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> "Countries including Canada and Spain have rules to limit or prohibit masks at riots or unlawful gatherings"

Oh yes, I'm sure the guys burning cars and smashing shop windows are going to follow a no masks rule.

More broadly, democracy doesn't require anonymity. In face, it functions better when you know exactly where everyone stands.

If you're worried about the ruling government black bagging you for your stance, get a 2A. Start a real revolution.

The Declaration wasn't signed "concerned colonists". Those dudes put their names on paper and mailed it to King George.
Newspaper and magazine articles like this never have the kind of statistical analysis and tests that you're asking for. It'd be nice, but it's not a realistic expectation.
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California population growth slow as residents leave, immigration decelerates
You're getting a terribly skewed sample if you're only informing yourself based off homeless people who are visible on the street, in front of you.
> Likewise, Prop 57 decriminalized theft up to $950/day so now we have an epidemic of car break ins and theft from stores and no real police response

This seems insane! $950 is huge, you could fill up a cart with 3 months worth of groceries for less than half of that amount. I'm guessing this means your average Californian has to pay much higher grocery prices in order to cover the costs of loss?
Wait, what?

The first is a philosophical principle that says that a government must serve the governed people, the second is an actual form of government that tries to implement the first.
That's because it was actually all a hoax. ;-)

EDIT: Wow, HN really has zero tolerance for ironic humor.
Let me see if I got it right.

Even though we have no objective measurement of what’s wrong and what’s right you are asking me to believe you and trust you that there is a problem?
Compared to distance, travel time is a more complex and nuanced variable. There are more things that a route planner could do, and I suspect that Google maps (and others) are doing some of them. They include taking into account the variance in the time to transit each route segment (which might be, for example, weather-dependent), preferring simpler routes (including taking account of statistics on missed turns), and taking into account the effect of its -- and others' -- recommendations on the flow of traffic (or even on public safety.)
These articles keep claiming that high rents, mental illness and substance abuse are the causes of the homelessness surge. But rarely, if ever, are any statistics cited. The HUD report referenced by the article does not discuss causes either.

I can tell you from my experience working in homeless encampments in Oakland that most of the people living there are neither mentally ill, nor abusing drugs. Most of them are people who would ordinarily work on the very bottom rung of the employment ladder, in jobs that 20 years ago would be a good fit for someone undermotivated, or quirky, or otherwise unfit for a more “responsible” job.

But there’s no place for them anymore; automation has replaced some of those jobs, and a combination of plunging wages and a more ruthless Amazon-style workplace has made many of the jobs that are left intolerable. People are choosing a tent in the park in Oakland over working three part-time jobs and being micromanaged by an AI just to barely afford 1/7th of an apartment. And, we have imported tens of millions of unskilled, mostly unauthorized immigrants who are happy to take those jobs - another thing you won’t hear discussed in these articles.
Homelessness in California is one of the volunteer topics at Hack For LA (https://hackforla.org) and Code For America (https://www.codeforamerica.org).

The purpose of the code is to assist social services case managers, who match people at risk with potential resources such as shared housing placements.

If you're interested in volunteering, feel free to message me. If you're interested in donating, see https://donorbox.org/hackforla
Can you make the ö in FÖHN? Because if you go from the "ah" in AFTER to the ö in FÖHN, right on the transition you'll do a good "ui" for AFSLUITDIJK.

Using the MOUTH vowel in that word would reveal an English speaker immediately ;-) (Germans mess it up differently ;-) )
I buy into that explanation. In short it implies a few things:

1) It's not about you the reader it's about me

2) I don't intend to have so many tweets but after writing 1 or 2 I am inspired in a way that keeps me going and I end up at 20.

3) I have not figured out a way to channel my creative energy if I am faced with something that feels like work rather than a reaction or to fill an immediate creative inspiration.
The thing he complained about in the chat group (the cops confiscating motorbikes) was disturbingly common to see when I lived in Shanghai. A guy riding his tricycle (sometimes with a small battery to take the load off) piled high with cardboard he's bought from shops or scrap metal that he's bought from construction sites. He takes it to the recycling place and sells it for a profit of what probably amounts to a few dollars a day. And he's the first guy the cops seem to target to impound his bike, either because he was riding somewhere bikes are not allowed to, or because he doesn't have a license to make those few dollars a day doing that.
Strange when I see HN diverge from “tech twitter” in this situation. Why are so many on here skeptical of the legitimacy of the housing crisis in California? Maybe it’s that this website draws a broader audience, but it’s a fairly accepted fact among people that live in CA, including myself, that it is indeed a crisis.

And no, not everyone who is homeless is a meth head.
>But there's a large segment of homeless people who choose to be homeless or

So people sitting in $900,000 homes are saying you know what? I'm gonna live in a tent under a bridge.

Is that what they are doing
This is clearly not a flag-able story, so perhaps shrugging and moving on about your day is the best call.

I see things here all the time that I think are light on details or outright lies (usually thinly veiled cryptocurrency ad copy). There are many readers of HN these days and you just gotta accept that and move on.
Interesting read.

> “the second system is the most dangerous one a man ever designs”

Never thought about it that way. Feature creep and aversions to what you thought went wrong from the last time get tested here.

> So, all in all, we did several “upgrades to stable” that were actually bleeding edge upgrades in disguise.

I can relate. Being burned by certain upgrades can push one to veer on the side of caution even if the previous version had bugs. Software is never finished as they say.
So say I use this on my phone, and someone steals my phone, my "identity" is compromised anyway. I have to create a new Identity anyway. User experience of sending everything to someone N times over is not acceptable either. If I want to talk to someone I don't want to have to send a message to each of their devices.
> [those that] don't prompt to ask if they can hoard your data [don't have their IT in correct order]

It's kind of the opposite: if they need to ask for your consent, that means they're doing something that is not part of the standard exceptions.

For example, if they only use your data to do what you asked them to do, they don't need consent. If I ask Contoso to ship me a horse, they don't need my consent to process my address.

Every time you see a cookie banner, the message is: we want to invade your privacy.

If you want to find those that don't have their data protection in order, look for sites without privacy policy, or policies that were updated prior to ~2016 (that's when the GDPR text was finalized, i.e. the earliest time they could have updated it to be compliant with new requirements). A cookie wall is a signal that it's bad, not that it's good.
I’ve personally experienced naive kdb+/Q (which is interpreted) code that is faster than a somewhat optimized C version.
Well done, I must say.
People don’t need to read the article to upvote what they already know. This morning I stood on the balcony of my San Francisco apartment on a very high floor, but not high enough where I could not see and hear the homeless people croak. Someone has to do something.
The visibly homeless are like 1/4 of the homeless population. Most homeless people live in their cars, sleep on a rotating series of friends couches, or find a situation that allows them to get by, and they are homeless for less than a year. For example 10% of college students in California are homeless and for the most part they’re not crazy drug addicts.
That's a lot of water that we're acidifying
>And, we have imported tens of millions of unskilled, mostly unauthorized immigrants who are happy to take those jobs - another thing you won’t hear discussed in these articles.

It sounds like Survival of the Fittest. Only we aren't as willing to let our fellow humans just die from not being fit enough like our ancestors would have.
It's a demonstration that they can predict the result of a wide range of control inputs across a wide range of vehicle states.

There's nothing unusual about a car without stability control. ABS and traction control have only become standard features relatively recently. Vehicle stability control builds on traction control by attempting to predict the driver's intent instead of just preventing slipping.

I think that you are right, that it enable more drastic responses in situations that required them. The normal control mode would probably focus on passenger comfort though.
Well you are very wrong there. The inefficiency is in the permit process. In San Francisco it takes years to get your project approved, and that time is money. Many projects also just don’t get approved, and the carrying costs and fees of those failures don’t even get added to the average cost per dwelling that eventually gets reported. In many jurisdictions permitting and planning consume a full third of the cost and take years.
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Historical most men provided food, shelter, protection from men of foreign tribes but women had to give away great deal of personal freedom, dginity and her ambitions for this while men got guaranteed sex and gene propogation.

All that is done by government and employer now.

And some male guidance etc. can be provided in school which they already pay for.

So isn't it a sign of opulence and improvement?
You may want to look into datomic or crux.

https://github.com/juxt/crux
https://www.datomic.com/
Although it is true that wealth is not a zero-sum game, the poorest in the world today are essentially as poor now as they were 500 years ago. Extreme poverty, defined as less than $1.90/day, still affects 734 million people in 2016. This is a massive improvement, but it’s still a thing. The poorest in developed nations might be richer than the monarchs of 1519 by all counts except land and slave ownership (and gold, and political power), but the world doesn’t stop at the borders of the G20.

Unfortunately, it seems that it is still bad to have relative poverty even in the absence of absolute poverty, as it leads to political and civil unrest. Calling it jealousy doesn’t make it go away. Likewise, you can call anything you don’t like “virtue signalling”, so it’s not got any predictive power unless you want to be more precise.
I think the question asked is rather important if we want to know where we should get to. Maybe it is not easy to answer - but then you can rather ask how do we know it is too rapidly now - and then really you can answer the question by saying we know if X happens it is too rapidly, so we can only use it at a rate below what would cause X to happen.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, global warming is not caused by the rate at which we are using natural resources but by the amount of CO2 we are putting in the atmosphere.
There is a particular cross section of the populace that has an ideological basis for hating California and will blindly accept any negative perceptions or narratives about it.
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They’re clearly not arresting people just for being homeless. Don’t know what you’re talking about, at all.
The only solution is not just your vote.

The tree of liberty occasionally needs to be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

That's how it's always been, and probably always will be.
Except, the unemployment rate is very low right now. And stats show that drug usage and mental illness rates among the homeless are rather high:

> The [Los Angeles] Times, however, found that about 67% had either a mental illness or a substance abuse disorder. Individually, substance abuse affects 46% of those living on the streets — more than three times the rate previously reported — and mental illness, including post-traumatic stress disorder, affects 51% of those living on the streets, according to the analysis.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless...
>Second, massive inequality between rich and poor is a signal that something has gone horribly wrong with the distribution of wealth generated by society. That does not mean that “all of us need to be poor”. It does indicate that the rewards of civilisation have been unevenly distributed.

What is the "right" distribution then? Given that wealth invested will grow exponentially, it seems pretty self-evident that people who invest wealth will end up with way more wealth then people who don't. Even in a very simple model where half the population invests 30% of their savings and the other invests 10%, over a few decades the former will end up massively wealthier than the latter. Similarly, if both halves invest the same amount but one is able to find investments with 10% return and the other with 2% return, the former will end up way wealthier. What's unnatural about this?

Hence if we assume people have different degrees of preference for and competence at investing (there's no reason to assume these traits don't vary), we'd expect that even if everyone started from the same position some would end up way wealthier than others.
> People are choosing a tent in the park in Oakland over working three part-time jobs and being micromanaged by an AI just to barely afford 1/7th of an apartment.

Sounds like you agree that high rents are at least somewhat to blame for homelessness.
I'm not personally in this category, but I believe that there is a group of people who cannot bank because they're either blacklisted by companies like ChexSystems (which compile lists of people who have overdrawn bank accounts and not paid back the bank) or who have court judgements against them, in which case any money in a bank account just gets seized to pay the judgement.
> I can tell you from my experience working in homeless encampments in Oakland that most of the people living there are neither mentally ill, nor abusing drugs.

Well, that part is redundant because if they were, they wouldn't be allowed in homeless shelters in the first place! An obvious source of selection bias.
It seems that you have a number of threads going on here that are deliberately argumentative.

Clearly you haven't even had the time to read any of the references that you were specifically given that answer many (if not all) of your questions - yet here you are, continuing the climate-denial fight.

Do the honorable thing and stop phrasing your statements as questions - it is a waste of peoples time answering them.
Interesting that you don't cite anything that shows automation and immigration are the main drivers either...
Is this different than a relational database with slowly changing dimensions?
And by “we” I presume you mean Asia and South America [1]. By blaming the US and European countries, Greta & co are barking the wrong tree. What we really need is to get China off coal to make a dent. The EU and US have been doing some decent progress already.

[1] https://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Global...
Even that is wrong - we aren’t slowing the rate we are damaging the environment- that is fated to go up.

What we are doing is reducing the rate at which our damage grows.

Reduction in acceleration is not reduction in velocity or reversal.
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It’s amazing how relatable these notes are

(I made the tweets)
Uhhh.

"In fact, we found semen on 30% of the remote controls we tested."

http://m.cnn.com/en/article/h_990ff64f90f909f55b916692ee340d...
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IIRC there's some data that correlates housing costs with rates of homelessness.

> When housing prices force typical households to spend more than 32 percent of their income on rent, those communities begin to experience rapid increases in homelessness.

https://endhomelessness.org/new-research-quantifies-link-hou...
Got one brah
Really, "Smartphones enable tyranny" would be a better title.
To know what some people work on can be fascinating sometimes.
The CAGR of 45% is nuts, but I think it's concerning when Banks start using the same lingo and mindset that startups use.
As others have said. The idea is good but without a privacy policy that is a lot of PII to be forking over.
That would not be legally valid: you can't give a blanket consent for an unspecified party to do anything with your personal data.

Also, as I mentioned in another comment just now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21857843), the banner means they want to do something that you probably don't want, because that's why they have to ask consent. The banner is not needed for things like visitor counting, browsing products in a webshop, or other expected operations that involve personal data. It's only necessary when they do something that requires consent (see the link for an example).
What is the “uncivil” way of stopping climate change? Might as well go to the beach and punch waves as they roll in, it would be the same result.
Do you have evidence of the $950 figure? I read through prop 57 and it concerns parole boards allowing non violent offenders to be released after they fully complete their initial sentence for the primary crime. From Wikipedia: “ Previously, prisoners were often required to serve extra time by a sentence enhancement, such as those for repeated offenders.”

Additionally it allows for juvenile judges to have leeway in deciding if a juvenile should be tried as an adult.
I wonder how many people you could pay to just sweep streets and clean up garbage for 1 billion.
Nice but:

1. Do not debug in production (console.log ...)

2. Secure the session (do not display the session ID in high-scores)

3. This is not infinite (in64 * in64) square + weird border :)

4. Balance the score for big discovered area

5. For the new players start the position on an playable area

6. Limit the total of high-scores returned by the ws

7. Limit the ws data as much as possible

...

Thanks and sorry :)
I'll have a look! Being a French guy in the Netherlands and with money spread over 4 different banks in several countries, bookkeeping really is a pain. I looked a few times in the past but support is notoriously lacking in NL.
> This is no longer the business model for a vast majority of software development. Now, software is never 'done', but new features are continually added (whether needed or not)

Good point - the whether needed or not puts the finger right on the point. The subscription model is funding development of subpar features that aren't needed. This is an inefficiency, and ideally it should be eliminated
This commentator is appealing to the idea that existential threats basically aren't real because they aren't measurable.

Look: measurement a,b,c,d all show things are improving. So this is the truth.

It's one point of view. There are plenty of other ways to look at the world seriously. It doesn't have to be reduced to 5 or 6 numbers.
Except, how long will they remain of sound mind and without substance abuse once they're out on the street?

It's not destiny, of course, but it'd be naive to assume that becoming homeless won't change the odds of someone developing a mental illness, or a drug habit to attempt to cope.
> These articles keep claiming that high rents, mental illness and substance abuse are the causes of the homelessness surge.

Zillow's research group looked at the correlation between rent (as a % of income) and homelessness rate. "Homelessness Rises Faster Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income": https://www.zillow.com/research/homelessness-rent-affordabil...

That's not causality, but it's not nothing. In particular, they found two inflection points: "The first threshold is 22 percent: Any uptick in a community’s rent affordability beyond 22 percent translates into more people experiencing homelessness. The second threshold is 32 percent: Any increase in rent affordability beyond 32 percent leads to a faster-rising rate of homelessness."

Obviously both rent and income affect % spent on rent, but reducing or eliminating municipalities' bans on certain housing styles is far simpler than changing the supply of jobs.

(Full paper is "Inflection points in community-level homeless rates": https://wp.zillowstatic.com/3/Inflection_Points_20181213-ee1...)
>and they are homeless for less than a year.

Right, there are different causes and durations of homelessness. I definitely realize the group you’re talking about exist, but like you acknowledge and from what I’ve read those are the temporary homeless who often either relocate or get subdivided housing. This is the group that social services are actually doing well at helping.

I’m really just talking about the other group that seems to be exponentially growing in population and is a massive problem related to drug addiction that people want to avoid talking about. Worse, the laws are actively enabling their addictions. Society is just waiting for them to OD and die. I think it’s just an awful status quo that I’ve never seen in any other developed country.
That argument makes no sense to me, high rents are a symptom of not enough housing, which IS the problem
In terms of global average temperature, we consider "average temperature in the decades before industrialization" as "healthy/fixed" and the previous temperature plus 4-6 degrees Celsius as "broken beyond repair".

In reality it's of course a bit more complicated since earth is complicated. Another good proxy for "fixed" would be "glaciers and permafrost exist and are not decreasing" while broken would be "large areas in the third world have become uninhabitable to humans"
Likely economic impact of climate change by country
Sure, there are also homeless people who live in cars and vans, motels, shelters. More than most realize. There's families, veterans, etc. But they don't make up the majority of people experiencing chronic homelessness.
That's essentially the same thing. Not enough housing supply will have the predictable effect of increased rents that will price some out of the market.
What are some examples of these bottom of the rung jobs you’re referring to?
This is the flip side of the selection bias that was affecting the previous comment. Given the resources that are being put into "addressing homelessness", the homeless are heavily incented to resort to a homeless shelter. If they stay on the streets, it's likely because they have drug-related or mental issues, thus shelters would just turn them away.
> without forcing anything into others.

you're sealioning[1] and this little tidbit proves it

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions#Sealioni...
It doesn't. As far as we can tell though, our universe doesn't have much curvature, so the problem doesn't come up.
Unemployment is a bad metric for judging whether or not that population is having trouble with work.

As a formerly homeless person, eventually we give up looking for work. We wouldn’t be counted in the top line unemployment number.
It's capitalism. Cheap child care, cheap construction work, cheap restaurant labor...all courtesy of immigrants (both legal and undocumented)