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My understanding is that it's dangerous and few want to do it.

Yeah this is the part everyone is ignoring in the conversation. Many highly compensated physical labor jobs are highly compensated because of the associated risk. While being a developer (with exceptions) doesn't expose you to any physical risk.

I've heard it from someone who was in China after the pandemic emerged. Apparently some Chinese people believe exactly that. Some of the lab animals were sold to the wet market. And that's how the virus jumped from animal to host. Although evidence is scant. Then again it's China.

In my time at Amazon, I was actually trained and coached on removing myself from certain situations and not interfering or establishing certain relationships because it would help me ultimately do better whatever is right for the company.

Can you please elaborate on this with some concrete examples, if possible?

Yes it seems to me they have taken the same approach as AWS Aurora. Use Postgres frontend and query parsing and replace the storage layer and query execution with their own.

Why would it decrease single thread performance? How is python different than other languages that support native full-fledged multi-threading, eg Java, Go, C#?

I am curious what exactly is the reason GIL hasn't been removed in one of the most popular languages ever?

Hi Simon, thank you for the great work. Do you have any plan to support DuckDB in future?

The issue is there's a huge ecosystem developed on top of Pandas. So if it's different API, now you lose access to all the ecosystem.

There's also bear-type for runtime type checking: https://github.com/beartype/beartype.

The only valid use for NFT I can think of is a pure vehicle for financial speculation. It's better people do wild speculation on NFTs than housing market.

Dan Luu wrote about monorepo. It's worth a read https://danluu.com/monorepo/

This reminds me of Dan Luu post about outages and post-mortems [1]:

For more on this, Ding Yuan et al. have a great paper and talk: Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures in Distributed Data-Intensive Systems. The paper is basically what it says on the tin. The authors define a critical failure as something that can take down a whole cluster or cause data corruption, and then look at a couple hundred bugs in Cassandra, HBase, HDFS, MapReduce, and Redis, to find 48 critical failures. They then look at the causes of those failures and find that most bugs were due to bad error handling. 92% of those failures are actually from errors that are handled incorrectly.

[1] https://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/

Perforce is basically Git, but shittier and proprietary. I think it's mostly popular in the games industry.

I think Google also uses Perforce. It's understandable because Google started before git.

This is what I've written:

while privately discussed that not only it is a possibility, some of them believed it's *highly probable*.

This is what you have written:

proof positive that the author's mind was *absolutely settled* that it was a lab leak

Judge for yourself. I am not going to respond to any of your comment on this thread. Peace.

I don't have the time to go through lawyer-speak arguments. The cables from officials regarding WIV safety have been verified. Just because it's on the opinion page doesn't mean it's false. It has way more credibility than some random virologist's claim about WIV safety on Reddit. Period.

Just few points:

* There's no agreement that this virus hasn't been engineered. Ralph Baric has said that just looking at the DNA it's not possible to distinguish whether a virus has been engineered or not. Alina Chan had raised this point and Vox has even made a correction on their article [1]:

A previous version of this story stated that SARS-CoV-2 had been definitively proven not to be a bioengineered virus. While an August 2021 US intelligence report concluded, “Most agencies … assess with low confidence that SARS-CoV-2 probably was not genetically engineered,” and many scientists agree with that assessment, it was an overstatement to claim that the theory has been definitively ruled out. The introduction and conclusion of the story have been updated to reflect this lower level of certainty. (h/t to Alina Chan, biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, for her critique and input)

Please don't spread misinformation.

* A bio safety expert has weighed in and also expressed his concern about possible lab leak of SARS-CoV-2 [2].

* Viruses escape labs on regular basis [3]. Someone else on this thread also posted a link of a recent virus escape from a Taiwan lab.

* This is not the first time a lab leak happened and virologists tried to cover up. It happened during Soviet era in the 70s [4]. The truth came out after the fall of Soviet Union.

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22734496/genetic-engineer...

[2] https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1479170984343064579

[3] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/20/18260669/deadly...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/world/europe/coronavirus-...

According to this

Sep 9, 2003 (CIDRAP News) – Chinese scientists found that animals sold at street markets in Guangdong, China, carried a coronavirus nearly identical to the SARS coronavirus, according to a report published recently in Science.

The animal viruses were found in Himalayan palm civets and raccoon dogs, which were sold for food in the markets, according to the report. The findings indicate a route of transmission between species but do not reveal whether these animals are the virus's natural reservoir or contracted it from another source, according to the report.

Source [1].

The same thing didn't happen for SARS-CoV2. I believe none of the animals in the wet market has been tested positive for SARS-CoV2 or SARS-CoV2-like viruses [2].

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2003/09/animals-...

[2] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021263/bat-covi...

Several top virologists have publicly tarred lab leak as racist conspiracy theory, while privately discussed that not only it is a possibility, some of them believed it's highly probable. Here's a very recent email that has been released yesterday [1]. So forgive me for not taking another virologist's take on why lab leak is improbable on redit seriously.

[1] https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1480930691919618051

Just that this particular lab is known for being extremely safe, and that it's therefore unlikely it would have had a leak.

This is nothing but disinformation.

Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...

Instead, there is Chinese evidence that the lab had safety problems. VOA has located state media reports showing that there were security incidents flagged by national inspections as well as reported accidents that occurred when workers were trying to catch bats for study.

[2] https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-pandemic_chinese-lab-chec...

Is there any restrictions on this option? Eg only children of the same parent process are allowed to bind to same port. Otherwise how does the packet distribution work? And how does the response from that port work?

I see they also have have pandas replacement: https://github.com/nv-legate/legate.pandas. How is it different from cuDF?

Can someone point to an article that explains the connection issue in detail?

I am confused. Is it another competitor of Tensorflow, JAX, and Pytorch? Or something else?

I mistook it for Apple M1 chip and got very confused why there was no benchmark or mention of Apple silicon.

I am always surprised how the virologist community have sacrificed their integrity.

From the article titled "Scientists: 'Exactly zero' evidence COVID-19 came from a lab"[1]:

But that was before he learned more about COVID-19 and related coronaviruses, which have features already seen in nature. "There are lots of data and lots of evidence, as well as previous examples of this coming from nature," he said. "We have exactly zero evidence or data of this having any connection to a lab."

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/scientis...

Because Scala is a truly innovative and experimental language that came out of a programming language research group. That's why there's a lot of features that didn't play out well in real-world. F# started out as .NET rendition of OCaml. Most languages initiated by large crops don't try to be innovative, rather they take approaches introduced by different niche languages (many of them are only for research purpose) and incorporate to their language. Languages that try cater to a large audience should be adopting features from experimental languages.

I am curious to know. Is there any reason why they don't support schema enforcement?

There's also lazygit[1], which is written in Go.

[1] https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

I'd like to nominate Apocalypse Now. Very particularly, Marlon Brando's performance. The whole movie is built up to this mythic man, a god among mortals, a figure that human psyche cannot understand, the end to an Odyssey. And Brando and Coppola have managed to surpass all the expectations.

Can you explain how JAX compares to pytorch? AFAIK pytorch also closely resembles numpy API.

CoroBase is a research database engine that models transactions as C++20 stackless coroutine to hide CPU cache misses.

Can someone please explain that this means? I am really curious to know.