skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The PCR tests for RNA, not active, replicating viruses.

The theory is one may find detectable RNA fragments, without the person truly having an active infection (I.e. they’ve already recovered).

There is also just human error with sample handling, contamination, etc.
"Change in employment: -500k" It's not just that costs could go up, it's that jobs could also disappear. What's the hardest part about entering the job market? Proving that your labor is valuable. It's hard to build a resume when the wage floor is set so high.
You HN people are all the same.

(Aren’t you?)
Yes but it's probably really hard to prove these kinds of cases. However, Google appears to have had a large volume of evidence that would be really hard to overcome, so the prosecution has a really easy time.

With a lot of smaller companies, it's very likely that it would be a nightmare to try and prosecute and the evidence would be a lot thinner. So you are looking at an unequal outcome because the security practices of Google are probably orders of magnitude higher than any small company.

I mean, these kind of white collar crimes are hardly prosecuted at all, I can't even think of a criminal prosecution like this. I have heard of some civil cases similar to this, but very few that result in actual criminal charges. The only criminal cases I can remember, are from state actors getting caught trying to steal from corporations and then leave the country.
Like pretty much any other worthwhile endeavor in life, the same rule applies:
1) Good
2) Fast
3) Cheap

Normally, you can pick one. If you are exceptionally lucky, 2. No project is ever all 3 at once, if anyone thinks so for a given project that is a sure sign of either delusion or inadequate ability to judge (after all, good is very subjective).
life is a process, pain is a constant, struggle is a constant. the fact we are witness to so much of others pain when individually we are comparatively spared means that progress is being made. And remember could be we'll see the yellowstone caldera could blow or a gamma ray burst wipe us out.
To go deeper into the rabbit hole, lots of people dislike Apple, so this tweet could have been a calculated effort to further tarnish Apple's reputation.

Plan:

1. Create fake news that X people see.

2. Wait until X is large.

3. Delete fake news, use "plea ignorance" apology to save face, that Y (Y << X) people see.

Congrats you now have a large number of people who now have an even worse opinion on the subject of the news. Repeat steps to cause even more damage.
> if garbage person labor shortage is a blocker, i will personally sign up for 1 day per week garbage duty.

No you won't
> > 90% of local TV stations were bought up by Sinclair Media

I'm not sure that this is accurate. Some quick parsing of the table [0] finds 37 states and 193 stations. I don't have the total number of stations for all states, but I highly suspect Sinclair actually doesn't own an amount so close to 90%. That number just made me want to see if I could verify it and it looks like it might not be correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_oper...
You can’t claim poor market share as evidence. If iOS and the Play Store are “good enough” for people to not seek alternatives, and for devs to still publish apps, then 30% might not be a big enough cut.
What4: A library to help build verification and program analysis tools
I completely agree here, it seems like they are just playing into education's concept of code=STEM job, or maybe it's a new Roomba recruitment drive...
Okay! Let’s put it in here, with a bunch of other SpaceX-related beer bets. If you make an account there, I’ll be able to message you. The site is pretty old and more active than ever, so it’ll probably still be around by the time this has been decided: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=35196.0
More of a wish list than trends observed... What will replace browsers?
The lack of real world experience on a HackerNews UBI discussion is infuriating. Western society's white collar elite are completely unaware of truly how many "sucky" jobs there are in the world that all enable our (currently) superior standard of living. Your entire existence relies on a globalist system of slave level labor producing products from all corners of the world. Automation of every industry is impossible unless we have true human replacement robots (many decades out). UBI will over time simply raise costs of all goods/services to subwelfare level that people "can't live on".

Whos going to: - clean your hotel/office/home - cook your food - serve your food - fix your household - grab your garbage - build new houses - build/maintain roads - build/maintain water, sewers - deliver your packages/mail - Drive trucks around - pack/unpack trucks - produce meat products (have you seen a meatpacking plant?) - maintain farms/livestock - provide difficult medical services - be a nurse aide (clean poo?)

I have not even started to list all the jobs required in order to "magically" produce our cheap goods from overseas including clothing and electronics. These are farrrr from completely automated.

Lazy Americans don't need to work right? Discussion about UBI is an expression of guilt over how well our standard of living (general hacker news crowd) compared to the vast majority of the world.
That is promising, but US examples are less auspicious.

Two large unconditional programs that come to mind are the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend to state residents and tribal distributions to Native Americans.

Alaska tends to lead various reports on drug/alcohol abuse per capita and "Although they only make up 1.7% of the U.S. population, Native Americans experience substance abuse and addiction at much higher rates than other ethnic groups."

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/alcoholism-treatment/na...
No. A UBI paid for by pigovian taxes would be redistributed right back to the people, counteracting the problem you mentioned that led to the Yellow Vest protests. It would align the public’s incentives with increasing the tax, thereby increasing the cost of the negative externalities!

UBI is a very powerful tool for aligning the public’s incentives with collective action that may otherwise be intractable.
You will have option to do what you want. That's the whole point.

They won't pay you enough to buy a Ferrari. But it will be enough money to spare time to cook well, exercise and spend time on relationships. Or do whatever you want to do.

Different people want different things. Surely your choice of tech work will be very different when you know losing your job won't starve you to death.
Cargo ships account for 3% of global CO2 emissions: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-cargo-ships-emitting-boatloads...
The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy
WordPress OS... Has a nice ring to it!
It wants me to enable tracking so I can opt out of tracking.

I’d support a ballot measure to switch CCPA from opt out to opt in. This is ridiculous.
Simulating quantum ‘time travel’ disproves butterfly effect in quantum realm
Tell your reps to vote for it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
People who complain are the ones who already already have good stable income, privileged. They don't have issue when someone owns billions.
I have a similar “me ware” app for Windows that I completely rely on. Integrates with outlook. Plan to add google calendar. It floats on top and gives a tiny graph of your day, with different colors for each half hour, float over it to see what meeting, click to open meeting, and it flashes and dances when meetingS approach. It saves me every day over and over. I must release it.
According to https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2019/06/28/shipping-s...

> Shipping accounts for up to 3% of global emissions and 10% of transport emissions – roughly the same as aviation

Shipping emissions equalling aviation emissions is surprisingly high, to me.
The Wikipedia article says that the Iranian plan pays $40 per month, which seems very low for consideration as a UBI compared to numbers like $1000-2000 per month that people throw around for the United States. I don't know much about Iran, so I'm not sure if it's 25-50x less expensive to live there.

The only numbers I found on the Saudi plan is $533 million per month paid to 10.6 million people [0]. This works out to about the same individual payment.

I think investigating the effects of these plans in those nations is worthwhile. Separating the effects of the plans from the specific situation in the Middle East would be challenging.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-allowances/saudi-ar...
> I can't see how you could bring in enough revenue to get anything close to even a mini-UBI

Why? Do you have some minimum dollar amount for mini-UBI? Why isn't $100/year mini-UBI? Would you be ok with a different term (micro-UBI?).
and + not to breathe lol
The only way a UBI makes sense in terms of increasing equity in society is either a) printing the money to intentionally induce inflation, which american economic common sense seems allergic to, or b) reclaiming the wealth from the wealthy directly, which seems unlikely to be effective in the near future.

I certainly don’t want to put the idea of carbon neutrality and solving wealth inequality at odds, that doesn’t make any sense.
'Metal Gear Solid V' Players Achieve the Impossible: Nuclear Disarmament
> To reverse this trend of stagnating growth, we must put more capital in the hands of lower income consumers, who will then spend it on things they desire and increase GDP.

You can't reverse declining growth trend by diverting more money to consumption, dude. Growth comes from investment, not consumption.

The article neglects to mention:
1) Overspending enabled by welfare state and reckless private borrowers
2) Governments and central banks enabled and encouraged overspending (vote buying, Wall Street bribes, etc)

The end result is mega corporations, mega financial sector, zombie population and zombie businesses. That's not capitalism, that's socialism.

Eliminate all Federal government except defense and justice department, end the Fed and lower taxes. No need for more socialism.
UBI can partially replace the piecemeal social funding we already provide but with much less bureaucracy.

The assumption is that most will still work. I'm fairly convinced that would be the case. Society seems to revolve around a 40 hour week when we could all certainly put in less time and survive.
shouldn't this be something we can look for without resorting to additions to the standard model?
Stolen? Please, spare us the hyperbole. How is it stolen?
Obviously, in 5 minutes nothing can be done. I suppose in smaller setting, maybe sub-committees, but not here. Here the idea is that later DOJ starts looking around and let them talk for hours and days. Will it happen?
I wonder how much "money you'd save" by having near zero paperwork for eligibility.
Also, while those jobs would be gone, those people could then do more economically "productive" things.
i'm not saying "modern medical ethics" is a good thing in this case (though I think some line is obviously essential to protect the rights of the individual in the face of abuse to cure the many) but that the formal and informal accords of the medical community that constitute that system of ethics is the reason no one (except maybe an authoritarian regime with no concern for individual liberties cough xinjiang) is talking about infecting healthy people to test vaccines or build up herd immunity.

this is independent of the multitude of evidence that this is bad for non-hospitalized people too https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/934851 https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/08/from-lung-scarring-to-h...
Or, just abolish any ownership of property except demonstrated by active personal (or organizational) use. We could have been planning cities decades ago and avoided the current real estate hellscape.
I haven't seen this discussed as much, but I am worried about population rises along with a UBI.

Especially amongst poorer communities where extra children are viewed as financial stability. Already with free schooling and meals, there is a mindset that you can raise kids and let the state take care of them to some degree.

But I guess UBI is far more likely to be implemented in places which don't have population problems to begin with.
> ...since she has enough accomplishments in her own right to be named...

I've never been interested in this woman, nor did I know anything about her previously. But just from her very brief Wikipedia, here are the highlights:

* Born into super wealthy family

* Sent to Pre-Ivy league boarding school in Connecticut

* Studies at elitist Ivy League university (Princeton) and graduates with pseudo-degree of 'English'.

* Meets Jeff Bezos while working the typical elitist hedge fund starter job in Manhattan. They get married!

... lots of years pass

* divorces Jeff Bezos, becomes one of world's richest persons

* donates a fraction of the money she won in divorce.

Wow, a true American by-the-bootstraps dream. Certainly, it is sexist to refer to her as "Jeff Bezos' wife" based on her many many individual accomplishments.
That's really amazing, thanks!
It's almost unbelievable
Is there a theoretical limit on the minimum mass of a black hole?

It's counter-intuitive to me that something could get dense enough to form a black hole and not have more mass than the Sun, or at least enough mass to steal Pluto.
I could be wrong, but lately I've been taking the approach that as long as I state my beliefs with as much reasonability and clarity as I can possibly muster, and am willing to admit when I'm wrong, I'll ultimately be vindicated if a groupthinking hate mod were to target me.

The intense fervor that fuels those mobs can't last forever. I've seen this play out many times on the internet, and it seems a common thread is that the targeted person in these situations is often unable to keep it together while under the intense stress, and ends up making the situation way worse for themselves.

Learning how to stay level headed and when not to engage will take you a long way.
In the future, robots theoretically can do everything, and yes ubi would be needed.

What level are we at now? I don't think a ubi should be very much, maybe a dollar a day. Maybe 2. Considering we have all the other social programs for needy people.
5 bucks a day, who knows. The problem is people wanting to start it at some real high number.
Operations staff gets access to production machines with Operations being explicitly forbidden from producing code that runs on the systems.

There are still vectors for bad actors of course, but the idea is to firewall those who write the code from those who run it.
This is basically a modern “Turtle Robot” similar to Logo, I guess.

I wonder how much, if at all, seeing the robot move in real life is beneficial vs simple onscreen display like Logo provided.
Err are you neglecting beef?
https://churchofthought.org :-)
>The answer is that it's much simpler to send everyone a check.

That's an answer, not the answer. A similar question is: “how much should UBI pay per month?”, and a similar answer is that “it's much simpler to just pay gazillion dollars than spend time figuring it out”. After all, the only difference is the cost.

IMO there's a proven balance in having a system (“bureaucracy”) to find out who need financial assistance, and simply assisting those. But then again, I fundamentally disagree with UBI because I have a differing view on society and the rights and responsibilities of its members, along the lines of “society takes care of you if needed for the price of you helping make this possible if you are able”.
> Or they may eat farm-to-table and shop at local farmers' markets. On the other side, step into any Wal-Mart or dollar store, and almost everything there was manufactured and shipped from Asian continent.

Good point. Rich people who live environmentally sustainable lives are not the problem, in this context. I don't have a problem with them being rewarded.

The way I look at it is, right now, even if you want to reduce your emissions, it's really hard to know how to get the biggest bang for your buck. Should I get a new fuel-efficient car, or drive this one until it dies so as to avoid the emissions of manufacturing a new car? Should I swap out my gas stove for an electric one? Etc. Adding a carbon tax is almost like magic, in how it piggybacks on all the normal price optimizations we do every day. The prices will change to reflect the environmental cost, so you don't even have to try to change your behavior, you'll just adjust naturally.

> How does it work with fossil fuels refined in Middle East and delivered to China?

I should clarify, it taxes fossil fuels produced in America or imported into America. It doesn't solve the problem for the whole world -- if only it were that easy. But it does solve one half of the problem where the US and China can point at each other and claim that the other one should make the first move while the problem gets worse and worse. The USA isn't the biggest polluter per capita, nor the biggest in absolute terms, but it's pretty high up on both, and we've been contributing to the problem for a LONG time.

> The first thing that happened after California approved driver licenses for undocumented aliens is that used car sales surged and public transport dropped (LAMTA and Metrolink specifically). For a lot of lower-income customers buying the car was aspirational and signified the rite of passage. In their price segment they're not typically shopping EVs either.

So... all I get out of that is that people who are not allowed to drive drive less than people who are allowed to. I don't think that is evidence that poor people take public transport less than rich people.

Anyway, we can debate arbitrary points like this, but it's pretty clear from studies that emissions go up as income goes up. See: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/14/1922205117 or https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/income-i... That's what matters -- since poor people tend to contribute less in terms of emissions, they will benefit from a carbon tax and dividend, overall.
Paul Vixie is deeply wrong about DoH, and the logic he uses to describe the control he demands over his local network (which he runs with apparently the same rigor that Allstate runs their corp net) isn't coherent: he's required to concede that he doesn't have control over all his machines (else he could just do what serious security teams do and manage his machines centrally, and wouldn't have control problems with DoH), but he's giving them all access to his network anyways (else DoH wouldn't matter to begin with).

Consider carefully why you think his approach is fundamentally correct. His talk opens with multiple slides talking about how improved performance is relevant only for serving advertisements. That's an alarming thing for an influential standards person to say out loud.
UBI might work overall, the humanity has accumulated too much wealth, stuff and automation powers. Supply is overweighting demand historically for the first time. Why not redistribute wealth evenly, so that economic well-being becomes a new norm. Because, guess what happens, when one doesn't have to work to survive anymore? Happier, healthier and more creative people overall.
Fauci Says “You Should Probably Use [Eye Shields]”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/dr-fauci-says-people-should-probably-use-eye-shields-protect-against-covid-19

FWIW I'm glad I never switched from glasses to contact lenses.
More importantly, how do you keep the workers from leaving? Because you're existence depends on living off of the work of others against their will.
This is actually a really, really good question. It could create entire new future populations of disadvantaged and disenfranchised people with the same types of afflictions as the current groups. True equal access and opportunity would mitigate that of course, but good luck there.
Everything you claim is false.

If tax money is redistributed back to the people why collect it? Obviously it's not evenly redistributed, hence the plunder.

Public incentives and interest don't exist to begin with.
My personal interest is to not pay any tax I don't want to (I'd pay some for defense and justice), for example.
You should read the Beggars trilogy by Nancy Kress. It's about a world that gradually devolves into just that.
thank you for this, i laughed out loud
Don't other companies already have those?
If you add up the numbers in 8jy89hui’s username, you get 8+8+9 = 25 = 5*5. The Law of Fives is never wrong!

http://principiadiscordia.com/book/23.php
i have zero experience authoring brew packages but as a consumer, a ‘brew install omniscidb’ would be really nice. especially with things like database that you might build apps that depend on it, it’s convenient to have a tool manage versions installed. it’s also very nice to have a common interface for me to manage these things. i use brew for mysql postgres redis qt rbenv node and more. fitting into that ecosystem makes it easier for me to bring this in as a dependency as it just another brew dev dependency.
Shipping food on the oceans takes very little energy
Show HN: Adjust screen color for passive mindfulness/meditation
"a system", "an equation", "They could either...", "a form", "they can figure out"

This posits the capability of the government to put together a really remarkably competent administration, that knows everyone's tax filings, everyone's citizenship status, where everyone lives, the cost of living in every part of the country (or the world?), and can speedily process paperwork continuously throughout the year. Certainly no such administration currently exists. It would probably be very expensive, and the individual-filing-based workflow would be burdensome both to all people and to the administration. Lose your job? File a form. Get a raise? File a form. Get an inheritance? File a form. Move? File a form. Get married or have a kid? File several forms! There's a reason individuals only have to file taxes once a year. Bureaucracy is waste.

Aspects of this hypothetical administration would need to exist for any UBI scheme, but in a UBI scheme with equal payments the burden on the individual would not be more than ensuring the bank account or address they use to receive their tax refund is current throughout the year, and continuing to file taxes once yearly.
unless I'm misunderstanding terribly, the issue is that an LRU cache is composed of both a list of ordered cache entries and the map of data itself. Converting just the map to a threadsafe implementation doesn't actually fix the thread safety issues.
To me, a carbon tax sounds like it’s ok to piss into the pool as long as you pay for it. Nobody’s using the money to clean the pool, though.

Sure, some will try to piss less, but I doubt you’d like to swim in it.

For me, that’s the rational excuse to not rely on carbon tax. Instead, make everybody use the toilet.
I try to assume positive intent, or at least look for reasons beyond malicious intent, especially when it's difficult
It's politics. This wasn't for any actual investigation or enforcement (that's what the DOJ and FTC are doing), this was for the re-election campaigns.
>>Unless you can find 399 other things in daily life where wage increases will wipe out the UBI.

I think there will be quite a many if you look closely. Garbage Man is literally a placeholder for bad-jobs-that-pay-less.

In fact something as important as teaching could come into this.
I don’t know that we’ve ever come up with anything better than the Lego mindstorms kits. Lego is an incredible way of teaching people basic physics and engineering concepts, and mindstorms brings programming into the mix. With other programming languages (RobotC and NXJ were used in my learning), it’s a great way of teaching basic programming all the way up to things like sensor fusion.
Why do such fees (online, appstore, etc) have to be "some x% of the transaction value" and not just a flat fee?