skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South West needed to update its tech infrastructure. They know this. Apparently staff have to call in to schedule and when things aren't going well it goes south quickly.

This business model is kinda what made southwest what it is today. I think like "just in time" manufacturing, it can save you money when its working but it might not be as fault tolerant.

From a podcast transcript:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/podcasts/the-daily/the-so...

Niraj Chokshi:
Right, exactly. There was this union official who told this story where there was a plane ready to go that was missing one flight attendant. And they had several on board already as passengers. But none of them could reach the headquarters quickly enough to tell them, look, we’ll work this flight. And so the flight ended up getting canceled.

Michael Barbaro:
Even though the flight attendants were on the plane.

Niraj Chokshi:
Right, exactly. And so this kind of thing was happening across the board. And the airline just could not keep up with the nature of the problem.

Michael Barbaro:
Because basically, they had an antiquated scheduling system.

Niraj Chokshi:
Right, right. And Southwest has acknowledged that, too, even before this crisis. After Thanksgiving, they invited a group of journalists to Dallas. And I was there. And the CEO was telling us about his goal of modernizing the operation. There are all these sorts of systems that they want to upgrade.

They want to make better. And he mentioned this system. He said, we’ve got flight attendants who have to call in. This is a process that could be automated. And he said, it’s not OK. And so they knew. They had started to work on it. That’s what they say. But unfortunately, they were still working on it when Christmas comes.
I found Tailscale for a specific reason, having a network where my various services can talk to each other without going thru HTTP for everything, i.e. ssh, scp, direct schemas for DBs.

And I use it for screen sharing my mac computers over the internet while traveling.
Growing trees and turning them into long-life products such as houses, rather than burning them for fuel, is also a good solution. The carbon gets locked away for at least the lifetime of the building.

We could also adapt building design so that some portion of the steel and concrete used in traditional construction could instead use wood-derived materials. This would help a lot since steel and concrete are both very carbon intensive. Steel production alone accounts for 8% of ALL global carbon emissions!
Humans solve all of their problems using at least one tool. Unless you are naked in the wildlands holding nothing, you are probably using a tool or a result of a tool (landscaping, clothing, etc.)
I thought of another variant: with AWS autoscaling groups using spot instances you can list a number of different instance sizes and say "give me whatever is cheapest" and you'll often get a mix.
From their site:
"The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool developed in collaboration with stakeholders intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy."

What is a voluntary tool? Beats me.
Who are the stakeholders? Beats me.
Help organizations to manage risk. What kind of risk? Whose privacy?
yadda yadda yadda.. Run on sentence.
My take away: NIST needs to hire writers.
The article quotes a paper by, "Hao et. al." which concludes:

"Finally, given the success that Transformers have had as models of natural language, it is perhaps surprising that these models’ expressive power seems to be best characterized (or at least bounded) in terms of circuit complexity. Mathematical explorations of natural language have most commonly employed the approach to language complexity afforded by the Chomsky hierarchy and its refinements, which is based on automata and formal grammars. The apparent incomparability of these approaches suggests that the exploration of different types of Transformer models might offer a new approach to the study of the formal properties of natural language."

A few years ago I found a paper that made the argument that Chomsky's hierarchy of formal languages is not necessarily the only mathematical hierarchy that can exist over languages. The author advocated that other ways of systematizing the classification of languages could lead to both a different hierarchy and new insights. He lamented that the strength of Chomsky's work and reputation might have inadvertently discouraged us from questioning it and looking for alternatives - especially ones which do more to capture what we intuitively mean by natural language parsing ability.

Edit: The OP article author interprets the first quote as, "maybe human language is simpler than we thought, and doesn't require higher levels of the Chomsky hierarchy... We might be Transformers!" However in light of that other paper I mentioned, it's more like there might be another hierarchy of languages different from and parallel to Chomsky's hierarchy, with different boundaries for the levels that cover the space differently than Chomsky's.

As for how such a thing is possible in detail, remember that a lot of the Chomsky language hierarchy require looking at behavior "in the limit" or "unbounded" in the sense that no finite parser of a lower level can parse all (unbounded) sentences of the higher complexity language. (But an arbitrarily sized lesser-complexity parser can parse sentences of bounded subset of the higher-complexity language.)

And it may be that for parsing actual human language pertaining to a non-infinite world, such arguments as the Chomsky hierarchy deals with are no more relevant than arguing that our physical computers aren't truly universal Turing machines because they have finite memory. Technically correct, yet also irrelevant to most of the practical uses we have found for them!
> Prior to electronic computers, groups of humans using pencil, paper, reference-tables (that themselves had been hand-calculated by humans), and slide-rules worked this way to get accurate answers to arbitrarily difficult computations.

There's a scene of this in Apollo 13.

Line of humans with slide rulers manually confirming calculations made on the craft whose computer is out.
Show HN: Analyze Medium.com Articles with Knowledge Graphs and NLP
As a Medium.com writer, I wanted a simple way to visualize and analyze my articles. I developed Medium-Sky, an open-source app that leverages Medium API, Knowledge Graphs, basic NLP techniques, and ChatGPT to achieve this.
It looks really cool. And it's fleeting. And it looks really cool. I'd love to see it in person some time. And it looks really cool. And to think it's man made, and on a level with the awe of nature. I'd love to travel all that way to see the Aurora, and then get treated to that as well. I don't see the problem.
Tailscalar here. One of the main things I use Tailscale for is accessing my development box from anywhere in the world. I can't really develop on Windows so I'm used to ssh-ing into a NixOS machine that runs all my compilers. Tailscale makes accessing it so easy that I can just leave hundreds of emacs buffers open in various tmux panes and reconnect back when I want to do development again.

I also run some internal services over Tailscale, a lot of my personal projects have tsnet embedded into them so that my Prometheus machine can scrape and monitor them. My husband also uses one of those services daily to monitor some information that I publish there.

I also run the development instance of my blog over Tailscale and use Funnel to share it with people to review my writing before it goes live.

At work we use it a lot to let people poke around with changes to development instances of websites (like https://tailscale.dev) without having to push them to the cloud and wait for preview deploys. It is _stupidly convenient_.

Turns out you can do a lot of things with networks when you don't have firewalls making everything complicated.
Raspberry Pi to parents house and IT support is much easier now :)
I’ve always disliked the enforced SSO approach.

However, if you did have 3 Gmail users, it’s possible to share Tailscale access across multiple accounts. So in a small setup you could create an account for each user and then effectively connect their Tailscale networks together (I’m not sure if you can route between Tailscale accounts directly but you can at least share hosts on your account with users on another account, which is how I do it).

I do this with a personal and work account to share some limited access between them.
So, I recall ballmer doing really well financially at msft during his time. Ignoring stocks, revenue was up. I think profits were up. But then they missed every major trend during that time, and were looked at as creaking in the wrong direction. The reason I said they should ask themselves questions about windows is because it feels the same way to me. A product that still makes its way to enterprise and other money minting categories. But it’s quietly losing its way in the young developer/business/influencer market. Maybe one day MSFT wakes up and looks at windows and realizes they’ve been going in a stupid direction of screwing the long game over the whole time.
They’re complementary, I’d say. GPT-4 handles greenfield development better; you can tell it to write a quick script, and usually it more or less works. Copilot doesn’t do much when you’re looking at a blank page.

This would make copilot the better tool in 90% of cases, but I’ve been using GPT-4 to script a lot of things I previously would never have scripted at all. It reduces the cost to where even one-off scripts for a twenty minute job are usually worth writing.
European Statistical Recovery Dashboard
You can also extend your RaspberryPi over Tailscale and have your phone use it on the go.
This is a really intelligent move on tailscales part. Yes, there are a few hobbyists who paid for the personal pro plan, I'm sure. But at $50 a year it's not exactly going to change the companies economics a lot. Then the next step was jumping into "Team" level which would actually be a major step down for a small hobbyist who wanted a lot of devices (Personal was 20 devices, Personal Pro was 100 devices, Team was 5x the use count. So 2 users... 10 devices). Realistically hobbyists are not going to be the bread-and-butter of Tailscale's business, so why not let them go crazy.

Looking at https://tailscale.com/pricing/ one of the other major changes that has been made, is the free plan now provides access to almost every feature. Going up to the $6/mo/use "Starter" plan actually loses you some features. So if you've had a taste of the good life, and want to keep it, but have more than three users… You are going to need to go to the premium or enterprise plans. Probably makes their sales process, super easy, since they don't need to give out trials to companies anymore, "free plan for a few users and try it out".
Like Altman said, it's comparable to the GHz race in the 1990's. If 4GHz is good, 5GHz is better, why not 10GHz?

Turns out there are diminishing returns and advances come from other dimensions. I've got no opinion on whether he's right or not, but he's certainly in a better position to opine that current scale has hit diminishing returns.

In any event, there's nothing special about 1T parameters. It's just a round base-10 number. It is no more magic than 900B or 1.3T.
I think it's not so clear.

If it's clearly qualified that this is a fabrication of his voice, then what right does he have to control that? He's not being harmed. He's not being misrepresented.
Those little trucks with long beds are awesome. On a related note, people here in Hawaii have been importing Japanese kei trucks like crazy!
There is a book that is exactly this, "Database Design and Implementation" by Edward Sciore.

You write a database in Java while having the principles explained along the way.

https://www.amazon.com/Database-Design-Implementation-Data-C...
Everything is working, I don't think we need that IT team then....
You can setup an exit node on your home network where you run a Pi-hole and get the domain blocking on the go.
just patch inputs and outputs to audacity (or your recording software of choice). for pipewire theres helvum[0] or qpwgraph[1]. for JACK there's Catia[2].

[0]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/helvum

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rncbc/qpwgraph

[2]: https://kx.studio/Applications:Catia
5 micron voxels is extremely impressive. I'm excited to see where this goes!
I always find this thinking fascinating. If you are using a suitably strong password, you don't need a KDF. And you _should_ be using a strong password, so we can hand wave any KDF related issues away.

But people don't use strong passwords. We should know this by now. End users pick weak, predictable, non-random, short passwords. I've seen IT departments (who should know better) set weak passwords for users like "Company2023". A KDF can't save you if your password is extremely weak, but it can improve a mediocre password such that an attacker will give up before they succeed.
But that is naive, isn't it? Who has the money and time in their life, to actually sue MS? Even if "you" is a business, few will have the resources for that.
Temu: What It Is, and Why It Matters
True but it helps that:

- all US states all speak the same language

- US got oil

- the dollar is the reserve currency

The USA has multiple advantages, not just one.

Given the potential for wars this day, being surrounded by mostly ocean may also prove very useful as well.
You are confusing the fact that you can store in some encodings one character per byte, 8 bits, with a bit of entropy.
This an existential issue for Coinbase, so it's not surprising they would shell out for the best lawyer they could get. And it's not surprising that Grewal would quit his judgeship for a payment that's probably more than 10x his annual salary. Grewal is risking very little. He'll be set for life regardless of how this turns out.
If it was properly labeled, it wouldn't be a counterfeit.
Global solar installations hit 240 gigawatts in 2022
OTOH, there are lot of IT teams that are truly bloated
I apologize, but your response is a muddle of contradictory cliches. I am literally there to make friends, of course I care what at least some of them think. I'm not there to actually run.

I went. I sucked, to the point of it being awkward. I trained daily for three months before going a second time. I still sucked. I don't know how to create the conditions that would make it productive to attend again.
But even CO2 producing cars, have you ever heard of a gas-powered leaf blower or chainsaw? Even though efficiency has improved, in 2016 California reported that just 1 hour of a gas-powered leaf blower was the equivalent of taking a Camry from LA to Denver.

You aren't going to motivate people to be better for the environment (by, say, buying a more expensive 40MPG vehicle instead of a 35MPG one), when it can so easily be wiped away by a guy just leaving a tool on for a few minutes more. Same situation with banning straws - nobody cares about the 1.6 billion masks in the ocean now (literally).
Not all "solutions" are equal. Some are a waste of resources and inefficient for their supposed results.
Yeah and why do you think that a Mega Corp would be willing to spend $1k per musician when they could offer $100? This hypothetical Mega Corp will surely prefer getting 10 million samples instead of 1 million samples for their $1 billion. In this situation they have all the leverage and we can't rely on their largesse

And it is definitely better to have a super low chance of breaking through in the future and $0 in your pocket than to have no chance of breaking through ever and $1k in your pocket (gone in 1-2 months of rent). Especially considering for most of the really struggling artists, they won't get that deal at all and instead it will be $1k in the pocket of a studio musician.
Too bad they are effectively hardscaping an environment in the process. We should have tried to put solar on all the flat roofs in California before we started developing on and changing the ecology of less disturbed areas. There are so many of these large flat roofs in socal alone that industrial cities like Vernon stand clear as day from space with the glowing white roofs. What a missed opportunity. Not to mention the plethora of flat sunsoaked roofs on socal apartments and even flat topped single family homes which also stand out on satellite views. And the parking lots too.
You generally can't backup the TPM key as most TPMs are designed to prevent key material extraction.

However, with LUKS there are two keys. The key slot key that is stored in the TPM is not able to be retrieved (by design) however the disk encryption key is not stored in the TPM, it is stored encrypted in each key slot. As long as you have access to the disk encryption key via an existing key slot you can create additional key slots without TPM protection. Once you have a non-TPM key slot you can transfer the drive anywhere and unlock it using that slot instead of the TPM. Of course this slot will not be protected from brute-forcing by the TPM but if using a sufficiently long passphrase for backup or transfer it should be fine.

TL;DR if you have access to the TPM you can migrate away from it. But if the TPM is your only form of access and you lose access (stolen, wiped, forget password...) then your data is irretrievable.
Libuv Adds IO_uring Support for ~8x Throughput Boost
Is it just me or is Haggard Hawk spouting ideas without citations? I don't know if they're right, but it would be cool if there were a link or two to an established source like an academic journal or even a Wikipedia page.
After American Hanged in Syria, FBI Builds War Crimes Case Against Officials
Average load today has at worst been about 300 Kb/s TX, 200 Kb/s RX. I've got a 1000/100 mbit/s down/up connection. Seems to be holding without much trouble.

Most pages with images do lazy loading so I'm not hit with 30 images all at once. They're also webp and cached via cloudflare, softens the blow quite a lot.
> parents are wrong

This whole premise implies that you know what's "right" and "wrong" better than other people. I find it fundamentally abhorrent to impose by beliefs on others in this manner. That is the whole point. Economic success/mobility is only one outcome of many that a child rearing strategy can optimize for. What gives any of us the right to override parental decision making to optimize for this outcome above others?

Regarding reservations, I've not seen any factual refutation of any of the points that I made - namely that most of them are fundamentally economically unsustainable no matter how we feel about it. My life experience supports my worldview - I was born into poverty to immigrants who value education and achievement, and am now quite comfortable. This happens all the time.
A dorp is a village, note all the English village names ending in -thorp or -thorpe.

Although we can't trust the cognates, as 'stad' is related to English 'stead', which meant a settlement of any size.
Another tragedy of the commons: Leaking gas infrastructure pollutes, causes explosion risks, and puts a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, and gas companies just have subscribers pay for the losses. Not that PG&E didn't socialize risk while privatizing profit regarding fires.
> previously my impression is that there is no match for Golang when it comes to writing operators

Strimzi exists for some time and they use Java.
You'll be waiting quite awhile. If there's anything HN has taught me, it's the meaning of "pearls before swine". And the futility in providing free labor for people who seem to think they're entitled to it.
- Entire site-to-site tunneling/routing. I didn't have to do anything for my parents I just dropped a subnet router at their place.

- Access my services/servers at home from anywhere in the world. Friendly mobile apps as well that allow the same.

- In cloud environments (for work and fun), don't even bother provisioning public IPs and having to deal with those firewall rules, just use Tailscale

- https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-auth-nginx/ describes how you can integrate nginx proxying with Tailscale auth to both leverage SSO and the authenticated endpoint

- I have a bootmod3 WiFi adapter plugged into my street/track car with a combo 5G/Linux unit in the car connected to my Tailscale that streams continuous telemetry about the car whenever its turned on. I could in theory re-flash the ECU via this.

- Using https://tailscale.com/kb/ondemand-access/ alongside node/subnet grouping to create a very neat first step towards auditing access to sensitive production services/environments.

- I use server-based dev environments to keep my portable laptop as clean as possible with no source code on it. VS Code remote + Coder server are fantastic over Tailscale.

+ others. Tailscale I think solves the problem of node-to-node-to-subnet connectivity at a convenient and flexible layer.
Vancouver. Occasions of excellent and free care include: general precautionary checkups and exams, blood and urine tests just to check on nutrition and general health, corrective surgery for minor conditions (eg. cyst removal), treatment for minor ear infection, hemorrhoid treatment, a great deal of care, MRIs, and x-rays after a bicycle accident resulted in a fractured bone, and of course several drive-through COVID tests throughout the pandemic.
Makes sense. Solar panel costs are negligible compared to the mount/racking costs and labor for installation/cleaning. It's probably worth the efficiency losses.
Slow Roads: the surprising capabilities of 3D in the browser
> Because they cleaned up their act doesn't mean those same companies are required to come back to the table otherwise

on the other hand if there is no benefit to cleaning up ones act why ever do it?
Yes, I’ve read that this is what most reporters do. There are a number of devices built for it. I’ve never used any so have no recommendations.
As a consumer, I use it for two things and it does it well and very simply across all platforms:

1) When traveling, you can use one of your home computers as an "exit node" so you can watch Netflix, etc. abroad very easily. Much more reliable than using VPNs which can be blocked.

2) Accessing your internal network from wherever you are for Plex, Homebridge, IP cameras, or whatever.
This is Tl;Dr for the article ^^
Tsk. This! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzsxN4HNrNw
Yes, because there’s insufficient room for reality. Causality is this big DAG with tons of incoming edges, going back to the beginning of time. 5 Whys is creating a path 5 edges long. This is often useful, but it’s not “the truth”. If each node has 10 incoming edges, there are 100,000 paths you could take.

At least it’s better than root cause analysis, which is walking back until you want to stop and declaring that the root.

The real root is the creation of the universe. I mean that sincerely. When you follow definitions of causality, time and the universe, you end up with the Big Bang as the root of your graph. Everything is else is editorializing.
What she endured is hard for me to comprehend. Humans like Phyllis are treasures of the human capacity.
Now that I think about it, there's also some other things I use it for. I embedded the Tailscale API into my VM manager waifud (https://github.com/Xe/waifud) so that I can pass a `--join-tailnet` flag to `waifuctl create` and plunk new virtual machines onto my tailnet with Tailscale SSH enabled. It makes testing things on arbitrary versions of Ubuntu so easy that it feels like I'm cheating.

My hypervisors are also subnet routers so my VMs can connect to eachother like they're on the same network. All the fun of static routing without any of the "fun" of static routing!

There is so much more you can use it for though:
- https://tailscale.dev/blog/funnel-101
- https://tailscale.com/blog/tsnet-virtual-private-services/
- https://tailscale.com/kb/1137/minecraft/

The cloud's the limit!
That doesn't sound right: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_at_WMF