skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Azure with both Google Authenticator and Authy - the option to use a QR code to init a standard TOTP app is there, it’s just not-immediately-visible.

…unless your AAD admin restricted the option to use standard TOTP and forced the use of MS Authenticator?
> These are new designs. Modelling only goes so far.

It went pretty far in the case of the SLS.
I'll bet soda bottles have a lot of PFAS..
Is it enough to improve housing market in London?
> SpaceX has launched 9 crew missions with around 30 or so humans

Sorry, had a brain fart, no idea how I typed that out.
Yeah, thx, I got it. I just thought that this 'hidious' feature was actually funny when I first tried to reset the game.
Thanks, I don't really know the customs of the other Orthodox churches, but they are different organisations. I don't know them well, by any means. I'm reading about them on wikipedia:

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

Apparently there are six Oriental Orthodox churches that are all "autocephalous" (i.e. they do their own thing). I think the Russians and Serbians are closer to the Greek church in custom.

And btw, that's why I asked. The Orthodox Greek diaspora are probably the largest group of Orthodox Christians outside Russia, but I was just curious.

Somehow I also find it curious that your parents were converts to an Orthodox church. I didn't think that happened. If I may pry, what were they converted from?

I'm Greek, btw.
How is this good news for buyers? People who own homes are reticent to sell in this environment.

Anecdote: I had my house built in 2016 for 340K with a 3.5% 30 year FHA loan with PMI. I refinanced when it was worth $650K in 2020 with a 15 year mortgage and 1.9% and dropped PMI. I am paying roughly $300 more per month.

Why would I sell my house knowing that I’m going to have to pay triple the interest rate? There are plenty of home owners who are thinking the same way.

Even going a step further,

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/peop...

My wife and I decided to move. Instead of selling our old house, we decided to rent our house and buy our second home because we were paying basically nothing in interest.
The site looks good, it's clean and I like the functionality, but the fact that you only list online/neo banks (presumably because they have an affiliate program, while (some) traditional banks may not) means it's an incomplete and biased selection to begin with. For me, because of that, I'm afraid it's a pass.
Thanks for keeping it up for so long. Sites like yours are what makes (made) the internet a fun place to learn.
Is it foregone conclusion you can't collect? Apparently the creditor is the pillow company, and they have seizable assets.
It seems there's a lot of interest for Byzantine History on HN, that's fantastic! My friends and I have run a book club for the past four years on Ancient History with focus on the Eastern Roman Empire.

Most books we read were kind of dry. Here's a list of books I found readable and engaging if you want to delve deeper:

* Byzantium trilogy by Norwich. If you don't want to get all three, I suggest getting The Apogee (2nd volume). Fantastically readable and solid historical work with a generous side of gossip.

* Alexiad by Anna Komnene. Written around 1140 after Anna was deposed to a convent, this biography of her father, Alexios, has an immediacy that history books cannot match. The end will probably bring you to tears.

* Anecdota (Secret History) by Procopius. For pure titillation factor cannot be beat! Severe attack against Justinian, Theodora, Belisaurus, and his wife Antonina. "Severe" is an understamenet really, here's Procopius on Theodora's depraved youth:

On the field of pleasure she was never defeated. Often she would go picnicking with ten young men or more, in the flower of their strength and virility, and dallied with them all, the whole night through. When they wearied of the sport, she would approach their servants, perhaps thirty in number, and fight a duel with each of these; and even thus found no allayment of her craving. Once, visiting the house of an illustrious gentleman, they say she mounted the projecting corner of her dining couch, pulled up the front of her dress, without a blush, and thus carelessly showed her wantonness. And though she flung wide three gates to the ambassadors of Cupid, she lamented that nature had not similarly unlocked the straits of her bosom, that she might there have contrived a further welcome to his emissaries.

So, she fit the full Messalina archetype. Full text available at Fordham (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/procop-anec.asp). Here's an interesting paper on the depiction of Theodora in the Secret History (https://www.mcgill.ca/classics/files/classics/2004-09.pdf)

* Chronographia by Michael Psellos covers the reigns of 14 emperors and empresses in a 100 time period
“ Whenever possible, the goal should be to at least establish a new creative class instead of a new dependent class.”
If it's even a thing at all? The incremental changes add up to a pretty huge deal, especially if using the LTS only.
On /r/farming yesterday someone was showing how he uses John Deere's AIG (Active Implement Guidance) to come back after seeds have germinated and basically put "pockets" in the ground to allow water to pool around the seedlings. The accuracy that it requires to do that without damaging the plants is amazing.
The author of this article is selling outrage and we are all buying. They are getting views and benefiting from this anti-government outrage. The author repeatedly appealed to long-covid patient authority like their medical opinion has any weight at all.

This fear = views = status = profit conflict of interest is the problem in current America and why it feels like no one can understand anything and trust in our institutions is at a low.

“The NIH RECOVER study is pointless,” said Jenn Cole, a
long Covid patient based in Brooklyn, N.Y., who wanted to
enroll in the study but found the process inaccessible.
The research is “a waste of time and resources,” she said,
and fails to use patients’ tax dollars for their benefit.

“We didn’t need to recreate” existing studies that already
answered these questions, said Cole, the long Covid patient.

This isn't journalism. This is garbage. This article produces anger, not understanding.
I won’t say enough to identify myself, but the company I work for is working hand-in-hand with researchers as a part of this funding. I can’t speak for the entire sum of money, but some of it is definitely being put to good use and is making an impact via the research being conducted.
Is there likely to be a way to stream this audio in the future? As in, here's an incoming stream of text, generate the audio on-the-fly instead of all at once.
You Need to Think for Yourself
For users, in a positive sense, something around Snow Leopard.

For AAPL investors - every version after that is more "significant", especially after OS X was renamed to macOS and dark mode was used to keep nose-y media out of anti-privacy changes like user being informed what is "shared with Apple" instead of being asked whether anything should be "shared with Apple".

Downhill after that - children are used in hideous manner by Cook to invade users' privacy, like scanning and profiling their files as a pretense of looking for child porn. I find Cook's use of child porn argument to spy on all users absolutely disgusting.
"test-to-failure" means that when you realize you may have made a mistake, you don't automatically scrap all your work to fix the mistake before continuing down the development path. You complete that prototype and test it because there are a thousand more mistakes to discover. Even if the known mistake will for sure result in a catastrophic failure, there may still be a large window of opportunity for productive mistake discovery before that for-sure failure ends that test run. You want to discover and fix mistakes in parallel, not serially.

Obviously there are judgment calls for when a mistake might prove too costly even in a test run. But manifestly SpaceX has damn good judgment in that regard. If you don't like how the sausage is made, just avert your eyes; don't complain about how ugly the sausage making process is.
I didn't realize how messed up internal systems were during the interviews or what group dynamics actually were in real life. I judged too much from the hiring manager and the best of my colleagues whom I still think highly of. I thought I could make a difference and they paid really well (not FAANG).

What changed was a combination of realizing how little I could actually do, magnified by a whole new tier of VPs hired from Microsoft and Google who brought their loathsome ways with them. One never expects the Spanish Inquisition...
You’ve been here since 2010, you should know that HN doesn’t have topics and trying to create them would start to make this community something it is not.

AI is dominating the tech news due to its impact in many sectors, unfortunately the rocks available to hide under will become fewer, and this is just a reflection of the world we live in.
SCE is so slow now processing the NEM/PTO application for solar panel !
Maybe. I am vaccinated and boosted, of course, but long COVID can still happen. That would be a shame, I would hope for something more treatable, or at least recognizable by employers/authorities.
>People have other goals in life beyond economic incentives.

They acknowledged this point, though:

>The incentive is the experience and making some impact on science

I think you might be interpreting their last point differently than me. I took it to mean that the "Mars or bust" is an inspiring, but impractical, narrative.
> this was a test, they didn't have anything left to test except for a flight. delaying would be pointless, everything else had already been tested.

Apparently not, since:

1) the launch site was damaged

2) several engines did not work

3) the RUD

I'd say, there's plenty that they could have tested before launching.
Create content people are willing to pay for. Most national level reporting is simply partisan garbage. They find stories to support an agenda rather than reporting stories without an agenda. Everyone is so jaded because every story has an agenda. For example, how many stories about Trump finances have been written by mainstream outlets? Countless. How many stories about Biden’s finances? Very few — unless they are right wing outlets. Is any journalist digging into the fact that we have US soldiers in direct combat in Ukraine? Has any outlet dug into violations of the War Powers Act? How many outlets have dug deeply into the corruption of Houston city and county government? How many stories about corruption in municipal initiatives? Garbage contracts? Or how congressmen are paying consulting companies that hire their spouses for no-show jobs? (As in the case of Dan Crenshaw.) How many news outlets have done anything in depth about election irregularities other than simply writing stories that claim it doesn’t happen? How many news outlets have written stories about Covid corruption? Pfizer corruption? Vaccine research lies?

Very few. But we know all about Trump’s dealings with porn stars.
The removal of about 500 people (not all of whom will leave London) and perhaps their families from a city of population about 9mm? I imagine not.
If you want something similar to this that is fully downloadable and open source, check this out - https://huggingface.co/NeuML/txtai-wikipedia

It's an embeddings database of Wikipedia abstracts with page view data integrated to enable filtering pages based on popularity in addition to similarity.
The ability to be a human swiss army knife has allowed me to survive all the waves of layoffs(publicly-noticed and otherwise) up till now. When I was a stand-in manager interviewing people a year ago- I was told afterwards that my questions were too intense for what they were _then_ looking for. At that point, it got me wondering why they were setting the bar so low when I was previously being grilled and nearly passed.
I wasn’t aware that there were forced vaccinations. Where was this?
I’d say Rust, not Go. Rust’s memory management model is a hassle but it has the potential to trounce garbage collected languages in performance. Go is more like Java—-, what you’d get if you were trying to make a language like Java but read too many blog posts about why Java sux.
This is why I'm of a mind that decoupling/sanctions are really not the way to go. I'd say open source/open academic development benefitted both US/China more than decoupling benefits either. Yes, I know there was a lot of drum banging re "stealing tech" and "authoritarian values coming into the US" but I get the feeling that there was way more flow of western liberal and pro-democratic values into China than the other way around...
Are you asserting that we gain better insight into the reliability of a system by thinking about it deeply rather than by observing it perform its function? Because I don't believe that for a minute.

I'm not saying you can get by without thinking, but it's difficult for humans to estimate the reliability of a complicated system. Reality, though, has no problem doing it.

Plus, I think your analogy is flawed. NASA surely has a more hands-off approach on the CCP than on the Shuttle, but to say it's hands-off is misleading. They do have a lot of access.
> and that's profitable for OpenAI.

Reference?

"Profitable" means they're making more money than they're using, at this moment.
So if you "can't assume you can trigger a system" in this situation, you rely upon an automatic system, not a RSO. Which is exactly what SpaceX did. I'm sure this was fully documented in the approval process.
Turns out they were indeed right! The hole is Boring Company-worthy.

Joking aside, the test was successful, but the missing concrete and what seems to be 50 meters of sand below it is a problem for the next test launch schedule. The pad they’ll need for reusability will be as impressive as the rocket itself.
> we were comparing methods

What does this mean? The question most of us care about is which method resulted in a more reliable rocket. And SpaceX’s track record shines uniquely in that respect. The frequency, moreover, makes the results robust. Legacy rockets like Ariane will never reach that confidence because the likelihood of fluke successes won’t have been minimised when the rocket is retired.
TOTP doesn’t perform mutual-authentication: a lookalike on-screen prompt can be used to capture individual codes from unwitting users.
Will happily pay, too
I'm sure they're tweaking lots of things under the hood, especially now that they have 100M+ users. It could be bigger (30B?, maybe 65B) as coming down from 175B gives quite a lot of room, but the cognitive drop from Davinci gives away that's it's much smaller.

People fine-tuning LLaMa models on arguably not that much/not the highest quality data are already seeing pretty good improvements over the base LLaMa, even at "small" sizes (7B/13B). I assume OpenAI has access to much higher quality data to fine-tune with and in much higher quantity too.
Humans already did a great job at turning almost all information online into pure noise and now we’re enlisting AIs to help cover the last stretch.
What he says, what he thinks and what he does are not related.
Release notes:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LunarLobster/ReleaseNotes

(Can’t see Canonical’s site behind the tracking popup.)
https://archive.is/vmmvL
> leading to a lot of rewrites that I personally think are a disaster

Rewrites usually are a disaster, doesn't really matter what the from's and to's are technically speaking.

> the people who did their best under impossible standards are now being treated like punching bags

GTFO then (find a new job, then leave). If leadership can't recognize that existing implementations are a product of past trade-offs/prioritizations (where feature/product work typically took priority in early days to win deals) then they aren't likely to be making good decisions themselves and might be a little too full of ego.
>Corporations are a faceless entity

This has to change.
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enter...

Is this not the theory behind Red Hat?
Go and rust aren't going to help you as data engineer. Data Engineering is dominated by python, sql, java, and scala.

Writing a pipeline in those languages isn't particularly great unless you have very specific reasons for it because there's no ecosystem for them.
Looking this over..enterprise stuff, more enterprise stuff, third party dev tools upgraded as usual, which is great...and oh what's this?

> Updates for running snaps download in the background and are applied automatically when the app is closed.

Boom, that's a big one.

> Users and administrators can now pause automatic updates of specific snaps as long as desired.

What, wow.

Something tells me the usual critics still won't be satisfied, but these are both a big deal and tell a story about listening to the improvements that were desired by users.

> Ubuntu 23.04 includes GNOME 44, delivering further usability improvements with a focus on new quick settings options for bluetooth device management and dark mode.

Not a small change...

> The Firefox snap also benefits from significant performance gains on the Raspberry Pi with hardware accelerated rendering.

Q: Is this limited to Raspberry Pi, or not so much?

The Steam changes also seem like potentially huge conveniences to me.

Nice job Ubuntu team! Satisfied user since 2004 here; I do switch between the various buntus (kurrently Kubuntu) & love to discover other distros too.

I was thinking back today...Ubuntu was awesome to me when I Photoshopped and Netflixed in Windows in 2009 [1], played with various hardware & learned to stream video to some of those devices on the WLAN, like my n810 [2] (does VLC encode & stream the given RSS feed at this point in time? That was part of the experiment...), and got really into creating my own journaling and notetaking methods for life-improvement purposes and extreme weight loss [3] in recent years. It's supported everything I wanted to do and has effectively run my local business admin & creative this whole time as well.

Being a Linux enthusiast since the late '90s, this is way more than I would have dared hope for! Very happy to reflect on all those experiences.

1. https://www.friendlyskies.net/images/435t.jpg

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7PYUZ5z1wM

3. https://www.friendlyskies.net/images/396t.png
While AI ethicists and safety researchers are urging for a pause to understand the implications of what we have already built, Google is announcing they will invest more in the acceleration of Artificial Intelligence.
> AMD and Intel processors have backdoors that allow them to exploited

This has not been proven. And IME doesn’t count.

Don’t repeat unverified claims. Do apply critical thinking.
It is just strange to read this list as if it isn't a normal part of life.

Your first five-seven are just standard day to day living and if you lived that way, it seems to me you would never experience "long covid".

Note: Marathoning and other extreme excercise activities are not normal, regardless of how large the communties may be.
How can you say "we don't know"? The evidence seems overwhelming.
Interesting dilemma. When I was in NZ, they encouraged you to hit possums on the road because they are an invasive species decimating the native populations. People in North America were appalled, because it’s hard to separate your morals from the ones you grew up with.
LLMs are the end-game for almost all NLP and CV tasks. You can freely specify the task description, input and output formats, unlike discriminative models. You don't need to retrain, don't need many examples, and most importantly - it works on tasks the developers of the LLM were not aware of at design time - "developer aware generalisation". LLMs are more like new programming languages than applications, pre-2020 neural nets were mostly applications.
I am shocked they only wasted a Billion...

That is 0.0001% of all the wasted money in COVID spending....
Ceph RBD – Where does it store (meta)data?
At the OS level, the amount of money spent on developers will not be satisfied by a small number of individual users paying $300/year. At that level the funding comes from enterprise customers.

You're welcome to use that $300/year to sponsor individual projects / developers.
Some day I want a keyboard with pressure sensitive keys :)
Doesn’t everyone grey on the sides first?
I asked our sysadmin at work to enable it and found out it is only an option for personal accounts. Business accounts force you to use the Microsoft authenticator app.
There was never an actual offer- and when presented with the notion, I was told that I may get something out of sticking around.
Or if a mono font is too limiting - any font that supports the CSS rule `font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums` can be made to behave like a fixed-width font in this situation.
Everything will go the AI way so it reflects reality accurately
Is it possible to say "succesful failure" without sounding like a PR person doing a damage control?

I mean, lets imagine that "test early, test often" is a good engineering practice (it probably is, but lets do not discuss it here, just assume it as a premise instead). Lets imagine that SpaceX blowed up its rocket to gather more data. Is it possible to say "it was a succesful failure" without it looking as a rationalization?

It is an important question, because if the answer is "no" then your observation is not informative.
Memento: A Python library for running computationally intensive experiments
Matrices and rings are technical terms without preexisting intuitions, but "the same size" seems to be an intuitive concept, like "natural number" or "circle". So presumably any definition should be compatible with our existing concepts. Although Galileo argues against size having an intuitive sense for infinities.
The failed list is infinitely longer.
It most certainly didn’t reach its planned max q, not with 6 motors out and the rest with nozzles dented by rocks at ground escape velocity.
Just about the only unrealistic thing is it recommending Szczecin's old town.
Fossil fuel corporations will have to "conspire" to reduce production though, unless they can conspire to come up with some way of extracting said fuels and allowing them to be used without the release of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
The massive amount of capital investment that currently goes into producing fossil fuels needs to start being directed towards producing energy in a manner compatible with maintaining a habitable planet, and it's hard to see that happening until we collectively agree that it's not reasonable to profit from fossil fuel extraction and combustion. And yes, the governments of countries like China, Saudi Arabia and Russia are absolutely critical to that effort - until there's a real sense such governments are prepared to prepared to make radical changes in how their economies function then there's little the rest of us can do to alter the trajectory of global emissions. On that basis as an individual I'm happy to make lifestyle changes that may happen to also reduce my overall ecological footprint but at least bring some other benefit (driving less being the obvious one - even if it somehow caused more carbon emissions, the upsides of spending less time sitting in traffic are way too numerable to dismiss).
yeah I think many people saw the launch as the launch of the finished Starship+booster when what was really happening was a test of maybe v0.0.2 if not pre-alpha. It's not done yet, there's a long ways to go before the expectation becomes 100% success.