skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's one https://safetosleep.nichd.nih.gov/activities/SIDS/progress

The SIDS rate dropped from ~1.4 to ~0.5 per thousand with a pretty strong correlation to back-sleeping and a campaign to promote it, combined with shifting cause of death diagnoses to "accidental suffocation".

If you can reduce the prevalence of a diagnosis by 65% by having babies sleep on their back, there's a good chance the cause of death in a good few of the remaining cases (and ones not prevented in the path) ought to be something like "suffocated while not sleeping on their back" instead of a mysterious illness.

Even the linked paper quotes

>The “triple risk model” hypothesises that SIDS deaths result from coincident occurrence of a vulnerable infant, a critical developmental period, and an exogenous stressor

which if this is the model for SIDS should get real philosophical questioning as to the appropriateness of bundling this together into a syndrome instead of labeling the actual cause and trying to fix it specifically (as in, promoting back sleeping as it is a risk for infant suffocation)

I don't want to vet individual claims of physicians to quote them, but there are many out there questioning the merits of SIDS as a diagnosis.

There is, however, not a boss in charge of science who is going to stamp SIDS as "doesn't exist", and the diagnosis will likely stick around for a long time because of the social issues attached with the trauma and attempts to find non-blaming answers for why a child died.
The brownstones were hated when they were built, because they didn't fit in the neighborhood!

https://twitter.com/JerusalemDemsas/status/14363665088091504...

Your personal aesthetics shouldn't dictate what others do with their property.
Interesting article! But two corrections are in order:

"it is not like very many rich people have three apartments" - oh yes, they absolutely do - "or take nine years to finish undergrad" - let me tell you about a time and place in Europe that had effectively removed education scarcity with free college for everyone. People lurking in (sometimes multiple) degrees for close to a decade was so common that there was a word for it. Not that that was a terrible place to live, quite nice actually.
Out of curiosity, do you not live in the US? This line of questioning is indicative of a lack of familiarity with US policing.

That being said, there are lots of crimes which could start with loitering outside a school, even if the locality doesn't have a law specifically against loitering in front of schools (which many do), loitering with intent to commit a crime is against the law, and the police only need "probable cause" to arrest you. "Looked suspicious and refused to move on when asked" could very well be enough to establish probable cause.
> Twitter is what you want it to be, topic-wise, based on who you follow and what they like to talk about.

I've tried this. It's false. It's a myth that Twitter users tell themselves, AFAICT.

Even disregarding the trending topics and explore interfaces, all it takes is for one of the curated members that you follow to retweet something you're not interested in seeing.

> What happens when Elon's "anything under U.S. law" approach kicks in is toxic behavior and arguments will get so extreme that it will drive millions of people away, and those who are left will see the quality of their feeds decline. Then many of them will bail, too.

But that's contradictory to your claim that Twitter is what you want it to be, based on who you follow, isn't it?

Because Twitter _isn't_ what you claim it is. Twitter is optimized for outrage-oriented engagement. It _wants_ to show you things that will encourage you to engage, to return, and there's nothing quite as engaging as content that upsets you.
It's more than healthcare, the entire social security net is far more extensive in Germany than in the US. This also affects the part about COVID, one really important measure here was to essentially have the government continue to pay people in jobs that would otherwise have been lost during the pandemic. That was an already existing measure that was expanded during the pandemic.
Examples like Digg and MySpace should sufficiently show that iterating on a perfectly fine product is not necessarily a good idea. In fact, being able to stay cool and not steer into a ditch is definitely a rare skill.
> Tesla has plainly kicked the ass of the European and Asian auto giants

Tesla had 1.4% of all cars sold in 2021, by number of units. Going by revenue it's somewhere around 1%. It is kinda hard to see that as kicking the asses of the competition.

Kicking ass would be more like what happened with smartphones, where iOS + Android went from 0 to >90% market share in the space of five years, leaving Nokia, Palm, Blackberry etc. as brands nobody would assoviate themselves with. Nothing like that is happening in automotive.
> nor have I read the book

My background: unlike the parent, I have read the book. I am a freeloader, but I am a grateful freeloader. It's clear love and effort went into producing the book.

Frankly, I think the "tl;dr" response above by someone who hasn't even read the book totally justifies the author's alleged dismissal. The author set the price. The author doesn't want to hear your complaints/criticism/feedback that their pricing is wrong. I believe that is their right.

I think this is exactly the same situation as a startup trying to convert free customers to the paying tier. There are free customers that you don't really want as customers. You set your price so you don't have to deal with them...
Ask HN: Fun and unexpected applications of Computer Science?
I am giving a talk to fresh graduates of a coding bootcamp, I would like to show them that CS is more than coding, and that there can be a lot of fun applications, and how having fun can feed learning.

I have seeded my list with the following fun and unexpected applications, but I would appreciate more pointers:

* Applications of ML in art, e.g. DALL-E, DeepDream, OpenAI's MuseNet and JukeBox.

* Computational origami, highlighting some of the work of Erik Demaine.

* A couple of examples of how some ideas from CS can be applied to day-to-day life, inspired by "Algorithms to Live By" by Christian and Griffiths, e.g. looking at the exploit vs explore trade-off when selecting a restaurant in town.

* Knuth's papers on The Complexity of Songs, and The Toilet Paper Problem.

* A couple examples of esoteric languages.
It appears you can use public transport alone even if you’re just four years old, and six years is merely the minimum age to be a “guardian” for under four year olds.

> Children under four years of age may only use public transportation if they are accompanied by an individual who is at least six years of age.
Other good news is, if photonics is a viable path forward from traditional CMOS, in the distant future we can have "hardware" and "lightware" :)
I live in Sweden and it’s forbidden for me (or them) to take pictures of my kid at school, ever. I have all these great pictures of me and my friends in the 80s doing theater plays and christmas singing and whatnot from when I was a kid. My children will get none of that. Actually, they do send me pictures sometimes: of headless bodies, hands or arms in weird angles apparently doing something fun (I can’t really tell). Are people simply too lazy to deal with the responsibility of living in human society?
Hell, their bank's supposed* Deputy CEO in an interview couldn't even name the two types of banking license that are applicable in the Bahamas, or which one they had, but he knew they had one, and "possibly the other, I'm not sure".

* He was the Deputy CEO according to the interview and his LinkedIn (though there was all sorts of hilarity there, like claiming he graduated HEC Lausanne at 15, and becoming a Professor of Finance somewhere in Lebanon while running multiple funds all over. But after the disastrous interview, he was quickly deleted from the bank's website. And then re-added when people started questioning that. And then removed again when the bank hurried to "revamp" their website (to a WordPress installation, no less, and gaining 15 years of experience in the process).
I think that's the big difference that causes confusion here: Musk is wealthy, not rich. The companies are worth a lot, but generally not producing dollar bills for him. His ownership in companies worth a lot is why he's valued so high, rather than strictly how much money or cash leverage he has.
Low-dimensional embedding.
Apple Pay was first by about a year (2014 vs 2015). Google had a payment product but it was browser based and not integrated into phones, didn’t work with tap to pay through existing nfc chips or anything special.

They seemed to respond to Apple Pay by changing the name (of course) to Android Pay. And there were also specific payment methods for some manufacturers like Samsung Pay also coming out about a year after Apple.
New York City alone has a similar population to all of Sweden, and is twice that of Alabama. I'm sure you can find 1.5% of the Swedish population that is just as conservative.
Apple loses position as most valuable firm amid tech sell-off
And that diagnosis should be considered harmful if it is just a catchall for "unknown cause of death" because people go looking for answers which won't exist like this study while ignoring actual causes of death which may be preventable (like encouraging back-sleeping saves a huge percentage of SIDS-attributed deaths).
Yup. Also just mostly wireless equipment is super low quality. It's easy to see this when living downtown in any larger city. You'll easily be competing with 100s of other APs for the 2.4 ghz wireless band. With tbr 5 and 6 ghz this is getting better but there still isn't nearly enough channels.
Google is an ad company, Apple is a hardware company. All else is marketing.
The question is maybe a bit off-topic a d vague. That's because I struggle to express it with the right terms:

I'm looking for a generic tool to build and then serve:

Accept Incoming request (API contract A)
Send outgoing request (API contract B) potentially with parameters from the incoming request
Receiving incoming response (API contract B)
Do some translations/string manipulation
Send outgoing response (API contract A)
Wait they actually produced this one? Nice!
The world isn't really full of child molesters. And sadly a big majority of molesting happens by people the child knows, like family and friends, not strangers. So this extreme reaction to strangers and people walking on eggs around schools is all for very little benefit.
Definitions aside I’d say that it seems to be a leaky abstraction.
Well looking at this specific feature, I believe chrome got site isolation mid-2018 and enabled it by default mid-2019. From what I can tell Firefox got it mid-2021.

I don't know much about the specifics of the implementations, but that seems like a significant difference for such a crucial security feature, especially post meltdown/spectre.
"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

From your very own guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ;-)
"Twitter supports videos now, therefore Vine is redundant! Shut it down and 100% of Vine users will post their videos on Twitter!"

—Twitter PMs, probably
Bill Gates would be straight up wealthier than Musk if he didn't donate half his wealth to his foundation. If you consider that part of his wealth (in the sense of total lifetime income so far, not figure spending power, so subtracting off personal consumption/spending), you don't have Musk being suprosinly more wealthy.
I’m not sure you read the whole thing but she did go back and talk to “security”. Also, this author specifically is known for her activism. At any rate, I wouldn’t judge her if she didn’t…
It is possible in principle, but gets harder as wavelength of captured light gets smaller and so far it is done only for long radio waves on planet scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_optical_interfero...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_synthesis
If it wipes out the Ponzi schemes and people learn, then it's a good thing.
But, some folks are loosing their shirts and that is never a good thing.
You are assuming the answer.

We are currently having an argument as to whether such discrimination should be allowed.

Given we have a right to free speech, and that this is not allowed to be infringed on by any US government, does that not also extend to the government actively protecting that right from those who would seek to infringe on it?

There is quite a body of law that says that the government should do just that.
“Imagine thinking this lol. This post made by Not Thinking This Gang”
You're forgetting how sensitive this location detection is, these days. Let's say you are moving in a direction roughly parallel to the circle carved out by a given signal strength. You could move quite a long ways without RSSI fluctuating much.
I do wonder how many of those SIDS cases are really just a woman suffering from postpartum depression smothering her newborn because she is no longer receiving the full amount of attention she received when pregnant.
80% of Musk's wealth is either confidence in Tesla's future, or memes, depnding on your perspective. It's not even pretending to be about completed work.
I see two outcomes. Either the moonshot happens possibly with far left support or the idea is burnt for a few years. Cutting it to 56 years would release a lot of stuff. I am not sure in how far the USoA could even do that as there are international treaties about copyright length.
There's more to this than just today's events supporting your theory that the wheels were in motion before Elon's bid -

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/technology/twitter-securi...
Exactly. Therefore you cannot compare a renderers performance with some other that has a fully functional VT backend attached. The comparising result is meaningless. His renderer is good, but the VT throughput performance claims he makes are wrong. For that to be fair, he should not take shortcuts in functionality.
CA Law Enforcement Now Needs Approval for Military-Grade Surveillance Equipment
Yep. Anyone doubting that Putin actively funds and influences right wing politicians in the West needs only to look at Putin's state spokesman, Dmitri Peskov's daughter, Elizaveta, is an assistant to far-right French politician Aymeric Chauprade, a French Member of the European Parliament.
I feel like moderators should receive a weighted vote when identifying connections between subreddits. Two subs with identical moderator lists must be pretty similar right?
They suggest a causative link in the article: carbon dioxide concentrations near the infant's nose and mouth which can cause suffocation.
Maybe parents just don't want strangers creeping on their children.
Regular Expression Improvements in .NET 7
Experiments have been ramping up over the past couple decades with both Luna- and Mars-analogous simulated regolith. The novelty is doing it on real regolith brought back from Luna.
Very improbable. 20% gains is nothing for DeFi.
How much CO2 is released by building the plant and it's materials and how long will it take to recover that? Honest wuesy as none of the various DAC companies offer any numbers on that subject.
The large "Asia" region contains, besides Asian topics (the right half of the region):

- Language learning communities

- Latin America (except Brazil which is in the RPG region because of r/TibiaMMO)

- Italy, Spain and Portugal (the latter is located between China and Japan for mysterious low-dimensionality representation reasons)

Other European countries with funny locations:

- Germany in the soccer region (as Gary Lineker once famously said "Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and, in the end, the Germans always win")

- France in the Canada region (Quebec strong)

- The Netherlands in the EDM region
Bitcoin and PoW not really, but the core idea of cryptocurrency stuff is distributed byzantine-fault-tolerant consensus where honest behavior is economically incentivized. That sounds kind of abstract and bitcoin itself is not very useful (throughput is too low), but if it can be made to scale it’s very powerful. First of all, it allows computation that no one can control, which is most obviously applicable to finance with things like automatic market makers.

But more compelling to me is that it allows you to do what bittorrent did but in general - with bittorrent anyone can host a file and a static link can help you find those people and download the file (with no need to trust that the person serving the file hasn’t replaced it with some other file). This is possible because of cryptographic primitives like hashes that let you use a few bytes to uniquely identify the contents of any file, distributed hash tables that let you come to agreement on which IP addresses are serving which files, etc. (If you don’t think bittorrent is useful, that’s fine, but me and many others think it is.)

There’s still a lot of work to be done, but we’re approaching a point where you can “bittorrent-ize” a much broader class of services. Bittorrent works only for serving files whose hashes you already know, but doing the same for a service like HN is much more difficult. You need to allow posts from many different people and know when they were submitted, and maintain vote counts, but a distributed ledger is perfect for this. It’s not practical to do this on any decentralized cryptocurrency right now, but we’re slowly getting there.

Like I said, scaling this is a very difficult problem, for example you need to have data sharding so that not every node has to store the full ledger, but over the last few years cryptocurrency people have come up with very good data sharding systems like danksharding (which will hopefully be implemented on Ethereum in the next decade).

You also don’t want every node to have to redo all the computation, but ZK-proofs (which were basically only used in academia before cryptocurrencies came along and poured billions of dollars of funding into making them practical) make that unnecessary at the cost of some significant overhead when performing the computation. Despite that cost, we already have really good layers on top of Ethereum called ZK-rollups that lower the transaction cost to almost zero and introduce no new trust assumptions.

You also want state expiry or state rent so the network state doesn’t grow monotonically, but that’s also being developed and in the past few years we’ve also developed some really good state expiry schemes.

You also want fast finality so that you don’t have to wait 10 minutes for the contents of the ledger to stabilize, but we finally have scalable permissionless byzantine fault tolerant consensus schemes that have very fast finality (<30s), one of which is being implemented on ethereum (called casper).

There’s other cool stuff too, but I think this direction is one of the most exciting ones.

Disclosure: I’m a protocol developer for a major cryptocurrency (although not ethereum or bitcoin)
An "individual" … maybe that means it would suffice for them to be accompanied by the family dog?

(edit: unfortunately not, for in the German it is more specific, "nur in Begleitung einer Person …".)
> 31 October 1517, the day on which Martin Luther supposedly nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg.

This was the moment that deviation from Roman orthodoxy was finally allowed, and opened up a space where atheists could do science and share rational thoughts. It wasn't all at once, but where before there was no space, now you could at least masquerade as a weird Protestant.

When I'm looking for the end of the medieval period, I'm just looking for a time during which atheists could tell the truth without being killed. Even if they had to do it in code, just the ability to be truthful at all made rapid scientific and cultural advancement inevitable.
> My point was that only I know what my intent was. [...] In the end, I'll need to do it myself, since I know what I want.

I think we're in violent agreement here; my point was that the autoquoter is superfluous, since the command in your previous comment already does what

> his (very cool) autoquoter [supposedly] allows

even without a autoquoter.

> Utility functions like shell_escape() would be nice

Note that in this case you specifically do not want shell_escape(). You're trying to produce awk code that evaluates to a given string, and that requires knowing awk syntax, not shell syntax; if you escape according to shell syntax, a attacker may be able to find a string where the shell expression for that string, when interpreted as awk code, does something other than evalute to a string.

You could have a generic_escape() function that (say) replaced any non-alphanumeric byte with '\xHH' or '\B' (for 'B'==0xHH), but there will always some language where whatever generic strategy you picked doesn't work.

$ echo "\x3E"
x3E # shell doesn't accept \xHH
$ echo '12+3<45' | grep -oE '\<.' | paste -sd' '
1 3 4 # posix ERE doesn't accept \B
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They crashed a plane! Which means they had completely lost control! What was stopping the plane from randomly pitching up and flying off towards people?

This seems to prove the opposite, that it was a dangerous stunt that the faa were right to deny and very luckily nobody was hurt
USB-C hubs or monitors with power delivery make this really easy these days. One cable gets you everything. Power, display(s), mouse/keyboard, Ethernet, and any other peripherals you need. It's absolutely worth getting a USB Ethernet adapter. They work way better than WiFi.

A wireless mouse is still worth it though. Logitech G305 is essentially perfect IMO. Extremely reliable, extremely low latency, months of battery life, reasonable price.
F# deserves its own category. You even get access to the .NET ecosystem for free. The developer experience is something else too.
> I'm skeptical because we are building black boxes.

An article came up a couple days ago that points to some interpretable features of the so-called black boxes you refer to. It's not that they are black boxes, it's that our torches are not yet bright enough.

https://vaclavkosar.com/ml/googles-pathways-language-model-a...

> Most of us aren't moving goal posts, but are very much skeptic at the things we are being oversold on.

I think a shift in perspective is warranted here. It's becoming increasingly clear that we may have vastly overestimated our own intelligence. Human exceptionalism is crumbling before us as we see how limited the tools are that pull off such incredible stunts. Judging based on other neuroscience and psychology research coming out, it really does seem like we are no more than statistical inference machines with specialized hardware that allow us to pack a lot of processing power into a small, energy-efficient system. We need to figure out next better learning algorithms, which probably depend quite heavily on the particular physical architecture.
They did, but you've got the join the Air Force to use it.

https://www.nellis.af.mil/Units/NTTR/
Yeah, it should be part of their slogan, if even at all. But „like a OS for X“ to explain is fine.
How embarrassing. It doesn't surprise me that HBR ran something like this, but it certainly lays bare how much credibility they should be given.

I wonder how all the crypto/web3 stuff is going to be "unwound" in a way that doesn't make public figures and institutions look ridiculous for taking it seriously