skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thin people with T2D are probably “TOFI” — thin on the outside, fat on the inside. There is a concept of the “personal fat threshold” which is how much fat you can pack into your fat cells, and how many new ones you can grow. This concept explains why Asia and India have high rates of T2D at a much lower BMI.

An interesting way to show that this is likely the case is people with lipodystophy - they have no subcutaneous fat, and they are almost all diabetic.
Then there is really no case. Even smoke need a place of origin if you can't even point to that and show how it was done not just by circumstantial evidence but actually shoving the data to support it then it's just guessing, in this case highly biased guessing.

Brexit is no different than what is seen in many other places throughout Europe, a fight against globalization so unless Russia has developed some magical abilities to mind control large parts of Europe and the US which no other nation in this world is able to copy then I would say that the smoke you see is our own.
> For one, Akihito has been on the throne for almost the entirety of the information age, meaning that many systems have never had to deal with a switchover in era.

The writer must be 12. The last transition, in 1989, is squarely in the middle of the information age.
It's estimated that Apple has 588 million users and there are 1 billion active Apple devices. Average Apple user owns owns 1.7 devices. https://www.businessinsider.com/credit-suisse-estimates-588-...

Assuming that growing income equality is lasting megatrend in both developed and developing world, brand that targets only customers who can afford premium hardware and services can be extremely profitable and provide growth without competing with market share in other segments.

edit: billion typo
Hypothetically, what's to stop one of the opposition parties from allying with the Conservatives over a watered-down Brexit? (And ignoring DUP)

Or once a governing coalition is formed is it "locked in" until new elections?
I'm interested, what about it looks like a spurious correlation?
New study blaming warming on disrupted Atlantic flow has scientists “grumpy”
Reminds me of this video: "Dogs Tested to See Whether They’d Defend Owner During Home Invasion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ74oFctP_g

Spoiler alert: dogs are probably not as helpful as their owners think during high stress scenarios.
The naming convention came from places, starting with Knights Ferry, CA.
Can Self-Serve Advanced Analytics Support Data Governance?
I remember my German professor saying the same thing. His evidence was pretty simple: "You can drive from Northern Germany to Southern Germany in 8-9 hours. It takes about the same amount of time to drive from Northern Minnesota to Southern Minnesota. Let that sink in a bit."

The other major issue with mass transit is the longer you wait to build the infrastructure, the cost per foot of track continues to go up. Seattle has a long history with light rail cost overruns.
Yep, and this is the method used by Virta Health. They are attempting to use this diet and telemedicine to reverse diabetes at scale. Their 2 year clinical data should be out soon.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/felipeschrieberg/2017/06/30/5-r...

What about this?
This is just a native ad for Virta, a company operating in the diabetes technology space.
Look at the keyboard options...
I don’t think Peter works for Virta.
Well done, sir or madam, you meant it and you said it. Now, can you direct me to the Hacker News subreddit?
Everything you need to know about pipenv is in the linked talk. Sorry, I don't know anything about [mini]conda.
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Yeh! Nothing can substitute action. I agree with you
I agree with everything you say.

But are you telling me that each developer should do this for their personal webpage project just because Chrome might decide to put HTTP-only pages behind a modal dialog?
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I'm not sure I understand the question exactly as you intend it so my answer may be off but I'll try :).

Simply, the work is saved on the web server and the hash is what is used to refer to it.

Is that what you were after?
>Yet poetry does not manage the virtualenv for you which is what these other tools do.

That's not correct:

https://poetry.eustace.io/docs/basic-usage/#poetry-and-virtu...

>A single tool that can do packaging, dependency management, and venv management would be embraced.

It does all of those.
Applications of Matrix Decompositions for Machine Learning
This seems like common sense.

I bought a Macbook Pro in 2010. Eventually I realized I only used my laptop for internet-related tasks, mainly when I was traveling or in my living room (instead of my office). After my MBP's battery degraded and I had to replace the hard drive cable I threw in the towel and bought a Chromebook for less than 1/10 the cost of the MBP. Not only has the Chromebook lasted longer (more years) than the MBP, I've never had a single maintenance issue with it, and it serves my needs just as well as the MBP, if not better.

So the question is, why pay 10x the price for power and features you will barely even use or notice? I could buy a stack of 10 Chromebooks for the price of 1 MBP, which, at the current rate, would last me 50 years. Same goes for smartphones. I can buy a stack of five Nokia 6 phones for the price of 1 iPhone. This is a no brainer for financially sensitive people.
Father Tongue hypothesis
Provided I get health insurance at a good price... yes.

Sad how much of a consideration that is in the US.
What city just passed the Bay Area in tech jobs?
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Depends how you define "works for":

Disclosure: I am an advisor to Virta Health and I have invested
in the company, because I believe their approach is the best one
to solve this problem—not the other way around.
Build numbers is engineering, semver is marketing.

Private processes vs what you tell the world.

Build numbers unlocks delta debugging achievement. Add 'last known good' and 'found' build numbers to tickets, along with repo steps, then use diff to find bug.

Build numbers also unlocks QA/testing achievement. Add 'found', 'fixed', 'verified' fields to tickets. Now your team is certain when individual changes are ready to merge, ship/deploy.
Thanks :) agree on both, it's nice to see other folks feel the same way.
It's technically interesting but I wouldn't spend time of that because of the legal issues (especially in realestate). It's too risky.

As you know that well, you could do the opposite. An antiscraping product.
R.I.P. GitHub, Millennials Are Boycotting GitHub, Since Microsoft Aquired
Americans' view of marijuana is rosy, and unscientific
Never got a chance to use a BBC, but I did read Peter Killworth's “How to write Adventure Games” at one point: http://www.mocagh.org/softguide/writeadventuregames.pdf
I used to do a lot of scraping too, but now most things have a decent api, I rarely need too. I would think that Machine Learning's need for lots of data just creates a larger market for data. Look at releasing an api for all the data you scrape and sell access to that with a focus on ML.

Things I think are worth $$$

Scrape anything difficult to scrape.

Scrape things that change and keep historical data.

Make a generic scraper and generic api.
>It's not so much the tariffs as the customs clearance per se. Everyone seems to have forgotten that transporting goods across a border has VAT implications, and if you don't check and aren't part of the same VAT area there's a huge opportunity for "carousel fraud".

That would give the EU reason to block imports from the UK. It doesn't give much of a reason for the UK to block imports from the EU. So there's no reason to expect that the UK will starve or Amazon will shut down. The only way for that to happen is for the UK to shoot themselves in the foot (again).

Exports, of course, are a whole different story and that's where the risk lies. General economic damage from increased friction in exporting to the EU.
Any kind of deal is practically impossible. Anything that might be acceptable to the current government is not acceptable to the EU, and vice versa. So the only remaining options are:

a) Nothing changes, and in March 2019 the UK crashes out of the EU with no deal ("hard brexit").

b) Article 50 somehow gets revoked, and the UK remains in the EU, with a lot of distrust in the years to come.

Personally, I'm hoping for the latter but expecting the former.
I don't think it's a case of "having to be a loser". Rather the nasty edge is coming from a loss of confidence that the (upper-middle-class, college-educated) political class will represent the people - and not without reason, given how our political and social elites (still!) dismiss any concern about immigration as nothing but stupid racists, as seen in this very article.
Toxoplasmosis makes rats docile around cats so they can be eaten; I don't see a means for that improving anyone's life.
Is a jet ski a good way to explore these kinds of places? I’ve never boated but I’m really interested in getting out to places like these.

A kayak just doesn’t seem to go fast enough to get too far.
New scientist is pretty much a science tabloid... This is just clickbait
I don't think that's true at all. Pharmacology is a very difficult science that we get wrong all the time, yet we still have medicine because we are able to test our medicines by trying them on animals and people. Likewise in economics and sociology and astrophysics we are able to test through natural experiments. A test of a model is its ability to predict. We don't accept untested models just because they're "complicated".

And sure, maybe you believe that economics has more untested models, but that doesn't mean there aren't many tested models in economics.

Edit: reply button is locked out for some reason so replying here.

>And look at how much it costs, how unreliable the results are, and how even after full batch of successful trials, we have no clue why a drug works.

And yet we still do solid pharmacology that results in reliable medicine, just like we can do solid economics that results in models with high predictive power.

>If you take a large enough sample and apply enough statistics to it, you can see something that looks sort of like evidence to your hypothesis. In the end, you're not much closer to knowing why it happens (and why it happens only some percentage of the time). Compare that to hard sciences, where most of the time, you can design experiments based on first principles, and you can connect the results back to fundamental theories through a string of formal math.

The idea of statistical approximation does not distinguish between controlled experiments and observational study at all. We were able to statistically model the relationship between speed and energy before we could explain gravity, i.e. we were able to figure something out before we could explain why. And most experiments in physics resulted in approximation, such as newtonian physics, that works well enough at low speeds but breaks down at high speeds. Our current model of gravity was made in the 1970s, yet before 1970 we could explain that when you jump you fall to the earth. The fact that approximation is used is not remarkable in the slightest. That's what modeling is. A model that is too complicated is useless, a model that is too simple is inaccurate. All models are approximations to some level.

>Again, "tested" in physics vs. "tested" in economics are apples-to-oranges.

Yeah, that's why newton discovered relativity, right? No, we have areas of clear evidence and areas outside of our ability to measure for every field. Just becomes some areas of a field are difficult doesn't mean every area is difficult. Just because we couldn't model what happens to a ball thrown at 0.9c in the 1700s, doesn't mean we couldn't model a ball thrown at 0.9 m/s.

>Ultimately, my main point is that economics is so hard that even our best results are pretty bad, and marginally useful.

Look on the IGM site for policy recommendations that we have clear economic consensus on. ]If a country chooses to ignore economics, e.g. zimbabwe and greece, the results are very predictable.
For a few years the 'captcha' on my site asked, 'What's the capital of Georgia?'

I had a couple of irate emails from people entering 'Atlanta' and wondering why it didn't accept their answer.
Yep, works well now.
Ireland Should Not Extradite If Suspect Won't Get Fair Trial in Poland: EU Court
Not surprising unfortunatley. That's the result of market dominance, a company can just act as they please. Chrome has become like IE in some ways (and the arguments of defenders are the similarly the same that Microsoft supporters had back then). Google probably hardly tests with other browsers, so it might not even be with malicous intent.

Win back the web was the Firefox motto to challenge IE, and it might be time again.
Probably not with the tourist , though all my JR ticket I have are listed with traditional date though -- maybe they issued it with A.D because of you are tourist. Other tickets seems to be mixed though.

For example, of documents I have laying around my desk right now:

Alien card: A.D
/ Student card: A.D.
/ My number card (like US SSN): Traditional
/ Insurance card: Traditional
/ Water bill: Traditional
/ Electricity bill: Traditional (this one doesn't even tell you that it's traditional, it just say 30-07-xx)
/ Monthly health insurance bill: Traditional
/ Gas bill: A.D.

So it is pretty much in heavy use.
A great chance ahead is to solve the "I know it when I see it" kind of problems, with Programming-by-Example practice.

Say sorting. You don't need to learn any computer science to tell a list of number is sorted or not.

Problem with the specs. Yes it's irritating to give spec that covers all the cases. But it's a universal problem in software engineering "How do I know the code works"? which applies to programs written by either human or computers.

As far as I know the solution is to write a lot of test cases. By doing that you just created a lot of examples to train a program synthesizer. It doesn't really matter the codes that pass all your tests are written by the engineer you hired or the synthesizer.
that article is a joke, alcohol prevents cancer? that's laughable considering it's a known and accepted carcinogen

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/824237

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer

I don't think forbes is qualified to report on medical issues, considering they're a business publication and alcohol sales/production is a MASSIVE business
Dynamic Options in the Kendo UI Grid
Ask HN: What are your best weight loss strategies?
I have recently decided to cut down a few kilos and was wondering if a HNer had something data driven that worked for them. I have tried keto and other diets but nothing seems to stick (despite my wife's best efforts!). Am I just doomed to having a 'dad bod'?
Yes, but giving each pointer metadata for the goal of saying, at compile time, I can ignore or not certain access patterns in this pointer, is conceptually different (but practically the same, it's just a POV) of saying that a pointer is not just a number. Both ways are ok to represent things, but I've the feeling that saying "a pointer is not just a number" in some way allows the ANSI-C culture of UBs to be culturally validated. Moreover, the definition given in the blog post, is also far from the actual nature of machines, where actually a load/store operation for this number will result in the same operation.
clickbait title (on the original article).

Google didnt slow down Edge and Firefox on purpose, they simply use an old API, which is still natively supported by chrome, but has to polyfill in Edge and Firefox. This unsurprisingly leads to longer loading/js execution time
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https://www.livestrong.com/article/478294-the-health-benefit...

Articles such as these have me thinking.
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As jerf pointed out [0], you can do that but once you print that unknown symbol, the Unicode consortium can't really do much.

Also, you can't just say "well, next era begins on September 1st 2054, so let's write that in our date calculator" - precisely because you don't know when an era begins or ends before it's close.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17609063
I work on a large enterprise software product. We support Emperor dating (since the long gone legacy product from the late 1970s), and it is used, I just don't know how widely or for what reasons.
>> To reverse course now - or to just keep having a referendum or revotes until the "right" result is achieved - would express total contempt and disregard for democracy itself.

Ah, yes. There is no democratic way to overturn a democratically taken decision. And it is the peple who are sovereign, not Parliament. That's how the story goes.

Many UK citizens who voted Remain have a poor understanding of the procedures of their own democracy. This is the fault of the political class of course, who have long wished to keep their voters misinformed and apathetic, the better to control them. Inevitably, this is now coming back to bite them. Along with everyone else.

For the record: in the UK, Parliament is sovereign (i.e. they can do whatever they decide) and democratically taken decisions are routinely overturned, e.g. when a new government is elected every 5 ish years.
If America was great before 1973, it certainly was only great for white men. Ask a black person just how great America was before 1973. Or a woman. Mexicans. Chinese. Native Americans. MAGA is a racist slogan that only appeals to racist whites and idiots who don't know American history.
Shadow DOM/web components are really a good idea and hopefully FF/IE will implement them.
It doesn't really mean anything in relation to PKS. GKE On-Prem is Google's strategic on-prem enterprise Kubernetes offering.
The test as quoted makes no sense. It’s always going to be difficult or impossible to protect the innocent against a government run amok. There is no scenario where a bunch of maniacs have taken over and you’re trying so save some innocent people and it’s easy to do.

Thus I have interpreted it as “does the law make it more difficult to protect the innocent against the government if the government has gone crazy?” That seems like the more charitable interpretation, as it actually makes a little bit of sense until you bite into it.
Ketosis diet. I lost 25 pounds last year from eating meat and vegetables and not working out.
Well, like all Google products, you’re paying with your privacy instead of money. I guess privacy is only for people who aren’t “financially sensitive” now.
> But let's say the 48% that voted to remain in the EU had grown to say 55% that didn't like the sound of the Brexit deal being hashed out and would prefer the status quo. Would it be reasonable for our politicians to try and use the levers of government to reverse course to represent the new will of the people?

You can't keep asking the people until they give the answer you want and then seize on that. Holding another referendum after say 10 years have passed seems reasonable.

> At the end of the day I don't think the public were qualified to answer the question as it was posed. There were too many unknowns and too much false information. We elect people to represent us because we believe they are qualified to do so.

I agree. But, Cameron having chosen to hold the referendum, his party is duty-bound to implement its results.
Maybe you should think twice

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
What would you do if your teenager became an overnight Instagram sensation?
The most interesting thing about this flight was the weather: it was windy enough that the booster was (gasp!) a few metres off-centre.
Your heart doesn't "say" anything. It is a pump.
people should try readcube.com, it's not free, but the best I can find to organize papers/references from any platform (iOS, android, pc/mac/linux).
Who knows, this could be valid, but remember: "5% of 95% p-value studies are false positives."
My friend is a doctor. He works with patients to reverse T2D every day of the week. He's amazed that there's any debate whatsoever.

So, pro-tip from me: find a doctor who answers "yes" to the question and work with them, if you have T2D and want to reverse it.

(ignoring the "at scale" part of the OP question... for various reasons)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17609327
that sounds like plausible deniability
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/824237
>If everyone in the independent repair industry was at least as competent as Louis is today, Louis would have a point. But they're not, so he doesn't.

This is exactly the point that I feel like I constantly have to get across to people that support him. Louis is incredibly smart when it comes to electronics repair. It's exactly the reason that I know, for certain, that he's being disingenuous. He's too smart and too knowledgeable in most of these topics to gloss over these issues the way that he does unless he has an ulterior motive and it's clear that he does. Apple's fight against "Right to Repair" (which is misleadingly named anyways) isn't about people repairing their own devices, it never was. It's about preventing repair shops from doing those repairs and giving Apple a bad name because someone sees an iPhone where the screen fell off the front ("where the front's not supposed to fall off!").
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17609327
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Nobody should trust the will of the people. That's why we have representative democracies and not direct democracies.

The Brexit referendum shouldn't get a special "do-over". Instead, the result should be ignored because leaving the EU is a bad idea regardless of the people's will.

I'm sure a majority of the people have many other terrible ideas that they agree with, especially when you only need 51% of those who care enough to vote to constitute a "majority".

Trusting the will of the people is the philosophy of a lynch mob, not a government.
It might not necessarily be high in fat - it's probably the calorie restriction that works, as in this trial:

https://www.nhs.uk/news/diabetes/radical-low-calorie-diet-ma...
I wonder if it was entirely human, or if it was the proto-dogs themselves that self selected - it would have had to been the the animals that were already predisposed to hanging with us that would have been domesticated - I doubt ancient human's would have gone out of their way to capture, pen up, and train them.
Its the ESCAPE key.
What obligation does Google have to optimize their own platform for anything other than Chrome? It should be up to Mozilla and Microsoft to keep up if they so choose.
No, C has much less RVO allowed than C++. I provided an example of this here the last time : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216250