skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and yet we're already seeing people who've gotten this vaccine who had allergic reactions, enough to need epinephrine. A member of the medical staff in a hospital in Tennessee fainted on camera after getting the vaccine.

60 Minutes did a segment in 1979 on the failed Swing Flu vaccine that didn't build protection for most, and that left many with long term paralysis. Some of them went back to normal after a few months, both there were enough that lost motor control that they had a class action lawsuit.

The fact that all the pharma companies in this release are immune from civil liability, and the FDA is also immune from civil liability, does not bode well for confidence.
How does it look with geforce now? I'll admit I'm actually totally confused as to how that even works, but it seems like a really cool way of being able to play games on my macbook without spending $1500
on a new graphics card for my gaming PC!
These are stats.

And brave was the most private browser out of the box.
A company that makes it to a few dozen employees without much financing is already extremely successful. You're very unlikely to ever work for a poorly run company without financing - they can't hire.
The model happens to be aligned with how and why people actually start companies. It's not my model.

You have to come up with a persuasive answer to "Why should I work as hard as I can on this company, rather than go work for Google?" That question is in fact so hard that it (possibly) almost killed YC in the crib, back in '08. No one wants to work for a startup when they can get paid far more and live an easier life.

What you're proposing, if I understand you correctly, is that someone works extremely hard, for no concrete gain other than perhaps intellectual curiosity. Sure, you can argue that the usual benefits apply: you're free to do as you please, and to self-manage. But that's not a very convincing argument in the face of $RIDICULOUS_SALARY at a bigco.

It's cliche to say "Don't hate the player, hate the game," but I believe it applies here. Neither of us chose to live in a capitalistic society. We were born into one. Why not make the optimal decisions, all else being equal?
The courts have evaluated civil forfeiture under

4th amendment arguments

5th amendment arguments

6th amendment arguments

8th amendment arguments

14th amendment arguments

and only found the 8th amendment argument against excessive fines to hold some weight, but not to undo civil asset forfeiture but only clarifying that the 8th amendment actually applies to the states

They file the case against the property, not the human. If we want a constitutional guarantee on the property then we need a new constitution with its own property based bill of rights

the cases aren't on my clipboard but anyone passing by feel free to fill them in. The 8th amendment case was before the US Supreme Court this year or last, despite the positive ruling it did not get the man's property back until the state he was in re-ruled.
The Microsoft Way (Part 68): Where Compatibility Means Vulnerability
This article reads like an ad for those online "schools".

But ignoring that, it seems like the courses were mostly exams rather than projects as he didn't delve much into what projects he had to do.

I have a hard time believing he could have built an OS, AI program, Network Stack, Security (pentesting/auditing/etc ) and dozens of fundamental data structures ( given he didn't take these courses before ) in that time. Also, as he acknowledged, they didn't offer compilers, which is a biggie when it comes to CS.

He could also have done the same thing without paying thousands.

> If you’re thinking about getting a Bachelor’s degree in CS, already have experience in the field, and live in the US/Canada, you should seriously consider Western Governors University’s Bachelor of Science in Computer Science program.

If you already have experience in the field, why bother? I know it's "accredited" but nobody is going to take that degree seriously.

If you are interested in the "prestige" of having a degree, why not just do it via a college near you. Most major colleges offer programs for working professionals or adults who want to earn a degree. And you can even network with professors/TAs/etc if you are inclined.
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sure, i'm wondering how many people pay for them though
Yea. You can get $240k in debt.

Good luck getting anyone to lend you that kind of money if you're actually poor.

Someone who is able to get deeply in debt basically by definition has access to money. They would not be granted loans otherwise.
> I am naturally somewhat anxious and hate wasting a day; conversely, I have friends who seem totally content after 9 months of unemployment and video games.

I was that unemployment and video games friend... I was satisfied at the time. Now I'm married and 'more' mature and look back at all the opportunities I had and wasted.
Judges are fallible. Actually, if you dig through the history of precedent surrounding any particular issue, you realize judges are incredibly fallible. There are stupid judges, corrupt judges, and judges that simply don't care that much.

For this reason, the argument of "no, the courts said otherwise" with regards to jurisprudence can be particularly frustrating.
I think the people arguing with you are simply stating that the judges who ruled that it is constitutional are _wrong_. It's a stance I agree with.
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Personally did a bootcamp about 4 years ago. Also taught myself a couple more tech skills in the 2 months post-certificate before I got hired, but nothing special. Applied to several dozen jobs a week (easy to do when most don't follow up in any way...)

Went from about spot-on median salary for the US prior to switching into tech, to 50% more in my first role. In my first 3 years I increased my income over 400%, though I also switched from salaried to contract, so it end up about 300% increase for net pay.

Wouldn't have been able to afford a CS degree, in terms of either money or time, so it was a huge opportunity for me to go the bootcamp route. Have moved up into a senior/lead position, as well, so all the late nights of working on my skills post-bootcamp (and still while working, even now!) seem to have paid off.

But I don't know what the market in Europe is like. MCOL area, US, here.
Can you point out where the constitution gives an opinion on whether cases can be levied against property?

It's funny because I did think I remembered something in the ammendments about due process.
If your takeaway from that comment was Hillary bashing, you missed the point.
Not the same, but I'm sure some (10?) years ago I saw something about University of Buckingham doign straight through the summer learning, so you completed in 2 years. So it isn't unheard of for everything not to be the standard 3...
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Unfortunately, it's always going to be a gamble. Companies want to attract talent, so they'll highlight the best parts during the hiring phase. Employees may also be reluctant to express any frustration to a candidate too, since they might convince the candidate to turn away, which could get that employee in trouble.

On the flip side, getting feedback from sites like Glassdoor might give the wrong impressions too. Some employees may have left on bad terms and leave scathing reviews that may not reflect the common experience of the other workers.

That said, for future opportunities, be sure that you get a chance to talk to employees who either have or have had your position, plus managers. Ask them how often they attend meetings, how much time they get to work uninterrupted, how they have advanced at the company, how much control or how much of a voice they feel they have, what their biggest accomplishments at the company have been, etc. Also find out why that position is open now. That can say a lot.

Finally, ask to see the working environment if you haven't. For me, during my last job, I ran through the interviews without seeing the office space and ended up accepting the offer. The workplace turned out to be a warehouse that was converted into a gigantic, cacophonous open office. They had a ping pong table too, so when someone would play, that's all that the 50+ people in the room would hear.
AMP is a framework, but Google provides caching for AMP results. Basically it serves them from its search index. And people scream about this vertical integration.
Some companies still require college degrees even for software development, unfortunately. This checks the box for those companies at a low cost. Of course whether you'd want to work at such a bureaucratic institution is another question entirely, but there is a good reason for still wanting a degree if you do.
I think Blogger is still the best and most flexible platform.

Pros of blogger:
1) Extremely free speech and very little moderation (as long as it's legal)

2) Allows adult content

3) Can have ads for free

4) Unlimited photos (for images under 2000px, but even those over that are resized and don't count to storage quota)

5)You can do a lot with posts, pages, themes and editing HTML (can make complex web sites with a lot of sections and styling)

I've had a Blogger blog for 13 years and a gazillion posts and images and dump everything of interest on there and it's great. I do hope it lasts.

Wordpress.com has a better editor and better themes, but lacks editing html and deep customization, umlimited uploads, free ads and so on so it's not really an alternative for someone like me.
I was thinking more along the lines of what counts as advertising vs. user feedback. Not a lawyer, so maybe it doesn't even matter. Still, I'd argue that if you are selectively removing negative reviews in order to give a better impression of a product, while giving the customer the impression that the reviews are representative of people who bought the product, you're no longer just publishing reviews. You are now engaged in promoting the product, and you're doing so through dishonest means.

Now is that illegal? I sure don't know. Is it provable? That could be tough, too. But if someone asked me if it's legal to doctor reviews of products, I'd tell them to consult a very good lawyer or two.
1) consider analytics part of the "contract legal" basis, arguing that analytics to improve the usability of the website is a fundamental part of running a website.

Sure, you can argue that, but it has no merit.

The only reason that you can write that sentence with a straight face is due to the current affairs of the web. You know the thing that GDPR tries to rectify.

And analytics do not need personally identifiable information.

Try the three-part test suggested here:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

Purpose test: You can argue it has legitimate interest. And with a big enough loop-hole it might even pass despite it having no merit.

Necessity test: Absolutely not.

Balancing test: No chance.
I understand both your perspectives. I have an ME degree that, at the end of the day, I did mostly for fun and have never really used.

On the other hand, I also understand the perspective of those who maybe don't care for school, want to/need to minimize the time and money they spend on it, learn "just the facts" they need to get hired to pursue software development mostly in the vein of a trade, and the paper that is often needed to get hired or pursue various types of opportunities. In that light, it's understandable they don't want to learn a lot of theory they won't use much, much less take unrelated science distribution and humanities courses.
Some people are calling Jetbrains a startup. Hell no, this is just a normal company which builds great products. Making me realize that the shortest definition of startup is VC-backed-product or even worse, VC-backed-potential-product.
A modern elaboration is https://statecharts.github.io/

- very clear explanation of statecharts, and why you'd want to use them (they're an elaboration of state machines)

- and why you wouldn't want to use them

very interesting, thanks to OP!
Letting "users" off the hook but going after the people who must exist for those users to obtain drugs makes no sense. The distinction is mostly imaginary (I say this as a former drug dealer).

I'd further argue that decriminalizing a drug for "personal use" but keeping it a crime to participate in the market for that drug is essentially a government endorsement of a black market.
Very interesting. If I understand correctly, does this mean cloning is a functionally impossible task?

I've always been entertained by the paradoxes where someone is teleported ala Michael Crichton's Timeline, and is then (due to some glitch) "duplicated", leading to interesting quandaries about "who is who".

If Penrose is right about consciousness [0], this means all these fantastical paradoxes are just fantasy, right?

[0]: https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/why-a-genius-scientist-thin...
The deepness of my debt and the steepness of my accent are just variables in the equation.

Many people are 1-2 paychecks away from total disaster, but they never take the step to make a change. It can certainly feel impossible. But the reality is "merely surviving" has a broad usage. I know lots of people that are living paycheck to paycheck, but have the iPhone X.

https://www.daveramsey.com/dave-ramsey-7-baby-steps
Just a few "hackers" and power users opting out changes nothing, the important thing is the market forces that move the masses.
> Long-term I personally think the solution would be to invent recreational drugs that are non-dependency forming and distribute those in the same way some states are now handling marijuana.

I totally agree. In fact our ridiculous anti-drug stance has no doubt delayed or prevented the development of these things. I would imagine we would have some pretty good options if a legitimate pharmaceutical company could do this. Recreational, non addictive (or minimally addictive) options would be available.

Instead our harsh prohibition and penalties means the R&D are from drug cartels who want the most addictive/powerful product possible. I read a book called "Narconomics" which discusses how bad the Heroin has gotten because of this.
Show HN: Season's greetings from Attractor, a fractal graphing calculator
I think it is relevant though. Most of the mid-level schools I looked at were ABET accredited. Going unaccredited in CS seems to be a thing that you can only get away with if you have so much or so little name recognition that it doesn't matter.
I think the key would be provable lack of ill-effects. With that we could start immediately using a kind of bandit testing to try and phase out different tweaks until finding the perfect one.
The way I like to work is first to write out all the code I need to make something work correctly, then I go back over the code to see if there's anything that could be simplified or split into separate functions, etc.

I really like to see DRY code, but if you have to make a helper function that takes a bunch of parameters with a bunch of conditionals to something slightly different, you might be better off just sticking the specific logic you need in each place.

The worst case of copy-pasta I saw in a codebase I came into was a function that was 1000 lines long, duplicated 3 times with < 10 lines of it different for each copy. That's a classic case for DRY to be applied.
You would think that standing up against practises that are endangering health-worker's health, and in tow the health of their patients, would be the most professional thing to do.
Not to mention politics, if the disease wasn’t as big as COVID they’d have to wait for years for approval.
Yes. I'd like to read a balanced article that talks about the history of CAF and its rationale.
If you did disagree with the courts, you should have qualified your statement that “[the courts have ruled] property is not afforded the rights of humans and cases can be levied against property directly”

Otherwise this comment (and the one you copy-pasted) looks like knee jerk damage control.
It doesn't matter what they do.

Youtube personalities are aggregating and editorializing their content and making millions to pay for a staff of 1.

Others are just going and doing the reporting themselves and doing similarly -- paying for the camera crew and legal defense out of their own pockets.

Those youtube personalities dwarf the reach and viewership that all but the clickbaitiest media companies are getting.

That's what's satisfying the market need right now. That's what media companies have to compete against. They'll never get back the dominant position that they once had and ads will never work for their business again. Why would I pay for a display ad on your site when I can pay for a video ad that has much better targeting?

This is the issue that most people have missed. Advertising dollars flow to where they are most efficient. News site display ads are a shotgun whereas youtube channel, facebook page, news aggregator ads are a sniper. If any periodical is going to succeed, they're going to need to cater to a hyper specific niche that has cash.
Hey, you mean "DRY IA TO"! Don't repeat common phrases like "is a" and "trade-off", damn it! Define an acronym and use that instead.

DRY is literally impossible. If something has to be performed or evaluated two or more times, and you factor that out under a definition, you still have to invoke the definition multiple times. I.e. you are still repeating yourself, just using an abbreviation.

What you are doing is called "compression". Classic data compression algorithms like LZ77 work by abbreviating.

"LZ77 algorithms achieve compression by replacing repeated occurrences of data with references to a single copy of that data existing earlier in the uncompressed data stream. " - Wikipedia

Outside of alcoholic drinks, that's the ultimate DRY.

Thus, the argument against DRY is obvious: it's a form of compression, and excessive compression destroys readability: or else we would all be able to read source code that has been put through LZ77.

Only mild compression improves readability. Mild compression improves readability largely because it's easier to see that two brief invocations of a definition are exactly the same, than to see that two repetitions of a code block are exactly the same. When we see that two code blocks are exactly the same, we don't have to understand them separately.

Basically, brainless repetition and verbosity hinders readability, as does dense, thorough compression. One extreme might be represented by reams of Java boilerplate; the other by IOCCC entries.
Hey, I'm the dev behind Ducktools! We're the Duckbill group - a consultancy that focuses on lowering huge AWS bills.

We've historically been skeptical of SaaSs that try to do what we do - they're often complex, expensive, and not that useful.

That said, since we analyze our clients AWS bills for a living, we've built up some pretty powerful internal tools. They're not "a saas to fix your aws bill" - they're small, focused power tools built by experts to tell you a specific set of things about your AWS spend. And so we're starting to open some of these up as Ducktools. If a certain theme song pops into your head, now you know how I've felt the whole time I've been working on it!

DuckTools is:

- Individual apps focused on solving specific spend problems, like "converting expiring RIs to SPs"

- Billed as a fixed monthly fee - no hard-to-predict "X% of your bill" pricing

- Priced per app - only pay to solve the problems you actually have

- Simpler and easier to use than other cost management services.

Anyway, we're pretty beta right now, and would love to talk to people with aws cost problems to help inform the direction we take this product. If you're at all interested, fill out the form on the site - I'd love to hop on a call with you!

I'm also happy to answer questions here as well. :)
I didn't mean to make this about finance or the ability to pay off debt, it just reminded me so much of the type of writing that is really, really common in "pop finance"-type publications.

I wasn't at all saying that I believe that it's impossible to pay off a large debt quickly or that nobody ever does - just that, of course you are going to if you're in such an extraordinary situation. So the entire thing ends up being not very interesting or actionable, yet the title promises that it will be both.

I guess there's an audience for it though, because they keep getting published.
Why is this being downvoted so heavily?
I'll repost my WGU experience from another comment:

I dropped out of traditional college. Last class I remember they were talking about what a GET and POST request were. I had been a professional web developer for years at that point. I felt it was a waste of time.

In WGU I had a similar easy class, stuff that was "way below me". Not to worry, I passed the class in a day and stopped worrying about wasted time.

I recently did a C++ assignment that was filled with artificial requirements making it artificially difficult, yet I learned some things about pointers and figured out the basics of CMake for the first time. Useful stuff. Now I'm doing a similar assignment with Java. I knew I would have to set aside my distaste for things like Java (gross!), and with that mindset things aren't so bad. I'm actually enjoying JavaFX.

WGU's calculus class was harder than calc 1 at my brick and mortar university, but easier than calc 2. Once again, I knew most of the material and passed after only a few weeks of casual review. I also found a calculus text book I personally like (and will happily refer to again in the future), rather that just using whatever the department chose.

I do agree that a CS degree doesn't teach as much as it sometimes gets credit for. I do believe WGU's CS degree is as good as many brick and mortar CS degrees, but with minimal "bullshit", though there is still some.
Thanks - very helpful!
>For example, DPP IV shows higher affinity for gliadin and casein than for substance P (SP)

What is substance P (SP)? It seems to be a by-product of one of the processes that enhyances your chances of developing gluten-related but the paper doesn't expand on this. The chart shows it to be a precursor.

Thanks.
when referring to multiple federal circuits and the supreme court, their result absolutely is the reality.

the more people bring these half baked cases in front of stupid judges, the more they keep crystallizing the reality.
Is the REPL the same environment as your running code?

If your environment has stuff added dynamically (for example every Rails app) you need to attach to the live environment - an OO version of gdb. And once you’re doing that, you’ve basically got Smalltalk without the nice presentation layer.

Update: by presentation layer I mean I can ask to inspect a live object and open a window that shows not just it’s instance variables and the messages it responds to, but read the documentation (the equivalent of Rubydoc) and source code (including editing that source code if I wanted to).
AMP does not fit all types of content, so prioritizing it over non-AMP pages penalizes websites that don't make static content or forces them to make all searches a landing page in AMP to the actual page, making shit even more of a mess on the web.

AMP Forces publishers to put their content on googles servers giving google more data about users (that it doesn't share with the publisher) and its the equivalent of a yellow pages phone book provider making the text of all companies smaller unless the company gives yellow pages exclusive access to their front door security camera. Don't defend it.

When yelp started replacing the phone number of restaurants with their yelp delivery service partner's phone number to intercept the sales and use their own provider, everybody on hackernews rightly called it out as shit, but when google does the same shit its "not everybody's cup of tea".

No, you can't divorce AMP from how Google uses AMP. Google made AMP and Google shaped the core foundations of AMP that lets them do this. You can't just hand wave that away.