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Should people still try to become a coder?
Adapting to the Digital Megapolis
Ask HN: Anyone interested in helping blind/low vision individuals become coders?
I come across many blind people who are trying to learn coding but struggle due to accessibility problems. My startup develops an AI app for the blind and many blind people reach out to me for help as they are learning coding. I am not a software developer and I don't know much about how to make software development accessible. Is anyone interested in helping blind/low vision individuals become...
Ask HN: How do you plan and track the books you want to read?
Hey,I think I have a problem. My want-to-read list on Goodreads currently has more than 2100 books. I probably have more than 50 online classes that I want to take.I constantly find new things that I want to learn about. I have multiple lists on Goodreads with titles of "Urgent reads" and "The most urgent reads". Things get reprioritized so often that I don't actually end up reading or learning...
Developing countries face economic collapse in COVID-19 fight: UN
Re:The New Generation of Self-Created Utopias
on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:06PM (#22095953)
“Along with David Sloan Wilson, director of the evolutionary studies program at Binghamton University, and Ian MacDonald, a graduate assistant, they contacted more than 1,000 people living in 174 communities across the U.S. and Canada and asked them to rate their happiness level on the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), a globally recognized measurement tool. They compared these results to a widely cited 2008 study by the psychologists William Pavot and Ed Diener, which surveyed past studies that used the scale to analyze 31 disparate populations — including Dutch adults, French-Canadian university students and the Inuit of northern Greenland — and discovered that members of intentional communities scored higher than 30 of the 31 groups.“
A part of me always resisted the idea that these communities could work, but, this study is enough of a reason to make me a believer.
Some of US Military's current R&D needs (SBIR 20.A and 20.1)
Re:Guerilla Gardening (2015)
on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:34PM (#21860105)
Does anyone know if any regulations may limit these actions in the US?
Re:Year in Search 2019 — Heroes
on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:24PM (#21860061)
This video made me cringe. I am not surprised to see a commercial appropriating feel-good videos. Somehow, seeing especially Google do this makes me feel more disappointed. They are just another big corporation. Maybe, I believe they are capable of doing heroic stuff and I don't see them actually doing it.
Re:Fashionable Problems
on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:12PM (#21859999)
The heuristic of trying to work on what you genuinely love is not helpful or practical for most people. It sounds good, but it is just a platitude.
Genuine love and fake love feel and look pretty similar. Most people naturally start loving the life they live in, if it is generally positive. Then, they make up a self-affirming, coherent narrative that justifies their emotions, decisions, and interests. If you do an AI startup, life goes well for you, and you embrace that decision and life, how can you differentiate whether it was really a genuine interest or not?
Mimicking Local News, a Network of Michigan Websites Pushes Politics
Re:Increased rates of myopia linked to reduced time outside, studies s...
on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:00AM (#21113755)
VisionSpring, a social venture, provides people glasses - which they say costs them $4-5 each. They claim that uncorrected refractive error costs the global economy an estimated $227 billion a year.
https://visionspring.org/why-eyeglasses
Re:Increased rates of myopia linked to reduced time outside, studies s...
on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:57AM (#21113717)
The other side of this problem is that more than one billion people around the world can't afford glasses.
"More than a billion people around the world need eyeglasses but don’t have them, researchers say, an affliction long overlooked on lists of public health priorities. Some estimates put that figure closer to 2.5 billion people. They include thousands of nearsighted Nigerian truck drivers who strain to see pedestrians darting across the road and middle-aged coffee farmers in Bolivia whose inability to see objects up close makes it hard to spot ripe beans for harvest. Then there are the tens of millions of children like Shivam across the world whose families cannot afford an eye exam or the prescription eyeglasses that would help them excel in school."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/health/glasses-developing...
Ask HN: US government funds a lot of tech research, why don't startups use it?
Some people know about SBIRs (small business innovative research grants), through which federal government gives away more than $1B of R&D funding to small businesses. There are many more opportunities open for small businesses. For example, AirForce recently opened a $100M solicitation looking for machine learning technologies.I know government grant process can be very cumbersome but so...