skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an exercise for you. Go find somebody that you think might not have sufficient time or money to get an ID and ask them if they have one. Then ask them if they think there were any barriers to them getting an ID.

I bet dollars to donuts you will be surprised by the answer.
Isnt that confirm()
Social housing.
As a non-American person living in the US, I fail to understand one thing about its society. When I walk around town I see tons and tons of places advertising jobs, for simple stuff like kitchen, moving stuff around, etc. I even recently saw a store with a "talk to the manager and start working right now" sign. And then I walk around the streets and see all these homeless. It seems like a paradox to me, but I am obviously missing some important detail here.

Of course I understand some drug addicts may not want a job or simply know they can't last more than a few days in one, but I would imagine a lot of these homeless people I see on the streets would actually like to have an income and be able to live anywhere that's not the streets. How do you reconcile that with the fact that there are so many simple jobs with open positions everywhere?

This is not supposed to be a sarcastic or politically loaded question. Where I come from, jobs are simply unavailable and at the moment you advertise it, even if it's just flipping burgers, there are lines and lines of people competing for it. I fail to understand why the US is so different. Anybody would please be able to point me at what I'm missing?

Edit: also, people who can't afford housing usually live with their families for a long time (or the whole life). Tiny houses with entire generations of families living in it are common. I guess this is still miles better than living in the streets.
This is just a personal take but

* House the ones that are functional/capable of taking care of themselves to an extent

* Mandatory rehab for the ones are strung out pm debilitating opiates

* Asylum for the ones are mentally disabled.
In New Zealand we pay rent every 2 weeks instead of monthly and I’ve seen someone from the US come here and make the opposite argument.

“They are scamming you because you have to pay an extra months rent every year”
It seems very consistent. Many people are also pro-bike but generally agree it is not in the public interest to allow bikes to be ridden on crowded city streets.
Oh, thank you, I should have paid more attention to the original article as well.

As a complete layman on the topic, I am kind of wary of (fully) homomorphic encryption. Not sure if I understand it right, but it seems to me that anybody in possession of the ciphertext would be able to run it through an arbitrary circuit, even if the result is encrypted and they cannot read it; in theory it would be vulnerable to MITM attacks.

For instance, say Facebook servers are compromised (yes, I know…) and an attacker then runs their own version of the recommendation algorithm instead, presenting fake ads to people that mention specific terms.

I am certainly several steps behind any academic discussions on the subject, so if that is not a problem I am curious to know why.
Potentially related - "How major media outlets screwed up the vaccine ‘breakthrough’ story" [1]. Outlines media mis-interpretation of an unfinished, internal CDC presentation last week (roughly lines up with your July 30 story).

[1] https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/cdc_date_media_coverage_...

I found that while reading daily news from AllSides[2], as recommended in a recent HN thread. I really like it so far.
[2] https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
Thanks for the response, y'all sound like a cool group of people. Wish you the best of luck, and I might sneak an application in once you get that hiring page up.

Godspeed!
omg someone read Malthus!
Many Californians are struggling with the ultimate internal battle: Posturing about caring for the homeless while doing everything in their power to prevent housing from getting built. Because density "hurts the vibe of the neighborhood."

Outsiders make fun of California for being overly progressive, but it's entirely surface level. Most are conservative beyond performative actions.
> Vaccines clearly reduce ones chance of acquiring a COVID infection by a significant margin.

All of that data is pre-Delta. The best thing you can say about the vaccines today is that they tend to reduce the overall severity/prevent people from dying.
Reminiscent of Monty Python's 'How to do it' sketch...'Playing the flute, well you just blow through here and move your fingers up and down, that's it really.'
Presumably the City of Los Angles isn't confronting the problem due to an unwillingness to spend funds. If she is successful, the cost of doing nothing will increase. So her goal isn't to throw them out, it's to force the city's hand.
This is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for submitting it, OP.
You're seeing second and third order effects of our poor healthcare system. Especially the complete lack of appropriate mental health.
> Scientists were trusted and conspiracy theories were for tinfoil kooks.

I was exposed to more conspiracy theories in my youth (80s-90s) than today, and like today, scientists were trusted as long as they didn't put your preconceived ideas into question.

The difference is that conspiracy theories used to spread undercover. So you may not know about them all, but when they reach you, they are more convincing, as if you were given access to secret knowledge, and also, debunking was more difficult. Now they are for everyone to see, but it doesn't mean people believe them, especially considering that the debunking is just as assessible.

I think it is what I would call the "people are idiots" fallacy. You always assume you are smarter than "people". Because you are smart, you don't believe in whatever bullshit there is on the internet, but "people" are dumb, so they must believe it the second they get exposed to it, and in some cases, they do, but there is often more than stupidity. But I think that generally, people are smart, and except for a minority, if you can tell obvious bullshit, so can them. As for non-obvious bullshit, it is true people sometimes fall for it but so do you and me, but I don't think that's what the author means by "tinfoil theories".
Beyond that, it is arguable that allowing people to live in squalor yield the worse welfare outcomes these people than limiting their agency. Thus, you can both want to provide them with fresh, clean food and prevent them from living in areas that spread diseases like typhus.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/typhus-tu...
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The base issue is usually mental illness worsened by substance abuse, without a strong social net and with readily available street drugs these people are pretty much unfit for any kind of work.
Do those jobs pay enough for housing + commute?
Your source is wrong. The Pandemrix swine flu vaccine caused narcolepsy in children which did not start showing up for a year after the first doses were administered, and it took authorities another year after that to acknowledge the link to the vaccine.
I’m vaccinated and don’t agree with this. Out of curiosity is there precedent for something like this for non governmental organizations (schools are governmental).
>Anybody would please be able to point me at what I'm missing?

I strongly suspect that this is absolutely the wrong place to ask.

I do remember a time without homeless people however.
They will sorry you to death, if you don't comply.
Governments in California are immune from liability for failure to enact or enforce any law, so good luck.
But observation is the point of most astronomy. Determining causatiom is usually not the goal.

Observing people's weight over time is ome of the reliable and useful things nutritiom research has accomplished. But the goal of the kind of research being discussed here though is to study causation.
What Makes This Interesting, Is Who Wrote It
In the US, that job may not offer the person any net quality-of-life improvements. Flipping that burger for 30 hours a week does not give them enough money to find housing. Now they're still broke but they're also tired, smelly, and angry.
Per-day still has errors when leap-seconds and daylight savings get involved. It's just a smaller error. And unless you can convince landlords nationwide to change how billing works, a company creating a monthly billing service is just going to find another developer that makes what they want.

edit: Also this may not be typical in every lease, but all of my leases have established the rate as both a yearly and monthly amount. I'm sure my landlord wouldn't complain if I paid all 12 months up front. That's the only truly "fair" way.
Non-Paywalled: https://web.archive.org/web/20210804093951/https://www.nytim...
Traffic permit and licensing laws meet a high standard for which there is significant legal precedent. Your statement does not have a legal basis in the US or under Common Law. While we have had health tests to ender the country, we have not had them to go to a public place. We have never required the flu shot to got to a bar or nightclub. I too am not antivax, but I don't think you have the right to require those around you in public places to take a new vaccine that has not even undergone the normal rigors of FDA approval.
Rudolf Diesel is referenced about all that is bad about his engine, similary Tesla will naturally receive most of the exposure. In addition WSJ is a finance paper, and tesla is by far the highest value EV manufacturer
Likely the homeless people, for obvious reasons beyond their control, do not have the hygiene standards to work in basic service jobs.
> I am sure you believe what you are saying, and I am also not doubting that you have some education on the topic, but I have to disagree.

Reasonable people can disagree on questions like this. But you came out of the gate insisting that I "didn't understand", which isn't true.

I understand, I just disagree that this is a disproportionate threat to our society that requires disproportionate response.

> Take for example, this study [1] demonstrating significant loss of grey matter in the brain for COVID patients, both hospitalized and non-hospitalized.

FWIW, that study is terrible. It is a statistical fishing expedition, is improperly controlled (i.e. are the changes due to Covid, or something else? You can't tell!), and the whole field of "looking at MRI for reductions in gray matter" is littered with spurious findings. Here's a comment where I go into this in much greater detail:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27927568

> As our understanding of virology evolves it is becoming more and more clear that the notion of ephemeral infections is just flat out incorrect.

It's not "flat out incorrect"...as I said before, we know that post-viral syndromes are real. This is not new information.

Having a cough or shortness of breath (by FAR the most common "long covid" symptoms) after a infection are no more an indication that the virus is lingering in your body, than leg pain after a cast is removed is an indication that you continue to have a broken leg. It takes time to heal.
The Patriot Act and the ACA have been quite meaningful.
IMO school boards & school district admin generally are a badly under-appreciated source of corruption of many kinds. I'm pretty damn sure it's rampant.
This is definitely the sort of idea that I like when exploring and trying to find a better model. The point I was trying to make in the article is that there are times when, however you try, you don't find a satisfying answer in the time you have.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28066511
The encampment underneath the 101 on Gower is extremely dangerous. There is a stop sign at the end of the exit from the highway, and cross-traffic does not stop. When you want to go south on Gower and there is any amount of traffic, you need to hustle to make the left.

The encampment has taken over one of the lanes of southbound traffic, and when you hustle to make that left, unless you overcorrect on the turn and slow down, you are going to run into the encampment. It was a very difficult turn to make pre-pandemic when there was maybe 1 or 2 tents on the sidewalk underneath the highway; now that it's the sidewalk plus a lane of traffic, it is only a matter of time before someone gets run over.

As a very-short-term fix, the city needs to move some of those people to the encampment on El Centro, a couple of blocks away.

On edit: Google streetview from February, you can almost see how the encampment takes over a lane of traffic -- https://goo.gl/maps/dySMxTxFmgx43uNj7
Yeah we've actually talked about this with Inversion Space. We would be very interested in bringing vanguard back to earth but there needs to be a re-entry vessel available to put it in.
If you are into this you might want to check out the Wizardry book series by Rick Cook:

"It all began when the wizards of the White League were under attack by their opponents of the Black League and one of their most powerful members cast a spell to bring forth a mighty wizard to aid their cause. What the spell delivered was master hacker Walter "Wiz" Zumwalt. The wizard who cast the spell was dead and nobody— not the elves, not the dwarves, not even the dragons—could figure out what the shanghaied computer nerd was good for.

But spells are a lot like computer programs, and, in spite of the Wiz's unprepossessing appearance, he was going to defeat the all-powerful Black League, win the love of a beautiful red-haired witch, and prove that when it comes to spells and sorcery, nobody but nobody can beat a Silicon Valley computer geek!"
You can't catch polio twice. And chicken pox is pretty similar to covid actually. It has a similar R value, and adults who catch it can be hospitalized, but for children it's usually not as serious. And once you've had chicken pox you have strong immunity, although you can still get some of the symptoms if exposed.

As for comparing restaurant and school. Schools are publicly funded and mandated by the state. No one has to go to a restaurant.
Took me a while and some details are missing, but here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28066511
> Why would I pay ~$10k over 5 years for something that's similar to the laptop I'm typing on which costed me $700 used?

For the same reasons people pay for the was clouf offerings or the Google cloud equivalent.

Less hassle, less stuff to manage, faster provisioning, hassle-free decommissioning.
One factor is that employers don't want some scruffy, stinking homeless person anywhere near their business.

Basically, it's a problem of hygiene and grooming. To apply for just about any job, a given homeless person would have to take several baths, get a haircut, shave, and get into clean clothes.

Somehow, that is an insoluble problem.

Secondly, some of these jobs pay so shitty that if you've figured out how to live homeless, they are not worth your time. Your life won't be any better.

Can you imagine the hassle? Okay, now you have a job and have to come clean there everyday, and stay there for hours. Where do you clean up if you don't have a home? Who will guard your unsecured belongings while you are away from them? Suppose you get a home: oops, there goes all the pay. So now you live in some shitty home that sucks up most of your pay just so you have a place to take a shower to go to your shitty job. Man things were so much better with no boss, no landlord, under the fresh, open sky! The streets are calling your name, ...
Just because you’re homeless doesn’t mean you don’t also have a job. There’s a long way from first paycheck to actually getting an apartment.

Employers will never post it publicly but basically everywhere screens for the homeless.

Landlords also screen for the homeless so even if you have money you’ll have trouble finding a place.
> Your children don't need to go to a public school

You’ve got this part backwards, if I’m reading this correctly. You must adhere to public health mandates to send a child to public school. If you choose not to abide, then you can opt to send your kid to a private school.
Democracy can work for running a club, association, village, or even a town or small city. The issues are local and relevant to day-to-day living. Participation is likely to be high because the issues are manageable and understandable. Democracy for running a state or a republic is another matter. Citizens are ill-prepared to make decisions on complex issues and the financial and security consequences are so large that a significant investment of time and research are required to cast a meaningful vote. This is why we have representative democracies rather than pure democracies. It is important to note that all democracies are open to fraud, corruption and abuse. But at the local level, the stakes typically aren’t large enough to matter to the abusers. Representative democracy needs an overhaul in my opinion to restrict the ability of the professional representative to abuse their position of responsibility. The laws that prohibit corruption in business should apply to politicians as well.
> In the meantime, places like MIT, moderna, NASA etc are reaping the benefits.

Can you elaborate more? MIT is well known but would interesting to know how Moderna and NASA are using Flux?
It is actually correct. US had <2000 covid deaths per million, i.e., 0.2% which is about 2 people from 1000.

Most people overestimate death rate by a factor of 10.
Does this have any sort of JavaScript emulation/support? Or is it purely HTTP requests?

The GID signature piece is especially interesting, I have ran into blockers in scaling scrapers in the past and this sort of organizational/tracking platform sounds awesome.
US, fortunately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28066511
You click "compile" in the top right then after the log outputs everything you go to the blueprint page and click "open in fbe".
Some specific steps that will push it past jax/pytorch for chunky array heavy GPU code (can already beat or meet openblas/MKL for kernels written in scalar form).

1. Better compile time memory management (https://github.com/aviatesk/EscapeAnalysis.jl)

2. Linalg passes built on generic composable compiler ecosystem: https://youtu.be/IlFVwabDh6Q?t=818

3. Metatheory.jl egraph based symbolic optimization interleaved with the abstract interpreter: https://github.com/0x0f0f0f/Metatheory.jl

4. Partial eval mixed concrete and abstract interpretation

5. Compiler based autoparallel with dagger.jl

6. New compiler integrated AD (as a package) that isn't based on an accidental lispy compiler hack like zygote: https://github.com/JuliaDiff/Diffractor.jl

7. Changes to array semantics which will include generic immutability/ ownership concepts.

And many more. The key is that all the initial groundwork that traded off fundamental flexibility for specific speed will then feed back into making the ML usecase faster than if it had focused on that initially. People can do all kinds of crazy yet composable things, in pure Julia without modifying the base compiler.

Bonus: Being able to modify the type lattice to track custom program properties. This means that you don't need to be stuck into global tradeoffs with a static type system and can do things like opt in track array shapes at compile time per module: https://twitter.com/KenoFischer/status/1407810981338796035 Other packages like for quantum computing are planning to do their own analyses. It's generic and the usecases and compositions aren't frozen at the outset. (unlike for example, the swift tensors fitting perfectly proposal).
Yes we aren't the only team in this space but we believe multiple organizations need to be working to address this problem with different approaches.
Many jobs require an address. Without a mailing address getting the job becomes MUCH harder.
Target offering to cover college tuition for new employees
And what happens when Google makes an unreasonable decision about what should be a part of the web standards and what should not? Who even has the capability of making them reverse course at this point?
Come to LA and talk to the people who live in these encampments. It will become very obvious to you that these aren't people who were living in a 2 bedroom apartment a couple months ago and just couldn't swing the rent.
You're exaggerating. COVID-19 is a serious public health problem that we need to address, but in no way an existential crisis. CDC data shows an overall 99.6% survival rate, with the vast majority of deaths being elderly people with serious co-morbid conditions.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Due to privacy concerns I certainly won't be sharing my health information with random businesses.
The bad studios comment wasn't meant to be a judgement of the product or your work. I had meant bad businesses (costs exceed revenues). Take even that with a grain of salt - I was taking all my facts from the comment I responded to and the link. I'm not familiar with this particular saga.
I'm not saying we punish children. I'm saying it's more important to allow public education to proceed in whatever way works than to allow restaurant- and gym-going to proceed willy-nilly.

I don't like restrictions in general, but I do prioritize these two things in a certain way.
The proximate cause of homelessness in California is lack of housing. The majority of homeless, when surveyed, say they were employed at the time they most recently became homeless. The main cause of homelessness is cost of housing.
The issue isn't solely lack of housing.
It's likely there is not just a single factor. Drugs, evictions, mental illness, housing supply are all factors. Humans love to simplify to fit a narrative but that is rarely the case in practice.
There were millions of unhoused during the great depression, and homelessness didn't magically disappear after that (and obviously existed before it, too), so I have no idea how you could possibly remember a 'time without homeless people'.

What you probably mean is a time when they were brutally beaten and forced to live in even worse conditions than now, which based on your other comment about "having to be mean to some of them" is probably the system working as you'd like.
I don't think it's that simple for "every private business" to collectively all of a sudden decide that vaccines will be mandatory, "businesses" are not a hive mind and it will be inevitable that "no vaccine required" businesses will prop up to fill the void.
I disagree. I think it's helpful because many eat too much meat.
It was much longer back when I the memory of it was fresh, but here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28066511
Most of these people are mentally ill, in addition to most likely being addicted to drugs. They can probably never hold down a steady job.
>Flipping that burger for 30 hours a week does not give them enough money to find housing. Now they're still broke but they're also tired, smelly, and angry.

But now they still have $420 (based on CA's minimum wage of $14) more in their pocket?
Do those jobs pay so little that it is better to not have a job at all?
Are you saying FDA approval is a meaningless thing? If so then why not get rid of that step and cut some red tape? If not then there's your answer.
Meta: Do not use single-factor analysis when examining the homelessness problem. It will get you into trouble every time.
>I got my covid vaccinations at an AME church (i.e., black) back in April.

No you didn't.

Here are the facts: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fewer-black-america...

https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...
The Non-Radiating Antenna
Template inheritance with blocks, as they do in Django or Symfony.

That way you don't have layouts anymore, but (usually) a base template that an action view overloads with its own content.

I know Ruby on Rails doesn't work like that so I guess that's why it didn't take in Phoenix (yet?).