skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're going to get a lot of replies indicating that the problem belongs squarely on society's shoulders (healthcare, capitalism, drugs).

One cause that you will probably not see highlighted is the devaluation of autonomy and personal responsibility, and it's absolutely devastating effect on the human spirit to progress.
Abundant housing is a necessary condition for solving homelessness.
There are multiple text adventure games where you have to figure out the game's mechanics before you can do anything, and of course you can't just wave the mouse around and click on some targets.

E.g. (I myself haven't gotten around to any of them):

For a Change https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=t61i5akczyblx2zd

Bad Machine https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=3a9rb059miw9fc9h

Counterfeit Monkey https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl

This is somewhat similar to the game 0x10c, where apparently a virtual computer was to be one of the central features, and you would use it to do advanced stuff. But, echoing your sentiment, the author said that it's not fun and dropped the project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c
> No. No. No. No. No.

This kind of attitude turns people away from wanting to engage with you, even if your idea has merit.

> There's absolutely no reason to say things like "hysterical fixation on cases". Bringing cases down means LESS LIVES LOST and less HEALTH lost.

It's naive to think that some people want more lives lost. That's the goal of everyone. In the same way, you're asking people to understand your perspective, try to keep an open mind, and understand the perspective of others. Even if you're correct, the only way to help is to understand the root of why some people are hesitant.

I'm obviously pro vaccines (in general) and are vaccinated for covid, but I'm also pro informed decision making, which from my perspective is very lacking (in some contexts) and very simplistic (summarized into TikTok-style videos and "cute" guitar songs) in others. There is of course valuable information out there but it's very difficult to find and is mostly lost in the ocean of influencer-driven media, turning science into MTV style top 10 countdowns. I happen to very rarely watch TV or news related to Covid from any source other than Sweden's official organizations, and I'm very happy with their information. I also noticed that it's very different in cadence from what I usually read people trying to say anywhere [1] (contrary to generic Swedish media for example, which follows the American example mostly). I believe this is one of the main reasons we have 40% fully vaccinated and ~60% with at least one shot). And there's no noticeable animosity or friction between vaccinated or unvaccinated people. There are also very few masks going around (mostly older people and 1 out of 100 young people I see).

From what I understand, scientists doing the research are working very hard on this, and they are still not 100% clear on all the details. It's naive to dismiss side-effects no matter how rare they are, and even more dangerous to dismiss fears of people. When you say "everyone must get vaccinated whether they understand or not" you're not aiding those people who are hesitant (regardless of why). Just the other day I watched a supercut of different "officials" some saying people can "top-off" with a second jab from another kind of vaccine while others saying that it's extremely wrong to do so. Similar to how the whole mask thing changed over time (and even now again with the new variants). This is all to say that difference of opinion and understanding is not only expected, but it's inevitable. You can't eliminate it, you can only face it and discuss it openly.

1: https://www.1177.se/Stockholm/sjukdomar--besvar/lungor-och-l...
Maybe I'm just being thick (it's usually the case), but for the life of me I still don't know what your answer to the parent's question is, and I can't tell how your quoted part is supposed to answer it.
I am not talking Microsoft or Google. There are lots of smaller companies that provide this service.

Your point about game streaming being like a search engine is nonsensical.
Thanks for the post.

One question:
One of the advantages about having a clean design is that performance is easier to optimize, since the 80%/20% rule of performance becomes much more obvious. How true was this in your experience? Were there any major performance-related design changes or was performance optimization a matter of tuning a few selected functions?
They can survive without having a job (food, water, shelter) and either cannot hold down a job[0] or prefer not to.

[0]Either illness/addiction, or accumulation of factors e.g. car broke down, fired, then evicted, then no address, etc.
The first thing I do with a new mac is insta-install all the apps I need at once. Here's the equivalent of Ninite for macOS...

https://macapps.link/en/
> Adults need to be vaccinated against one before they patronize indoor restaurants, entertainment venues and gyms (completely optional activities and only in the densest city in the US, probably some others will follow)

Also, adults that want to attend college classes on campus need to provide schools with proof of vaccination for about a half-dozen diseases. This was the case 20+ years ago, and it's still the case today.
If a dev uses a Facebook login on an app then it will never be able to remove it again as users won't be able to log in. Similarly, if it uses Facebook comments, these cannot be removed from a website as the content would be lost.

Apple does the same thing. As a dev once you open the door to using Apple you're forever stuck with that. As a user, it entrenches you further into the Apple ecosystem which is ultimately the whole Apple product strategy.
That's a good question, and I'm born and raised in the US!

Perhaps it's due to the difference between CoL and working wages in a given city. Even if someone who is homeless does start working, that doesn't mean they can afford rent in the city. That also doesn't mean they'll get healthcare or other necessary benefits for their continued survival. You also have close to no protections in the US, so you don't really have stable employment in the same way other countries do. So at the end of the day, they may think "whats the point?".

I've also seen a fair number of homeless people who are disabled, mentally or physically. Perhaps that bars them from some jobs. (The ADA disallows barring people from jobs if their disability does not impair them from doing essential work, but I'm unsure about what is considered essential and what isn't.)

These are just my 2 cents. I imagine there's at least some research on the topic.
> I believe OP is saying that 80/90% or whatever should be displayed as 100% to the user

My BMW i3 does that. When my car is fully charged, it's almost exactly 80% of the actual full battery capacity. When it says it's empty it's about 20%.

I verified this using some REST API calls someone had figured out reported capacity (actual and available) in kWh and correlated with the 94Ah specification.
Notably, the quarantine enforcement you describe were much more stringent requirements, levied against specific people who were believed to be infected or at elevated risk of infection (such as arrivals from overseas), never as a standing order issued against the population of the state's residents. Moreover, the quarantine laws which authorize this sort of thing in New York City demand due-process protections, such that those who are quarantined must receive notice that they are entitled to judicial review of the quarantine order.

Further reading:

https://regs.health.ny.gov/volume-title-10/content/section-2...
I have been in Manhattan for the last week with my family. I have seen 10+ free vaccinations locations. If you want to get vaccinated you can, no matter what your means.

Not being vaccinated put the risk on the kids, which is unconscionable.
I like your thinking.
One more example: itch in one's throat and nasty suffocating cough that does not stop for an hour. Surprisingly, this might be caused by reflux (without the accompanying stomachache).

I imagine it would be pretty easy for someone not used to dealing with gastritis on a regular basis to attribute such a symptom to "COVID".
This has been what I've seen personally volunteering at a homeless outreach. Mental illness seems to be the major factor.
We have looked into drag and solar sails, EM tethers, as well as installing modules to provide retrograde propulsion. We agree though, the best approach right now is just docking and moving at the moment.
> Not if they are 20 or already had covid

We have inconclusive data on the protection past infection affords with respect to the Delta variant. We have decent data showing the mRNA vaccines work. We also have inconclusive but pointed data about the Delta variant being more problematic for younger people [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/health/covid-young-adults...
Larry Elder has a real chance of winning the Governor recall election at this point. I was going to ignore it as just opposition party flailings, but now that the opportunity is there its not so far fetched.
Natural Surveys: AI assisted conversational surveys
In the U.S. there is a law that says if you want to hire government-subsidized indentured servants from overseas, you need to the advertise the job to U.S. citizens first. Just because there is a sign advertising the job doesn't mean they're actually going to hire an American.
Probably inevitable, although this fall seems a bit too early. Also probably unenforceable in many areas of the city.
Sure!

NASA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpqsmwlfY0

Moderna: https://pumas.ai/ https://discourse.julialang.org/t/has-moderna-used-pumas-ai-...

There are many many more. These unique and sought after capability are what got Julia Computing its 24 mil series A (https://twitter.com/Viral_B_Shah/status/1417128416206376960)
What's the incentive to get a job if you're still going to be homeless? If you stay homeless you're eventually going to get fired too.
Your link is multipage propaganda spin full of media distrust FUD without data, and deja vu - White House tweets blaming the media for wrong coverage of hard CDC data.

Whereis if you compare the CNBC link i posted with the official CDC report linked below you'll find no screwed up nor mis-interpretation on the part of CNBC (though CNBC didn't mention the 69% vaccination coverage and obvious correlation with the observed 74% share of infections). And the CDC report is crystal clear:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm

"During July 2021, 469 cases of COVID-19 associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings in a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, were identified among Massachusetts residents; vaccination coverage among eligible Massachusetts residents was 69%. Approximately three quarters (346; 74%) of cases occurred in fully vaccinated persons"
Batteries heat up depending on the rate of charge and while it is easy to measure and control to avoid damage from overheating, I don't believe it can be used to measure the state of charge. Charging at home in a garage would likely be using a much slower (and thus cooler) charging method than a commercial charger, so I don't think the fires are caused by the rate of charge, but perhaps by over-charging potentially worn or damaged / defective cells.
Do you have to have vacinne if you had covid?
Part of the problem is that nutrition is incredibly nuanced and unknown, but people want simple, absolute answers.

Different people have much different bodies: they react to foods differently, have different metabolisms (at least based on sex/age/height/weight/bodyfat/exercise), and different preferences. Bodies are also complex, and there are 500 different causes that can all lead to you feeling like garbage.

But that wouldn't sell papers, there wouldn't be much to write. So people make blunt statements. Most of what I see online seems to be geared towards the "average American". Which ironically means, the people reading these articles who actually care about their nutrition, most of it doesn't even apply to them.

And this isn't even getting into another factor, which is that people get particularly defensive about nutrition. So others take these blunt, over-generalized statements as fact and double down on them. I see this in-person by people who are otherwise really smart.

Examples: "eat less salt and more fiber" - you don't know how much salt / fiber I'm eating. "Almonds keep you full" - idk some people eat loads of almonds. "Keto changed my life / I hate keto" - that's your anecdote, it only applies to you.

Specifically, for eggs: if someone has high cholesterol, it will show up on bloodwork, and if the eggs raise their cholesterol, cutting / reintroducing them will show up too. If I eat 6 eggs a day and have great cholesterol, some study that says on average people who eat eggs die of a heart attack, that means nothing to me. If I eat 6 eggs a day and have terrible cholesterol, and after I stop eating eggs my cholesterol lowers, some study that says eggs usually don't spike cholesterol, that also means nothing.
Really? I'd say a large percentage of people would want that if an encampment appeared next to their house.

In fact, that's probably the reason the homeless were living by a freeway. Anywhere near where people live would see them hassled by police or exposed to violence and harassment.
Thank you for sharing, that is effectively what I had been looking for! Please ignore my misinformation.
> I do remember a time without homeless people however.

It seems more likely that you remember a time in which you weren't aware of, or weren't exposed to the presence of, homeless people. Homelessness is a serious problem that gets worse as its handling is abysmally bungled, but it is not a new problem.
Panhandling can earn more than minimum wage, and you have no boss or responsibilities.
Yeah, but they're still homeless, and unless you can find a place eventually you'll get fired. It may also be that you can get more than 400$/week panhandling. That's only 57$/day.
https://twitter.com/estark37/status/1422694856544059396

> as a developer it's good practice to test against early release channels of major browsers to learn about any compatibility issues upfront

This is a rather alarming viewpoint which I think highlights Chrome's quest to become the One True Implementation of web standards. In addition to the major browser vendors I'm now supposed to be testing against beta and nightly builds in order to ensure that my website is not going to break because Google decided to eliminate something? Yikes.
You really need to stop spreading falsehoods, you're not helping:

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/07/vaccines-remain-largely-ef...

The absolute lowest bound estimate was an Israeli study:

> In late July, the ministry further reduced its vaccine effectiveness estimate for symptomatic COVID-19 to 40.5%

However, they have failed to provide the data necessary to evaluate their results, and so at this time there's pretty wide skepticism regarding this figure.

In contrast:

> A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on July 21 by Public Health England, for example, found that after the two recommended doses, the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in preventing symptomatic disease in the U.K. fell only slightly, to 88.0% against delta

Being a betting man, I'd say the truth lies somewhere in the middle, but even at 60-70% effectiveness in preventing symptomatic Delta infection, vaccination leads to a significant reduction in R-value.
Great points. The storytelling is still weak though ;) I would cut the word count in half and you might have something great.
Some of them probably do. But if you're a homeless person who has lived without "housing + commute", the equation may seem different. Why the fuck do I want to spend most of my day in some shitty job, so that I can cover "housing + commute", whose main purpose is to uphold this identity built around the shitty job?
Tesla detected charging problem and send a message, but a battery pack crammed with temperature sensors didnt notice being on fire?
> mRNA is a new, unknown technology

This is untrue, researchers have been testing various mRNA therapies on people for 30 years, with it being first done in vitro in 1990 then in vivo in 1992 [1]. Lipid nano particles were first used around the same time.

> the vaccine was rushed faster to public access than any other vaccine before

This is only true if you ignore the development of the mRNA vaccine platform for flu, rabies, and zika that predated the pandemic by years. The novel development here was swapping in new protein encoding. If you look at this as a continuation of that process, then it's only a little faster than normal, and a lot of that was due to the FDA switching sequential steps in the process to be parallel.

> We have absolutely no idea if there are any long term side effects of these vaccines.

This isn't a meaningful claim for 2 key reasons. There has never been a vaccine that had serious side effects that did show up shortly after vaccination[2]. The history of mRNA treatments began as an experiment in gene therapy, but has largely ben abandoned because the effects never lasted long enough. As of 2020 this is an ongoing area of research[3]. No one has figure out how to stabilize mRNA so that it has long lasting effects.

> Both candidates Biden and Harris

They're both craven, ignorant politicians, who cares what they said when the other guy was in power.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7076378/

[edit] All that said, I am no pro mandate but seriously you should all voluntarily go get vaccinated IMHO.
I don't know, maybe being able to buy food is an incentive?
I thought it seemed odd or hypocritical at first but I believe she is actually attempting to force the city to improve conditions for the homeless, more than seeking to enforce clear sidewalks for the sake of accessibility.

Whatever the motivation of the lawsuit, the blocking of sidewalks is a legitimate complaint that has come up in other cities such as Portland. Disabled people can’t easily just go around a blocked sidewalk, and anyone else blocking a sidewalk like a homeowner or construction firm would be fined a great deal (like the city did to the federal government last year over fences by the courthouse, up to $500 a day).
I downvoted because this reeks of astroturfing. The candidate in question seems not to be serious (based on the wildly impractical/implausible policy proposals) and I really wonder if this run is just a stunt to promote his youtube channel. Novelty candidates are often publicity seekers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Paffrath

I could be wrong, of course. Perhaps you'd care to explain how you see his National Guard deployment or other proposals working.
Okay, I almost wish I hadn't read this comment because it is so similar to what I have in part 2! So please don't be annoyed when you see it in a couple of weeks ;-)

I actually separated it into a separate part because it undermines my primary point. Sure, we all love it when we have a better decomposition, better names, and everything falls into place. But it doesn't always. Not in the time we have. So then we need ways to deal with the flaws.
I decided that if I had ended with this it would have communicated: Aw, just keep trying and you'll get something nice! That can be very risky.
Or you can do what I'm doing and make the big bucks working remotely out of a small town in Ontario for a SV company ;)

Once you get to staff+ you effectively remove any real pay difference based on your locality.
Wow!!! Brings back memories of playing with Kid Pix as a ... well, kid. You nailed it, that's awesome!
How much housing would need to be built for homelessness resolution?
Is that actually a compelling argument? How is an individual's choice which led to them occupying an ICU as a COVID patient worse than any other of their (presumably very dumb) individual choices?

If we get to pick what we get to shame ICU bed occupancy for, I've got a LOT of other ideas that people probably won't like.

By definition, society is made of up lots of interactions which prevent others from enjoying themselves. I struggle to understand why the line gets drawn at COVID.
Probably my ideal thing would be some project-based (non-dev) consulting that wasn't too many hours and that let me disappear for a month here and there. I'm not sure I could really count on that though--especially without a lot of beating of bushes--which leads me to put in a bit more time while I easily can.
Please provide a link, or stop passing speculation off as truth.
A lot of homeless are mentally ill or, as you mentioned, drug-addicted. There's a very small percentage who can keep a job once hired.
Good luck getting and keeping a job when you have nowhere to shower and may be forced to relocate at any time. Oh, and the cops may come and smash or steal all of your belongings.
The question is whether this is normal enforcement, or whether this is selective enforcement. We don't have enough information to know which it really was, and Facebook has every reason to lie if it was selective enforcement.

If this was the Facebook of 3 years ago, it would have clearly been selective enforcement. But they've done a lot to crack down on scraping since. So now I am unsure which it was.
"Without readily available street drugs"? I suspect that wasn't about medication?
It's been a year of this, and you should know by now that masks are meant to prevent people from unknowingly spreading the virus to other people.

From the FDA[1]:

> Q: Do face masks provide protection from coronavirus?

> A: Masks may help prevent people who have COVID-19 from spreading the virus to others. The CDC has guidance for wearing masks. Wearing a face mask may limit exposure to respiratory droplets and large particles and may help prevent people who have COVID-19 from spreading the virus.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and...
Since you didn't mentioned: please, seek professional help before you consider anything else here.
Why don't we let it all go forward, was the point I was making.

We're trying to protect people that don't want protection. Time to move on and get back to normal.
Yeah, those people are mostly still inc ars or on sofas. Once someone is down to being in a tent they've usually been homeless for a while.
Somehow I knew this would boil down to "use Rust."
First please note that America has fewer homeless people than many European nations or Canada. Per 10K:

Germany......79
UK...........46
Sweden.......36
Canada.......36
Netherlands..23
France.......21
USA..........17

(via Wikipedia, stats for differing years unfortunately but gives a sense of magnitude)

It's mostly that the US homeless population concentrates in very few areas.

> How do you reconcile that with the fact that there are so many simple jobs with open positions everywhere?

I have friends who have tried to hire homeless for help with moving because her movers did not show up. The experience did not go well. She basically had to babysit them to the effect of "Ok, pack up that box. Now take it and come with me. [he follows without box] No, lets go back and get the box..." But for everything.

Even among the set of homeless who want to do jobs, many need extraordinary supervision, and most places are not staffed well enough to handle that.
talk to a homeless person. see the depression. imagine?

it is v sad
Ruby has a GIL too, as far as I understand. Is the GIL in Ruby comparable to that in Python and present for similar reasons? If so, does that suggest that it's a genuine design constraint rather than a bad design decision? You don't say so explicitly, but your last sentence sounds like it's saying Python's GIL is due to bad design.