skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Homeless shelter's don't help, they're ridiculously dangerous to be in.

Then solve this problem.

The problem I constantly see with homelessness in America is that municipalities constantly half ass every attempt to fix it, and then throw up their hands and say "well that didn't work, I guess there's nothing we can do!" Building homeless shelters without making them safe places to be is the perfect example of half-assing. I mean ffs, it's in the name: shelter. A homeless shelter not being safe doesn't mean that homeless shelters don't work, it just means your execution was shit.
Wow :-) I did watch Nathan Barley through as we had one of the people parodied working with us.

We referred to his end of the office as the rich end as opposed to the ordinary millionaire end where the VC CTO sat along with the rest of us (just $ millionaire's at one point)

First Tuesday back in 1998-2000 had a few chancers. I saw the original boo crew presenting and thought I could pick 3 managers at random where I worked and boo would have done better.
Why would you want such a culture? People love movies and probably can learn how untrue or true they are by just googling stuff. I certainly do.
If I pay you Jan 31, Feb 28, March 31, April 30, etc., don't I pay you monthly? Shouldn't I be able to express this as a repeated addition of a month?

At any rate, these problems have been solved in finance, with proper date and schedule libraries.
For what it’s worth, SAS can add months to time points with the aid of an alignment parameter, so 01JAN2021 + 1 month would be 01FEB2021 with beginning alignment and 28FEB2021 with end alignment. There is also middle and sameday alignment.

This is the snappily named intnx function. I guess that’s an honest name in the sense that it is very suggestive of needing to read the documentation before using it.
Not everybody drives. Identification for voting is onerous enough, not to mention for groceries.
There is also an abundant number of second houses that people own that are not rented that could house every single homeless person 25 to 40 times over.
> I hope that one day you'll experience an actual tyranny for comparison. Something like Belarus or North Korea.

Cool. We should submit to any and all amounts of government overreach and abuse of power until our rulers decide to go full Pol-Pot. Then we can say "Hey, wait a minute."

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Is it public data anywhere in the US? I know that my state (Michigan) doesn't break down hospitalizations by vaccination status. Or if they do, it's not with the rest of the Covid data they put out online.
Weren't these quarantines limited to people who actually had the diseases, not just people who weren't vaccinated against them?
He says : It's irrational. It's intrusive. It's over-reach.

You reply : But the threat is so great that such is justified.

I have heard this dialog before.
> or get a better immunity than any vaccine can offer.

Better immunity? Almost no one who is fully vaccinated has ever died from COVID-19. It's hard to imagine better immunity than that.

> society should allow it because those people will either die on they own knowledge, or get a better immunity than any vaccine can offer.

Or they will serve as a mutation vector for the next, more transmissible, deadlier variant.

I guess it comes down to whether you favor a rational society based on the rule of law and some degree of fairness, or a free-for-all anarchy where the only rule is natural selection.

The latter is what we had before society was invented some thousands of years ago.
It’s by far the #1 cause. People lose their job or get priced out of their home and then either can’t afford to move elsewhere or don’t want to leave their support network, so they just… stay. LAHSA tends to provide good data via their annual surveys:

https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=726-2020-greater-los-ange...
That's relative risk, not absolute risk. It's not saying 8% of people will be hospitalized, it's saying vaccinated people are hospitalized 92% less than unvaccinated people. Your absolute risk is much much smaller than 8%.
In my view, the undergrad degrees that are useful as credentials are exceptions: The licensed engineering and medical fields. Even the vaunted computer science degree is not a meal ticket: You still have to prove that you can code, and are competing with people who are self taught.

Now there are some things that, while not formal credentials, are still hard to avoid for certain occupations. People with math and physics degree can be quite competitive for certain kinds of quantitative work. Oddly enough a music performance degree is almost unavoidable if you want to be a working classical musician. Those are areas where it's possible to be self trained, but almost prohibitively difficult.
I realize the way I wrote my first comment led you to believe the studios were knowingly involved in the collusion, but that’s not what I intended to say, which is why I clarified. It’s just best not to make assumptions or try to make strong statements about something you’re not familiar with. The narrative summary you left is entirely backwards, because good studios closed while the suits’ defendants are still here and still operating. The studios I was in weren’t bad business either. Revenues exceeded costs. These closures happened for other reasons, despite the fact that CG as a whole isn’t very profitable for most players.
The main reason is just because it's hard. For all the talk you see on HN about boring office jobs, the physicality of a job like plumbing can really put a ton of wear and tear on your body by the time you're in your 50s.
This is just a fallacious argument but you know this. Saying “if x is true then why not y also” is just a false dillemma. Not sure who you are but potentially just a russian bot troll of some kind.
5th amendment - read it, learn it, love it

this entire "mandate" is a complete farce

Anyone that asks for it - take it the courts as it will be struck down hard.
Misinformation and biases infect social media, intentionally and accidentally
Majesty had tax collectors, a market economy, and a hands-off governing policy: You funded creation of main buildings, but they were or were not occupied based on demand for those buildings. You put up rewards for actions, but those were or were not acted on based on whatever your citizens were doing. You funded (from treasury) upgrades to goods producers, but nobody got those upgrades until they went and purchased those things from their own money.

You had a little tax collector dude (or dudes) that went around knocking on doors and collecting a % their on-hand assets (which you set). You could exclude areas if they were too far away, or too dangerous. Your tax collector(s) could be ambushed, which frankly was the primary reason to build defenses.

And, you could tolerate some thievery so that you could occasionally extort money from the thieves guild in sort of an unofficial tax collection of unreported income.

All that in a fantasy game. It can be done.

I believe there's a modern revamp version for mobile: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/majesty/9nblggh1850p
I think your view of "productive" is too narrow. It doesn't just have to mean "produced tax revenue".
Physical keyboards on smart phones were glorious. Not all the apps would let you go through fields using only the keyboard (and some keyboards didn't have enough navigation keys, anyway), but when it worked well, it worked well.

Sadly, it cost money to include a keyboard, so the race to the bottom means you can't find them anymore. Just like real back buttons.
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Actual source: [Mansfield, D. F. (2020). Perpendicular Lines and Diagonal Triples in Old Babylonian Surveying. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 72, 87–99. doi:10.1086/709309](https://sci-hub.se/http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/709309). The "Si." is short for [Sippar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sippar).

From a quick skim, this seems to indeed bolster Wildberger's theory about the Babylonians' use of Pythagorean triples (actually the theory predates Wildberger, but he is its main proponent). This theory claims that the triples were used as a proto-trigonometric table, a ready-made set of rational-sided right-angled triangles, as irrationals were not expressible in Babylonian numerals. (Of course, Wildberger draws motivation for his "rational trigonometry" from this, although it is a mathematical theory that needs no historic motivation.) In contrast, the more mainstream theory is that the Pythagorean triples were a product of "scribal training" or mathematical puzzle-solving (like the Japanese sangakus). This mainstream theory, despite sounding like a cop-out, still has a lot speaking for it (see [Eleanor Robson, Neither Sherlock Holmes nor Babylon: a reassessment of Plimpton 322, Historia Mathematica, Volume 28, Issue 3, August 2001, Pages 167-206](https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e3d8eedb-e745-45b3-8612-71...), particularly pp. 183--185, for some rather convincing context). But the two can in fact be combined: who said puzzles cannot be built out of applied problems? (Many a math contest problem arose this way.)
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> bridging was horribly slow.

Can you quantify that? (I'm wondering if it might be good-enough for my needs.)
I just checked because it’s been a few years. The building is now occupied by 24 Hour Fitness, but I don’t think that was the name of it when I used it.

If gyms are cracking down on this use case then that is a shame.

I wonder if you could retro-fit a 53’ tractor trailer into shower(s) + laundry stall(s) on wheels and bring it close to the “customer”? I wonder how that could work.
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You say the race can't be seen in the image by humans because it's not here, and therefore the race information must come from bias introduced by the radiologist.

I guess it depends on whether all differences are visible to the human eye (and there's nothing pathological hidden that the nn 'sees') , and whether you can prove (a very hard thing in stats) that there's no way you can possibly extract race in a different manner.

Now, assuming the data is racially biased because of medical practice biased, forgive me for being naive, but, why is this surprising / major?

Isn't this just another instance of models being trained on bad data, and there are already plenty of examples in ia ?

Edit:.. Unless the actual finding becomes 'radiology is (unexpectedly) racially biased, so much so that an ia can learn it'?
Tim Dodd reminds me of Andy Weir. They're both trying to explain things that are fairly complicated to an audience which is interested but might be starting from zero. That's actually really hard to do and then they add to the degree of difficulty by not being afraid to release the minimum viable product to that end.

For me it makes both of them fun to watch because you can see them getting better. As a novelist Weir is - in my opinion - improving his craft with each novel. Same with Dodd when it comes to the videos he's making. Both really impress me.
Normally when people talk about homelessness in the US, they mean people living on the street without any sort of shelter. Of course Syrian refugees count, it just seems like they are their own distinct case, as, for one thing, they are sheltered.

My grandparents on both sides, by the way, were refugees from Iraq under very similar conditions to today's refugees from Syria. I say that only because you seem to be very quick to judge others. A little bit of introspection might be in order.
The path from refugee to homelessness is an obvious one and points to an over-admission by the German government.

The path from native born citizen to homelessness is less obvious and points to complete social dysfunction.
It can block JavaScript execution on the page for compatibility with existing code, while leaving normal browsing unaffected otherwise.
Giving a small list and saying everyone must fit into these boxes is incomplete logic.

You could be anti-needle. You could have health issues. You could be in an isolated community. You could have got the vaccine and are not worried about their kid.

You could be anything.
The safety guarantees don't come for free. There are tradeoffs. That should be clear from the fact that Rust as a language is still changing, i.e. relaxing ownership rules and adding new mechanisms to the type system. If there were no problems, then there would be no language changes necessary.

Examples of people writing Rust code and hitting problems of expressiveness and performance:

My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust https://ceronman.com/2021/07/22/my-experience-crafting-an-in... (I'd be interested in experiences from others who have implemented a GC'd language runtime in Rust)

Also see Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26374268

You can argue about how much the tradeoffs matter, which is heavily domain specific. But you can't argue that the tradeoffs don't exist.
Even wild animals change their behavior when they get free stuff. Why do you think the zoo has big signs that say "do not feed the animals"?
> Why don't we pressure people to get influenza vaccines yearly?

At least here in the US, we absolutely do.
There was no misunderstanding. I'm not going to disclose the name of the hospital, which I'm sure you can understand.

I'm just relaying an anecdote that was told to me by someone who would know. I can't offer anything more than that, and I completely understand why anyone would choose not to believe it.
>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.

the statistics would disagree with you on how representative a random draw of several hundred would be in this situation. Anyway, just an example related to the situation - Moderna stage 2 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7871769/):

"Between 29 May and 8 July 2020, 600 participants were randomized, 300 per age cohort. [...]

Conclusions

Vaccination with mRNA-1273 resulted in significant immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in participants 18 years and older, with an acceptable safety profile, confirming the safety and immunogenicity of 50 and 100 µg mRNA-1273 given as a 2 dose-regimen.
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>This does absolutely nothing to back up your claim that vaccinated people are just as likely to spread the Delta variant.

beside obvious statistical arithmetic clearly showing it (whihc i guess is pointless to discuss giving your statistics statements above), you probably missed the part about nasal viral content in vaccinated people being similar to that of unvaccinated and hint - this infection is airborne. This is why CDC introduced mask mandate for everybody.

And you can read this too https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

"The higher the amount of coronavirus in the nose and throat, the more likely the patient will infect others. In one Wisconsin county, after Delta became predominant, researchers analyzed viral loads on nose-and-throat swab samples obtained when patients were first diagnosed. They found similar viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated patients, with levels often high enough to allow shedding of infectious virus. "
I was expecting a synth, this is amazing neoretro gaming device out of no where.
One study I saw of the local schools that breathlessly reported huge homeless rates of schoolchildren counted every child that didn't have a dedicated bedroom. Sleeping on Dad's couch? Homeless.
? That article shows 66K homeless people, not half a million?
I'm no military strategist I just play one on the internet aka I'm about to talk some shit haha so take it with a grain of salt.

Robotic war is interesting and specifically drone warefare in my mind is similar to the role carriers played in World War 2 which is having a great cost benefit ratio along with great flexibility on damaging enemy ships and allowing longer range bombing runs. I agree that killer robots would definitely alter the battlefield equation but over the long run I think youth should still get the edge.

Having said all of that based on WW2 technological advantages eventually get countered or erode in a war of attrition with the largest industrial base eventually winning by simple over production and/or reducing the enemy's industrial capacity through strategic bombing of factories / input resources.

Either way in a total war scenario where attrition crowns the eventual winner devising counter measures and other cognitive work in general is easier when workers are <50 since there's measurable cognitive decline after that at least productivity wise. The average age of the Manhattan project scientists was ~24-25.

Additionally, a country needs to be able to simply replace it's productive experienced workers with new workers after it's factories get bombed and having a fatter more numerous population pyramid would definitely help. It's also entirely possible that robotic workers / automated factories get degraded over time due to missing parts when the enemy blows up supply chains or other resources required to get the to full robo productivity.

To sum up my entire argument/assumption youth + more population is robust to the chaos of war.
http://ohlife.com was a YC-backed [1] personal journal you maintained by replying to emails, which is super cool IMO.

Although I always thought maybe whatsapp would be a better fit for an interface, so I started building Diarist [2] for a Twilio hackathon. Never finished it though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613137

[2] https://github.com/caruano95/diarist
The US numbers still show that TB can be mitigated without intrusive widespread restrictions.

The majority of deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and SE Asia. That leads me to believe that the differentiator is access to medical care, primarily access to life saving drugs.
We know now that vaccination status and even natural immunity is not stopping people from virus transmission, so this argument is off the table.

We've always known that some percent of those vaccinated will transmit the virus. The vaccine's effectiveness is not 100%. The point, among other reasons, is it reduces transmission.
> it just defines that safety in a different way than Rust

Memory safety is already well-defined, though. It means that you can’t write code that mishandles memory in a dangerous way. In Rust, code outside of unsafe blocks is guaranteed to have this property. As far as I know, no such feature exists in Zig. So Zig is starting from a point where it can’t guarantee the safety of any nontrivial program, right?
> Also, if the government really cared about the health of the population, why aren't they mandating exercise or dietary health?

This is an grossly exaggerated and absurd comparison.

Exercise nor diet are as easy to do well as getting the vaccine.

Give me a break.
You know, I'd almost forgotten about asymptomatic spread, and I'm glad you asked. My assertion about vaccinated was based on a non-scientific interpretation of something I read. I'm afraid I lack the expertise to really answer in depth. So the best I can do is point to the sources that address it. "The viral load in these breakthrough cases was about three to four times lower than the viral load among infected people who were unvaccinated" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-crucial-vacci...

So as best I understand it, the vaccinated are orders of a magnitude less likely to be asymptomatic spreaders, compared to the unvaccinated. As with pretty much everything relating to disease and epidemiology, there are very few absolutes.
Remember the hospital ship and the stadium hospital and all those hospitals they stood up and had to take down because no one was using them?

Remember the goddamn tiktok nurses?

Seriously the level of propaganda warfare being waged on the American populace is entirely INSANE.
> Identification for voting is onerous enough

This makes absolutely no sense for anyone not living in the US. You could as well be speaking Klingon.

> not to mention for groceries

This makes even less sense.
This emotionally charged language isn't helpful to a rational discussion. I think your comment would be stronger without it.

> I am fully vaccinated, but the research is clear - I can carry an infection just as effectively in my nasal cavity as my antivax cousin. Showing my card at the door does PRECISELY NOTHING to prevent spread.

I'm pretty sure this is untrue, but not positive. The communication has been very confusing. As I understand it, you can get a high viral load, but it declines much more rapidly in vaccinated people.

> mandatory weight loss for the obese.

This would obviously be far far more invasive than getting two shots. Why support this form of government tyranny, in your words, rather than another?
Typically, to fly with another air force you have to be able to communicate with them in the air. While Switzerland and Singapore may not be as tightly bound by treaty organizations to the US DoD as other militaries, if they have any interest in performing operations with anyone else using F-35 or its communication systems, it'll be helpful to have them themselves.
Don't trip on that strawman.
Do you have real data from a reputable source that says otherwise?

I'm talking about hospitalizations broken down by vaccination status. Not cases, not symptomatic cases, not deaths. Hospitalizations.
Are you saying the homeless don't have these issues?
Coming from C, it's a bit better than nothing at all.
It's similar to how critical race theory, when taught in schools, pits the kids against each other.
Actually they do. Seasonal resorts typically hire a lot of their kitchen staff on H-2B visas.
>There is no such thing as superpositions of multiple objects, especially if they are distinguishable like cats.

Several superpositions of several cats makes an ensemble of experiments over which it would not be as difficult to detect entanglement as it would be in the case of one cat, which is the case that Aaronson describes.
Having seen firsthand how medical care workers downplay side effects of vaccination, I certainly trust it less.
Mine was pretty surreal also. I wrote software for the control room of nuclear power plants. Went with the crew that installed the hardware and software in the first plant. Turned it on, and the first words out of the plant managers mouth was "that can't be right".
You should realize that California has the overwhelming majority of the homeless population in the US with almost a quarter of the entire homeless population living there[1][2].
You should also realize that SF and LA are two of most expensive cities in the US for housing - either renting or buying. As such Berlin is hardly a meaningful comparison. The homeless crisis in these two places is very well-known. Nobody is "cooking the books." Lastly California is not at all representative of the rest of the country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_California

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/homeless-po...