skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article has a significant backstory.

A highly influential study by Chadwick et al. in 1991 [1] asserted that reports of fatal short falls in children are invariably falsified and actually stem from violence. They reached this conclusion by noting a significantly higher (7 times more in their data) hospital patient fatality rate after short falls (< 1.20 m) compared to long falls (> 3 m). They interpreted this apparent mathematical paradox ("short falls are not 7x more severe that long falls!") as evidence that all reports of short falls were falsified, and that these deaths were violent murders.

However, they overlooked many factors, including the fact that most nonfatal short falls do not result in hospital consultations; only the most severe ones do. Conversely, nearly all long falls (such as from several stories) are likely to prompt a hospital visit, even if the child appears uninjured. The hospital fatality rate is heavily influenced by this denominator, which does not accurately reflect the total number of short falls in a population—only the small subset that leads to hospital consultation.

This article, along with others, has led many physicians worldwide to doubt reports of short falls whenever a child sustains severe or fatal intracranial injuries, often resulting in criminal prosecution and conviction. There have been numerous cases of miscarriages of justice [2], and the issue persists.

In collaboration with mathematician Leila Schneps [3], our paper employs a particularly simple statistical model to quantify the impact of the hospital consultation rate confounding variable on the apparent hospital patient fatality rate. This is a small step towards helping physicians understand that reports of fatal short falls are not always falsified (though they may be, of course, but not always). There are many other scientific arguments, of course (case reports, including videotaped ones, biomechanical data, animal models, etc. [4])

This issue is similar to the famous case of Sally Clark, wrongly convicted because of statistical misunderstandings [5].

[1] https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/abstract/1991/10000/Deaths_...

[2] https://ncip.org/zavion-johnson/

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009630032...

[4] https://cyrille.rossant.net/introduction-shaken-baby-syndrom...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark
So, this is something LEGO is desperately trying to preserve: The opinion that LEGO's prices are reasonable due to better quality and more creative design / higher quality engineering.

The quality in all terms is not better at all... they may be CAPABLE of better quality, but they don't provide it just to reduce costs. That's why they provide stickers instead of prints and holed out plastic parts instead of solit ones. It's cheaper in production. If you compare LEGO parts from 20 to 15 years ago and todays parts, you immediately notice the difference.

There ARE indeed manufacturers and brands that deliver bad quality, but if you pick the non-ripoff brands, the quality may even better.
The big problem is that the CRISPR would need to be delivered to 100% of infected cells. And as far as I know (I'm a biologist) nobody has a method that can achieve a delivery rate of 100% in vivo.
Hmm I totally get where you’re coming from but I have used a “hi” in the past to basically probe and figure out if a friend or colleague is available for real time conversation because I suspect that the conversation will need to be a quick back and forth, lasting only minutes, rather than an extended asynchronous chain lasting multiple days.
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> Most virus infections can cause long term problems.

This is very, very false. Your body is currently fighting off a very large number of virus and bacterial infections. Most are innocuous, and don't even raise the symptoms of a cold.

Now, going out on more of a limb and moving into speculation:

There is a tiny minority of diseases -- most very new and poorly-understood -- which do this.

There's some evidence that prior to around 10,000 BC -- the rise of civilization -- very few diseases like this existed. What appears to have changed was that with civilization -- and now with population density and travel -- diseases can co-evolve with humans, and integrate into our various chemical signalling pathways. Things like Covid or AIDS can explicitly target our immune system, for example, to try to avoid being caught.

* Prior to civilization, a successful disease had to work across a broad range of species.

* When the population was a fraction of what it is today, there was less opportunity for disease to evolve.

* Without travel, there was less opportunity for spread (and for crosstalk between viruses)

... and so on.

These relatively new diseases can cause long-term problems. There's a lot of them, and it's not always the same ones as cause acute symptoms!
> One of my frustrations with trying to get my kids into lego is the proliferation in these one and two stud pieces in relatively small kits that are otherwise perfect for kids.

With my 5-year-old, we keep groups of sets in separate stackable plastic boxes. In one plastic box, we have only City vehicles (vans, tractors, cars, SUVs) which are mostly in an assembled state. He would play with them on the ground and would occasionally want to disassemble one. He then builds his own wacky wheeled creation, pridefully shows it to me and then asks "daddy, can you give me the instructions so we can build the original tractor again".

We also have another box with mostly gray rectangular bricks from 31120 "Medieval Castle". We would both stand on the ground for hours, doing stuff like small towers, houses, or just wacky things resembling real-world objects he has seen.
Whatever metrics anyone comes up with today, cannot be scaled back historically.

If e.g. you put some metric around "do you have a car", and try to use that metric towards "happiness", this implicitly puts all the people in 19th century in the "unhappy by not having a car" category.

The only thing that can be used over time is the self-reported level of happiness. I.e. "on a scale of 1 to 5, how happy do you feel today?". And this is exactly what this study does.

The real issue is that GDP (a concept which is too complicated to be understood by general populace), or any other "economic performance" criterion, have little to no relation to the self-perceived happiness of the population. Objectively poor people can be happy, and objectively rich people can be unhappy.
This looks like a very slick project and might just use it. GG!

Any chance something similar exists for slack? The discord client is not that much of a pain, but slack you have to pick between a client that OOMs the machine, and a browser tab that OOMs the browser.
People get fat through consuming more calories than they burn for energy during the day. There are extra but around the edges but no matter the ratio of fat to carbs to protein, if someone consumes (food or liquid) 3,000 calories a day but only burns 2,500 calories a day then a decent portion of that 500 cal difference will get stored as body fat. You could eat 0 calories of fat but if that total of carbs and protein is over your energy burn then over time you will add body fat.

I believe most people gain excess body fat through eating a little bit more than they need each day and then two or three weeks a year they eat and drink much more (holiday, Xmas, birthday etc), rather than consuming vast amounts of food day in day out of the wrong macro nutrient make up.
I thought of this article: https://www.crosslabs.org/blog/diffusion-with-offset-noise I don't know how much this applies to SDXL, but you might need a LORA to get very bright or very dark images. Gray could be a much easier targer.
Indonesia's e-bike shops are building their own batteries
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So it loads and boots in ... one ... disk command? Under a millisecond, all up?

On actual physical hardware it may well have booted before the power switch makes it all the way back up. Outrageous.
> but having a child seems to have made things significantly better in some ways

A child answers the existentialist "why I'm here? what's the point?" question on a primal, fundamental level. The child needs you, your purpose is to care for it.
In what form do you want your example? I want to shut down my computers to reduce power consumption, reduce noise and heat. There you have it!
I don't think that LEGO is better. They also have slightly off color, non fitting parts. Especially the "glass" parts are worse than Cada or BlueBrixx, but I'm not trying to convince anyone.

I think that everyone can pick whatever liked. However, the term "fake LEGO" is a bit weird, because the other manufacturers also have well designed parts LEGO does not provide...
What perfect timing, I started going down the GJS (Javascript) route for a custom app. Maybe it's time to build a Go + templ like package w/ GTK4 widgets.
The Cada cars definitely look good, the Amg one and Alfa Romeo f1 car are licensed too. Has anyone here actually built them? The interiors seem to be all black parts which could be a headache to get the right piece. Technic sets have good instructions and helpfully colored pieces which makes for a great build experience. Just wondering what it is like to actually bulls a Cada set.
> Apple have the right approach ...

Planned obsolescence through SoCs with no literature for system developers, soldered CPU, RAM, SSDs etc. and possible part-pairing on laptops and desktops was pioneered by Apple. I'd even go far as to say that the whole Right to Repair movement is an anti-Apple movement triggered by their hostility to consumer rights.
Nvidia Blackwell Systems Attack 1T Parameter AI Models
Who decides on what is harmful vs what is benign?
Android malware, Android malware and more Android malware
And the ones that do not match cat\n with cat$ arguably have it wrong. Both ^ and $ anchor to the start and end of lines, not to the start and end of strings, whether in multi-line mode or not.
Avante-garde/experimental film making is the main benefactor of all this.

Basically, cool looking video no one watches. I say that as a huge fanboy/artist myself. It is like Christmas every other day right now. All this VC money being set on fire to make better Avante-garde film tools is just wonderful. A dream come true.
for me i feel totally detached from my work, it's just a means to an end, a salary

as such i find it very difficult to care beyond doing the minimum not to get fired

yet the work gets ever more complex and layered with technical bureaucracy and ever changing landscape of idiots to deal with

i am planning to quit by eoy. thats my solution. life is too short to waste it.
I too had this problem so I developed an app that integrates Reminders and Obsidian to solve it; I create all my notes & tasks in Obsidian and my app syncs them to Reminders.app so you get the best of both worlds :)

HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919
It keeps too -- I think you would always waste some/have extra food unless you're starving. If you can turn that into non rotten calories, now I don't have to work on calorie getting tomorrow as much and we can try to figure out fire, pottery, whatever.
Yep. Being at the back of a yoga class always works for me
That's what I think. And even if the quality of the parts was less good, it's just not worth the LEGO price in many cases.

The video I linked shows the difference.
i mean it is also totally fair enough to just make another version of something that already exists for the sake of it, making things is fun and that's a good enough reason imo.

personally i'm really not a fan of the "x already exists so everybody should always use that and nobody should ever spend time making a different one" school of thought that seems to be so prevalent here. i just think it goes without saying that if their thing isn't obviously better and easy to adopt, it probably won't gain any traction.
@lawn, There's a typo towards the end (about 80%) down in the section on nvim-treesitter, should be `TSUpdate`, not `TSUdate`:

:TSUdate sdjot

Excellent write up though!
That gives the author space for another article ;)
Still a lot to do as they haven't kicked Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and many other American companies/products out of Hong Kong just yet.
"At least six different standards" is an XKCD comic, not a standard.
Cooked food, including meat, is hypothesized as the reason for a smaller digestive track. Of course, this needs fire.
Why isn’t Perl anywhere on that chart when mentioning regex?
I've only had one missing piece and that was in a 3696 piece set. Luckily it was non-structural so we could finish building it. Then we went on the Lego website - you can report missing pieces and they will send you a new piece in the post - it took about a week to arrive. Which was fine... I guess if it had been a structural piece we may have been less impressed.
Probably leetcode.
Maybe you need to reframe or challenge your beliefs.

Research emotional biases. A combination of believing in your own specialness, loss aversion and retrospectiveness can be a toxic combination.
The advantage of 'enshittification' over 'betrayal' is that the latter suggests we might have expected a betrayer to act otherwise and they somehow bear fault; the former makes it clear anyone expecting any better of artificial persons is a fool.

Compare the proverb "fool me once..." and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_and_the_Viper
Random chance and years of underinvestment and tech debt
This phase lasts until they are teenagers, and the questions come back but stronger.

Unless you enjoy the answer to "why I'm here" being "driving my teen around to hang with their dubious friends", "nagging about homework", and "human paycheque."

Just sayin' :-)

I love my kids, but children are not the answer to getting meaning into your life. Having a mid-life crisis in your late 40s & 50s long after you've had kids is a cliche for a reason.
Me too -- Think about what a boon stored calories would be vs all your food rotting every few days and having to worry about getting more would be.
Trusting Content on the KDE Store
I keep wondering, why not antarctica? Doing this stuff there first makes more sense and is cheaper. Politically, it won't be any less challenging to mine stuff either.
> I bet if someday VS Code's Windows build ships with LF default on new installations, people won't even notice.

As with '/', they really ought to do this some day but won't.
The borrow checker is not responsible for even 1% of compilation time.

The elephant in the room is monomorphisation and macro expansion. Those generate a ton of code that LLVM has to process. In return you get much faster programs at runtime.
You're so wrong. With only protein and fat, they would not be able to gain much weight. I've tried to gain weight on low carb/high fat, and it doesn't work. I was uncomfortably full after every meal. My tracking showed a significant calorie surplus, but my body wasn't absorbing it. Adding in more carbs made a huge difference. Hormones tell your body when to store fat.
If you're collecting wrongful convictions due to statistical misunderstandings, the Australian case of Kathleen Folbigg is significant.

On 4 March 2021, a petition signed by more than 100 eminent scientists was published by the Australian Academy of Science, calling for the NSW Governor to pardon Folbigg, and providing compelling scientific and medical explanations for each of the deaths.

On 5 June 2023, Kathleen Folbigg was granted an unconditional pardon.

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

https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-re...
I mean that’s kinda the same as the linked project Dissent - they also use a user account. That’s why I thought about it that way.
I think the word fascist is not accurate of Russia, at least. Maybe just dictatorship is more accurate.

I entirely agree with what you way though. The west is extremely naive in its world view, and has been so for many decades. Silly ideas like "the end of history" are still influencing attitudes even though they are so clearly wrong that no one would explicitly espouse them.

The west has forgotten that not everyone is going to go along with the idea of social liberal free market democracy, and that it is not as appealing to many people from other cultures.
It could be both: Fermented meat from scavenging. Sounds gross but actually many cultures still have fermented meat products in their cuisine
The problem is, that the GOOD part sellers (like CADA) are always put into the same spot as these cheap aliexpress rip-offs...

I think LEGO has done a great marketing job here... never buy something that is not LEGO, it might be bad quality or scam.

You have to choose wisely, but if you've found the good stuff, you probably won't go back.
fair enough, makes total sense then in this case.
Nope. Israel is one of the most secular countries around with more than 40% of the population defined as secular.
I think i’ve built just that, can we get in touch? I would appreciate the feedback
Yep, you lot should stop freaking out that some companies don't want to be remote. You have the choice not to work there. We're all tech professionals here it's not like we're starving and unable to risk switching workplaces. Going into an office where there is a thriving community is not possible for me at a mostly remote job. There's nothing more depressing than an empty office building, and I would never choose to go into the office when I have no way of knowing when people will bother to come in.
And that Bill Gates wants to use the vaccine to depopulate Earth, and that the vaccine includes a 5G enabled microchip to coerce you into adopting SDGs. It's really bullshit all the way down.
Non-religious/secular are the largest demographic in Israel by far.
> Is it an unpopular opinion to say 75% of “a lot” is still “a lot”

I don’t know if it’s unpopular, but it may be inaccurate. OP claims that they improved by 75%, so you probably meant “25% of a lot is still a lot”.

> I would expect incremental build speedup to be prioritized, and steadily improving. But clearly it isn’t moving very fast in that direction. So why not?

Is this assessment based on something?

For what it’s worth, people have been working on it for years, with varying approaches and levels of success. The recent spate of articles you’ve seen is precisely because these approaches are bearing fruit. Several folks have worked on making a previously single threaded frontend multithreaded, others have added an option to swap the LLVM backend out for a much faster one (cranelift), and yet others are working on moving to a faster linker by default.

The net gain from all of these once they land could be as much as 30–50%, depending on the project, mode of compilation (clean or incremental) and hardware (single/multiple cores). That is a pretty fantastic improvement, considering the whole year improvements in the last 4 years have been 7%, 17%, 13% and 15%, for an overall speed gain of 37%.

If all of this doesn’t sound impressive, I’d encourage you to read nnethercote’s annual reports which explain how much effort went into making compile times faster. 2023’s report - https://nnethercote.github.io/2024/03/06/how-to-speed-up-the...

Ultimately, all of these improvements might not be enough for the people who need HMR to be productive. That’s possible. But the idea isn’t to get to a point where every line of code written in the world is Rust. There’s plenty of Rust development happening today. When the compile times drop as hoped, more people join and that grows the ecosystem.
Probably a vulnerability issue. Programmers would leave multiline mode on by mistake, then validate that some string only contain ^[a-Z]*$… only for the string to have an \n and an SQL injection on the second line.
So yeah, bugs happen. But at this point, why is my Mac still showing the update as available? I really don't understand why they haven't pulled down this one.
Will this be available in consumer products like phones?

What could one do with such accuracy, and how to interpret this when sensor is larger than precision?
I presume reading skills are hard to acquire these days. I can tell you in more simple terms. Unfortunately HN does not allow me to draw with crayons:

"Any manufacturer that provides hardware that has screen with a matte finish and whose hardware is not tied to a shitty OS".
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I’ve always thought that as well; mostly due to Vim though.

^ - takes you to start of line
$ - takes you to end of line
This seems to be the main message. And it's followed with such a sweet lacing of irony in the associated footnote

> The empirical evidence is clear on this. If you look at where the largest numbers of successful startups come from, it's pretty much the same as the list of the most selective universities.
I agree. Coming from NodeJS I appreciate how explicit Java is.
The complexity is there either way, but in Java it's right up front where I can see it, not hidden away under layers of abstraction for a supposedly better DX.
> Certainly no 'nasty toxic smells/paints'.

There are manufacturers that provide laboratory analysis of their bricks to prove the quality.
In case we need to shrink the Earth for Intergalactic travel....Somebody knows something...
Train’s don’t need to slow down for rough terrain because they can’t handle rough terrain and either route around it or tunnel through it. What they do need to slow down for is the rail network itself.

Poor track conditions, missing block signal systems, and Trains without an automatic cab signal, automatic train stop or automatic train control system "may not exceed 79 mph."

Freight trains really could travel a mostly Class 6 network at 120MPH in the US, we have regulations all the way to class 9. They don’t because that’s not rail is optimized for.
Perfectly acceptable for homeowners to spend their own money to save their houses.

But it’s the last sentence in the story that makes me boil over:

“Now, the homeowners have asked the state to step in and provide assistance.”
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In my experience, wget is best for quickly grabbing a file from the web. Curl is best for fetching something that you plan to visually inspect or pipe into another command.
Your body can't take fat from plants and animals and directly embed it into fat calls. The metabolism of ingested fat takes much more steps than say sugar, which can be directly absorbed into fat cells and also raises insulin resistance. Sugar and refined carbohydrates are a far bigger reason for obesity than fat consumption or "greasy food".
How the Swedish labour market works