skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are still other companies doing new core designs: Huawei/HiSilicon (Taishan v110 in 2019), Marvell/Cavium (Thunder X2 in 2018), Samsung (M4 in 2019), Fujitsu (A64FX is 2019), Nvidia (carmel in 2018).

If you count semi-custom cores derived from ARM designs, then add Ampere Computing and Qualcomm as well.
Having used both, in a personal and professional capacity, I don't think they occupy the same "real estate". If you have a bunch of Windows systems to admin, sure, PowerShell works great with all the Windows built-ins. In fact, it works with SCCM pretty well. If your systems are Linux-based, you can use shell scripts to interface with something like Chef or Rundeck. Use something that works natively and is designed for the platform you need to orchestrate.
yes, good point. some autonomy and skin-in-the-game is probably required too.

the article seems to have sparked some good conversation, so it's been useful, if not as strong as it might be.
Bat coronaviruses caused SARS 1 and have been a well-known vector for decades. How is this researcher specifically related to the current situation?
Significant tax dollars were spent by local municipalities. But that money was for infrastructure, not paid to the company or something. Mainly Mount Pleasant. In the state, it is popular to think of foxconn as scammers, but I don't think they have managed to get nearly as much as they could have, so uh, I have no idea what is going on.

Foxconn does employee software folks at the milwaukee "innovation center." Doing what, not sure.
This isn't as terrible as it seems since many of those sites won't update their version of Bootstrap.
I think it would be clearer to put the "red" numbers in the "their cut" row. Why are we giving $2 of retail to "your cut" when you're not getting it in the first scenario??

Every single figure has the same numbers for every scenario; only the colors differ. That's a clue that there is something wonky in the choices they made regarding the visual display of information.
It's not at all a coincidence that there's a lab there. George W. Bush started an anti-pandemic project called PREDICT whose purpose was to collect specimens from bats and other mammals to identify ones that could transfer from bats to humans[1]. They trained and supported the lab in Wuhan. To me if you're looking for zoonotic transfer, one of the most likely places to look is someplace that's actively out there collecting viruses that are zoonotically transferrable.

I still think the program would have been worthwhile even if it did leak the coronavirus. If China thinks the same, I can see why they would try to prevent a backlash against studying viruses.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus...
But what about other SIMD extensions, are really all packages distributed with the expectation that for example SSE5 and similar are supported?
We've discovered that central planning is inefficient, as it's hard for the planner to collect information about what is optimal for each person. Giving money distributes the decision-making to the people with the best capacity to make decisions on how to allocate resources.

The parallel in software is management buying terrible products on others' behalf. If you want good software, you ask the users to define requirements. Imagine telling the users, "We purchased SAP, because it checks all the boxes. You might prefer something else, but we know what's best for the company. You're welcome."
what did you do with the dead macbook? i'd be interested in purchasing it
It’s very hard for me to understand the motivations behind American home and apartment design. It is the exact, diametrical opposite of the design that anyone who works from home, takes work home, or is engaged in any kind of intellectual or creative labour at home would want. And, of course, quite topically: it is especially impossible, in view of such a design, to do any of the aforementioned with small children at home. That may be impossible anyway, but the typical single-family detached house layout assures it. From a European perspective, it’s all rather perverse.

Lots of nooks, crannies, partitions, and doors that close are an essential principle of most apartments found in Central and Eastern Europe, at least. Back in Moscow, which I left as a pre-school aged child, we had a small foyer that opened into a long hallway with numerous rooms and doors. The kitchen in itself had a door, which meant one could use the kitchen table to work or study when not cooking or eating.

Meanwhile, in Atlanta, I had a 2 BR ~1200 sq ft apartment with wasted space for a needlessly large walk-in closet in the master, and a second bathroom nobody needed. That space could have easily been carved out for a third room!

The rooms themselves around here seem to be designed to facilitate ‘private life’ only and do not have functional attributes in mind.

Two other perverse tendencies we commonly lament:

1. To combine the front door, kitchen and living room in some way; why would you want someone to walk straight into and through your living room, or your kitchen?!

2. The seeming aspiration in the layout of ordinary apartments to mimic the layout of houses, when they are in fact not houses for many reasons, and serve a very different set of priorities.
Thanks. I can assert that I have learned some things for myself. Details at my web site (linked from my profile--it is a simple site and I hope very navigable/skimmable...).

Edit: I think I have a great deal of compelling evidence that is meaningful to me. Any other person has to decide if it is meaningful to them, but it is extensive (as I have written).
> Wuhan is a massive city and economic hub

Let's dig into this a bit more though. The WIV's location on Google Maps apparently changed after the incident [1]. I don't know if it was a legitimate correction or what, but for the sake of argument let's suppose that the old location was correct. Then the lab is 8.6 miles from the wet market, or ~14 km.

It looks like the population density in that area is around 10,000 people per km^2, so there are around 400k people in a 14km radius, or about 1/3,000 of China's population.

If we assume

P(virus from WIV) = 0.01
P(outbreak in 14km radius | virus from WIV) = 1
P(outbreak in 14km radius | virus not from WIV) = 1/3,000

Then Bayes' rule gives P(virus from WIV | outbreak in 14km radius) ~= 97%. Even if we reduce our prior to 0.001 (0.1%), the result is still ~75%.

So while I have no idea if the virus was a random mutation or what, I strongly suspect that it's somehow connected to the WIV.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/exdvt6/google_...
Well over 680,000 views in just 4 days:

THE documentary movie on the origin of CCP virus(Coronavirus,
an investigative report with scientists interviewed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMJ0EmMfb3U&t=
Not that I can find. Getting in contact with the experts in this area is proving impossible. They seem to have hermetically sealed themselves off from the rest of the world and there is now no way to get through to them with anything new.
They are solely responsible for this outbreak and only engage in political damage control.
you have a planet you could vent heat into?
Always happy to lend context to these things; BYTE was so fantastic.
I read an article about Jeremy England a few years ago, and have often thought back on it.

A New Physics Theory of Life - https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...

Here's his website with a list of recent publications: https://www.englandlab.com/publications.html

---

This one stands out for me:

Design of conditions for emergence of self-replicators - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.09191.pdf (2018, pdf)
It is Indonesia. See https://observers.france24.com/en/20200204-china-debunked-co... for the details. There are signs that are definitely not chinese. You can see them clearly in the original higher quality video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvXy6YlPOc

The lack of hijabs is due that it is recorded in the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia, where the majority is christian.
you're welcome! it's hard to go wrong picking at random on fairfax--they're all pretty good. but awash has been my favorite for many years now, so i'm happy to send them more business (when it can open again) even at the risk of getting crowded out sometimes.
Perhaps if companies actually paid taxes we could afford something like UBI ...
It's interesting.

I always get frustrated when companies arbitrarily decide they don't want certain industries (alcohol or firearms or porn).

But forcing all companies to take every comer on the same terms seems a bit extreme. I freelance in IT. I would want more money or would downright refuse certain jobs on moral grounds (I wouldn't work with the Saudi government at any price). Am I being unreasonable in that?
Aren't both of you guys of ex-USSR origin though? :)
Is beef and chicken really available in quantities and prices deemed "affordable" in Ethiopia?

Beef seems like a luxury good here. Chicken may not be quite luxury, but it's more expensive than vegetarian.
For a good piece of fiction that explores this idea, read the short story Exhalation by Ted Chiang.
Yes that is it, thank you! I like that it clears things up like -

> According to municipal reports and the testimonies of 31 residents
and 28 visitors, the bat was never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the
market.

I've worked in a lab and Occam's razor for me says the lab that is 280 meters away and studied bat viruses is a lot more plausible than it originating in a wet market. People make stupid mistakes handling waste all the time. There was no need for the Chinese government to throw the wet market under the bus or for people to imply Chinese people ate bats or some other racially motivated theory and there was no need to believe the chinese government created a bioweapon. Most likely is that it was just a horrible mistake and careless handling of biohazardous waste/animals.
There are still lots of other confounding variables there that you need to factor into the probability.

Maybe I shouldn't say overwhelmingly likely for all of those possibilities - a lab escape isn't that unlikely. But there's no evidence of that. If it's true, we indeed may never discover any evidence, but evidence is still required to actually make the claim. As it is now, it's only worthy of speculation.

edit: I edited my original post to make my beliefs more clear.
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Some of the problems can be solved as:

- Spam: What I do is use different email addresses for each correspondent and service. I can then edit my /etc/aliases file to get rid of addresses which are receiving spam. And as mentioned, some other services also support aliases too, so if you have aliases, then you can do the same kind of things too, perhaps.

- HTML email: Just avoid HTML email; plain text is much better. I use email software that doesn't even support HTML email (it will display the plain text part if it is a multipart message, but if not, then the HTML code will be displayed without attempting to render it).

- No real privacy, even if you self-host: Well, there is encryption if needed, if you know the recipient's key. However, of course some things will need to be unencrypted in order to transfer the message, such as the recipient's mailbox (although with SMTP over TLS, you can encrypt the username too, even though the target server will still be known).

- Attachments fill disks: You could use compression. You can also delete messages you no longer need. You can also program the server to reject messages longer than a certain length.

- There is no good support for group discussions: Use NNTP instead. NNTP is a superior alternative to mailing lists and web forums.
Can you find your source for the market being a couple hundred meters away? This tweet has a map showing it's twenty miles away, but the source is the Daily Mail:

https://twitter.com/dystopia992/status/1220735100192620546
No app that you can optionally download from the App Store would work. It would require a critical mass for it to be effective, and we don't have the kind of time required for this to happen. This is probably why Apple and Google are working on it together.
So I'm definitely not advocating the lab theory overall, and even if it did come from a lab it could have escaped rather than been deliberately released...but to answer your question, China does/did have problems with A) an aging population, B) a male heavy population, and C) Hong Kong streets full of protesters. This virus "helps" with all of those.
"Nobody could have imagined the Coronavirus crisis. But the scope and damage are enormous. The Black Swan event is here. Nassim Taleb calls it a White Swan, an expected pandemic that will eventually happen. You can buy his book to learn this distinction."

I'm confused by this comment. If Phuoc Do, the author of this blog post, disagrees with Taleb about what a "Black Swan" event is, what does he think it means instead, and why is he citing Taleb?
It's a shame that China's covering something up, which will only fuel the most outlandish theories.
I'm curious about this too. If your business has high risk than raising your fees for select people sounds like discrimination. Raising them for your whole platform could really hurt your business
But here is the crux of the matter. Is it possible that zoonotic transfer through consumption of bats caused this? Yes. Is it possible that zoonotic transfer via handling of bats inside the virology lab caused this? Yes.

I am not sure why it is so necessary to be so adamant about vigorously dismissing the latter as a possibility.
Ah yes. Because software is not subject to physical constraints.
A New Pass-like Password Manager
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For those for whom those references are a bit before their time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
And churches!
Bill Maher has an amusing monologue on that topic [1]. I don't think it is wrong to call it the Wuhan virus, and if the Chinese don't want the bad publicity associated with the virus, they should do something about these wet markets.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEfDwc2G2_8
They have most of this in onboarding tips as well as the Tips app.
Failing to disprove one competing hypothesis doesn't lend nearly as much evidence to other hypotheses as you might think. It's very hard to fully trace something like this, especially in such a huge, dense population center.
I don't think they're particularly reputable sources in general either but in this case all the source material is publicly accessible and verifyble. They just happen to be one of the few actually presenting it in English.
Money is unreasonably effective at letting people aquire what they need. maybe one person doesn’t want shelter but wants to save up to start a business. Everyone wants different things.
I think it's only opt-in on the surface. I could see governments requiring users to be opted-into the program in order to get tested for COVID.
Dan I have written you directly, but I am wondering if you could poke Sam for me to have him take a look at the email I sent him. He ask for proposals and I think if he takes the time to read what I have written he might find it at least interesting.
Yeah, but the cost difference is substantial. Considering getting a dinky makita electric one for small work, but for a day of lumber work you can’t beat the energy density of a can of gas.
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Easier access to bankruptcy.

The main 'irresponsible spending' is interest and fees on loans, fines, 24 month contracts for unneeded stuff, etc.

Make the bankruptcy system far easier to use and take away the downsides, and then anyone with money trouble can go to a court, and walk out a free person, keeping their job and basic income, which should be sufficient to pay rental on a basic house and car.
If it’s unclear, just say “free as in beer@ or “free as in speech.”
I understand, it just won't be dismissed for "not having standing" on the plaintiff's side.

Progress!
It's probably more available in the US than in Ethiopia but it's still a part of the cuisine. Interestingly, according to the guy who runs my local place, mushrooms are also found in Ethiopian cooking but are often left off the menus because (his words not mine) "white people don't think mushrooms are authentic".
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This is my follow up post which I hope answers how we might go about turning this into something practical. If you have any more questions I am happy to answer them.
What's a hotbed of infection is the cops who interact with dozens of people a day to enforce distancing... seriously, it's super dangerous and they should not be doing it. Regardless of the morality or 'fairness' of it, it is just counter-productive, it is a vector for transmission, it will not work.

It is terrifying to me that many of us dont' seem to be able to distinguish between what people 'deserve' or what works; they'd rather increase disease risk if it means seeing the right people punished for it.
She was researching bat Corona viruses? The outbreak started at a market on the doorstep of her lab? Her name is on several papers on bat Corona virus.

Just pointing out that Wuhan was studying viruses exactly like the one tearing through the world right now, lol.
The moon isn’t 0 gravity.
What? That's not how evidence works. The onus is on the person making the claim to provide positive evidence. Not actively insisting they have to prove a negative.
I value my freedom above any form of UBI. It just smells too much of 1984 to me.
That would be plausible if it's true. Can you cite the sources Carlson was referring to?
How do I create a UNC to an IPv6 address? (2010)
Yes. It is the 2% that don’t recover that we are worried about.

Even if you survive COVID-19, from the personal reports I have read from survivors this is not a disease you ever want to catch.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting that. It would probably just be another tax for high earners?
The theory of lab involvement doesn't seem particularly likely, no. But government censorship makes it appear much more likely, in my mind.

It's unlikely that we'll ever really know. RNA sequences don't come with the signatures of their authors.

But, every time you see someone saying that the lab theory has been "debunked", you should immediately think fake news. There is no way to rule this theory out--rather, it's balance of probabilities.
I'll bite the bullet and say it: If the ADA requires UC Berkeley to take down 20,000 hours of lecture videos[1] because some of them lacked subtitles and some lacked audio descriptions of slides, then the ADA needs to be changed. And any university that commits civil disobedience by not removing such content is making the world a better place.

1. https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08...
How to Read a Paper [pdf]
On the other hand we did not call the "Swine Flu" the "North American flu"
I spent roughly three months late last year working on my workflow. Figuring out what I was good at, not so good at, and what I'd forever found impossible to do without fear of punishment or shame. Slowly, I learned how I worked best and leveraged these lessons in design of the new work flow. Of course, the solution was far simpler than before. The lessons were often exactly what was exhaustively explained in books about habit and routine.

Anyway, my workflow is centered around directories and files accessed from Sublime. Every directory is major subject area or project. One directory is the Control Center - filled with documents that drive my work day and planning. Things like Work Journal, Weekly, Master, Research Depot, etc., are all referenced every day - sometimes dozens of times.

Table Editor package for Sublime to create logs, reference tables, checklists (option v = √). Also great for tracking my micro workouts - calisthenics every hour to keep the pump bumping.

Code folding works to hide "folders" of data within a text document so I can access things quickly from their header line. This is particularly handy in the Research Depot file. Exempli gratia, I have NPRs Music recommendations of 2020 folded up to one visible line with checkboxes of albums I've tried. Another folded area is on Stinging Nettle uses.

My zettlekasten system was moved to Sublime as well. It got its own directory. Added a time stamp package for naming the file from the first line with a CMD-T, and some simple markdown, each file is a zettle. I use Zettlr for exploring the notes - but Sublime for editing. Perfect mix for me.

It's not so much this all saved me 100 hours, but my productivity is up 1000%. No hyperbole. My writing, projects, chores, fitness and client labor are all up by extraordinary levels. My down time is more relaxing, work more pleasurable, and creativity is like a real psychic adventure. And, it should also be noted I've been on Sublime for maybe ten years, or so it seems.

Sublime
TableEditor
Code Folder feature
Tabbed directories - combined windows view
Zettlr
Monodraw - but looking at the markdown diagramming tools...
zoom also has breakout rooms for what its worth, might be a paid feature, but you can specify whom and how long.
How about the food delivery drivers for super markets? They need to drive more than if we all ate rice and beans for every meal. How about the amazon delivery drivers?
Haha, I completely agree, but also understand why it happens. There is a documentary called "The Search for General Tso" on Netflix (I believe) that talks about how a staple American dish in Chinese restaurants came to be. In particular, nearly everybody says, "we had to change this and add sugar, as Americans have a sweeter palette than Chinese have".

However, the same thing happens in Asia with other countrys' foods, which can sometimes be good (Shaka Shaka Chicken, Japanese Curry) or perplexing (Cheeseburger Pizza).

Having grown up around a lot of Asian and Asian Americans, I do wish the majority of Americans were more open to different cultural foods. There are so many good dishes from all over the world, that it just seems a shame to miss out on. I can't imagine life without Shengjian bao, xiaolung bao, green onion pancakes, or the host of noodle dishes.

By the way, you didn't mention in particular, but I am guessing the huge South-East Asian ethnic group is Hmong? In which case I'm sure you've tried sweet pork (nqaj qaab zib). If you haven't, or if I'm wrong about which group you're talking about, try it anyway. It's delicious!
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