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What hasn't been established and what I think is a fair question, is whether this could ever practically roll out while simultaneously shutting down the existing welfare/disability/etc systems. As others have mentioned if it doesn't work people (see: vested political interests) will want a way to roll it back.

So in almost any practical case they will have to be running at the same time and will never truly be a net-neutral fiscal operation (assuming this is the outcome in practice) for at least the first 1-3+yrs.

Adopting UBI means increasing taxes, period. Even under ideal situations where the fiscal and productivity gains of replacing the current overly selective and bureaucratic processes, which significantly favours full-employment or zero-employment/disabilities in a black and white way with nothing in between - as opposed to the broader spectrum that markets can support when monthly deposits are not limited (including self-employed, disability, welfare, [un]employment income, etc) via far more efficient distributions systems replacing top-heavy systems, start to really take effect.

The whole "we'll just tax the 1%" hand-wavy stuff is not a good enough answer here. The amount of times that excuse has been used during political campaigns without congress doing anything significantly different is enough to be skeptical. As it then is no longer just UBI but UBI + significant tax code changes.

I personally don't think some trial runs in small parts of Canada or towns in individual states will be enough to prove much of anything. Especially given the vast amount of disparate systems these UBI systems would currently encompass across both federal/state governments in a big spectrum of economic/political environments across a large geographic area - which can't realistically be tested without it being a truly national affair. Of course federalism was designed exactly for this type of problem (individual states experimenting with policies so the cycle of progress is not forever limited to a long series of impractical all or nothing proposals across of bunch of states who disagree with each other) but the US has long ago sacrificed states government power for top heavy federal/executive run systems and this is the reality in which UBI must operate within.
Which this can also have. One concrete action could contribute to two intermediate goals which in turn could both contribute to one parent high-level goal (giving a diamond).
Probably not, the other 25-50% get symptoms of which 80% are mild and 20% severe.
Except these are people taking care of your kids during the day, it isn’t that simple.
Given the dynamic nature of this situation, maybe this needs a [Feb 18th] tag.
It took Bill a long time to get there too. But it's the same for any billionaire. They can't possibly spend their money, neither can their children or grandchildren so the only thing you can do with it is give it away. Be that to charity, good works, monuments to yourself (art museums, university buildings) or politicians and think-tanks in an attempt to bend the world to your will.

The money is just one scoreboard among billionaires and not great one. Murdoch would be far more self-impressed with his power he weilds through media than someone with an additionall couple of hundred million.

Gates is more interested in being the great philanthropist. It seems his scoreboard is how much positive effect on the world he can have. It sounds ideal and I don't like to be cynical about it.

Koch Brother(s), Soros also can't spend their money on more houses, cars and private jets. More money is only useful to get more power. Do you like the way either or both weild it? Do you think they should have a bigger say than you purely by virtue of cash rather than making a convincing case?
Making use of idle cores.
What about when my tasks are cyclic?

1. can’t get up because haven’t eaten and too hungry

2. can’t cook because can’t get up

3. can’t eat because can’t cook

Didn’t think of that did ya buddy! Day 2 of quarantine is going very well.
Yes, companies issued bonds to finance their buy backs. Best example is Boeing, which spent $58B in buy backs to parabolically pump its stock to $420.

Today, Boeing lost its credit ratings, and is begging Washington for bailouts. Zero interest rates don't help much.
> You have the attention of the whole country; rally them into making changes that can affect longer term gains.

That’s not how politics works. You can’t abuse a crisis to ram something unrelated down the opposing party’s throat. You end up alienating everyone including the moderates.

This never works with even something as simple as a government shutdown over budget considerations.
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Tulsi is going on Fox to complain about not being allowed in the debates despite having ~0 support. She is not a good-faith actor, and blacklisting her is entirely appropriate.
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Ask HN: How do you decide science or pseudo science?
A bunch of friends were debating about Allopathy vs. Homeopathy. There were for and against each. In the end I was left with these questions.
1. How do you decide something is scientific?
2. Who should decide it ? Are there guardians of Science ?
3. if every theory is wrong until proven right and vice-versa then how can science be in any way effective for theories that are not currently worked on to prove them ?
4. Who and How is it decided that something is science or pseudo science?
"But, like CFR, we don’t know how high the rates are if we have no idea how many people have or had it."

While it's true that the hospitalization / ICU / mortality rates may be lower because we don't know the full number of cases, it still seems to be an immediate and acute problem.

Regardless of the rates, the absolute number of people being hospitalized in Italy was enough over overrun their healthcare system. The same situation looks to be on track in many European countries (Spain, France, UK).

So, the worst-case scenario may be less bad than predicted (let's certainly hope this is the case!), the number of case's we're identifying and having to deal with is still dangerously high.
Whatever they are, they’re high enough to be causing major problems for hospital systems in places like Italy. They seem high enough that many countries desperately need to slow the spread of the virus or they will face dire consequences.
Mass stupidity. There is no epidemic in the area. Don't care what you say, there is a problem in Italy, and other places but not here. It simply isn't here on a scale that requires stopping everything. It is pure fear. What has happened is that fear itself has gone viral. It is only the fear that is worth fearing.
This actually sounds great. Why not basically have war economy for this, esp given how many people are becoming jobless - forcing a dramatic capacity increase could be a significant Keynesian stimulus.
Does the DAG use k8 as an orchestrator? /s
That report was from summer 2009, so it was written during the outbreak. Note the early CFR from WHO was 0.4% for the US and over 1% for Mexico.

Later in the year it was found to be <0.03%.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8406723.stm
Example of a Shakti-powered spreadsheet application [video]
Ask HN: Resources for Systems Programming in Lisp
When I read about history of computers, I see a lot of Lisp based systems and programming environments that were essentially complete operating systems and development environments built on lisp.

Unrelated to lisp but equally intriguing is smalltalk-80 systems were essentially similar complete operating systems written in smalltalk.

Are there any modern resources where systems programming is explored in such high level programming environments?

Are there any modern computer designs based on the constructs of these languages (example a computer architecture based on maybe cons cells, and can be directly programmed in Lisp, or the elements of computation abstracted as objects, which communicate through message passing)

I wish to explore that side of computing and it seems to be very hard to find reading and physical resources to get set up.

I have read the elements of computing, PAIP part 1 and currently reading the Anatomy of Lisp. I also plan to read Lisp in Small Pieces. Having said that, these books do not seem to exactly have what I am looking for, as excellent reads as they are!

Some links are welcome!
That's exactly what i said. Some guys will just lose their money. It no way means that airlines that went bankrupt will be physically destroyed: no one will scrap the planes or machine-gun the pilots. They will all be flying again the day the demand rebounds and COVID restrictions lifted, just under new legal entities.
So why do we keep accepting these conditions?
you don’t explain why. i think the opposite. that it should only work as a replacement. part of the draw is it’s more efficient than existing programs
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Hmm why not sell everything and hold cash if you just want to keep everything at 0?

You're just paying fees for no reason. Is it just some tax trick to keep long term capital gains for the index funds? (does it even work like that?)
With what new revenue? Are you also proposing a new tax burden for a recently slammed economy? That’s gonna be a hard sell.
Great. This is then one success story among many stories of failure to understand the scientific literature. Even now there is another story on the front page of HN where armchair epidemiologists are proclaiming in the comment section that this is no worse than H1N1. This shit is exhausting.
H1N1 was not the same, at least. And SARS wasn't pandemic
Amazon is profiting off a global health crisis. How could one not be cynical?
This drug accumulates in various tissues, so for retinopathy what matters is the cumulative amount of the drug consumed over time.
Thanks Dan. I guess the dupe filter did not catch it because it was a while ago.
I'm not sure if you're quoting something or paraphrasing a position you disagree with.

If it's a paraphrase, I'm not so sure it's a fair one.

In the United States, for example, we are urging people not to be tested unless they have severe symptoms. The reason for that is not to save money, but it's for a lack of testing capacity. As a policy we would much prefer to be testing even the mild suspected cases. But we don't (currently) have the testing capacity to do so.

So I think the lack of testing of mild cases (at least in the United States, and I suspect in other countries) is more a reflection of our rationing priorities than it is a reflection of our spending priorities.

If the testing capacity becomes unconstrained and we (or other countries) still fail to test mild cases.
Clarissa Dickson Wright suffered from organ damage caused by too much quinine, from the copious G&T she drank.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/10...
The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains [pdf]
A case report of non-severe Covid-19
Characterisation of immune response to non-severe COVID-19.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0819-2
My mistake, I didn't realise chloroquine was a malaria prophylactic (I've always been given other anti-malarials), I thought it was only a treatment for when you were actually diagnosed with malaria.
are you seriously arguing that heavily taxing insanely wealthy people is unethical? i mean, we're literally living in a moment in which public school closures means many kids don't have reliable access to food anymore. there are plenty of other examples in which people are seriously struggling. and somehow taxing the wealthy is unethical. the fact that you bifurcate people into the "haves" and "have nots" speaks volumes.

and of course UBI is literally wealth distribution. what would you consider public schools, roads, infrastructure, and other things paid with taxes?
Getting a robot to fully path cover a surface by a random walk type algorithm is surprizingly difficult. One of the nuances most simulators do not fully grasp is that there are path rectifiers that emerge from physical interactions. Examples are collisions with walls where even though the robot comes in at a range of different angles, due to momentum and friction variance is lost and it leaves in a more narrow set of angles. Another example is grooved surfaces such as you find on wooden or tiled floors where slight angles to the groove are passively adjusted to the groove.

I worked extensively on small robotic vehicles in the 80's and 90's. My undergrad thesis was on a robotic simulator.
That is a bad metric. The death rate could be really bad yet the overall death rate would still not change very much.
Watch “What pisses me off about proposed airline bailouts.” on Rossman Group
I'd pick them over the Chinese propaganda Vox is pushing.

The propaganda doesn't even disprove that the virus was created in the lab. It emphasizes the mere possibility of the virus being fully natural, it pretends that we could reliably recognize a modified virus, and it engages in argumentum ad hominem.

I listed an article from the ASM's Journal of Virology, and another from Nature. Both are well-respected, proving that the lab was indeed making these viruses. It is 100% reasonable, given the location of the outbreak, to assume that something escaped the lab.

Other explanations are unreasonable.

If there were a sudden outbreak of smallpox next to the CDC lab in Atlanta, we wouldn't just shrug it off as a natural occurrence.
I posted this a week ago. I guess a week is a long time in politics...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22523530
I was looking at the temp and humidity of cities effected and most were in the under 20C 50% humidity band. Maybe sunny weather makes a diff given the vitamin D connection.
As someone who has met Armon, I second this.
What you need to know about DDoS weapons today
I did, but podman with --rootfs is nicer IMO.
Any chance you could link to those models? I searched around and couldn't find them.
What are your best Remote Work tips?
Some news services have referred to asymptotic spread but it's just hyperbole.
That’s not an entirely fair assessment given that most people dying from Covid-19 have other serious health issues.

It’d be interesting to see how many healthy 80+ year olds have died.
Show HN: Corona Panel – Covid19 Maps, Graphs, Info in One Place
Strategy change: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/new-data-new-p...
That would be bad news for UK and could be good news for India, Indonesia, and some African and South American countries
Singapore is the model for how to handle the coronavirus
Nooo, not the cinemas! /s
Luckily we are born with "judgment" for all these cases were instincts or rewards do not point in the right direction. According to some, that's literally the reason d'etre of consciousness.
I wish it worked better and I were not confined home right now.
I would suggest having a sensible DAG example in your flows on your homepage. Right now, you are not showing off your USP.
Sure, that's a fine argument to make. But the article says "I expect AES to outperform ChaCha20 in every single scenario", even when the very next sentence talks about a scenario where that's not true.
> So why do we keep accepting these conditions?

Probably because the negative repercussions of that behavior are typically not very severe.
> How do you decide something is scientific?

Science is a method of making a claim, testing it with vivid experiments, testing it more, recording observations, wait for other people to test the claim with their own experiments, and if the tests happen to agree with the claims, it becomes a consensus.

You can participate in the scientific verification of a claim by

1) By testing it yourself using proper scientific method and proper lab equipment. President requisite is education.

2) If you can't afford that, then wait for scientific community to test that. If there is a consensus of statistical certainty from the various scientific institutions you trust, then you can choose to form your facts around those.
Commuting in to work means hitting gas stations which increases my chances of infection. Also there’s no wipes or sanitizer at stores I’ve checked.
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How have South Korea's numbers meshed with this study? They've been testing very aggressively, surely if there was a huge asymptomatic population it would show up in their testing as well as Italy's?
"A church in South Korea sprayed salt water inside the mouths of followers out of a false belief it would help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but by using the same spray bottle without disinfecting the nozzle, it resulted in 46 church-goers infected, authorities said on Monday."

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/30...
Good catch. Thanks. I was looking around the site since I thought I’ve seen it posted here quite often and was wondering why.
> spin-off projects like Kubernetes

Not quite- Kubernetes was an open source "spin-off" of Borg, which has been in use at Google since 2003.

However, Docker did quickly become the de facto standard for containerization on k8s, due in part to its prevalence and ease of use as you mentioned above.
VCScode has, as much, taken the place of Emacs and VI.

An IDE? It still needs to catch up with Windows IDEs from the mid-90's, let alone what something like Visual Studio Professional is capable of.
Covid-19 Corona Virus Fact Check – Prevention is better than cure
> it's super [] irresponsible to say "this is going to be like H1N1"

Good thing the person you responded to never said that.
Hit the secondhand market is usually cost effective. People upgrade all the time thinking its getting to help them make better music (it usually doesn't).

The practice with what you have. Getting good at recording takes years.
airlines are expecting a full travel ban soon (including domestic). Projections have United revenue down 9% this quarter and 95% next quarter (not a typo).

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-makes-airlines-c...
Invasion of Germany
Not when they’re shut down. Requiring a full tuition payment because “wouldn’t it be a shame if you lost your spot...” is extortionate.
Rocket engine purchases were/are a strategic decision to keep the rocket scientists employed rather than having them sell there wares on the black market.

I thought this was common knowledge for 30 years.
If Covid-19 does end up being a dud, then we are in real trouble if/when an actual pandemic arrives -- because by then everyone will say the CDC is Crying Wolf.
Odd prompt when I try to sign up for an account in the web (i.ntention.app): after filling in an email and password, I get a prompt "Intention is requesting access to your dwmartin41 account."
I'm not a confirmed case, but I'm a 90% sure case based on symptoms and symptoms of people I have been in close contact with, and so far the experience has been relatively mild, in the literal sense. The primary discomfort has likely been the anxiety of how the tightness in my chest might progress (which ironically can also cause chest tightness).

I'm in a low risk group. I had lethargy and high fever the first day of symptoms (a little over a day after high contact exposure to my suspected source), then no fever (or very mild fever, can't tell because I have no thermometer), dry eyes, consistent mild chest tightness and occasional cough for the following two days (to present). The person I believe I contracted it from is also in a low risk group and had a sore throat and persistent cough for about 5 days, and is currently asymptomatic. She had been going about her business thinking it was just a cold for the duration of her symptoms.

Testing is still difficult in my area, and many folks with mild symptoms like the aforementioned aren't even attempting to get tested, so I suspect the true numbers are about 10x-50x the reported confirmed cases. This is good in that it means the death rate is also off by that factor, but bad in that there will not be enough fear/incentive for the primary carriers (young adults) to adhere to adequate social distancing. It's an unfortunate externality when an infectious disease has discriminatory consequences.
I wouldn't be so sure, there hasn't been a drop of hand sanitizer in any stores in the Vancouver area for at least a month.
The Groceries That No One Wants to Panic-Buy
Thinking of the Duo smart phone.
Is there a chance that this will push e-mobility since low oil prices for a sustained period of time will make extraction unprofitable for oil companies? Or could it have the opposite effect and make us use more cheaper fuel for individual transport?

It seems to me that public transport / ride sharing could take quite a hit (at least in the next few months).
Sir, I refer of course to the law of social discourse that most of us adhere to which says you don't bring Kaczynski completely out of left field to a HN discussion and not get called out for your foolishness. No matter your assumed eminence in the community. You are neither half as amusing nor clever in this moment as you think you are.

Give it a rest.
> It would be nice to think that [...]

It sure would ... wouldn't it.
UK only realized recently that its Covid-19 strategy would result in mass deaths
But the enormous strain in the healthcare system is very unlike H1N1, so it’s probably not too far from the estimates. To see what’s happening in Italy, this is obviously much worse and unprecedented.
it's great news, everyone is trying to do their best in this situations.
Yup - in Israel they explicitly made exceptions to school closures for children grades 3 and under of essential personnel. (i.e. let's make sure the doctors can be at work and not staying home with their 10-year-olds)
Poor people already have to live somewhere. It just paid for with rental subsidies and low income housing now, both of which also drive up rents for others.

Similarly, the US government already buys up milk to create a price floor, giving the milk away to the poor and to school lunch providers.
Why haven't the markets reacted positively to this news?
System is overwhelmed, can't really blame anyone since maintaining such, ready to spring, system would cost a lot of money. In an ideal world a drone would come and take your temp and then drop food supplies etc etc.

But I'm wondering...if we all are going to get infected (40-80%) wouldn't it better to choose the time? Early on you get all the benefits, 3 weeks later you are lucky to have someone measure your temp. Of course you might escape it entirely or new knowledge might be gained in weeks ahead, but the downside is terrible https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-italian-doctor-says-f...
> on a compassionate basis

Is this medical speak? What do they mean by that.
It’s already proven not to be a dud — healthcare systems stretched to beyond 200% capacity is solid evidence of something no one has seen in recent memory. When youngish healthcare workers are dying, something is going on.