skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What do we do with this information?"

Tell the lab to stop gain of function research.

Any kind of gain of function research lab needs to run under continuous international supervision from now on.

International Space Station (ISS) could serve as a good analogy here: have scientists and auditors from many countries in there so that we know what goes on day-to-day.

After that? Hold any country doing independent gain of function research responsible (from potentially building a bioweapon)
On the other hand, dismissing totally the idea to fight against conspiracy-believers and then go back on your words because of new evidence is exactly what creates more conspiracy-believers. An example of this was the WHO insisting that masks were useless and then telling everyone to wear masks. This is how you lose trust.

Part of the solution would be to say something along the lines of "Right now we don't have enough evidence to make a statement about the origin of the virus, so we'll refrain from talking about it until further evidence is brought to light.".
If you have 20 independent metrics, this could work. Typically though, the metrics aren't independent as they all try to measure "doing your job well".

In that case, if you gamed the "wrong" metrics, you still come out ahead. Not as much as for gaming the right metrics, but still.
Having worked in research on Crohn's this sounds wild.
Why would you not take the biologics if you can afford them? Side effects?
What you do is of high risk to yourself and of no value to others.
> This would be an issue as big as Putin would want to make it. He would not have any qualm sending some troops there if it could further destabilise Europe.

And... bad for him! He should be let doing his destabilising as much as he wants, as long as he is wasting his armies, and it is 2:1 for NATO.

The current Western discourse about possible confrontation with Russia is too sentimental, and not guided by ground truths. Few things what pundits say make sense military wise about the current situation in Europe.

As I said before, the truth of few centuries of military history is unequivocal: it is a very good thing to trip your opponent into a big war for a small gain, while your main force can stay back, and preserve its power.
> Does the Common Lisp standard need to be revamped?

Probably. It has been nearly twenty years after all!

> I remember seeing stuff about CL21 a while back...

That was mostly one guy’s thoughts, and didn’t meet with universal approval.

Here are this guy’s thoughts:

- Retain case sensitivity. Remove case-folding. Use lower-case for all symbols in the common-lisp package. Basically, Allegro’s modern mode is the right mode.

- Improve, don’t eliminate, pathnames. Standardise their semantics for Unix and Unix-like systems. Bonus points to integrate URLs and pathnames, although … that way may lie madness.

- Expand the standard. In 1994 Common Lisp was derided for being a huge language, but compared to languages like Go or Python the library portion of the standard is pretty small. It is probably time to add some TCP & UDP primitives. It is time to settle on some concurrency primitives. And then there are the higher-level things 21st-century programmers take for granted: HTTP clients and servers, Base64, that sort of thing. Maybe specify them in separate optional packages for smaller environments?

- Consider CLOSing all the things. Caution: this could be a terrifically bad idea, but …

- Consider breaking backward compatibility and settling on one argument order to rule them all. (nth 1 list) and (elt list 1) is a wart. Switching to lower-case raises the possibility of retaining the entire COMMON-LISP package for backwards compatibility here …
> In the uk you're not obliged to join

Thank god. I wish it was a standard for absolutely every job that has unions. Leave it to the individual if they choose to.
At the very least it'd help with the US's vanity complex. My whole life as a kid prior to social media was just "live." Post social media, now I borderline need to make a post here and there to prove I'm not a schizoid.
The way scoring works on HN is importantly different though. Highly downvoted comments get greyed, but when a comment is highly upvoted, only the author sees. I can't see what your highest-scoring comments are.

There's also a publicly visible total karma associated with each account, but it's not displayed prominently.

I don't think submission scoring is particularly problematic.
This really illustrates to me how important the artificially colored overlays are. As river names change, I assume the river I'm tracking is merging with a larger river. And yet even when I know it's coming, I'm really struggling to spot the other river before we merge.
It's very strange to me that the first pitch is that because desktops, laptops, and phones, are now all 64-bit, that is why we can now create a cross-platform language... that replaces scripting-ish languages.

I could understand if this was saying the 64-bit transition made things like Zig/Rust much simpler, but this seems like a non-sequitur for what Beads appears to be for.
Lolwhat, empirical work is the only thing that can confirm (or rather, refute) the worthiness of a theory !?
I was a PhD student at a newly started research institute (started about two years before I joined). I really liked the place.

The number one question is how to motivate people to join. For us PhD students, the motivation was 1) a salary and 2) top notch professors.

For the professors the motivation was access to infrastructure and a pretty substantial research budget. There was no prestige since it was an all new institution. Every professor that joined got a budget big enough to cover their own salary for five years, the salary of two or three PhD students, all the lab equipment they needed, etc. And of course they also got access to shared resources, like meeting rooms, microscopy lab, etc.

So if you can't offer a big budget to attract a professor/principal investigator, I'm not sure who would join?
I was mostly doing (partly in jest, although respectfully) what the you were recommending: explaining the how and why instead of jumping straight to naming the fallacy :)

I checked the citations you provided. They are very interesting.

> ...generally arguments about where the burden of proof lies are unproductive. It is more reasonable to suppose that such questions are best left to courts of law where they have suitable application. In philosophy a different principle of agnoiology is appropriate, to wit, that no hypothesis should be rejected as unjustified without argument against it. Consequently, if the sceptic puts forth a hypothesis inconsistent with the hypothesis of common sense, then there is no burden of proof on either side...

If I put it in my words, summarizing, he is saying: "No hypothesis should be rejected without an argument against it". About this, my opinion is:

1. Strictly speaking, yes, if someone puts forward a proposition without giving arguments, that does not mean necessarily that the proposition is false (It also does not mean it is true).

2. This notion is not very useful socially/economically. If someone puts forward a hypothesis without any arguments, they cannot expect it to be accepted, or others to justify why it should not be accepted. (In other words, if the person making the claim does not bother to spend time arguing, why should I?)

> It is more reasonable to suppose that such questions are best left to courts of law where they have suitable application

So it is not in Philosophy, but in courts, or in practical discussion (this I add) that the concept of Burden of Proof has practical application.

Could not agree more. So, in summary, in my words, Burden of Proof does not prove logically the Truthfulness (or not) of a proposition, but it is a good heuristic to take action on practical matters (such as courts, and everyday discussion here).

EDIT: s/OP/you/

As such, when somebody putting forward a proposition expects (or instructs) the other part to explain why the proposition is false in detail, we are free to tell this somebody about the "Burden of Proof". IMO that is enough until a bit of effort has been put on their side to argument their case.
> Recruiting a postdoc at a new institute without a track record of advancing people is a very tough sell. That would be an extremely risky career move.

Doing a postdoc is itself a large bet that usually fails to pay off, retrospectively making both the PhD and the postdoc look like extremely poor choices by any monetary calculus. The supply of people who want to stay in Science/Research/Academia is a lot greater than the demand outside perhaps ML/AI. Even fields with great outside options for PhDs, like Economics, Computer Science or Engineering have enormous competition for academic jobs, or para-academic ones, like adjuncting.
While this is Protasevich's photo. Age in the article does not line up he was 19 at the moment of article publication, Protasevich joined Pahonya division at a later date, not when the division was just formed.
Smears, guilt by association, accusations of racism: this is what You chose to focus on and reject the lab leak theory. You didn't listen to the facts, the issues that seemed strange. The stunning thing is that you continue to cling to smears and accusations of racism as reasonable regarding this topic.
I don't know about current Klarna, but they took over Sofortüberweisung, which has been doing exactly that since 2004. Avoided them like the plague ever since.
Please provide context. Assume that I have no clue what is going on. I know there's freenode, which provides IRC as a service since forever, and there is this new thing Libera. Otherwise I didn't have time to investigate anything.
I wasn't able to find a detailed breakdown of their revenue, though https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2020/07/28/stack-ove... indicates that Teams is responsible for 1/3 of it.

Is it the ads you object to?
You might be thinking of one story that went viral a few years ago, and was amplified by the media. It was successful at generating outrage and so became popular, but it was not correct.
But developing self control isn't impossible, else EVERYBODY would be "addicted" to all manner of things - alcohol, smoking, food, sex, shopping, hoarding - all of them.

As these things aren't experienced by everybody, there must be a possibility that self control can be cultivated. It also is supported by laws that punish you for lack of self-control: murder in the case of rage, stealing in the case of greed etc.

In all cases I am sure the addiction-help courses encourage you to not use/take the thing you are addicted to. They are pushing towards self control, else it'd be a pointless thing to undertake.. In this case it's totally possible to just not use the app - uninstall it, or don't launch it, or don't pick up your phone.

Buy a cheap smart wristband and only enable important notifications to cut out the noise?

I wonder if lack of notification lights is anything to do with it? About 20 years ago the Nokias etc. had notification lights and even the early Android phones had them, which meant you knew to look at it as it gently flashed. They seem to have fallen out of popularity and so people now look at their phone all of the time just in case there is something they have missed, and then develop a habit of looking, which only gets worse and worse. You end up training yourself to do the habit, just like biting your nails, or a nervous tick where you scratch your head at certain times.

If the phone was off all of the time until something actually important happened (ie a notification light), or you developed the skill to only look at it at set times throughout the day perhaps that'd help.

If not, then surely ALL apps need a "take a break" feature built in. I mean, I could be spending way too much time inside Notepad... or YouTube... or VLC...

Is Notepad, YouTube and VLC to blame if I spend all the time looking at them??

Or is it my fault?

Perhaps I should take responsibility for constantly using Notepad, YouTube and VLC instead of blaming the app.
Isn't Pachinko's chance of winning calculated by mechanical physics? Or do you mean that the Z80 is used to tally the outcome?
Edit: I'm wrong here.

They are manufacturing errors more than they are mutations. Since the vaccine and virus use the same machinery to make the proteins, they both result in proteins with errors.
Reminds me of the 2008 housing crisis. The regulators have to be right and Cornwell are just a bunch of kids.

Also it's important to remember that Physicians are the mechanics of the healthcare industry.

Scientists are the ones that advance healthcare.
Ha I appreciate you sharing the repo, but if someone is interested in finding a longest route, they should probably just go straight to the data source (USGS NHDPlus data/NLDI API)
This is not what happens.

What happens is, people discuss something plausible for which there exists circumstantial evidence (e.g. lab leak theory). Then, the media, left and right, pretends it has defininitve answers and uses "q anon" as an excuse to claim the plausible theory is wrong.
EDPS opens two investigations (against AWS and Microsoft) following “Schrems II”
Fair use is a defense. But if someone sues you, you still have the expense associated with going to court. Even if you win, you'll probably still be out thousands of dollars.
This seems unlikely given that it was first a disaster for China

On that note, from the very beginning China's reaction appeared extreme and overbearing, but in hindsight it worked better than most other countries' responses. The question is... if other countries had known that it was from an accidental leak would they and the population in general have taken it much more seriously? I think they would have. If it were proven to be from a leak would there be less vaccine hesitancy? I think so too. The strongest contrarian argument against doing anything was always "it's just a flu" and some variation of "let nature take its course."
In the US, universities use the term "Institute" mostly as marketing. They can take existing related units and organizations within the uni and package them under the term Institute for the purposes of creating a single cohesive brand for said discrete parts. The point of this is to be able to more easily solicit funding now that you have a more cohesive description of these areas under one identifier. It sounds strange, but after seeing it work first hand I get it now, it can also help fund areas that may be underfunded.

So, taking that knowledge, you can potentially collaborate with other existing organizations to help build your institute "brand" which can help further your mission. You might consider a discrete research lab as a separate entity under your broader institute brand. Collaborating with other existing groups is a powerful way to amplify your impact as well as easy publicity for your larger mission.

Just some food for thought.
Apologize to "conspiracy theorists" and fact check the fact checkers
What if I don't want to join any unions and I just want to do what I want? What rights does the government have to tell me that I must join an union? Unions are free to exist but it can never be mandatory in a free functioning society.
I think this would only work if already done research was shared. Otherwise you get in the situation where countries that had the resources to do this before oversight get access to knowledge they can deny others to obtain.
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It's political. Trump accused the Chinese of negligence and/or intent. If Trump said it, then all left leaning folks rejected it outright as horrible and racist. Their hatred of him was so intense that they'd take the side of _anyone_ opposed to him, or that he opposed. Therefore, to be resolute in their hatred, they steadfastly demanded that it must not be from a lab.
> Hacker News isn't really a social media site since there's no concept of followers or friends here.

I'm not sure that matters all that much, it's just one way of doing things.

Would HackerNews be a different beast if it gave you the option of viewing the most recent 40 comments from your 10 favourite commenters? I don't think so. Someone could even build this as a third-party UI if they wanted to.

> If in any case you decide to go through my post history to make fun of me, I can just create a new handle.

HackerNews is well moderated. I imagine the mods would view that kind of thing as harassment and put a stop to it, especially if you contacted them about it.
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That makes sense for those but they should add the same warning for Fritter and the reddit apps. Consistency is important with these things otherwise they end up making some things look worse than others when they are the same.
I'm struggling to see the advantage over currently popular languages.
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GMB's raison d'etre is to be as milquetoast as possible. It's why they threw their weight behind Owen Smith (now a PR flack for a pharmaceutical) in the Labour leadership election.

It's the union I'd choose if I were Uber.
You will need administrators, the people you are going to bring in are unlilely to have the experience to manage the institutional financial aspects of grants. Also most funding agencies will not give easily to places that are not recognized somehow (nor will reviewers).
Where exactly did I dismiss the Idea? Maybe you should learn to understand how people behave and what responsability is.

BTW https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56218684
Hmm I don’t totally agree. I get it probably mitigates risk , but it removes to much of the human element and sense of purpose.

I admined game servers and built a couple communities. I made long lasting friends I wouldn’t of met otherwise.

Playing with others gave me a sense of purpose to protect others. Banning cheaters to protect the community from grief felt good and fulfilling. We had some tooling to detect abnormal stats of users to help remove biases. Due to the game mechanics some scenarios were instant red flags.

IMO you should have a protocol in place for bans, and make sure to follow it to remove emotions. Admins should definitely keep each other in check when admin powers are used. Admins should continue listening to community concerns about a particular admin too.

Don’t let someone become an admin for self motivated reasons. Ensure they respect and identify with the community. Great admins often come from being apart of the community first.
No, that doesn't sound right.

In fact it's the opposite of the regular advice for entrepeneurs to build the thing they would use.

Eat your own dogfood.
Legally, there may be a difference. Morally, not so much, imo. The Morales thingy should have never happened. EU needs to grow a spine.
The marketing effort here feels so unbalanced. On the plus side, there's a marketing video with a professional sounding voiceover. But then there's a website titled "Beads Language Home Site", with a barebones design, and which talks repeatedly about "Macintosh" and "Windows OS".
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Clearly you are not interested in the articles content. The GP was. They were also amused enough by the error to share their thoughts on it. Case closed.

PS. delete twitter along with other garbage social media. It's bad for the human brain.
It also feels like at least as much effort went into the marketing (site, videos) and PDF resources (ref cards) as went into the language itself.
I don't think that's an accurate representation. Can you link where he says he never heard of gain of function research?
You're the second person to mention this now! The stopping feature stuff is very tricky and not in the original USGS data, but I can block out Chesapeake Bay the same way that I blocked or the Gulf of Mexico
garblegarble's link explains it better than I could, but the tl;dr is that there are patterns that occur with natural evolution. Messing with those patterns would look, well, unnatural.
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> academic has to get away from the infantilism of using KPIs

Well, science doesn't care that much for KPIs, per se. It's more that the managers want numbers to steer by.

In academia, getting promoted means more management tasks. So higher up academics have been indoctrinated to want numbers. Is the scourge of management.

As such: not a big fan of your solution.
Archive.org operates on the same principle that libraries do. If you were an author, would you also be pissed that public libraries allowed anyone to read your books for free?

If you don't like it, just put up a robots.txt to ban the wayback machine from your site.
> .. more money most obviously of all.

I would challenge this point. There are few research labs in Singapore and middle east (UAE, Saudi Arabia) where money is not a problem. I have seen many researchers fly there to build research groups, but many of them leave after some time. You can see papers coming from these groups in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, KDD, etc) every years, but these papers come from individuals, not groups. Money is one ingredient, you need fresh blood and students to work on new ideas. You need an ecosystem for research and industry to adopt and develop some of these ideas (e.g. Standford/Google, UCLA/DeepMind, UoT/Uber, MIT/Boston startups, etc)
In the illustration of the stack of things it replaces, it includes "Unix". Which is... you know... a claim one could make.
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> Blame assignment gives motivation to destroy evidence and obstruct the inquiry.

The problem with this angle is, ‘what if the destruction of evidence and obstruction of inquiry’ already happened? Then shouldn’t we blame destruction and obstruction?
They can't even give a post the proper title...

Climatist junk.
Media’s role is to a) entertain us, or b) inform us.

Under a: say whatever gets you clicks. Period.

Under b: hypotheses and theories cannot be reported as truths. Hard evidence is needed. There are two ways a virus evolves- naturally or guided/engineered. Without proof of the latter it is safe to assume former. No humility needed. If/when we have evidence of latter we can now report that.
I'm a little confused as well. A cross-platform language can work on any platform, like I can take my C++ code and run it on 64-bit or 32-bit, and this is true with plenty of other languages as well. I don't understand the relationship there at all.