skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a great graph[1] showing per capita US institutionalization rates from 1934-2000, differentiating between prison, mental institutions and the combined total. The aggregate rate of US institutionalization is about the same as it was in 1954ish, the holding pen has just changed.

The graph is from a blog post on Volokh Conspiracy[2] about a paper from American Criminal Law Review [3] entitled "Is Mass Incarceration Inevitable"

[1]https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2019/1...

[2] https://reason.com/2019/10/08/in-mass-incarceration-inevitab...

[3] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3436933
The article mentions that the salt was originally used for food. I'm curious how, or if, they prevented contamination from things like machine oil or other artifacts of mining.
فروش ویلا 200متری درشهرک لوکس دریاکنار 09301301018
Wow! That game was developed by a single guy? In assembly?? That's incredible!
It still is the same theme.

For Vulkan and real time audio they expect you to checkout GitHub repos and compile from scratch, instead of having the tooling as part of the NDK.

Likewise after 10 years they still expect everyone to manually write JNI bindings, instead of providing another productive way for language interop.
Weird, on my SE Google maps pans like crap, at least compared to Apple Maps (not that this contradicts your comparison). Google maps is hitting, I’d guess, 10FPS, whereas Apple Maps is getting something high enough to be indistinguishable from 60FPS (to me). I wonder why Google maps has such bad pan performance.
> It was only after they traced chemicals in the brain that they were able to verify that, indeed, the hippocampus was that squished, displaced object pushed toward the back of the brain.

Main takeaway (misleading title) is that this rat had a brain, but a region of fluid developed and pushed the brain towards the edges of the cranial cavity. The rat was still able to do most of the other basic tasks as the other rats, but may have suffered from anxiety.

And that's the extent of this article. I don't think we know how higher order functions were affected. I would guess that these (like what humans have) are not necessary to sustain life. A species can exist indefinitely as long as they can feed and reproduce faster than they die. These things are easy to do without higher order functions if food and reproductive mates are readily available.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lab rat without 99% of their brain didn't change much or could still complete basic tasks. I would be surprised if a human without 99% of their brain could function normally in society today, which requires relatively heavy higher order brain function.
Depends on what you mean by decent complexity:

https://lk-games.itch.io/citizen-of-nowhere

This game is made using love2d
At least it puts a limit on how much RAM something can use. VM is always extremely slow, and once your RAM is full performance slows to a crawl...
HTTPS: //djsupplement.com/trim-14-review/
Trim 14

So how about we investigate the fixings contained in these 'enchantment' cases…

Acetyl-l-Carnitine: Or, all the more just, ALC. Logical research distributed in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has demonstrated that this atom (found in red meat) targets both moderate digestion and imbalanced blood sugars still inside the typical range. Both of these issues are 2 significant reasons such huge numbers of us attempt – and fizzle – to lose overabundance fat, and midsection fat specifically.

https://djsupplement.com/trim-14-review/

https://totalwordpad.blogspot.com/2020/01/where-to-buy-trim-14-weight-lose-price.html

https://youtu.be/AQ78z8ZagHk
This worked well in domestic telecommunications providers. Universities implemented the block themselves, and you were unable to use the workaround stated in those universities.
Egalito: Layout-Agnostic Binary Recompilation (ASPLOS 2020) [pdf]
> How is it possible for someone with a PhD to write an article about the market value of a company and not have a single sentence about the P/E ratio, cost of production or unit sales?

Quite bluntly, a PhD only means that the person was able to defend a thesis against a selected group of experts on a specialized academic subject that they studied for years. That doesn't mean the person holding a PhD is competent in any field outside the niche topic they studied for years just to have a single argument.
If marytts is so good, why are we in many linux distros still using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_Syst... as our default tts system?
Salvadoran general admits army carried out infamous El Mozote massacre in 1981
LA tech industry mourns Kobe Bryant
What would Douglas Hofstadter say?
Nice, I didn't realize, guess it needs to go into the "reevaluate" list then. Sometimes Apache products tend to blend together in my mind and I get their capabilities confused/conflated.
Wikipedia Signpost: Crypto and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!
Those are all valid points but a butane flame can go from anywhere between 400°C to 1000°C.

To my knowledge no manufacturer has ever disclaimed that their product should be used below 200°C or else fluorinated polymer fumes are released into your kitchen.

Downplaying the health impact of those fumes is distracting from the manufacturers' omission.

Also we shouldn't defend this with the safety of PTFE in implants, this is misleading because they are completely inert at body temperatures it does not help any discussion regarding the safety a pervasive cookware.
I don't see any proof of the prediction in the article.
Local (esp foreign language) results are so much worse on DDG. For many users it's just not an option. And people don't care about text ads, as long as they are relevant. I love DDG but if they can't get results with a quality close to what google offers, I don't think they'll ever become mainstream.
If you enjoyed that you will also enjoy Catch & Kill by Ronan Farrow.
The title is very click-baity. It's another demonstration of the plasticity of the brain, which the author has called 'no brain'
The salt deposit is a relatively flat seam with an average thickness of 26feet
This article says it's barely perceptible to the naked eye:
https://www.livescience.com/61763-single-atom-ion-trap-photo...

People can detect (though not very reliably) single photons hitting a photoreceptor or ~7 of them entering the eye once they're totally dark-adapted, so that almost has to be true.
Odd that HN didn't pick that up.
> no Caucasians died during the SARS epidemic in 2003

That's not accurate:

29 March 2003

Dr. Carlo Urbani, an expert on communicable diseases, died today of SARS. Dr. Urbani, worked in public health programs in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam. He was based in Hanoi, Viet Nam. Dr. Urbani was 46.

https://www.who.int/csr/sars/urbani/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Urbani
Paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53042-3
On an aside, that automatic EU-page redirect has got to be one of the worst patterns I've seen so far as a reaction to gdpr ...
Huh. I had a memory of reading about a human who had the same issue you quoted (I honestly have not clicked through to the article about the rat) and found an article about it with images I am finding extremely familiar.

> A man with an unusually tiny brain manages to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, which was caused by a fluid build-up in his skull.

> Scans of the 44-year-old man’s brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue (see image of the patient’s brain, above left).

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-b...
A 15% mortality rate is huge, but considering that this is a newly identified disease, the actual mortaility rate might be much less. Inventing some numbers, let's say that 3000 people were already infected when the initial 41 patients were identified -- those 41 being the sickest. The other 2959 people either didn't have symptoms or were assumed to have a cold or flu, and they all recovered. Had there been a reliable way to identify the hypothetical 3000 infected people, the mortaility rate would be only 0.2% if 6 had died.
just a guess: marytts is rather heavy weight
There's something so wonderful about single specialty stores. I've started getting chickens from this poultry store in Chinatown. No signs in English, just a big picture of a rooster out front. They're very nice and plus I can get other birds like guinea hen or duck.

One thing we've lost with American supermarkets is the diversity and quality of meat products from a butcher. I love going to a butcher and getting whole slabs of bacon, or in house cured ham, or a nice beef shin bone for stew. And these aren't pricey hipster butchers reserved for the wealthy eating their veal. If you know what to get (pork over beef, shin bones and short ribs over steak), then you can eat well for cheap.
For Django projects I prefer to start with django-allauth. Saves lots of time later.
was investigating fraud at the same time the WSJ was writing glowing pieces about Elizabeth Holmes as a founder.

In Catch & Kill Ronan Farrow is investigating Harvey Weinstein under the noses of NBC executives who are all friends of his and colluding to cover it up. An excellent book.
As a teenager growing up in the 90s, SGI machines were the pinnacle of graphical power.

I would love to own an Onyx, even just to look at the case. Just because of what it represented for me as a kid who could barely afford a Voodoo card.
You can blame the Boeing 737 Max for your fading flying car dreams
I've seen logs of a few medium sized sites and I've never seen DuckDuckBot really crawling any of these sites. I'm sure they use their own results to supplement some parts but most of the web results still seem to come from Bing.
I want to use cognito but the documentation is not good. For example, how do I use cognito to authorize against an api I wrote? It's not clear from the documentation.
Exactly. It's really imaging the point-spread function of the camera + window.
Yeah, it really has problems if you tend to search in different languages or look for regional content outside of the US.
that's not even remotely true.
the project includes a websocket endpoint for realtime decoding. will add it to the docs.

we are already using it for a callcenter with around 50 parallel audio streams.
If you ever want to support more complex sign up / log in flows, Python Social Auth is worth looking into. It provides almost everything you need for handling sign in through Google, etc. You can customize the sign-in flow to add e-mail validation, initial account setup, or whatever is necessary.

https://python-social-auth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Google is satanic.
They a mirror of the Soviet Union. Google also works with 3rd party websites to blacklist IP addresses so you can never post on a forum . And people always say you get blacklisted because you spam. I think that's bull crap . I think people get blacklisted for their political beliefs.
ACID GPU RDBMS exist.

https://sqream.com
Spacecraft Manufacturing Giant Completes Its Crewed Spacecraft Test Flight
"Hurr durr, your physics isn't pretty enough and has too many coefficients to fit my childlike model of the universe. Clearly an approximation" - mimixco, 2020
I believe that's what's happening in this case.

From https://www.livescience.com/61763-single-atom-ion-trap-photo...

"This glow would be barely perceptible with the naked eye but becomes apparent with a little camera manipulation."
Chinese CDC collected environmental samples from the market and some of them tested positive. So it's a little more than "the market happened to be there", although your point about the first patient identified is valid.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/27/c_138735677.htm
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> "Back in the 2003-04 SARS outbreak, the cause was partly a laboratory in Beijing that let the virus slip out accidentally."

Could you provide a source on this? I'd like to read more.
Things like this have happened in people too. E.g. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-b... and https://www.irishtimes.com/news/remarkable-story-of-maths-ge...

Gwern has a good summary, including criticisms: https://www.gwern.net/Hydrocephalus
I use Auth0. Works well enough
Seeing those pictures makes me feel so sad. My Dad worked in sales for Morton Salt. Morton's mine was across the river in Windsor, Canada. Dad went there on a regular basis taking clients down for tours. As a kid growing up I heard so many crazy stories about the place and I was intrigued.

But you had to be sixteen to enter the mine so my Dad said I'd have to wait. I was so interested that when I turned fifteen I told him that I wanted to go down in the mine on my sixteenth birthday and he agreed.

However that year there was a big collapse in a mine in Louisiana that was under a lake. An oil company got mixed up and drilled down into the mine. The water entered through the hole draining the lake. Though the workers miraculously survived the payouts by the insurance companies were huge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur#Drilling_disaste...

So then the insurance companies, stunned by the large payouts, banned anyone who wasn't an employee from the mines. Seeing those pictures just brings back all the disappointment.
When an iOS user texts with a android user we lose all our nifty Messages featurea. I’m sort of convinced this is not completely unintentional on Apple's part (or at least, they would never do anything to make it otherwise ) because even though I completely understand that this has nothing to do with the android user I find myself getting annoyed that they "took" all my cool iMessage stuff.
Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms?
> I am old enough to remember biologists flailing around for 4 years to identify the HIV virus and two years more for slow (two week) test.

I suspect that part of this comes from the fact that people thought the disease was thought to target gay men. In fact, AIDS was originally called GRID -- Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. There was plenty of (truly awful) folks out there who felt that it was some sort of cosmic justice.
a hectare of trees captures 1 to 10 tonnes of CO2 per year (http://www.sicirec.org/definitions/carbon-capture). That's about 7500 square meters of forest per person (assuming 11 tons per person per year). It's theoretically doable, but would require enormous forests.
This paper is great. Every beginner data scientist should be forced to study its implications, because they can be summed up to "anyone acting like a man with a hammer is actually an idiot with no clue". Not surprising it has survived the dawn of the information age completely in tact.
MIP is NP-complete; you can reduce any problem in NP to it. But there is a large and interesting set of MIP problems where the continuous relaxation to ordinary linear optimization ("linear programming" in the jargon, although that's as misleading a term as "analog computer" or "military intelligence") gives you enough interesting information about the MIP problem to solve it enormously more efficiently than you can with a generic SAT solver.

One of the notes in Dercuano is an overview I put together of the field last year: http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano-20191230.tar.gz file notes/linear-optimization-landscape.html. It seems that the best free-software solver is COIN-OR CBC, and the best free-software modeling language is GMPL, aka GNU MathProg, which is compatible with the popular proprietary linear-optimization modeling language AMPL, and includes its own somewhat weaker solver GLPK; it's much easier to get GLPK solving a problem than CBC, but the relevant incantations are in the note. But some of the proprietary solvers are much better; most of them are available on the NEOS Server.

I didn't evaluate embedded DSLs like Pyomo in any depth, unfortunately.

I'm somewhat disappointed with the Flexport post, which I feel is badly formatted and uses needlessly obscure notation and then never gets around to actually writing down a model in MathProg or Pyomo or anything similar. But I guess my own note is only a little better, and the Flexport article at least gives a MIP model of a nontrivial problem. (There are many more such examples in the GNU MathProg distribution, and MIPLIB has a wealth of extremely nontrivial ones.)

Mathematical optimization in general (optimization in the sense of minimizing a possibly constrained function, not in the sense of making code run faster) amounts to programming at a higher level; I think it was Norvig that described it as "the ultimate in agile software development", because you basically just write the tests. And linear optimization is the best-developed subfield of mathematical optimization: linear solvers can solve enormously larger problems than more general solvers.

(There's also an inferior PDF rendering of Dercuano for cellphones that can't handle tarballs: http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano.20191230.pdf )
It's Urmson, who likes conservative, safe designs. They may be the winner in the end.

The competition in self-driving is thinning. Uber gave up. Volvo gave up. Apple gave up. Tesla is stuck at the driver-assistance level. Cruise is having problems, but they do have lots of test vehicles on the road. Waymo is soldiering on, but their plug might be pulled. Google/Alphabet are cutting back on "moonshots", not having had much success with any of them. (See list from 2016. Any successes?)[1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/20-moonshot-projects-by-goog...
For my windows systems, a majority of boot time seems to be in pre-boot environment (bios/uefi/whatever), once it hits the disk it's pretty fast. They're all ssds though, because Windows 10 on spinning disks seems intollerable.

I'm pretty sure Microsoft cheats the boot process, and it's a special hibernation restore, but either way, it's pretty fast. Chrome devices benefit from also having a much faster firmware than most, so even if Windows booted as fast as Chrome OS, the whole device would still be much slower to boot.
I've been eyeing Firebase authentication for a Django project of mine, but haven't implemented it yet. Can anyone recommend it or advise against it?
I'm storing hashed password in the database. I'm writing POST http handler and storing user info in the session information. I don't know why would I use framework or even service, it's just few dozens of simple lines of code. I don't use frameworks for simple things. I guess it might make sense when one need to support login via Google, Facebook, etc, I'm working on enterprise websites which don't need that.
Why and how to earn brand impressions like Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt
> I believe she is advocating moving away from (though to what degree I am unsure) a free market and free society.

The whole publication advertises itself as"a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture." It's a blog dedicated to publish socialist/communist rethoric. It's no surprise an article published through it is dedicated to defend the idea that they have the right to dictate how someone else's money should be spent.
Laravel built in auth, Socialite for social logins.
Here you go: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4921-chinese-sars-cas...

Edit: note this article dates from 2004
"Novel Coronavirus May Not Have Originated in Wuhan Seafood Market":

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22157067
Auth0 for complex stuff is pretty outstanding in my experience! It's nice to get sane and reliable OAUTH as a service...

I've rolled a lot of different custom authentication solutions for small apps with a handful of users all the way up to millions of users and thousands of concurrent sessions... having an "out-of-box" service saves a TON of time and headache =)

Not affiliated with Auth0, just love it to all heck. The free-tier offering is very fully-featured - try it out!
I use Firebase since I don't want to be responsible for user data. I don't trust my security skills enough.
It's actually amazing how much rats (and people) can do despite massive brain damage. A rat with no cortex can do almost everything (other than trimming its nails!).

The classic summary of these studies is by Whishaw (1990), and there's a copy of it (and similar stuff on humans) in this thread: https://twitter.com/markdhumphries/status/107105276276554137...

I once met a patient who was missing literally half of their brain due to an epilepsy resection + meningitis. We had a perfectly normal conversation and, had I not seen the MRI, I never would have guessed.
I love that. It seems to me that people around me can be so tunnel visioned and obsessed with micro services which in the end just creates so much complexity and it will be just much more difficult to maintain and debug in the future.
Facebook has been written in php, and minecraft in Java - because that was the language that the developer preferred. Are you saying this was wrong? Both developers made billions of dollars from it.

If a client needs a particular technology then he should look for specialists in those technologies. Otherwise, just leave it to the developers preference.

And reasons such as 'this is the only tech stack I know' or 'this is easier to learn' are perfectly good reasons. Reasons for a lot of things are not technical. You think Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook for technical reasons? In fact familiarity with a tech stack and simplicity of learning are seen as key technical considerations when choosing a technology for development. You must be very immature to think these are not technical reasons.
Ironically a competent person would probably not say "All X's are garbage" because, as with most things in software, it's a) complicated and b) never that clear cut.
Good list of Educational Institutions. Useful site for students
Oh I missed that brawl:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633278
Are you using salts, and what hash algo are you using? For a security comment on DIY I'd hope that you be more specific as I don't want somebody reading it and thinking they can just MD5 passwords with no salt and expect their system to be safe...
Of course, "the first rule of downvotes is don't talk about the downvotes", but I've been genuinely puzzled by why this particular comment has so many downvotes. And I think it's because the title was changed at some point, apparently without a note being left anywhere indicating that. It didn't originally have the part about "compared to their peers".
While Microsoft Was Making Its Climate Pledge, Was Sponsoring an Oil Conference
Keycloak. Open source IDP.
It's interesting you mention Yuengling beers. I grew up in Michigan and never heard of them. I was visiting a friend in Pennsylvania over the new years and I was introduced to this beer as one of the oldest breweries in Pennsylvania. Everyone was excited that they were were now in more areas. Coming from just a short distance away in Michigan I have never heard of them.
More like ratfor, but this time with less raison d'être.
In Colombia there's a great big salt mine just an hour outside of the capital city Bogota, Zariquipa, that has tours, they're ~$15. Highly recommend. It is low quality, darker salt, but it's pretty neat. Tickets to Bogota often run sub-$500 usd from the US if you shop around.
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> Type-C says that there can't be type-c hubs.

Where does it say that? I've seen a lot of posts claiming just the opposite.

You can't just take a setup designed for type-A ports and mechanically convert them to type-C, because that would allow you to make an A-to-A connection. But that's not a blocker for a properly-designed hub.
Well, as promised, color me surprised. Either the brain is extremely resilient to compression, or being a human is easier than I thought...
Sir, this is a news website.