skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can definitely continue as a software engineer. I'm living proof. It won't be easy, especially at first. For a while it will feel like you're working twice as hard just to keep up with your sighted peers. But eventually, the better you get with your tools, you'll find you have some superpowers over your sighted peers. For example, as you get better with a screen reader, you'll be bumping the speech rate up to 1.75-2X normal speech. You'll be the only one who can understand your screen reader. You'll become the fastest and most proficient proof reader on your team. Typos will be easily spotted as they just won't "sound right". It will be like listening to a familiar song and then hitting an off note in the melody. And this includes code. Also, because code is no longer represented visually as blocks, you'll find you're building an increasingly detailed memory model of your code. Sighted people do this, too, but they tend to visualize in their mind. When you abandon this two dimensional representation, your non-visual mental map suffers no spatial limits. You'll be amazed how good your memory will get without the crutch of sight. Good luck. If you're a Mac user you can hit me up for tool recommendations. My email is my username at gmail dot com.
How hard would it be to add AI players so that one person wouldn't need to find friends to play with?

It seems like you'd just need a few basic algorithms. (Pass the king and ace of spades, or your highest hearts, or other high cards. Then just keep track if a heart had been taken...)
Wouldn’t a (high enough) UBI mean the free market would create “affordable” education and “affordable” health care and obviate the need for unemployment benefits?
Find audio clips of trump speaking
Try running then through this

See what you get.

To be fair, I was trying this repo almost a 6 months ago so updates may have improved it.
Look at NYC. They've been on lockdown weeks. The first responders and hospitals are STILL fighting a losing battle.

Imagine if we weren't on lockdown and there were a ton of other emergencies like car crashes, accidental impalement, etc... a lot of non-covid emergencies are probably still happening, but we'd probably triple or quadruple the load on an already stressed hospital system. It'd be disastrous.

The proof is right there in NYC. Now they're - their own thing. Not sure this would play out in most other cities being smaller than NYC, but if Italy has any bearing - Bergamo ran out of burial plots in the cemetary and had to start stacking bodies in churches like it's the 1420's.

The right answer is caution > mass destruction. Another good case study is comparing the sweden to switzerland or denmark.

I don't have high hopes in a vaccine before at least 2-3 years since the fastest vaccine ever took 5 years, but drugs to mitigate symptoms and outcomes -- the longer we slow it, the more lives saved when we do have a good treatment.

HIV doesn't have a vaccine, but it does have decent treatment options now, I think covid will be easier to find good treatments but we just need time for all the studies to bear fruit.
There doesn't seem to be much of a plan in place to test and contact trace in the USA. As you said we need to be getting these up in place now. And they should already be in place in areas without a lockdown.

But I don't see much evidence we are really trying to do that.

I also wonder if its possible to test and trace if its every minor city in the country in low numbers. We will have a million patient zeros.
The latter, mostly. And I was more referring to the existence of the dispute resolution process, not the viability for random low-value transactions.
Anyone have tips on how to make kids eat by themselves or generate hunger? My 2 year seems like she hates eating. Feeding her is a painful endeavor everyday.

Watching cocomelon videos helps but this behavior makes me really wonder how people have 2+ kids. Even one kid is a handful for us.
> In life, we want to be lazy.

Therea plenty of evidence that this isn't really all that true, and that if there is even a modicum of apparent reward for extra labor, people will continue to put extra labor in for that reward, often even past the point where that extra nominal reward seems to provide any additional real utility for them.

> . 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

Very few people, even well into the income range where research shows no additional subjective utility to additional earnings, ever reach the point where they recognize that they don't need any more money. So, you aren't typical and your entire argument seems to rest on assuming your atypical attitude holds generally.

> But as a society, if a lot of people like me slack off more, the real economy will suffer.

Anthropomorphizing the economy here obscures rather than aids understanding; what would happen if abstention from additional effort were excessively common is inflation, bringing down the real value of the UBI and reducing the number of people who found it sufficient to not exert additional effort, pushing people back into the workforce. It's a self-controlling negative feedback system.
The arguments the promoting organization is using against a smartphone app (e.g. Google and Apple's thing) are pretty dubious. That seems like the easiest way to do digital tracing by far.
Personally, I didn't succeed until I could ask for support, and that was completely independent of being at a private, public, community college, you name it.

I never even realized there was this negativity towards community college until recently, but I suspect it at some level amounts to astroturfing by their competitors, the miserable for-profit career schools that are everywhere. People will make bad decisions; I did after high school, but it's unconscionable to play on their vanity or low self esteem, telling them they're not good enough for a real college or that a real college isn't good enough for them, either way.
Gun is a graph database. I don't think Orbit uses a graph system, but instead uses feeds or KV stores. So that's a another difference. But Gun can use IPFS as a storage adapter if you wanted.
Remember that Greece's economy will not recover to it's 2008 for 20 years because of an excel spreadsheet with errors in it.
One-third of which were in elderly homes [1]. This is an issue that's being worked on but apart from the failure to protect elderly homes, the Swedish strategy seems to be working well enough at the moment.

[1] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/en-tredjedel-av-alla-dods...
Your phone's Bluetooth scanning IS always on if it's an iPhone or Android. Always. By default.
The article is about societal consequences, not details about the spread of respiratory diseases. And while this will certainly spur more interest in virology, it's not like we'll magically be able to overcome some of the scientific barriers in the way of addressing the common cold and influenza, both very complex and multifaceted, with just some more r&d money in a short amount of time. More resources will help, but science is as stochastic as it is incremental, and it's hard to say where the next breakthrough will come from
If we're lucky we might get out of this with less rapacious globalization and more robust and self-reliant individual nations, which I believe would be better for each country and the planet. I'm perfectly willing to suffer a little for that prize.
I am failing to see where are you coming from with this. If anything, changing careers to software development made me live a more fulfilling life in the last 3 years.

What would be your suggestion for the best way to live a full and fulfilling life?
Sweden has more than 79 ICU beds.
I tried to do some exploration with the coronavirus data to get some idea on the final number. One of the best plot I found that could tell the final number is plotting the percentage of cases in the next week with the cases till now. It is like negative half parabola and the time it meets the x axis will give the final number per country.

This is the final plot: https://i.imgur.com/o54t0Ts.png. You could make a good guess from the data how many people it will affect in the lifetime per country by continuing the same pattern till it reaches x axis.
So sorry to hear this! I have no expert advice to offer, but have you thought about developing a very high level of expertise in some area (preferably in some areas of back end architecture) which allows you to consult without having to write code (unless that is what you truly want to do).

Best of luck!
Exactly.. my personal genealogy for discovering UBI was:

The government should provide for a base level of food, medicine, housing, and education.

But let private industry compete for it, so just provide vouchers for each of those things.

But, how to efficiently allocate the amounts for each individual? How much health care voucher vs. food voucher vs. housing voucher vs. education voucher?

Ah, just have a universal “health or food or housing or education” voucher!

Oh, but what about transportation!

Okay, a universal “housing, food, medicine, transportation, and education” voucher.

Oh wait, we have one of those already! The dollar.
There is no free market in education credentials or in healthcare. Both sectors are heavily regulated by the government.
This is indeed a landmark decision and I hope it will snowball into what it should really become: Google sharing revenue with all sites that it takes content from (hello Wikipedia and every blogger out there) not just media sites. Otherwise this measure is strongly biased in an unproductive way.
My deepest condolences on your high school "education".
In a similar situation though as not as bad as what you have and have thought I should prepare for the worst. I have CSR(Central Serous Retinopathy) for the last 3 years. It come and goes but my eyesight gets worse every time it comes back. Stay strong.
I think "A levels" implies the UK.
The US spends plenty of money on education. If the data on this site is accurate, local, state, and federal spending makes up about 6.35% of US GDP:
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending

vs. it looks like about 4.8% from Germany. Maybe there’s some discrepancy in how those numbers are calculated, but they’re at least not wildly different.
In Austria, you can get a single appartment for 400-600€. A room in a shared flat can be even cheaper. So with 100000$ you can indeed survive for 10 years or live comfortably for 5 years. This mostly applies to Germany as well, although certain cities (like Munich) are rather expensive.
That literally cannot be true if there’s a way to generate this “diagnosis key” and notify everyone I’ve been in contact with.
You do have to keep in mind that hospitals in Stockholm - which is currently the epicentre of infections in Sweden - have adopted a policy to not admit people with a 'biological age' of 80 or over to intensive care, nor will they admit people with a 'biological age' of 70 with at least three serious conditions or 60 or over with at least two serious condition [1, 2, 3, 4]. These guidelines have been in use for a few weeks now even though there still is enough capacity to admit at least some of these people. The guidelines also state that intensive care treatment of patients who fall into one of the two categories should be discontinued. According to these guidelines people who will be denied intensive care will be offered palliative care instead. The concept of 'biological age' is not well-defined here which makes it hard to actually apply these guidelines. It is used because it is not allowed by Swedish law to deny care based on physical age whereas the law does not say anything about triage based on 'biological age'.

[1] https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/samhalle/a/lAyePy/dokumen...

[2] https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/coronaviruset/ingen-intensi...

[3] https://www.dn.se/sthlm/dokument-visar-vilka-som-inte-far-in...

[4] https://cached-images.bonnier.news/cms30/UploadedImages/2020... (the actual guidelines for Karolinska university hospital)
On Macs, there's a screen curtain feature that can be turned on and off. The shortcut is FN+CTRL+OPTION+SHIFT+-. It might be different on older versions of OSX, used to use the right option key, but I've forgotten the keystrokes.
That all depends on who gets a UBI payment. If it served to "top up" people to a minimum income level, then those receiving the payments would by definition have been paying little enough tax that it wouldn't have covered the UBI they receive. So in those case, yes, they're probably more happy to receive the UBI than to have the tax waived. UBI doesn't require it to avoid means-testing the benefits, it simply sets a minimum acceptable income and lifts anyone below it up to that level. People with high incomes pay for it.
> It turns out one QLC drive was slower than 4 old HDDs.

Was that a consumer QLC drive with SLC cache or an enterprise QLC drive with no cache and firmware that actually cares about latency? Something like the Micron 5210 ION enterprise QLC drive should still have at least 20x the sustained random write performance of a single hard drive.
I'm on my 2nd set of "2nd gen" (not the noise cancelling ones tho) airpods.

IMO they work great when new but slowly as you add devices, or whatever, they get worse and worse. And since there are no buttons, if it decides to just connect to one airpod, you're screwed until you can throw them back in the case to 'reset' them or whatever. Once you take an airpod out of its case, it either seems to connect properly, or not, but if not, it's game over.

I took my airpods out the other day for a run. they must have connected to my computer because my phone refused to connect to them.

Doesn't matter how many miles i run from my computer, but they will never connect to my phone until i can put them back in their case and take them out again.

Finally reset the whole thing and they SEEM okay.. I'm intending to maybe just keep my old airpods (<1h battery life) for conference calls, and the new ones for running.

But anyway, far from perfect.
We bought a house recently, one of our requirements was "somewhere to plug in the Leaf", it wasn't hard, about half the places we found met that requirement (we didn't require actual power points to be in place - note at 240v a Leaf fast charge isn't required, it happily charges overnight during the cheap off-peak period)
The quality of Quora has gone down considerably?
> what constitutes an “expert in this space” is incredibly more subjective.

There are none.
love how people casually say "oops" and "we'll adjust"

those "oops" are painful suffering deaths that could have been avoided

everything has been reduced to numbers we mindlessly argue when we are talking about deaths that could have been avoided

even people who recover, this does long term lung and maybe heart damage

all could have been avoided with a true two week lockdown to let the virus die off, but nope, trade two weeks for months more of "resurgence and adjust measures"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronaviru...

this is also why I get upset at "just let everyone get infected for herd immunity" arguments - this isn't a cold, it does -damage-
I feel like that’s the same argument the hunters gatherers had against farming: it erodes the desire to hunt and gather!
True, but the escalation goes in both directions. Google and Facebook are American companies, Australia and the US have existing free-trade agreements. Imposing fines on foreign businesses to force them to roll over for the benefit of local businesses is exactly the sort of thing that free-trade agreements forbid in no unclear terms. There are a lot of factors at play. Trump dislikes Google because the conservative hive mind has turned against it, but favors Facebook because it's supposedly essential to his campaign operations. Plus he's got a protectionist bent and loves trade sanctions.
HR tech companies laying people off: was it overdue?
I agree about Haoyi's libraries, but you're mention of overhead reminds me of the overhead you run into trying to be purely functional in Scala.

If you're sold on benefits of purely functional programming, I think it's good to know (at least as of a few years ago) Scala makes that more painful than Haskell if you have even a little Haskell experience.
One way to shorten the time is to constantly increase hospital capacity, so that in each month lets you infect more people. Especially if plasma donations turn out to work to reduce severe cases.

Another way is to separate young people from old people more effectively. Then you might be able to permit 1m young people to be infected each month with the same hospital budget we have today
We found that we were often essentially making lists inside of top-level boxes.

With Miro you basically just get bulleted text lists, which is fine but only gets you so far.

With Plectica you can nest cards inside of cards, which means you can drag drop to re-order, give nested cards their own tags, etc.

So for things like modeling a db schema (lists of columns in tables, each column with its own attributes) or planning user stories (lists of tasks to support use cases, each task with its own parameters etc), Plectica is just really flexible / extensible.
Do what you're passionate about. You're going to have a learning curve no matter what, might as well enjoy the ramp up as much as possible.
Ask me how I know you've never scaled a high throughput Elasticsearch cluster.
> - Haskell (pure FP, even HKT): good for fun but not for profit. Use Haskell for pure FP.

My day job disagrees Haskell isn't good for profit ;)
Google wants to track your baby's heart rate
Japan apparently has a much lower death rate and number of infections too.

Should we trust those numbers? I'm going to say no.
That’s correct. I would rather have the means tests eliminated. $130k is roughly a 90th percentile individual income. Just give it to everyone without means testing, and you pay out to ~10% more people, but guarantee that literally everyone who needs it gets it. I don’t care if people who don’t need it also get it.
Google isn't doing anything particularly special. I think banning them would be silly, but it isn't like they offer an irreplaceable or even particularly complicated set of services.
> "it creates a debt to children so massive, that it can't be fully repaid in a lifetime."

> This is just an idea you made up.

I'd agree that it's a bit on the melodramatic side and it'd be fair to call it arbitrary.

However, I offer that the sentiment behind it is honest.

It works against the common assumption that kids owe their parents for their upbringing (If you feel I made that up then I can't help you here).

I propose that common assumption leads to no beneficial outcome and that it's main purpose is to demean & degrade kids (children & adult) - to bully them into some sort of compliant behavior.

That's the core behind the principle. If there's fault in my overall reasoning, this is where I'd recommend you look.
How Do Startups Founders Manage Social Media Content Creation?
How do Startup founders create valuable content and manage your social media profiles while managing your early startups?

How do you use your Companies Social Media pages to drive brand loyalty and business growth?
You're right that there's a reason we constantly transport so much liquid fuel around the world.

But the Europe and North Africa connection is already a relatively serious proposal precisely because of the efficiency gains. It's definitely an ambitious project, but more from the politics than from the technology. Electrons are just easier than atoms, even underwater. HVDC has made long distances realistic for cables.

China's Anhui to Xinjiang HVDC link will be around 2000 miles. There's a planned HVDC submarine cable from Lincolnshire to Denmark that will be 472 miles.

So for Australia to China, we might be able to pull off Darwin to Jakarta, then Jakarta to Hong Kong within 10-20 years, if you really wanted to. Would break some records, but it's not crazy impractical.

Though with the most efficient transfers you're taking some percentage hit per mile. Closer generation is generally going to be smarter, especially if you're running cables through what would be really viable offshore wind fields.

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

https://www.power-technology.com/features/chinas-mega-transm...
Yes sorry for not doing this. In the source code folder, please open any random file and try to understand what the code does.

I once tried to fix a bug that I found in GUN but I gave up after just trying to figure out what the code is supposed to do.
Time is the solution. Gas stations weren't everwhere overnight. To this day they require a tanker fuel truck to deliver more inventory. On the other hand, the network for electricity is already in place. Distribution and refilling are "automated." EV needs a bit more time. The stars are there. They will alight soon enough.
Have you tried reading it?

( Not sure "obfuscated" is the word I'd use, though. )
What this effectively means though is that we are still tightly scoping who can get tested in the US. My mom is a primary care provider in the DC suburbs, and their hospital system is still limiting tests to medical providers and first responders. People who "obviously" have Covid-19 are just treated, and mild cases are sent home without testing.
Same argument currently being brought by the German PEPP-PT project. I really don't get why they push for these centralised solutions when clearly defined decentralised models exist.