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I had a $cow-orker who once did the exact same thing -- configured an interface to use a /8 subnet mask -- except it was on the new Cisco ASA firewall we were deploying for one of our customers (a government water utility) and it wasn't a stupid default; he explicitly configured the wrong subnet mask and told the ASA that there were ~16.7 million other devices directly connected to that particular interface!

Not surprisingly, they experienced various problems over the next few weeks due to "the firewall" -- including breaking the application they used to provide their vendor remote access for monitoring and maintenance! That had the biggest impact but there were also various web sites they couldn't access, they lost the ability to send and receive e-mails from some other organizations they worked closely with, and so on. Oh, and either Pandora or Spotify (I don't remember which) also stopped working -- she could deal with some of the other stuff but the manager of the organization was NOT happy about that one!

Eventually, a few weeks after the firewall replacement, I was asked to go investigate the issues they had been experiencing since the new firewall had been installed, quickly noticed the incorrect configuration on the interface, and became the hero to everyone (well, except for my $boss, who had to reimburse them for ~27 hours (IIRC) of on-site time, but that's another story).

Subnet masks matter!
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Even in the terms of total human sensory input data rate, humans learn from a very tiny data set.

16 year old human has experienced only about 400 million wakeful seconds.
He was bribed to sell off .org to venture capitalists.
Hi, I thought that this is not the most interesting part of all the benchmarks, for example, all we need to test that with the quotient and the remainder: dividend = quotient * divisor + remainder, remainder < divisor and multiplication does not overflow which is free of division operations.

Yet, I added several tests like dividend < divisor, close to zero remainders, a lot of random stuff just to make sure each time I add a new approach, it is correct.
Thanks to this comment I actually read the blog post.

It was relatively good, although I began to suspect it was GPT3 generated about halfway through (partially because the style felt a bit stiff but also just out of a shayamalan-what-a-twist 6th sense of mine that was tingling)
Older Kamaz trucks however, looks precisely like Scania trucks, to the point I could not believe my own eyes when I saw one.
When corporations are actively pushing a “skills don’t matter” narrative innovation isn’t even in the ballpark anymore.
It's not really a fair thing to compare to a single human life though, since humans benefit greatly from the genetic and cultural priors inherent in the entire course of evolution. The structural prior for a transformer is really quite minimal, the equations fit on an index card.
The “invention” of the flat iron steak
To be fair, the Rust program isn't yet optimized fully. We tweaked few things here and there, and the speed improved from 26s to 19s. I believe it can still be improved further. I'm sure it can get better (especially if the issues in Rayon crate are addressed). However, at the same time, I think even Haskell version can be improved further. I'll update the blog post, or might create new blog post, once I have some interesting data to share.
Well then, please elaborate because I know nothing of the discipline you describe and it certainly sounds interesting (though it also sounds a little fussy).
Keynes explicitly wouldn't have been concerned about government debt, which is just the government's portion of the national debt. The other part of the national debt is held by the population of the country, and there is an identity that if you increase one, you lower the other. Where you decide to balance that is arbitrary, although debt held by individuals makes them individually subject to the demands of the people who hold the debt and government debt is held by the collective, which is better able to defend itself and make demands.

What Keynes was concerned about was the balance of payments, and using inflation as a spring to make sure that it would always be pulled towards zero, pulling harder the farther away a nation got. The US suffers from a strong dollar policy intentionally instituted after 70s inflation that demands that the trade deficit be massive forever. A refusal to print money under those circumstances is just pawning off that debt onto individuals, and the opposite of what a "Bancor" based system would enforce (which would be a trade surplus, removing the need for increasing debt.)
I have not denied any facts or reality, yet you attack personally while missing my point. Here, to clarify:

1. Does the coronavirus pandemic exist? Yes.

2. Has it killed a lot of people? Obviously.

My point is that how we respond to that threat is a public policy debate. The author of this piece doesn’t make his position clear or offer evidence either, instead he simply compares disagreement with his preferred consensus to a genocide and related coverup, all the while drawing parallels to “some kind of weird fucked up culture war” (as you put it) and vaguely posing the “how did we even come to this” drama trope.

“disagreement == genocide”; statements like that are how we’ve come to this and why we face the institutional decay the author decries.

TFA is arguing in bad faith pure and simple. That’s why facts aren’t relevant here, not to be confused with facts don’t matter. Facts matter, but you don’t argue with [not an argument].
> We don't yet understand why these patients are having such long-term problems.

ACE2 receptors are found in the Type II pneumocytes [1] of the lung alveoli. These cells produce the pulmonary surfactant that changes the surface tension which, among other things, controls how hard it is to breath in/out.

I'd be surprised if these damaged/destroyed cells were fully regenerated. The question I have, is whether the breathlessness is due to the sensation of extra muscular effort required to breathe or a measurable lower SpO2?

Long term, I wonder if COVID-19 related pneumonia will increase the incidence of lung cancer as these individuals age.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_alveolus#Type_II_cel...
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It's quite likely another pandemic will be quite a lot worse.

I see people taking the wrong lesson from this pandemic, that trying to control it was an over-reaction. So if we face a disease that kills a larger percentage of people, that lesson will not serve us well (it's not doing us any good this time around!).
> However some people also die or recover and experience severe respiratory issues, and this is an interesting thing to study and report on

I fully agree on that. I'm not disappointed about the studying, but the media coverage and amplification of people's irrational fears. There is many viruses out there which kill humans and cause all sorts of post viral effects which can last for months and we should all study them, get better at treating them, and finding new ways of curing them and that is fine, but it doesn't help to make lots of people mentally ill by singling out a disease and making people prisoners of their own fears.

For example, in Brazil people should be more worried about getting Dengue fever, which you cannot easily prevent by washing your hands and keeping social distance, yet you don't hear about Dengue at all, because it's been normalised and there's no news story today. So the media just jump on something novel where there is still potential for playing into people's fears and they capitalise on this. I'm sick and tired of watching many people around me getting depressed and falling into lows because of fears of just going even for a walk in the park.

Social media and the internet have always amplified the worst of humans. It's a joke that we've known for years that if you google for a pain in your toe you'll get diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer on the internet. It shouldn't really be a surprise that we see the same thing happening for COVID-19.
I'm not, and I'm not the one that has invented quotes from whole cloth to try support his position.

Your illustration of what happened when he turned to his support group is precisely the opposite of what we are told happened.

Yes, they were sucked in after initially trying to talk him out of it. That neither supports your imaginary quote, nor the idea that they killed him. What it does support is the power and the awfulness of the online alt-med community, which he unfortunately became an active part of.

Could they have done more? Probably, and they have to live with that for the rest of their lives. But he wasn't their pawn.
> Human reading/talking/listening equivalent of 200 pages of text per day for 80 years would be just 13GB of raw data or 3B tokens

I am sympathetic to the "total life time input" argument.

But humans get a hand crafted curriculum inputs, evolved over 1000s of iterations, in a near-optimal language encoding.

Also, if unsupervised gets us in-dist, and DRL seems to be not-bad in search-out-of-dist.... then we are getting close ?

Certainly a x100 scaling of current techniques can get a useful enough machine that makes many human tasks trac-able?

(I am not getting into the Turing / AGI / skynet argument)
It says on my “uniform” too.

https://www.amazon.com/TIMTAC-Embroidered-Golden-Yellow-Poli...
Exactly where my thoughts are with this.
That would help. But even more so US citizens need be mindful of the importance of diet and how it relates to health.

It doesn't help that the narrative continues to focus on the healthcare system. Yes, it can be improved. But supply is limited. We keep increasing demand. And expect prices to fall? That's not the way it works.
Even when things like giving up after a problem with it are taken out of the picture, there appears to be an effect.

It appears to be a real thing, even if not yet fully understood.
Is this a real comment, or produced by an AI? I couldn't make sense of it. This is a genuine question.
Based on my humble experience, I would suggest her to take the walks in the open air. Start from small, then gradually increase. Once she reaches at least 3 km per day, the walking activities should fully rejuvenate her ability to breathe.

This should totally work out. The moderate activities and safe relaxed walks do the miracles for the usual post-pneumonia as well.

Note of caution: avoid walking in masks. A mask impairs the natural ventilation and you would not get the recovery effect. This means you should keep a healthy distance and avoid getting into crowded places.
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See my other comment

> Humans get a hand crafted curriculum inputs, evolved over 1000s of iterations, in a near-optimal language encoding.
Basic logic dictates that after medical science has found cures for 90% of diseases, you will tend to notice the remaining 10%.

"Modern medicine", as you feel apt to call it, has been nothing if not spectacular successful against infectious diseases. It strikes me as implausible that the profession is somehow corrupt in a way that specifically hinders progress against chronic diseases, compared to the banal explanation that these are more difficult, and maybe that we've had less time dedicated to their study because they only appeared when people started to routinely live to old age.
Are you talking about building a 90s-style website or something like Figma?
The Deno core is easy to embed in Rust (or so they say; I haven’t tried it). https://deno.land/manual/embedding_deno. Note that this is the core and doesn’t include TypeScript support. Also note that the rusty_v8 bindings will by default download a prebuilt version of V8 from GitHub, because otherwise it can be a mild pain to set up and takes a long time to build. See https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8.

I can easily see why one would go with QuickJS: it’ll be much quicker to get going.
> With the exception of Singapore (which put an Australian in charge of its response)

Both Lawrence Wong and Gan Kim Yong are Singaporeans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Singapore
There's no evidence that human intelligence is anything more than associative memory and very elaborate multi-level pattern matching. IMHO any cognitive task can be described as a combination of associative lookups, domain transformation and trial-and-error stateful processing. I don't see any reason to believe there's more to intelligence/consciousness than a combination of such elements/processes.

I guess domain transformation is something which is hard to visualize. But it was visualized in style transfer: there are NNs which can decompose a picture into a subject and style and then take the same subject and apply a different style.

Same works with text -- you can take a sentence and rewrite it to be in Victorian epistolary style. Or take a story about humans and rephrase it to be a fairy tale with animals. GPT-3 can also do this. This means it's possible to take a sentence and decompose it into different layers, then manipulate layers individually and reassemble.
Haven't had time to do proper benchmarks yet, but it does perform way faster than a single Node process serving the same Vue.js app via Nuxt.js, using fewer memory. This is likely to vary for large, complex apps for sure. And yes, Node will beat QuickJS in benchmarks by a wide margin, but then again, I don't think you can run 64 tiny threads with V8 like I do with this thing :)
Just wait until the professionals start referring to psychological help. Chronic health problems from previous infections do not exist in modern medicine. Besides there's very little professional help to get. I believe we can reasonably expect this to develop into massive amounts of people unable to work due to ME/CFS. The effects may last for life. There are courses where they tell you to lie to yourself and say you're healthy ("lightning process"). The breaking of personal boundaries can unfortunately for sufferers lead to permanent health and capacity reduction, so take with big grains of salt wether it's worth the risk.

What may work, if it's ME/CFS-like, is to find personal limitations and avoid too much toll, ie. less or no stressful exercise. Then find ways to live healthier and gently up those boundaries without exertion, avoiding possible permanent regressions for life. Of course also seek professional medical help, but always evaluate what kind of help one is getting where and what the consequences are.

Life can and should be joyful and one should shed fear and anger, but be sceptical of claims (even this one), and do due R&D.
Innovation is 2 types
1. Incremental
2. Disruptive
And Context is 2 types
1. Internal
2. External

Totally we can see 8 options here; Pick the best one that fits in your company;
Reminds me of the insane mbox style of "escaping" the word "from" at the start of content lines, because it parses "From email-address some-date" as the start of each message.

I almost always prefer to use a byte count at the start of data blocks instead of "random sentinels" at the end.
I want something that brings "events" outside Facebook's walls.
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EFN (European Fulfilment Network)
Inspiring story; how'd you manage to identify the people that cared about leveraging your innovations?
I wonder if you read the linked Wikipedia entry, which includes:

> In political science, Duverger's law holds that plurality-rule elections (such as first past the post) structured within single-member districts tend to favor a two-party system.... In the course of further research, other political scientists began calling the effect a "law" or principle.

(Emphasis, of course, added.)

The article goes on to note counterexamples, to drive home the point that this is not, as you say, like a law of physics.

Perhaps a more constructive phrasing you could have tried would be something like,

"As noted in the linked article, there are many counterexamples, so while as you say first-past-the-post may encourage two-party systems, it doesn't preclude more parties from existing."

This would have been a more polite phrasing, one that shows you read and comprehended both my comment and the article I linked to, and one that would not exhibit the logical fallacies your original comment does (to argue that the existence of counterexamples precludes any causal relationship between first-past-the-post and two-party systems).

Hope that helps. Have a nice rest of the weekend.
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As Kubernetes adoption continues to skyrocket, more eyes are looking at it and finding vulnerabilities in its code and configurations.
As a security-aware Kubernetes owner, you should track newly-discovered vulnerabilities and ensure that your Kubernetes patches are up to date and that your cluster is properly configured to eliminate known vulnerabilities.
> is that for regulatory reasons the company can't sell new shares this way, so it's just a means to go public and doesn't raise any money.

Doesn't the company own shares? I've always assumed that when I get paid stock options or RSUs, they are transferred from "the company". So I would assume that a company could sell shares as part of a direct listing in order to raise money?

Otherwise why direct list?
Thanks, now that you pointed out the grammar mistake I have corrected it. The essence of my comment hasn't changed at all though :)
RE: I glanced through and the study seemed targeted at dietary choices

I appreciate it's a long article. The study went into more though, here is an articles that summarises the main points

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

Also, it said what the best thing is an individual can do to reduce their footprint. Giving up meat & dairy is a practical thing we can do today - no need for policy changes etc.

RE: Moral grandstanding. You don't care about the environment or health

Can you explain this further? How do you know what I care about? And I can't impose anything, I can only share information.

As far as I know what differentiates us from other animals is that we have moral faculty.
Isn't it our responsibility to point out things that are wrong? And after looking at various studies - supporting the large scale meat industry is wrong, because of the damage to our biosphere.

We are not hunter gatherers anymore, so we in modern society don't need animal flesh anymore to survive.

The only reason we keep doing it is mainly because of taste - which you've hinted at already.

Hence the question - does your demand for mouth pleasure justify the death and suffering an animal has to go through?

And you don't need to speak directly to slaughterhouse workers. Again look at studies and what that kind of work does to ones psyche.

Look at farmers who cry when they have to explain what happens to a dairy cow (this was in BBC documentary called 'Dark side of dairy). Our demand for these products creates those situations.

Humanity is about moving forward - doing things in a better way.
Visit Denmark. You'll be surprised what they charge for coffee here. The other day I bought two café cortado and I had to shell out $13.
> With the exception of Singapore (which put an Australian in charge of its response), Asian countries that were hit hard by SARS or MERS responded swiftly and decisively: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and China crushed the virus.

This doesn't really mesh with the situation on the ground.

Singapore has done about as well as they reasonably could given the dorm outbreak. Ex-dorm community cases are still quite low, and we're mostly business as usual. No idea who this Aussie you're talking about is, either.

South Korea is constantly battling new flareups, and Hong Kong has effectively gone back into lockdown as of today with an exploding caseload.

The only one of those countries that can really be said to have "crushed it" is Taiwan, which is probably due in part to being a self-sufficient island and in part to the extreme level of skepticism with which they treat anything from the mainland government.
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How is the fundraising experience? How hard it is to sponsor visas for employees? For founders, would you have any advice on the innovator/startup visa routes?
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I fail to see the "bombshell" here. This is what everyone expected when leaving the EU single market.

The only bombshell would be if the UK negotiators managed to prevent a hard Brexit. Given the current track record of their leading political party, this seems unlikely.
Apparently, the authors believe chess skill is domain specific. This is opposed to domain generalization, ie claims such as “chess makes you smarter”.

Compared to a list of actual domain generalizable skills, it is clear that chess would be the odd one out. For example, some domain generalizable skills include self-control, leadership, time management, etc.
The graph at the top of the article shows the percentage of the 143 people enrolled that had each symptom at their post Covid follow up. You know, 'statistics'. The media narrative in this article is that many people have lingering problems, not that everyone does.
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There is no such thing as a "European culture". The European Union is a loosely bound groups of countries with different languages and cultures tied together by varying degrees of relationship and exchanges throughout their histories.

Local cultures in European countries seem to be doing fine.
> We are going to see this sort of pandemic more and more regularly

What is this based on?
> I conducted more than 200+ interviews as a department lead and for me the single most important skill in an ever changing frontend landscape is enthusiasm and motivation.

I'm sorry but enthusiasm and motivation can die pretty quickly. I mean I am just a contractor but when I see my manager hit a wall trying to do basic things like getting another co-worker's computer unlocked too a whole day of fighting IT and getting another 8 GB of RAM for our desktops which had 8GB RAM took well over four months, our request for SSD instead of 5400 rpm hard disk couldn't be accepted because the company has a contract with HP and is only allowed to buy from HP, and when IT changes a configuration that brings down your internal website application, it takes for plus hours of emails back and forth for them to revert their change of the config file, the enthusiasm and motivation will eventually die.

It is still possible to stay motivated. For example, I play with some web stuff in my spare time but I doubt it is possible to stay motivated at work for any length of time.
More likely than innovation outside of existing companies gets bought into bigger ones.

What’s wrong with that? An “innovation” is not always a product. Sometimes it’s just a feature of a larger product.

Apple for instance acquires a company every couple of weeks according to Cook. Those companies’ innovations get integrated into an already successful product.

“The Innovator’s Solution” is for larger companies to start a small independent team not beholden to the corporate structure. That’s basically what an M&A strategy is.
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I have a big end goal in machine learning startup. So because goal big I'm trying to solve small problem in that core problem of "Awesome Great Startup". But real problem as you see in that that Lean Startup methodology is about iterative flexible real-life process: how does it fit in client-company world... Summarizing, I want to create an elephant from scratch but maybe I need a rhino at the end...?
Please help me to structurize this problem. Thanks
Feature request: I'd love to see it work both ways, i.e. change the amount of an ingredient and see how it affects the end result.