flushing all of those layers. Nothing is optimized to do that. I'm amazed that it can happen 40 times per second.

It's possible that you could speed this up a bit, but somewhere there's an actual non-wear leveled single page of data that tells the drive how to remap things to be useful... I strongly suspect writing that page frequently would eat the drive life up in somewhere between 0.1 and 20 million cycles. After that point, the drive would be toast.

I agree with the other thread that actually flushing is likely to be a very, very well guarded bit of info.
An outage is a pretty big reputational risk imho - if I'm a startup offering a SaaS and being on Hackernews' front page hugs my site to death, I'm probably losing some potential conversions and have to answer questions about the solidity and longevity of my infra. It's an inconvenience in the moment but erodes trust over time. Unless you're Twitter and your fail whales become memes, being hugged to death is a bad thing.

I agree that the downside of scaling is the risk of running up huge bills. But the safety net to prevent the run-up is literally a monthly flat fee - $5+ $1/WAF rule. Also, you don't have to monitor every alert - just the common ones. If I had to build a comparable alerting system on bare metal, I'd go crazy.

To me, the flexibility of the cloud is worth the trade off.

> WAF will not protect you from...UDP..

Don't think WAF is the tool to protect against UDP layer attacks. Shield (which is available standard) already handles this.

To be clear, I have not had to deal with DDOS attacks. We once had to deal with was someone repeatedly downloading a 1mb gif from our website which led to big egress fees. WAF's rate based rules but an end to that nonsense.
The article is very interesting to read, except the part where his personal life is spotlit. Finally something more nuanced research done on this. In my lifetime I was told pretty contradictory views on how fat metabolism works and what exactly 'exercise' means. You cannot eat the same and hope to loose weight just by exercising more. You would be burning 'cheap calories' first, but the fat tissue stays untouched, as it is more expensive to burn. Changing or regulating diet correctly reduces the intake of those cheap calories, most of them are liquid or in processed food, like beer, alcohol in general, processed sugar, some dairy products, and so on.

Exercise and the right diet complement each other, and according to this guy it makes only sense: exercise forces the metabolism to burn calories for physical activity instead of stress response, and that means lower levels of stress hormones. The correct diet forces the metabolism to burn glucose stored in the muscle tissue first, and then slowly starts using the energy from the regions where the digestive tract is.

So after decades, the right balance between diet and exercise is still the better way to loose weight and be healthier, however this guy says that body burns calories differently than assumed, each activity burns calories, even if it's sitting on a couch all day.
> The challenge with oil is not so much the price but the fact that it keeps changing wildly unpredictably and that these swings seem to be getting more common. Those wilds swings are very damaging to industries that depend on those prices either being high (like shale oil) or low (any company that buys oil or gas in large quantities).

Isn't that the point of futures contracts - to smooth variable prices?
Emoji are fonts. Fonts can be variable
In my case 2 buns with garlic butter. But any pastries will do.
I've seen more sloppy code being kept and built upon, than any code being thrown away.

Once it is sloppy, it does not get easier to make code unsloppy as time goes by. Of course, "not sloppy" does not mean perfect; but it does mean understandable, testable, maintainable and extensible.
If you like these kinds of stories, check out indiehackers.com. I took a lot of inspiration from them, and was part of the reason I made the jump.
Slack is like twitter, if you are scrolling back through the feed bad things are happening.

Have the conversation and put the relevant stuff into the ticket / bug / wiki. If there are FAQ, time to write an FAQ!
Not sure if it is the correct english translation, but in French "being in representation" means that you are not yourself. Instead you behave with social constraints or with a hidden goal in mind.
Doesn't seem to be working that well lately.
Please forgive my ignorance, how is it possible that you lived until your thirties without knowing you have T1D?
Hello, Erlang – Episode 1 – Yuri Zhloba (Wargaming)
For me at least it's not that simple. My weight (healthy to low BMI) has been very stable over many years with vastly different amounts of exercising and quality of eating habits within that period. Fat to muscle ratio does move but total weight is stuck even with long runs of lots of junk food.
HTTP Status Codes – all in a single informative page
Bank balance and cash flow are different, as well, but obviously one has a strong influence on the other. Likewise, airplanes have both altimeters and vertical speed indicators. Your VSI tells you what your altimeter will read in the future.

Sales share is a leading indicator of market share/installed base. And obviously one year doesn’t make a trend, but if such a trend persists, then market share will eventually mirror sales, assuming consistent turnover/upgrade cycles. It’s definitely suggestive and worthy of notice. (Incidentally Apple is a just few percentage points away from market dominance and inviting regulation, which makes that percentage even more interesting.)
> I’ve found Oculus to be a novelty. It’s fun for the first 20 minutes, and after that, it gathers dust in a drawer.

VR headsets likely aren't the answer. Unobtrusive smartglasses may very well be the answer.

Like I wrote in my previous post, Meta is a smart move if AR becomes ubiquitous. This will likely happen if and when smartglasses or something similar become a viable replacement for eye glasses.

If Apple Glasses takes off (who knows), Meta may look like a very prescient decision in a couple of years.
No wifi, no decaf, no bullshit.
Show HN: Replace 't' with 'q' in a Spotify URL to remove personalization
To underscore, I would bet that washing hands frequently, wearing gloves when touching food and masks/hood when working near food is much more important than the difference between wearing a fresh white-collar shirt vs a sweat shirt you change every other day.
Isn’t it mainly to provide more space for ads?
I work at Automattic (makers of P2) and even we don't use it as a replacement for Slack. What P2 replaces for us is all internal email.

In fact, we use Slack quite heavily ourselves, for any real-time/synchronous discussions. P2 is for non-realtime/async discussions, and more or less serves as the "paper of record" for the company.
I got tired of hearing the same songs over and over again in Spotify's auto-generated playlists (e.g. Song Radio), so I made this little service that forwards you to the same playlist but with the songs that an anonymous user sees :)
- The murderer completely seals the room from the outside so that no oxygen can go in, and waits for the victim to suffocate.

- Similar but just prevents the victim coming out long enough for them to die of thirst.

- Murderer comes in with heavy machinery and breaks down the whole building except for the locked room, then lifts the locked room and drops it off a cliff.
> Then Pontzer asks a set of questions designed to boost a student’s stress levels: What’s her dream job, and what exactly is she going to do after graduation?

or

> launches into a time-honored method to boost her blood pressure: He gives her an oral math test.

Anybody else noticed this gem? I would like to see a list of topics like this - for just to be a better conversationalist.

(It reminds me of how people who don't have children (or don't understand children) when meeting a child they don't know often ask it the only thing they vaguely know about every's child life - how is school?)
I haven't had chance to use this yet but it's on my list to use with an AVR. Does anyone have any experience using it, how is it? I really like how it's unit tested and seems fairly well documented and even has github actions setup to build and test which seems to be rare for C libraries on github.
Developers (or perhaps managers) are always coming up with zany and new ways of doing things. It’s good fun, but mostly just that, fun. I hate hearing ad-hoc rationalizations about “team building” or “collaboration” or “synergy”. Call a spade a spade, it’s some made up technique for having a bit of fun. Some people will hate it, some will like it. Stop coating it in bullshit buzzwords. And preferably, don’t force people to play your game if they don’t want to.
> I just took three days completely offline
> A few times (...) I flipped on mobile data to look up an address

Er... Okay, I guess it's more about whether they could control their cravings, and not checking whether offline life is possible anymore? Don't we still have, like, ways to check an address without using internet?
This is the same problem as tinyurl et al.

The answer is to have apps that expand/reveal the destination before _opening_ the destination.
Gentrified Second Life.
> conveniently

For many people it's more convenient to do DNS lookups on nslookup.io than googling the syntax and order of dig arguments, opening a terminal and entering it themselves. Plus, it can be convenient to get an overview of the popular record types, instead of doing 7 dig queries yourself.

> the same info

Nslookup.io provides more info than dig/nslookup CLIs: info about the A/AAAA IPs, logos for hosting providers, parsing DNS records, and more to come ;)

> In any case congratulations for finding a use case!

Thank you!
So the main argument in the article is the claim that your total energy expenditure is more or less constant, and independent of "exercise". In the sense that if you spend 500kcal on running, your body will "not do" something else it would have done otherwise (e.g. stress about stuff) that would have cost 500kcals.

In other words it challenges the idea that if you run today and not tomorrow, your TEE on day 1 will be 500kcal higher than day 2. The claim is that TEE on both days will be the same.

Ok, that is an interesting finding. But this sounds very specific to aerobic exercise.

The article then mentions how they monitored an active indigenous population, and were "surprised" to find out that "when controlled for non-fat body mass this active population had the same TEE as western sedentary populations" (emphasis mine).

Why is this at all surprising. We've known for ages that muscle increase leads to a basal metabolic rate increase.

The article tries hard to give a visual impression that two similarly rotund people (one from fat and one from muscle) would have an equal TEE, but if you dig into the claim, it's exactly the opposite. In order to get that non-fat body mass difference, you need to exercise. Its just that this needs to be anaerobic rather than aerobic.

We also know that obese people have higher BMRs than their thinner counterparts. Now if the claim in this article is true, then it would imply that the increase in BMR in obese people is exclusively due to a parallel increase in muscle. But we know that muscle increases with obesity. So again, not very surprising.

So, the claim "exercise doesnt work" indeed lacks nuance. Particularly in not addressing aerobic vs anaerobic exercise.
It can also cram all that data into only a few square centimeters, which is a godsend in places like packaging, where every square mm is precious.
I saw the "before your tribe lived here" question and realized this quiz wasn't for me, I don't know what people ate 6000 years ago.
Nutritional science is in its own realm of unreliability, because it depends a lot on people self-reporting what they eat, over years and decades.

Things like continuous glucose monitors are starting to proliferate, so the measurements are going to get better and more reliable, but it will still take a lot of time to come with some good long term studies where the self-reporting factor is no longer critical.
Fission is non-competitive only because governments don't want it to be. France's nuclear fleet built in the 60s/70s with more primitive tech has capital/operating costs of 7c/kWh, which is fairly similar to commercial solar or wind in France - and is the cheapest option once you double the cost of the latter to account for extra storage/smart grids/other intermittency handling.

(Not every place is Southern California where there are no clouds and the sun shines all year. Solar is cheap in some places, but not at high latitudes.)
I wonder, did the regular employees see their income go up 1000% in this same timespan?
Would be there menu added into Wikipedia mobile app[0,1,2] for quick access to those databases?

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps

[1] https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.wikipedia/
For many of us, 95% of what we consume today is also user generated content where the creator gets nothing out of the ads and instead all profit goes to another middleman. This notion that people won't create things wihout monetisation is ridiculous.
Sure. It follows immediately that we must then ensure that there aren't unnecessary middlemen involved in payments.

The alternative is that you can't pay your mother rent because a third party (me) has a different political opinion to you.

The banking system is too important to be disconnected from for political reasons, it's about as close to an "off switch" you can get.

You "can't" force the phone company to carry my calls, so maybe they could cut me off and I couldn't speak to my grandma on the other side of the country any more.

Basically we have two options. For a sufficiently important system, we can either decentralize it such that there's no middleman to get in the way (physical cash is an example of this) or we can force the carriers to act neutrally.
> When I tried implementing my own in something like Inkscape, it always uses floats for coordinates, no matter how hard I tried to coax it into a fixed grid or using integer values. With that problem alone, you will never be able to get a compact path.

It's not obvious, but for that you have to save as-> Optimized SVG instead of saving as regular SVG.
Agreed, it is very important to bring this up on the mailing list. It might also be plausible to make curl look like Chrome if curl had BoringSSL support.
An AWS specific solution would be to use Systems Manager Sessions Manager to provide access into the instances and disallow all public access to the instances. No SSH. Identity is provided by IAM. As long as you use AWS cli and have configured it to login with your IAM creds, you can simply get a session via SSM. Added bonus is the ability to easily get an audit log in cloudwatch/S3. And no SSH keys/Linux user accounts to manage.

We use this for all our bastion hosts.
A tomahawk can carry 450kg of conventional explosives or up to 150kt nuclear warhead.

Compare that to a patriot which has a different purpose and was optimized to carry almost nothing.

One can wipe out a large area, the other is like a large arrow... might not even penetrate a tanks armor?
Since the .com domain would be gone, it would most likely be Atomcly
My brother-in-law is even thinner than you. He can eat a lot of stuff.

He also has Crohn's disease. I don't want to say that you have, too, but perhaps your digestive system isn't completely OK. That may include composition of your microbiome. Have you ever seen any change after taking probiotics?
No need to smear Europe with their high fructose corn syrup. There are plenty of empty calories on the table in Europe, but they are typically made in a kitchen and not in a factory.