skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good review of current understanding of the effects for anyone interested in more than some of the comments so far.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936261/

Abstract

Bariatric surgery is now widely reported to ameliorate or resolve type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults. Some clinical investigators even suggest its use as an early therapeutic intervention for type 2 diabetes in patients not meeting standard criteria for bariatric surgery. However, little is known about the exact mechanisms explaining the metabolic consequences, and much active investigation is underway to identify hormonal changes leading to diabetes resolution. This review includes a detailed description of various bariatric surgical procedures, including the latest less-invasive techniques, and a summary of current data providing insight into the short- and long-term metabolic effects. We outline current hypotheses regarding the mechanisms by which these surgical procedures affect diabetes and report on morbidity and mortality. Finally, we discuss the available data on bariatric surgery in adolescent patients, including special considerations in this potentially vulnerable population.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019697811...

Abstract

Bariatric surgery for obesity has proved to be an extremely effective method of promoting long-term weight reduction with additional beneficial metabolic effects, such as improved glucose tolerance and remission of type 2 diabetes. A range of bariatric procedures are in common use, including gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy and the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Although the mechanisms underlying the efficacy of bariatric surgery are unclear, gastrointestinal and pancreatic peptides are thought to play an important role. The aim of this review is to summarise the effects of different bariatric surgery procedures upon gastrointestinal and pancreatic peptides, including ghrelin, gastrin, cholecystokinin (CCK), glucose-dependent insulinotropic hormone (GIP), glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), peptide YY (PYY), oxyntomodulin, insulin, glucagon and somatostatin.
The way Cent works is instead of having 100 people earn 20¢ (for a $20 bounty), $20 gets distributed to the top 10 responses. Respondents are encouraged to be thoughtful because the community votes on which 10 responses get the bounty.

Many responses don't get paid as a result but making it competitive adds more value for the bounty-asker and makes the whole thing more fun in general.

What about this do you find so terrible?
A few words about effective communication in the event team
It's an anagram of "I ask 'em to."

There's many such Easter eggs in the series.

Such as Jean Luc Picard's name... A reference to the well-known phrase "Cup and Jar lice." The character was bald, so he didn't have lice, etc., etc. No need to repeat the story.
Protein powder is just protein - it's a specialized food source. Are there bad supplements? Totally - but dodgy salad will give you salmonella.

Bodybuilders actually use intermittent fasting - the unhealthy bits is the supplement abuse, but that's the sort of thing that happens with any extreme lifestyle. That's also a super limited view of the strength world.

What's an "unhealthy exercise routine"? Literally anything is better than doing nothing. Is it optimal? No, but if it gets you moving it helps. Are you talking injury or things that actively make you less "healthy"? I could see an argument from injury, but I'd rather someone have a ruptured ACL now than heart disease later.

I feel like we're about to enter "No True Scotsman" territory here.
Are hormones in commercial meet speeding up the morf? (28 Aug 96)
Oh boy I remember being a teen and all the gaming forums and gaming communities always started out with a .tk site. None of us had credit cards so it was the go to for starting a project.
Scale is the company's problem, after all, that is what it uses to make money!

The request of the person IS tiny - and so is each response.
Do you feather the edges of the high resolution videos to blend with the low resolution background? I found this necessary when I implemented something similar because otherwise the borders are far too obvious, though it feels bad to waste those pixels at the edge of the video.

How are the videos stored? Is each gop a separate file or do you seek around in larger files? Is it feasible to stream over HTTP or is it only possible to play local videos for now?
I wanted to use it but you have to sign in with facebook, and I dont use facebook :(
The writing style seems to be unnecessarily complex, and, in my mind, dilutes and obscures the message of this piece.
I've not read all of the Culture series, but I've read enough to say that I would prefer the [dys|u]topia of Snow Crash to the Culture.
> "When the person visiting a website featuring Facebook’s tools is not a registered Facebook user, Facebook does not have information identifying that individual, and it does not create profiles for this individual.

I'm extremely skeptical of that. When I downloaded my Facebook data, there was a "contacts.html" file that contained data scraped from my phone's contact list aggregated with other contact information that I'd never seen before for people I'd never been Facebook friends with. Some people on that list have never had Facebook accounts. While I don't know if they had extra data aggregated into their entry, the fact that their data was scraped from my phone shows Facebook has the data to create a profile for them.

I'm guessing their statements are only true if you read them very narrowly in a misleadingly specific way. For instance, by understanding "profile" to mean a "the Facebook Profile that comes with a Facebook account," rather than a more generic "collection of data about a person."
As someone rather interested in the subject that has been my general understanding. The refusal for people to look beyond "eat less and fast etc" is rather disheartening.
Oh, that ship sailed a long time ago. Free domain registries have always been attractive to bad actors; adding traffic requirements won't change that one bit.
If you don't trust your business partner, don't do business with them. If there are problems, contracts and courts decide what to do. There is no need for blockchain.
The French has always had an oddly low confidence in the power of the quality of their products. The AOC is not a magic incantation, the "proper" Camenbert has indeed as described survived being mass produced across the world. Now there's an adjustment to the AOC rules to allow pasteurised milk, and behold, there are already people working on a quality-label-scheme that is even more "pure" than the original AOC.
TLDR: "Two-thirds of those edits were done by anonymous users.... Did those ‘deaditors’ write about their subjects earlier? Usually not."

Young teens, I'd guess.
Sounds a lot like...the Itanic
As I already wrote: Nobody (reasonable) asks them to do anything other than TALK. If that is the issue, then say so! Of course, they would also have to provide a way out if the issue can be shown to be invalid.
Every user generated content will have to go through censor machines meaning 3rd parties will be collecting private information and control it on massive scale. This will allow governments to block protests or any movements against their agenda before they even start forming.
Declaring you deceased, even to a corporation, sounds like a serious crime.
Those libs add some "magic" which is going against the point of Redux (knowing exactly what's going on). Instead of those abstraction libs I like to use the observable pattern with Rx or MobX
Could the browser create a tight whitelist of payloads that are definitely not hostile, then expand it slowly to add functionality?
I thought it was LIDAR? At least I don't know of a LIDAR not using a LASER.
Flows: A New Approach to UI Development
There is a distinct difference between Type 2 diabetes "cure" and "reversal".

Reversal: what is being described here. Symptoms go away, and the longer you pursue the treatment, more difficult it becomes to clinically determine you ever had the metabolic disorder in the first place. However, the latent characteristics that made you first susceptible still exist.

Cure: you not only reverse, but you could stuff your face with pizza and Ho Ho pastries, wash it down with a gallon of Mountain Dew, and your blood sugar hardly budges, like normal people.

We do not have a cure. Short of genetically rewiring in vivo, or similar advancement, we won't see a cure. However, ongoing improvement of our understanding of how our bodies work continue to make it simpler than ever before to reverse Type 2. Simple doesn't mean easy, though.
Customer service is the way to people's hearts. Ultimately, Facebook and some of these other companies are using bad business practices and it has to come back and hurt them eventually.
> Right now there are still no navigation library.

React Navigation and React Native Navigation are both viable options with their own pros and cons.
Been using them successfully in different projects.

https://reactnavigation.org

https://wix.github.io/react-native-navigation
Doesn't matter. You don't pay any of that. You aren't the customer.
Government will be able to control content shared on the internet and block whatever they see fit.
"The net result is that less food can fit in the stomach, and there’s much less time for that food to be turned into calories before it exits the body. The vertical sleeve gastrectomy, the most popular surgery in recent years, only tinkers with the stomach, using staples to turn it into a small banana-shaped organ."

Oh, so the "cure" was to make sure his body consumes/processes less calories? And this is considered some novel solution? Is this a joke?

And then there's this technically accurate but misleading sentence - "But Benari, now 44, was a very unusual patient in one clear way: He wasn’t obese." True. He wasn't obese. But he was overweight - "Benari’s BMI before he underwent the surgery hovered around 28, which made him modestly overweight but not obese." Being overweight or obese is a textbook sign of being a diabetic, pre-diabetic, or at-risk for diabetes, as your metabolic functions are most likely comprised to at least some degree which results in the symptom of excess weight. The article tries to mislead the reader to thinking that because he wasn't technically full blown obese by clinical definitions he was somehow an exceptional outlier. Nonsense.

This man was clearly consuming too much food or food other than carbs that also results in blood sugar spikes (excess protein is metabolized in much the same way), which is why the restriction of caloric intake worked for him. The part at the beginning about him being restricted from "most carbs" seems irrelevant in that context, especially when you factor in the knowledge that he was already confirmed to be compromised and a full blown diabetic.
That wasn't a mistake, and Itanium did just fine. Circa 2008 the fastest database servers in the world ran on Itanium.
> Trade policies are considered good if they're good for the economy and bad if they're bad for the economy.

are you talking about increasing GDP or some other meaning of "good for the economy"?

what i see is people talking about tariffs as good for a certain sector's workers or bad for consumers or safeguarding US military capabilities or something like that.
Right. So the question is, at what point do we start turning auto-autos (I should use that word) loose on the road for live testing? Do we have to wait until they are demonstrably better than human drivers? How do we prove that?

After reading the Atlantic's Waymo article, I'm more convinced that Uber is doomed in this race. They're not investing properly in simulation, and Waymo is getting an enormous amount of programming done based on controlled simulations that Uber isn't - billions of miles, and repeatable scenarios.

Tesla is really in the game, I think, because they're able to collect so much data from the AutoPilot systems currently on the road, even if they're not in use. They still get all the telemetry for complex real-world situations.

But at some point, you have to let experimental software out on the road, to learn from the real world. Simulation is insufficient. Or, we simply refuse to allow auto-autos at all, permanently establishing that humans will always be more capable, without evidence. So it's a question of when, not if.

There's a couple of currents going in the arguments here. Some say "not yet", and some say "never". I think the "never" people are nuts. Auto-autos that broadly outperform human drivers safety-wise seems achievable to me in the not-too-distant future.
To clarify, to “dark” an object is to make it unavailable but continue to store it.
Ohhhhh, now I understand why that one ex-coworker that 'follow' stars about 20 projects a week. I always used them as bookmarks and I couldn't believe that they ever were going to use that many things.
The Best Part of the MacOS Mojave Beta Might Be the Hidden Messy Desktop Option
The objective is to attack the king, not the queen.
Have a look at https://www.codeforamerica.org/, https://sunlightfoundation.com/ or the projects https://knightfoundation.org/ has funded. They look for ideas and help to develop and run (reusable) tools that serve 100s of communities. As you can see from their websites they have funding. Taking an existing tool, e.g. https://www.fixmystreet.com/ (source code https://fixmystreet.org/), and running it for your city might be a good start.
> wash it down with a gallon of Mountain Dew, and your blood sugar hardly budges, like normal people.

If by "normal people" you mean "pre-diabetic", maybe.

Any cure to snake bites requires not getting bitten again.
1) That assumes that what drives housing prices is residential ownership.

2) What is a "justifiable" P/E multiple? What is the justification (other than past values) for _any_ P/E ratio?
What were the drivers of either the numerator or denominator?

This is to say, that macro and micro economics try to model extremely complex systems. When trying to analyze "value" it's worth considering that your mental model might not be accounting for many/most of the relevant forces.
IIRC, you couldn't counter the wrath once the instant is played (at least as of say 1998-ish rules interpretation).

I play Wrath. I can counter now, or let it resolve. You play instant effect. I can counter, but can't counter the wrath anymore. I'm pretty sure that's how it worked.
>Due to a variety of technical and organizational issues, we will be sunsetting React Native and putting all of our efforts into making native amazing.

Buried lede. Why not just say it outright?
I am not trusting!

I had a business myself, and I believe if humans are random. Depending on the environment they grow up in humans can end up torturing for fun. Anything bad that anyone can think of - somebody is doing it or going to do it, same as with anything good.

But none of that has anything to do with the basic request: TALK to people.

> imagine the backlash from erring on the side of permissiveness.

So what? Why is it better to manage the current outrage? It isn't. Same thing: You talk. That's what humans do. And as I wrote in another response: Scale is the problem of the business, which after all uses just that to make lots of money (in the case of those giants). They are always looking for was to improve and for what to invest their considerable wealth in - well, here is a good problem to solve!
There are many. It's reasonable to assume that there will be use cases outside of the cryptocurrency space. Just because there's a ridiculous amount of hype doesn't mean there's nothing there.
Hm, actually sorry I assumed they had made vizier available as a blackbox service (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...). If they haven't, you can save money/time by employing better than grid search. There are some re implementations of vizier available, I'll see if I can make ours too (email in profile). I do agree with that billing can be..complex ;)
Indeed, at least in the US, it’s expected that you’ll need several copies of the death certificate to handle bank accounts, etc. I doesn’t seem like a burdensome requirement to ask for one.
It's a framework for exploring this issue. It's largely done to frame the topic and explore what solutions we can employ to stop "truth decay" from happening. It's partly for future research/researchers and part educational material for those who might not be familiar with the current phenomenon of "truth decay." I enjoy how well defined the model is (and the litany of citations and historical examples to support it).

I've personally felt that the erosion of institutional confidence is (and will be) extremely damaging to the U.S. I found this paper while googling around for topics/perspectives on that particular subject.
Huh? The company I work for hosts all of its marketing videos on Vimeo. Are you sure about this?
Sounds like a router configuration issue. I have no issue getting a /56 and handing out /64's on a Comcast Business line.
A unorthodox idea from a guy that know nothing:

Turn your worries into histories. Make it a novel, comics, fan-fiction or similar. I'm too lazy and no even write then, just play it into the head. Because, what if somebody read about them!

> I also worry deeply about hypothetical situations that will probably never happen

This mean you are good at build plots! Take a look at https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/search_result.php?q=plot.

For example, I was thinking this past week when I was into a stresfull bug hunting that turn to be a compiler bug (how unexpected!):

"but what if I'm a pacifist that enjoy kung-fu and live in a place where I can't decide to not fight?"

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/114706/mar...

And boom! is solved.

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Turning worries in histories allow to counter them. You can insert a hero, and let he handle it. Then, obviously, you will start worry more. "What if he need to defeat the dinousaur with lasers but a carnivorous-plant that is also poisoned with stuff that conveniently cause depression symptoms to the hero, now how can he fight it? AND IS RAINING!"

So, instead to fight all the time, you let it flow, but make it flow INTO A RIVER YOU OWN.

I don't say this work all the time, but is good for me.
I think this is because it's an awkward translation from Polish. It's funny because PKD's own prose was very clear and unpretentious.
Even some of the ancient congressmen who know nothing about technology already have figured out that Zuckerburg lied to them extensively. I hope that our representatives will start to do their jobs. It has to be a crime to lie to Congress, no?
As a side note, most of Spain itself is in the Western Hemisphere.
Flora Robotica, Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids
C++ is arguably one of the most complex popular programming languages out there. With Qt you get a lot of conveniences and built-in magic, but I'd say at that point it's not really regular C++. A good comparison could be writing plain Ruby vs writing a Rails app.

I'll admit my experiences with Qt have been fairly limited relative to my web work, but picking up QtWidget seemed like it had a much higher barrier of entry than a web tech stack. Although I'll also recognize that QtQuick and QML greatly seemed to streamline the whole thing, especially for getting started. Based on my experiences performance with QtQuick still left a bit to be desired, but it was still an improvement over most Electron equivalents.

It's also worth noting that these comments mostly apply for people going for a mostly-native look and feel. If you want to completely customize the look and feel of widgets, as many modern apps have recently begun to do, I think it might be easier to get started doing that with the web stack. Then again, I recognize that this just might be my inexperience talking.

It also depends on the kind of app you're trying to build. I've written lots of personal apps using server-side rendering and a tiny bit of JS and I love how easily I can deploy and access it from all devices. That's a kind of versatility you just don't get with native.

IMO, most web developers could probably learn a lot from giving Qt and other native toolkits a try.
I can offer Facebook two choices to verify death if a third party alleges it. Either provide the death certificate or the name of the funeral home.

If Facebook was smart they'd make it super simple for the funeral directors to provide this information directly to them. I lost my dad late last year and had to answer a number of questions for the funeral director.

All the funeral director would have to do is ask if the deceased had any social media accounts and do you want me to contact them on your behalf?
Not everything is "doxxing". In this case somebody made a request to Facebook under their own name, and there's no clear reason why they should be entitled to anonymity.
He forgot to say that Dave Miller brought in siphash for recent networking hashes on Linux, which should bring down performance of the Linux networking stack closer to Ruby/Python levels. About 20 slower. There's nothing slower than this, whilst not improving security, but increased the accompanied security theatre. It's a mess over there.
A list of ICE employees, as scraped from LinkedIn
Install Linux on a Dead Badger
Such a beautiful school in such a beautiful location. I've been to Sirince a couple of times. It is famous for its wines.
Could any of the fatalities be related to the malicious code commits? [1]

[1] - https://www.fastcompany.com/40586864/read-elon-musks-email-a...
This one incident is not the cause of Uber being behind schedule. They shut down their program in California because they didn't want to follow the rules. So Uber moves to a state with lax rules and a woman paid for it with her life.

If Uber was more focused on doing things the right way their program would be much further ahead.
Not if the Mac you're reading on (e.g. kiosk/library computer) is potentially compromised.
From: Elon Musk

To: Everybody

Subject: Some concerning news

June 17, 2018

11:57 p.m.

I can't stand it, I know you planned it
I'mma set it straight, this Watergate
I can't stand rockin' when I'm in here
'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear
So while you sit back and wonder why
I got this fuckin' thorn in my side
Oh my god, it's a mirage
I'm tellin' y'all, it's sabotage
So, so, so, so listen up, 'cause you can't say nothin'
You'll shut me down with a push of your button
But, yo, I'm out and I'm gone
I'll tell you now, I keep it on and on
'Cause what you see, you might not get
And we can bet, so don't you get souped yet
Scheming on a thing, that's a mirage
I'm trying to tell you now, it's sabotage
Why
Our backs are now against the wall
Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage
Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage
Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage
Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage
I can't stand it, I know you planned it
I'mma set it straight, this Watergate
But I can't stand rockin' when I'm in this place
Because I feel disgrace because you're all in my face
But make no mistakes and switch up my channel
I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle
What could it be, it's a mirage
You're scheming on a thing, that's sabotage

Thanks for working so hard to make Tesla successful,
Elon
An article about the creation of this list was posted ~10 hours ago and has notably been removed from medium.com
I will second Blender Guru as an excellent resource! (Might want to increase the playback speed though--his videos take a while...)