skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for replying. I did actually check your home page, and various others on the site, before commenting. The best way I can think of to describe my experience is that it feels like I'm reading something written for someone who already knows what they're looking for and what the context is, but that's exactly what I'm there to find out.

Perhaps some examples would help. For context, I am about to set up the infrastructure for a new project, involving source control, issue tracking, testing, deployment and so on. From past discussions with friends and colleagues who have used GitLab, I had the impression that it was somewhat like GitHub, in the sense of providing a front-end to help manage Git repos and some related facilities like issue tracking and CI, but GitLab was based on OSS and could be hosted locally. So, GitLab seems like something I should be very interested in right now. I'm an experienced developer and familiar with many other tools, so my interest is in whether GitLab might offer a better approach than things we've used before.

However, looking at the site, I can't find anything describing the relationship between GitLab and Git anywhere on the home page. I checked the features page, but again found nothing, aside from a few passing references to actions like merging but only in the context of other functionality. I tried putting "git" into the search box on the documentation page, but again, nothing. Have I just totally misunderstood what GitLab does? And if so, why "Git" in the name?

Likewise, I honestly can't tell whether GitLab is an OSS project or some sort of hosted enterprise "call us for pricing" behemoth (or both or neither). I've seen references to open source and some sort of community edition, but the "Community" link on the top of the site is clearly about something else entirely. There's a pricing page with various plans including a free plan, but while I initially assumed they were for a hosted online service, apparently they're for self-hosted. There is information about many ways to install GitLab locally on different platforms, but it's not clear what you're actually installing at that point or whether you then need some sort of licence to do anything with it. On the features page, each item has two different scales under it, one for GitLab and one for GitLab.com, but I really have no idea what the relationship between those is. There is an entirely separate feature comparison table that is actually linked from the pricing page, but that only shows one of the scales, and suggests that the lower/free tier is quite restrictive. But these look like they're self-hosted options and if there's OSS involved then how does that restriction work?

I hope you'll forgive the brain dump, but other than showing a stream of consciousness as I looked through the site earlier today and how I was unable to answer my two most basic questions, I can't think of a better way to illustrate the difficulty I encountered.
Looks like around 3-4x. RentCafe gives average SF prices of: studio $2.5k, 1bd $3.2k, 2bd $4.3k. Versus Boise: studio $0.7k, 1bd $0.9k, 2bd $1k.

https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/sa...
https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/id/ad...
> We already have reliable databases.

not in the way that a blockchain maintains the final state and a clean audit log of every transaction.
This reminded me of a task I undertook sometime last year in which over the coarse of the month I attempted to delete my accounts on a number of sites that I no longer used. The experience was completely crazy. It ranged from a few sites that had a basic account deletion page that functioned correctly, to both automated and human confirmations of deletion after which I was still able to access my account. Sigh...
I agree. I'm not against selling software, but $5 for something I could probably whip up in an hour and post as open source is really not the best way to get people to use your app. This app just doesn't provide enough value to be $5–maybe if it was a dollar.
No you can't. You'd need a person or people + filing cabinets full of paper.
You can ask about it every year and it won't change. Over the months I have resigned myself to not being able to delete my account. Sometimes I post comments here...just out of boredom when Reddit has changed his design again - just accept it, go outside to the park and take a long walk. There should be important questions you can deal with.
Yes, hindsight is 20/20. However, Google was smart enough to see the endgame: knowing people’s interests is some of the most valuable information available to advertisers, ever.

What Facebook has, and what they essentially gave away for free, is far more valuable than whatever revenue they generated as a “platform.”

The fact FB was generating revenue as a platform in 2010 has more to do with their strategy (which was lacking at the time) than with the value of the information they had.

I’m suggesting they Zuckerberg’s hubris prevented him from seeing the value of what FB already was, and how to monetize that.
Libertarians often retort that the fees are not really involuntary, you can either go to the college or not. I think this has more to do with libertarians are often finding themselves taking sides in the culture war for some reason.
For a lot of people the "investment" piece of owning their home is secondary to having a home to live in and raise their family in. Especially in the US, there are tax benefits to owning, and depending on the market owning could make more sense than renting.
you're right.. I missed that it said model 3.

although q1 production was 34k x 4 = 136k.. so they still have some growth before it's hundredS.
lack of any specific examples?
You do both to diversify (equity and real estate). Having the property as a rental is very tax efficient as well (you get to depreciate a property that appreciates in value). Also, no one is going to let you leverage equity purchases with debt like you can with real estate.

Disclosure: I own several rental properties to round out my investment portfolio.
now we're going down an irrelevant path. it doesn't matter why an established company or bank would want to or not be based on a blockchain.
I wouldn’t do it. Prioritize your backlog, work on the most important things, reprioritize at your planning meetings.

Invest in going fast, reliability & figuring out priorities. There are lots of agile methodologies that abandoned the estimation step for the reasons I mention (fdd,rad,dsdm).
Who do you think it was?
>The newest science on CTE makes it seem like accumulated small damage might actually be worse than periodic large damage

That's the idea of gloveless, you can't just trade blows all day. It probably would make boxing safer (where safer means choosing hand damage over brain damage).

In MMA I believe it would reduce boxing and increase the prevalence of grappling and muay thai. Ultimately the goal I'd like to aim for is less chronic head injuries, I think gloveless would do that, but who knows.

On the topic of ditching "safety gear" I'm curious what CTE rates are comparing American Football to Rugby or Australian Football.
I am generally sympathetic to the idea that homes are a bad investment. The fundamentals are terrible, as discussed in the article, the most important one probably being the lack of diversification. But I wonder how it meshes with the results proposed by the article "The Rate of Return of Everything." That article found that housing has only slightly underperformed stocks as an investment.

Now, obviously, if you're living in your house, you're not going to get nearly the same return -- this is the total return on housing, so a house you're living at could be expected to provide returns on average as listed, minus the annual value of rent. But that means its overall performance as an investment is actually better than observed appreciation.

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2017-25.pdf
The sneaky best thing to do is buy a small multifamily unit, live in one, and rent the others. One of my coworkers at the time I bought my building was shopping single-family homes in the exact same price range, and we have almost the same monthly costs. The difference being that my tenant essentially pays my mortgage, and I only have to pay the taxes and insurance. Down the road, when I have a family and buy a real house, the rental will bring in $3k or more every month.
Every house I've ever owned has (a) cost way less per month than rent (I know it will cost less, but I mean on the order of nearly 50% less) and (b) appreciated enough after a short time that it made a sale worth it. The first house we owned appreciated by about $25k in 2 years, and the house we're in now (according to comps we just ran as we're preparing to sell) has appreciated about $80k+ in 3 years.

You can make smart property choices, even for the home you occupy (i.e., not just rental properties). But "smart" includes evaluating all the criteria. If you live in an area with a ridiculous property market (e.g., the Bay Area) or a very, very slow one, then the investment isn't as enticing. I'm blessed to live in a market with a lot of movement for a variety of reasons, not just being a "hot" area to live in, but others are not so much. I'm also blessed to work remotely, so I can choose to live in an area like this. :)

tl;dr: this is probably true in a lot of America, but it's not universal by any means.
...which is a serine hydrolase.
*with 1975 property tax locked in thanks to prop 13
Yes! Tbh I wasn’t really all that interested in buying. I finally gave in after spending a summer working with the homeless, and reading a Priceonomics article about David Raether. I got really afraid.

https://priceonomics.com/what-its-like-to-fail/
> general intelligence better that brute force doesn't exist

What do you mean by this?

It sounds like you are assuming nature requires exactness and are really making a philosophical argument about the nature of computation, namely an np solution in p 'doesnt exist'

> Memory as dna would explain high-level memory quirks

If we are conjecturing than so too could approximate results 'explain high-level memory quirks'

we already have many approximate algorithms that are significantly better than brute force, and I would argue that any read procedure would necessarily be algorithmic, which then would require an explanation as to why this natural process failed to evolve over time

If such an explanation is simply, though arguably counterfactual, 'nature requires exactness' and so is unable to utilize the incremental improvement of evolving algorithms for approximate results, I would argue this implies p!=np because otherwise I think, if it were able, nature would tend toward improving on exactness over the 13B+ years it's been expressing mathematical truths

Being as my intended inference in regard this specific unsolved problem is to develop an algorithm to show p=np, I wonder if the process we refer to as conciousness may be such an algorithm

> neurons using mRNA capsids to communicate

I wonder if the rna is raw memory data or architectural plans for nuerons which, when constructed, express memory
Homes are a bad investment except that we all need somewhere to live. Even if you're renting many of the costs and risks the article mentions are borne by the landlord and then passed on to you.
I agree with your point that there should be some baked in capability for a more comprehensive check on the HTTP response. There are probably some edge cases around this regarding stream=True (load header only, not content) and iter_content() which pulls chunks from a buffer so the entire content isn't loaded into memory at once. Probably surmountable.

FWIW Response.status_code is an int, so it might need to be a member function on Response.
With stocks you don’t get leverage. Cash on cash return on real estate far exceeds stocks. If you put $20k down on a $100k house and you profit $300/month, that’s $300/month on a $20k investment, NOT against a $100k investment. That’s 18% per year not counting the equity as well as (possible) capital appreciation. Not to mention the tax advantages due to depreciation. Stocks are nowhere close. If you have a property manager charging 8% of the rent, you then have a cash flowing asset with almost zero hands-on work.
Manhattan is a byword for the unhappy worst-of-both-worlds situation where you have premium luxury housing no one can afford or run-down walk-ups where you're paying thousands a month for a hole-in-the-wall; pedestrians overrun the sidewalks and gridlock continues late into the night; there's technically trains but sometimes it's faster to walk; people are on top of each other and you can't find anywhere quiet.

Parts of Manhattan aren't like that, but that's not the image people have in their minds.
Scouts Australia runs a program called "Rovers" for 18–25 year olds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovers_(Australia)

Maybe there is no equivalent in US Scouting.
> When I say libav*, I and most people mean libavformat, libavcodec, libswscale, etc.; the C libraries that form the basis of the command line tool and are widely used elsewhere.

Oh, so were those things called "libav" even before the fork, and were perhaps the origin for the name of the fork libav?
Is that accurate? Property taxes can change
2 years, and same reply. Doesn't look good to me.
Git does this, doesn't it?

(Not that people here appreciate my contention that GitHub is a "white label blockchain company")
My Corolla manufactured in Mississippi is even better made (in terms of visible gap tolerances, at least - they both experienced pretty amazing reliability) than the previous one, made in Fremont. I think it's Toyota's manufacturing process that's key, not the geography of where the car is manufactured.
Handmade Sketchbooks of a Well-Traveled Artist
In VB the feature requested here was called Edit and Continue. VB users loved it.

The original release of VB.net did not have it, and was the highest priority feature to add back. When we added it back into Visual Studio, C# got it as well because it’s users demanded it.
Anders was trying to ensure genetics made it into .net 2.0 and did not want the feature. I know he wrote some critiques that it encourages producing bad code.

I added it in the debugger, while each language team had work, and there was a massive work for the CLR.

Changing the current function is actually pretty easy .. it’s when you need to remap the instruction pointer in functions that have been edited multiple times and have frames trapped on a callstack across multiple threads.
I have some kind of "flickering sensitivity" (if this is a thing). I bought a retina MBP about 4-5 years ago and I had to return it because it was killing me. After 30 minutes watching the screen, I had terrible headaches and my vision was becoming blury for the next hours.

Now I have a new (2017) MBP and I don't have any problem anymore, so I guess that they improved the technology somehow.
Yeah there is a balance to be struck, you don't want baseball evolving into hockey over the course of a decade. I'm not suggesting we go the Calvinball route.
But the article does note that there's a gigantic subsidy on the leverage for stupid reasons, and the huge amount of leverage is obviously and empirically dangerous.
While snarky, he made a point about material interest differences between two generations.
That is so true and one of the major reasons SV real estate is such a tight market. Those tax rate freezes essentially eliminate a good portion of liquidity normally present in a market.
Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)
Hartford can have some bad traffic, so few commutes being over 30min seems unlikely.

New London is another possibility--it's the largest city on the Amtrak line between Providence and New Haven.
Automotive Service Departments Are Scrambling for Technicians
You don't really need to do both to diversify. There is a lot of exposure to real estate in the stock market (rental companies + commercial real estate + construction), and REITs can be used to gain more exposure if desired.
Going from the title, I was going to talk about how I can get DVDs, CDs, Blurays, and ebooks from my library; I'm a regular.

I wasn't expecting "housing," though nice that you mention it, why yes, I would like to live in the same building as a library.
All of these analyses also ignore the fact that most people generally want to have some parts of their lives where they aren't working, and people still want a place to live even then. My parents may have made (by the article's standards) "bad investments" for 40 years, but after rolling steadily increasing amounts of equity into a few different houses, they own the place they live outright.

Even if they could have done better with stocks, the peace of mind to only have to pay property taxes and upkeep on a house is something that has substantial value in retirement.
That’s where my interest came from as well. The success/failure line is much thinner than many people think imho.
While the definition is exact, it’s a pretty narrow one. I understand that people are tired with all the hype and naturally want to counter it somehow.

But don’t let it blind you, blockchain technologies will deeply change our societies. It’s a trust machine: it creates trust where there is none. Trust being one of the pillar of our civilization, the scope of its applications is wider than you would expect.

Edit: thanks for the downvotes... if your confirmation bias can’t handle a contrarian, respectful point of view, i’d seriously question your rationality as a member of this scientific-related community.
Eizo has screens that use DC dimming:

http://www.eizoglobal.com/library/basics/eyestrain/index.htm...

I never tried them though.
Yeah that's true, and Github is really popular, I use it every day.
This logic is so specious.

Renting and owning from a cash flow perspective are usually pretty close, and you need to live, so a suboptimal investment with any return is better than making a landlord money and investing the scraps into 401ks.

I’m in my late 30s and missed the gogo crazy years. But everyone I know in my age cohort has had a positive, meaningful ROI in trading houses up at least once.

The supposed flexibility of renting is overrated as well. No decent landlord will take less than a 1 year lease, and some premium properties will demand a premium if you refuse a 2 year lease. Getting jammed up with buying out a lease early, or getting stuck with a high rent when the market cools is another way that renting is almost always a bad deal for the tenant.

This sounds like a corporate accounting analysis, not advice for people. People don’t benefit from deducting opex.
I'm commenting late on this and for the first time on HN ever, but the things that big banks can do and get away with are ridiculous. It simply doesn't matter what they do to their customers because they will always be bailed out and get their way. They don't have to care because it doesn't matter.
> which would often easily amount to less than rent.

Hang on a minute there. Big citation needed, or caveat for which locality you're talking about. In LA or SF, for example, the interest + property tax + upkeep + HOA fees + closing costs + etc. very often run significantly more than rent on an apartment. And that's after the huge assumption that you can even afford the up-front cost needed to buy a house in the first place.
Property taxes are locked to the purchase price of the home in California because of a law called Proposition 13. It's a been major contributor to the housing crisis but is extremely popular with everyone who currently owns property. It lets owners benefit from appreciation of their property without any increase in their tax liability while newer (and often younger) buyers must pay taxes based on the current absurd home prices.
This makes great points that shouldn't be ignored. But here's the reality: most people don't invest in anything but do pay rent. If you just shift that rent into a mortgage + repairs, at least you're investing in something that will slightly under-perform inflation (maybe).

It's lower risk / higher return when you think of it that way.

(I do not own a house nor do I plan to own one, however)
Russian Farmer Alters Rural Economy with Virtual Currency
A lot of Americans are old enough to remember the significant rise in urban crime rates from the 60s to the 90s. Manhattan was a poster child for crime, drug abuse, urban decay, and corrupt government/police.

Obviously it's much better today, but the image has stuck. And to be fair, the image was mostly accurate at the time. Liberals were so fed up with it they were actually willing to vote for Rudy Giuliani.
You also have additional deductions on expenses that you don't get on a single owner-occupied home. In fact it goes in a different Schedule than personal. One chooses a percentage of personal and business, which might be 50 50 if each unit is about the same and the owner is in one, while the other rented out.
This is the approach suggested in the book "Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided By Tests". You start with an end-to-end integration test and then write code to make it pass, testing each component with unit tests along the way. I find it useful myself, although I don't always adhere to its recommendation to start off with a true end-to-end test (sometimes I can identify two or more layers that can/should be worked on separately).
All the Buildings in Manhattan
One could write a similarly ridiculous article about how renting is flushing your money down the drain, you're paying someone else's mortgage, etc. Worrying about the rent going up, hoping your landlord isn't too much of a scumbag, and so on.

Sure, a house is not a great investment. But there's more to housing than investment. You have to live somewhere, and you're probably going to be paying for it one way or another. There's no perfect solution--you have to figure out what works for you.

We bought this house nine years ago, and hope that we never have to move again. Now the mortgage is about half of what it would cost to rent an apartment in this neighborhood. That's kind of a trap, too. There's no point to thinking about moving--there's no place we could go that would be cheaper than what we have unless we leave the area entirely.
I have. One contingency of those leaving are those upset at the liberal politics of the state. So they head elsewhere, and influence local politics in a conservative manner. I remember reading about another town in Idaho where that was happening (a lakeside town?)
Culture is tremendously important.

And it's not a contradiction for libertarians to advocate for a particular kind of culture which they (and I) might believe is more conducive to a free society (or to advocate against a particular kind of culture which might threaten the survival of individual rights). That's your 'some reason' for libertarian participation in the culture war---the belief that, with respect to liberty, some kinds of culture are invigorating and others are corrosive---and we (libertarians) don't come down uniformly on the left or right, or even uniformly with each other.

I do so all the time, and as long as I'm not employing violence in my advocacy, I don't see a conflict with my moral and political principles.

In the context of being in college, the fee is usually either mandatory or required to participate in any activity at all, whether it's the bible study that reserves rooms and gets no money from student government, the film series that spends like mad bringing in 35mm and 70mm prints, or something in between. At best, that's an extremely poor gradient of control over your own money and a consequence of centralizing control of funds in a way that many libertarians would likely oppose.
Yes, with rare exceptions Prop 13 means you get your property tax assessment locked in when you purchase. The major way to trigger re-assessment is to pull a permit for construction/improvements, which is why unpermitted remodels/additions are so rampant in California.