skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you please share some details? What did you eat? Do you think it is possible to reverse it, even if the person was diabetic for a long time?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861123

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15871960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15857461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855076
Google Jason Fung, he's a former urologist who's specialised in diabetes type 2 through fasting.
In a way I absolutely think this is true, but it is more the way we consume media now than our basic values changing.

Previously I had a few sites that I visited daily to read tech news. Media properties where writers tried to keep a constant supply of entertaining and illuminating articles that I give attention and focus to, even if superficially not interesting, because I have trust that it's worth my time.

Now I instead rely upon social news and even Facebook feeds to supply the more interesting articles, filtered and crowd "curated". In that gaudy world, you need to show your legs and hoot and holler to get attention. So we end up with this sort of media. We see the same thing with blogs where many of us abandoned subscriptions and readers and just assume that the good content will percolate into our view.

I don't think I'm alone in this behavior, and it has been negative to the whole.
Your dna is the hand in this metaphor.
Was there really no research before this that showed that losing weight was beneficial for sufferers of Type II diabetes?
AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero are different than Alpha Zero.
Kind of like old houses with milk and coal delivery hatches?
I read about one of Arabic countries - I don't remember if it was the Emirates or Saudi Arabia, but one of the big names. The newspaper article claimed milkmen in that country walk into your house, take money lying on your fridge, leave the change, put milk into your fridge, walk out. You typically leave your house unlocked, the article claimed.

That's a problem the country doesn't have.
Could run into the same issue there as well. The only reserved tlds are:

.localhost
.example
.invalid
.test

The rest are up for grabs.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why .test would make the list and not .dev (or some equivalent) but it is what it is.
Firefox's userspace is webpages, not extensions. Extensions before 57 are like out-of-tree kernel modules. Extensions after 57 are a lot more like userspace, though!
There’s a lot less dangers involved in double-delivering Whatsapp messages, delivering them out of order, etc. Less constraints=easier optimizations.
I just did. I hope others do as well.
True but if you are running a ponzi and you have enough money coming in then you can handle redemptions if you need to.
I think it's a case of "if I don't do it, someone else will". And I don't mean that in the (fallacious) sense of "it's ok that I do bad things, because if I don't, someone else will". I think it's reasonable to look at future progress, recognize that certain things are going to happen regardless of whether or not you're involved, and then make the decision to get involved (if you have the resources to do so) in order to shape how it happens.
Surprisingly few problems. Wife has been doing 80k a day for the past few years and have help tremendously with her auto immune decease.

If you're going to do high doses, stay away from anything with significant amount of calcium in your food (dairy, nuts etc)
Growing mini-brains in a dish
I've always been partial to 'restclient-mode': https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

So nice to capture a flow of commands and notes in a single plain text file
Ask HN: P2P crypto exchange - possible?
1. There's a huge rise of bitcoin and more people getting into cryptocurrencies.

2. As for now the only(?) way to purchase coins is using an exchange.

3. to purchase your first coin you have to pay with fiat money.

4. Few exchanges accept fiat money and charge crazy fees for it.

My question is - can we skip the middle man and create p2p exchange? the main issue i have so far:
- how to charge fiat money and where to store it (escrow account)?
Similar things have already been happening in Asian countries for years... e.g. https://kotaku.com/in-china-women-hired-to-motivate-computer...
From the article:

> "A radical low-calorie diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, even six years into the disease, a new study has found."
I don't have any experience in this area, but I imagine that fintech is a bit different than messaging. It's not the amount of data, but the nature of the data.

I'd imagine you can't use scaling tricks like eventual consistency or simple sharding here. Traders are going to be pissed if their most up to date information from the exchange is a second behind what they can see.

It's already at the point where they have a line in their FAQ for the GDAX API that tells people where to colocate from for the lowest latency.

And all of that data needs to be stored damn-near indefinitely, and securely. And integrated with traditional financial systems.

I'd love to see some information on what it actually takes, as i'm just guessing here, but seeing as there aren't any bitcoin exchanges that can seem to keep the servers running smoothly during spikes, i'm guessing it's not a trivial problem to solve.
What property does Bitcoin have that doesn't have a more efficient solution?

Between proof-of-stake solutions and the traditional financial system, as far as I know Bitcoin doesn't solve anything more efficiently, from transaction processing rate to distributed consensus.
The source code link is buried on their website.

https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia
Couldn't you break Bitcoin with a quantum computer?
You just had to do it, didn't you?

Every time you say, "yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater," a civil rights lawyer is forced to kick a puppy.
Five Famous International Celebrities of Yesteryear Who Born and Lived in India
" The whole point is to celebrate with the employees and their families and recognize the hard work everyone has put in over the year. "

Not really, that's more a 'New Years' thing.

Christmas 'party' is just really a Christmas season gathering.

It really isn't even a party.

Imagine 100 years ago, your grandad owns a printing press in town. December 20th he brings in Egg Nog, a cake, everyone stops working. Maybe a local musician sings a few songs. Maybe some people drink a little too much.

Or maybe he pays for a nice dinner at the local restaurant and people show up and 'give thanks'. Light a candle.

That's it.

We are so 'de-culturalized' in North America we don't even know how to do something normal.

Of course a 'holiday party' could technically be anything people want it to be, but there's no reason to go to this level.

When in doubt: just go out for dinner. :)
Because the "bloated bureaucracy" is providing vital services to its citizenry, boosting the state's economy and underlying workforce, and therefore boosting the taxes they ultimately pay, hence the fact of NY/CA taxpayers paying far more into federal government than they take out. Look no further than Kansas to see what happens to a state when you cut all local taxes, now its citizens are even more reliant on the federal government.
> well the door service is helpful - if you have two doors. one front door locked via the amazon lock and a second door - locked regulary. i.e. most smaller aparatment buildings.

So then not just have a box where you can throw parcels in? If you have the second door locked then none of the amazon services envisioned apply.
Not sure if it solves your problem but `source(file, chdir = TRUE)` can be useful.
Well let me know when you can created a distributed network where more than 30% of nodes can fail without a PoW algo. Some are in development of course but until Satoshi did it, 30% was the limit, now we're at 51%
I reference the NANPA area code DB (which is free on their website); LERG would be nice but that would make it non-free/offline.
I love that statement!
I understand what you're saying. It's not fair to compare Firefox's API to UNIX userspace. Fair point. But that doesn't really change my argument.
I actually don't see much of a problem. These models are hired to have a chat with nerds, and the nerds are actually paid (directly and indirectly) to talk to them. Everyone is paid to be at that party and look reasonably good for the appearance of a good time. Most 'nerds' there don't enjoy being there either, they do it because they are professionals... like the models they are mingling with...?

Any issue there? I mean, I rather enjoy talking to a model (female, or male in fact) -- it's not a business I understand, they are professionals with possibly quite interesting lifestyles and stories. Wildly different from the 'colleague' grade. I used to hang out with ballet dancers in a different lifetime, it was fascinating.

Likewise, it's entirely possibly that models will be happy to work on their acting skills and so on to play that game. Perhaps the nerds can take a clue or two...

It's not a strip club, it's no more degrading for the models as it is to the employees, who still have to put up and suck up to their managements -sometime abusive, in more subtle ways- for the sake of appearance (just not physical), so how different is it?

Oh and remember, some models also like parties. In the wild days of the 90's at computer shows, most 'parties' ended up in 'afters' with a whole bunch of the show models, because if you throw a bunch of (then) young people from different backgrounds together with a corporate credit card, stuff is going to happen, after business hours.
Not dead at all. Microsoft has been using it to bring Obj-C to Windows. https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC
Awesome :).

Something else to keep in mind that while it's nice to have the borrow-checker validate everything it's okay to step around it if you've got a case that's gnarly and you know is valid. I've had some C callback stuff where I run into that occasionally, I can't encode the lifetime semantics to the calling function so I have to side-step it.

In that case things like RefCell(which are separate from (A)Rc/Box) are a great "escape hatch".

Obviously you should try and keep it to a minimum but don't let it be a complete roadblock.
Probably something like Optifast. Kevin Smith (the filmmaker) dropped a ton of weight on it, and it was like 850 calories per day with weekly doctor checkins.
You added the word "immediately", making that a straw man. I did not say they disclose immediately. Their policy is still full disclosure, including working proof-of-concept exploit code, even when the vulnerability is unpatchable and millions are affected. Ask Microsoft and Apple about the times they went beyond 90 days.

Furthermore, that deadline is 7 days if they are aware of active exploitation.

DJB is famous for his full disclosure with no advanced warning stance.

The rest of your post is false. That is your opinion, and people disagree. I'm going to guess you have not personally spoken with folks from project zero. I have spoken with some of them. And trust me, they would not agree with your statement. A few of them even feel strongly that their timelines are far too generous. I also understand their reasoning, and it has nothing to do with ego or publicity, and everything to do with concern for users.

They do not give a shit about credit beyond believing that it is proper to cite the authors of any work. That isn't the case for everyone finding bugs, but people on that team lost the novelty of having their name on bug reports long ago.
They should really let me charge up my account by $10 and then take it out of that until it gets below $1 and do it again etc.
I had good experience arbitrating with AT&T over a missing credit for an old phone I sent in when upgrading. They didnt know where the phone was even though tracking showed they received it, and they werent giving me a credit. I tried to escalate and speak to more and more agents but ultimately I sent a letter to their legal department with a Request For Arbitration form. A paralegal from their legal department contacted me and offered me a good sum of money shortly after. Really was a smooth process..
You wont be able to write messages while blocked on the read in this scenario.
As you note, the difficulty adjusts based on the amount of computational power being used.

However, there's a really fun corner case failure mode. The difficulty is supposed to adjust about once every two weeks to make for a roughly 10 minute interval between blocks. If more power is added to the network such that the interval is, say, 9 minutes, then when the next adjustment hits, the difficulty will be bumped up by 11%.

But! That "every two weeks" thing is based on the block interval. The actual adjustment period is 2016 blocks. When blocks are mined every 10 minutes, that works out to two weeks. If they're mined faster, the network adjusts faster. If they're mined slower, the network adjusts slower.

When the changes in hash rate are slow, this is fine. But what happens if there's a sudden massive change in the hash rate? Like, what happens if the hash rate somehow changes by a factor of a thousand in a brief period?

If it goes up by a factor of a thousand, then the network will start mining blocks roughly every 0.6 seconds. Within about 20 minutes, the 2016 block interval will hit and the difficulty will also go up by a factor of 1000, then everything continues as usual. No problem.

The problem is if the hash rate goes down by a factor of a thousand. Then the network will start mining blocks roughly once a week. The difficulty will readjust to bring that back down to 10 minutes... eventually. But the interval to the next readjustment is measured in blocks! Let's say you're halfway through the adjustment period when this crash happens, so you have 1008 blocks to go before the next adjustment. That would have taken about a week, but now it will take about twenty years! Unless you can get the hash rate back up substantially, the network will be in extreme slow mode for a long time.
Kind of related: it's fun as a Type 1 Diabetic when people tell me that I should be able to manage my disease with just diet. Or when they get upset because I eat a bowl of ice cream or something (even though I bolused properly for the carbs).

It's really unfortunate that T1 and T2 diabetes have the same name, since they're completely different diseases that just happen to share some symptoms.
Add in all the costs of the Bitcoin infrastructure to Bitcoin's usage, too - exchanges and so on. And then you still have an instrument so unstable that you can't actually buy anything with it; Steam discontinued BTC purchasing recently because the system is unusable for retail. So you still need that fiat money infrastructure to, you know, pay for anything.
This isn't a radical diet. This is our natural diet.

Carbs dissolve digest sugar and are unnecessary for human metabolism. If you stop poisoning yourself, you will find your health rebounds.
This reminds me that we had a cat that developed diabetes. Besides the usual treatment, we changed the cat's diet "radically". Eventually the cat no longer required insulin shots, i.e. it was "cured". I remarked to my wife at the time that maybe the reason T2 diabetes is considered incurable is that it's all but impossible to get humans to radically change their diet.
They may seem a little faddish sounding, but Joel Fuhrman has several books written for a popular audience on dietary interventions for a variety of health conditions, diabetes and heart disease among them. Eat for Life was his first book, and then he wrote The End of Diabetes. Both books lay out a fairly restrictive diet plan for improving health. His patients come of medications quite quickly and he provides anecdotal stories of several patients who have had long term conditions that were able to reverse the problems through diet.
Thats a pretty insightful article - I has always assumed that Patrons that could live off Patreon were concentrated at the top, but I never realized just how few of them there were. It's soured me a bit on Patreon, especially as it garners more comparisons to YouTube's ad related model. To acheive minimum wage on YouTube, you have to earn between 300,000 - 1,000,000 views per month (depending on how much the algorithm likes you). Comparing some of my favorite YouTubers to the data on Graphtreon, it seems to me YouTube is still more lucrative while Patrion does contribute a non-negligible amount of money.
Not to mention the actual security of locks. People are discussing this functionality as if standard doors and locks are strong enough to keep intruders out. No, they keep honest people out; a real intruder can do things like open or break a window, pick a lock (or use a bump key), or kick in the door. Those are all a lot easier than hacking your fancy IoT locks and jamming Wi-Fi.
Stripe is on Ruby and Mongo and they seem to be doing OK.
But what did you actually eat?
Well, the problem is solved. People just don't want to take enough ownership over their health to actually do it.
"but for the misogynistic dynamic"

Male appreciation of female company is utterly and absolutely in not 'misogynistic'.

Not only that - it's also very normal, and frankly good.

If people are treated as sexual objects, then you can complain.
I've read suggestions that it's possible for the hashrate to drop so fast that the difficulty doesn't keep up, and the chain freezes.

http://bitcoinandtheblockchain.blogspot.com/2017/08/chain-de...

https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-close-did-bitcoin-get-to-...
Neither Chess or Go are solved.

Checkers is solved.
Alt coins that don't waste as much energy solve all the same problems. Bitcoin the first of a new breed, but that just means it's unlikely for the first implementation to win.
Let me add a bit of info for you that is the missing piece of the puzzle:

Previously: Patreon made 0.05.

Soon: Patreon makes 0.104
Medium: Is it any good other than to let out random nonsensical mind farts?
Extensions can use some APIs that are not available to web apps (but not all of the ones that Chrome Apps could use), and Web App + Extension is one of the Google recommended migration paths for Chrome Apps that use functionality beyond that available to pure web apps.
"X is not bad because Y is worse" is an ethically bankrupt approach to values clarification.
> If Bitcoin were to replace the entire financial sector, sure, it would be worth the energy expenditure.

Except in that case its energy expenditure would increase a thousandfold if not more.
> if you name some of the more efficient alternatives to bitcoin, I'll tell you which problems they're failing to solve.

This. Nothing except prof-of-work generates inherent value. All those other proof-ofs are flawed.
True, but I think that the results of such a "weak intelligence explosion" (where the linear/sublinear scaling case would be a "strong intelligence explosion"), while still remarkable, would fall far short of some of the expectations placed on general AI by the singularity / superintelligence crowd. For the sake of argument, extrapolating from our current energy consumption using a (simplistic) linear model and some rough back of the envelope calculations, the intelligence required to harness the total energy output of the sun would be 40 trillion times the aggregate intelligence of the entire human species today. Several hundred times just isn't going to cut it. Now, if our ability to harness energy increases exponentially with intelligence, then maybe it could work, but that's just an assumption, and, given that there are hard physical limits on the efficiency of energy generation due to thermodynamics, seems very unlikely.
Yes they can check some of your vitamin levels with a periodic blood test.
> you know during medieval times and the victorian age there were guilds and they constrained the number of new apprentices yearly in order to bolster their own salaries

You mean like doctors in 2017?
Thiel is... an interesting individual. I'd recommend taking anything he says with a grain of salt. Look at what he does instead.
I tried Insomnia a few days ago after Postman crashed over an exceptionally large response I was receiving. Insomnia was able to give me the full response after providing a warning about its size.
Postman has been around a while so I assume they have a richer feature set, but was glad to see Insomnia handle this.
> They don't want to fix it

Bullshit. They want to solve it in a way that doesn't involve hard behavioural (exercise, dieting) or industrial changes (nutritional) for the average person. A very rational pursuit given the obvious difficulty in the other factors being slow changing.

There is nothing wrong with offering medication and personal health analysis tools (blood glucose level monitors) which help manage an illness which affects a huge percentage of Americans.

That doesn't mean they are actively making diabetes a widespread condition.
What kind of currency is measured in market cap? Isn't that a chicken-egg problem?
I think this calculator is counting "State/Local Income Taxes" as a credit instead of a deduction. Input a salary of $60,000 and a $6300 deduction into "State/Local Income Taxes".

$6300 was the single filer standard deduction amount from 2016. It shows different outputs when toggling between itemized and standard deduction.
But you didn't reach arbitration? Somebody from the legal department thought the best way to avoid legal risk was to give you money, which is how they avoided the possibly more risky legal process.
But consuming more electricity would produce more bitcoin.

The 2 are pretty much linked for each "generation" of miner.

So in order to continue spending $27 million per day at the cheaper electricity rate, they would need to buy more miners, which would produce more bitcoin, which means more profit.

So their whole incentive is based around the price of electricity, and the cheaper they can get it for, the more money they are going to make.
Not only does it not commodify women, you're assumption that men will treat them as objects is possibly bigoted.

Men having polite conversations with women is 'wrong' only in a dystopian future.

I personally think it's a little ridiculous and would not want to attend, nor would I put together a party like that, but it's a matter of social taste, not morality.
I was happily unemployed for a while, living off the app income for about 15 months.

However, I just joined an AI startup two months ago, not out of necessity, but because I found their idea super interesting and had the chance. (Also, the marginal value for a day off wasn't that high anymore.)
I'm not sure you're aware of the real numbers?

The amount of energy used for heating and cooling is extremely huge. Bitcoin is probably 0.0x% of that amount.

Internet is 2% of the whole CO2 emissions, heating and cooling is more than 30%. The industry pollution of China is so big you can't see their impact on CO2 emissions from their cars or their agriculture.

The estimates for Bitcoin, as much as they sound big, they really are not.

Cost in energy per transaction can only fall down with TPS increase (which is something lightning network, or bigger blocksize can do).
I think the headline is accurate because that is indeed what the study shows, since it compared a control group to a group on a very low calorie diet.

But I'd really like to know if this is any _more_ beneficial than more normal, gradual weight loss, like a 2000 calorie diet that gets you down to the same weight.