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They are unit of energy and that is correct. But they are not the unit of energy that cells use, they use ATP that is created from ketones, fatty-acids, glucose and oxygen[0]

Measuring food through calories, which are derived from burning food is therefor quite old technology, it's from 1800 when steam engines where main way of powering the western world.

As a thought example to push CICO model to it's end:
For example we can't eat coal, but it's very calorie dense. According to CICO model we should be able to eat just little bit of coal, and drink tiny amount of fuel. So that would also suggest there is more to the story of nutrition then CICO.

Mammals are not as simple as factory machines.

For example CICO would suggest to lose weight to eat 500 calories less then normal, as average that would be 2500 for men.
But if we would rephrase that: In order to lose weight eat 1/5 less then normal.
Then that would have the same effect, that is issue with calories they tell a story about food but it's not the full story.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle
Obviously no, they shouldn't. You're not going to be able to keep that 6+ figure salary in a world where layoffs are illegal.
Have you tried threats and public humiliation?

"ATTN ALL employees: Dave Smith ignored security training and was phished into installing malware. He is now fired because he was an idiot."
Do they? The rest of the world has all kinds of Insane tax rates.

I think the US Taxation is absurdly high and I pay in total about 25% to the government, many parts of the work 40-60% is common (when you factor all taxation), and that to me is out right theft.
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Yeah. If you're saying 'often' then people who work out and/or train people a lot should have a decent likelihood of seeing it.

I know it happens because I've read articles of it happening. But the way people bring it up any time a fitness discussion occurs is a meme at this point.
Luckily, any degradation can all be predicted ahead of time.

A 60kwh car battery might cost $10k, and allow 2000 charge cycles. So each kwh cycled into and out of the battery costs 8 cents.

So a smart algorithm can decide it's worth draining the battery back into the grid if the profit to be made is more than 8 cents.

Buuuut... Delaying charging till later is free. So another car owner's car might see on the futures market that delaying charging starting from 6pm till 11pm might save a few cents.

Obviously that means it's most economically efficient for every owner to do grid balancing merely by smartly delaying charges - and in turn price fluctuations will rarely exceed 8 cents.

The component that is missing to make this happen is cars which have code to automate this process, and markets in place that have API's to let the car buy and sell energy, and futures in energy, by the kwh. Users need not understand how it works - they just tick the tickbox which says 'charge and discharge smartly to minimize electricity costs'.

Today, those markets are typically only open to big players, cars don't have a tickbox, and wall chargers typically won't let a car put power into the grid.
As someone who is not that great at creating art, I like it. It enables me to build more things than I could before. I don't find it much different than a website builder is for people who lack those skills.

Thinking more deeply, I find that AI art has no real value to me, though. I wouldn't hang it on my walls or hope it survives for my kids. If I had written the algorithms that power the model, then I'd feel like more of a stakeholder and maybe I would see the output as something with long term value. To me it feels more like fast food. It fills the void, but it's nothing special-- it's disposable 'art'. But maybe that's just me.
I use glider daily and i wish it was the defacto/official app for HN

Really appreciate Glider.
If only the CSS WG had gone away ...

Would've been the last thing WWW Inc. has influence over on the web.

And even that has been a joke (of the consider-your-carreer-choices variety) from the beginning, while today it's just annoying holding on for job security.

At least their complaining about being financially dependent on Google and being part of the web standard circus preventing real independent standardization makes for an entertaining read lately [1] if you had any doubt Google are the ones to call the shots.

[1]: https://mastodon.social/@robin/109524929231432913
This has nothing to do with ASLR and stack canaries.. Log4jshell wasn’t a buffer overflow exploit, it was the result of yet another dumb idea, adding remote jndi loading capability into the logging framework.

You can assume any input to your program will be manipulated by an attacker. This implies if you use a non memory safe language you’ll need to make sure there is no way the user can input enough data to overflow your buffer, which will corrupt your memory, and get it right 100% of the time. If you’re building a logging framework it’s extremely likely people will be logging some sort of information from the outside, so not a great idea to execute it as code. Similarly for sql injections, if you simply use prepared statements you remove a whole class of problems. Knowing an attacker will probably inject some garbage into the input of your program, and assuming user input is malicious, is a basic principle you can use to design better systems. I believe this is what the author meant by his statement.
Because the threat of firing and the driving down of your self worth as a worker is core to (American style) capitalism. Your fear for your job or the prospect of having to find another one makes you take suboptimal economic positions, the arbitrage of which keeps the gears of capital spinning.

We couldn’t have the workers collectively realizing their worth now, could we? The inmates would be running the asylum.
Maybe my experience is different to the author’s but I’ve encountered lots of unmaintainable incoherent mess and extremely little over-designed works of art.

As such the message is very unfcomfortable. It’s fundamentally saying, don’t prematurely optimise, prematurely design layers of abstraction, which is correct, but I’m not sure our industry needs to be encouraged to smash stuff together and to hell with the consequences really.
Show HN: A Chrome Extension to Manipulate Twitter Feature Flags
Hi all, I've found a way to enable Twitter features hidden behind feature flags and built a chrome extension around it.

If you decide to try it, here are some interesting feature flags:
"longform_notetweets_composition_without_claims_enabled" and "longform_notetweets_consumption_enabled"
- allows to write/read long tweets (over 280 characters)
"web_video_playback_rate_enabled" - adds setting for a playback speed in video player
"tweet_awards_web_coin_purchase_enabled" - adds new menu for twitter coins (but you can't buy them yet)

There are much more feature flags and I haven't tested them all yet.
Please let me know what you think!
Genuinely interesting, my employer's primary business is acquiring companies, typically we do not subsume them and expect them to adopt our systems/products, we just support their existing and offer alternatives that will ultimately be cheaper because we have more clout when it comes to contract/licensing negotiation.

The downside is the enormous list of products the support team must familiarise themselves with.
I wouldn’t mind if a separated genre springs up, labeled AI generated or such. The problem I have is as you said, I don’t want cheap content masqerading as human made. Human content can be cheap too but automating that away would send a torrent of trash upon us to sift through
$0.11/KwH is super doable. Keep in mind that discharging is only necessary and profitable during peak demand, when prices are much higher than that. $0.50/KwH is far from uncommon. E.g. today energy peaks at €0.28/KwH in my area. It dipped at €0.17 so it would've already broke even.
Exactly the same in Japan; moreover, many e-commerce sites reject foreign credit cards, even those of international brands (Visa/MasterCard).

What I heard was that payment providers charge higher fees for allowing foreign cards, so website owners (who focus on domestic business anyways) just won't bother.
At this point you should assume you're breached. If they aren't going to give you the details, you should assume the worst.

I have asked all of my team to change their passwords. We use LastPass via our parent company and will be switching off LastPass soon for our team. LastPass never would've been my choice, it was made before I joined.

But assume you're breached, change it all now, and ideally you're not going to stay with LastPass. Their communication sucks, which is just icing on the cake in this entire situation.
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It's a microkernel-based capability-based object-oriented operating system. They're trying to make commercially viable what is essentially a research project.
How the video game Fallout became a backdrop for live Shakespeare shows
Athletes are not training less at higher intensities overall. The dominant paradigm is polarized training - huge amounts of low intensity with small amounts of high intensity mixed in.

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/po...
Thank you for the recommendation. I watched it and it answered some questions I had.
This is one of the single most comprehensively intense demo projects I've ever seen. I did a multi day AWS Data Lab for work once and it wasn't this comprehensive.
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I dont think simply putting on the receipt is a solution, because people internalize pricing and make the choice to buy before the transaction. it would only work if the before Tax and After Tax price was displayed before purchase.

I would be agreed if they displayed/advertised both. but Only displaying / advertising the final post tax price and then itemizing it on the receipt does not change the psychology of the issue where by people will internalize the final price and not fully understand the tax component.

In the same way people are complaining about not being able to understand the final price if it not displayed
Several years ago, I worked on an incident response for an incident that was detected and stopped.

Tl;dr, a targeted phishing email was the catalyst for the whole thing. The various systems that detect these thing effectively blocked it ~97/100 times. One click was all it took. The user who clicked had a bad feeling and used a blame-free and convenient reporting mechanism to report it.

That doesn’t mean that tools and training are useless. As a defender in any context, defense has to be multilayered and flexible as circumstances change. In IT, sports or warfare, it’s the same process or funnel.

The scenario you described likely would have been detected by an EDR tool, or by log analysis if there was a process to do that. Declaring “shitshow” is accepting a bad outcome. Unfortunately as the value of compromising a company has gone up, the opponents have leveled up, and defenders need to as well.
Sometimes research is hard to scale. What would you do differently?

Build variations of devices ahead of outcome, so that additional experiments can be executed almost in parallel?

Prioritize the research equipment delivery on a planetwide level?

Get the state to sponsorthose cushy wages and pensions nuclear scientists had, back in the 70s?
Wonder if LTFS satisfies all needs for LTO tapes. It seems to be the only FS that storage medium currently has.

There's also all sorts of FSes that aren't based on hardware, like eCryptFS/EncFS for encrypted directories, s3fs for using AWS S3 as an FS, sshfs for remotely mounting a directory from another machine, btfs for mounting a bittorrent as an FS. The number of things that can be done as an FS seems almost boundless.
Battery lifespan in 'cycles' is kinda simplifying things too much.

Most batteries, if charged and discharged slowly, in the right temperature range, and while keeping the charge between 40 and 60% capacity, get far higher lifetime than the advertised 'cycles' number.

The damage and degradation happens mostly near 0%, near 100%, when charging/discharging fast, and when excessively cold or hot.

Cell balancing becomes less important when you're not nearly full or empty, and balancing wastes quite a lot of energy - making the battery more efficient when used between 40-60% too.
It's a well known fact that cars stay parked for over 90% of the time, so this idea has been floating around for a while. The wear and tear issue is only a concern if nothing changes in the way we currently charge for electricity, e.g. a fixed price that gets adjusted from time to time. But I don't think we will -- even today we have more and more providers that charge with prices fluctuating hourly to reflect wholesale market prices. Thus if you can charge dirt cheap and sell it later for a large multiple more, you have a big incentive to do that. With the rise of renewables that basically looks unstoppable this will become a reality a lot quicker than I think a lot of people anticipate.
When will there be a similar tool that allows you to even add a generated video interview with the "author" of the book?
The point is to allow oneself to use a different password for each website, and strong ones at that. The time required to memorise a large number of strong passwords is significant, and a password manager alleviates that.
My point is the more this is talked about the more likely that companies will increase big brother tooling for remote staff be it contractors or employees.
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the specificity of running close to a race pace marathon every week

Suspect that this is also for neurological reasons
Zapatos offers something similar here: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
That is a very pretty small PC case!

Talking about small cases, what's the smallest case anyone has gotten away with housing 2x RTX 3090 with adequate cooling?
> I don't know how many of you sign in to multiple tenants in the console, but it generally involves buying a new computer.

This made me laugh out loud. I'm working in a multi-tenant, multi-subscription environment with Azure AD just now. MS force you to use 2FA and I picked the wrong 2FA app.

Now it's completely and utterly comical trying to work out which generated 2FA auth code I need to key in when auth'ing in Visual Studio because there are absolutely no visual cues as to which subscription it's trying to authenticate to. You can't tell VS that "I'm only interested in auth'ing to this particular subscription". Now it prompts me for almost every subscription we use and it's a whack-a-mole experience. They really need to fix the UI/UX in VS for this.

Of course when it comes to mandatory password change time I have to go through this pain all over again.
An intuitive counterexample to the Axiom of Choice: followup
I wasn’t a fan of their Oraclesque sales techniques. They have a lot of customers waiting for them to fail.
The only problem I have with Syncthing is how it deals with conflicting updates... The interface make it difficult to see which file is conflicting. Is it better with Unison?

+1 for keepassXC
It’s not that simple, although it may seem that way for some people.

Twice I have been on very extreme calorie counting regimens for months at a time combined with substantial weight lifting and cardio.

Both times I have observed that if I reduce calories the first thing that happens is I start to feel colder in the same environments. My body adjusts to my new caloric intake by reducing my metabolic rate it seems.

I learned about the idea of a “set point” fifteen years ago and I believe it’s related to what I’ve observed.

I have friends who can do something as simple as cutting out a morning cappuccino and they lose weight as a result. If I do that, there is no measurable difference unless I cut much deeper and substantially increase activity at the same time. Then the weight comes off for a bit and then plateaus again, sometimes for weeks or until I make another adjustment.

One of the times I went through this weight loss regimen I had an air displacement plethysmograph near the end of the weight loss that concluded I had 178lbs lean body mass. I had likely bulked up a little through all the weightlifting I was doing but have always had a fair bit of muscle so you might expect my resting calorie burn to be very stable and for small adjustments in calories to not impact resting metabolic rate, but that’s not what I observed in practice.
oh my sweet summer child...
The alternative right now is to use the same password everywhere. That's even worse.

If one site is breached you have to go change your password everywhere. By using a password manager if one site is breached you just have to change that one password for that site. Using the same password everywhere is a real concern that should be avoided at all costs.

LastPass's breach is the exception to the rule. Generally speaking password managers have had a far better go of things than LastPass has.

By far, using a quality (LastPass is not one of them and frankly never has been) password manager is likely going to be the most secure thing that any average user uses every day.

This breach is much the same as the typical media stuff, hyperbole does no one any good. One bad thing happens and the sky is falling (hyperbole). No, the sky is falling for that app (LastPass) but not for every password manager. You have two really good options: Bitwarden and 1Password. I, personally, wouldn't touch any others that are cloud based. Local password managers are another matter, but they're simply a non-option for me and I'm not willing to give up the convenience, or the administration abilities that come with it in a business environment.
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People used to throw their teabags in the compost, but now it seems that they've started adding a plastic mesh around some teabags (to increase the strength I guess?) so now it's basically a micro-plastics bomb.
> how social media platforms are actually used

This is a social media platform, right?

As someone who had a white father in his family who was in post in this region, I know firsthand the deep hatred of the Tutsi ethnicity that there was among many colonizers at that time, most of them from Belgium and their legacy today through various moralizing NGOs.
A few questions:

* What genre?

* By "hanging" do you mean just a cliffhanger where there's no full resolution of the conflict, or like the book ends abruptly with no semblance of a climax or conclusion?

* Are these self-published books? How many other books do the authors have?

Things that come to mind: Cliffhangers are more acceptable in some genres than others. Aside from a genuine cliffhanger, self-published authors often rush through the ending, where they just want to get the book done, and the conclusion ends up being very unsatisfying because they're just not very good at finishing that arc in a way that hits the expected beats for the genre (I've done this, unfortunately).

Having said that it HAS been an issue that authors' books are pirated and republished under a different name, with different covers, and identical contents. I have heard of instances of these scammers taking a long full length book and splitting it into two, republishing the pirated copy as multiple installments. I sort of doubt this is what happened here since I don't know why they'd have book two on preorder in that case (vs just publishing it for someone to buy right away), but who knows.
> In some ways Mozilla achieved the impossible: a truly cross platform, compatible desktop application infrastructure that is powerful and rich. It can play video, show images and play sound and do 3D graphics. Unfortunately the market doesn't value those things, it thinks of them as dated. Firefox market share where it is.

The market does value the above, it just prefers Electron instead of whatever Mozilla's version is (XULRunner?).
Except there are at least 12 previous posts of this article. It was only posted once the year it came out, but it had a real renaissance about 6 years ago for some reason.
Funnily, QueryStorm uses VSTO behind the scenes: the IDE component is a VSTO addin.
But if that limitation is repetitive to the point of investing in infrastructure to use EVs, then some other large-scale investor will close that arbitrage opportunity.

Basically, the next-day / week energy markets, where EV owners can compete, will be saturated by grid-scale battery operators. Renewables will leave large gaps for seasonal energy needs - for example two weeks of winter with no sun and no wind - but EVs cannot help there. So some spin on-demand non-renewables will need to cover that (i.e., the current main providers, after becoming too expensive to run due to carbon pricing).
As long as Azure isn't down.
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> 106 USD per MWh hour, which is more than most generation sources

Minute by minute electricity prices vary really widely. It isn't unusual for prices to spike up 10x briefly at peak times.

Most power stations have too high a capital cost to only run 2% of the time... whereas your tesla battery has no capital cost, so using it to power the grid 2% of the time when the prices are sky-high is very attractive.
Can't edit any more, but I meant "all open tabs."
F# is installed by default with Visual Studio, and the tooling is pretty good. I think it hardly is second class citizen? Not promoted nearly as much as C# for sure.

AFAIK F# is on quite solid foundation, as there is the F# foundation that would keep ball rolling, so to speak, were Microsoft to renounce the language.

I have no idea what the marketshare is though. On Tiobe (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index) it seems to be nearly on par wit Scala and much more popular than Haskell or Ocaml.
I admit I don't know much about power grids, but I heard that they are structured in a lot of smaller zones, so if there is a local drop in the generation due to accident then probably only close EVs will be discharged, but by a lot, to compensate.
You can’t kill the thermostat project if the thermostats were installed in the offices and C-level exec’s houses.
The Right to Be Lazy
Food is essential to our survival. No matter how much effort you put into making food, you have to make something to eat or you buy food that is cooked by someone else. So making it more accessible for people who don't have time, money or necessary skills has completely no downsides.

Art is just something we do and consume for fun. We don't need to make art more efficient, because there is already too much art to consume in a lifetime. Also there is no requirement to consume as much art as possible. And automating art making means that there will be even more average art that anyone interested will have to sift through to find something nice.

Overall all of this effort could be put into automating something that will make everyday life easier, like if you want to make art more accessible then for example automate translations so we can read books or watch movies that we previously couldn't.
Using Subtasks vs Checklists in Jira
> 3. Malicious software is everywhere. Every time I install a package some stranger wrote on npm or Cargo, I implicitly give it full access to all my data and my entire network.

This particular case wouldn't really be prevented by an Android/iOS-type security model, I think? That package will be part of the program you're writing, and chances are that program requires more than the bare-minimum access.

That said, it's not extraordinarily difficult to lock this down, if you really want to. Docker is common, but more traditional tools work as well (e.g. running your program as its own user, maybe in a chroot), and/or using cgroups directly.

This applies even more with things like VSCode extensions, which typically run inside the VSCode process, and without filesystem access VSCode is pretty useless.