skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at New York, I see the area around the Navy Yard, Long Island City, Bushwick, Astoria, and Flushing - all areas that are already undergoing huge amounts of real estate development and are hardly "struggling."

I'm worried that this has good intentions but will have unintended effects; it's entirely possible that turning on a fire hose of money would just wash the existing residents away. While on paper that would improve the income level and whatnot of a census tract, you really just shuffled people around the metro area, most likely to a place with worse access to jobs and stores and whatnot. It's important that we increase housing at a macro level, but we also don't want to strand people by suburbanizing poverty.
supply chain back pressure ?
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Ask HN: Why am I blowing my interviews at great companies in the Bay Area?
I'm an iOS developer in the Bay Area with 8+ years of iOS experience (and 10 years overall) with a CS degree (non-ivy league, not Stanford). I've never had trouble finding work in the Bay Area, but my career has mostly been small, young startups and contract gigs. Lately I've been trying to find work at more established "Big 5"/FANG companies. Unfortunately it seems like I'm blowing my interviews and can't figure out what it is that they're seeing or not seeing in me. I've done two on-site interviews in the last 2 weeks, both of which went exceptionally well from my perspective. One was at Apple, the other at a very well funded and established startup with many ex-Apple/Google employees. I was invited for the on-sites after passing 2 phone interviews in both cases. Both on-sites were flawless from a technical perspective. I answered every question and solved every problem that was thrown at me. In both cases I met the hiring manager and VP at the end (so the interview wasn’t terminated early). And yet both rejected me without any explanation other than "we chose another candidate". I can't pinpoint what might have gone wrong. Is it an age bias (I'm in my late 30's) or perhaps over qualification for IC developer roles? Is it that these companies will only hire Stanford grads or candidates who have worked at other elite companies? Can someone tell me what other factors a hiring manager at an Apple/Google type company might be looking for, other than technical competence? Note that I have no trouble getting into smaller startups and also very lucrative contract gigs, but it seems like there's something preventing me from getting into the truly elite companies. I can't figure out what I'm saying or doing wrong. thanks!
Open source projects die too
Does nobody gain at all from the investments in an opportunity zone? Are those benefits just ignored?
Unless the universe will only continue to support life for less than that constant amount of time. A temporary fix is permanent, for sufficiently large values of "temporary." (See also: UUIDs.)
Living in the UK, I've come to believe that gov.uk is the model that all governments should follow. No matter what I need to do, gov.uk has all the information I could need, and tells me where to go and what to do.

Their greatest success isn't the website, although it is incredibly clean and easy to use. Their greatest success is distilling bureaucracy down to easy-to-follow instructions - as highlighted in this article. Their content is impeccable. Lists, bullet points, jargon-free "here's what you need to do", for any issue you might have in your life.
ha, I can hear Elmo & Abby singing right now in the living room.
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The problem is that you can be unaware. It's also not tracked as a metric. Nobody knows how large or small it is.

Also, it's easily bypassed.
My bigger issue is the slight whiff of... dare I say it? Privilege?

Look, don’t get me wrong. Publicising good causes and helping people direct their charity can do no harm. I won’t criticise that. But instructing your readers to do economics PhDs, or join an investment bank, or take an internship at a thinktank, is assuming they enjoy some enormous opportunities.

Most people cannot do those things, not even if they went to Oxford. They cannot do an MBA or live on the subsistence wages of the modern academic. Like most human beings in the history of civilisation they can only choose how to be instruments of power and capital, which often means doing things only indirectly related to the public good.
I think you're both right...A daily standup is absolutely a sign of "distrust", but I put it in quotes because it isn't as negative as usual distrust is, but I think technically that's an appropriate word.
Its a level of distrust which is natural, in the same way that you ask people for things you want from them, rather than just "trusting" that they'll know. Sure, they might, but it makes it much easier on everyone when a communication is made. A daily standup is just a central time and place to communicate so that the real meaningful form of trust doesn't get damaged because of a lack of communication/miscommunication.
In my experience that is true until you go with a foam roof. I've seen two commercial buildings now that used an expanding foam sealant/roof which creates about a 6" seal on the roof which you don't normally walk on (on both that I saw wood pathways were laid down between ceiling access and the roof machinery (HVAC, skylights, etc). One of them had the roof installed in 2001 and has not had a single leak according to the landlord. (I know, biased, but he was trying to sell me on the building so if he was taking a risk if he was lying)

Apparently it "naturally" bulges a bit in the middle when they install it so the water is shunted to the edges. And of course California doesn't have extreme rain events all that often.
I'm with you on this one.

Virtually all of the instructions on the site begin with folding the paper in half in some way. However, this one breaks that rule:

https://www.foldnfly.com/15.html#Spin-Plane
"1. Fold the paper in half about two inches before the edge."

But it doesn't have to! It could just as well have started with a center fold and then folding the corners to the center to measure, then folding that over to measure again. The measurement folds don't have to even be full folds -- you could just fold only at the very edges to lock in the measurement. Also, this plane ultimately has a center fold in it, so it could easily have begun with one.
The iPhone disrupted the phone buying process, and still showed you a discounted price, after phone carrier subsidy.
Follow up articles in that series are going to show how to make it multi-threading and OO-compliant.
"Typical" bad OOP code is a threading nightmare because the flow of control and flow of data becomes impossible to follow - it's all just random objects calling random objects calling random objects. Not spaghetti code, but spaghetti flow.
To write threadable OOP, you need to avoid fine grained polymorphism and deep call graphs. Instead of doing work immediately by calling out to the next object, return some results to your caller and allow them to make the call. This also allows your caller to collect large batches of work a'la DOD... which often actually increases performance (much better I$ and D$ usage) AND it's also much closer to old school OO message passing theory, and assist in writing simple, decoupled components.

I'd go as far to say that even if you're not targeting multiple threads, accounting for them in this way (NOT the stupid "just put a lock on each object" way) results in much better/simpler code.
It’s nutrition. You almost can’t run long term randomised experiments patient compliance is so low. Take it as interesting at best like the rest of the field that told us salt was bad for us, that dietary cholesterol effected serum cholesterol and trans fats were healthier than polyunsaturated (margarine vs butter).
Now just design a civ style game with sql command-line interface but fancy autocomplete bright warcarft3 colors and a fun storyline . Have a generation of gamers learn sql
High-Dimensional Probability: An Introduction with Applications in Data Science [pdf]
It reminds me of the fact that despite how permanent our life patterns feel, we're never more than two or three generations from completely changing our social norms and life patterns.
A lot of people skip reading gov.uk because "I'm not from the UK what do I care?!" but I believe it is one of the best consumer web page development & design document bundles around. Even if you're based out of the US or elsewhere.

There's too many good pages to link but to get started:

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/start-pages/

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

The US also has some good sites (Healthcare.gov's design pages[0], federal government's digital team[1]) the main reason I like the gov.uk stuff a little better is because it deals with more than simple design, it gets into philosophy, deployment, and testing.

[0] https://styleguide.healthcare.gov/design/

[1] https://designsystem.digital.gov/
As I read this piece I was able to predict the direction it would go and the evidence that would be presented for each opinion. By the end I had been neither surprised nor enlightened by anything presented in it.

The author likes old books, dislikes digital reading devices and audiobooks, dislikes most things written since his own birth unless they were written about the western canon or by people trained entirely in the canon, is uninterested in reading books from other cultural traditions, and is completely self-satisfied with his extensive and erudite form of intellectual provincialism.

It is an infuriating piece that describes a small mind that looks large to the consciousness inside it. I would propose this alternate subtitle: "How Reading the Western Canon Allowed Me to Achieve an Entirely Unremarkable Relationship with Culture and Thought"

If you haven't read the article yet I'd recommend you not bother.
Breaking those rules are absolutely breach of contract, and that alone can cost Amazon $$$ millions in a court case, of course Bezos has plenty to waste on lawyers.
> eventually when the disk starts to get full

Don't wait until the disk gets full.

Autovacuum works great for most small to moderate sized databases. And it works great for larger databases with a few tweaks.
Are you thinking of doing that? I'd love to check back in once all the new drawings are available.
This is just how society works. Things change. Cities develop. People move. Creating a bigger and better middle class is a good thing.
Why have the initial pre-message then? Why not just have a client that prompts on unknown senders?

Edit: or maybe that’s what you meant?
I just noticed they're now advertising the 0-60 of the performance trim as 3.3 seconds. Only a week or so ago, they were advertising 3.5 seconds.

I might have to test drive one soon. My wife is strongly disapproving me getting a Roadster in a few years. If I find that 0-60 in 3.3 seconds is enough, I might settle for a Model 3.

EDIT: They also removed the option to purchase full self-driving. Interesting...
You won't find me arguing against the need for more investment in opportunity zones, or the social benefits of doing so. We don't need a redistributional giveaway to rich people to do so, of course.
i'm curious, what do you think would actually happen if we taxed corporate revenue instead of profits?

the effect of a particular tax can be pretty hard to figure out. just because the tax is levied against a certain company or individual doesn't necessarily mean they actually bear the burden of that tax; depending on the situation, they may be able to pass off the burden to someone else entirely. in general though, you can think of taxes as discouraging a particular activity/transaction.

if you directly slap a tax on revenue, you are basically putting the brakes on all economic activity. low margin businesses are probably hit harder than higher margin businesses, but keep in mind that the profitability of the average business varies a lot by industry, so you run the risk of putting entire sectors underwater. unless they are able to pass the tax on to their customers, a grocery store is going to be hit a lot harder by this tax than a semiconductor company, and people are going to be less likely to invest in them. taxing corporate profit is somewhat perverse in the same way, since it serves to discourage efficient allocation of capital, but it does have the nice side effect that it increases the incentivize for companies to spend more tax free dollars on things like employee benefits and wages.

in my opinion, we should probably not tax corporations at all. ultimately all corporate revenue turns into either income for employees or capital gains for investors, so just tax these (progressively) and hike the rates. while we're at it, let's also eliminate as many personal tax credits and deductions as possible.
Because nobody got rich by spending on the poor. It's the lie at the heart of every trickle-down scheme and corrupt charity: that all we need to do is give wealthy people a little bit more, and we'll all somehow benefit from it.

Absent a vocal minority, wealthy people spend their money in ways that make them more money or get them more political power. They don't build communities, they build dynasties.

From an introductory pdf [1]: "A qualified Opportunity Fund is a privately managed investment vehicle organized as a corporation or a partnership for the purpose of investing in qualified opportunity zone property (the vehicle must hold at least 90 percent of its assets in such property)".

Okay, so here's my prediction: a series of shell corporations will be constructed so that the investors are essentially moving their money around on their own plate. Those funds will then look for the most efficient way to produce a return on that investment, which will probably consist of purchasing real estate, pumping up its value (increasing housing costs in the region), and then dumping it at the end of the 10-year term so that the investors can get out without any tax liability. The affected communities will end up with artificial housing cost inflation followed by a slump that will leave them in just as bad of shape as they are now, at best.

It's raw, seething cynicism, yes, but it also closely matches something that's already happening right now. Communities across the country are seeing artificially high commercial rents coupled with empty storefronts in heavily-trafficked areas because real estate owners have discovered that they can make a little extra money by keeping some of the spaces empty and using them as tax deductions, instead of lowering the rent to market rate and putting a small business in there. [2]

[1]: https://eig.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Opportunity-Zones...

[2]: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161006/jefferson-park/vaca..., for one example.
You are confusing cause and effect.

Gentrification is a consequence of improving economic circumstances. Decay is a consequence of declining economic circumstances.

Public policies can plaster over this fact somewhat, but generally policies like rent control or CA's Prop 13 make things worse rather than better.

I have visited Oakland plenty. It's a terrible place, due at least in part to bad public policy as described above.
> OOP is not a word, though. It's a jargon term.

Jargon terms are a subset of words.

> You can't redefine those.

You can. Anyone that's been around computing knows that “functional programming” (and even “imperative programming”, which at one point contrasted with structured programming) have drifted

> Jargon terms don't drift.

Jargon terms absolutely drift (and get overloaded) for the same reason as other terms do,the difference is the community of use in which those factors which drive drift/overloading operate.

> To be clear, I'm mostly talking about the same thing that is true of the term "Begging the question." Laymen can use it to mean whatever they want—and I don't begrudge them that, it's a phrase in a language and people will do what they like with it. But that lay-usage will never change what the phrase means in the context of formal deductive reasoning.

Mostly aside, but the popular alternative usage of that phrase is transitive verb phrase, and the older usage is an intransitive verb phrase (which, while this is clearly reversing the etymology, can be viewed as a special case of the transitive form with a particular direct object assumed) so the two neither conflict nor are incompatible. So, it's kind of a bad example of anything other than reflexive pedantry; accepting the alternative usage in formal circles wouldn't be drift or overloading because it is structurally distinct.
You used the word 'related', implying statistical correlation.

My point is: a feature which is statistically correlated with gender is also statistically correlated with sex, since for the vast majority of people sex and gender coincide.
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Please be aware that vitamin D being fat-soluble you can actually overdose on it (while with water-soluble vitamins you simply pee them away).
Excessive dosage of vitamin D can have very nasty effect (e.g. severe kidney damage).
Your skin stops synthesizing vitamin D when you have enough so you can't overdose by staying in the sun, but you can by taking supplements.
If you want to see the exercises before/without signing up -- here's a link to the code/tests (and it's more than just Python): https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aexercism-track+org%3Aexe...
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I do think this echoes fooyc's point though: this does not sound like an area that would benefit from OOP. Sounds like an ideal use-case for functional.
>This is point of governments. To change the incentives for individuals so markets optimize for global good. This is not a hard concept.

Huh, this whole time I thought the point of governments was to protect individual rights. TIL /s
I have a hard time getting on board with the "waste" or loc argument. The things that matter most to me are readability, organization, maintainability, etc. If the structure that provides those things results in there being more lines of code, or more "waste" then that's a price I'm happy to pay.

The context you describe being a teacher is exactly the kind of case I was suggesting OOP may not be beneficial. If you're in a programming class you are generally not maintaining code bases with millions upon millions of lines of code. In that case, in a case where a single person is likely capable of understanding the entire code base, OOP probably isn't bringing any serious benefits.
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People cry tax avoidance, but I'm assuming these will MOSTLY be areas where no one and their mother would want to reasonably invest. Areas with little hope for the people there to establish themselves in a good life.

If this moves some money into these underdeveloped areas, after a 10 year stock market bull run, then great. Most of the investments will go to zero, but the ones that don't might have a good impact for the people living there.
I've done it well in C projects by tackling it at build time. Compile each test separately and use the dependencies of the test to decide what to link against, so if the test has "#include <mock-thing.h>" then that gets translated to link against mock-thing.o which implements all the functions from thing.h (the interface) plus some ways to manipulate the state. Basically compile time dependency injection. I think this is a fairly language independent way to handle things.

By relying on make for the heavy lifting the tests are completely incremental, only tests that depends on modified files get run. It also doesn't pollute the run time code with layers of indirection.
The long term capital gains tax rate for married people with less than $19,000 in income is zero.
Kay also mentioned the Internet is an OO system. At one point he was thinking every object would have it's own IP address.

He does have an account here on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alankay1
I hope he doesn't get tired of explaining the same things over-and-over again. I have asked questions and he has answered, but I usually end up misinterpreting the ideas. :(
I'd expect proxies, CDNs, VPNs to become a common setup, although we'd have to trust these service providers not to track our traffic. TOR might be a better option for privacy, doubtful if that will ever succeed on large scale though.
The problem here is that you only have your own perspective. You may feel that you answered the technical question flawlessly but the interviewer may have felt the answer was so wrong they just moved on.

What were some of these technical questions and what were the answers you gave?

I know that FAANGs will likely be cautious bringing in someone with too much experience as they need to change how they have learned to work in the past. It sucks but younger people are easier to mould and are cheaper.

Did you price yourself out of a job?

I know from my experience interviewing at a FAANG that the interviewers rely a lot more on STAR based questions than the technical questions.

On top of that if you've got 8+ years of iOS experience it could mean that you've made your qualifications too narrow. If you sell yourself as just an iOS developer then people expect that you can only do iOS development.

EDIT

I'm also curious why you mention Ivy league education. This doesn't matter after your first one or two jobs.
There is a much simpler solution for the vertical integration problem. If you buy something from another company which has already paid tax on it, you don't have to pay tax on it a second time. The resulting tax is called VAT.
I'm sorry you completely lost me in the second paragraph. If reading comprehension comes anywhere near connecting an author's life experience to their word choice, then I'll gladly take my 0 and call the whole thing garbage. Sure, coaching and therapy work. They're also fields that churn out massive amounts of pseudo-science when it suits the author's ego.
The easiest would be to invest in assets that don't (or only moderately) go up in value, but that you can (in the end) liquidate at cost. Then you get the tax benefit without the risk.
Three books of Heinlein's I will never regret reading: Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Stranger in a Strange Land.

Which is not to say I endorse all of the ideas in those books. Disagreeing vociferously with Heinlein, or just asking "how in the heck would that actually work?!" is part of the fun!
Argentina. Some really good tech schools, like UTN. Free. Living costs for a student should be about 5 grand a year. Spanish skills needed.
It doesn't bother me that much, personally, but the way they shoehorn some sort of faux-casual wordplay into every single bullet point does push it a bit into "how do you do, fellow kids" territory.
It's more of a hypothesis paper by a retired scientist. Bruce Ames, the author used to do experiments on vitamin and mineral deficiencies in animals 20+ years ago. What he found was things like increased DNA strand breaks. Nothing positive was found in terms of longevity or healthspan when supplementing excess anti-oxidants. It's possible to search Ames B[author] on pubmed to see his old publications.

"Maybe some these things would extend healthspan if people have a less than optimal diet."

...or that maybe some novel and expensive things might have small health impacts. Not that they do otherwise, or that there is rigorous experiments demonstrating so.

I think some people are eagerly clamoring to supplement based on this list, which is just fueling the 30bn dollar a year supplement industry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/style/wellness-industrial...

Why not fund basic research into age related disease instead?

i.e.
[
https://www.lifespan.io/the-rejuvenation-roadmap/,
http://dogagingproject.com,
http://sens.org
]