skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Access is still around, still hanging on by one finger in some orgs (search your favorite news aggregator for whimsical stories). So there may be an opportunity for somebody with decent knowledge of the Access pitfalls to offer a service getting clients into modern times.

Is he allowed books (defining your scope of 'printed')? They'd be so much better than printing a web site.

Becoming a Google Apps consultant might be a good route and get him going quickly. Knowing how to take a company's workflow into Docs, Sheets, etc., is as much methodology as it is tech and code. If he's got good people skills, can see flow at a higher level, this requires very little to get started. The docs are pretty decent but I don't know how many pages this will take to print https://developers.google.com/apps-script/overview

For something more technical, perhaps take a look at the django project's docs. https://www.djangoproject.com/start/

It's going to take some work to get things set up and there's a lot of stuff that's going to be scary new.

But with minimal tweaking it offers a really decent admin interface that's relatively easy to customize and apply input rules, just like an Access database.

Python is relatively easy for BASIC programmers to pick up and loops, decision logic, that kind of thing is directly translatable with very little learning.

I got started professionally with dBase back in the dark ages, jumping from amateur BASIC on a Commodore PET. If he's inquisitive, hungry, determined, and willing to put in the hours there's a journey to getting current again.

Good luck to your dad and I hope you get some useful advice from this thread.
State worker pensions are generally product of union negotiation.
“Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ.”
While we are giving tips, sometimes all you need is the fetch() api in F12 in your favourite browser. And the good think about using that is you then remember the api better for when you are programming again. I've done this before for simple jobs.
That’s assuming perfect information. Behavioral economics begs to differ on that being even close to reality.
I would not necessarily worry a whole lot about anything I read in Tech Review.
Are you familiar with Bernie's plans of

a) giving 20% of ownership of large corporations and 40% of board seats to workers?

b) breaking up the big banks and helping community banks.

These are insanely good ideas and aren't simplistic. Unfortunately, many, including you, only scratched the surface of what Bernie was about.
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." - attrib. J.M. Keynes

Some of it is the common adage "Don't fight the Fed(eral Reserve Bank)." They are dumping what in any other time would be insane amounts of cash into the markets.

Then, there's hopium. Everyone hoping that there will be some quick way out.

This goes beyond just a few stocks like Amazon overweighting the averages - there are broad run-ups.

this does often happen in bear markets, where there's a first initial fall, then a rise, then the real crash to the ultimate lows.

We certainly have not yet seen the capitulation, evident of bear market bottoms, where the last holdouts finally throw in the towel and sell.

My thought experiment is to consider what would happen if it were magically fixed at midnight tonight. Six weeks ago, it probably would have returned to relatively solid footing. Now, I think significant permanent damage has been done. Six more weeks, likely more damage.

I'd love to see any other thoughts on how this thought experiment might play out
Firefox reading mode. It saves me 2-3 times per day. Don't know how I ever lived without it!
Not always immune system can recognize fragment of a virus as threat even if it was battling the very same virus before.
It doesn't strictly follow, you're right. But this punches a huge hole in the already kind of surprising/unlikely possibility that we had suddenly just discovered the first (or if I'm wrong, "a very rare") virus that can re-infect the same person with the same strain.
I would agree with you if there weren't so many case studies of other countries solving those problems with those exact, "blunt"-seeming solutions.
Sharing anecdotes about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps doesn't change the fact that the biggest predictors of your life outcomes are your parents incomes and your zip code.
>Just as was said on another informative thread I saw recently on HN, your facts (torrents, filesharing, non-neccesity of video etc) are correct but irrelevant.

So you're simply refusing to acknowledge anything which contradicts your narrative.

Well, good to know there's no point in continuing this conversation with you further. Good day.
Governments are reacting to a seemingly very high infection rate with a (best case from the numbers I've seen) fatality rate 10x higher than the flu and the inadequacy of healthcare systems to shoulder the burden all at once (which has more side effects, including more death).
Market cap tells you only the story of the equity. It doesn't include the liabilities.
Not related at all. I was referring to how people would cram in a town that provides nothing except a job. No parks, no common spaces, no joy.
Pretty much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ECqDaPjjV0

On a global scale GDP is actually negatively correlated with stock market performance.
Those with pensions tend to be union members; the pension being a benefit insisted upon in negotiations between unions and their (government) employers. If a state declares bankruptcy, lists pensions as a debt, and the federal discharges the pension debt, the GOP can thumb their noses at unions in a very big way.
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Boeing has been in a bad spot since the MAX disasters. It was probably one of the first stocks to dump once COVID-19 hit, so it's not like a lot of people are being caught off-guard by this new development.
Someone with considerable but realistic skill could build a passable approximation of a lot of successful web apps in a weekend, and a very small team of good people could probably build a production-ready version in a month.

It's the other 95% of what the original business did to become successful that usually gets overlooked.
Normally economic indicators are signals of what is to come. However with the sudden current crisis it's the other way around. Everybody already knows millions of people are without a job and the situation is very bad. This is not an economic crisis, this is a health crisis with economic consequences.
> Today, very few workers still have pensions

I've never seen a professional job that didn't include a pension - certainly not in the tech industry.
While the ordering is unusual (hence the lovely title) the difference between pirate and king is often who wins.

And plenty of kings supported and were supported by pirates, perhaps most famously Elizabeth I
> Has there ever been a time in US history that the federal government has been so openly antagonistic and overtly willing to attack opposite-party state governments? If so, what were the outcomes? If not, is there anything even close?

To be honest the most interesting thing to me is the US media. I don't think it has ever been so openly hostile towards one party and so hungry to cause a civil war. They're not even hiding it any more. They're operating as if the country were at war against the Republican Party and any person who is not a card-carrying Democrat must be eliminated, de-platformed, or represented in the most farcical way possible. It's incredible. It's the stuff that totalitarian states struggle to achieve, yet it seems to have happened "organically" in the US.

If I were a hostile actor I wouldn't even need to mount propaganda or spend money on my own content - I would just need to amplify the US media's message.
See also akrasia
Any idea whats the target date for it in the tree ?
> The worst, no default values for struct.

This is incorrect. There are other factual errors here as well.
That still means the company is toast. You're basically arguing that companies were way overpaying for their employees, and their stock price was inflated to begin with. The stock should still go down in that case.
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Aren't rando outsiders effectively "The Market"? Appealing to the authority of "The Market", as if it is this great metric of truth, while it currently runs around like a chicken with its head cut off, is not the best argument.

Shares surging by 9% on a vague promise to be profitable in 2 years time sounds like bandwagon behavior. Simple "Good News - Buy, Bad News - Sell" signalling. This is also "Adjusted EBITDA profitability", which is squirrelly, and 2021 means "Q4 of 2021". With recent events, it also seems less likely "The Market" was accurate in its assessment. Honestly that may not be entirely fair given the unprecedented nature, but isn't "The Market" supposed to factor in long-term threats, instead of short-sighted potential profitability proposals? If we were listening to the markets over the last few weeks, the world was either ending or the economy was booming and "nothing was wrong", all depending on what day of the week it was. Lots of sage wisdom being gained there.
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If it didn't work this way, protectionism wouldn't exist.

There are various economics models which show Germany has benefited the most from creation of EU

Sure countries in middle of Europe and east are improving their baseline but it's nothing compared to what Germany has achieved.

Germany is effectively china of EU.

It's funny to see the same people who oppose China's currency manipulation are in favour of EU

I suggest you read this:
https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-germany-shock-the-...
Warrant has a number of pretty political songs, Uncle Tom's Cabin also comes to mind. I mean, "Heaven" was on an album called "Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich" whose cover featured a caricature of the archetypal hyper-capitalist sleazebag.

Bon Jovi also wrote a lot of hit songs during that era featuring the suffering of working class people.
It's not only Ryanair - Air France are doing the same.
Except when Uber and Lyft were kicked out of Austin, ride austin was up in a matter of weeks
0.9 is not equal to 1,
0.99 is not equal to 1,
0.999 is not equal to 1,
0.9999 is not equal to 1,
0.99999 is not equal to 1,
0.999999 is not equal to 1,

and so on, ad infinitum.

Saying that if you add enough "9"s it suddenly equals 1.0 makes absolutely no sense to me, and I seriously doubt that anyone will be able to convince me that it does make sense. I've read every single post in this thread and none of you have gotten me any closer at all to believing or understanding that 0.9 repeating equals 1.

Maybe I'm too old to understand this "new math" where all numbers are equal to each other.
> I in general don't think we need specialist drivers or so called taxi to exist unless for niche crowds. It seems a lot more optimal if most people can go in and out when they want and do it. This must be cheaper and optimal due to scale and algorithms ability to select fitting driver's from a huge pool.

Cars are idle 99% of the time because individuals who just wanna jump in and make a few extra bucks are at work during the day. I don't think Uber even pretends to have an ad-hoc fleet of anything other than professional drivers.

> One thing unnoted is though future potential for self driving transport.

That'll be so much worse for Uber. At best, if they deliver it first, they'll see a temporary first-mover advantage. Then every other automaker in the world will jump into the fray, and likely individuals won't own cars at all and it'll be either more commoditized (or less so) depending on what kind of ride people want.

The automakers may even cut Uber out -- why sell to their competition? I don't think it's a margin improvement play but an existential threat.
On my Arch laptop, it's exactly the opposite - Chrome can become supper sluggish even as I have 16GB of RAM, while Firefox stays snappy.

I assume there are more factors that go into this than just the browser itself. For example, I find Ubuntu to be one of the more sluggish distros out there in general, while Fedora and Arch feel way snappier, but am sure this isn't the case for everyone.
Not an economist, but I don't see how, given that I'm specifically mentioning people's expectations about the future, not just cold hard facts. Those expectations may or may not be rational, but they're still driven (in part) by news.
These are just some additional icing on the cake from stripe but Stripe won primiarily because they were the first to make it really really really easy to setup payments on a website (Did I say easy already?). This reminds of a book I just read called "The 22 immutable laws of marketing". One of the laws says that you should be the first in a category and Stripe was the first in making it really easy for anyone to setup payments on their website. Before stripe, it was a huge pain in the butt. So services like Paypal existed and they still do but Stripe was the "first" to make it easy.

On a side note, that book is awesome. I highly recommend for any business owners.
This might be true but also sounds like it's spoken from a very privileged position.

There's probably (tens of?) millions of workers around the world separated from their families. It's not only about tourism and business travel.
In at least two ways I can think of. First, these fragments have been inactivated, probably by the immune system, suggesting you have some immunity (obviously, that's not the same as being perfectly immune). Second, given how infectious the virus is, the fact they're not finding genuine positive re-tests strongly suggests some immunity is happening.
This would only work in an "easy money" period, during which loan originators are eager to ignore lending standards on second mortgages. Such periods will come around again, though.
Remember that Apple currently maintains its own fleet of such mapping vehicles, so there would be some savings, as well.
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I noticed exactly the same dry cough, itching eyes, laziness and feeling tired symptoms as you. Don't know If i'm positive, but I remain at home, avoid contact, and wash the hands often, just in case.

Flu-like hitting hard in December or so (before the start of the problem), and ripples all the way since that. I don't know if is coronavirus or other thing, but the recurrency of the symptoms is puzzling. Could be just a spring allergy also of course. No fever at all.
> Your arguments do not follow:

> > which is the ideal state for a commodity, there is no economic profit.

> No. A commodity is simply any kind of good that is considered equivalent no matter who made it. Oil is a commodity, there is plenty of competition and there is still plenty of profit to be made (current crisis excluded)

You cut off the first half of my sentence. The full sentence was:

> In perfect competition, which is the ideal state for a commodity, there is no economic profit.

Oil is not in perfect competition because of OPEC, a gigantic state-sanctioned cartel. Since there's imperfect competition, there can be economic profit.

> who would be interested in taking the supply side of the filecoin network, when there is no profit to be made?

If we assume the filecoin network is technically able to do what it's supposed to, there will likely be profit to be made. Just not economic profit. Economic profit is different from accounting profit because economic profit takes into account opportunity cost.

In the real world many people, such as grain farmers, do seem to be interested in taking the supply side of a transaction even when their economic profit is 0 (or negative). I don't see why filecoin would be any different.
Under the sane semantics implemented in every major language other than Python, if you want to capture a snapshot of something at definition time, you can put it into a variable:

wildly_changing_variable = random_initializer();

stable_snapshot = wildly_changing_variable

def foo(arg = stable_snapshot):
...

Don't touch stable_snapshot and everything is cool. This is the rare case. Of course

def foo(arg = wildly_changing_variable)

means we want the current value.

I don't understand your "closure" comments; either way, things are being lexically closed. It's a question of when evaluation takes place, not in what scope or under what scoping discipline.

In fact, Python's treatment requires the implementation to have a hidden storage that is closed over; the equivalent of my stable_snapshot variable has to be maintained by the implementation. The definition-time evaluation has to stash the value somewhere, so to that it can use that one and not the current.
And everyone else has 401ks which also suffer in a crisis, but the federal government can't bail out red state 401ks without also helping blue state 401ks, so in that sense 401ks are safer than pensions.
> orthogonal

I'd say it is no more than 20 degrees off.
For photos, I've been liking mylio. Private, local, encrypted on cloud services if you want to use them and it syncs with your mobile phone too.
About a month ago Gilead said they have 1.5 million doses ready to distribute or in the last stages of production but that's only enough for ~360k courses (a course is a enough to treat one person). They said they hoped to have produced a total 1 million courses by the end of the year [1], so yeah it's not enough.

[1] https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/gilead-to-donate-...
"Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to archive.md. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details."
Could you recommend a good book or resource that covers these topics?
To build a prototype: no. You'll build something that someone can use, and then you'll find the parts of it that aren't working and fix them. You'll learn what you don't know on the way.

Don't think of each idea as "Product with N engineers and X DAU", just build a thing and then add incremental improvements.
The tech companies you identified are getting hit 1st. I expect to eventually see fallout in Fintech, Realestate, Advertising, anyone selling B2B SaaS (particularly to marketing/HR/ sales departments, SMB), etc. It will take time to feel the 2nd and 3rd order impacts. Hopefully, we bounce back quickly, but it's hard to not be a little concerned.
There was a distinct period before the armed attack of hostilities between the federal government and the southern states, e.g. Nullification crisis and the “tariff of abominations”.
With respect to coverage of India, this is definitely true across center and left leaning media in Western countries these days. It has especially come about because the American progressive left has built their political coalition in alignment with Muslim/pro-Muslim groups, which has blinded them to a neutral view. I saw the John Oliver piece on Modi recently, and was shocked to hear how one sided it was from Indian colleagues.
So they have spent these billions and achieved essentially nothing. Pretreatment and high level waste vitrification are "deferred". The most dangerous parts of the job, which are required to even start work are deferred. How is this contractor still in business?
Correction: the virus isn't some sort of strange monster in this particular aspect. Have you seen the reports of blood-clotting problems? Sudden deaths from people who'd shown no symptoms? There's still a lot that's weird about this disease and we have a long way to go before we understand it.
There's always two things that these armchair quarterback software devs seem to miss: Scale and Money.

Sure you can hack together a small Google clone using Elasticsearch in a weekend. Can you index all the worlds information and serve the worlds search needs with your little MVP? 99.99% chance no, even if you were given a few hundred engineers to scale it.

Even if you could do it technically, where are you coming up with the money to do so? That's not seed-round or even series A round money to do that. That's series D, hundred+ million dollar swipes of a VC's credit card just to get off the ground. Microsoft threw billions at it with Bing and still never became more than an also-ran. The only place that seems to have a real chance is DuckDuckGo, and I'd be very interested to see how their story has played out up to this point.

Google benefited greatly from growing as the web was growing. Trying to index the world's information in 2020 is an astronomical task compared to indexing the world's information in 98, 99 era.
Downvoted this for two reasons.

1) You don't explain how in monetary terms Apple having that better data would offset its additional costs since Lyft does not derive a profit.

2) This comment was mean-spirited and completely unnecessary:

> As a former Uber/Lyft driver, I'd be all over this like Oprah on a baked ham.
Sure, but, it's important to caveat that QUIC requires specifically TLS 1.3 (or potentially subsequent versions in the future) and so features which require older TLS versions aren't useful.

Pre-shared keys are a thing in TLS 1.3 though there are subtle differences you ought to be aware of before implementing, but as I understand it SRP is not (at time of writing) and neither is anonymity.

It isn't possible to "just" take an extension to TLS 1.2 that altered the handshake mechanism and have it work in TLS 1.3 because the handshake is very different even though it was camouflaged so that rusted-in-place TLS 1.2 middleboxes think it's just TLS 1.2 and don't freak out.
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After I read https://sites.duke.edu/niou/files/2014/07/WilliamsJosephM199..., I found myself remembering its advice and putting it into practice.
>Is it reasonable to expect an Apple retail level experience in the ride app space? Even with a tolerable up-charge?

They're called limos. And Uber already does them. Most people won't pay the premium though and that means, in part, that I imagine they have a fairly limited network outside of some dense metros.

Of course black cars are available for many companies if you pre-book. It's what I use for my home airport--or at least did when I was flying.
Health care.
I dont think anyone's arguing that the Fed is literally printing paper money, which is the myth debunked in that article.
Runs contrary to meetings I've been in. YMMV.