skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a coworker this happened too.
He was in his late 40s when this happened and so had to use a screen reader instead of a Braille display.
He used edlin over putty on Windows. Since Jaws ran best there for him. He had to stop working on languages like Python where a screen reader is of little help.
I don't think there is any sort of unanimity regarding UBI. Being compensated for staying home is not UBI, because it is not ongoing.

I'm against UBI for reasons that became apparent while playing MMORPGs. Stay with me here and I'll explain.

Players of an RPG want a fun game. But they also want to succeed/win. These goals partially conflict. If they prioritize winning too highly, and pester customer support to make the game easier (nerf), the game loses it's fun. Even (in my estimation) to the people who pestered customer support. Because some people aren't self aware enough (kids) to realize that the challenge is what makes it fun.

In life, we want to be lazy. I certainly do. And that desire makes me think a UBI would be quite nice. But I also realize that I most certainly would be lazy. I'm already working less than 20 hours per week (pre-COVID) because my mortgage is paid and I don't really need the money anymore. With a UBI I might stop work completely. But as a society, if a lot of people like me slack off more, the real economy will suffer. Less hours will be worked, prices will go up, and the economy will be more depressed and sluggish.

Robots could save us but we are not there yet, not by a long shot. Maybe we are there in very specific manufacturing industries, but no robot is going to install a new roof on my house (for example).

So I think we should wait until after all the jobs are taken by robots (rather than thinking it's imminent when it's most certainly not) to institute UBI. Eventually. But not any time soon.

OTOH I'm perfectly okay with a means-tested payout to people who really need it.
I worked out with a friend using Skype and YouTube. Here is what we learned ️
Thanks a lot, insightful. It seems the Hands-on is very appropriate.
According to the previous announcement, we should know more about the implementation details sometime in mid-May.
> There appear to be strong signs that even with very mild symptoms patients can have significant lung damage, and also damage to other organs.

This is completely contradictory. You should stop reading fake news or social media reports, because this is where some utter stupid statements like this come from. COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, but it's not a novel virus. It is a coronavirus, which means that that we know that it is a respiratory virus like other viruses. It doesn't attack organs like so many dumb people claim. It attacks your respiratory tract, which also includes your lungs. That itself is harmless in most people as their immune system will quickly produce anti bodies and then erradicate the virus from your body. In some cases the virus multiplies faster than the immune response, which means the lungs get heavily inflamed and your body starts to get less oxygen than needed. This is the reason why organs fail, because of a lack of oxygen. If one person was infected with mild symptoms and then has been cleared of the virus (~ 7 days later, and I was one of these people myself) then the virus is gone from your body and there's no way to magically all of a sudden get any long term damages to anything if you don't have them to begin with. It's not like your organs start out of nowhere to just stop working. Also before you even get to that point you are so severly ill that you need a ventialtor to breath, so it's not like you can get a damage to an organ out of nowhere without noticing it.

> I've seen discussions that the people affected might be patients for the rest of their lives.

If they fully recovered then this is not possible. If they were extremley severely ill and lack of oxygen damanged some organs then yes maybe but that is not the case for 99% of people.
Many years ago (10?) she published a PowerPoint deck that blew everyone's mind and we all learned her name. Every year since she publishes a PowerPoint deck that is full of numbers and is otherwise no more insightful than any other analyst's PowerPoint deck full of numbers. Each time she releases a new deck I open it hoping for another like the first one, and each time it's utterly disposable.
They killed off Holden but they're still selling some Chevrolet models, and there have been a lot of Cadillac test mules spotted around Australia.

https://www.goauto.com.au/news/cadillac/spied-cadillac-ct5-p...

https://www.goauto.com.au/news/holden/gm-has-lsquo-a-future-...
I don't admire him precisely because his videos are not about him. His videos are always about someone else and that's why he isn't worth admiring.
I knew a blind software engineer that was decent, he'd use Eclipse and have his screen reader speed turned very fast.
Its not necessarily about how a language is syntactically or semantically it is about how the users and creators of a language talk about it and want it to be seen.
Your first paragraph makes a good point, but given that in the US capital (i.e, being paid for owning wealth) is taxed at a much lower rate than income (i.e., being paid to work), I'd offer the following correction:

UBI intrinsically takes wealth from the wealthy, who are generally NOT "workers" but those who have earned or inherited a large amount of capital at some point (and thus are more appropriately labeled as "the lazys [sic]"), and distributes it to everyone, the vast majority of whom are indeed "workers".

In short, UBI can be correctly defined as "transfer payments from lazys to workers".

(This is an oversimplification, but I believe a tad bit more accurate than the original.)
While I don't yet know a ton about the accessibility software development community, I've discovered Deque Labs[1] while looking into some accessibility tooling.

They have really good resources and training around accessibility for the web, and some of the software they develop[2] is incorporated into Google Lighthouse.

Their guides and videos might help you get a sense for how other people use alternative access methods to interface with the web.

With both the skills to write software and a deeper understanding of the use cases you'll be well-positioned to help improve things for a lot of people - I'm sure it could be tough at times, but stick with it, and best of luck to you.

[1] - https://www.deque.com/services/accessibility-empathy-lab/

[2] - https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
not really. he’s good at self-promotion, which you might argue is an overlapping skillset with promotion, a component of marketing dealing with sales, advertising, and the like.

but he’s most certainly not good at any other aspect of marketing (product, price, distribution, etc.), which is why he’s terrible at business and why he’s been losing credibility to state leaders.
It is the same on chrome or firefox. Empty window only with url bar. You need to type in the url bar to write something. Writing software is hard. Using your brain while writing software is even harder.
I recommend using a tiling window manager - they allow you to organize windows logically, rather than spatially.

I have also written some plugins for using Vim (text editing) and Weechat (IRC chat) with speech synthesis:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/lib/vim/vim...

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/.weechat/py...

And I have a script for Sway (a tiling window manager) which also gives you audible cues:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/bin/swaytal...

All of this is somewhat incomplete, but it's a good starting point if you want to get used to them and work on improvements while you're still sighted. Good luck, and let me know if I can be of service.
‘We Needed to Go’: Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans
I work with many engineers who became blind in a variety of ways. If you provide your email address, I can introduce you to them. Here is my temporary email (docesar172 at lagsixtome dot com) if you do not want your contact to be published.
Looking at the examples Delong gave 25 years ago, history has been much kinder to Hobsbawm's bleak vision than Delong's.

> What has happened in the past decade that has so darkened his vision of our human future?

> The past decade has seen good news along a number of important dimensions: The environment is in better shape: the clean-up of the first world continues; the clean-up of the ex-Communist world has begun; and the third world is more aware of environmental degradation. Progress has been made in creating the international climate to guard against ozone depletion and global warming.
Experts' code looking like beginners' code is not a good thing! If better learning a language doesn't make your code clearer and more concise, the language isn't pulling its weight.
A lot of people have invested a lot of effort in creating the narrative of a techlash, that people are fed up with big tech's abuses and would be glad to see the big companies go. But it's simply not true. Polls of the general public consistently show that Facebook and Google are well-loved.

For example: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16550640/verge-tech-surv...
Yeah - I design this sort of thing and I can't understand how the power management of this thing works - battery life has to be a month or so (or it's a cm thick).

Remember that when you're talking at GHz (ie BT) you have to keep your receive PLLs powered up to receive data, that's ~1/2 the power requirements of short distance transmitting
UBI to people outside of the workforce is entirely different. My argument against UBI is that it erodes the desire to work, and we still need nearly everybody of working age to work... until the robots catch up (they still have a lot of catching up to do).
>Just say they are not paying taxes and getting our money abroad etc.

This is said pretty regularly in the media in Australia, and honestly no one cares. Even big mining companies like BHP pay little corporate tax on shore, and after years of it being 'exposed', honestly the general public don't seem to care.
Thank you for your work on Covid-19!
This is a very good documentary of the many world's interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, done by Eel's front man Mark Everett, son of the Many Worlds founder Hugh Everett.
New Solar Technology for Desalination
> "the info that identifies your face, iris, or fingerprint never leaves your device." - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468253/windows-10-....

Of course not.
Depends I think. If you make a package manager, but the only function it has is text editing, is it a package manager?

If you get too far from what people aim to use your tool for, are you still a tool for x?
UBI sets an income ‘watermark’ of basic income for all.
I would say they interact. It would eliminate the pension where desired/planned pension funds were at a similar watermark.. if the pension needed to be more then it would supplement towards this.
https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/building-a-customac-h...
Facebook to Introduce an App for Gaming
> More likely it needs a continuous connection back to the license server for GaaS (grenades as a service).

The US allegedly has something like this for MANPADS missiles given to not-so-trusted allies.

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10642-harry_potter_and_the_not-s...
China has home-grown tech for both certainly, but I don't know if the fact that everyone uses a flavor of search engine and social media proves that they're nonessential.

I guess you could say search engines are nonessential like music and entertainment are nonessential. Somehow people end up wanting both anyways.
I cannot agree with you more. I'm also in that broad spectrum of "millennial college graduate" -- specifically, my college years were during the beginning of the last financial crisis (the 2008 "great recession").

I remember the stigma about going to community college (even in the Bay Area, California) when all my high school peers were going straight to Stanford, UC Berkeley, Brown, etc.

But I remember that the CC classes were tough, afforded me a ton of independence and personal responsibility, and to my surprise, found my professors were also concurrently teaching at Stanford or UC Berkeley.

The CC had guaranteed transfer agreements with certain University of California (UC) campuses, and also had a neat program called https://assist.org which allows students to be smart about mapping the relevant CC courses with the equivalent [transferable] courses at the 4-year institution of choice.

I saved a ton of money, worked my way through CC, took a gap year to work full-time to save up (and/or internships to build my resume), and was able to graduate UC in only 1.5 years afterwards (while also working on campus). E.g. 2 years CC + 1.5 years UC.

Sure, I missed out on some college experiences, but I matured quick, it allowed me to ride out the recession into a very strong position, and I cannot recommend it enough to young folks today. Especially today.

For those wondering, I graduated into a down market, but ended up in various tech and engineering positions, with no discernible difference between my peers who had gone straight to Stanford or Brown or wherever else -- and in most cases, I somehow [luckily?] ended up faring a lot better than most of them.

Lastly -- your resume will only reflect the diploma from the 4-year institution, not that anyone's asked, but you do not get put into a second-tier or second-class position because you started at a CC and transferred into a UC or 4-year, which I recall, was one of my early worries when I was starting.

I'd love to reverse the stigma about CC's, because I'm immensely proud whenever I see other CC success stories -- it is the path less taken, and in many cases a lot harder upfront because of that stigma and the amount of independence and personal responsibility involved -- but I think the dividends can be rewarding long-term.
A FANG employee here. I don't think my company is evil. In fact, I believe very very few companies are truly evil. A lot of criticism seems to be coming from competitors who are hurt and are determined to tar your reputation (newspapers vs FB/Google), or from ideologues who simply hate your existence (climate activists vs oil / energy companies). Sometimes, criticism is shallow in that people will say they don't like your actions but will still buy your products (eg. Apple profiting off slave labor in China or Amazon's treatment of warehouse employees doesn't affect their market success), or that the criticism of your company/product is coming from a very tiny but very loud minority (climate activists against Air travel).

You show me any sufficiently big company and I will show you enough reasons to call them evil.
That was hard to read, sounds like a transcript of one of those “js for beginners” videos.
I met a blind front end web developer a few years ago. I'm afraid I don't have any details on his setup, but they do exist.
Some media here have claimed a 6 months to a year of battery life. I am very skeptical.
> “The brain appears to be particularly active when a learning strategy has to be changed while it takes significantly less energy to maintain a strategy,” Pleger noted

What should we do, for better learning? Not have any particular preference, and don’t make a decision and force the brain to be open to new strategies. I’m misreading this?
Accessibility testing/engineering is a very important niche within software engineering. You could very easily build a career that will enhance the lives of others in similar situations.
If I were in your position, I'd probably get a job at someplace like Facebook or Google. They're huge, cushy companies and probably have resources for SWEs that go blind. Who knows maybe you can go on disability while you're working there, and never have to work again in your life

BTW, I don't know if asking the internet for advice on this subject is a good idea. I imagine it's gonna be mostly speculation. I'd seek out other people that have firsthand experience (i.e. they went blind) and ask what they did and how they're doing...
Cable modem to a 4 year old Netgear router.... surprising enough that seems fine as far as handling a lot of devices / gadgets.

I have a Synology NAS for local backups.
There is something like a blockchain called XRPL. It is currently used to make cross border payments cheaper and faster for corridors where the traditional way (nostro/vostro accounts) is rather expensive mostly due to low liquidity between the 2 assets and high counter party risk or the foreign currency. For example USD to MXN. Lots or people send money to this way. AFAIK only a few millions a week are transferred this way by now but doubling every few month. Probably still in the single digit percentage of all the money send to Mexico but due to covid19 we all know that doubling is a freaking fast growth rate so this could soon make up a significant portion for that corridor and obviously there are other popular but not efficient corridors. Apparently it's up to 40% cheaper and if it's used more the liquidity will grow which may make it even cheaper.

I would like to point out that any blockchain like thing with some kind of coin/token with value could be used for this. Like in theory this could be done with Bitcoin it's just very very slow and due to the rather high transaction fees its probably not really interesting.

After years of being interested in blockchain tech and hundred of hours research this is the only real world use case that is deployed, used and most importantly generally makes sense, that I know of.
There are a bunch of other projects like Brave that are technically deployed and working but IMO do not solve a problem just recreate the existing problem with a fancy token.
I run OSX under KVM with clover.

I’ve used this guide: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
I dont think the guidance ever said an hour, in the UK. it did say once a day though. Other places have the hour rule.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/full-guidance-on-...

"one form of exercise a day"
What's the problem with qjackctl? What do you recommend instead?
In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung
Do you remember why you moved away from Miro? (I am developing a whiteboard software)
Take a year and do your company and apply again next year? It seems like the whole university system is kind of wondering what will happen in the fall right now due to the virus. You could have more time to prep and do the ACT over again, and apply to the same schools again and maybe add a couple of others just to widen the net? Seems like you really have a good head on your shoulders. Best of luck.
Unemployment applications are fairly small structured text records requiring some rather simple logic to process. I believe a single server built on a most powerful x86 CPU available today running an MS SQL Server instance (or Postrges perhaps, but I don't have experience with it) is more than enough to process all the unemployment applications on the whole fereakin planet. Why do they insist on using an ancient mainframe? That sounds fun but bizarrely irrational.
You don't need to transmit or receive continuously.
If you downvote me because you disagree, PLEASE share your thoughts on this. I cannot understand why you disagree if you simply downvote.
You might try a standup desk. I have a varidesk.com. It is sturdy and lets you stand or sit.
That paper looks great. No, I haven't published anywhere. If you have any suggestions on journals let me know :)
Like the other response on this says. Tables in MySQL (and individual columns, and databases) have an encoding associated with them, this determines what characters you can store in them.

Right now I cannot modify that in Datagrip, but worse, I cannot even see it without a raw query.
Yes, they are. So what would the correct policy be if we have no reliable model? Well as all existential threats should be treated, with extreme risk aversion.
The thing I don't get is this explains how people didn't get sick. What it doesn't explain is how so many got better after getting sick compared to other countries.
> I wonder, why does my kid didn't consent to be born mean I owe him/her?

- From the principle standpoint, the alternatives saddle kids with unearned obligations, that are entirely the result of some adult's choices. This is unethical, while a better perspective is within reach.

- From a practical perspective, there are 2 alternatives (to the principle I espouse):

1) No one owes anyone anything. Good luck newborn. Or...

2) Kids are obligated to repay the debt of their own upbringing ("I raised you so you owe me"). I would hope the obnoxiousness of this thinking would be self-evident. Unfortunately, I've encountered it a lot. I've believed it myself to some degree.

However, I've not seen any evidence that this thinking benefits anyone in a meaningful way. Instead, I've seen it behind countless adults' efforts to belittle and devalue children - as part of misguided attempts to bully kids into some desired behavior.

It's terrible. We need to let it go.

> Is the implication that being alive is a bad thing?

Not at all. Some events are neither fair nor unfair but come with tons of responsibility.

Ultimately the question is who is the best fit to bear that responsibility and to what degree.

Considering all possible scenarios, I think the wisest answer is this: The resources of upbringing should be provided by the parents, in total, unconditionally and in perpetuity.

Obviously, all parents need help with this.
> I don't agree - to me it seems that one can easily identify and therefor avoid clickbait without clicking on it.

Do you mean your grandma and grandpa can easily identify clickbaits?
You might want to check out some things like

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/bh0vm0/emacspeak_how...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progr...

and also contact some individual programmers with visual impairments.

I don't have particular expertise in this area but I remember meeting a completely blind software developer in 1995 or 1996 (when presumably the tools available were much more limited!). He said that he had successfully pursued this career for a number of years already at that time. However, I think the things he was working with would be things that you'd consider more to be backend engineering.

I also know a computer scientist who is blind and who has continued researching, publishing, and teaching, but as he works in theory, his work might also feel more backend-like.

> - Besides a screen reader, what are some of the best tools for building software with limited vision?

If you decide to learn Braille well, Braille terminals are still a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display

(You might have seen one used in the movie Sneakers!)

Some fluent Braille readers can use these terminals at very high speeds (although people who use screen readers also often get used to using their screen readers at extremely high speeds).

> - Are there blind frontend engineers?

I know you might not want to pigeonhole yourself and work specifically on disability-related projects, but a lot of companies are trying to ensure accessibility of their web sites and so are interested in having developers with specific disabilities to help make sure that that works out properly. I believe there are consultancies of people with specific impairments who develop (and test) UI for accessibility to users with similar disabilities.
Covid-19 Treatment Changes
They were a great resource when doing some e-commerce projects (after being out of practice for a few years).
One issue is that you need a source of water. Another is that electrolysis is only around 70% efficient, whereas (say) lithium ion battery charging is more like 95% efficient.