skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a doctor. This is what I have learned so far (there are no references here - sorry, I will need to dig up the material to substantiate this if you ask):

The upshot:
Managing diet is not sufficient (for type 2) remission. The damage is at cellular level. That damage needs to be reversed. Therefore muscles need to be rebuilt. Even for the over 60 years!

The thinking:
Diabetes Type 2 is the end point of years of abuse the body endures with elevated insulin and the _extent_ of insulin resistance the body progresses to. Diabetes therefore is a spectrum - the end point is when the pancreas bonks out and refuses to produce any more insulin. It's a tiny tiny organ and I think it's fragile. And it's threshold is also genetically determined. The interesting thing is that we all (including healthy folks) have levels and sometimes acute bouts of insulin resistance! The thing that made sense to me, reading about this, was that insulin resistance is a function of your muscle cells denying entry to glucose. And the insulin concentration in the bloodstream is a direct function of the concentration of free flowing glucose. Poor Pancreas is only doing its job but the muscles are not taking in any new glucose. They are refusing (resistant). Pancreas tries its best by pumping more insulin and for longer but the adamant muscles are the contract breakers in this arrangement - they don't open the gates for glucose.

The only way to change direction permanently in type 2 is to rebuild muscles which will have better insulin receptors to allow glucose to be shunted into the cells. For this to happen you have to do strength training. Lift sufficiently heavy. (No, not Arnie levels by any measure.)

(I recently read a study that administering testosterone to type 2 diabetics improved their insulin resistance. What happens with testosterone and anabolic steroids? New muscles, that's what.)
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> I have no agenda, I love China.

> Yet again, the Chinese government congratulates itself in having solved terrorism without war, and credit where it’s due, it has.

“The People’s War on Terror” and sending a million people to jail...

> Xinjiang appears to have no criminality whatsoever, and the police in the streets are unarmed. Meanwhile France has soldiers, not police, patrolling the streets of Paris.

This level of naivety is absurd. He seems to have an incredible ability to look without seeing. Or lacks the capability to think critically.

Let’s summarise the entire article:

- people go to xinjian as tourists

- people are treated as tourists

- people see xinjian as a tourist would, while being treated as a tourist.

I was in Turkey shortly after the latest coup. I wasn’t stopped by ANY police. I wasn’t arrested even ONCE. There’s obviously no problems there for those in the political minority, because I had such a nice time....
A 2003 diesel jetta is way better on the highway than a 2015 ford explorer.
I think the better question is what's so wrong with the SUV/Truck market that they don't have to compete on TCO? That they still rake in so much in year over year maintenance costs? That the purchase horizon for most SUV/Truck owners seems to be ~4-5 years versus the ~10-15 year lifetimes that sedan owners demand/expect?

Isn't doubling down on the higher profit margins of SUV/Trucks an admittance that GM and Ford (and their more powerful shareholders) can't see far enough past the short term to compete in the sedan market? What happens if a correction happens in the SUV/Truck market that the time horizon starts to reflect sedans (again)?
Should I patent, trademark, or copyright "buy low, sell high"? ... decisions, decisions....
Thank you Mozilla I didn't knew about this very helpful extension.
> A bodybuilding diet is mostly protein

Bodybuilders typically consume about ~30% protein. Where did you get the idea that it is mostly protein? Not to say that there aren't outliers obviously.
> if there was something like anonymous payments (cryptocoin-based maybe?) then it would be possible without any tracking

Taxes mess that up. A large number of jurisdictions charge a sales tax or VAT on sales to people in their jurisdiction and require the seller to collect. Some tracking is necessary in order to figure out what the tax is and where to send it.

That tracking doesn't necessarily have to be at the content provider. The service handling the micro-payments could also incorporate tax handling. The buyer would have to give up personal information to the payment service, but they probably already did when funding their micro-payment account.

It could also be handled by having content providers sell through aggregator sites, with the aggregator sites being the seller to the end user as far as taxes are concerned. Then the buyer only has to give up personal information to the aggregator site, instead of every content provider site that they buy an article from.

Aggregator sites would also help with the costs of dealing with taxes. An aggregator would have enough sales in each jurisdiction for the costs of filing to not be excessive. That's not necessarily true when individual content providers sell on their own sites. Some jurisdictions, for example, require tax collection and payment if you have more than 200 transactions in the past year in that jurisdiction, regardless of how low the total dollar amount is. Sell 200 articles for $0.05 and you've earned $10...and will be paying way more than that in quarterly filing fees.

My prediction is that if we move away from the ad model for funding content providers, we will see a big move toward aggregators for all but the major newspapers and magazines. The websites of smaller newspapers and magazines will just be summaries, and when you click to get the full text it will take you to some third-party publisher that the paper has licensed the full article to, and it is from that publisher that you will buy full access.

I think the aggregator market will end up concentrated in a very small number of aggregators that together have pretty much all of the "professional" content on the web, except for a few major newspapers and magazines that are big enough to justify consumers maintaining separate subscriptions just for them.
I think the default style (even of the demo on the page) should be no style.
If it's propagation you're interested in then RBN[1] does a good job of that by parsing morse code and callsigns. Sadly the map no longer exists due to the changes in Google's Map API pricing.

[1] http://www.reversebeacon.net/main.php
Not to be confused with the other Spectrum which is a real-time chat service and forum

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/

https://starcitizen.tools/Spectrum_(module)
AFAIK the standard American diet has about 250g of carbs. 132 grams of carbs is about the standard recommendation for T2 diabetes.

That said these recommendations are bullshit. If you have diabetes, you have an insulin problem and it's best to minimize it, so you need to eat the minimum amount of carbs you can get away with, prioritizing the complex carbs with fibers (e.g. spinach and other greens).

Btw, a low calories diet can work even if higher in carbs, because:

1. by losing weight insulin sensitivity goes up afaik

2. at 800 grams per day, that's not much to eat, so those people are probably fasting for much of that day

That's just a guess, but how you distribute your meals also matters just as much as what you eat.
> A bit click-baity, but the warning here from the father-of-index-funds is not that they've become a bad investment

I really doubt that he will ever come out and clearly say that they've become a bad investment.

But the insinuation is that going forward index funds might cause harm to public's interest. And law makers need to come up with laws to ensure that doesn't happen.
Generally agreed, but with a caveat: diabetics are at risk of ketoacidosis on low carb diets. They would need to measure their blood ketones and moderate carbohydrate intake to keep their levels down below dangerous thresholds.

Personally when I went low carb, I got blood (not urine) ketone levels up into the range that would kill a diabetic quickly, think in the 7.0 range. Even as someone well adapted I regularly hit the 3.0s when fasting.

Obligatory: I am not a doctor.
How much of those carbs are fiber? I'm trying to find the direct quote and see if more information is there.

Although, given the description of it includes "fruit juice", I am guessing it is a lot of sugar, which seems weird but I can't admit to know enough to say this is bad.

I'd be interested in the efficacy of this sort of diet when applied to a large mass of people as opposed to a very low carb diet. The NHS can "prescribe" these diets, but people may not follow them. It's possible that having a moderate amount of carbs (as sugar) in the diet will actually decrease the chances of a person going in the complete opposite direction and binging on sugar after they get sick and tired of a very low carb diet. I'm curious if they study that effect and "risk" of diets.
Just out of curiosity -- do you have free returns on your Shopify site? As a consumer I generally choose the sales path that will allow me the most pain free return if the product doesn't work out. I don't return often, but when I do -- I don't like a hassle.
> ...filled to the brim with sensors...

Has someone actually worked out that tons of sensors will cost far less than people-driven trucks? As it is, fuel is the big cost, followed by driver salary [1]. L5 autonomous driving is not going to come cheap, that gear is going to price as close to 3X driver salary as they can get away with, on the assumption they can run close to around the clock. Whose margin is getting compressed for the additional sensor gear?

This doesn't even touch upon that as soon as L5 is available and if 24x7 L5 operations approved, you suddenly just increased industry transport capacity 3X, leading to a sudden oversupply in certain segments and scenarios, while still requiring a certain baseline to handle peak load demands. That chaos will cause a lot of margin compression, and lots of rosy profit projections from L5 autonomous driving without drivers will turn into a race for finding more customer demand.

I can see some modest sensor gear, but nothing fancy, and not a lot of them. Perhaps high resolution visual and night vision cameras coupled with lots of street camera access, with lots of back-end software processing will deter most theft attempts?

We might ironically get to L5, only to stick lower-paid security guards on a random number of trucks.

[1] https://www.thetruckersreport.com/infographics/cost-of-truck...
>Far better to let parents decide, so when they get it wrong we can learn from it, and don't all get it wrong at once.

The problem is the disease is growing in epidemic proportions, no one is learning from mistakes.

The government got it wrong sure, but let the doctors prescribe the diet and government won’t dictate the diet only mandate following doctor prescribed treatment/diet (and this too I know has flaws).

But here is the thing, say a child does get diabeties and the doctor prescribed insulin, but the parents think they know better and refuse the treat their child. Should government be able to step in or allow the parent to withhold insulin treatment based on their freedom? Legally parents can refuse (life saving) treatment on religious grounds, and that arguement comes into play in diet, but I’ve also been involved in a case where a 13 year old was pregnant with HIV and was refusing court ordered treatments so the baby would be born without HIV, legally and morally they are complex issues.
I found WebSDR a while back and was fascinated by it, however I was surprised to find out the author, an EE/CS prof[1], has a very closed source view of both the client-side JavaScript code as well as the server-side code. I wanted to poke around the JavaScript and see what I could learn but that's explicitly disallowed by the license[2]:

> Since the intended use of this code involves sending a copy to the client computer, I (PA3FWM) hereby allow making it available unmodified, via my original WebSDR server software, to original WebSDR clients. Other use, including distribution in part or entirety or as part of other software, or reverse engineering, is not allowed without my explicit prior permission.

The server-side code is only available if you email him with plausible reasons you will use it[3]:

> Q: Where can I download the server software?

> A: Nowhere. However, I distribute it (without cost) via e-mail to people who are setting up a publicly accessible server ...

He's well within his rights of course to share his code however he pleases. But it did kill off a fun little idea I had for a Twitter bot pretty quickly since I can't touch the code.

[1]: http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/

[2]: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/websdr-sound.js

[3]: http://websdr.org/faq.html
And if you were asking about air conditioning in the summer, that would be the answer. Moderately "oversizing" a furnace vs. the heat loss calcs doesn't cause major problems; for air conditioning it does, with an oversized unit you don't get adequate humidity control. But for furnaces, to get noticeable negative effects you have to MASSIVELY oversize. The upshot of this (and other factors such as needing to upsize the furnace to get enough air handler capacity for the cooling load in summer) is that no, if your furnace is firing almost constantly all winter, something is probably wrong. That "wrong" is likely to be "the furnace itself is working fine, but you don't have enough insulation and your windows are super drafty", but for purposes of the basic "is this normal".. no. It's not, given common North American residential HVAC practice. Certainly worth further investigation.

Importantly in this case, the outside temperature at which your heat or AC runs constantly is the maximum where your house will maintain temperature. So, because of the different tradeoffs of oversizing heat vs AC, normal practice is to put in enough AC for a typical summer (and just let the house get a little warmer during a heat wave) so that dehumidification remains optimal, and to put in enough heating for a worst-case cold snap because, well, it doesn't hurt much and people REALLY complain when their house gets cold in the winter.
Sounds like you should take advice from their business managers.
For Slack to do this would be lowering the drawbridge across their moat. I don’t see it happening.
The strange case of Ford’s attempt to avoid the ‘chicken tax’
I was assuming these 800kcal were done through OMAD, are they not? I don't see how you could spread that over the day and keep your sanity.
TBH, I think a lot of it is just about presenting an image.

I grew up in a rural area, and a lot of the trucks in town rarely carried anything of note in the bed, because their owners didn't want the paint to get scratched.
Japanese sedans are dead too. It'll just take a bit longer.

Sedans simply do not offer enough utility or fun per dollar to stay relevant. In France, where I'm from, sedans have been utterly dead from as long as I can remember. People just buy hatchbacks instead.

Sedans stayed alive in the USA thanks to wider roads, larger parking spots, and a persistent notion that hatchbacks are tiny cheap econoboxes that you wouldn't want to be seen in (which, to be fair, is often the case, even though there are very good hatchbacks like the VW Golf).

CUVs and SUVs have overcome this stigma and are set to accomplish what hatchbacks failed to do in the US market: kill sedans. I expect very few people to go back to buying sedans after having owned CUVs or SUVs, unless it's a somewhat niche sedan like a BMW M3, Mercedes S-Class, Tesla Model 3, etc.
> I would agree that you could indeed hold it to be an axiom.

Challenge accepted, I will play your language game :)

> You might believe that it is beneficial for humans to hold this axiom to be true and act accordingly, but this is still your subjective opinion.

I live in quiet certainty that one day, eventually, everyone will be holding this same opinion and hold this axiom to be true. I do not necessarily expect to still be around to witness it personally.

By unbroken maternal lineage I am referring to the 9 months of sufficient love and nurturing required for a mother to produce a baby human, as has happened 100% consistently and successfully for millennia to arrive at each one of us. Any love received post-birth is a bonus. I accept that this view is harder to appreciate in some circumstances and is often obscured by many layers of trauma.

> Is it not just another way of saying that you just wish that everything were hunky dory?

I think to hold the perspective I'm describing you have to let go of seeing the problems in the world as problems. Things are simply happening. Suffering is happening. Life is unfolding. At some level I'm certainly still entertaining a wish that everything might yet work out to be hunky dory, but these days I can readily accept that such a wish will only ever be an illusion. I guess that is my second axiom.

You might enjoy briefly hearing Alan Watts tell The Story of the Chinese Farmer which beautifully expresses this general acceptance of life as it is currently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX0OARBqBp0

> Many people can afford it. However, many people can’t, and it isn’t a truth that we must strive towards

Many people might think they can't afford to love because life can grow intense and feel very serious sometimes, even dangerous, but love is free and it is always the best course of action. What else could each of us be striving towards if not a world with more love (even if only for ourselves)?

> In neither case is it guaranteed that a majority will wake up smiling and feeling happy every day. That’s fine too.

I agree, that's fine. Sadness is just as meaningful a feeling as happiness. These are just feelings.
Thanks, I didn't realize, though I can't edit my initial post anymore.
Reminds me of an episode of silicon valley where they write some of their implementation on a rival company whiteboard.
> 2. Are there any existing software developer labor unions that have a focus on keeping companies ethically accountable? (If any at all)

https://www.iww.org/pt/unions/dept500/iu560
Yes, the website can certainly be improved. A new one is planned :)
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The US stock market? How do you plan for purchase horizons of ten to fifteen years and very little maintenance operations in that window, when your shareholders only care about what you did for them for a quarter of a year at a time?
But I'm not sure living in San Francisco (the most expensive place) then commuting a very long way to somewhere that is actually cheaper to live is the obvious fix.

But, as a homeowner, I get that it's not so easy to pack up and move every time your job changes addresses.
> Simplifies refactoring tools.

How? we would just have case insensitive refactoring tools.

> Encourages a consistent style in the ecosystem from the beginning.

Python, C, Java, etc are case sensitive langs, and it's possible to define function names in all upper-case and do all kind of inconsistent styling. Python has pep8 for a reason.

> Not needing specialized tooling to grep for an identifier in a codebase.

If all langs were case-insensitive, all those tools would be case-insensitive by default (or we would all know the right combination of flags to make them behave).

> Being able to Google a particular function name.

Is google case sensitive? In any case the lang would define a preferred style, like all case-sensitive lang do anyway.

> Consistency in identifier naming when looking at a stacktrace.

Same as above.

Parent said "if a language were to be designed today in a vacuum", I don't think any of your arguments hold.
I've read a few threads on this and while I don't want to be absolutist and say you are wrong, I believe it's a lot more nuanced than what you described. My understanding is that the Brave injected ads are strictly opt-in at this point for the user, not the default, which makes it a lot less of a racket imho, but I dislike Brave simply because I don't need it, which seems like a good enough reason to grumble about it.
Driven Benz, BMW, Porsche, Audi, Tesla, Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc.

No way in hell is a C-Class Benz worth it's price. Tesla drives way better and is much more fun.

I think it's about TCO, status, reliability and maybe fun-factor.

Nobody buys an Audi or Benz for 'fun-factor'. Especially not when they get AMG or i versions.
I had driven BMW 3s and Minis via ReachNow. Did not feel anything special vs my Honda, or any rental I had.
Incidentally, I have heard Serre's work described as the exemplar of the hammer-and-chisel approach. (McLarty goes on to say that Bourbaki's work fits in the rising-sea approach, which is surprising to me.)
This strikes me as wildly unsustainable and something that just can't last, with a big caveat: I thought the exact same thing when people were doing this 20 years ago buying vacuum cleaners at Kmart and flipping them on eBay.

My understanding is that people (like this guy) who are good at this pretty rapidly graduate to doing drop shipping and more online speciality work.
a lot of it comes down to a strong and well-supported Information Security Officer and team, with detailed policies and procedures and a least-privileges-required security model. Someone shares credentials? Fired. The CEO or another exec wants an exception to the P&P so their buddy can get access? Well they'll get reamed by the ISO and possibly written up. No exceptions, and a paranoia about breaches is what helps to prevent such breaches from happening. Note I say "help," because there are no measures that are 100%. It's defense in depth and defense in breadth that will keep you off the front page (at least this year).
I imagine they'll rebrand it as GitHub Chat or something, then.
Username does not check out. :-)

If you go 60 miles outside a metro area anywhere, pickups start dominating. Southern metro areas have a lot even within the city.
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Well, if the Exploratorium published a book using paper circuits before Google applied for the patent, is this prior art?
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Not a lot. The recommendation is mostly liquid calories (think milk and juice), so this is mostly going to be high glycemic fructose, not a lot of fiber.
Or the other Spectrum, formed from the merger of Time Warner Cable and Charter.
Can easily get more comfort in a budget car by adding packages.
Sure, and I'm not sure I'd invite McAfee to dinner, but regardless of whether he committed a crime or not I'd be looking for the exits when the law enforcement of many SA countries came looking for me. Even teen-fucking murderers have a sense of self-preservation.
The article does read like a BS essay I would have written in college. But what’s with the age discrimination in your post?

The article doesn’t magically get any better if the author were 40 years old.
It's not too slow these days. I routinely browse over Tor, including watching YouTube videos, and it doesn't feel substantially different to just my ordinary ADSL connection.