skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ancestor’s source was about California, yours is San Francisco. Perhaps many of them lived in Oakland, some in Daly City, maybe some were going to the Humboldt State University 10 years ago and are now unhoused because of an overwhelming student dept, and some were agricultural workers in the Valley and weren’t able to gather enough savings to keep them selves housed.
Is there an alternative that keeps the government from having to pay so much for non paying fathers? Ergo, paternity insurance scheme?
Not only you are still throwing bunch of numbers and data only this time using comparatives ("more likely"), you seem to have also mistaken me as someone in need of convincing, which shows you haven't listened to what I've said careful enough to understand it. If I was a person that needed to be convinced, I would trust you even less just on that basis.

Finally you make the assumption that people have a problem with understanding the propositions. I'm saying they have a problem with not being heard about their emotions. You've just demonstrated that, in addition to not listening well.
And Nukes.

I remember right around 2000 George Will bloviated about how Russia was a third world nation by economy size, why do we treat them with such deference.

Psst George: They still have a LOT of nukes.

That might be us. A shell of a country with a failing economy, strong military, and huge number of nukes.

Of course right around then global warming might really start taking off and a billion or two people are starving and become refugees. Then we see what happened in the EU and Syria, but worldwide and 100x worse.
The piece mentions Single-Room Occupancies (SROs), which used to be where a lot of people in similar situations would live.

I agree that this doesn't solve the problem for everyone, and there's also a place for publicly funded mental health hospitals. But I also don't think everyone who is currently homeless in CA is in as bad shape as the ones you most notice.
Try opening it in a private/incognito session.
Fun fact in the 1700s the British transported large numbers of vagabonds to what would later become the states. This strategy it seems works great when you have somewhere else where you can make the parties assistance someone else's problem. It is inherently harder when the person remains your problem regardless.
I have the coronavirus.
I have Covid.

I have a headache and a toothache.

I have a cold and a fever.
I have yellow fever.

I have a cough. I have whopping cough.

I have the flu.

I have the chicken pox, smallpox, the measles, and the mumps. I have rabies.
There is reason I'm willing to be slapped by you.
May be is your daughter or w
Just like some company do tech transfer in exchange for access to the market.

You are welcome to take advantage of my hospitality and tea. But do you know what is in the tea?
You might get addicted to the tea that you willing to obey me.
Just like sanction ( weaponizing dollar )
That's not true at all where I am. Yes, I can post on twitter and get tons of CVs, but most applicants aren't that good. I may only want to interview 40% of the candidates I get, and I would really only want to hire about 1 in 5 people I interview. Interviewing takes time. Then after that, onboarding people on the job takes time too, it can take people several months to become effective on the job. Skilled, effective employees that you get along with are not easy to replace.
(that link gets you an HN overlay when following link directly)
Thank you. I'm surprised by the tone of some of the comments here. The linked article's framing of the story is outright flamebait.
Do you know that it's true that per-capital NE cities invest more into shelters? View from Seattle, an enormous amount of money is spent on homeless outreach and shelters that I have never seen reflected in any other area (other than the Pacific rim).
Aside from its terrible public transport model, it's a reasonably rational, but not grid-based life. (Melbourne's Hoddle grid is great!) House prices are of course insane, but less so than the Southern states.

It has good food, a mixture of tin-and-timber, modern, suburban, apartment living, it has great weather. It doesn't have Coogee or Bondi or Manly and it has a lot of urban sprawl, but within 2h drive are rainforest, beaches, hills.

It has good schools and universities for that stage of life, the inner city is much less frenetic than Sydney's equivalent. We don't have paddy's markets but we do have good food markets, if smaller. Less of a night-life scene but not none.
+1 just get another job if the job makes you unhappy
The investigations and surveys I have seen on the subject suggest that the homeless population you are describing makes up a minority of the overall homeless population. It is something in the range of 30%-50% depending on the source (it is notoriously difficult to get accurate numbers on homeless populations).

Your anecdote is a classic form of bias if you just take a step back and reexamine it. You identify most homeless people as being like that because those are the people you immediately recognize as being homeless. Someone who is homeless purely due to the high cost of housing probably isn't immediately identifiable as homeless on sight.
I’m not pleased about this. I maintain a bot for work (not bigcorp), and this is going to waste a tonne of my time. This isn’t just a little breaking change that you can code around, getting rid of message content will make many bots impossible, or will necessitate a rewrite. Discord needs to listen to its community. /rant
High housing costs aren't the totality of what OP is talking about. Zoning laws prohibiting construction of lower cost housing options make alternatives in a given locale unobtainable, regardless of cost. This is done to protect the valuation of SFHs, often enough. Designating districts as 'historic' or zoning shenanigans can do this. It's fundamentally a NIMBY problem, which is very different than the issue of regulatory burden for construction (environmental assessments, permitting, etc.). Both of these factors contribute to the problem though.
Oh oh oh oh oh
Now I can bring you in
Warm or cold
I'll get paid either way
(Oh oh oh oh)
It might not buy me happiness
But it might just ease my pain
(Oh oh oh oh)
'Cause it's hard to live
This life alone
But it's all I've ever known
For those that are mentally ill, and especially if they are violent, you force them to get the psychiatric help that they need. It's an unpopular opinion. But frankly it's long overdue. For those that have the option to go to shelters, receive plenty of benefits (which SF most definitely provides) but prefer to be homeless, they need to be separated from major city areas where tourists, business people, and every day people want to live peacefully. I've seen enough of this the last few times I've been to SF and the bay area.
Our government, either through corruption or incompetence, can somehow manage to spend billions in tax payer dollars with very little to show for it.

When I advocate for something like a mental health program, it assumes a government which is functional enough to actually implement it. What we currently have here in CA couldn't be further from that.
"But I also don't think everyone who is currently homeless in CA is in as bad shape as the ones you most notice."

There is a difference between the technically "homeless" and the visibly homeless who camp out on sidewalks etc. which is what most people are talking about when the "homeless problem" is mentioned.
They were asked variations of the same question several times. Here's one of the more informative responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28278843
Obviously people find MacBeth creepy because it's socialist ("our") feminism ("she").

Of course men throughout history will be creeped out by powerful witches.
It's not big tech. It's working for a jerk of a manager who doesn't respect you as a person. I've been in that situation out of tech as well as in tech, and that got solved by getting a new boss or changing jobs.
Certain categories (porn, gambling, etc) of payments reportedly have a lot more fraud associated with them. If that's true, it makes sense for this to just be settled through a rate-card.
Is Machine Learning a part of Artificial Intelligence?
Nope, it's only doing #2, and in far smaller numbers.
Nobody talks about the harder truth: even with its exclusionary housing policies, California is increasingly not capable of supporting the population it has.

The 2021 fires and worsening drought conditions are just a taste of things to come.
The New History Channel Is YouTube, but Can We Trust the Experts? (2019)
A friend of mine is a pilot on long flights. He said that the great thing about his job is that he can totally switch off from work as soon as he leaves the plane. Feels like the best of both world. High paid job without the stress.
How can that be fixed? Everyone now has a smartphone these days, surely there is a way to electronically log all these renting agreements.
Which puts them in the system, and they get the help they need or they rebel and leave- facing the choice of migrate or die. It’s not pretty but it’s the reality, because nature is a harsh teacher.
> It’s played on my mind many times over the years, how do you help someone in that scenario?

Acceptance? If he's clean, groomed, not bothering people, and OK with is life as it is, maybe there is room for him in society.

I think a lot of the problem stems from the fact that we all agree that "the homeless problem" should be solved, but we can't agree on what "the problem" is.

To some it's "I don't want to see and be bothered by homeless people"to others its "people are suffering needlessly" to others its "a wealthy nation like ours should be able to provide shelter to everyone" to others its some combination.

It's rare to hear a political plan to "solve homelessness" that addresses the people who want to be homeless.
The scaling for distance seems a little off but if your salary was negotiated for an in-person position, and you then want change that agreement, for any reason pandemic or not, then surely something has to give?
Interesting… Out of curiosity, do people in profit centers get paid more to compensate for the stress?

I’m thinking in terms of Wall Street banks, where for example traders might have very stressful jobs but receive huge bonuses that far outstrip what the more relaxed back office roles get.
Electron is hundred megabytes runtime of 2d + 3d engine, networking, accessibility, sound, etc that you only use for “hello world”
Cowboys and Indians playground play persisted well into what, the sixties and seventies? That wasn't nearly as traumatic (for the victors, my apologies to Native Americans) and the most public conflicts back in the late 1800s. Although probably the popularity of westerns and introduction of TV helped persist it.
I agree with the premise of the article, that a large proportion of California's homeless move there because it's easier to he homeless for all the reasons listed, but that's about the substance of the article. It blames the problem on detached housing and demands solutions without an inkling of a hint at any.

Our homeless problem is the result of 2 things: a mental health problem and to a much lesser extent the pervasiveness of the speculative real estate market driving up costs (a market largely driven by equity in the California housing market I might mention).

The solution to this problem is not less detached housing, it is more of any housing anywhere that it has been artificially suppressed, and raising interest rates to a market dictated level rather than artificially suppressing them to hold up the house of cards, and more importantly, helping people address their mental health problems.
Seriously, these people are building value and contributing so much to the platform only for the project manager to turn around and treat them this way.. Embarrassing.
I see your point, but I read GP a little different - the solution they mentioned is to stop voting for leadership that is perpetuating the problem with garbage policies. That combines the blame and solution in one statement, but is a constructive solution. You don't like the policies or realities of CA? Stop voting for people that implement and double down on the policies creating the realities. Not much of a dog in this fight, but if CA can solve the problem it would help a lot of other cities/states that look to CA for guidance.
Yandex Traffic Jam Technology Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

https://techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massi...
This is like some bizarre regression in civilization.

2000 years ago humans realized people shitting in random places was bad and needed to be solved. And it was.

And now we have people saying human shit on the sidewalks is “not a problem”.
Lots more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329731
I remember a while back reading a thing where basically there were bots out there essentially scraping entire chat logs without its users really being aware of this. There's probably also a lot of stuff going around with identity (like people making bots that look like official ones but aren't) etc.

I get people complaining about this situation, but there is a gradient of access between "no content access whatsoever" and "the bot can see everything". Slack's API does a pretty good job of making some of this work
“Notice you’ve been missing a lot of work recently, Peter?”

“Well, I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.”
> it certainly isn't describing the homeless people I see.

What you see is highly unrepresentative of homelessness.

You never see the people trying to scrape by in their cars. You never see the people couch surfing. You never see the people struggling but also struggling to not be known as homeless.

Because once you hit that position of being clearly homeless in appearance, all sorts of doors slam shut and getting out of homelessness is an order of magnitude harder.

And being in the precarious state of being homeless, but still fully functional, makes it all the harder to get to jobs on time, harder to protect any assets, harder to keep clean and not look homeless. And all that takes a huge toll on a person's psyche, and that extended stress can bring up mental issues that would have been completely manageable without the additional stress of not having a home base to run all the essential parts of life.

For every clearly homeless person you see, with severe mental issues, there are easily 5-20 that you would never know are homeless without following them around and seeing that they don't go back to an apartment at night.

And this all comes down to housing costs. For all the people we kick off the economic ladder, that run out of money for housing and don't have enough to move to a cheaper area, they are left in a very difficult spot, with little way to get back into housing. I've known people in my town that have been willing to put down 6 months of rent, or even 12, ahead of time, and been unable to land an apartment lease. Even market rate housing has lines that go out the door, and more applicants than the landlord knows what to do with.
For anyone else who didn’t know, a hob is the British word for the top of a stove (the stovetop). Though, according to 2 dictionaries I checked, it more usually means hobgoblin in British English. I wonder if they have puns about these two meanings.
You have described why the housing "crisis" will never be solved in CA. The homeowners will vote down every new apartment complex, every new developer plan, every rezone. It will never end, ever. Current home owners will never vote for less money, ever. The only way CA can fix this is by a state wide vote - demanding housing to be allowed. Home owners in CA love new Panera Breads and new Chipotles - tie any new commercial properties to new housing. New 1brdm condos will never be built ever. This cannot be fought at a county NIMBY level: this must be statewide. %46 of CA do not own homes - the vote count is almost there. I await my downvotes.
There is zero chance that the OP claim 'US government will decide that any person born in China is a security risk' will ever happen. There is an ongoing STEM arms race between US and China, with China possibly already ahead. US has its hands tied, as it can't restrict 15-20% (and growing) of its STEM workforce pipeline and risk falling further behind.
This week, the FDA added their voice to social media memes making fun of Ivermectin.

This week, there was a short video briefing for Malaysian doctors about the Indian success story in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), population ~200M. In India, each state can set their own health policy. Even though the central government was against Ivermectin, UP continued to use it. On June 29, the UP government released an official kit for children, containing: Paracetamol, multivitamins and Ivermectin. The briefing claims that Doxycycline, Ivermectin and Zinc were instrumental in treatment, prevention and reducing transmission of Covid.

This video was removed from YT within 24 hrs, interpret that as you will, but this is a field report from a medical professional describing a successful, real-world health outcome in a region with more humans than many countries, https://www.bitchute.com/video/ysnsHWrcqimp/
Worth noting that according to [0], this is one of the lowest rates in the country, which would suggest to me this has less of an effect than you are selling here.

[0] https://blog.stewart.com/stewart/2019/11/05/u-s-homeownershi...

* I didn’t vet this source much but it apparently pulls from UC Census data.
Consider it from the perspective of the people who advocated for the hollowing out of industry, the "managed decline" crowd. It sure would be nice to hear an admission of, at best, shortsightedness... If only somebody had warned us about basing an economy on "knowledge work" (no joke, they call it that) in a world where "intellectual property" is just mouth noise.
You're right. I misremembered. Zeroconf was an umbrella name for related technologies.

Damn, I'm getting old.
California is extremely capable of supporting its current population, and easily 50% more. The only thing stopping this is proper distribution of land and water. We let wealthy people hoard land and water (Prop 13 and our land rights system), rather than allocating them based on market systems or even more fair systems. We have feudalism baked too deeply into our laws.
Very curious where the US is commiting genocide or ethnic cleansing. Honestly want to know.
Now do a write up about the dysfunctional Portland city government.
I do like how you can always tell who is criticizing from afar when they say "San Fran" rather than something that a local would actually say.
It worked for Hollywood too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company...
Can you please explain how criminalizing homelessness, for example by enforcing sit/lie ordinances, would help homeless people find homes? Likewise, getting people into mental health services is not likely to get them a place to live. You seem to think that somehow “getting tough” on homeless people is going to make them straighten up and find a place to live, when in reality it will just cause them to move out of your view, so you don’t have to see them any longer.
it was an incandescent, not polarized. It's not a lame question. You could ask similar questions about how a computer works to graduating comp-sci students and get similarly disappointing results.
> As long as there's a chance to eek out some more money...But here we are still willing to gamble that they'll respect our IP because maybe we can make a few bucks.

What I observe is the motivation isn't to "make a few bucks", it is "give the perception that a few bucks will be made". It looks like the agency problem: move to China, convincingly explain to the board and shareholders that such a move was bold, strategically sound, daring, fiscally prudent, and courageous. Gather stacks. Show a few years of expense sheet fluffing, meanwhile cutting everything else that isn't measured. Exit stage left. By the time the chickens come home to roost, IBGYBG.

What I find curious is I don't really see Japanese corporations doing this, even though they also do a tremendous amount of business in China. I hazard a guess at an overall business leadership culture difference between Japan and America; America's is more value extractive-oriented ("unlocking" value), while Japan's is more value constructive-oriented (looking for compounding small, incremental improvements to deliver value).
> The reality is that causality is very difficult to prove. Not only does it require a higher level of statistical rigor, it also requires A LOT of carefully collected data. Meaning you will have to wait a long time before you can make any causal claim.

Malcolm Gladwell's similar message: https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/burden-of-proof/

- A correlation between mining and lung cancer was discovered in 1918, but wasn't acted on until 1975.

- There is a correlation between football and suicide/brain damage, but it is not being acted on.
Arm China was conceived and even happened before Arm was bought by Softbank
And would the correct response to that action be to publish the names and addresses of the doxers online?

My point: Shifty, illegal, underhanded things are just wrong. Do it all above board.
It was removed from YT because it's nothing but pure propaganda and misinformation.

It still confuses me as to what are they trying to push with this agenda.
I'm the author.

It's really not mostly mental health problems. I've studied this issue for years.

I write about homelessness on Street Life Solutions. I try to write about housing and community development stuff elsewhere, like Eclogiselle.com and https://projectsro.blogspot.com/.

This post wasn't intended to be some opus solving everything. I wanted to make one point: California's extreme homeless problem is not somehow entirely the fault of California government, though that is a factor. There are other factors, like weather and a national shortage of housing that has been ongoing for a lot of years and isn't remotely peculiar to California.

California has 12 percent of the nation's entire population and 27 percent (or more -- different sources vary) of the nation's homeless population. That's not just a "California problem." That's a national problem disproportionately impacting California.

There's a lore more to the issue than can be contained in a single post. I tried to make one point and only one point. Addressing how to resolve the nation's housing problems will take more than a single blog post.

But thank you for commenting.
Aim higher. With the market as it is now you can make 110+ per hour as a subcontractor, doing work not much different than a regular employee. Can make much more if you can find your own clients.

You can even try to set non “fulltime” hours eg 20-30hrs/week but not all clients will go for that.

Also file your taxes as an s-Corp and start a solo 401k. You can contribute much more than a regular salaried employee could
Building National Electronic Medical Records via the World Wide Web (1996) [pdf]
I basically agree with everything you've said here, but one nitpick:

>In the Bay Area, they at one time had "Sit/Lie" laws prohibiting loitering -- but the locals condemned them as cruel and inhumane. Instead, they advocate that it's ones right to camp in the public park.

The larger issue is that US courts have repeatedly struck down loitering laws, which makes their enforcement impossible. Cities now can't legally restrict people hanging out on their sidewalks, public spaces etc.
He sued the board and investors, not himself...

Don't be silly, common sense applies in China...
Why would that be your first reaction? Why would you assume a 120 V bulb?
There's a very strong anticommunist view in this tech community, combined with libertarianism and neoliberal economic views. If you add nationalism to the mix, it's fuel on the fire.

I don't want to live in an authoritarian society but foaming at the mouth about the CCP is really silly.