skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> those are per capita numbers not absolute numbers

Of course they are. Why would you use anything else to compare countries?
Generally, no. Buying whatever one wants to eat may be an incentive, but in most US cities soup kitchens and/or access to the SNAP program are available. Malnutrition can be a real problem. and 10% of the US experiences food insecurity each year, but starvation is extremely rare.

In the US at least, hunger / food insecurity is a cross-cutting issue; people who own homes also run into it.
As far as I know this is mainly because most 'jobs' aren't really jobs in the sense that you can support yourself with it. In the US there isn't much of a requirement to pay people enough to survive.
I am a developer not a manager, getting resources is not my problem but maintaining bad code is. In the end of the day business does not understand technical debt, so it's my duty to manage it transparently and well in advance. Perhaps start-ups that need to capture market or something are a different story.
Our ingestion is a single binary running on $Provider.

Aren't you on $Provider too?

Wouldn't you be just as reliable as anyone else in $Provider? (But adding complexity)

I guess I don't see the problem.
Their free tier is well supported and pretty generous.
It's still something that can be stolen
This is wildly incorrect. As of Dec 2019, there were 5,000 "unsheltered" / "sleeping rough" people in the UK, population ~65,000,000, according to The Economist (cite: https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/12/18/on-any-one-wint...) which was fewer than the number in San Francisco, population ~800,000 (cite: https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ExecutiveSu... ).
If you want to solve homelessness in the USA, then properly enforce border security of the country (including walls) and halt the refugee intake. The same low-income housing and entry-level work which is needed for homeless americans is being taken up by these immigrants.

In my homeland of Ukraine, incomes are a fraction of the USA but still there is no homelessness because the country's population is not growing due to mass immigration, and so the existing housing stock is sufficient to cover everyone's needs.
You're basically just getting over the jet-lag when you have to leave again. It's not hard to believe, it's just very hard on your body. I've done a trip that was West Coast to South Korea for 5 days, then to South Africa for 6 days, then New York for 3 days, and back to the West Coast. Took 2 weeks to feel right again, and I was in my 20s.
That breaks the web by definition. There is no way to implement a non-blocking alert(), confirm(), or prompt() in a way that doesn't break existing code that uses them, and that's a lot of code, a lot of the web.
OS X users could try https://github.com/pqrs-org/KE-complex_modifications/blob/ma...
IMO the city should provide enough homeless shelters for everyone and then just make homelessness illegal. So if you are found sleeping in a tent you get referred to the nearest shelter and if you refuse you get arrested.

We can not allow homelessness to exist because it makes public spaces unsafe like you mention. Homeless shelters can also help by making it hard for them to continue their drug addictions.
But food is so abundant and cheap here that even pocket change can get you enough calories to live on. Yeah eventually you might develop deficiencies, but that is likely years down the road, cheap food is fortified to prevent common deficiencies. That discounted day old box of donuts costs almost nothing and that cheap cereal lasts near forever if it is kept dry.
I do feel like immigrants (refugees, not citizens) living in official refugee camps should be accounted for differently than citizen homeless living in the streets of (say) Berlin.

Now perhaps this is not how the statistics were made, but I think some consideration or further investigation should be made.

For reference: Syria is the #1 source of people displaced due to violence, and Germany is the #5 host of such people. https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/

[I see a sibling comment makes the same point.]
so that's essentially useless against this sort of attack?
They are misleading as they include hundreds of thousands of unsheltered refugees.

Anyone who has ever walked around SF or LA and Berlin knows this implicitly. The US cooks the books.

https://www.feantsaresearch.org/download/germany241169298614...
> How do you reconcile that with the fact that there are so many simple jobs with open positions everywhere?

A lot of people simply don't want to work.

Would rather spend the day on the sidewalk than have obligations.

A lot of homeless have mental illness (bipolar, depression, drug addiction, etc.).

This isn't necessarily more common in the US than any other country; the US in general provides fewer public services. So you'll see more of them on the street.

(And of course SoCal has excellent weather; there's more homeless there than in Maine. LA is kinda extreme.)
Expiration dates are maybe a hedge by the manufacturer? Our pediatrician said of some medication we had on hand that it’s probably good way past the printed date, maybe a bit less effective over time, and I’ve heard this about Aspirin, for example. What drugs actually break down quickly over time of kept in the recommended temperature range?
The "added protection" is not "minor" in any sense.
what role do you play in this?
For UK the statistics is skewed.

Their definition of homeless people include people in temporary accommodations (like in council houses).

From wikipedia:

> The UK homeless charity Shelter estimated in 2019 that the number of people in the UK who were entirely homeless or in temporary accommodation was 280,000. Rough sleepers are only a small proportion of the homeless.

Note the last sentence.

280K / 66M gives roughly 46 per 10K.

So, don't just to conclusions too quickly when reading statistics.
> Very seldom see homeless in Asia or Mexico (I don’t stay in tourist areas).

What on earth are you talking about? Even in Japan, famous in the Western imagination for societal cohesion and lack of crime, you can easily spot homeless people sleeping rough in Tokyo. I suppose they do a better job than American cities of keeping the problem out of sight but the idea that there are no homeless people at all in Asia is simply risible.
No such animal. Without a physical proof of voting that is able to be scrutinised by everybody concerned, it can't be done.

All jokes aside, the old-fashioned paper and pencil ballot is probably the best of all the bad voting methods.

The best is of course a 'show of hands' and a verified physical count of those hands.
One idea i've been musing for a while is that much American grief (high prices, archaic governments etc) seems to stem from a lack of new cities. Say austin is the new hotness, settled in 1800s. What about building a 2000s friendly city in the middle of nowhere and not limiting ourselves to the decisions made in 1800s like where's the water and walking/horse is the only mode of transport?
Travels with Samantha was probably one of the earliest things you really wanted to read on the Web: https://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/ That was in the days when you could have a personal homepage with "the" interesting stuff on the Web worth going to.
Nobody wants to admit this, but probably more so here on HN and specially those who will downvote this reply to oblivion and have 10k+ karma points. They will find any excuse to sidestep this as a legitimate issue, here are some to watch out for: a. other countries have a worse homeless problem b. it's because we closed mental health institutions in the 80s c. I was homeless you don't know what you're talking about d. war on drugs is the cause e. you shouldn't judge others maybe they chose this... the list goes on and on and I'm not going to respond to any of them here, just something to be on the look out for when this topic comes up.

In the US people don't find the same solidarity with their fellow citizens unless you belong to the same club or same sociopolitical spectrum you basically think you're better than everyone else and there is a deep rooted superiority complex among people here. This is in stark contrast to countries even in Europe including Italy and others where there is a strong sense of community and for example Italianess that supersedes petty political and idealogical beliefs that many in the US cling to almost religiously.

I don't think Americans want to admit this specially the closer to the coastal cities you get the less sense of solidarity with fellow citizens and belongingness prevails rather than more community driven even religious South.
On my first day of my first web-dev job, I went to dinner with the top developers and all they did was tell surreal horror stories about the boss. Women would routinely leave his office crying.

The product we were making was complete BS, and I think the boss was just siphoning off money for himself. All he did was download songs on Napster all day and blare them from his office.

Our top developer was a guy from Australia working under the table because he couldn't get a visa. He missed two days while deathly sick. The boss docked him $800.

There are so many other horror stories. I always compared the guy to a cross between Captain Bligh and Mr. Smith from Lost in Space.
> We have never before justified such intrusive government policies based on the risks faced by these individuals.

Except for that time doctors were given police powers to enforce quarantine during the "Spanish Flu" spikes...
Homeless in the US are not really struggling for food.
You can cash paychecks at the issuing bank.

Plenty of people use public transit to get to work. (If public transit can’t reliably move people, that’s much more than a homeless problem.)
Possibly, but they wouldn't make a noticeable number. The antivaxxers crowd is bigger and more motivated by the same nonsense. I wonder why they, including the same people who hate injections, never complained about mandatory vaccines for their kids, a practice that went on for decades in many countries?
For example, most European countries had and still have 10 or more obligatory vaccinations for diseases that were finally defeated thanks to the practice, yet I have to meet one parent who refuses to let their kids receive it. I have good memory, and don't recall of anyone screaming when I was taking the anti-smallpox shot as a kid; it's just the same bullshit planted in their heads through social media.

The covid vaccine is newer, therefore not tested enough? Bullshit! Every vaccine has been "young" at some time. There are no records of people protesting back then about treatments against diphteria, meningitis, polyo and others.

There may be some side effects? Again a pile of bullshit. Lots of medicines can have side effects but people don't protest in the streets about that.
Years back I took too many painkillers for my back pains, unfortunately they attacked my guts bacterial flora so I got an intestinal blockage while experiencing a sudden drop in blood red cells. I spent weeks taking tests and restoratives before it was clear I didn't have leukemia, which is present in my family and is what my father died of.

No, it's not fear of the needle, it's pure and simple politicized misinformation through social media and other sources. Those idiots follow what their leaders say without turning on the brain; no critical thinking, or any consideration for the evidence: they're the perfect army any corrupt politician would love to herd.
> Unless, of course, you think that the vaccine is more dangerous than coronavirus. And then I don't really know what to say.

I'd still encourage everyone to vaccinate for pro-social reasons, but for the young and the healthy I don't think this is such a ridiculous assertion. I'm virtually 100% confident that vaccines are completely safe and effective. However for a large fraction of people they will make you feel like shit for 2-5 days.

Let's just do a quick QALY based tradeoff for a healthy 25-year old. To make it interesting let's also say that she was already previously infected with Covid. The baseline CFR for this age group is approximately 0.004%. For someone with antibodies this number's at least 50% for subsequent infections.

Assuming 70 years of remaining life expectancy, Covid infection would lead to the loss of 12 hours of life expectancy. In contrast, I'd definitely prefer to be dead than live with the post-vaccine symptoms I experienced. And for me the suffering lasted about 96 hours. And I'm not atypical here. In that sense, vaccines are nearly ten times worse from a QALY perspective than the risk of being unvaccinated.

Again, all that being said, I was vaccinated and would encourage everyone else to do the same. But for the typical healthy 20-something, skipping the vaccine isn't necessarily irrational-- just selfish.
> There's nothing I can show you that would make you believe what I'm saying

Real data from a reputable source would be more than sufficient.

Remarkable how you seem to be unable to produce any...
How would this be enforced? What if a business just does not ask you for proof? Will they take your word for it or is it required to show actual proof?

It could be a good advertising campaign: Come on in, we trust you.
I'm sure it does - the problem is that the disconnect trigger voltage could be a normal state of charge for one cell but a high / dangerous state of charge for another.
You can find the legal definition at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/11302

Squatting in a derelict building counts as homeless per the US definition. It's not just people living on the street.
Yes, I worked to create the most recent census of homelessness in my county. That's why I am aware of the fact that an overwhelming supermajority of current homeless express a wish to live in independent, affordable rental homes, like the rest of us. But you don't have to personally conduct the census to know this; you can just go read the results.
Your response is extremely typical mix of mis-information (see below), generally stated principles bordering in their generality on banality and absence of any data.

>nothing anywhere close to this has been shown in any other country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/29/cdc-mask-gu...

"This echoes data seen from studies in other countries, including highly vaccinated Singapore, where 75 percent of new infections reportedly occur in people who are partially and fully vaccinated."
Sounds interesting. Do you know any link to this talk?

Edit: I could not find similar to here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc2018/
45% have mental illness.

25% have "serious" mental illness. https://www.bbrfoundation.org/blog/homelessness-and-mental-i...

38% are alcoholic.

26% abuse drugs. https://www.banyantreatmentcenter.com/2020/07/01/a-look-at-h...

I suspect they tend to be the more visible ones, as opposed to the ones in shelters or assistance programs.
> your presumptuous and uninformed conclusion about them being bad studios

they were abusing their workers rights in a surreptitious manner - not sure how that's a "good studio"
I don't think people are sponsoring visas for dishwashers.
Brown brick with blue and white, according to Google :-)
I don't know about flipping burgers or all of Europe, but entry-level pay at Aldi in Switzerland is around $65k USD.
What part of LA are you in? I’ve lived on the west side for the last 13 years and tent camps have been an issue for at least the last 10. They started getting noticeably worse about 5 years ago in line with a rapid rise in the unsheltered population [1].

[1] http://www.laalmanac.com/social/so14.php
Can nanoscience help make AC more efficient?
> Have the near usurious transaction fees typically associated with those cards been regulated away, or are they still yet another way for financial conglomerates to nickel and dime more profits from the most vulnerable, while masquerading as a better option?

I'm having trouble finding the source, but my recollection from a planet money podcast is that they're free to withdraw if you use their network of ATMs, but otherwise charge you a few dollars per transaction. As for whether it's better, maybe? It's certainly worse than a no-fee banking account at a local credit union (but with limited ATM access) or a big bank (but with a fee and/or minimum deposit requirements), but it's better than holding a wad of cash on your body.
It literally states POCs are less likely to be vaccinated (and have proof of vaccines).

Sorry, facts don't care about your feelings. Mandatory vaccine ID is racist bigotry.

Your concern trolling, poorly.
For comparison: there are single neighbourhoods in California with >36k homeless. Congregation is the real issue.
I remember around 10-12 years ago my son had a birthday party at our house and one of the children's fathers asked how long we had lived here. We told him and he replied "OK, I was pretty sure this house looked familiar: I built your stone fireplace. You have some boulder retaining walls out back, don't you? I built those too." The pride on his face, finally getting to meet the homeowner and show off his work, was amazing.

The cool thing about bricks and rock is that those walls will probably be there 100 years from now.
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Funny I went down this rathole very shortly after discovering the "Thunderbolt networking" change in the Linux kernel. My hope was the use the Linux box (with 10 GbE) as a bridge/switch to give my Mac cheap 10 GbE access. While point-to-point did hit more or less the expected speed, bridging was horribly slow. Ended up just getting an Sonnet Solo10G SFP+ adapter (which is great).
The answer is you address each of those issues in order of dependencies. Pragmatically speaking, since these persons have a demonstrated incapacity for participating in our society in the usual way, that will have to happen in some kind of institutional setting or it won’t happen at all.
> Generally no one (seriously) programs a computer with point and click, drag or touch. A keyboard is used. Surely, there must be a reason for this.

I certainly use a keyboard to program, but I also make good use of my mouse (well, touchpad) for text selection, changing windows, etc.
> It is one of those things that once it is allowed at all, it quickly becomes overwhelming.

I believe this is mostly due to the effect of the ruling in the landmark "Martin v City of Boise" [1] case.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_v._Boise
Do you have a cite? I thought vaccination reduced hospitalization to nearly zero. Here's a link where the highest state is at .06% https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrou...
I would argue that the US pushes autonomy and personal responsibility much much farther than most developed countries.
>Musk was not a Stanford PhD nor a founder, if that's who you are referring to. If you can point me to any evidence of either that doesn't come from him, I'll be happy to stand corrected.

Musk was accepted and enrolled into a Material Science PhD at Stanford. He dropped out to be an entrepreneur. Really not sure why you are being pedantic here. The point is he has the technical chops as evidenced by being in a Stanford engineering PhD program. Trevor had absolutely nothing.

>Can you tell me what Kimball's qualifications are for sitting on the Tesla board?

It's spelled Kimbal, as long as we are being pedantic and all.

And board members of large public companies, and even startups, generally have ZERO operational control within the company.

This seems, quite different than Trevor's Fuck-up brother literally running hydrogen infrastructure for his company.

I really don't see why you are so obsessed with shitting on Tesla or defending Nikola here. There is a big fucking difference between Tesla and the Nikola fraud, and it was obvious from the start.
I would like to know the extent of these problem and if there are other solutions. Seems this person did charge to 100%. Maybe this should be disabled for garages
I'm not sure offhand. Looking at the local YMCA site it's $66/mo for a single location, asks for an address to sign up, and can do credit/debit as well as drafts from checking/savings account, so it appears you have to be "banked".
OK, businesses that want to have unvaccinated people in their stores will be able to do that.
Got fu!# yourself you communist piece of sh!t
You're trolling and denying facts.

It literally states POCs are less likely to be vaccinated (and have proof of vaccines).

Sorry, facts don't care about your feelings. Mandatory vaccine ID is racist bigotry.
IIRC the tents started right after the occupy Wall Street movement. Often they’d camp next to homeless or homeless would join their camps and it morphed. There have also been drives to deliver tents to homeless…
> a pathway should be figured out to try to find a way to make them productive members of society.

I think this attitude is a major component of the fundamental problem.

Why not just accept that some proportion of society is unproductive for whatever reason, and spend tax dollars to keep them minimally housed, bathed, and clothed. Period. It's not extravagant, it's not spacious, it's just a cramped SRO any citizen can get a room in.

So much of "productive" employed society is just inefficient borderline pointless busy work anyways, and automation will be increasingly decimating these jobs, it's not something we can continue ignoring and treating as a "homeless problem".

Admit it, most of modern society already isn't productive, get over it. I can't honestly say all my colleagues in the tech industry were net productive. There was a whole lot of pissing money down the drain on insignificant contributions, aka warm chairs, aka plants. If tech companies can afford to pay tech salaries for nothing in return, they can pay more taxes to keep the streets, parks, sidewalks, and beaches clean and those down on their luck bathed and groomed enough to interview for a fake job.
These jobs almost certainly also want someone who is clean and reliable.

If you are homeless, you might not have access to a shower or laundry facilities. You might have to rely on public transit (which is unreliable in many American cities), or you might not be able to afford public transit, so it might be hard to arrive on time. All of which will put you at a strong disadvantage compared to any other applicant.

If you do go to a job interview you might have to leave all your positions in the street where without you watching over them, they could be stolen. If you have a pet or a child, there might not be anyone trustworthy willing to take care of them while you are away.

If you pass the first round of interviews, you might need a phone number where they can call you for a follow up. But what happens if you can't afford a phone plan? Or if you have a phone, but don't have easy access to a location where you can charge it?

Finally day after day of living on the street, having very poor nutrition, not getting enough quality sleep, dealing with extreme stress, can all cause mental health issues.

There are lots of obstacles to getting a job when you are homeless. And the longer you go without a job, the harder it is to get a new job.
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>Anyone who has ever walked around SF or LA and Berlin knows this implicitly.

The easy explanation for that is the social programs that care for the homeless are stronger in Germany. You don't see Berlin's homeless as a problem because they don't have to result to literally sleeping on the street. The people living in shelters are no less homeless, they just aren't as visible.
I imagine there are multiple methodologies to measure this because it's hard to even get a handle on how many people are homeless. The point still stands: "they're all just so mentally ill they like to live on the streets" won't wash as an explanation.
Paper bills are issued by the Federal Reserve Banks, not the states. Debit cards aren't "Tender in Payment of Debts" at all: creditors don't have to accept payment by debit card.