skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline is a bit misleading. We have previously known diabetes is reversible with low calorie diets. This study was notable for two things:

(1) finding that this holds true even six years into mild diabetes (previous studies were on much more recent diagnoses). This is useful information because of the widely held misconception that type 2 diabetes is just a disease of insulin insensitivity. Actually, over time, islet amyloid peptide is deposited in the pancreas where it slowly kills off beta cells and removes your ability to actually produce insulin. In effect (though not literally nor in every particular), type 2 dm slowly transitions into type 1. So it’s useful to know that six years out the pancreas is functioning well enough to allow dietary reversal.

(2) being funded by a private company pushing a meal replacement-and-weight loss coaching program, which used this private program as the intervention arm. Turns out that, yes, if you live on slimfast for 3 months you’ll lose weight and your diabetes will calm down.

That Lancet didn’t exactly lead with that latter point, oddly enough. The co is pushing for the NHS to fund their program in more locations, under the argument that bariatric surgery isn’t available to everyone. This is part of their PR push.
Fair, but I think there's something to the opposite tone. A lot of people know that if you're healthy, you can generally avoid type 2 diabetes. Saying it basically 1:1's with weight issues is... important. Prevention is important, but there's this idea weight loss is impossible, or keeping weight off is impossible, and boy howdy that isn't true.
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In general the bar for making changes is: is it better that it was yesterday?

Before 1.10 `go test` used to re-run tests unconditionally.

Since 1.10 it'll avoid re-running them in some cases.

Neither me nor the announcement claims "intelligence".

The rules are simple and effective which is the Go Way.

While you could try to make even better, more "intelligent" rules for determining wether to re-run the tests, those would quickly run into engineering complexity chasing diminishing returns. That is not the Go Way.
I do. There are actually a few different kinds of Walmarts around that I have visited, and it's generally the same story.
I think it's a time based thing, not so much size, IMO.
It seems like no matter how large or what they offer, their prices draw crowds, and they both understaff, and either under train, or make sure to put the slowest humans on Earth as the cashiers.

But the time criteria is best said in terms of when to go, since that's a much narrower window than when not to go.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I send a scammer money through Venmo (which Zelle is competing with) the money is gone.

How is this different?
This may help prod along the technology of artificial blood, since the use of real blood is one of the the most expensive and least ethical parts of this technology, which is still primitive.

However, if they do solve that problem, the medical implications should be obvious.
That is ludicrous. The intuition is just harder to find, harder to grasp. But it is still there because these theorems are logical consequences of the base axioms. And the base axioms are logical consequences of our desire for sensible assumptions.
Being a programmer without advanced computer skills is like being a paramedic who can't drive. Sure it's possible and there's probably some niche where such a person can fit in, but definitely career limiting.
> If you subscribe to the view that same-sex marriage is a sin against a higher power,

This is a newer one to me, off the top of my head I'm not aware of from where the marriage act would be considered the sin vs the homosexuality itself. What's the doctrinal reasoning here? Just curious, here, since I'm A-OK with churches being able to individually choose who to marry.

Businesses, on the other hand, are subject to a very different set of laws for very clear historical reasons.
You can wear odorless deodorants or very low oder deodorants. Specifically you want deperspirants as those eliminate the possibility of producing smell.
I enjoy long sessions of removing bad code.
Programming is not harder than it used to be. For example, I was programming Macs in the pre-Internet era which meant lots of thick books. If you got stuck there was nobody who was going to help out and you just had to puzzle it out vs the example in one of the few how-to books like the famous Mac Programming Primer. Also, there was little open source, so you couldn't read the library source to figure out how things were supposed to work. Simple data structures that come with every language these days were something you had to pay a significant amount for or handcraft. If you hit a null pointer dereference, the machine crashed and you had to reboot. This happened fairly often.
Several years ago I started making my own peanut butter, it's suprisingly easy. Put roasted peanuts in a food processor and churn for 10 minutes. You can always add a little bit of peanut oil if it's too dry out some honey if you want it sweeter.

If you buy stuff with palm oil, make sure it's sustainable (usually on the label), otherwise send an email to the company asking where they source it. If there's enough consumer pressure applied to these companies, many will change to doing the right thing.
It seems that a keto diet/lifestyle does this in a far more enjoyable way than restricting calories to such a low level. Mixing in restricting to zero calories (aka fasting) also helps. Either way I'm so happy to see people start to attack this problem with smarter food choices.
> it’s a theory (with no factual basis after two years of investigation)

Oh horsepucky. There’s a sliiiight difference between “no factual basis” and “ongoing investigation whose results have of course not yet been made public.” There’s also no shortage of publicly available information supporting it; I could reel off the long list of meetings and shady-looking emails and trump tweets and etc but I’m sure you’re quite as well familiar with it as I am.

> You are perfectly aware what I am referring to

I really, genuinely, honestly have no idea what that lunatic raving is. Feel free to explain it, if you like.
The comment you linked states the opposite.
Lynx doesn't have as good standard support, but it is still semi-active (2017-07-10 (2.8.9dev.16)) over at InvisibleIsland[0], and can be compiled with OpenSSL support. (Windows installers require OpenSSL by default).

[0] http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html
I think to have a totally honest discussion you have to look at the full path of outcomes:

1) the odds of successful prevention given whether the assailants are armed with a gun or not (and the probability they are, based on policy/availability) 2) are the actually assailants or a family member sneaking in/a drunk 3) what is the probability that the weapon will be used for self harm (intentional or accidental) 4) what is the odds (to avoid presuming moral perfection of gun owners) that the gun will be used in a different crime?

I don't think anyone would argue that some crime has not been prevented because of armed homeowners. The most simple reduction is that if you add together all the negative outcomes, are they balanced out by the positive and that is the sweet spot for policy. However, that ignores the positive utility that people have for the right to own firearms. Some people effectively effectively confer infinite utility to that ("Molon labe" folks) and how should society deal with such people in attempting to reach some sort of balance?

ps - preemptively, "1) the odds of successful prevention given whether the assailants are armed with a gun or not (and the probability they are, based on policy/availability)" is always controversial. "criminals will always find a way to get guns"... strikes me as an altogether and false framing. We attempt to regulate all sort of harmful activities uncontroversially to great degrees of success.
The best line in my whole vimrc is this https://github.com/k0nserv/dotfiles/blob/master/files/vimrc..... It rebinds jk to ESC. This has the nice property of being a NOP if you happen do do it in normal mode
I got my CS degree in 2012. It was kinda scary how many students were on the verge of graduation, and were unable to use a terminal, use SSH, or tell you what git is (not that I know exactly o_o).

Those aren't particularly complex concepts. It is definitely partially the schools fault, but CS is also a field where you have to have some interest in what you do. You can't just go through the motions.
PayPal doesn't take that off the top for person-to-person. They haven't in... five years? I don't know. It's been a while. You used to have to do some sort of "it's a gift" thing, but I haven't seen that in a long time.

https://www.paypal.com/us/selfhelp/article/What-are-the-fees...

> There are no fees within the U.S. to send money to family and friends when you use only your PayPal balance or bank account, or a combination of your PayPal balance and bank account.
Humans are too dumb to save themselves. I welcome robots to enforce a hard resource limit within which free enterprise can do its work. Just one overarching resource limit that still leaves a buffer for the rest of the world. And robots can shoot to kill and engage in warfare to enforce that limit.
Freudian slip or what.

I trust you understood what I meant, regardless.

I’m willing to believe it’s possible they failed. I recall talks by a former NSA director about the dire need for improved cybersecurity programs and it wasn’t well received at the time— in light of all the patriot act business

Maybe it’s a wake up call?
He cited multiple academic sources to back up the claims made about gender. He also belabored the point that averages and general trends of a demographic should not be used to make judgements about individual members of the demographic.
As relatively young person I agree. Many people my age and/or younger expect quick results and don't really have the patience to see something through. But like with any other facet in life, if people take shortcuts they totally deprive themselves of vital experiences that are necessary for them in the long run if they want to experience any decent amount of success. Especially if they are wishing to learn something for their career.

In other words, if your objective is to learn programming, how can you possibly hope to create or do anything more meaningful than trivial examples without challenging yourself to learn the environment nor learning howto import 3rd party software libraries so that you don't have to recreate the wheel?

It's part and parcel of not doing anything trivial.
Learning to be resourceful by visiting Q/A websites, forums, chats and asking questions, and trying things and failing and getting up and trying again just makes you better.

You learn more by failure and experimentation than by following an example to a T but never venturing outside the sandbox.
Hmm... I'm not very familiar with this, but couldn't you send a key command to select the entire text (CMD A)?
Water washes off odor but not the bacteria that make that odor. You need to use soap.
His cardinal sin was saying that men and women are biologically different. He could've said a lot, but as soon as he tried to give a biological explanation for why girls prefer Barbies and boys prefer toy cars, he entered taboo territory. It's a thought crime because it implies that cultural influences aren't 100% responsible for why more men are interested in STEM than women.
Mass shootings in the US: there have been 1624 in 1870 days
>the absolute innate equivalence in aptitude for our profession between men and women,

Citations that the brain works equivalent for this kind of job?

We know that some fields men and some fields women perform better.
Repeated studies have shown that weight loss plays a bigger role than carb restriction. The article you linked showed a 12% weight loss in the experimental group, which also had continued support by a health coach throughout its duration, which was the actual intervention.

You make it sound like the intervention was carb elimination, rather than weight loss with a health coach. It was not.
I mean the citations weren't particularly thorough, and he took some liberties with interpretation.
My loyalties lie in FBI top brass not playing politics.

> They showed that he supported John Kasich.

Strzok – He asked me who I’d vote for, guessed Kasich.
Page – Seriously?! Would you not D?
Strzok – I don’t know. I suppose Hillary.
Page – I would D.

Not exactly ringing endorsement of Kasich. Later:

Strzok - Exacty re Kasich. And he has ZERO appeal

Also:

Page - God Trump is loathsome human.
Strzok – Yet he many win.
Strzok – Good for Hillary.
Page – It is.
Strzok – Would he be a worse president than Cruz?
Page –Trump?, yes I think so
Strzok – I’m not sure.
Strzok – Omg he’s an idiot.
Page – He’s awful
Strzok – America will get what the voting public deserves.
Page – That’s what I’m afraid of.

Strzok – God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0.
Page – I know

Strzok – That Texas article is depressing as hell. But answers how we could end up with President trump
Page – Wasn’t it? Seriously, how are people so incredible ignorant?
Strzok – I have no idea, but it depresses me. Same people who drive more when they get extra daylight from daylight savings, I’m guessing.

Strzok – They fully deserve to go, and demonstrate the absolute bigoted nonsense of Trump

Strzok – God that’s a great article. Thanks for sharing. And F TRUMP.

And so on and so forth. I mean, there's nothing wrong with a person thinking "F TRUMP". Except when the person is also in charge of investigations that may actually "f Trump" and benefit his opponents. In this case, it might be better to actually have somebody with more balanced approach.
"Learning programming" doesn't mean "learning C++".

A lot of people learned on some BASIC that came pre-installed on whatever device they bought.
Yeah I skimmed the comments and just read many of your replies. Thanks very useful. Guess I'll have to read it.
The only novelty in this study was doing it in people with longer term diabetes than most such studies.
Are you allowed to rebroadcast the data? Does the FAA charge for the data?
Yeah if anything it's people moving away from IDEs that's making life much more difficult. The complicated part of an install is rarely ever just downloading some software, clicking the executable and then 'next' a few times.

The hard part is docker throwing out nonsensical error messages into your console, offering 3 equally illegible possible solutions, which after 2 hours of googling and attempts turn out to be wrong, because all you needed was a reboot to get to the next error (which ends up being caused because of one of the 3 attempts to fix the earlier problem).

Yeah sure, with an IDE you might not grasp what really happened, but do you really with the 15 step install instructions? Both GUIs and CLIs only ever show the information that the programmer decided to output anyway, and GUIs are actually much better at showing legible output due to all the extra space, formatting options, etc. So what is it that people think makes a CLI somehow grasp what's happening better? The fact you just copy pasted some command with 3 flags?
Agreed — scrubbing is important. My comment about "water alone" was in contrast to "water plus body soap." I did not mean to suggest you should not scrub.
If you opened a credit account with Home Depot or had their loyalty card you'd be literally consenting to more tracking. That's the difference between an account and a one off transaction.

Facebook certainly operates outside of even this rather liberal framework so I wouldn't defend them wholesale. However I don't like false equivalencies.
I've had good luck with Dr. Bronners, but I haven't used a non-aluminum based deodorant/anti-perspirant that works for me.
The firing was over his methods (and the adverse impact they directly had on the broader organization), not his opinions.
You can phrase it any way you want, like "If adding regulations with potential fines even on mistakes to bankrupt a company, then maybe regulators need a rethink". Why is everyone so focused on what the intention of the rules are and not the practicalities? Often I feel these regulations are throwing spaghetti against a wall praying it sticks (e.g. cookie law). Because there's a problem, so the government must solve it. People can't be asked to self-regulate and governments can't be asked to encourage alternatives. It should be after those alternatives fail that the law is used as a last resort, and even then, marginally until the impacts are understood.
Yes. That's how the current GDPR law works. And it seems reasonable to me.

Accepting payments in USD is a pretty clear signal that a website mostly cares about US users, and if someone else uses the website, oh well, it happened, doesn't really change anything under GDPR.

(although you probably could have French support anyway, just expand the website to Canada as well ;), of course it isn't the same French as in France, but it's still French somewhat, EU currencies are trickier however)
> where critical systems are now connected to systems that are remotely accessible

This reminds me of the first Jurassic Park movie, where IIRC everything was controlled by a single mainframe, from the PABX to the electric fences of the dinosaur pens, and a disgruntled programmer pretending to fix the former disabled the later. We seem to be steadily moving towards that kind of world.
There probably wouldn't be 7.4 billion people either. People burnt non petroleum resources in that part of the world for a very long time.
There's some guides for setting up tile rendering at https://switch2osm.org/

It doesn't entirely make sense to mirror the editing api, unless you want to fork OSM. And I guess a lot of the user data isn't really readily available.

If your goal is to help the project you might consider running a tile node https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_CDN
Not directly, no. But a company can be held liable if it isn't taking action against discrimination perpetuated by the rank-and-file (whether that be education on the subject, disciplinary action, firing, etc).
> (2017) (At least the study itself: "Published on 10 December 2017.")

So, two months ago? Who cares if it's on the other side of an arbitrary point in time?
How is it a hostile work environment to discuss peer reviewed research on bio differences between the sexes?
I think the thought exercise from GP is to imagine what would have happened if he was in an ethnic minority as opposed to being caucasian.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-m...

My views are in part informed by this essay. It mostly deals with issues of interest, rather than ability, but the cumulative effect of interest divergence culminates in aptitude divergence.

That being said, i'm open to hearing contrary evidence. To the extent that i've read about it, there are non-trivial difference and they are large enough to at least partially explain some of the discrepancy in jobs like software engineering.
JS | Promise-all-map | a better Promise.all
I never claimed they weren't.

I asked about the safety of diabetics on low calorie diets. I have no idea how stringent the entry criteria was for this study, they could have picked the [otherwise] healthiest diabetics they could find.

Which brings us back to the question I asked, which was how this could scale to older or in worse health individuals suffering from type 2 diabetes? Even with medical supervision.
I wish we had more statically typed web backend frameworks as usable as rails or phoenix. I have used Elm a lot recently and it rocks. I wish I had something as incredible for the server side.
> I do have a question, how safe is 830 calories/day for a diabetic?

They're largely not at risk of anorexia, if that's what you're asking. "Somewhere in the neighborhood of 85% of people who develop type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese."[0]

> For an otherwise healthy person I can see it being safe with medical supervision but for an individual already seeing blood sugar spikes due to diabetes, I wonder about the dangers?

That's why it's done under medical supervision. A very low calorie diet (VLCD) should result in fewer blood sugar spikes, not more, simply due to the body having less sugar available.

[0]: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/diabetes-can-strike-hard...
I'm in the US and I don't get this story either. I've had my mail server running on 3 different IPs, in my home, and have had no issues at all.
> No, Google, I am not going to make a left turn here, because I have someplace I need to be by Wednesday.

This made me laugh a whole lot more than it should have. Thank you.
At a meta-level: the discussion in this thread is one that I would hope would be welcomed anywhere that encouraged discussions of religion/politics in the workplace (I also understand workplaces that just don't want any of that).

But sadly, civility is not something I'm widely accustomed to in these debates, so I understand the general defensiveness that accompanies most comments on homosexuality. Which is why I'd favor workplaces not to encourage that sort of discussion at all. Though even then you'd expect a certain amount of prevailing winds, which is why I brought up Mark Noll - the dominant forms of Christianity in the US have largely retreated from making intellectual arguments, so in most intellectual circles you don't many. My answer to "why are universities so liberal" is "because religion went off and built a parallel education system because it didn't respond well to the challenges of evolution and other modern science."
Sending bank fails to disclose irreversability of a transaction implying that typical consumer protection takes place.

Receiving bank fails to detect simple fraud pattern:
Within short period of time: New account opened, Zelle transfer received, Money withdrawn.

Let it rinse and repeat for long enough - and class action will take place.
Every* US intelligence agency has agreed with the attribution of the DNC hack to known teams within Russian intelligence.

There are no "sources present in the meeting" who are not themselves the subject of the investigation. Their claims as to what transpired are simply not trustworthy.

*With the exception the NSA, which declined to say anything.
Time machines, AI or the holodeck. Take your pick, depending on the writer.
Maybe you will find Nix useful.
We had fire drills in my work office in Toronto. Never had a tornado drill (but to be fair, I never lived anywhere with high tornado risks)
I'm not very familiar either.
But the Automator workflow starts with "receives selected text", so I'm not sure it has access to the current text field
iNaturalist: a smartphone CNN app for identifying photos of 13k wild species
A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) Methods [pdf]
The surprising implications of familial association in disease risk
Federal Reserve Note users are finding out the hard way that there's no fraud protection.
With you until that last part.. older populations that go through diabetes prevention / weight loss programs actually do better than younger folks. Also, "if they actually care enough to do so" is a tricky statement. Many folks that are overweight have tried losing weight numerous times only to gain it back and have leaned on confusing (and often incorrect) advice about diet, exercise and its relationship to weight loss (e.g. the food pyramid). They go through waves of motivation like anyone else. There's a good opportunity for the healthcare industry to engage with people at that level, in the way mental health professionals support people battling anxiety and depression. Would love to see more research targeted at that motivation point because I agree with you that the physiological mechanisms are pretty well understood at this point (at least in comparison).