skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People say "do your own research" but really more than most people are incapable of finding and evaluating information on their own. "Read a bunch of blogs and facebook posts until something fits your pre-judged intuition" doesn't count as research and that is the extent of the abilities of people.

There is something distinctly missing from education even through undergraduate degrees: gathering, evaluating, and criticizing conflicting high quality research.

I took a philosophy class in the spring and one of the most striking things about it wasn't the material but the other students (most of whom a decade or more my junior) reactions to the material. A few of them were openly upset at the disagreement and inconsistency of philosophical opinion on every topic discussed; I didn't really understand it at first but then... What seems to have happened is basically for their entire education up to their senior years in undergrad, these people had only really ever been taught the Truth as though everything presented to them were solid facts and as a corollary, in general things should just be known and true or not.

There is a really big gap there. Sure, there are plenty of things which are quite certain, but people need to be driven to realize the truth doesn't just pop out one day, it is arrived at through a long process of disagreement and development and there are few ideas out there which weren't in their time quite controversial, and there is plenty still which is being presented as True which really has quite a bit of room for doubt.
No. It was not a Trump theory. It was commonly believed among Chinese political dissidents. Any Chinese people who don't believe the CCP have speculated this long before Trump even had any thought on this. Please stop relating everything to Trump.
My take is that this is something where most mainstream media outlets need to be saying "We got it wrong." Either they asserted covid was definitely not a lab leak without evidence, or they ignored major media outlets doing that without comment. The problem here is that this article spends a lot of time and text talking about how right wing cranks were kind of responsible and kind of wrong too, when, in this case, the right wing cranks actually seem pretty accurate.

When I'm wrong, I try to have the grace and maturity to say "I got this wrong. I got this wrong for reasons X, Y, and Z. Here is what I can do to prevent or mitigate X, Y, and Z in the future." I think an answer of that form builds credibility. People who see my mea culpa may gain confidence that I've learned my lesson and will do better in the future. If, instead, I were to say "A lot of people got this wrong. These people I hate were wrong too - kind of, I think they were wrong, they are pretty dumb. Anyway - a lot of people were wrong on this..." then that probably wouldn't inspire much confidence that I had learned my lesson. I read this article as more like the latter rather than the former.
> "running power plants is expensive, if companies in competition don't have to run their own power plants then the ones that do will have higher costs and will have trouble competing"

running power plants is expensive, if companies in competition don't have to run their own power plants then the ones that do will have higher costs and will have trouble competing
I have been in search of a very lightweight way to track experiments, so I went to the dvc page and was completely overwhelmed by all of the options. I tried to find the answer to a simple question — how do I log metrics and artifacts from a train/test run?
I saw ‘dvc exp run’ (or something like that), but how does it know what my training script is? And what should I add to my code to checkpoint metrics or other stuff at various points in a script?

I was looking for a simple, self contained “getting started” sequence of pip installs and example code, but I found the docs linking all over the place.

I was previously looking at keepsake, an extremely lightweight experiment tracker/logger. But it had some issues working with PyTorch lightning, so I was back searching for something else.
“Apple Car” project faces a big rate of attrition
100x increase in productivity is a silly, hyperbolic claim no matter who makes it. I'd even be skeptical of a 2x claim, because in 25 years I have yet to see any of these productivity plays actually pan out. What I have seen are small incremental improvements here and there, but you can't point to anything in the recent past that has improved productivity 10x or 100x (unless your old process was just total crap).

At best I would expect a small niche collection of very specific tasks to be improved, but definitely not applicable to general productivity.
I believe audit is already optional at compile time. As the article points out audit being enabled is a requirement for some certifications, so what actually gets shipped by some distros is going to have it on regardless. If say RHEL and Ubuntu enable audit (I believe they do) declaring you've fixed the problems by making sure it's still optional isn't actually addressing it.
It really is time for Tesla to switch to CCS in North America.

Tesla switched to CCS in Europe two years ago. The European Teslas are better cars purely because they have a plug you can use with more fast chargers with no need for an adapter.
Clean the Source (Nix)
It can be a "backend" the way Python is a "backend". It's the glue, the developer-facing API.

The heavy lifting will likely be done by cross-compiling C++ and Fortran code to WASM, and expecting it to be JITted, or maybe rewriting portions of in in JS where JIT is already good.

Whoever is first to implement a well-working GPGPU interface in the browser, wins.
The sad aspect is that it could be indeed a good move, if only it was implemented properly.

Offering free moderate speed connectivity for devices would be great but should be vendor agnostic, no strings attached, and made appealing also for not tech users.
Let's say I sign up for broadband contract at 100/20 Mb down/up (which is what I would actually have if I wasn't too far away from my local cabinet), now I can either get all that bandwidth for myself, or offer say 1/10 of it both ways so that part of it is guaranteed no matter the load (let's say 1/50 of the total, that would be for sensors, alarms etc) and the remaining is low prioritized against my traffic, for video, audio, small files etc. The ISP should then offer discounts to motivate people to choose the latter, at the same time making clear that nobody on the host network could access the LAN.

It wouldn't be that different from the Fonera project I participated in about 15 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fon_(company)
This is a pretty interesting project, a low setup distributed build cluster is cool. That said I find the arguments against Bazel pretty weak. Yes with a distcc model you can scale out the compilation stage of C++ project quickly, but what about the test execution, linking, ProtoBuf code generation, or caching? In either case, Bazel or Llama you have to make your build system aware of how these actions work in some way in order to distribute or cache them.

The difference is with Bazel you also gain a suite of solutions for large software projects like container creation, target visibility control, isolation, dependency fetching, and build graph analysis. Also with the larger community behind Bazel adopting it for a large project is getting easier over time.
Every published backbone used for genetic experimentation was at some point unpublished. The WIV had the biggest program in the world to sample novel SARS-like coronaviruses from nature, plus the ability to engineer them in the lab. In the words of David Relman:

> This argument [that SARS-CoV-2 must be natural since it doesn't use a known backbone] fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors (i.e., more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in a laboratory—for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor-binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site. It would have been a logical next step to wonder about the properties of a recombinant virus and then create it in the laboratory.

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/47/29246

Note also that the WIV's public database of viral genomes went offline in Sept 2019, and hasn't come back.

As to the binding, Andersen looked at the binding of SARS-CoV-2's RBD to human ACE2 in silico, and found that it was suboptimal. But that proves only that the RBD wasn't designed in silico using his software workflow. Among unnatural origins, it's far more likely that the RBD either evolved naturally (as Relman proposed above) in a different virus, or evolved quasi-naturally in the lab during culture in human cells or in humanized mice. Andersen's argument doesn't address these more likely possibilities.
How have I moved the goal posts? I've maintained that there is no conflict-of-interest here. I like Dr. Fauci, but I mostly don't understand the point of this line of reasoning. Right wing media sources have a long history of vendettas against individuals they perceive to be liberal or against them in some way - that's what this appears to be.

I specifically didn't focus on the "typo", except you said it 3 times, so I figured you'd want to know.

...and that quote hardly conveys to "the most vocal proponent". Talk about moving the goal posts!
I don’t think anyone is suggesting you learn about virology and fly to wuhan and start looking around. Maintaining multiple explanations as possibilities until one is proven, while resisting political tribalism shrouding your view of the truth, is I suppose hard for many people to pull off. But that is what we’re suggesting you try to do, maybe next time we have a global pandemic…
Most these hacks where done using leaked tools from the same alphabet peoples tools to fight terrorism in the first place. Horrible idea. We need companies to get their act together. Personal responsibility.
Government, healthcare, many other industries that don't move as quickly for various reasons.
True, but in 1890 was less than 50 years old, and the kinds of small, instantaneous kinds of cameras that concerned Brandeis had only been readily available for a decade.
I assumed sysfs exposes a subset of available information: that pciutils can expose more data given hardware support. I know some of the more basic pciutils ran on my computer, though.
I assume they're referring to this:

https://me.stanford.edu/groups/about-design-group
If you want to take the military lab work with coronavirus seriously, you should instantly forget about a mass-casualty biological weapon. Coronavirus is studied for other purposes than that. Military wants to be able to release a coronavirus which can target on gene profile, or even activate for certain DNA. That way you can release a virus, let it run with all the regular flus, and have your targets die in their own country, of say, a stroke, blood clothing, or they stopped breathing in their sleep. Another study of coronavirus is as a debilitating weapon, much like a cyber attack on hospitals and the energy grid. The entire country suffers an economic crisis and needs to turn their attention away from you to manage it.

The bioweapon thing is a distraction though, I think. There was massive military activity at WIV, and they accidentally released a GoF virus mostly used for publishing papers such as: We made this virus in the freezer infect humans cells, and you can't believe what happened next! It shows (potentially) the potential to become a future pandemic!

It is all so painfully ironic. I think the virology community got afraid of advanced in data modeling, and, avoiding missed grants and early retirement, started to hack Nature because only they could/were allowed to. They bugged out. It happens. They released a "biological weapon" which estimated killed over 8 million people now. They did it from a lab where shady military research is happening. Expose either and the jig is up. Maybe one protects the other...
Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’
When you want to hear what it might sound like but instead they play loud music over the video. Quite frustrating. Is it going to become a ceiling roomba or not based on how loud it is?
this is genius
What are the proposed solutions to get better than that? C/Rust code? Assembly?
I think that is a real worry and you're not wrong that that's a hard test to pass. I just wish for a brighter line over what 'unauthorized' means and it's hard to do that in a way that doesn't let companies write AUPs that effectively define the scope of criminal laws in some way.
Offensive bioweapons researchers don't publish their results in scientific journals.
So you don't have any idea what you're talking about and don't have any ability to weigh if what you're looking at is human bioengineering or natural bionengineering, but you're going to strongly assert that its evidence of human tampering.
A thousand times this. I'm not sure the underdog, censored thing really works anymore when you can find these ideas and opinions everywhere.
Stanford student here. You’re right that there aren’t a ton of dedicated ethics classes within the CS department (though there are many tech-oriented ethics courses around the university).

That being said, there has been a major push recently to _embed_ ethics inside the intro sequence.[1] All of the major intro classes (106A, 106B, 107, and 109, to name just a few) have dedicated ethics components.

[1] https://hai.stanford.edu/news/building-ethical-computational...
I've heard over and over again that the free customers cost more in support costs than the paying ones. Opportunity costs and burnout are both threats to the success of your projects.
Just observe how any child is in relation to the parent.
I understand and have done that before with XyzRequest classes. What I'm saying is the field shouldn't be an int. It's not the proper level of abstraction for what it represents, and any of: tossing out, transforming, or hiding under layers of abstraction the data that comes into your system like this is a bad idea and is the sort of thing that makes people hate OOP. Especially when perfectly fine alternatives exist for this.
...except the need to commit the current state to make things reproducible.

And I'm afraid it's not just code in cells, but also the sequence of its execution, editing, execution again, etc, because the order of running the cells is arbitrary (whatever the user commands interactively), and the results of previous invocations form the dreaded arbitrarily mutable global state.
> Wolf packs don't actually have alpha males and alpha females

> He wrote that what was commonly called the alpha pair . . . led the pack's activities.

Uhhhh...

> "The point here is not so much the terminology, but what the terminology falsely implies: a strictly strength-based dominance hierarchy," he wrote.

Repudiating earlier science, not because it was wrong, but because you don't like how the terminology has come to be used in pop culture, is bad science.
I usually have it on. Turns out I didn't install the binary on this PC which was silently ignored by my editor. Fixed! Thanks for pointing it out!
Very, very few things really impress me.

This really, really impresses me.
You don't "trust" often or very much. You look for a society where conflicting ideas are encouraged and are based in reason not whacky extremist ideology. You trust good disagreements and debates, you look for argument and parties which try to convince with facts and solid arguments.

We can't just live in a world where my side is right and your side is evil.

The strength of the US system of government and any democracy comes from diversity of thought and opinion which is good enough and respectful enough to actually be interested in arriving at the truth.

Instead we have political process which is somewhere between a reality show, a sporting event, and a religion.
Its telling that a comoany can get away with it in another country but not the US. It means that you atleast have some legal recourse with a US company.
> It's been practice for centuries to initially name it after where it was first originated.

It was practice. Past tense. The WHO changed that practice in 2015 [1]. In fact they explicitly list Spanish Flu as an example of why that practice was flawed.

"Terms that should be avoided in disease names include geographic locations (e.g. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Spanish Flu, Rift Valley fever), people’s names (e.g. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chagas disease), species of animal or food (e.g. swine flu, bird flu, monkey pox), cultural, population, industry or occupational references (e.g. legionnaires), and terms that incite undue fear (e.g. unknown, fatal, epidemic)."

[1]: https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-pra...
Go Ahead. Take Off Your Mask. No, You First
I've been asked to do things I was ethically conflicted about. What I learned is that the best way to be ethical is to be rich, because telling your boss you refuse to do things is easier said than done when you have a family to support.
Surely you mean lock files not package jsons?
Being good at it seems largely to be a numbers game and having the time to do it, better would be finding a loophole that allowed you to game a contest.
Lying about election fraud has caused a great deal of damage.
That doesn’t fit what I have observed[0] at all.

[0]: https://time.com/79357/not-all-men-a-brief-history-of-every-...
I think its a "to each their own" honestly. We use Java, Kotlin, Scala and Clojure, and of all four my favourite by far is Clojure.

We also don't suffer from any of the problems mentioned above, had no issues with libraries and no one abuses macros or makes prod repl changes willy nilly, etc.
I'd like to point out that the lab-leak theory is still being dismissed by portions of the mainstream media. (I'm not taking a side here -- just pointing out that this hasn't been settled yet.)

Today the Los Angeles Times published an article headlined "The lab-leak origin claim for COVID-19 is in the news, but it's still fact-free."

What's missing from all this reexamination and soul-searching is a fundamental fact: There is no evidence — not a smidgen — for the claim that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in China or anywhere else, or that the China lab ever had the virus in its inventory... No one disputes that a lab leak is possible. Viruses have escaped from laboratories in the past, on occasion leading to human infection. But "zoonotic" transfers — that is, from animals to humans — are a much more common and well-documented pathway. That's why the virological community believes that it's vastly more likely that COVID-19 spilled over from an animal host to humans...

"We cannot prove that SARS-CoV-2 [the COVID-19 virus] has a natural origin and we cannot prove that its emergence was not the result of a lab leak," the lead author of the Nature paper, Kristian Andersen of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, told me by email. "However, while both scenarios are possible, they are not equally likely," Andersen said. "Precedence, data, and other evidence strongly favor natural emergence as a highly likely scientific theory for the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, while the lab leak remains a speculative incomplete hypothesis with no credible evidence." Co-author Robert F. Garry of Tulane Medical School told several colleagues during a recent webcast: "Our conclusion that it didn't leak from the lab is even stronger today than it was when we wrote the paper." As the veteran pseudoscience debunker David Gorski sums up the contest between the lab-leak and zoonotic theories, "the likelihood of the two hypotheses is nowhere near close to equal."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/column-the-lab-lea...

And Wired also ran a piece last week with a similar skeptical headline. "The Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Is a Tale of Weaponized Uncertainty." Its subheading? "Scientists almost never say they’re sure, and it could take years to pin down the pandemic's origins. Until then: People are trying to scare you."

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-lab-leak-theory-weaponi...
yeah but there's something to this bitclout phenomenon. You make an account there and all of a sudden, i stopped using twitter, i stopped using facebook, etc. Now I see so much value in each thing I post, but on clout.
D.C. Is not a State.

Runner up is South Dakota?

Interesting and potentially defensible outcome.
Again, they are moving the world in some direction (a good or bad - I won't comment on that). How is she moving it by a jot?! How is this an achievement on the grand scheme of things? Have you seen what animals can do with their bodies? Have you seen an Alpine ibex, for example? An squirrel? A cat? Will this impress an alien civilization?
Most textbooks written start with building blocks and work up to higher abstractions; so putting first things first makes sense in this case.
> Wow five whole hundred?

The best way to think of it is five additional hundred. That's the advantage of using a common standard like CCS. Drivers of CCS cars can make use of all CCS chargers with no need for adapters.

7-Eleven's 250 new charging locations will be added to the existing 4,414 CCS locations in the US and Canada:

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html
The idea of a lab leak could either mean that legitimate research was happening on this virus and it got accidentally leaked, or that the virus was being prepared as a bio-weapon and was intentionally or unintentionally released. The reason I think those scientists disavowed the lab leak theory initially was to avoid confusion between whether COVID-19 was an intentional bio-attack by China as many believed then and was pushed by Trump.
What did he win for this? The wikipedia page doesn't make it seem like very much.
Rank-and-file scientists tend to stay out of that kind of political statement-making IME, just as when you see a statement from the student union of XZY university condemning whatever that tells you very little about what rank-and-file students of that university are thinking. So I don't see a contradiction here.
The one ethics course I took as an EE undergrad taught me exactly one lesson - that the whistleblower always has their life ruined, and even ones who (in the US) have received significant payments typically regret it.

I think it's the reverse of the lesson they were trying to teach.
Site seems to be missing a clear opt out on privacy.
Not gonna recommend anyone click through.
In the analogy you have to buy a house somewhere else if you want to eat anything else.

It's really not a complex idea, hopefully that's enough for you.
It doesn't prove anything, but it shifts the balance of evidence.
May I ask why not just use Safari?
'The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news but it's still fact-free'
"The airline will buy 15 of the supersonic jets, which are expected to carry passengers in 2029, the companies said in a statement Thursday. At $200 million a plane, the deal is valued at $3 billion at list prices and Boom doesn’t offer discounts, said Blake Scholl, the aircraft developer’s founder and chief executive officer. United also took purchase options for 35 more planes."!