skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the situation caused by the laws and policies in place and their physical and mental heath issues.

I have some sympathy because I got sick in the early 2000's and couldn't work and was just about overwhelmed with just trying to figure out what was wrong medically. Fortunately I had enough savings to see me through without having to worry about being homeless. And enough professional contacts that I was able to land a light duty job once I started recovering. I only needed to work 3-4 hours a day at first.
This feature is what I need for all battery gadgets like smartphones, MacBooks, and earbuds, etc..
Genuinely curious, does playing video games really improve focus etc.? Is this anecdotal, or did you read some paper somewhere?
I want to say this looks like a great product. I was very surprised at how "complete" it seems. I manage one of the most iconic guitar stores in the world and have been selling gear and generally been a gear head for 15+ years. Needless to say I was extremely skeptical when I read the title of this article.

If you can market this and produce it at scale I guarantee you'll sell millions of these things to the middle of the road guitar center learning to play guy. That demographic is fucking huge and probably represents 80% of the guitar based economy.

I would market it that way. I would market this as an easy fuss free interface for conjuring classic tones to learn and play with your favorite artists. If possible a Rocksmith style learn along feature would be amazing.

Really impressed with the simple interface, the apparent ease with which you dial up reasonably good jcm 800 and acoustic type sounds, and how the Alexa script seems to automatically dial in a tone to match the backing track.

Really well done. If you get it to market hit me up I guarantee I can sell these things.
That is indeed quite the story.

In case the YT link evaporates, I downloaded it.

Also see the author's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/laowhy86
So I started working with MCCs (Merchant Category Codes AKA ISO 18245) and I needed some decent lookup tables for them.

I just spent several hours fighting with awful spec PDFs containing hundreds upon hundreds of tables of these. Well, Tabula made quick work of all of them:

https://github.com/jleclanche/python-iso18245

It extracted over 200 pages of tables with nearly no errors, and maybe a grand total of ~15 mins of manual cleanup work needed to have the data be processable by the library.

Final CSVs: https://github.com/jleclanche/python-iso18245/tree/master/is...
Yes that's the one, I forgot what it was called. Always found this part interesting (from the wiki):

"This inner speech is characterized by minuscule movements in the larynx and other muscles involved in the articulation of speech. Most of these movements are undetectable (without the aid of machines) by the person who is reading."
I panicked a bit in March, partly because I watched a video of a mathematics YouTuber, who I think is pretentious. Usually I don't watch his videos, because I think he's pretentious. But I watched his video about exponential growth and epidemics. At the end there is the text "The only thing to fear is the lack of fear itself." (the opposite of what Franklin D. Roosevelt said).

I would have panicked less if I had read the text of this hacker news story, instead.
Disney stops paying 100k workers to save $500m a month
Curious, when doing your research on the syndrome, did you encounter following article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/jhg201029

And did you read majority of articles that cite this article? https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Gene...
A couple of years ago I was staring down the barrel of giving up a 20 year career in software development due to a degenerative eye condition.

I can't tell you how many hours I wasted chasing parse errors in PHP code because I literally couldn't see the difference between a "." and "," anymore.

My solution ended up being transplant surgery to replace one of my corneas, which has largely restored vision in one eye. I still use a lot of large fonts, high contrast, etc, but I'm able to manage much easier on a day to day basis.

I had a wonderfully supportive employer, so when it was clear to me that unless something changed dramatically (i.e. surgery) I would no longer be able to do my current job we sat down (at my instigation) and discussed what this might look like in terms of both what sort of role I could continue to do, and what I wanted to do (not always the same thing, and the latter is important).

My manager at the time said something which has stuck with me. He said that (paraphrasing) the thing he really valued was the care, thought and attention I paid to the work I did. And that the way that had been expressed was through fingers on keyboard writing code. We just needed to find a way of capturing that thought and turning it into code a different way.

We never fully made the transition into a completely different role because my surgery meant I was able to continue (after 20 years I still love coding and didn't want to entirely give that up). But for me, that was going to mean spending more time with junior developers, coaching, mentoring, etc. I didn't want to manage people, so moving up the chain into management wasn't an option for me. But Project Management, might be an option that allows you to leverage some technical skills, but be less dependent on your vision.

So, if your employer is amenable, don't try to do this alone. See what changes can be made to accommodate your needs. Having a degenerative condition where you're not going blind overnight is an advantage, because it means you can work with your employer to adapt your role over time to suit you.
And yet, had he been accused of supporting, say, Mussolini, or had he a lifelong fondness for rightist nationalism, he would have been milkshake-ducked into irrelevance today.

Nuance, per Marcuse, is something we can only afford for the left.
Sonny you haven’t found yet The Force That Binds the Mind and Body
Oof, I feel that. Any ideas towards improving focus on more difficult efforts? I end up with a lot of unfinished tasks and it's been notably counterproductive.
Conversely, it actually serves as a reminder for you to prioritize the work rather than coming across and old todo as a happenchance, when you're not in the frame of mind or have the time to fix it.

Yes, it's tedium. But it's necessary tedium. It's documentation.
Is is really laziness or perceived inadequacy? It is super easy to fall into the trap of you are lazy. Instead ask, is the expectation that you feel justified or are you measuring yourself against something that is not sustainable.
My company (prgmr.com) gave a presentation about hiring our first blind engineer at SCALE last year:

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/presentations/accid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvrQPdt1X30&feature=youtu.be

We hired another blind developer who occasionally does some frontend work. If any sort of visual layout is involved, that obviously needs review, but he's able to add on to existing pages. He's also trying selenium for testing the visual layout.

It will probably be more of a challenge for you since you're having to learn to deal with lack of vision as an adult rather than having been blind since a young age. In your position I'd seek out advice specifically from others who have gone through the same process.
As a manager, here are my reasons:

1. Biggest one: transfer of knowledge between people is lower bandwidth than going to one person. If I have Jill and Jane doing work function A, I can assign primary responsibility to some sub-parts A1 and A2 to Jill and A3 and A4 to Jane. If I need A2 on Tuesday when Jill is off, sure Jane can do it (and as a manager I should make sure of that) but it would take her more time while her othe things slip.

2. Overhead per employee: I have to do one on ones, regular reviews, and various other per-employee bureaucracy.

3. All team update meetings and other get togethers requiring non-trivial subset of the team get exponentially harder to organize.
I'm a former professor (tenured) and have been watching from the sidelines. I've been discussing this all with my friends still in university faculty positions.

I agree with you 100% but think the prospects of returning are not nearly as dire as some are making it out to be. I also think it depends a lot on the institution.

A lot of schools are going to reopen in the fall. By then there will be incredibly extensive testing and lockdowns will be mostly gone by a couple of months at least. If the quarantines continue the economic losses will boil over and there will be riots. There will be an increase in cases in the summer and then it will subside.

Many schools won't have any choice but to reopen. When they do, they'll probably offer extensive testing to incoming students as a service, probably some sort of current-status test as well as antibody test, as a courtesy and safety matter. They'll also make it incredibly easy to get for students who return, and will probably have a lot of policies in place to allow students on campus, and probably will have some kind of hybrid system in place where smaller seminars and classes will meet normally, but other things will kind of be pushed to a combination of online classes and smaller in-person classes. Large lectures will be gone for year or so, which probably should have been the case anyway. Students will be on campus again, but will be offered a lot of health services and courses won't be quite the same. Sports might be on hold in the fall.

College age students are probably the lowest risk of COVID complications of any age group, which will ease concerns about pandemics.

The bottom line is it doesn't matter what 20-year professors say. The students don't have anything else to do, and for a lot of them, they're not spending their own money anyway, or it's money that's all in the future in the form of debt. So rather than sitting at home, with their parents they tried to escape, they'll return. Open the doors and they will come.

Besides this, the feds will throw money at the universities like there's no tomorrow as a way of stimulating whatever they can. It's easy to politically justify. There won't be many strings attach to bring needed reforms (for example, eliminating indirect funds on grants) as now is not the time to ratchet down the screws. As a result the inexorable march toward nationalized higher education will continue even more among R1 institutions.

Smaller schools might struggle if they don't have enough money, and public unis being screwed by states or municipalities already (Arizona, as an example) will be in crisis. But many others will grumble and panic and then be fine.

I wish like hell this crisis would instigate a lot of changes to the bullshit that is higher ed at the moment, but it will not. And I disagree with Prof. Klein in her advice, at least as blanket advice that applies to everyone: students should consider their unique situation, as every case will be different in these times.
I have a tough time concentrating on hard problems too. I don't have ADHD, I'm just scatterbrained and easily distracted. When I do hit that "zone" I can stay in it for hours, but I rarely get to that point on any single problem. Here are some things I do:

Go for a walk. Don't face the problem head on specifically, just absorb the gist of the problem and then go for a walk and let your sub conscious deal with it, then about half way through your walk, start talking out loud about it. This works well for me when I'm stuck on something.

Learn what real problem solving is. Look up the Wikipedia article on Troubleshooting, it's fantastic and has some great insights.

The main thing about problem solving is not to be overwhelmed by the entire problem. Break it down into its most basic forms, and then solve a part of it, then work toward the solution. Don't try to build all of the solution at once. Iterate toward it. It works.

HTH YMMV.
Rob Pike's Acme editor is another powerful tiling editor you can check out.
An important issue raised by Karl Lauterbach (health-focussed politician) is that we may have averted a full crisis (for now), but every loosening of the measures will lead to a higher spread of the virus and that directly means more deaths. We should think hard whether we should only focus on free ICU beds.
It is actually a problem with UBI: UBI does not line up with most people's beliefs about who deserves help, those beliefs are so powerful that they resulted in the creation of our existing welfare systems, and they aren't going to go away overnight.
Someone doesn’t have to have ADHD to shirk from hard problems.

Expecting technical/intellectual problems to be easy to solve is something that is drilled into most people by the school system, which rarely if ever present problems that take more than a few minutes to solve, and pretty much never expect students to try tackling problems that require weeks of effort.

The result is that when many people encounter a hard problem, if they can’t make progress after spending a bit of effort on it, they give up and conclude that either the problem is too hard or they are too stupid to keep going.

There is probably an influence from inherent personality differences, but I would speculate that building up stamina for tackling hard problems comes down substantially to practice.
The problem with those games is that it is easy to spend a full day playing them:

- StarCraft tries to keep your win rate at 50%, so a lot of the time you will find yourself frustrated.

- DotA games can be really long, and some people get really upset.

Now, I recommend you write down how you feel before playing these games, and how you feel after. And try to see if it helps.

Do you feel ready to study or work on a side project for 6 hours? I doubt so. You will probably feel ready for another match, and another, and another.
Yes this was 2 years ago, I ended up at Columbia Ophthalmology in NYC and they were able to get me DNA tested after another local doctor failed to assist me in doing so. USH2A is the name of the specific condition if you're curious.
Apparently supermarkets are starting to move to systems similar to this - instead of paper price tickets on shelves you have tiny e-ink displays built into the shelves, and when the store product layout is generated it also generates a database of what tickets should display what prices. Then all you have to do is have someone walking around updating the tags, it reads an identifier from the tag and uploads the corresponding price ticket.

Similarly, this works for any application where you have signage that doesn't need real-time updates but isn't permanent enough to be worth wasting paper over. To continue the supermarket example, recalled product lists at the front of the store, or employee notices in the break room would also be good candidates for NFC powered e-ink display.
It was already mentioned in a sub-comment, but I think it deserves a more thoughtful top-level comment and a little bit of personal anecdote. (Edit to clarify: more thoughtful than the other top-level comment; the sub-comment was also very thoughtful. Edit 2 to add: another good top-level comment addressed this possibility while I was writing this response.)

I would seriously encourage you to consider an evaluation for ADHD, if you have not already. Easily giving up when confronted with challenges is a classic ADHD behavior, and it's often described and perceived as laziness. Having greater success under higher pressure is a classic trait as well.

I'm (obviously) not qualified to diagnose you, but I recognized something of myself in your description of the difficulties you're facing (so much so that the first thing I did before typing was find-in-page for ADHD just to see what had already been discussed).

It's possible the tendency to retreat from challenges is part of a feedback loop. You mention that your confidence suffers. This is more likely to discourage you from facing future challenges. Each challenge feels a little more out of reach, and each consequence increases the pressure.

One thing that a lot of undiagnosed adults don't know is that ADHD can present like as anxiety and depression. It can also look like fear and apathy. It's hard to spot, because we're accustomed to childhood symptoms, which are often a lot more disruptive.

If it helps encourage you to consult with your doctor (if you haven't already): a little over a year ago I was diagnosed. I've been adjusting treatment over that time, and it's still not perfect, but in that time I went from an anxious falling apart mess grateful to have a job at all, to taking on leadership of a team. (Obviously, a great deal of other things have improved along with that, but I'm trying to stay relevant to the question.) Side effects of my particular med (currently vyvanse) are non-existent, I'm just gradually working up to a dose that works for me. Even times of greater stress don't discourage me (though they can require more recovery time, but... that's normal?). There's been literally no downside.

Like I said, I'm in no way offering a diagnosis, but I would seriously encourage seeing someone who can. And if you're going that route, I'd also encourage doing some reading on how ADHD affects/presents in adults. The DSM is... well, entirely geared toward childhood diagnosis, and your doctor may rely on that.
Yeah, but I don't think projektfu was talking about sedition, so bringing up sedition didn't seem relevant to me. projektfu was just using the quote as a reference to an example type of forbidden speech.

The podcast you linked to in your other comment seems to think the quote is true today (although not useful in most discussion due to being too obviously true):

> It’s a rhetorical device to say the First Amendment is not absolute, which is true, but that’s not in dispute. [...]

> It’s as if we were looking at an animal on the side of the road trying to decide what it is and I said not all animals are cats. Your reaction would be yes, thank you, I am aware, but the question is, what is that animal? We have the tools we need to decide what that animal is on the side of the road. With free speech those tools are a 100 years of Supreme Court cases.

There are people still being crushed to death at events today, maybe not theaters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_stampedes_and_cr...
Voting without information is like air conditioning without a thermometer, or self-driving cars without LIDAR, or regular cars with a blind driver: It just doesn't work. Because the information flow needs to be circular to allow the actuator (voter) to react to the results of previous actions.

There used to be this fantasy that hobbyist bloggers would fill in where professional journalism fails. Here's a map "news deserts" where the latter has happened: https://www.usnewsdeserts.com. There is no map of the former, because bloggers tend to get up too late to attend boring 9am meetings of the residential refuse working group.

You might be under the impression that relevant news will somehow "diffuse" to get to you. That's a common idea among what's called "low-information voters", who tend to never read any news themselves and extrapolate from there.

It's wrong because they miss that the information that gets to them is simply second-hand journalism: It's full of holes and sometimes has (brown) stains. But the parts of it that are accurate almost invariably originate from professional news sources.
Aneurin Bevan, The Minister of Health under which the NHS was created, said that to win support of the doctors, "I stuffed their mouths with gold".
Subjecting Urbit to Lacanian/Žižekian psychoanalysis is like feeding Zippy the Pinhead quotes into ELIZA, just without the computer.
Just a random comment on your 3rd short - 5 days ago Medicare doubled the reimbursement it will pay for COVID tests. It used to be $51 and is now $100.[1]

Although we're testing more than before, there are still millions (tens of millions?) of people that will need to be tested and a significant fraction will be seniors on Medicare.

That's a lot of money being dangled in front of physicians, laboratories and test manufacturers. When I saw that news the first things I thought was "someone is going to try to get a piece of that any way they can".

[1]https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-increases-me...
Solve the climate crisis by building — energy experts say that all carbon-based electrical power generation on the planet could be replaced by a few thousand new zero-emission nuclear reactors, so let’s build those. Maybe we can start with 10 new reactors? Then 100? Then the rest?

Yeah, let's not do that.
Somebody has to take care of kids during working hours.

It can be the parents only if we expect the parents (at least one parent in every family) not to work, which would require an immense reversal in our social structure. Something like 25% of families are single-parent families, do we expect all these people to quit their jobs in order to raise kids?

To put it bluntly, if the alternative is to put women back in the role of 'Kinder Kuche Kirche' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche) then it justifies declaring that "warehousing kids" should be one of the key functions of educational institutions; simply because it's an important function that needs to be done by someone other than the working parent(s) and they can fulfil that function reasonably well. Sure, education should be a priority, but IMHO it's better for everyone involved if we explicitly acknowledge all the various valuable functions what our society needs (and gets!) from schools instead of falsely pretending that it's only the education.

Or do you have in mind some other option that removes this role from the educational institutions while still allowing the parent(s) to go on full time employment?
Most health care is not emergency care so there is a lot of choice. Same with education.

They could easily be freed from massive amounts of regulation.
I do flexible part time hours. As in, I'm flexible. I'm on Slack if people need me. I work when there are hours for me. I get to pay rent, take a trip whenever I want, work on side projects, and work on interesting work.

I agree completely that it's crazy that it is not not common. We make an insane rate compared to the average salary, might as well take advantage of that and enjoy some extra time.
Thanks, Ill take a look into it. It seems hn has no place for discussion these days and will down-vote anything.
How do you get it so clean? My renders have artifacts no matter how high I crank up the fidelity: https://github.com/brundonsmith/raytracer

Edit: I just zoomed way in and I can see ever so slight bits of speckling :) Maybe I'm just not turning the bounce-ray count up high enough...
Not everyone has the skills and leverage to negotiate a schedule that actually suits them best. In most employee/employer relationships, the employer has far more leverage to dictate work schedules and conditions. Being in this situation is caused neither by a lack of self control, or by spinelessness.
Swiss Cat Ladders: Documenting and Deconstructing Feline-Friendly Infrastructure
An interesting read, though it contains lots of generalisations and speculation presented as guaranteed outcomes.

USA suffers from exceptionalism on a number of fronts -- it's unsurprising that claims of UBI (in)applicability is also on that list.
I agree, but that would bust the narrative that there are no local carriers any more, only "imported cases".