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That doesn't explain why you don't see people collapsing in the UK all over the place.

I would think that there must be something about these individuals, aside from being dark skinned, that makes them more prone to issues.

How is it possible that the football player mentioned in the article can suffer from a deficiency level that's severe enough to collapse?

I would expect that regularly being outside (for practice) and a normal balanced diet would be sufficient to at least get by in a country like the UK. Some depressive/lower energy symptoms during winter time, maybe, but nothing so severe as collapsing.

Shouldn't this problem show up in a much larger portion of the population? Or do very physically active individuals require more Vitamin D?

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:59AM (#50207059)
We do at least have CAA records that you can use to tell clients to only accept TLS certificates from specific CAs for your hostnames, but ideally that would be opt-out rather than opt-in.
Re:Claude Duet on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:37AM (#50193209)
It's important to see news like "serial killer active in town XYZ" but that doesn't mean that it's a positive event.
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:58AM (#50087049)
It sucks that sellers cannot offer their products for cheaper elsewhere, but I've also often seen sellers sell their products for a much higher price on their own website than Amazon, and in that case why wouldn't I buy it on Amazon instead?

In that sense having one big marketplace with all kinds of competing products together also seems to motivate sellers more to compete on price rather than relying on lazy consumers.

Re:Live map of public transport in Belgium on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:24AM (#49596505)
Similar map for the Netherlands: http://ovzoeker.nl/
Re:Being Ambitious and Being a Dad on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:20AM (#49362793)
I like your dog trick analogy, that definitely helped me understand it more :)
Re:Being Ambitious and Being a Dad on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:23AM (#49361303)
Surely a lot of this can be experienced by associating with parents and their children rather than having them yourself, right?

This may sound somewhat reductive, and please correct me if that is the case, but I find that I can be around and play with my nephew and experience all of this wonder and how he progresses through life, while not being around for the sleepless nights and tantrums that I feel are the "work" part of being a parent.

Re:Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:16AM (#48980066)
Am I missing sarcasm here? Minecraft was developed in 2011 and Java was conceived in 1995; it was (already) an extremely mature and popular language at the time.
What is the advantage of this compared to Dear Imgui?
Re:RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @10:03AM (#48570721)
There is: your browser or other type of client does not know it can repeat a POST request if it fails, whereas a QUERY request can be freely repeated in case of errors.
Re:Claude Fable 5 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:53AM (#48474406)
One does not need to be able to create it themselves to evaluate if the output is correct. Consider for example that you can easily determine if a meal tastes delicious without being an expert chef, or the fact that NP problems are very difficult to solve but make for easily verifiable solutions.
You can use ONNXRuntime with a TensorRT backend, so one does not exclude the other.
Re:Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute on Monday June 08, 2026 @09:12AM (#48444909)
What exactly is the opposite side? Is it actively managing a portfolio? Because most people don't have the time to do that.
Re:London's Free Roof Terraces on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:12AM (#48369836)
Are we reading the same reddit thread? It looks like most of the people in the comments are against the decision.
Useless because you can use a camera to take a photo of a synthetic image.
Re:The last six months in LLMs in five minutes on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:43AM (#48190821)
I actually thought it was a joke comment, but I'm worried now that it's not the case.
Re:CopyFail was not disclosed to Gentoo developer on Friday May 01, 2026 @09:00AM (#47974284)
You cannot deny that telling the entire world about this vulnerability before it is patched won't cause a lot of abuse that would not have happened otherwise.
Re:Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:11AM (#47960008)
Any program on your computer can just run "sudo" to escalate itself.
Re:FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @12:43PM (#47337921)
That's exactly what I set out to do with my pet project :)

https://github.com/Overv/outrun

Re:AI Agent Hacks McKinsey on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @12:36PM (#47337820)
Yes, world class in causing human suffering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pgDmR-pWg

Re:Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @07:35AM (#46958898)
>unless the label is something too low signal to predict

>Also, crashes are statistically rare events on arterial and local roads, so it can take years to accumulate sufficient data to establish a valid safety profile for a specific road segment.

That is exactly what this article is about.

Re:Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:25AM (#46795066)
I wouldn't be surprised if they did this to lower the support workload, since I have several 2.4Ghz devices that fail to connect to WiFi at all if I put both bands on the same SSID. I intentionally separated them for that reason and portable devices like phones know how to switch between multiple SSIDs based on signal strength anyway.
Re:jQuery 4.0.0 Released on Monday January 19, 2026 @07:53AM (#46678428)
Vue can do progressive enhancement.
Re:CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @05:29AM (#46374307)
No, Hacker News is generally about technology and startup news, not businesses in general.
Re:Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:21AM (#46301149)
Mullvad at least is funded by their VPN subscriptions.
Re:Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:18AM (#46301123)
In my experience Chrome does not just load faster, but it also uses less memory than Firefox because of its more aggressive tab hibernation that is enabled by default.

On my laptop I had to switch from Firefox to Chrome because it kept filling up all of my RAM resulting in other applications crashing.

Re:Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:15AM (#46301099)
The document you linked mentions $50M in advertising/subscription revenue.
Re:Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:02AM (#46301012)
You can install uBlock Origin on Firefox mobile; it's the only reason I use it.
Re:Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:01AM (#46301004)
It is the desktop where Firefox has a 4% market share right now. Once you consider all traffic it drops down to 2%.

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...

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