skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Poland you could rent a studio apartment for 1/3 of McDonalds fulltime initial salary. The other 1/3 should be sufficient for food if you cook yourself.
> If you're scared to do things around others even if you're vaccinated, then that's fine.

This has been a societal change in the making for quite some time. It used to be that if one were uncomfortable they were free to not participate, one's requirements were not an onus on others. Now people feel free to create onus on others.

Today people feel free to demand that others comply to their requirements to feel safe rather than relying on/increasing their own self protection and isolation standard.
None of this makes sense to me. In Fort Worth it is a misdemeanor to panhandle or sleep in a public space without a permit. As a result I almost never see homeless people, even downtown. Homeless encampments certainly don’t exist or if they do they are places far away from residences or roads. I know there are numbers indicating there are homeless about though, so they just aren’t visible in areas where people would walk, drive, or sightsee. This is the 12th largest city in the US.

On the other hand look to our neighbor to the south, Austin which is almost numerically identical. They appear to have homeless people everywhere that non homeless walk and do business. The difference is striking. I don’t understand why any city would allow homeless to congregate like this outside managed care.
I wouldn't be against treating a powerwall install like ammunition storage in an armored vehicle. Firewalled from the house with fire suppression installed, blowout panels to the outside, the whole shebang.
the 90 days is just maternity leave.
For parental leave you have a year, and by law you can't lose your job.
I was surprised how Elon talked "in depth" about technology and engineering in this video with Tim, since Elon often uses relatively simple things to talk about to reach the masses, like "rockets must be fully reusable", "we need sustainable transportation (and they are electric cars)", etc. Elon likes to use simple language and paint big pictures. But he (and his team) must have evaluated thousands of interdependent complex factors and found the one solution (e.g. Methane-propelled Starship) before reaching to these simple "big pictures" (which he then likes to talk about and present to the public) and ofc. it's the right thing to do and there is nothing wrong with it.

Elon is the new Steve Jobs, informing and educating us about the future, just like Steve did it. This time with cars and space exploration, which is just "next" (Steve Jobs informed us about the iPod and the iPhone). When Steve wiped out Nokia with the iPhone, I thought that someone from Silicon Valley would do the same for cars and there are a couple of contenders now with Tesla leading. But it's a big market with a lot of companies, and instead of wiping one out, there are just many suffering now - more or less, or still doing fine.

Though there are very much details, which he is aware of and trading/evaluating... at least with his engineers and which he does in this video, which is nice, refreshing and new information (for us and from him).

I really like Tim Dodd, though he comes from a background of "I wasn't good at school and am still excited and knowledgeable about rockets today [and so can you(everyone)]", he is sometimes over-explaining simple things imho. I have also the feeling that Tim Dodd might be a sub-par interview partner for Elon in this video, but Elon manages it fine and I think he likes Tim for everything he achieved despite not having an academic background.

Just recently I found https://youtube.com/c/MarcusHouse, which fits my taste a bit better, currently.
Providing a better and safer living environment?
> unsheltered refugees

So... homeless people?
She'll get a nice settlement!
See column 5 in table Table HC 3.1.1a, page 5, of the OECD report linked elsethread (https://www.oecd.org/els/family/HC3-1-Homeless-population.pd...).
Most homeless folks can find a way to get food, even if it's not great food, via a network of public and private support organizations. So having enough food not to starve isn't necessarily an incentive to work, and that's a good thing because if they were literally starving we'd have even bigger problems.
Because there is people that think defer is a good solution (which it isn't).
If you're really worried about the quality of discussion, then treat astroturfing and brigading for what it is: the intentional effort to destroy discourse.
I would imagine she wants the city to provide them shelter rather than just "throw them out" (to where? Eventually the game of musical chairs has to stop somewhere).
Lol so Elon has faked his Stanford PhD and no one in the world has dared step forward to call him out? There are literally dozens of people who could prove this wrong if it's false. This is qanon level conspiracy theory.

you're clearly just a deranged person with some weird obsession about Elon.

Basically the polar opposite of the Elon Cultists.
The people you're talking about are usually referred to as the "chronically" homeless and are a minority (but highly visible) section of the overall homeless population. We know that the best way to help these people that's been found so far are the so called "housing first" policies, which save taxpayer money in law enforcement and medical bills by finding permanent supportive housing for the people that need it.

A majority of people who are homeless are not drug addicts or mentally ill. They're just fucked over by an economy that has no floor with too few places for too many people to stay. Most people who find themselves homeless are only homeless for short stretches, and often have jobs and pay their taxes while they live out of tents, cars, and RVs.
I personally know several people who have told me that they would stab or shoot anyone who tried to force them get a vaccine. The logistics of that may be a bit tricky, of course.

How would the logistics of forced vaccination go down, anyway? Do you think people wouldn't forge their vaccine papers, bribe doctors or otherwise get them to be sympathetic, or otherwise circumvent/ignore the system/rules in order to avoid the vaccine?

As stated elsewhere in this thread, it is not going to be possible to stop the virus at this point. We will all eventually be exposed and the best we can do is be as safe as we believe we need to be and can.
Regardless of your personal definition of normal, you will not convince the unvaccinated people to get vaccinated. You've tried, and failed.

Short of going door-to-door with guys with guns and body armor, forcefully pinning down people and jabbing them with vaccine - nothing you (or anyone) does will convince people to get a vaccine if they've decided at this point they do not want it for whatever their reasons may be.

So... go about your business as usual. Stop trying to protect people that refuse your protection. It's wasted effort, and hurts everyone else that is already vaccinated.
I think presenting it like this is misleading since the definition of homelessness is different per country.

Breaking down the Swedish stats, of the reported 34000,
the source says:

"4 500 people were in acute homelessness, of which 280 were sleeping rough. 5 600 people received institutional care or lived in different forms of category housing. 13 900 people lived in long-term housing solutions (the secondary housing market), provided by the social services in the municipalities. 6 800 persons lived in short-term insecure housing solutions that they had organized themselves."

Unfortunately the original source isn't archived so I haven't checked the exact definitions used here.

For the US numbers, we have:

"On a single night in 2018, roughly 553,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States. About two-thirds (65%) were staying in sheltered locations—emergency shelters or transitional housing programs—and about one-third (35%) were in unsheltered locations such as on the street"

I'll assume you'll get similar discrepancies for all of the other countries.
> One cause that you will probably not see highlighted is the devaluation of autonomy and personal responsibility

Besides the fact that not everyone agrees with this argument, it's not highlighted because it's not useful. Let's say your right, the reason people sleep under a highway underpass is because they have not taken so called "personal responsibility" for their situation. Done.

What's the plan now? Extending various forms of assistance is the both the moral as well as personal and social best option. Leaving these problems unchecked always exerts a cost on both society and individuals, and the use of solutions like violence and imprisonment have unwanted knock-on effects that are best avoided if possible.

First, when you can stop homelessness before it happens via widely available emergency rent assistance. It's a cheap no-brainer that would save tax dollars from the expensive work of helping (or jailing, if feel lack of personal responsibility warrants incarceration) people who have lost housing. Then, provide the already homeless who are willing and able to work with housing, life coaching and training to get back on track. Then, safe communities and residence programs for those who are physically or mentally incapable of supporting/taking care of themselves. I'm sure there will also be people who are a danger to others and may need to be imprisoned.
He's sort of a financial "demigod." He's one of those people that the whole business world looks to for direction.

Chairman of JPMorgan Chase.

Appears regularly on TV, and in front of Congress.

What makes it even more interesting, is that the finance industry is notoriously unforgiving of criminal records. I know a guy that graduated top of his class from Brown, and had a hard time, throughout his career, because of a misdemeanor pot bust in college.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Dimon
I think the comment was in response to your phrasing:

> 2x the homeless of the US.

to me that reads as total homeless population, not a function of population.
> Musk’s target price is essentially a rounding error compared to the budgets of Gravity or The Martian.

Do we even know Musk's target price for a return-trip to the moon? It's very hard to extrapolate from the $10/kg figure ($1M/launch) that keeps getting quoted, as a return-trip to the moon without discarding a Starship (which will blow up the cost enormously) will involve a lot of launches. Even the HLS architecture, which leaves Starship stranded in lunar orbit and uses Orion to get the astronauts back, needs 10 launches.

Even if we're very generous and assume 20 launches at $1M/launch, that's ~20% of the budget of these movies. But that's very aspirational: for HLS, which is already ambitious, NASA paid $2.89B for development & 2 launches. If we assume 80% is development, you're still looking at $289M per trip.
If a person arrives at a country as a refugee of course they’re going to be homeless.

It would be more interesting to see stats on people who have been living in the country, because these are people who shouldn’t be homeless, but they are.
Not OP, but my files are shared with many hosts. Having local files are a PITA to manage coherent state.
If you talk to people hiring for very bottom-of-the-market workers, you'll find their #1 problem is finding people who actually show up, and also aren't (bluntly) crazy, dangerous, or frequently drunk/high. There's no shortage of candidates for $12/hr jobs who are not worth $12/hr of labor, since they don't show up half the time and are space-cases when they do.

The "actually show up" part is a combination of the fact that people who, as a personality trait, have trouble showing up to work, tend to cluster at the bottom of the employment market, and people without steady, fairly high income have a lot more challenges securing reliable transportation and otherwise arranging their lives so they can get to work on time and consistently (childcare, for example, or unexpected, sudden needs to care for or assist other relatives, or illness of their own) even if they have the best intentions and are reasonably responsible.

Part of this is probably that minimum wage needs to go up quite a bit and/or these employers just need to pay more, but I don't think that would entirely solve the problem.

[EDIT] source: I once worked on an app in this space, and had some visibility into the feedback & concerns of employers of this sort (not with the app, but generally with hiring in that market) and that was consistently something they talked about, at length, usually with tons of sad or amusing/surprising anecdotes—hire someone, then they just never, ever show up, or they come for their first shift then ghost after that, or you call them 30 minutes after their shift is supposed to start and they're like "oh yeah, that, I'm not coming in today, I might be in tomorrow, I dunno yet", or their car's always broken, obviously-high candidates in interviews, all that sort of thing.
I don't want to discount the challenges and pain associated with being homeless but your observations don't really explain the explosion of homelessness in some places.

Something else has changed in the last 4-5 years to make this problem much worse.
I'd be interested in seeing what you're developing.

The challenge, as I see it is that information is a public good (in the economic sense: nonrivalrous, nonexcludable, zero marginal cost, high fixed costs), and provision at scale requires either a complementary rents service (advertising, patronage, propaganda, fancy professional-services "shingle") or a tax. Busking or its public-broadcasting is another option, though that's highly lossy.

Any truthful publishing also requires a strong self-defence mechanism (protection against lawsuits, coercion, intimidation, protection rackets, etc.), a frequently underappreciated role played by publishers.

Charles Perrow's descriptions of the music industry (recorded and broadcast) circa 1945 -- 1985 is informative here (see his Complex Organizations https://www.worldcat.org/title/complex-organizations-a-criti...), notably the roles of publishers vs. front-line and studio musicians.
I got the 2TB drive so I can run out of even more disk space! ;-)
We can flip that around and say US has much more housed people when you use absolute numbers.
I have many issues with this policy, and I'm both vaccinated and pro-vaccination.

1. As others have mentioned, this is being done before the vaccine being available to children under 12 and before the vaccine has been officially approved by the FDA.

2. This policy isn't simply being announced as a way to temporarily bring down cases, it's being instituted indefinitely, with no pre-determined expiration date.

3. There has been no attempt to justify the policy. And the burden of proof should be on those instituting the policy.

4. This announcement is nearly triumphant rather than displaying any kind of humility. They barely conceal their glee at having the political capital to spend on this policy.
Is simplicity a fitness function?

Are fitness functions universal?
Seldom doesn’t mean never. Yes, on occasion you come across a homeless person sleeping on the subway steps. But it’s not all urinated over and smelly. And, importantly many will engage in menial jobs, keep up appearances and try to be presentable.
It's not "asking for proof of vaccination" though is it? It's denying access to restaurants, bars and so-on to those do not or will not accede to such a demand. I don't see that social apartheid as minor thing.
Do you not show your ID at a bar? What privacy are you giving up here?
That definition is not necessarily applicable to actual research studies, homeless counts, or even government programs. You have to look to the actual study or program details. Unfortunately, the applied definition is rarely reported in the media.
Building code already mandated the garage being in a different/delayed 'fire envelope' than the habituated portion of my home when it was built, so at least in some jurisdictions we're already there.

Thicker, fire resistant drywall. Spring-loaded fire doors to the main house that default to closed. No air vent passthrough from the garage to the house, and so on.
It'd help with the working homeless but you need way more than just cheap housing to help all types of homeless people.
Another thing you have to understand about the us are weak family ties.

If you are unemployed in another country you could easily stay with some family member - cousin, uncle etc

This is not the case in the U.S
The simple fact that you aren't willing to offer any evidence when asked for it does in fact make you and your assertion appear to be a lot less credible. This is public data at least anywhere in the US. Where is this largish hospital? Inquiring minds want to know.
“himinlomax 13 hours ago [–]

That's still 3 decades, and that was short term”
I suspect the strict dress code requirements at mine are secretly an anti-homeless measure.
> What do you do with them while working?

Well, someone did try building better-than-tents shelters, but LA shut him down for violating code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6h7fL22WCE
- actual abstract data types

- object (or rather, tuple) identity

- replace null with something to indicate missing or unknown. Have sensible null object behavior

And the big one that gives every relational algebra purist fits: make graph theory a first-class citizen of the data model.
> 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 can think of two reasons:

1. I doubt those people lining up to flip burgers fall under the same definition of homelessness. I don't doubt they need a job and might not have enough/any income, but that's not a "choice" as evidenced by the line up.

2. Homelessness in developed countries is not necessarily due to a lack of job opportunities but a lot more about a lack of basic job/communication skills sometimes associated with mental health issues.

At least that's what I've realized when comparing the poor/rich countries where I've lived.
But I don't get it. I've helped out with security at a bank, and one of our big problems was persistent and very advanced efforts by malicious actors to compromise endpoints.

I've seen Trojans that would detect keypresses that look like bank accounts, take a screenshot and put it on top, replace the bank account number and then, seriously, detect with ocr on the confirmation page where the replaced account was and replace it there too. And these were made to steal amounts like 2k euro, maximum. I mean I guess that's still 2k euro * 1000 or so victims, but still (they do it this way because of 2FA, the customer must confirm on a second device, the little irritating calculators, the transaction)

Everything depends critically on endpoint security. You cannot make this work securely. I mean a simple Trojan could simply fake a logout, then transmit the screen + keypress control to an attacker.

And I would add: your enterprise security is not just dependent on a device you don't control, this also represents a "get out of jail free" card for malicious insiders. If they just make sure to have 4-5 viruses installed on their home machine, whatever they did in the company machine is excused ...
Then Google decided that no one has a right to scrape Google.

The web needs a more efficient system for distributing an index of its content. Having web developers design websites in a gazillion different permutations, when they are all bascially doing the same thing, and then having a handful of companies "scrape" them is neither an efficient nor sensibly-designed system.

The web (more generally, the internet) is a giant copy machine. Google, NSA and others have copies. Yet if we were to allow everyone to have copies by faciltating this through technical means (e.g., Wikipedia-style data dumps), many folks would panic. When Google first started indexing, it was not a business, and many folks did panic and there were many complaints. It's 2021; folks are still spooked by others being able to easily copy what they publish to the web. However it's OK to them if it's Google doing the copying. If there were healthy competition and many search engines to choose from, if one search engine did not have the lion's share of web traffic, it's doubtful Google would be given "exclusive" permission in robots.txt.
Perhaps they or you just misunderstood the context or statistic that was presented. It might not be possible (or advisable), but you could disclose the name of the hospital and we could follow up with them to validate the claim.
We don't have powerful enough source of energy, and we don't have strong-enough materials. It's not just a question of height, it's also a question of orbital speed.

I don't say it'll never be done, but we certainly don't have good enough technology at the moment, and probably won't have for hundreds of years. (If we can survive for that long)

And who on Earth has the available cash and resources to build it, even it were feasible?
Two things. First, in your hypothetical the crime and I believe the hiring take place in America, while if memory serves Manning was in Afghanistan during their communication.

Second, Italy presumably has a law against hiring hitmen. Printing classified US documents is unlikely to violate any Italian law.
> depends on how you fill out that w2.

W-4 is the payroll withholding form (from employee to employer). W-2 is provided by an employer to the employee (and the IRS) at the end of the year.
> The idea that we're somehow missing side effects is quite frankly ridiculous at this point.

I personally went to the ER with heart attack like symptoms (chest pain) and it was Pericarditis . No one warned me of this risk. Now I'm footing the $15k bill for the good of the public. Additionally no doctor suggested reporting it to VAERS. Why? i suspect because it's become taboo to speak ill of the vaccine in any way. (watch to see if this comment gets downvoted to oblivion, proving the point)

"Free" turned out to be not so free for me.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...
It seems it's only available for Hungarian citizens, as it needs Hungarian Electric Id to login. I'm not sure it qualifies for open source but it's free as in beer to Hungarian citizens with the right to adapt the plan to your demands.
Yes it does, yet at the same time many people here do not follow that advice relative to many other countries. It seems to me lack of personal responsibility is almost a side effect instead of a root cause in of itself.
>Your response is extremely typical - just generally stated principles bordering in their generality on banality and without any ounce of data.

Y'see in SCIENCE we have this generally stated principle that we don't draw empirical conclusions from a dataset of a few hundred observations.

How banal!

"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."

This does absolutely nothing to back up your claim that vaccinated people are just as likely to spread the Delta variant.

But please ask for help next time you move those goalposts, I wouldn't want you hurting yourself.
Contrary to what seems to be Google's belief, most websites are _not_ continuously deployed SPAs with a team of engineers who work on each release. The indifference shown to actual developers here is staggering.