skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that profit is the primary problem here. As always, the key to hiring someone is setting the right specification for their work product. In the US, the prison system's expectation is "torture these miserable criminals who were convicted by the 100% accurate and infallible criminal justice system". The for-profit prisons do that for $24/day instead of $130/day. Yay!

The problem is that the specification is WAY wrong. Treating the criminal justice system as infallible is a huge mistake, many people in prison are wrongfully convicted or were bullied into a guilty plea. Treating it as a place to punish people for their crimes has no long-term value. They get out, don't know how to interact with the real world, and end up back in prison (hey, more profit!).

Ultimately society is shortchanged because these people have value even though they can't necessarily be trusted in their current state in free society. (Some of this is society's fault, of course, which we take no responsibility for, because taking responsibility is expensive and if we spent our tax dollars on that, we couldn't have as many sports stadiums or wars.) I look at prison as a place where people who can't be trusted in free society to be more closely monitored. A case I always think about is Hans Reiser. Clearly he cannot be trusted to be alone with people that he wants to murder, because he'll murder them. Fair enough. But I don't see why he can't write filesystem code anymore. You can have a laptop with the Linux kernel on it and submit patches without being able to freely murder people. Why doesn't the prison system provide that? We as a society lose out on that possible value, and the prisoner loses out on the ability to be human. (The conflict here is always that that's unfair to people who haven't murdered anyone. And that's true, which is why the concept of basic income comes up again and again. If everyone is equal in their ability to have their basic human needs met, the world can be a much better place. That costs $$$ though and we must not spend money on boring things like meeting society's basic needs. Me, me, me! That's the most important thing.)

Anyway, the TLDR is that right now the criminal justice system is severely fucked, and private prisons are a way of getting absolutely terrible results for a lower price. If we want to get good results, we will have to change things dramatically, and that will cost money. Nobody wants to pay the money, or necessarily even knows how to fix the problem with money, so here we are.
How would you approach adding physics to the shreds? Someone asked me for cross-cutting.
It is not research but very fundamental lie.
Author to proove what "Soviet Union had no weekends" give us the weekends plan.
Well done.

Worst of all the author does not explaining WHY weekends was limited in 193x, but this is most interesting.
From point of view author and "experts with the same opinion" it was cancelled because it's failed.
I bet it was cancelled because it did the trick.

Here a Red pill for you:

After 3 revolutions and 2 civilic wars, loosed WWI in begining of 20 centure Russia was in degrade state.
People realized what conflict of WWI is not ended and it is means war will be repeated.
"We are in 50–100 years behind the advanced countries. We must run this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us.", said Stalin in 1931.

So walking whole country on weekends to churche may be good, but when somebody want's to kill people of you country in the middle of 20 centure you need aircrafts and tanks.
To produce that you need fuel, technology, machine tools and people working hard.

So what was the result of "had no weekends" for 10 years? Soviet Union with allies wins the WWII.

I can't believe author and "experts" don't know that. I belive they just prefers ignore that. But WHY?
Supply-chain control. Technical knowledge. Innovation capacity.
Should we care more about accessibility or reliability?

If Wikipedia is the source of knowledge for you, you may have a problem.
Last time I checked, the orders were actually there (based on API responses).

Please note that some markets may allow leverage - we'll mark them with asterisk on next deploy.
We have lots of ways to turn linear force into rotational. My car engine would like to have a word with you.

Off the top of my head. Hook it up to a crankshaft. On the push stroke turn the motor on and capture the wind. On the pull stroke turn off the spinning and let it return to vertical.
Also, consider https://www.luath.co.uk/scots-language/luath-scots-language-...
At the risk of sounding insensitive, can one member of an all-male board just legally change their gender identity? Its like 2 forms filed with the clerk and maybe an appearance before a judge, then you are legally recognized by the state as a female whether you make any other life changes or not.
Why not just rely on signatures and watermarks
Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/s...

Mode Analytics tutorial: https://community.modeanalytics.com/sql/tutorial/introductio...
To put his work in context: He taught people how to identify a Russian medal (IIRC, it was 20 years ago..) before image search or tabbed browsers were a thing. Even if there had been image search, most people would not have had the bandwidth to go through a few hundred image results visually...
In 19th-Century Britain, the Hottest Status Symbol Was a Painting of Your Cow
> from experts with all sorts of political backgrounds.

I think you have inadvertently stumbled upon the real fundamental change in politics over my lifetime - it seems a lot more of the younger generations have been brought up to believe the experts.

50 years ago we all knew the experts were a bunch of quacks.
To say the least. This concept of "alpha" humans has no basis in psychology, biology and anthropology.

It implies that humans are evolved to live in a hierarchical and purely competitive society which is known to be false (not only for us but for many mammals).
Humans are not insect nor lobsters.

There are various books from prof. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky and youtube videos with good analysis of social behavior in primates including humans.
I would hope this is true. But sadly I am not so sure:

I live in Ghent, Belgium, a developed Western European nation. You can look up a lot of debate by googling "paragnost politie" and you will see results from Belgium, Netherlands, ... basically psychics, mediums and hypnotists working for / with the police.

I think it was about 10 years ago (very rough guess) when I read in an article that the local police (perhaps just Ghent, perhaps nationwide) fired the last paragnosts. In the mean while perhaps they still don't use them, perhaps they have reverted back to using them...

Intelligence and superstition form a very bad couple...
How can you implement penalties for gender bias without introducing a threshold for an acceptable division of representation? And once that threshold is established, how exactly does it differ from a quota?
Yes, orders are being placed and cancelled all the time, but it mostly happens around bid / ask (and you're correct - this activity is generated by arbitrage bots).

The metric is useful for comparison - since the arbitrage bots work on all altcoins, their activity is included in the metric for all altcoins.
> They tend to be treated better in government run prisons than in for profit prisons.

The article presents no evidence of that (much less the actual relevant comparison, which is whether government-run prisons in those same states would be better).

> If your point is that since prisoners are not humanely treated in government run prisons then it is OK for them to be treated the way described in the article then I think your position is morally repugnant.

The question in this sub-thread isn't whether prisoners should be treated humanely, but whether its the for-profit nature of prisons that makes then inhumane. The fact that government-run prisons in the U.S. also are inhumane is highly relevant to that question.
This is almost always the case with consistently successful companies - the CEOs get the coverage and the glory, but scratch the surface and you'll find a stellar COO who makes the whole thing actually work.
If modern emission standards are really important then we should enforce standards but not throw away cars. Maybe old cards are still good enough. Maybe old cars can be tuned/upgrades/switched to another fuel etc. Car age is not important at all, and should not be considered.
It is a quota - quotas need not be proportional to be quotas. From the dictionary:

“3 : a fixed number or percentage of minority group members or women needed to meet the requirements of affirmative action”
And fraud...
Real wash trading happens without orders.

As for manipulative orders - you're right, they flash in the orderbook on and off. However, when I needed to exit, I actually filled a couple of them - so they were real.
A strategy for implementing industrial predictive maintenance
Exhaustive to the extent practical would be nice :)
KDE is convenient for a lot of things. At least, handling of the desktop / wallpaper, the amazing command runner, the menu with its search bar that also supports running commands, the network, bluetooth, clipboard management, the task manager, the configuration center, the overall integration that pretty much stays here event without KDE's window manager (which is amazing too). I'm not speaking about KDE applications because they are usable outside of plasma, but I tend to like them too.

So yes, if one day I found that an advanced tiling window manager is what I want, maybe I would keep the rest of the KDE environment.
I would say this is more exciting than it looks, though. I used to do a lot of crawling in the early 2000s, and almost all of it was expressed in terms of string_between calls. XPath is more convenient, but I'd say that 85% of the time you can collapse an XPath query into a string_between-style query. It can be awkward and even inconsistent, but in practice it often works well.
It's not really compensation. Lots of Americans won't be enticed to move to Germany for higher compensation when they don't speak the language well, and their entire families are in the USA.

The same is true for the Chinese. They go back to China because they feel it is truly their home.
I think you mean propiska (прописка)
Which one? And how well does it really work?
This isn't quite fair.

You can just as easily A/B your company to death.

A/B usual represents an incremental comparison from one situation to another, and it helps 'walk down the feature path' ... but when you need to change paths, A/B testing is not going to help, this is where a bit of great PM talent is going to work.

Moreover, the more subtle the change, or more the basis' are not very comparable (two different apps), the less A/B has value.

For example: Snap was considered 'too complicated' for many users, they needed to make it simpler. But by doing so, they may alienate a bunch of current users, with the objective of making the app more amenable to the masses. This is a serious strategic issue. They might have gone about it somewhat differently but it's a difficult thing to do in any case, and they had to make changes.

The existential issue for Snap's problems is not this app change, it's the fact that all of Facebook's products are trying to eat them. Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger etc ... these are the real threats.
Now we know where the inspiration for Pepper Potts came from.
And if this was centralized, everyone would benefit, since, say, amazon would only get indexed by this service, rather than thousands of individual companies with their own bots doing similar things.
UTMB develops a universal vaccine platform that’s cheaper and shelf stable
Bolsonaro was stabbed in Brazil just months ago. Congressional Republicans had someone come to their baseball game and shoot at them. There have been all those assassinations involving Russia, as well. There was that relative of NK dictator Kim's that was poisoned. And that's just recent news, if I actually researched it we'd have a long list. You don't have to go that far back to remember things like President Reagan being shot.

I suppose you might say those are just attempts, but that's more a reflection of better security details. The underlying willingness of people to murder others over politics is still evident from the attempts.

Regarding civil wars, I would think you'd know about Syria at least. Wikipedia gives me 17 civil wars since 2000. We could roughly triple that if you want me to cut off anything from the 60s or before:

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

If the only political assassination you're aware of is JFK and the only civil war is the US civil war, which is the only way I can come up with those cutoff dates, then I submit that you might want to look at more world news.
That's the one. Majority ownership ... But I'm not saying we should adopt it as a rule for all cases. It should be a reciprocal law applying to China and any other country with similar restrictions.

Same goes for chinese produced movies that they want to show in the US. Movie must be pre-approved and pro USA.
> There is still a diesel engine in the loop, which if turned off makes the ship not move.

So it is with my sailboat example?

> These are like electric hybrid cars which are sometimes thought* of more valuable than increased efficiency of burning gas (which is all they boil down to)

Most hybrid cars are plug-in, you can charge the battery directly and use mixed-electric mode or even exclusively electric mode for short distances.
- It shows you how much of market cap is backed by actual buy orders (~ whether it's vapor or not). The more buy support, the higher the probability that current price will hold (discounting for manipulative orders, of course).

- Yes, we sum buy support at all levels. You can see the explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162456
I was blissfully unaware. For a fleeting moment your post made me wonder whether I should consider the ban problematic. Then I figured that credible sources would report on whatever Breitbart was shouting about, if it was serious.

And I'll live on as before.
I didn't downvote you, but I'd like to reply to why this might be a leap in the right direction.

1) Universal insurance increases the fluidity in the labor market because people are no longer forced to stay in a job to have health insurance. This can be the difference between someone starting their own small business and sticking with a large corporation for the benefits.

2) Providing access to health care for the (currently) uninsured means they can manage their conditions and prevent them from deteriorating, instead of going through a costly cycle of ER visit -> stabilization -> ER visit. Because hospitals are obligated to stabilize anyone who goes to the ER, these procedures increase hospital operating expenses which is passed on either to (1) the tax payer or (2) insured patients. The best care both health and fiscal-wise is preventative care.

3) Obamacare was a leap in the right direction, but definitely did not go all the way. A portion of that may be that it simply takes time to adjust to a new system, but as parts of the old system are rolled back, it becomes increasingly less effective. For example, universal coverage without the individual mandate is costly for insurance companies, resulting in higher premiums.

4) People make poor decisions and forgo medical insurance only to have a medical disaster happen and land them in considerable debt. The affects of this debt continue to plague them for years after. Carrying crippling debt affects not only these people but any of their dependents, so the effects compound. The usual response is that the responsible shouldn't have to pay for the irresponsibles' poor choices, but you'll pay for them either way, just in one case it's easy to quantify the effect and in the other case the effect is nebulous are hard to pin down exactly. For example, studies have shown that acute poverty has an effect on intelligence. The more people that run around stressed by their debt, the less likely they're going to make smart choices going forward with respect to their finances, politics, etc.

Assuming you believe that Obamacare was a leap in the right direction, you have to recognize that it did not go far enough or reach a stable enough point to where the benefits may have been fully realized. Even if you agree that a single payer system or a European style system is better, you are still forced to tackle the transition period during which responsibilities and policies have to reshuffle between hospitals, the government, and insurance companies. That is going to be messy any which way you cut it, but the current system is clearly broken, so it might be better to rip the bandaid off. Aside from that, the benefits wouldn't primarily be in the amount your premiums are, but in the indirect benefits of having accessible health care for all.
If this is of interest to you, I can recommend the Coursera courses. They are very effective for introducing both MiniZinc and constraint-based modeling of problems.
Kubuntu has drivers out of the box and clean integration with Firefox for KDE.
California is an outlier!

After taxes, insurance and maxing out my 401k (i.e. all the stuff that comes out of my paycheck) I take home 56% on the East coast (in a high tax state no less). I also pay less sales tax and transportation costs than I would in CA and I can afford a house with less than six figures (gross) household income.
Amazon’s $15 minimum wage is a sign of monopsony power
> The Obama administration warned about the Russian threat

No. Obama mocked McCain in the 2012 presidential debates for claiming Russia was a major threat.

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War has been over for 20 years” - President Obama

The Obama admin only started talking about Russia much later when it became politically convenient.

> The GOP had never been in favor of the tariffs Trump proposes.

The GOP has no ideological problem with tariffs as evidenced by Bush implementing Steel tariffs back in 2002.
Ask HN: Can we have blockquote syntax for comments?
At this point it's become pretty established to use code formatting to quote other users, but it really is a poor solution for that. Lines are not broken correctly and the whole thing is basically unreadable on mobile. Having this very simple feature would greatly improve readability and discussion.

Upvotes for visibility would be greatly appreciated.
So clojure the language mainly exists as marketing for Datomic, the slow, expensive, proprietary, locked-in database solution?

Eww.
I posted above, but I see no reason to limit things to the USA and I see no reason to limit assassinations to only the successful ones. Just because politicians have better security and actually thwart more assassination attempts, that doesn't mean that the underlying willingness to murder people over politics has gone anywhere.

There are plenty of close calls to show that the schemes were serious: Bolsonaro was stabbed, Reagan was shot, etc.
This is kind of crazy... I think I saw that same comment when it was posted. Added it to my to-read list and recently decided to get the audiobook and listen through it. About 90% through and I have to admit - it has given me a lot to think about.

My consumption is generally on the weekends, 4-5 drinks per outing with friends. I've gone out for drinks twice since then and couldn't bring myself to order more than one drink. There's a lot of reason behind her arguments against it and I never really realized just how much of the perceived "benefits" of it are simply placebo effects or misattributed to other factors entirely. I'm not sure what the extent of my behavioral change will be after but it's safe to say I'll never look at alcohol the same way.

For anyone else on the fence - read it! At the very least, entertain a different perspective on the pervasive drinking culture we find ourselves surrounded by.
They do not include any proprietary drivers. You need to enable them or do some Kubuntu Neon hybrid.
By leveraging the fact that one is a UK citizen, and applying to SIS or GCHQ, I assume? Most other countries perform in-depth background checks, rather than relying on pseudo-science, when it comes to matters of national security.
I just had a look at +orc wikipedia page, and it says his identity isn’t known. Yet i’m pretty sure i’ve read a post on HN or a comment, a long time ago, implying otherwise... anyone knows more ?
I don't know anything about those but Minizinc allows you to write one model that compiles to a SAT solver, MIP solver, CP solver, CBLS solver etc. Which is neat.
This story makes me happy that we have modern medicine. But I am reminded that not too long ago we used to do lobotomies on the regular. So I still take most medical advice with a grain of salt....
You're right, $1 bid on 100 BTC = $100 of buy support. We include it into the metric as "100" (without multiplying by current price).

So your tool counts the closest 10%? Would be interesting to expand it to 100% and compare the metric.
As the wife of the Interpol chief their enemies could extend beyond China
Sure, we'll add the markets in a tooltip on next deploy.
I haven't worked on any significant Clojure codebases but I have worked in large codebases in other dynamic languages and it's a nightmare. Maintaining a Rails app, for example, after it gets beyond a certain size is just punishing.
No, I don't disagree with the analysis. I'm referring to the literal use of the term:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism

"any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods "

I understand what the parent is trying to say and I agree with it, but "socialism only for the rich" is literally not socialism.
Thanks for the comment.

Good idea, we'll switch to fixed width.
Parent wrote before elthe title was changed, not fair to down vote.
FDA Removes 7 Synthetic Flavoring Substances from Food Additives List
Highly recommended TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/gwynne_shotwell_spacex_s_plan_to_f...
The finance curse: how the outsized power of city (London) makes Britain poorer
I was going to write something but this answers your question. [1] pulp and jump only model mixed integer programs, if I’m not mistaken.

However when I looked at this some years ago, I came across journal publications that found mixed integer program (MIP) solvers to be much faster than constraint solvers for many problems. I suspect that this was because MIP theory was much more well developed at the time and that commercial interests (airline scheduling, oil and gas, etc.) were driving impressive improvements in MIP solver technology (dominant players are IBM CPLEX, Gurobi and Xpress), whereas constraint programming remained more or less a niche domain in computer science.

[1] https://www.solver.com/integer-constraint-programming
Interesting story.

Perhaps Banksy needs to read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature
It's a cool concept. Still a bit buggy + slow, particularly when your list tree gets complex, but great stuff for a 2 week MVP.

To be more than a toy / become a daily driver, it would be nice if this worked with existing data sources (sync todo lists with Google, Outlook, etc.).
> Mine uses a scanning array and a 3D milling machine to manufacture implants and fillings in office. Not all that medieval.

How did your dentist found room in your mouth to jam in some implants?

That sort of thing is pretty medieval even if you sugarcoat your modern day version of wooden dentures with CAD software and CNC milling machines.