skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Texas and Oklahoma openly bus their homeless to L.A. Rick Perry (former governor of Texas) openly bragged about it during his presidential campaign.

An LAT series of articles on homeless populations in Hollywood found that more than 60% of Hollywood's homeless, and more than 80% of the drug-abusing homeless, were not L.A. or even SoCal locals, and had come to L.A. from out-of-state. More than half of the homeless came from the Southwest, with the majority coming from Texas.

Even LAHSA's own survey of the homeless reveals that most of the homeless in L.A. weren't local to L.A. prior to becoming homeless in L.A. (However, because LAHSA's funding is based in part on the number of homeless, they characterize anyone that has been in L.A. for over a year as local, even if that individual has never had an actual residence in L.A. and was homeless upon arrival.)
They're investing their own money to make it famous enough so that in some time it can be turned as a pay per use service. Pretty normal to me.
> I can tell you, you’re doing it wrong.

Yeah, I'm sure.
Cool. Thanks so much!
More than 800M Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand
Why does it need to be boring to be credible? Anything is non-credible if you arbitrarily label it to be "weird ... bullshit". That doesn't make your arguments sound.
Active interventions is one thing, forced detox is another. This involves restricting someone's freedom of movement, subjecting them to a very unpleasant experience, and then dropping them back off in the same community with a massive drug craving and a lower tolerance.

You'd want to see evidence of incredible effectiveness to be willing to engage in something like that, but the evidence just isn't there: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095539591...

> Evidence does not, on the whole, suggest improved outcomes related to compulsory treatment approaches, with some studies suggesting potential harms. Given the potential for human rights abuses within compulsory treatment settings, non-compulsory treatment modalities should be prioritized by policymakers seeking to reduce drug-related harms.

Note that this systematic review looked at compulsory treatment methods besides just detox, but none of the results were that impressive.
As a woodworker, I get what your saying but calling the approach of using older methods as “more honorable” kind of rubs me the wrong way. It’s not like the original builders had a choice of what to use, I would bet they would choose the modern stuff if you could somehow loan them the technology from the future. Using modern tools is not antithetical to craftsmanship, it’s about the care, attention to detail, designs choices, using appropriate materials/fasteners, etc. Not saying they have to change the look at all, but they can make good and faithful reproductions with modern tools that capture the essence of what was lost.
I’m using it on mobile right now, works great. Has all of the same features as desktop.

What is your complaint about mobile?
How does California have 50% of the homeless and 12% of the population?

It doesn't. It has 25 percent of the nation’s homeless. It has 50 percent of the unsheltered homeless -- i.e. people camped outside.

It has so many unsheltered homeless in part because parts of the state are temperate and dry. Much of the time, it's not a hardship to sleep outside in some parts of California.
Yes, because obviously Houston has just as big a problem as SF.
I think the general idea is that the purpose of having networking in the ME is to enable certain features, which are documented to only work with certain Intel NICs. Of course if you are paranoid, you would not trust this to stop a determined attacker.
It reads like your standard west coast liberal eat the rich piece. You need more unbiased economic analysis than that.
Is the joke here that you are conflating Everclear and [shitty] moonshine?
As said, I won't argue with pessimism here, but I think there're equally as many (if not more) causes for optimism ;)
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If the people identified to deal with pandemics, are mere 'historians', then maybe the terms are wrong, or where you studied Epidemiology had a different take on it.

Right from wiki, this sure sounds like Epidemiologist are the ones to make the call.
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Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.

It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidence-based practice by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive healthcare. Epidemiologists help with study design, collection, and statistical analysis of data, amend interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review). Epidemiology has helped develop methodology used in clinical research, public health studies, and, to a lesser extent, basic research in the biological sciences.[1]
"Designing microprocessors is like playing Russian roulette. You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out." (attributed to former DEC CEO Robert Palmer)
Just make your kid identify as hispanic/black/native american and take it easy. This is what more and more people are doing - look at Census data.
> It seems mind boggling that people think everyone deserves a home in SF itself, instead of relocation to, say, a new suburb constructed a couple hours away (where housing is cheaper!).

The problem is that many homeless people would genuinely rather live on the streets or in shelters in the city proper where they have easy access to the things they want, versus having a house provided elsewhere.

They want housing near their preferred begging spots and their dealers, basically.
> Sure but under the guise of "long-term profits" you can justify almost anything.

That's why the metric is discounted future earnings. So that you can't "justify almost anything".
I don't really understand the point you are making. "I'm not arguing for work requirements... But I don't think its insane to require people to work." So, you are in favor of work requirements then?

This article has an extremely click bait headline; it's entirely about one encampment and not at all about what the $17B is being spent on or any other aspect of the homelessness problem.

Nevertheless, one thing pointed out in this article is that some of the homeless do have jobs, so the issue of work requirements is not simple. And I think you need some evidence for your suggestion that anyone is being handed cash and spending 90% of it on drugs.
> In hindsight, no biggy, how dare they made everybody sanitize their hands all the time.

I think you're really underplaying this. If the FDA hadn't suspended the rules about benzene, then fine. No biggy.

But the government literally encouraged people to slather themselves with carcinogens on a hunch that it might help with COVID.

I would even be fine with it if we had proof that hand sanitizer was the most effective way to stop COVID, and then the FDA relaxed the regulations secure in the knowledge that it would save lives.

But COVID is airborne, hand sanitizer does basically nothing to protect against it, and people are going to die from leukemia as a result of all this for no reason.
We developed AITemplate majorly for Meta's focus at that time, eg Ads/Ranking need. For HippoML is startup we are building for Generative AI. HippoML is not using AITemplate.
same there is always something to it
Is lithium even the most problematic raw material the batteries need in high volume?

I thought the actual problematic ingredient was in the anode/cathode, not the electrolyte, Cobalt rings a bell.

Edit:

"Lithium is one of the most common elements in the universe, we've got lithium pretty much everywhere" ... "you could get lithium from sea water" ... "it's called lithium ion but that's like the salt in the salad, do you like salt in your salad? sure, but it's not made of salt" - elon musk on jre #1609
> Now what happens, if we're trying to define behavior?

The cell whose address is three billion greater, mod the size of the address space, now has a value of 20?

> If the semantics aren't a direct translation into CPU opcodes, then it's not machine code.

Just because the semantics are defined that way doesn't necessarily mean you couldn't make another implementation that obeys those semantics. For instance, QEMU can perform optimizations on the code it runs, and invalidate them if the program changes those instructions. The semantics of reading from and writing to memory are unchanged by these optimizations, and the implementation doesn't need to do anything special on read.
I guess the premise is that it is easier to identify AI-generated content, with a low hit rate (?) of correctness, than to identify correct / incorrect answers based on merit alone.

Also StackOverflow is kind of gamified (a rare case of it working IMHO) and the rules of the game don't work so well when kind of good looking content is easy to generate. SE answers are hard to verify but easy to write. If writing becomes too easy, it is a recipe for spam - as has indeed happened.
I am building something very similar actually. Would it be possible to connect with you sometime?
I agree: the word “owe” is a problem here. The thrust of the article is that the tax structure has historically charged a lower rate of tax on the wealthy than the poor. By definition that means the wealthy could pay exactly what they owed without paying a reasonable share, and now with this change they owe more which makes it more fair.

But saying people didn’t pay what they owed and also calling them tax-dodgers implies they are criminals, which is likely incorrect for most of them and an unhelpful misdirection. If obeying the law isn’t “good enough” the fault is with the law, not the citizens.
We haven't compared yet.
There are a lot of different ways of building 'enough' housing:

https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-...

Everyone has different preferences and ideas there, but the shortage is so, so damaging right now in so many ways.
Thanks. After reading this drivel I can ignore anything from this domain forever.
I’m banned so I don’t know if anyone will see this, but I wanted to share more details on this capital gains tax. In Washington, income taxes are different based on income levels are unconstitutional. So you cannot have a capital gains tax that only applies to income levels above some threshold, like this one is. To get around that, Washington’s Democratic legislators started claiming that capital gains tax is an excise tax rather than an income tax, and therefore no longer subject to the constraints of the state’s constitution.

In every state and the federal level, capital gains are a form of income tax. This includes Washington state, where the department of revenue explicitly classified it as such in line with the common definition of this tax. However, the state’s Supreme Court has become highly activist over time, due to a long history of WA being a one-party blue state. And in one of the lawsuits against this unconstitutional tax, the state Supreme Court surprisingly agreed with the legislators in redefining capital gains tax as an excise tax instead of an income tax (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-suprem...).

This tax is now being collected for the first time, and it is much larger in its collections than expected. Most of the money will go to K-12 schools, which is strange because school funding in WA has more than doubled in the last 10 years with little to show for it (see https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/states-...). Also, although school funding follows the student typically - meaning reduced enrollment at a public school leads to reduced funding - the first $500m of this tax will only go to public schools.

I expect this tax will see its thresholds reduced over time. Its initial proposal was to apply to any capital gains over $25K, not $250K. It was changed to the higher limit to give it a better chance of passing and sticking. But with the state Supreme Court redefining words and setting this precedent, the legislature is free to change the tax threshold and rate in the future.
Especially that Bard was recently updated explicitly to support helping with coding tasks. https://blog.google/technology/ai/code-with-bard/amp/
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Human flight was science fiction before Bernoulli. See: Icarus, Abbas ibn Firnas, Leonardo da Vinci.
Melodysheep in general is just amazing, both for the Symphony of Science remixes (and film/TV ones) and the more recent science-y videos.

The Museum of Alien Life is stunning and reminds me of a sci-fi Encarta MindMaze.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ThDYazipjSI
Given the interoperability with C++ headers and templates, I'd expect that EVE or Highway should just work. I wonder if Cake macros could even express SPMD.
“Our problems are worse than ever, better stay the course!”
Sounds like you also have a 'loose' interpretation of a 'cold'.
Not really disqualified. 3-0. And sometimes it matters a lot whether it's 3-0 or 2-0.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/08/celtic-rein...
Look if you have zero earned rep that's fine too, you're just starting from zero.
There is warehouse in Seattle with Amazon Fire Phones :).
This must be why I've known several people who emigrated out of Canada before having a liquidity event.
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Are you saying “clearly not a unique occurrence” in regard to accidental, or arson?

I’m surprised at the 25% arson rate, that is considerably higher than I would have guessed, and when combined with the strange response as OP was pointing out, and the fact that there’s not a large subset of “No cause determined,” it would seem to tip the scale pretty strongly to arson being the most probable cause in this case.
It’s a warm climate with large cities which provide sufficient incentive for people to choose to be homeless over other avenues of living

Homeless people obviously want to live somewhere like Cali over Canada for the winter. California also provides massive welfare to homeless. They also have a very open arms policy to illegals who are often poor and homeless

These aren’t exhaustive reasons why, but it’s a core part of it. California politicians seem to be unwilling to address complicated social problems head on and instead virtue signal and allow these problems to grow and fester

I’m not going to provide you with sources. It’s too politicized of a subject. If you don’t want to accept it for being this way i’ve learned not to argue. But at the very least if people really can’t see why this problem exists as it does, here an entry
> capital gains tax rate is 50%

That makes it sound like you pay half of capital gains in taxes, but I think what you mean is that 50% of capital gains is taxable, and that this portion is taxed at the same rate as other personal income. Personally I think 100% of capital gains should be taxable at the marginal income tax rate.
The wealthy should pay more tax, and the government should also learn to spend the money more effectively.

The whole bit about most voters wanting the ultra rich to pay more tax is hilarious. Of course they do.

If you believe the government is more effective than the people in spending your money you should want tax increased for everyone. If not you should want it lowered. Simple as that. Hand wringing about whose money is taxed is irrelevant.

Suppose you believe the government is not good at spending your money. Let’s say half of every dollar is wasted. Why would you want rich people to be taxed more?

Suppose you believe the government is better at spending your money such that the economics of scale give the government an additional fifty cents for every dollar in value in the form of social services. Why would you lower taxes for poor people? Definitionally they would be better off paying more in taxes and then receiving whatever benefit the government then produces for them.

The status quo is the worst of all the worlds because rich people effectively pay less tax than the middle class, and the government is wasting much of our money.
Similar to what I've seen in HI. I imagine there would be more in HI if it didn't cost an expensive plane ticket.
The Dept. of Homeless Services doesn't track this?

Previous discussions on HN suggest that the official stats are misleading and, for example, will count one as "local" if their last official street address was time in a local prison.
Good point, it was the 13inch of course, thanks, will update!
“Owe” is an important word meaning a legal obligation. If the law says you owe nothing then you owe nothing. That doesn’t mean the law is just! It means we need to fix the law.
People can be wrong without lying.
tangent, does the collagen production work and produce healthy skin for you?
I'm with ya. My point is that his metaphor illustrates how even a helpful for the problem solution might not be helpful given the stipulations he's putting on the help.
Then incarceration in mental institutions and long term drug rehab facilities seems like the only answer.
I don't care anymore. Bus them out to the desert. Set up camp there. Provide food and busses into town for those with interviews and jobs. I really don't care, just get them out of the damn cities. I've seen too many people shit in the bushes or just peeing up against a building. Building tent cities on the beach and enjoyable areas, etc. I. Don't. Care. Get rid of them. I left California for this reason and housing costs.
Its also not difficult to understand that

"7% over $250,000" is just as arbitrary as 1% or 15% or 37.9%

and that this arbitrariness and vagueness is the crux of the fair share rhetoric. it has no base unit, it has no understanding of the existing tax environment, it has no ability to comprehend anything except an exemption from questioning why we are being screwed at all, only requesting that we are all being screwed equally, which is not a goal remotely supported by any form of consensus in legislatures.
I played some text-based adventure game which also had graphics.

I wish I could remember what it was. It was cool for the early 90's, sort of fantasy-horror haunted house kind of game.

I recall finding a bug on a replay of the game, where I accidentally typed a command one room early in the house, and it immediately went to the end game screen. Apparently the bug was that at any time you could basically type something like, "Open the last door" and you would immediately finish the game.

That's got to be the fastest speedrun I've seen, just by virtue that the game intro was a lot shorter than Monkey Island.
Might I suggest the LMN-3 - soup to nuts the most positive project I see and gaining traction and affordability: https://youtu.be/h5UmPTttN1s
> You gotta dig into supplement 1 to find the treatment: "[...] Light source output power: 2.0mW±0.5mW; At a distance of 100mm: 1.07-1.42mw"

Elsewhere it said class 2, which would be < 1 mW. A laser pointer.

> I use red and NIR for collagen boosting on the skin but had until now been too afraid to directly expose my closed eyelids w/o protective goggles as I noticed light spots (I use a close-up helmet). Taking the leap of faith and using light therapy to the point that I have light spots for a few minutes after treatment as described in the study is a leap of faith that I'm afraid may be beyond me.

That's a lot more power. I would avoid anything outside of the visible range and lasers with too much power. For those natural self protection mechanism probably only kicks in when its too late.
Not sure on speeduino, but for Megasquirt, you would start with a best guess fuel map based on engine displacement. These are data that can be shared around.

Then, to tune precisely to the engine, you datalog the oxygen sensor or fuel ratio sensor in closed-loop and process that data to refine the fuel map.

I'm harking back to Megasquirt 1 here so things might be a little different now.
The parent seems to be saying that they are not sure whether work requirements are necessary for a support program to succeed, but that the requirements do not appear to be unreasonable or obviously counter-productive.
It's because the Washington state constitution prohibits a state income tax. The state Supreme Court somehow found a way to interpret the capital gains tax as an excise tax rather than an income tax.
Platformatic Composition
If it is caused by other states, that would indicate the problem is not uniquely California related, making the likely necessary solutions to be federal.

If it is not caused by other states, that would indicate that the problem is something happening in California, and maybe a state level solution is best.

You have to start the solution in the right place to have any hope of addressing the root cause.
I'm still sour about the ending of Return. Come on Ron, release the real ending!
Yep. I was also astonished at that figure and immediately looked it up, and what you describe matches what I found.
The 'hindsight' does come into play. At the beginning of quarantine, they still didn't know what was happening, some countries were having 10% mortality, people were dying, bodies were stacking up. But, oh, so sorry we jumped the gun, next time we'll let it rampage before doing anything.
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