skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would urge you to do some volunteer work with homeless people. Most aren’t scruffy and stinky. I think what’s happening is the scruffy and stinky people are the ones that get your attention while the homeless security guard or homeless Uber driver escapes your attention.
No more firefighters, no more fires! Qed.
These tent camps are quite new in the US. About 5 years ago, there started to be a tent camp in Seattle, but when I moved to LA there was not tents anywhere (except maybe a few on Skid Row), flash forward to about 2 years ago, and there are now literally miles and miles of tent camps all over Los Angeles. It is one of those things that once it is allowed at all, it quickly becomes overwhelming.
Those links contradict your assertion, instead indicating a move to "non-blocking alert()"
There's nothing I can show you that would make you believe what I'm saying, so I'm not going to try. But I will say that I heard it directly from a doctor in a high-level position at a large-ish hospital. I know him very well, and he has zero reason to lie to me about it.

But yeah, I'm probably lying (or being lied to) and it's all BS. Whatever works for you. The media (aside from Fox News) is always 100% truthful and must be trusted above everything. Same goes for the government.
From the article: "(t)he(sic) Biden administration sued Texas on Friday, July 30, 2021 to prevent state troopers from stopping vehicles carrying migrants on grounds that they may spread COVID-19, warning that the practice would exacerbate problems amid high levels of crossings on the state's border with Mexico."

I do not understand this. How does stopping the vehicles exacerbate the spread of COVID? Wouldn't infected people moving around be more of a factor in spreading the virus, rather than stopping them?
What if I need a water bottle for a minute. I buy it for $5, then I resell it for $5 and so does every following person? Surely each transaction shouldn't add $5 for GDP?

What if it is an extremely valuable water bottle. Let's say it costs $10,000 as it's made out of gold. Let's say it gets transferred similarly as everyone needs it for just 1 minute just to use it to fill it and take a sip.
There's a lot of quality-of-life improvements you can buy with $420. food, access to a gym, a better tent, PO box/locker to store your stuff, etc. Multiply that by 4 weeks, and you get $1680, which seems almost enough to rent a unit with roommates.
I hope you understand that we will not be “wiping out COVID” any time soon.

We need long term management strategies that are actually sustainable and protect the most vulnerable. And we probably need to worry less about persuading the die hards and more about things like standing up booster distribution and making ventilation improvements.

And a lot of the die hards will probably come around when the vaccine becomes part of the normal, boring health care routine instead of something they’re being “forced into” in an emergency, You know, you go in to the clinic in the winter with a cold. Doc asks if you’ve had your flu shot. Asks if you’ve had your COVID shot. That’s a much more comfortable context for people, I think.
> every couple of years for the rest of my life.

That ship has sailed? Covid is not going away, ever. It's politically impossible to mandate 100% vaccination, and even if you could, there's still animal reserves. The best case scenario is that covid becomes like the common cold, and you can mostly avoid it with occasional booster shots.

I wish everyone would get vaccinated too, but let's be realistic. How many years do you think you can keep up rules like "must show vaccination card to enter"? At what point does everyone, including vaccinated people, start ignoring them? Personally I think it's going to fail out of the gate, and I'm on team vax.
Mental health is a large part of the issue, but sometimes cause and effect can be murky.

It's important to note that even the very large visible encampments in cities like SF and LA are the tip of the homelessness iceberg, there's a much larger group of people who are living on friends/relatives couches, in their cars, or in shelters. A lot of these people have some level of employment, but housing affordability (a result of ~50 years of very restrictive land-use policies making it hard to build new housing) means that this level of employment can't afford them their own permanent home. For example, prior to 1970 it was much more common to see "boarding houses" where you'd share a room or share a bathroom, and especially unmarried low-wage workers would live there, but these are illegal to build in most cities these days.

Most of this homeless-but-not-on-the-street population is transient - it is common eg to be temporarily living in your car after a job disruption or sudden emergency expense, then to find another job and find a place to live after some time. In other words, they will do exactly what you are suggesting and lock down a new job quickly. And this group is a majority of the group of people who spend any time homeless in a given year.

But a portion of of this transiently-homeless population doesn't solve their job situation quickly, will wear out their welcome with friends, or will lose their car for a variety of reasons -- and end up falling into street homelessness. Once you are homeless and living on the street, you are at extremely high risk for developing a mental health and/or substance abuse problem even if you didn't start out with one. It also becomes much harder for you to get one of those available jobs, for a number of reasons, some as basic as not having transportation to work or not being able to present yourself well for an interview.

In short: land-use policies cause homelessness, the majority of the people who experience any amount of homelessness do get a job quickly, the street-homeless you see are the small fraction (of the frighteningly-large homeless population) that got stuck for some reason, and their situation is a feedback loop making them even more stuck.

(also: the 'we will hire you on the spot!' thing is a weird 2021 artifact of the pandemic, it taking time to ramp back up, and the super-generous unemployment benefits program that will be expiring very soon. the hiring market won't be like that next year)
I did it in Boulder , CO for a few months. I didn’t have an address but I did have a cell phone and debit (not credit) card. I did look and smell like a campfire. I’ve never heard of a deposit for a gym- those must be some fancy gymnasiums.
Yeah the system was terrible at the time, what they did however is sort of like seeing a bad performing school and closing it down permanently and then just leaving people completely uneducated. And then people complaining about how many illiterate people we got running around.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply. I have to admit that I have found your post unexpectedly super interesting. It's quite subtle, and while I can see all the facts, there are a few logical steps which don't quite make sense to me.

So you're saying that
1. Unlike what the blog post says, there is practice bias even in radiology. This would indeed explain why the model can learn 'racial bias'.

2. This is less clear to me. Just like humans can't see race on radio images, humans might be unable to see differences for diseases like pneumonia, but the nn could see them, no? In other words, how do you know that the differences have to come from hidden racial bias, and not from hidden pathological differences (that you don't know about, just like you've just discovered hidden racial bias) ?
And thus no substantial change was made today on HN, besides to people who get fatigues seeing 4+ level deep comment debates: only reading a few comments before going back to reading tech articles.
Awesome stuff, thanks.

Totally makes sense why we'd basically always want someone who has done the trip before. I wonder if that was actually the thought process?
> Not sure what what your point is here. ず＆づ may or may not be phonetically indistinct based on region.

In Standard Japanese orthography, all occurrences of <づ> have been replaced with <ず> except where structural reasons remain; the etymology is irrelevant for the orthography and so is the pronunciation in different dialects. In dialects that maintain the distinction between them, many instances of <ず> are pronounced as <づ>, and dialects in general do not follow the standard structure and grammar.

It is absolutely not the case that some actual spoken dialect of Japanese exists somewhere that follows the distinction between them as written in standard Japanese.

> I guess my original point was that just because you can type certain kana in different ways that may not be strictly phonetic they make sense as simplifications based on the structures you mention, and they make typing easier.

They do, but the input method is not based on phonology but on structure and Japanese orthography which does not strictly follow the phonoogy of Japanese.

My point is that it is not entered how it is pronounced in Japanese, but that word in Japanese has an official hiragana speling, which may or may not correspond with how it actually is pronounced, and a system that neatly maps to that spelling is used to enter the characters, not the pronunciation of it.

The official hiragana spelling of such words came before the invention of i.m.e.'s.

> This does not mean you cannot type using inputs that correspond to more strictly phonetic romanizations e.g. hepburn.

I do not subscribe to the theory that Hepburn is more phonetic or phonemic than Kunrei myself; <hu> seems to be a closer approximation for modern Japanse than <fu> in particular than <tyu>, as in “tube” also corresponds better than <chu> as in “chew” to me.

Having said that, that's harder because Hepburn is lossy with regards to the original hiragana orthography and neutralizes <づ> and <ず> among some others.
Lack of housing is perhaps the most important piece of the puzzle.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/7/13/housing-scarci....
Have you spent much time working with the homeless?
This is particularly important because it is easy to incorrectly self-diagnose. If you are having mental health concerns that are impacting your life, ask a professional to help identify what the problems really are - root cause vs. symptoms can be tricky if you are trying to figure it out on your own.
One US carrier has global roaming data same as in county. Pre pandemic, it was super amazing.
I think that stands for all but the most trivial social problems.
+1

I’ve seen nothing to indicate that Californians wouldn’t pay exorbitant sums of money to the first sensible plan to eradicate homelessness in their major cities. There just doesn’t appear to be a surplus of comprehensive and adequate solutions.
Not tw04, but...

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/us-supreme-court-a...
This seems counterintuitive but it actually does make sense. Most of the populated urban areas in the US are too cold or too politically hostile to have large homeless populations. It’s primarily an issue in a handful of regions and cities.
> Because it's highly tyrannical?

I hope that one day you'll experience an actual tyranny for comparison. Something like Belarus or North Korea.

> this also forces you to carry "ID" pretty much everywhere

Yes, because US car drivers don't already do that? And pretty much anyone in developed countries in the world.
I think immune compromised people can generally get the vaccine, but there are questions about how effective it is. Some have proposed they may need a 3rd dose.
Which, of course, is predicated on having the appropriate documentation for opening and maintaining a bank account. In most states (although not NY), that means a federally valid ID.

I’ve also reviewed some of these accounts and payroll apps, and many are downright predatory: extraordinary fees for a no-frills debit account, tie-ins to payday loan companies, and connections to “micro investing” (read: gambling) are rampant.
I suppose since we use paper bills, and debit cards, most states are violating the “make any Thing but gold and silver…” bit.

Pretty sure the only bits in that doc taken seriously are the lack of rules against meddling in elections, and leveraging 1A and 2A to rile the masses.
I think that was replaced by Rectangle.
You're not supposed to admit this, but homeless friendly people and polices tend to attract and sustain homeless folks.
Panhandling can be decently lucrative. The homeless in my area have told me they make $10/hr+ panhandling which isn't much worse than any job they can get.
> Isn't it kind of alarming to hear a government say, hey, our own scientists haven't approved this, but we want to inject it into your body anyway?

This isn’t what is happening - the scientists are encouraging you to get the vaccine too.

Full approval requires a lengthy amount of time because usually things are being tested outside of a crisis.

I think a lot of comments are missing that this is a public health crisis which has killed nearly 700,000 Americans. A crisis calls for rapid action.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28063637
In the US 27% of the total homeless population are those who are chronically homeless. That's about .05% of the US population.
In California you can get your shots without showing any ID, and in fact for my first shot nobody checked mine.
Ask HN: Nomad Alternatives for Medium Business?
The base requirements are to run our own infrastructure on hetzner dedicated servers.
Also the apps must run in vms (not containers).
I wonder if there is out there something that could be recommended as a stack that wouldn’t be too hard to implement…
Seen here a nice post with kuma+nomad+firecracker…
What would you recommend?
I'm with you. This title seems unnecessarily inflammatory in the full context. Definitely a common click-bait tactic whether it's intentional or not.
Same with France. Lived there for most of my life and the US is a culture shock when it comes to homelessness. I’m confused by these numbers.
Getting the nth character of a String in Swift
It me. I put off the needle for a long time—in fact my last shot was in 1991. Until last month. And hopefully that will be my last needle, since so many more humane methods of delivery are just around the corner.
Could you explain, for those not familiar with Jamie Dimon?
> If you're vaccinated you shouldn't care whether other people in the restaurant are. That's the point of vaccination after all.

That is actually not the point of vaccinations. The point of vaccinations is public health.
That all depends on how you fill out that w2. While you might get that money back, more if you qualify for the EITC, most people are still going to have their taxes removed from their paycheck.
What I believe he meant is that Syrians who live in a temporary refugee camp are counted as "homeless" by the German statistics office because they live in temporary housing and, hence, do not have a permanent place to live yet. And that statistic counted Germany in 2018, back when ~180000 refugees arrived.
Do you think if a visibly homeless person walks in and asks for a job the average business owner is going to hire them?
I think it's not in the public interest to allow cars on crowded city streets. After all, sometimes there isn't room on the sidewalk and cars send people to the hospital.
While that's undeniably true, if venturing off-road, I'd expect the driver to plan better than simply heading back when the light comes on.

(I'm probably - make that 'almost certainly' erring on the side of caution - having fitted a 90L/24USg auxiliary tank and also often carrying a jerry can or two when heading off into the boonies - heck, even my field kitchen runs on diesel!)
Why then do you need the mask and 3rd shot?
Those stats are misleading, e.g. Germany's figures include unsheltered refugees. Excluding refugees the number of homeless people in Germany sits at 335,000 to 420,000.

https://homelessworldcup.org/homelessness-statistics/
Have the near usurious transaction fees typically associated with those cards been regulated away, or are they still yet another way for financial conglomerates to nickel and dime more profits from the most vulnerable, while masquerading as a better option?

I last had my pay deposited onto a prepaid card in 2009, so the laws may indeed have changed. Back then those fees were overly restrictive and quickly ate into my meagre take home (unless, ironically, I withdrew as much as I could with my single allotted fee-less cash withdrawal per pay period)
> A virus doesn't just enter your body, and quietly go away.

> >Some do not. This one does.

It's sad but we really need a way to flag covid misinformation like this on HN. There is absolutely no proof that covid disappears after a certain amount of time, this is obvious because only 2 years has passed since 2019. The evidence we have so far is that some people remain with long-term symptoms at least as far as until now.
You're right, their situation does prevent them from jumping into a white collar, professional life with a good credit score and personal references. But I don't think that's what anyone is suggesting.

Most of the problems you stated are not problems for the type of labor that is offered to homeless people. Jobs for construction, landscaping, moving etc. with a truck that picks you up and drops you off. Usually done by illegal immigrants so cash pay is not a problem. From the business owners I know who have tried to hire homeless people to do daily labor, none of them are interested.
Given that the Delta variant is so contagious that it would require 90% vaxxed to achieve herd immunity, I see the situation as largely hopeless for those who fail to see the wisdom of getting vaccinated

The crazy thing is that the knee-jerk backlash against this vaccine has carried over into ALL vaccines for many people... So expect to see measles, polio, etc. etc. all over again thanks to the polarization involved at this point
Researchers found that vaccinated people can produce the same viral load as one exhibiting symptoms (and unvaccinated).
> if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2.

Terrible first order logic. The threat from the virus is not only immediate risk to the individual, it is also further transmissions increasing the risk of creating new breakthrough variants. Every infected person is a gamble that risks nullifying the effectiveness of vaccines, so the goal must be to bring down infections as strongly as possible.

>We have never before justified such intrusive government policies based on the risks faced by these individuals

we should have. Tolerating disease spread and threats to vulnerable populations when vaccines are available that are practically risk-free (or the risk being magnitudes smaller than the payoff) is ridiculous. Maybe this finally shakes people awake and puts public health and safety to the top of the agenda rather than people throwing tantrums like children about government incursion.

edit: and another point I forgot, with such a significant unvaccinated population we will very likely see surges in admissions in winter again. Public health resources are limited. Unnecessary Covid hospitalizations cause immense opportunity cost in the form of crowding out care and driving costs. Which in many cases other sick people and the public will have to carry.
Thanks! Btw, is keyri short for key-ring? In my native tongue, Gujarati, it means "Ant".

All the best.
The pricing page is very offputting to me. The first is free, but scaling starts and ends with "contact us"? Not the sort of thing I'd invest in, if I was in the market for such a thing. That's just my take though.
"I have friends who have tried to hire homeless for help with moving because her movers did not show up."

That....sounds terrible.
which gym was it? the cheapness gym I know of (Planet Fitness - $10/month) requires a bank account.
Unfortunately right before that an SQL function was called that wiped the database, just before calling the banking function that used an corrupt pointer to send a large sum of money to a random tax account which then happened to have a major tax debt, and as matter of tax law one can't demand money back from the government if paid to such account.
It's weird that you are certain this study is a gold-standard for medicine when nothing anywhere close to this has been shown in any other country.

It's an incredibly small sample size, directly after an unusual event after very large indoor public gathering of many people.

This is not how science works.
It's only like a third of homeless people with mental illness, so while it's a major contributor it cannot totally explain the problem.
Only the Leier one is prefab, the others are from protherm (clay) brick. And yes the planes there aren't free.

However there also exists a state level catalog of free (open source) templates as well:

https://www.oeny.hu/oeny/nmtk/mintatervek
Even if they aren't scruffy and stinky, if someone finds out you are homeless many of them will judge you like you are scruffy and stinky regardless. Which unless you are very charismatic is going to be a hard social situation to overcome at work and could easily get you fired.

They could come in one day with a bit greasy hair and get fired on the spot because co-workers or boss will assume 'unshowered bum" rather than "woke up a little late this morning"
within boundaries
You should compare US states with European countries.

California has around 161,000 homeless people, of 39.5 million people. That is about 161000/3950 = ~40 per 10k.

For germany, that number includes "around 375,000 asylum seekers and refugees in temporary accommodation", which is more than 50% of total homeless people (see wikipedia).
You can cash a paycheck at the bank listed on the paycheck, without any account. You can save up the cash without a bank account. Lots of people do that.

There are plenty of people who will hire you without asking for proof of citizenship.

In CA, you get Medi-Cal. And food stamps.

Waking up, I guess you're on your own.

Not trying to say it's easy, but those obstacles you mentioned are of the convenience variety.
There's also a new version with renamed methods every year, and some of the methods move to other libraries in the middle of the project.
> Ironically that makes it harder to get support for them as most people don't actually encounter truely homeless people except in the movies.

I can't think of any major city I've been to that doesn't have homeless panhandlers all over, though the large camps you see in LA are extreme.
I don't know how valid those stats are but those are per capita numbers not absolute numbers, so not twice as many total homeless:

Sweden: 10,230,000/10,000*36 = 36,828 homeless

US: 328,200,000/10,000*17 = 649,740 homeless
The OECD HC3.1. HOMELESS POPULATION has a note that says the German numbers also include people who inhabit temporary government-provided housing.

"Germany: Includes three main groups: i) Homeless refugees with an international protection status of more than one year (and eligible for job seeking allowance and renting regular housing in Germany, but still in temporary accommodation because they could notfind regular housing), ii) Homeless people without such a background who are provided with temporary accommodation by municipalities, and iii) Homeless people who are provided by NGOs with some type of temporary accommodation or are known as homeless users of their advice centres (without permanent housing and in contact with the advice centre at least once in the preceding months"

So it's "homeless" people that were "provided with temporary accommodation by municipalities", meaning it is a different type of homelessness than camping in LA.
Here is one take by the Economist:

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/12/10/...
In some cities there are large concentrations of homeless people while in other parts of the country they are rare to encounter. Those large concentrations are regularly talked about by activists and the news media.
1) network effects
2) pro business rule of law & attitude
3) cash > "political" network