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That has been tried before. We stopped doing it because of how horrible it was. The homeless are better off than in the institutions of old.

I don't know if modern institutions could be better. However we know they failed in the past. If you want to propose them again, you need to provide some proof that they new ones will be better than the old.
At some point you put up a fence, either around the drowning pond or around the jumper.
I am in awe that someone even thought to try this, let alone pull it off.
So... sounds like this artist statement on the distinction between the natural and the engineered has caused you to think about yourself, which is kind of the point?
Didn't mention Bard, but OpenAI will never be available in my country(Egypt). Bard is available tho.
SF isn’t a tropical paradise, but temperature extremes that cause death aren’t very common.
Agreed! I also recommend Grokking Algorithms for a friendly overview. There are also some great topic-specific books, such as Who's #1? and In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman.
I used to live in Nanaimo as a kid (Go McGirr!). The city's economy was royally fucked in the 2000s. There were no jobs other than Provincial services like VIHA or the one paper mill that I think ended up shutting down. Hells Angels were also always a thing back there, and there was a reservation nearby which had some persistent social issues. I still have family there who ended up making a killing in construction thanks to Chinese money and idk if Nanimo will ever get better.
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There's a compelling argument [0] that the biggest driver of homelessness is a shortage of housing. Mental illness and addiction can lead to homelessness, but homelessness can also lead to mental illness and addition. There are lots of places suffering severely from the fentanyl crisis, but where homelessness is less of a problem.

The solution may be simple, but it's not easy. (And it's not the entire solution either) Building large quantities of housing is a difficult problem, especially in California.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/homeles...
That's not a corner being cut. I said it's being targeted at mass-market cheap EVs. It's just market differentiation. People who don't want to pay for "long range" EVs get cheaper batteries; what's wrong with that?
> Why not?

At this point the conversation has completely converged so I'm only going to reply over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36169808
Been seeing press releases, like this article, for this tech over awhile now. I'm now in a "start selling it or it didn't happen" phase of attention to it.
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Isn't this just as true of income taxes? They rely on accurate self-reporting, and there are legal remedies when inaccurate self-reporting is discovered. We could have people self-declare their wealth to the IRS annually on tax day.
I'm _not_ saying give them the money directly.

> Without being presumptive, it irks me to see internet experts barge it with their own theories and expertise, rather than the people who have studied and dedicated themselves for decades.

I will also defer to experts who do not have a financial stake in the game. My understanding is that "housing first" has a lot of expert proponents. My frustration is that even when housing can be acquired for less than the cost of clearly inferior services (again, $5k/mo per tent in SF parking-lot safe sleeping sites), we refuse to do it. I have not heard any expert on homelessness argue that safe sleeping sites were a "good" solution. I do know that we paid a lot for them.
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Lol... it was known extremely early on that fomite transmission was practically unheard of. People were hand sanitizing for years after this. God knows why. The FDA still hasn't even declared hand sanitizer safe to use by the way.
Yes they exist, with laughably meager budgets compared to “mainstream” games.

I’ll concede animal crossing is a good exception to the rule, but this only serves to prove our original point that there’s room for AAA-grade games in this market segment.
if you have any kind of size to a team your going to have to coordinate. If your releasing to production you can't break things or change things without communicating to your customers.

batching those things up seems like way to minimize context switching type activities.
A period of time where everyone was required to isolate indoors, and cover half their face outdoors really gave me an edge against my tall, fit and extroverted peers, and got me 3 accelerated promotions. Really cut their advantages down.
We're already there with tablets (Surface, iPad) with attached keyboards. Personally, I prefer the bulk and weight of the device to be on the table, not propped up, but some folks love this configuration.
This is incorrect, income taxes are perfectly legal in Washington. However, the state constitution requires them to be flat. The desire to selectively target political out-groups with punitive income taxes has made this problematic in that state.

Several states in the US, both blue and red, have flat income taxes. Washington can easily and legally implement one too, the lack of an income tax is a political choice by the Democrats. Another important aspect is that an overwhelming majority of the people in Washington -- a very blue state -- don't trust the State government with unfettered access to income tax revenue because of how poorly existing tax revenue has been managed. Washington tax revenues are not low compared to other states.
I understand what the ME at a very vague level, but I'm confused about how it works. How would someone interact with the ME? Is it just listening on my network interfaces? Would someone need to run code from my OS? Does it matter what OS I'm using?
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I just learned I am in the 99.9th percentile of the population from the article (I’m also 150), and I’m living proof that IQ doesn’t automatically bring success after success at all. You can totally waste your life away in HN and internet. I’m resolving to not visit HN ever again right now.
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The reporter did exactly what their job is and it is not to figure out reality from competing sources of truth.
More details: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...
As others have pointed out, the problem has many sources. Other states/cities busing their homeless to California has historically been at least a minor contributor. California won a suit against the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, for specifically the practice of closing a psychiatric hospital, placing its freshly unhoused patients on Greyhound buses to Sacramento or San Francisco with one-way tickets, and giving the patients instructions to "call 911" when they arrive. [1]. 24 persons were documented and cared for by San Francisco specifically, but allegedly Nevada's largest mental health hospital did this with approximately 500 people.

1 - https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Nevada-reach-tent...
Seems reasonable? An excise is for a "manufactured good" (stocks) rather than direct "money" (income)
It's been almost two years since I've started regularly going places in a 'lib' town, and I've yet to see any of the thousands of maskless people around me get harassed.

Just because there's like five videos of it happening back in 2021 on r/publicfreakouts doesn't mean it's a normal occurrence.
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Good luck getting the federal government to do anything to help a coastal state that isn't already covered by the executive branch.
iMazing supports same kind of scanning based on open source Mobile Verification Toolkit. Plus overall better backup management for iOS and iPadOS compared to iTunes even on free tier

https://imazing.com/guides/detect-pegasus-and-other-spyware-...
I found this chart[1] and I do wonder how Oregon and Washington have such a high unsheltered population; I'm not familiar with the PNW, are parts of the states mild? The rest of that chart is pretty much in line with how I perceive winters to be.

1: https://www.thecentersquare.com/florida/article_67aeebc1-e7b...
If you build a cell from only eukaryote DNA instructions, it won't have any mitochondria and be unable to copy itself.
Important to remember that every one of us are just a few accidents away from being ejected from society too. I try to catch myself when I'm looking down my nose at the bum who make a mess of my recycling because there is another richer person looking down their nose at me!
I don't think this kind of thing is bad anyway. First of all it was a simulation. This is why we test things, to find errors and fix them. I mean, if you build an automated thing meant to kill people then a lot of failure scenarios are going to involve killing the wrong people. It's just the nature of the game.

And the drone operator is at least a military target :) only the IFF logic needs some work. It'd be worse if the thing went all skynet and started killing all the (virtual) civilians it could find.

(Now having a mental image of a bunch of generals slowly backing away from a computer screen and looking to find the power plug to pull lol)

But this retraction sounds very political to me. The way politicians suddenly 'misspoke' after they get caught out on a lie.
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> Do we have any evidence that users confirm the answers?

No.

> In general the conformation is in the end users following up and saying this works/doesn't work.

I guess.

The point is there's a limit to the trustworthiness of the results and if I'm going there to fix a problem, the success rate I'm looking for is 100%, especially if it's said as confidently and verbosely as these AIs seem to be
And it wont work until California can stop what is called 'The Greyhound Express'. That's what some people in other states call the practice that some states have - offering their homeless a one way ticket to California or jail. They export their problem to California, and they criticize California for it.
There is a pretty big range of solutions between shanty towns and concentration camps in the desert. When you become homeless you are effectively excluded from polite society and it is pretty hard to climb out of. You have states and municipalities trying to tinker at the edges but as many other people have pointed out, with freedom of movement the localities that are completely disinterested at solving the any of the causes will just move their problems onto those that do. How would you like it if you were forcibly bussed out into a desert concentration camp, away from your support networks and people you know? How much would you care about polite society if you fell into the hole and now everyone just comes and spits on your face like this a little more each day?
Perhaps the key isn't to focus on specific languages, libraries, or frameworks, but on what you're building and the problems you're solving. You can learn this as you learn new tools, but the key is to keep your eyes and ears open to these details as you go.

> For new kids its easy, you just pick up the latest thing

I think it's actually hard for them because they don't really understand what the new thing is, why it is, what it does, etc. Sure they can learn the ropes quickly because so many modern tools have such ergonomic development experience, but they don't actually know what's under the hood beyond lots of code.

That touches on an important thing to learn, which is the "why". New developers often understand the why of things — from languages, to tools, to features, to entire applications — in a very limited and superficial way. It doesn't often change much, though. You can see underlying patterns and conventions that have spanned decades in various forms, even in newer tools like React. And really, React is dramatically easier to learn once you understand what it's doing and why. You'll fight with it less because you know what does or doesn't make sense to do. For example, you won't try to couple imperative code with components, because you know declarative conventions make much more sense. You won't litter props with inline functions, because you know the function references will never be the same and reconciliation will never be ideal. These lessons will come with you, because the code driving all of this uses common, fundamental, truly useful patterns you'll encounter elsewhere.

The more you can learn why things are the way they are and how things work, the more you'll see that these underlying reasons have significant staying power. Understanding this stuff even makes it a lot easier to adopt newer technologies; you can anticipate how you're supposed to utilize it, and why.
> If I were a dictator that ruled with an iron fist, I'd mandate that all software be developed on underpowered devices, then released on fast ones.

Agreed! I wish there were widespread ways of throttling CPU and memory given to desktop applications today. If I'm testing a web application, I tell Firefox to throttle my network down to GPRS and see the responsiveness (or lack thereof) and once my work is done and GPRS is reasonably fast (or whatever) I can give a quick glance at normal 4G speeds and see my web app screams now.

So why can't I lock a desktop application to settings like "an unused 386 PC with 24MB of RAM"?
Neat scenery, but seems incapable of much specificity.
I would find Paint to be much less useful if it had advanced features in it. That it is fairly basic is a strength for a lot of uses (most of the uses I put it to).

Much like how there are often times when a very basic text editor like Notepad is much better than one with lots of bells and whistles.
By "Rust-like enums", I mean "sum types" or "algebraic data types". In general, it's a way of saying that a piece of data can have one of several different types/shapes (whereas a Postgres enum is basically just a label backed by an int). But yeah, with jsonschema you can probably express sum types, but jsonschema is disappointing for a bunch of reasons and needing an extension is also not great.
Add to that California's very high cost of living and tight/expensive housing market which making it very easy to fall from employment and housing to homelessness, coupled with the country-wide massive drop in home ownership, skyrocketing housing costs, near total stagnation of wages for lower classes, and unprecedented concentration of wealth.

I don't know why anyone is shocked that the US homeless population is skyrocketing. The powers that be seem hellbent on solidifying a peasant class.

Right now the housing market is being snapped up at lightning pace by corporations; it may not be long before it's nearly impossible to own a house outright that your family doesn't already own, but even keeping a house within a family might soon be very difficult as well....with the only option being to rent from a giant housing corporation.

And everyone thinks HOAs are bad...just wait.
That’s what we get for living in a giant explosion. Who thought this was a good idea?
> It would be part of HRT for menopause

I was fixating on semantics but it's not the point.

Not my area but for what it's worth UpToDate (KA Martin, RL Barbieri, JL Shifren @ MassGen Brigham) address it in expert opinion form:

> We do not suggest the routine use of androgen [testosterone] therapy for postmenopausal women. Levels of endogenous androgens do not predict sexual function for women; however, androgen therapy that increases serum concentrations to the upper limit or above the limit of normal for postmenopausal women has been shown to improve female sexual function in selected populations.

The linked out sexual dysfunction article (JL Shifren):

> In our practice, we rarely use testosterone, but will prescribe it when greatly desired by a peri- or postmenopausal patient with low libido associated with distress who has no contraindications to testosterone therapy or identifiable etiology for sexual dysfunction and is otherwise physically and psychologically healthy. Typically, the patient has already tried other safer interventions prior to the testosterone prescription, including low-dose vaginal estrogen, relationship interventions (eg, sex therapy, date nights, use of sexual aids such as vibrators, books), and adjustment of antidepressant medication (when indicated) [12]. At least one visit with a sex therapist is strongly advised prior to pharmacologic treatment, as this safe and effective intervention may make pharmacologic therapy unnecessary or enhance the response to treatment. Testosterone levels should not be used in determining the etiology of a sexual problem or in assessing efficacy of treatment, as no clear association between androgen levels and sexual function has been found in several large, well-designed studies.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038635
I don't entirely follow, because the Prisma client is static code generated from your database schema. There's nothing dynamic about it, unless you're referring to generics?
I'm curious why that is called "rendering" rather than "compiling". Is the code boiler plate and just a change in the NN's representation?
It's a lot of money but there's also a lot of people and a lot of costs in order to build.

Setting aside that you can have both vacant residential properties and homelessness, let's say the government decides to just build a bunch of units and force people to live in them:

Where do you put them?

For lots of the cities in CA you'd be looking at a million bucks or more for the lots of land alone in order to build like 4+ or 6+ multi-unit buildings. But let's be generous and call it a million (some property is already controlled by cities and such, after all).

So you're gonna have to settle for less than 17,000 buildings, since that's the land cost alone for 17B.

But ok, 115,000 unsheltered homeless in California, you can build denser. Too dense of just bottom-of-the-economic-ladder housing is going to lead to a lot of problems though, look at the history of housing projects. Let's do a 20 person per building one to try to get the costs down: 5750 buildings. Applying that same "million dollar lot" means we're at 5.75B for the land, now we need to construct 5750 buildings for 11.25B, about 2 million for construction per project... that's gonna be tough without getting more contractors into the market and driving down the costs of construction too in those cities. Cause otherwise having a bunch of new construction projects is gonna drive up the cost of construction, not down, unless you expand the supply.

And the more you try to push the density the more opposition you run into from both people who live and work nearby the sites and advocates wanting better housing. The latter is a problem IMO but it's not like getting rid of it would make the former go away immediately.

And you still need a large agency of operations around trying to find people in those units jobs so that you can get them out of the units before other people need them, etc.

Hell, why not just give about 100K to each of the unsheltered and spend the rest on relocation assistance to cheaper parts of the country? Sure, you could just try to bus people to cheaper areas without this, but that's gonna result in some deaths to do worse weather, fewer local resources and people to live off of, etc, so... it's unclear to me that even the cities in red states that love to make fun of CA homelessness would pull the trigger at that scale if they actually had to. There are a lot of problems they don't have to face because they don't have the scale of demand for land or the hospitable climate.
Nothing new. AI is a big data harvesting tool and this will only accelerate. Anything you input goes towards making it better, but I wouldn't exclude the possibility of this data being used for other purposes. No wonder big companies start to ban the use of third-party AI systems at work.
I'm reminded how literally within an hour of the fire breaking out, the news was telling us all _very clearly_ that it was an accident - a fact that they clearly could not possibly have known at that time given the flames were still rising and no investigation could possibly have been done.
Publishing something doesn't mean you disclaim copyright over it.
Does selecting the "Germany (remote)" filter here address your use case?
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So, am I re-reading your post correctly. That since we dealt with dozens of pandemics, we should what? Do nothing? or Wait to 'figure out which people' get sick, then react? But wouldn't people then already be getting sick and thus already too late to quarantine? This whole line of reasoning is based on 'hindsight', you're fantasizing about past decisions with current knowledge.
Serious answer: there is no need to be fully transparent. The majority of voters don't vote that way.
absolutely, if you trust and love each other then this is just a formality for the reasons you stated, generally speaking. If not, it's an escape hatch from financial ruin.
Even if you do get audits they'll have the $100.000 hammers to make things invisible. I think true knowledge of their expenditure is never going to happen.
It really depends on if it’s an actual service dog or one of the emotional support animals.
There is an episode of the "you're wrong about" podcast, that discusses homelessness. In that episode there are several discussion about several projects in California around homelessness. Those projects provided housing. The studies based on those projects showed that overall the cost was less that not having some housing and services. The podcast goes into more details, but as I remember this was because

* It removes much of the medical and police cost

* If people who are struggling don't have a roof over their head, it makes it incredibly hard for them to get a job. Having some stability meant that many could pick them selves up and get a job and so forth.

The end of the episode points out even though the programs were a success by most metrics - including being cheaper overall to tax payers - they were shut down.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/youre-wrong-about/id13...

Here's the one on homelessness

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/homelessness/id1380008...

Theres a good one about the "wellfare queen" that is related and rather eye opening

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ronald-reagan-and-the-...
I would consider that similar to a `inline constexpr` variable rather than a `constinit` variable. A `constinit` variable calls a constexpr constructor, but doesn't produce a constant.

EDIT: Oh, I think I see how it's like `constinit`. If you have a non-`comptime` variable that is initialized by a `comptime` function, then it's a non-constant constant-initialized variable.
Prince George as non-failing? Have you been there? I've never seen so many zombified homeless junkies wandering aimlessly than I have in Prince George. Not in Vancouver, San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle. Not in any other city. Prince George is horrific. Honestly the worst town or city I've ever had the displeasure of visiting. All of the 'normal' people inside businesses had thousand yard stares, shell shocked, and asked why I would even visit their town.