skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like Netflix bring more valuable than Disney. Absurd on every measure.
Yes, just a concept. Developer tweeted about issues with government’s plan and then spent part of a day building a concept to show how it should be done, then fleshed it out to share code publicly.
Under testing always fails. You can’t defeat an invisible enemy.
We use warnings instead of TODO comments so the thing to do is visible in the logs when you run the code.

This is nagging, visible, and taunts you as long as you haven't done the thing "to do", as opposed to "TODO" comments that become invisible at some point.

You can use flags to run the code to raise exceptions for any warning and you basically have your sprint laid out for you.
I graduated in 2016 and would recommend everyone possible go to college. Without a degree you are effectively in a lower tier on all job applications, promotion tracks, etc. A degree teaches you how to think, how to be responsible, and is kind of a mark of approval from society.

College is four years of fun anyway, not everything needs to be about progressing your career.
You didn't read it. He did exactly what you're suggesting in the first iteration: Helix + MIDI controllers. Then he explained why it sucked.

I mean, have your own opinion and all but if you don't read, then it's not as valid.
Datenduplikator, data duplicate, duplicate data, dump data, data dump?
I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm curious what people's opinions are specifically around frontend. How can software enable someone who's blind to ensure that a frontend matches a design? Can we as a community develop new tools for this?
Nah. It's not going to get worse - GTFO with all these self-fulfilling prohpecies. It'll get much better. If we play our cards right, we could even create effective therapeutic against common cold, flu, and better treatment protocols for pneumonia. Lower respiratory disease alone takes 160K lives per year in the US (though much of it is caused by flu, which takes 30-60K lives per year). After the C19 statistical carpet bombing everyone is aware of these numbers now, so it should be much easier to get $$$ for R&D to deal with these problems that are as ancient as humanity itself.
Sounds bad. The government could tax Google and Facebook and decide to subsidize the media. Subsidizing the media would look weird probably but it would be more honest. Or am I wrong?
Theodore Roosevelt incident a portent of worse to come
Key quote from Halloween 1:

> OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market.
Here's an article from a far more reputable news media organization published today also which says the policy is a disaster:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/anger-in-swede...
I'd suggest making the focus being what you need in order to support yourself as a blind person, not being a software engineer.

There may be particular things blind people excel at and do very well with. Use a list of those things as your starting point.

Perhaps software engineering is on that list, but I'd make sure.
In this NPR podcast they expand on the methodology applied in S-Korea: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/837905422/the-coronavirus-gui...
I guess if you call killing bunch of innocent people "effective". But I think it's way too early to start comparing strategies.
> Italy was offered money under the ESM

The ESM has historically some bad reputation in my country, mainly in relation to Greece (I'm aware the ESM did not exist at the time, but most of the comparisons are drawn to that in our media). The government did not want it, or so they said, but in the end signed the agreement anyway (although I don't know if they'll ask for the money or not).
I think UBI as a single monolithic program for providing minimum resources to provide the basics of food/shelter etc can be much improved on by other means:

[0]Instead, I think a constellation of smaller, targeted programs (think best-of-breed) might be more effective and provide a more robust effect: If a society provides universal healthcare, comprehensive unemployment benefits that don't have absurdly low caps, housing & food subsidies for those close to the poverty level, comprehensive disability benefits, and probably a few other things I'm missing, then the need for a "universal" UBI is diminished: That too can be targeted towards people not otherwise covered by the above. The advantage is that each program can be highly tailored to the specific needs & nuances of those seeking that specific benefit, rather than just throwing a larger block of money at people.

[0]Note: I'm not particularly attached to this idea. I think is has merit, but my goal is to start a conversation about the idea, sort of pressure-test it, not proclaim it as the way to do things.
Accessibility engineering perhaps.

I'm fairly certain I'm going to get ARMD because of genetics and family history, and won't have anyone to care for me. It's going to suck.

As my late grandfather said: Getting old isn't for wimps, but the alternative is worse.
Not cynical at all. Speaking from experience, it is just reality. They are still scientists, but in practice it is more like the technical lead who also does the fundraising. At least in the US, universities do not take "good care" of their researchers. Researchers take care of the university. Direct funding and overhead income from grants is super important to university budgets.
This is something I have not seen discussed or explained anywhere:

Spain has such a hard lockdown and yet even after 5 weeks there are still thousands of cases every day. How are so many new people getting infected? The same has been true in Italy.
I've got vitamin D deficiency (gastric sleeve surgery)... usually forget my supplement. Been taking it religiously for a month... hope that helps if I get it (obese + sleep apnea + 40 are my only co-morbidities -that and I do get bronchitis a lot had it earlier in the spring from nasal drip.)
> You and I must be thinking of different professionals.

Not sure about you, but I suspect they're thinking of professional politicians and the professionals politicians hire.
Cassandra Shrugged
Quit programming and get a job at delivery or Walmart.
This job is killing you.
Back when I used to work with cad software, you could select elements by using a drag box, but interestingly there were two kinds. I'm gonna call them inclusive and exclusive because idk what they're actually called, but dragging the region one way created a selection of contents completely contained in the region. The other way would create a selection of any object partly contained in that region. It was an interesting way to deal with large amounts of intersecting objects and selecting the correct one
There is this guy who is pretty well known in the spanish dev community:

https://twitter.com/kastwey

https://www.xataka.com/otros/soy-ciego-nacimiento-asi-mi-tra...

He often talks at conferences about his situation and setup, so if you understand spanish you might be able to find quite
a lot on this. Also it might be worth a shot contacting him for more info.

Best of luck with your new adventure.
Excalidraw is super smooth! Thanks for sharing.
First, I'm very sorry this is happening to you. I hope to later read where you have been very successful.

I work for Red Hat, we have a successful executive named Chad E. Foster (https://chadefoster.com/), he has some recorded talks that outline some of the pitfalls he's encountered and the ways he found around them. Maybe his advice can be of use. (You might even consider reaching out. He seems a very approachable guy.)

I worked closely with another person who went blind. He relied on big monitors and monitor settings to help him.

Good luck, we'll all be rooting for you.
I don’t see how that’s a mistake at all from a customer perspective. You’re asking a consumer to buy something very expensive that in the past could do a whole bunch of things like go long distances, but now does less of those things. In exchange you provide them with more fuel efficiency? Maybe a good feeling about being environmentally sound? That’s not a good trade off in most customer’s minds.

Your response seems to be, “then rent for those occasions.” But that means the customer has to change their mindset, break long established habits. That’s a big ask.

If you’re Tesla you build a car that is better in every way than an old car EXCEPT mildly less convenient on range. Clearly that has legs, but lots of Tesla owners have a house/garage, and lots have another car, it’s not viable for a lot of people.

Hopefully alternative vehicles will improve to the point where there are no compromises, but until then I think it’s a fools errand to argue customers should just change how they think. They won’t unless forced to by outside pressures such as regulation or a massive change to the pricing structure of owning a regular car.
This is more like the picture le carre paints
I can't imagine how hard it is to keep positive in this situation and I think it's great that you're asking these practical questions to help your future self out. I hope you get some really useful answers from the rest of the community.

I don't have the answers to those questions but I did want to drop a line of encouragement and say this; your hard work up until now will not be wasted, whatever you end up doing. You can — and will — find ways to continue to stretch and apply your engineering mind, and most likely in ways that you can't predict right now.

Later on, you will look back and find that nobody would be better placed for whatever you're doing at that moment than you.

Finally (and I'm not saying this to deter you from continuing down the SE route, there are plenty of examples online of partially-sighted or blind SEs doing very well and you're attitude is indicative that you should experience no different), but everyone of us has so much more to give to this world than just our skillset, and you don't need a qualification for the things that truly matter in life.

Keep going and I echo the other commenter, take car of your soul, it's important.
There is a lot of good advice here, and I know you can continue to do SE if you’re committed. In addition to the advice here, you could consider

- finding businesses who would benefit from employing a blind SE. I have no idea who, but probably companies who care a lot about accessibility

- you could become a tech project manager or another career that is tangential to SE. I know there will be obstacles to overcome, but maybe not as many as in SE, idk.
Perhaps the Australian government would prohibit Australian companies from advertising with FB/Google?
Some reporter asked Matt Hancock how long was a reasonable length of exercise, and he suggested half an hour to an hour for most people - that's probably where it came from. It's not official guidance and certainly not a hard and fast rule anyway. From what I recall the once a day part is also only a guideline and not actually the law in most of the UK (except Wales).
"Without fast case isolation after restrictions ease, modelling shows that the virus could spread exponentially and ultimately kill 100,000 Kiwis."

The left out the word "unreasonable". "Unresaonable modelling shows..."

See the Tailrisk analysis: http://www.tailrisk.co.nz/documents/Corona.pdf
They have 3x the deaths per capita than germany and 30x that of south korea. "Better than italy or spain" is a rather low bar.
I'm not familiar with his writings to cite more detail, but it seems to me if he supported a sort of Social Security, then he was advocating for a targeted UBI. Maybe that's just semantics though.
Rpki-Client
US coronavirus death toll tops 40k
Grandjs New Features
i posted below about big pharma using blockchain to share private data as an example, as another: most of the gamers / digital art enthusiasts are newcomers to the "blockchain field" and only in it bc of the value they derive from the scarcity / durability and therefore tradability of these items
I think you're overthinking things.

The OP makes the basic point that epidemic logistic/S-curves like Covid look like exponential growth for a good portion of their trajectory and so will behave like exponential for a reasonable period in the future. And the data is inherently noisy. Trying to get more than that is counter-productive. Basically, the bulk of the data is pointing to massive death later, the factor stopping that is factors external to the data we have now.

Basically, we know the epidemic is ramping now, we know there's some limit to how far it can go but we don't really know that limit 'till we're close. And trying to get more clever than this results in really bad claims (like guessing we're peaking and abandoning caution).

I'd also add testing results have been unreliable based on real world limits to testing (limits to number of tests, general screw-ups). Death data is more reliable than testing data but delayed by infections taking time to kill people.

The "quick and dirty" modeling of Tomas Pueyo has been more successful than clever actions.

See:
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...

In contrast, https://covid-19.direct has good data but too clever algorithm for spotting peaks. If you browse their data, you get used to garbage "forecasts" of where the peak is.

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...
I wonder why the downvote? If you, or if you have kids going to college, make sure they're on every internal mailing list possible that college has. That's how I found out about a lot of scholarships. I didn't have any debt because I found out about the scholarships and asked staff and professors to nominate me.

A professor who hears about a scholarship, or a department head who emails their staff, generally doesn't think to include the financial aid office, or any other office in the university.
You can view Swedish ICU admissions data yourself here: https://www.icuregswe.org/en/data--results/covid-19-in-swedi.... New admissions to the ICU due to Covid-19 appear to be flat or possibly even declining.
I think we'll have to wait for the end of this to see which strategy has been effective and which one has not.

Sweden might not be at a plateau yet and turn into the UK in a couple of weeks time. Or they are indeed at a plateau and they will reach herd immunity with minimal societal and economical damage.

Other countries with hard lockdowns might look good in comparison to Sweden at the moment but might have a hard-hitting second wave.

Whatever the outcome, we won't know until this is over. Which is why I am not a big fan of comparing 'effectiveness' at this early stage.
Do you think enforcing that lists never are empty is more efficient?

If the language can prove the list is not empty, it can elide constructing that “Either” object and optimize away the caller’s error path.

If it can’t (and there will be lots of cases where it won’t be able to, even though it theoretically could), what will it do? Return an incorrect value, abort the program, refuse to run the code, something else?
i read Brian as well
I've actually reposted this a couple times since I thought it was interesting and it never gained traction, so at this point I don't remember for sure how I originally came across it. A quick search shows this page has the same link and some more info: http://www.scmessinacapital.com/blog/2015/04/where-can-i-see...

So I suppose the context was probably that I had just watched The Big Short and was reading up on the topic some more haha.
Which languages work best with a screen reader?
Nay, i'd rather https://cairoshell.com/
That article is specifically about elderly homes, not about the overall strategy. Elderly homes have been a disaster. But the decision to not force a lockdown via regulations like other countries have done has worked well so far.
Except that it isn’t THE ‘Google Play Store’ that got breached, but it is actually a third-party Android App Store called Aptoide.

> It is Aptoide that would appear to have been breached by a hacker who claims to have stolen 39 million customer records and has published details of 20 million of them, including login emails and hashed passwords, on a popular hacker forum.

I’m afraid that this clickbait title seems to be very misleading here. Close but still no cigar.
While I don’t have this my grandmother became blind so there could be a genetic disposition and I’ve wondered (worried?) about what would happen if I did. I would focus on the things I could manipulate with my mind rather than a keyboard and monitor. Basically this boils down to the algorithms and mathematical aspects, they are more about thinking and logic than writing code.

All too often we get stuck in the tools and not the thing we are trying to do. I remember a quite about photography (sorry for a story about vision): “I wanted to become a photographer so I took a class. We learned all sorts of things shutter speeds, aperture, film types, etc. But of all the things we learned, we never learned where to point the damned camera!” The computer science take on this quote is “Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." I try to keep these in mind when I feel myself drifting towards the tools side of things and come back to what’s important.

As also noted, there’s never been a better time for accessibility than now. It’s an opportunity to advance that area and become an expert.
Some kind stranger has explained the numerical solution and even provided code in Python:

http://hplgit.github.io/wavebc/doc/pub/._wavebc_cyborg001.ht...

We only need to apply it to a circle and rewrite the solver in C. This will give us a visualizer for a single frequency.

Then we run FFT, run the solver for all frequencies, observe that the final solution is a linear combination of the individual solutions and apply the rainbow coloring to corresponding frequencies.

This solver needs to be kinda fast to run at 15 fps, but luckily, different frequencies can be solved in parallel. Most likely, changing the input frequency a bit will change the solution only a little, and so we could pre-solve the frequency range with sufficient density, cache them and rapidly derive actual solutions by interpolation.

Bonus points for using complex numbers. The boundary condition in a singing bowl is u(x0, t) = A sin(Bt) where x0 denotes the circular boundary. Since real numbers are boring, we could expand the problem into the complex plane: u(x0, t) = A exp(iBt). In this case the solution u(x, t) would be in complex plane also, where the absolute value |u| is the amplitude, or pixel opacity on our visualization, and the angular coordinate arg u would be maybe color of that pixel?
A pause button as I see it would be something like issuing every american a food card for groceries.

Moratorium on all bills, esp rents and mortgages. Prop up the companies that can't weather that, or that are crucial like cell phone bills, internet, electricity, water. When bills resume they resume as if it's the next month, not w/ 'backup due'.

The reason its hard is because you can't hold off evictions for rent, if the mortgage company is gonna foreclose, but if you stop each chink of the chain of bills from collecting more bills, then it's just a matter of sit/wait.

When you go back, everything should theoretically still be the way it was.

At the basis everyone would be guaranteed to have their phone, internet, gas, electric, water, home, and food. All the essentials. Companies and commercial real estate would follow the same thing -- no rent for restaurants for example to the commercial real estate company that owns the building, no insurance payments, etc... Full pause.
I think it's more accurate to say the public cares somewhat, and consequently politicians do too (they sometimes roll out accusations of "un-Australian" tax minimization to suit their agenda).
But politicians don't dare to move against the big companies because they know they'll lose. Both in campaign/party donations and in being targeted at the next election if their policies are going to impact those companies (see what happened with the mining companies and the Carbon tax).
This same thing could happen with these "internet" companies who would only need to devote a little of their local advertising to a campaign against the change and against the party proposing it to have any public support cancelled out and politicians quickly reversing their position.
A patchwork of "targeted" programs is unsatisfactory for many reasons. It lets people fall through the cracks, and it results in unintended effects as the programs are not designed or managed in a consistent way. The need for some sort of minimal income floor is universal, and it should be addressed in a universally-applicable way.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=retinitis+pigmen...

i hope the link can help you trials of new medications
What Do Antibody Tests for SARS-CoV-2 Tell Us About Immunity?
Abiogenesis implies natural means, but I agree that we simply do not know.
Are there consulting firms that specialize in 508 audits? Seems like a potentially lucrative field given the activist lawsuits that happen in this area.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/ada-website-litigation-...
When you get down to it, between cache coherency across CPUs and memory, disk flush delays and disk caches, every database is eventually consistent.

And if you want to operate over a distributed network, which means you WILL have network partitions, then you are subject to CAP and will need eventual consistency mechanisms.
There is no reason you can't keep a disease at a very low level (to the point any given person is unlikely to get the disease over their lifetime) via testing, contact tracing and quarantine. Iceland and South Korea both prove you can in fact.
It works fine here on Ubuntu 19.10 (kernel 5.3).

I just run the following commands to stop gdm and X after booting:

sudo systemctl stop gdm
sudo systemctl stop systemd-logind
sudo killall gdm-x-session

Then start my VM. libvirt automatically unbinds it from the host and binds to the VM. You're right though, in the past this has been problematic. It is working fine though now at least on my Radeon WX 5100.
How do you think they generate revenue?
Facebook and Google to face mandatory code of conduct to 'level playing field'
I'm not sure how much it erodes the desire to work: Having a minimum wage job that that keeps you at the the poverty level doesn't really dissuade people from wanting more and trying to get it. The entire culture of having a "career path" with an upward trajectory runs counter to the idea that people, given something like UBI, will suddenly stop wanting & being willing to work for more.
Canada gunman kills more than 10 in worst act of mass murder in 30 years
That still doesn't change the absolute numbers of people needing medical attention though.
Good luck man. I'm mildly visually impaired myself and the average person gives it no consideration whatsoever.
South Korea is a huge outlier.