skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is becoming such a frustrating issue. As an advocate of public spaces and parks, it's kind of heartbreaking that maybe 1/3 of public spaces in our town are no longer usable for all - they have more or less become private spaces for the homeless.

I don't have much respect for communities that solve the issue by just "kicking them out" and passing the problem onto others, but it is almost becoming unacceptably common in America.

It's a pity - this used to be a problem that was mostly solved by the private market. The rise of homelessness is almost equal to the decline of single occupancy housing (flophouses, chicken wire hotels, etc). But in our quest to eliminate slums and "bad neighborhoods" we ended up just spreading them across cities.
I think I missed something here, does this article really suggest that plusExcuseExcuse() would be better?
The domain is dates, we all know months have different numbers of days so _something_ must be done and this is explicit from the domain.

Changing PI to PI_ISH because numbers in a language is limited does make code more readable.

Almost everything in a computer is an imperfect model.

i++

is not improved as

incrementUnlessItOverflows(i)

You are not going to change how increment works so avoid making it awkward.

You cant change the fact that number of days in a month varies.

I find this as annoying as "mistakes programmers make about time" articles.
The reality is programmers understand that all time in all computers is just a model to be played with.

Recently I saw the people are fretting because there may _have to be_ a negative leap second. Leap seconds are a man-made concept. You don't _have to_ have a negative leap second, you just have to accept the earth's spin is not constant, utc is a model, the model is not worse if its out by >1, it was never perfect, it exists to be convenient. utc ignores being out by >1 millisecond, why is there a problem if the denomination is a 1000ms?

The world keeps turning and the model is simpler if _all_ leap seconds were ignored, it will take a while until midday over Greenwich is affected and it will not matter when it is. It was an arbitry location in the first place.

It seems to me JodaTime is correct, if you want to add 30 days plus(30 days), if you want to accept that the month model is imperfect plus(1 month) and see what you get.

++ is concise and precise, the domain is a programming language.
Yikes for allocating all your elements separately, and with 400% - 700% memory overhead.
"Normal" is being vaccinated. This isn't the world's first pandemic, nor is it the world's first widespread vaccination campaign.

The fear, paranoia and mistrust around vaccinations against COVID is not normal. "Just let nature take its course" isn't normal, at least not in the modern history of civil societies.
Could you provide the source for the supreme court agreement? It seems to me that forcing someone to get a vaccine would just as much violate their individual liberties so I'm rather curious what issue the supreme court was specifically addressing
She's not suing the city to make it provide them with better housing. She's suing the city to make it force them off of the sidewalks. Whatever her motivations are, that will be the immediate result if she wins the lawsuit.
Why? Suicides would save you even more. Corpse removal would get cheaper at scale.

All that money would be gone towards border control, though.
You wouldn't even need to be clever. Use a bunch of stock photos mixed in with the target photo, use a Co-pilot-level GAN to "sort" the bodily features of this photo in a way that would suit your liking and - voila!- "It's an algorithmic choice. It can't be helped". That or anime-ification.

But none of this would be needed if people respected freedom of speech. No person should be obligated to abstain from composing the digital equivalent of a nude statue because it can resemble a living person. One shouldn't even be a need to ask what happens when satire and sexuality are policed. Anyone who has been reading the news over the past few decades would know the answer to that.
Sounds like you're going to vote accordingly when you do, I hope.
Similar service was done for the first time on a Norwegian TV-satellite a couple of month ago, to give it prolonged lifetime:
https://www-romsenter-no.translate.goog/Aktuelt/Siste-nytt/G...

“ On March 12, 2021, the Mission Extension Vehicle 2 (MEV-2) satellite docked with the THOR 10-02 communications satellite in geostationary orbit, more than 36,000 kilometers out in space.”
TikTok Tests Disappearing Stories Clone of Snapchat, Instagram
It's strange they are auctioning Buster. I was sure they destroyed it, like using putting it in a rocket and making it collide with a concrete wall.
Why Don’t Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
Uber Racked Up Losses in an Attempt to Ease Driver Shortage
Are you sure that's correct? The BMS should have a high voltage disconnect and not allow further charging.
Especially since MS provides a variety of testing-oriented virtual machine images.

I could see this if you needed better performance than that, I guess, or were developing on a machine that has trouble running x86 Windows very well under any circumstances (ARM).
At $420/week, federal FICA taxes are about $45. Federal income tax would be zero at this level. (Actually probably negative once you add back in the EITC)
Or just offered a designated area where they can set up encampments without blocking sidewalks or disrupting people's homes. It seems like a no-brainer and also the least the city can do.
Notably, the Blue Origin discussion seems like ancient times when SpaceX is testing Starship and we just had two billionaires fly in their own rockets.

Also, his answer to the question about money is interesting today while a big Ethereum update is in progress. I wonder if crypto has changed his thoughts on the matter, or not.
As others have said, I'm not sure this is a good forum to get a good answer on this subject. I have some ideas, but nothing I'd share without learning a lot more about the subject.

So, my suggestion would be to look up your local rescue mission, or homeless shelter, and ask there. While you're at it, take some time or money to support them.

I know my local rescue mission has some very effective programs that get people off the streets permanently. So I'm sure they'd know what they're talking about if you ask them.
Are you sure those stats are right? It does not seem plausible to me that Germany has 4-5 times as many homeless as the US.

I looked a bit, and the numbers really don't match my expectations, I'm pretty sure they're not counting the same things. I found one paper that compares the US and Germany and they got a lifetime prevalence of homelesness of 6.2% in the US and 2.4% in Germany (https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.724).

I know it's dangerous to rely on my own expectations and biases here, but the numbers are too far off for me. And I think it is very likely that the criteria for homelesness vary greatly between countries.
> we've been focused on getting up to speed to run your own code

When this happens, ping me on twitter! I'll send some customers your way. One of my most frequently asked questions is if I know of an easy way to host webhook handler code. I usually point to Zapier, but I'd rather point to Hookdeck. :)
Re: " Looking back in time, any plan that doesn't involve being mean to some of them won't work.", History and Public Policy researchers at UCLA seem to disagree with you:

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/history-homelessness-new-...
I love that my comment was meaningful to you enough to make an account and comment.
I think it means you can order 1 or 2, but you can't order 10,000.
You are missing all the things you need to have to get that job.

First that guy offering the job is choosy, so he wants someone showered, with clean clothes, who doesn't look like they have major health problems or drug habits, they need to have an address, and transportation to get to work.

So for the homeless, they need: a place to stay, an address, access to a shower and laundry, they need clothes in good condition, they need some money to buy their first uniform, they need someplace safe to store their belongings, and access to enough food to get through their shifts.
The most likely of situations... we somehow ignore when it comes to allowing motorcycles to operate on the same public roads.
Excuse me, the correct number seems to be 88%[1] effective against symptomatic COVID from the delta variant after 2 doses vs 95% for the alpha variant.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891

[edit] I'm sure with more data that number might change up or down a little, but it seems in line with other findings.
> When was the last time a crew that orbited earth were all first timers?

Shenzhou 7 in September 2008.

The Russians did it last in April (launch) and October (landing) 2008, while for the US you have to go back all the way to the second Shuttle flight in 1981.
H264 didn't work in FF on MacOS and Linux (but it still worked on windows) until v34 (and it only started working because Cisco donated a license), Ogg Vorbis only works on MacOS 11.3 or later in safari (and it also depends on which container you use), HEVC in IE/EdgeHTML depended on hardware (with no fallback to software whatsoever), AV1 in FF65 only worked on Windows, AV1 in FF66 only worked on Windows and MacOS, chrome on android 2.3 required you to specify a m4v without mime-type, but doing it with mime-type worked fine on desktop chrome.

I'm just saying it's not unprecedented to have the same browser version supporting different audio/video/image formats depending on OS or hardware.

For image formats it's not as usual, but if someone is making a site only supporting webp then I'd assume they'd look up some support matrixes beforehand.
I'll point out that the situation is different too. I've lived in Australia and the USA. Australia has more homeless but you will never see 3 miles of tents on major roads or encampments under bridges.

Other countries count them as homeless but often they will be cared for and have shelter. The USA is lacking there.
I don't think wikipedia is a good source of data in this case. For one German homelessness includes Syrian refugees. Second, it appears as if the definition of homelessness varies wildly across countries, making these numbers not really useful for cross-country comparison. https://www.oecd.org/els/family/HC3-1-Homeless-population.pd...
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even ones like YMCA?
My boyfriend's renters insurance. How very fortunate of her. If someone were to hand me $23,000 I would be very happy and in a much better financial situation.
Not sure on Windows licensing, but their major enterprise software such as SQL Server and SharePoint are free for dev use cases. When installing you have to provide a license. You can select a "Dev license" option, which gives you access to all the Enterprise Edition (or whatever name they're calling the full-featured edition) features for free for dev.
Yes, anything with the same chemistry is also dangerous. I would hope Powerwalls would have better cell isolation as they aren't as constrained by weight and size as in a vehicle.

That said, it looks like Tesla is going with LiFePo for powerwalls which is a much safer chemistry.
I'm prone to fainting when needles are involved, and I fainted at the pharmacy after my first shot. I still got my second one later. It's worth it.
I don’t know the answer in this context, but in Europe the “immunity certificate” treats vaccination and recovery as equal.
The mental illness factor is a part of it, but what's different about the US is that there seems to be less will to "put away" the homeless. You don't see them in more authoritarian societies where the powers that be are less cavalier about grabbing them off the street and depositing who knows where (even if it does end up being some nice universal-healthcare provided institution).
good luck getting a gym membership without an address, cell phone, credit card or sizeable deposit - forget about the fact that you look & smell terrible.
Amethyst is pretty good
Wow that website looks very nice. We built ours using cesium but it has a lot of bloat that we don't need. This looks much cleaner and faster. We'll connect with you on LinkedIn.
I'm not a seasoned Elixir dev but I wrote an article some months ago about how I used many Elixir & Phoenix features (including Channels & PubSub) for a new feature on my side project : https://conradfr.github.io/ProgRadio/

With also a demo https://livesongdemo.funkybits.fr/ that uses Channels to stream the Phoenix logs ;)
I'm not of the Left. So you know where I'm come from.

That said people who are living on the street are frequently deeply alone in way that can be hard to understand. Substance abuse problems. Mental problems. Sure all of that. No place to live too.

All of that's a huge burden. On top of that the jobs that get listed are frequently not going to be offering 30 hours or less a week.

So the way to think of people in that place is that they've got a job. - getting alcohol or drugs. They might have another job - having an incomplete view of reality. On top of that and I would say this most of all, they are frequently alienated from any friend or family.

It's hard in that place to say find 20 or 30 hours (if you're lucky) a week to bring in extra cash. It's doubly hard when your expenses are basically everything you have and everything you can get your hands on.

As I said earlier I'm not on the Left. I think there's an established view that says the problem here is mental problems of one sort or another leading to homelessness and unemployment. It's not that I think that's untrue but that the description is incomplete. It looks at a profound loss and describes a physical situation - even when talking about substance abuse and mental problems there's a clinical view that will help no one. In my opinion at least. Certainly I'm out of step.
> We should be reacting rationally to rates of hospitalization and deaths -- and right now, those are barely changed in NYC, thanks to the very high vaccination rate amongst the vulnerable population

The COVID hospitalization rate in NYC has doubled since the beginning of July, and it has a steep positive rate of change. On its current trajectory, COVID hospitalizations will continue to increase, and sharply.
There are many different reasons, some articulated already by other replies. There are also some practical/pragmatic barriers.

One is that if you are living on the street, any possessions are likely with you at all times. What do you do with them while working?

Another is that if you are living on the street you may have involuntary hygiene issues relating to lack of access to water, clothes washing etc which may make you unhireable.

There are real phase changes between "couch surfing", "living in your car" and "utterly homeless" and hysteretic effects that often mean that if you cross a threshold "downstream" it becomes almost impossible in many cases to move back.

There are other issues in the US as well, e.g.: unlike countries like Japan or most EU countries, a lot of people with psychiatric issues are homeless (converse isn't true -- most homeless people do not have psychiatric issues, but the ones that do exacerbate the problem). Also because of weather and services, the homeless population is concentrated in a few discrete areas. Ironically that makes it harder to get support for them as most people don't actually encounter truely homeless people except in the movies.
My only question is why nobody can seem to keep track of whether your name is Kelly or Kelley.

Even in the podcast transcript it is both.

Actually that's not true, I have another question. The single greatest strength of both C++ and Rust is the destructor: it makes them viable. Its lack is all that keeps me from thinking Zig is something I might want to use. Why doesn't Zig have an analog of the destructor / Drop trait?
Nah, it's the part where you and the author conveniently fail to point out that that 600k fatality number (which is close to the current number in the US) is after taking truly historic measures to prevent disease transmission.

Had we truly done nothing that number would be significantly higher.

But, of course, as was so very predictable at the start, because these measures were in fact pretty effective at slowing spread and preventing death, we have folks saying "Well gee, that wasn't so bad was it!"

I quite literally predicted that outcome 18 months ago, and I'm glad to see I wasn't disappointed...
I don’t know, honestly. When I travel overseas and see people who don’t look down upon menial jobs but see them as a source of sustenance I have to admire them.

I’ll see people doing lots of things like picking up recyclables, selling drinks, handyman type jobs, knife sharpener, shoe repair, mobile tailor, etc. Very seldom see homeless in Asia or Mexico (I don’t stay in tourist areas). People there hustle one way or another (I mean the positive hustle, not the negative hustler type hustle). But we seem lazy in contrast.

Sadly, I saw this attitude in a relative. Out of a job, this one would refuse to take a job at the Home Depot or the like. No, that was not their kind of work. They would rather mooch off friends till one of the friends gave them an easy job they could drag their feet at all day. This relative is perfectly healthy and has no physical problems. But would actually rather sleep on the street on occasion rather than get up and show up to work on time on a schedule. Amazing!
Don't forget the lost business because you will force business travelers to check bags. Literally everyone would have to check a bag, so you can't charge extra for it. And, no mobile boarding passes. And no move to bring-your-own-screen entertainment.
15-20 hrs/week though still at least implies that you're available 15-20 hours in a given week. For me, part-time would have to be fewer hours on average but also the ability to head off somewhere for a few weeks.
Tweets from Google employees who work on chrome:

https://twitter.com/estark37/status/1422694855390629893

https://twitter.com/domenic/status/1422647331804037120

https://twitter.com/domenic/status/1422647483944034308

https://twitter.com/domenic/status/1422704005453582337
So you bring up the "I have the DATA!" Trump card and then when asked to provide it your response is, "well, no, where is YOUR DATA?"

That long Covid is a pernicious result for many people with debilitating effects is well established in the literature, it's not controversial.

That refusing to get the virus under control will lead to further variants potentially worse than Delta that perhaps the vaccines are less able to guard against. Not some crazy conspiracy!

What this is ultimately about is many of our fellow citizens believe "my choice" and "freedom" means the "freedom" to infect other people with a potentially debilitating virus rather than they be mildly inconvenienced.
> A normal human would not suspect Jan + 1 month, is any month other than Feb.

Because humans intentionally reduce the precision of their computations to make them easier.

Today = 2021-08-04

Next year = 2022
The exact month, day, hour are all unknown.

Next month = 2021-09
The exact day and hour are unknown.

Tomorrow = 2021-08-05
The hours and minutes are unknown.

If humans used the same level of precision as computers, they'd run into the same problems. Probable date of birth calculation is an example.
You're right. Needle phobia is an officially recognized phobia, and there's a Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_needles) about it, with estimates from 10% to well over 20% of the US adult population being needle phobic. (I'm vaccinated and not needle phobic.)
What ethic background can the United States subtract from its total homeless population ?

Because that reads _to_me_ like you are saying "homeless Syrians don't count".

To which I would ask you, "Why not ?"
Some do, but I'd expect the majority are in the "don't want to work" category. A lot of people are under the impression that these are people that, if only given a chance, would want to get back on their feet and re-integrate with the rest of society. I'd say that the evidence, such as what you've observed, argues against that.
I think it's a practical thing. We don't require vaccination for restaurants, but because vaccination is required at schools, practically you can assume that most people are vaccinated. And for many of these illnesses, we have attained herd immunity (although antivaxers are chipping away at that.)

We should want to be in the same world for COVID. I'm sorry, but I don't see why I should have to risk getting COVID when there is a perfectly safe, free vaccine, that if delivered to enough of the population, will allow us to achieve herd immunity. The risks of long COVID are real. You're either imposing a very safe vaccine on people, or a somewhat dangerous illness on them, it seems very obvious the best option is to impose the vaccine.
The typical student lifestyle, I'd say. 20m^2 room 5-10km from the city center with combined toilet+shower and internet flatrate.
For anyone interested in the history of Pixar (and lucas films sprockets) I would recommend the books "Droid maker" and "Creativity inc". Droid maker is more historical about the early years, and creativity inc is more about how Pixar works.
Antibodies are useless if they don't have the ability to bind to mutated proteins.

> Some monoclonal antibodies, including bamlanivimab, lost their ability to bind to the spike protein and no longer neutralized the Delta variant. We also showed that the Delta variant is less sensitive to sera from naturally immunized individuals.

> In individuals who had not previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2, a single dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine induced a barely detectable level of neutralizing antibodies against the Delta variant. About 10% of the sera neutralized this variant. However, a two-dose regimen generated high sero-neutralization levels against the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants in individuals sampled at week 8 to week 16 after vaccination. [0]

Leave the armchair, get your booster shot.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03777-9
> Thank goodness for Swift, Rust, Go, etc in the post-2010 world.

I think you forgot C++11 :-)
This is a good book: https://www.amazon.ca/2-00-Day-Living-Nothing-America/dp/054...

From my spending time with homeless people in the US (I lived on the streets for a while) it's a combination of mental health/checked out/drugs, or more often, a feeling that being on the bottom of the social totem pole is no better/actually worse than taking part in "the system" (per the book I recommended).
non paywall https://ktla.com/news/local-news/woman-struck-by-car-on-stre...
When I was 21, our house of 4 was evicted because 1 didn’t pay rent and lied about it until we got notice to vacate. Luckily it was summer in Colorado so we decided to camp for a while. Unfortunately, I had just gotten a new (awesome) job and couldn’t go into the office smelling like campfires so I got a membership at the gym and showered there every morning. Never ended up exercising there though, ha.
We obviously don't know much about PASC/long COVID, but the initial data is worth paying attention to. This Swedish study says ~10% of healthcare workers who got COVID had lingering symptoms.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33825846/
How are "homeless" defined in different countries? There was an eye-opening 99pi series of podcasts around homelessness in USA where I learned that the definition is ridiculously strict.

Something like "If you slept anywhere other than the street last night, you do not qualify as homeless". I can't remember if tents count, but sleeping on a friend's couch, squatting a derelict building, or staying in your car disqualifies you from the definition of homeless.