skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal case: I got covid this January, quite symptomatic, full anosmia, high fever and about 20% of lungs damaged. Since then I contacted freshly infected people at least twice. Both of them became sick 1-2 days after contact, one with proved Delta variant. In both cases I self-quarantined and get mild symptoms for 2-3 days: light fever, partial anosmia. Both time I got significant increase of IgG antibodies. So I consider my immunity is first class. At the same time, both persons I contracted virus from were fully vaccinated with two doses couple of months ago, one of them had a pretty bad case, missed hospital just one day away.

The point is: if someone is ready to take a risk and contract covid - society should allow it because those people will either die on they own knowledge, or get a better immunity than any vaccine can offer. We know now that vaccination status and even natural immunity is not stopping people from virus transmission, so this argument is off the table.
I padded the death count by 50% to account for this in the story (400k people died of covid in the USA in 2020, not 600k).

If you compare covid deaths per capita across various states, you won't find huge differences even though some states had extreme restrictions in place (California) and some states had lax restrictions in place (Utah, Florida, etc).

Say there's a parallel universe where masks and social distancing were encouraged but optional and business were not forced to shut down and people were not ordered to shelter in place. How much higher is the covid death count per year in this fictional parallel universe? More than 50%? 2-3x higher? If you have any real-world examples you could point to to make your case, that would be helpful.

Anyway, all this doesn't really matter though, because you missed the point of the story. The point of the story was that (for Statisticsville, at least) the people were so busy fighting amongst themselves about what actions to take (or not) about an infectious disease that they didn't realize the deadly side effects of that social discord until it was too late.

Will the USA avoid the deadly consequences of its current social discord and become a united people again before it's too late? Stay tuned to find out!
Homelessness is already illegal in most places. They are already often referred to the nearest shelter. They are already frequently arrested.

Homeless shelter's don't help, they're ridiculously dangerous to be in.

You need to do more research on the topic. VICE has some decent documentaries on the issue.
>How do you cash a paycheck if you are without an address or a bank account?

You simply sign the back and take it to the bank and they will give you cash.

>How do you establish that you are a citizen and are legally able to take a job if you are unable to safely store your documents?

I honestly have no idea.

>How do you get health care, inclusive of mental health care, if you are unable to pay for it?

The answer is to get a job which is an obvious catch 22.

>If you are without a secure residence, how do you know when to wake up, how do you clean up, put on fresh clothing, and get to work?

I think there are a variety of viable answers here ranging from family, church, charity, shelters and gyms that this is a challenge but not insurmountable for a motivated individual.

> If you rely on public transit, how do you reliably get to work?

By using public transit? I don't understand the question.

> How do you establish residence if you have no reasonable credit or references?

This is a huge issue, imo. The only real option is paying in advance but that is obviously much more difficult.

> How do you save your deposit, first month's rent, and last month's rent, if you are unable to even get a bank account?

The answer is cash but the next question is how does a homeless person keep thousands of dollars in cash safe.

I think you've gone out of your way to add solvable problems to your list to make the issue seem insurmountable but you've definitely included two issues which I think are massive and one that's less difficult but also easily solved.

Starting with the solvable problem, banking, add basic banking services to post offices. It makes a lot of sense, imo.

The healthcare problem is a big one and I think the most popular answer to that question would be socialized medicine, which I support, but I'd also be open to hearing other solutions.

The biggest problem, I think, is housing. Not just because of cost but, as you mentioned, credit and rental history are going to be a major problem. Perhaps some sort of temporary (but long term enough to allow a history of payments to be shown, like 12 months or so) housing that could be offered to those in need to get back on their feet. Possibly even a requirement that apartment buildings make a unit available for this kind of renter.
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There have long been migrant camps around Calais filled with people trying to reach the UK. I don't know if they've ever been accurately counted.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-calais-id...
> Only for some common memory mistakes.

Yes, I’m talking about memory safety, because memory bugs cause most vulnerabilities.
Although social programs are better in Germany, that isn't the entire story. You'll see thousands of homeless strewn through the parks and along the banks of the Spree in the summer and U-Bahn stations in the winter. The major difference is the authorities dismantle and move any tent cities before they become endemic, unlike California. Belligerent behaviour is usually dealt with, meaning those that remain on the streets are predominantly harmless.
What I want is a very small thumb trackball mouse that I can stick right in the middle of my truly ergonomic cleave keyboard.
> Does anyone have direct experience to share?

Used it a few times for some medium-complexity stuff, here’s an open-source example:
https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/tree/master/avs_dx/Dx...

Works OK, and indeed faster than VC++ (I was using VS2017 at that time), especially in debug builds.

One interesting feature missing from the standard library is segmented_vector container. https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL/blob/master/include/...
The Datastream excel plugin from Refinitiv is one paid option used by professionals.

Or if it is just for personal use you could probably scrape yahoo's historical data tables (check their terms of use etc first of course)
The data is listed weird, because someone over the age of 12 can get the vaccine. A 17 year old has a lot more social opportunity to catch the virus, etc.

Regardless, the people who do get sick, typically get only midly-so, and rarely (statistically 0) experience serious complications or death.

Therefore, my initial conclusion that the risk for children is near zero stands.
Nicer UI https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/?q=Mouse%20Keys%20...
that's confirm(). alert() cant block a page close in progress (by design, afaik)

I'm actually not a huge fan of the design of confirm() either, but at least that has a valid, modern use
The frustrating thing about weaselly antivax nonsense like this is that if you just google your question, there is a clear answer:

> Over 20 women enrolled in the initial adult Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial became pregnant during the study period, and none suffered pregnancy loss or perinatal complications.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninashapiro/2021/03/17/vaccinat...

I understand that some people are not as plugged into the internet, or have various difficulties understanding information, but I doubt that describes you as a hacker news commenter. There is really no excuse for you to be ignorant about things that you can find an answer to in mere seconds.
Someone in your network, Ethernet sort, likes those things. Either at home or at work.

Lots of targeting is based on IP Adresss not device.
You will need to ensure that you are fully vaccinated and can prove it. Some countries are not accepting immigrants while they still have citizens wanting to return. Some European countries will soon `open up'.
"the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 96% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses; the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is 92% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses"

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective...
You can keep your science, I trust Jesus.
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That's a fair point and something we're definitely looking into. Ultimately, if you are interested in our SDK, we'll need to have an implementation conversation and can discuss pricing at that time, but it's definitely something we're considering updating. Thank you for the feedback.
>> 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.

That is literally what is happening. Their own scientists at the FDA have not approved the vaccine and yet they're trying to mandate people to get vaccinated anyway.

> 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.

I wasn't blaming anybody for rapid action. I'm just saying it's not hard to see why not everyone's interpretation is generous.
One thing that people should consider is that CA, specifically has a massive homelessness problem. the worse in the US.

https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1300&fn[]=2...

No one really knows why, but the probable reason is a mix of people moving their while already homeless and that housing prices in CA are the worst in the country.
> The most likely of situations..

Happens enough to be a problem[1][2][3].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC419765/

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/03/unbuckled-bac...

[3] https://www.washington.edu/news/2004/01/20/unbelted-drivers-...
Mhm, and what's the success rate of treating depression with a therapist?
It was a huge pain to find that plan on the desktop web site. I hadn't looked in a while but I thought that T-Mo had offloaded all of its prepaid plans to an MVNO. I didn't know this plan existed. I might try to get it now, at least for 1 month, though T-mo coverage is crap in my area.

If you're willing to deal with an annual plan through an MVNO and buy through ebay(!), this is the cheapest I know of, starting at $30/year ($2.50/month) with 200MB: https://www.redpocket.com/plans/ebay

200MB is more mobile data than I use most months since I mostly use a laptop and/or wifi (I use mobile data for occasionally checking email or directions or browsing low-bandwidth sites like HN when bored). YMMV. They have larger plans too. I have their now-defunct $10/month plan on AT&T. Redpocket is not the greatest but it's legitimate as far as I can tell.
Not jayd16 but I expected a design-patterns-like classification of programming language functions.
By fighting against a hostile work environment her tactics create a hostile work environment.
Not anymore… California repealed its law, and Illinois is in the process of doing the same. You can knowingly transmit HIV to someone in California without telling them anything, and its not a crime.
You're now defending a position that is contrary to the ideas expressed in your original post.

Which would be completely ok, except you never explained how your position has changed nor what it is you are now arguing against.
Neither LA nor SF nor even Washington, DC are representative of the US in this regard. Say, NYC does have homeless people, but you'll have hard time finding a tent camp with them. In many smaller towns they may be basically unheard of.

It takes a certain legal regime, law enforcement regime, economic situation, climate, etc to make a place attractive to the homeless. I suppose that neither Vermont nor Texas have a lot of homeless people.

I also heard of the practice of buying a Greyhound bus ticket to the homeless and luring them to go to warmer, more abundant places, thus physically removing the problem.

Also it's usually noted that many US homeless would be in a mental institution elsewhere; they are not homeless by conscious choice to be anti-social.
To me, her first example of sexism just sounds like ... useful advice?

"When closing sentences in presentations, you finish the sentence in a way that sounds like you're asking a question."

How is that sexist or condescending? I've had the same problem and I was glad that my university supervisor made me aware of it. Speaking in an authoritative way is definitely a useful skill for a "senior engineering program manager" like her. Or at least, it surely is for me. I'm a male senior engineer in a management position.

Is it sexist if people give her the same advice that helped me? How could one have formulated that to be non-sexist but still useful advice?

Contrary to my opinion, she describes that as

"#Apple employee relations confirmed this #tonepolicing is totally ok feedback for me to get from my #bigtech #male leaders & not #sexist."

which I guess will cause a lot of not so friendly people who lurk on the #tonepolicing and #sexist hashtags to contact #Apple. So I totally get why Apple's HR and PR teams consider that tweet a nightmare.
You completely changed what is being talked about. GP said nothing about "unsheltered/sleeping rough". GP said "homeless", so I'm not sure why you're suggesting that your statistics disprove what GP said. A homeless person in a shelter is still homeless.

I have no idea if GP's statistics are accurate, but nothing you said proves they aren't.
That second link seems to be about natural immunity not vaccines.
They are doing that very same thing with sugar taxes in other countries. The USA is not the world and my argument really is focused on countries with free healthcare.
Supposedly Tesla uses NCA for its cars and NMC for Powerwalls. Most other electric car manufacturers use NMC. However the properties of a battery vary greatly depending on the structure of the cell, and even more so on the cooling of the battery, so you should not compare them on chemistry alone.

The reason why LiFePo4 (LFP) is safer is because it doesn't exhibit thermal runaway and is less energy dense.

https://www.powertechsystems.eu/home/tech-corner/safety-of-l...
China has more silent support for squashing free speech globally than the US audience realizes
Because an employer doesn't need to agree to "sell" its employee, the employee is free to leave for a better offer.

The employee has no direct stake in which company employs it (bar stocks or something) other that compensation so is likely to take a high enough offer.

The "seller" in the case of chips might be some kind of broker holding out for a better offer - but during a shortage it's likely other companies that actually use those chips holding stock. Since the chips have value for them, and they might actually be your competitor, it's possible they might not sell to you for any price.
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Even in the best case, homeless shelters have serious downsides (to put it mildly) that you may not have considered.

-Have a pet? Not coming with you. A stint at the pound, likely followed by euthanization due to overcrowding.

-How about a family? If you can even get into a shelter, odds are it's going to be male or women and children.

-Shelters are often unsafe and filled with people who have untreated problems. Violence is a real risk.

-Very little space for personal possessions, high incidence of theft.

>Homeless shelters can also help by making it hard for them to continue their drug addictions.

I would strongly encourage you to volunteer at a homeless shelter. Not only do they need the help, you'll learn that while drugs are restricted at the shelter, it's a fantastic place to meet people who use drugs and find new sources of drugs.
Wow this is like a flashback to my own experiments in Excel, prior to going full mad-scientist for the past 6 months and creating a web app for FI/FIRE planning called ProjectiFi:

https://projectifi.io/

I had been using similar functions in parts of my spreadsheet, but as I kept adding more and more nuance and flexibility to the life planning and projection aspects, eventually the formulas just reached such a critical mass that the whole spreadsheet got really painful to maintain. If you feel like kicking the tires on ProjectiFi, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts -- I've been working hard to make everything that had become unwieldy and difficult in Excel for FI planning and experimentation feel more intuitive and straightforward.
This was a significant part of the last year of my life.

I'm super glad it's finally getting out to readers. I think that Adam, Ingo and Peter did a fantastic job bringing all of this together over the course of the last 18 months.
The author of that comment obviously has quite some expertise in the matter (see their profile and some of their other comments linked to in this thread).

They didn't say that "Long COVID" symptoms aren't real. They just stated that this particular virus disappears after some time, that is once your immune system manages to cope with it and the infection clears out.

This statement is emphatically true. Otherwise, antigen and PCR tests would still yield positive results months after someone became infected.

An example of a virus not simply disappearing from your body anymore once you're infected with it would be HIV.
Ignoring the meat of the argument to say some straw man nonsense. Gday troll
Those people should not get arrested, they should be in a mental hospital. It used to be like that in the old days but then some legalisation stopped the practice of putting mental people into mental asylums so now they roam the streets. Maybe it was because those asylums were horrible but it doesn't have to be like that, we can just improve those places. There are enough shelters for homeless people but you can't force them, we need to force them into something, but not into a prison.
Functionally you can use it indefinitely without licensing and only have cosmetic issues in the form of a watermark and some inability to change appearance.

Whether this breaks their tos is a bit gray....
In LA alone we would need over half a million units of affordable housing [1]. Good luck with that when communities fight new development of any kind every chance they possibly can.

[1] https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=726-2020-greater-los-ange...
some small cities literally buy their homeless bus tickets to get rid of them, and their politicians point to the places they send them as liberalism run amok… how do you even undo such callousness
At my last shop, we had similar problems. We got around it by including extra equipment we wanted in our server orders. Accounting never bothered asking why we needed nice keyboards and big monitors for rackmount servers. But god forbid you try to buy those directly. At one point management started to get wise, so we just had the vendor include the extra equipment in the same line item as the servers instead of broken out, just increasing the per-server cost to account for it.

Shenanigans like that shouldn't be necessary just to get the stuff you need, but big corporations are so dysfunctional sometimes.
As with so many things, worth noting that 'people' vary widely across every relevant spectrum, and I can't imagine that the median hasn't also shifted since (checks notes) 1989 (!!!)
Won’t there always be a variant popping up somewhere in some part of the world though?

The idea that “if we all got vaccinated, we could have zero variants” reeks of “zero COVID” thinking
tigertigerbb's other comments on this post, including the one referenced by Sebguer, for anyone who thinks, as I did at first, that they were coming from a position that was merely uninformed, rather than actively hostile to the homeless:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28066347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28066377
That long covid protocol worked for me. Horse paste ivermectin because you can't get a prescription for human kind where I live. Then followed up by prednisone to remove lung inflammation that persisted after ivermectin. I had all the long covid symptoms and it was brutal for three months.
It isn't about privacy dumbass. It is about freedom of movement and travel - something the 5th amendment enshrines perfectly well in English for those of us in the USA.

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Freedom/Rights/Travel/Right...

This entire "mandate", "law" whatever you want to call is 100% completely unconstitutional. Yes, it might take a year to travel through the courts but it is clearly unconstitutional.