skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, why isn't the moisture on walls behind insulation ever an issue on new construction?
https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app

It's mainly about showing Cypress (which is something like Selenium or Playwright or what have you) but integrates it into a real world example with commonly used tools and frameworks.
It's a level of "professionalism" and coordination that can be easily expected of some random Dota player.

I fail to see any sophistication here.

Motivation, on the other hand, is above and beyond.
Not sure where you got that from, but that's not how Italian law works.

'The Italian criminal system is broadly an adversarial system and is governed by the presumption of innocence. The burden of proof falls on the Public Prosecutor, who must prove the guilt of an accused person. The standard of proof required is "beyond a reasonable doubt". Unless this standard is met the defendant must be acquitted. The court must consider and evaluate any doubt a reasonable person could have.'[1]

[1] https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-007-7826?contex...
They're trying to make themselves look popular? Faking social proof, as if everyone wants to buy their stuff?
The hypocrisy is pretty clear though, https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/french-city-suspends-secul..., here's a city 'suspending laicite' so officials can attend a public Catholic procession: https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/orleans-suspend-offi... .
> Active DPI is more tricky to fool. Currently the software uses 7 methods to circumvent Active DPI:

> TCP-level fragmentation for first data packet

> TCP-level fragmentation for persistent (keep-alive) HTTP sessions

> Replacing Host header with hoSt

> Removing space between header name and value in Host header

> Adding additional space between HTTP Method (GET, POST etc) and URI

> Mixing case of Host header value

> Sending fake HTTP/HTTPS packets with low Time-To-Live value, incorrect checksum or incorrect TCP Sequence/Acknowledgement numbers to fool DPI and prevent delivering them to the destination

DPI middleboxes are truly terrible. They're incompatible with even basic TCP without any good reason. I wonder if these ISPs use the same vendors as your average "enterprise" network.
The point is that for these sort of simulations you don't want a general purpose computer. Ideally you have a "equivalent" of the quantum mechanical Hamiltonian that you can manipulate/design and read effects out from. Now to simulate the human body probably requires a prohibitively large number of qubits, however for many very useful things you don't need that.
it doesn't have to be though, theres a lot of progress in explainable AI, causal inference etc. but a lot of software products like let's say Instagram make you have to trust their AI because they don't show you the metrics, training data or really anything at all. the company is a black box. even if they select posts to show you by Minecraft chicken randomisers you'd not know
Hell, there's a literary trope of talking to an echo that probably dates back centuries or millennia.
I'd advise the friend of yours to create a relationship their spouse wants to be in

This just isn't always possible. Sometimes, folks change and want different things in life. For example: If my spouse suddenly decided he wanted children, that would end the relationship for me. I could not expect them to go without something they are finding critical to their happiness, but I'm not willing to bear children for someone else's feelings either.

And honestly, this is what being respectful in a relationship actually is.

But all that said, would one of us qualify for alimony or need some help getting on our feet? Yeah. One of us stays home, after all, and would need the assistance (though I'm not convinced it should be alimony, per se - not at our income level).
Ask HN: Strike Organization Software
So, I was reading someone who said it would be difficult to organize a general strike in a country the size of the U.S. I don't have any particular interest in doing this but of course it piqued my organizational software side and I thought - what are the requirements for organizing strikes?

I tried to search for some software that helped people organize strikes but no luck.

Although HN is probably not heavy on people who have organized labor movements or strikes or what have you, it is still a big community so maybe someone here has some insight into strike organization and what kinds of software is generally used for it, if there would be any reason to have specialized strike organization software (for example if there are specific requirements that would benefit from applications with built in functionality)
> Also the same people who want renewables are usually opposed to building new housing so there's that.

What? Why would you think that?
This is fascinating technology for turning CO2 into C

https://www.upstreamonline.com/energy-transition/is-liquid-m...
I am sort of a nimby, but there's nowhere wild to protect anymore. Thanks Starlink!

I am less and less sympathetic to groups standing in the way of clean energy production because of any aesthetics issue.

However, I don't live there so I won't judge, though a wind farm got knocked back near where I live because it'd look like a windfarm and it was the greenies who knocked it back.
If ever a title exemplified garbage in garbage out, it's this one.
> “What the Ukrainians have done with networks is striking, but that approach is completely antithetical to how someone like Putin operates,” Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion and Russian dissident, told me. Or as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt observes: “Russia is playing a hierarchical war — top-down generals are planning the usual stuff. But Ukraine is playing a networked war.

“The real strategic question is: what is the limit of a networked war? We are going to find out.”
On other hand moving people is much simpler than moving crop land... So why shouldn't the people be ones to move?
Right.

> Also, we as society have already chosen how to deal with sentient beings, and it's mostly ignorance.

The Orville Season 3 Episode 7 is about that theme. Highly recommend it.
> I attribute the 'magic' to large scale statistical knowledge assimilation by the models

Can the magic of the human brain not also be attributed to "large scale statistical knowledge assimilation" as well, aka learning?

> GPT-3 is known to fail in many circumstances which would otherwise be commonplace logic. (I remember seeing how addition of two small numbers yielded results - but larger numbers gave garbled output; more likely that GPT3 had seen similar training data.)

This is a bug, they did not encode digits properly. They should have encoded each digit as a separate token but instead they encoded them together. Later models fixed this.

The human brain is full of bugs too, e.g. optical illusions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion

> It's a fad

No, it's objectively not a fad. The PaLM paper shows that Google's model exceeds average human performance on >50% of language tasks. The set of things that make us us is vanishing at an alarming rate. Eventually it will be empty, or close to it.

Do I think Google's models are sentient? No, they lack several necessary ingredients of sentience such as a self and long-term memory. However we are clearly on the road to sentient AI and it pays to have that discussion now.
Absolutely, 100% this. Also, I really appreciate how candid the author of the article is. Why is it so hard to admit our human foibles?
You're the judge and I'm a 'battered wife.' In this fiction: I self-harm myself (claim it was the husband), come up with a terrible and fairly convincing but unverifiable story of abuse and be sure to mention to you my husband has several guns and has threatened me and the kids with them. Do you choose to issue a restraining order, or do you roll the dice and hope nothing bad happens?
"Computers" are named after the teams of humans previously tasked with doing what they now do, a relatively common job in the first half of the 20th century and even irregularly earlier. The need was clear.
Isn't this the same sort of thing Julian Assange is being hunted for now. from [1]

"In April 2010, WikiLeaks released the Collateral Murder video,[4] which showed United States soldiers fatally shooting 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq,[85] including Reuters journalists Namir Noor-Eldeen and his assistant Saeed Chmagh. ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
You've just described my experience with KDE/Plasma.
> More importantly it's not the state's business to override the desires of citizens to end a domestic partnership.

There is significant evidence that divorce frequently has long-term (indeed, life-long) negative impacts on children. A recent meta-analysis [0] concluded that:

> A significant association between parental divorce and every aspect of mental health was found with the following pooled ORs (95% CIs): Depression 1.29 (1.23–1.35), anxiety 1.12 (1.04–1.12), suicide attempt 1.35 (1.26–1.44), suicidal ideation 1.48 (1.43–1.54), distress 1.48 (1.37–1.6), alcohol 1.43 (1.34–1.53), smoking 1.64 (1.57–1.72) and drugs 1.45 (1.44–1.46) could be estimated... The results of the meta-analysis show a consistent direction of influence regarding the long-term effect of parental divorce on their children. Individuals affected by parental divorce have a higher risk of developing a variety of mental health conditions...

Another study on this topic (of which there are numerous) [1] says:

> Controlling for age, race/ethnicity, gender, and childhood socioeconomic position, respondents who recalled a parental divorce during childhood had increased risk of mortality compared to those with no separation. The association was stronger for premature mortality and deaths due to cardiovascular disease. Divorce in childhood was also associated with lowered adult education, fewer social network ties, more depression, and worse health practices... Parental divorce in childhood is associated with lowered well-being in adulthood and long-term survival...

Given the well-established reality of the potential life-long negative impacts of divorce on children–which, as a child of divorce myself, I see as not just something established by research, but also supported by my own life experiences–why doesn't the state have a legitimate interest in discouraging couples with children from pursuing divorce for insufficiently weighty reasons?

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

[1] https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-012-0373-x
I did. Each one of these dimensions can be independently evaluated.

> Sentience broadly (& naively) covers the ability to independent thinking, rationalize outcomes, understand fear/threat, understand where it is wrong (conscience), decide based on unseen information & understand what it doesn't know.

> comment’s claim of having a PhD in “this domain” is not apt

C'mon, thats being disingenuous. People spent years poring on these topics, although we looked at it from the prism of computing. Elsewhere, I have pointed out that mentioning this detail is not about credential hopping: People on HN call you out for no reason for having an opinion.
It has happened so many times that I don't risk commenting if required. Telling this extra information is just communicating we spent enough time on it to give somewhat informed discussion.
Apple’s new car software could be a trojan horse into the automotive industry
This says that Atlassian are not running good static analysis on their app source code.

It also says they have either no good peer review, or their developers have no awareness of basic security.

Any decent SAST tool will flag up things like hard coded passwords in most instances.

A normal security audit of the app without access to the source code is unlikely to determine that. You would have to reverse engineer the app.
Is there any demonstration of practical, usable QC yet?

I'm thinking of some kind of common computational work, with a clearly defined input and verified output, shown to be carried out at least an order of magnitude faster than our conventional computers.
I would like to believe that; it makes me feel warm and comfortable
>it's not easy to find countries with strong religious politics and a modern or rational outlook

Maybe Bhutan? But it's a really special situation there (Kingdom etc) but modern for sure not (but is modern really good? Depends probably what's the meaning of it)
Do you have an idea of how much that system costs? I mean if you could pay 100k once and be free of all energy bills for the lifetime of the house/the system it could be quite a value proposition. May Putin, OPEC and the government do what they want - you just do your own power and heat, with no more middlemen.
Sure, but it became a waste of time once they stopped allowing you to upgrade the storage - this used to be the best path to a cheap linux laptop. Not any more.
Sanctions against Russia are working
This is great news. Thanks Kevin.

I had said to Kevin I'd put effort towards any similar to q language tha appeared so I guess it's time to step up:

- I myself commit to building a java JDBC driver

- I don't know C well so I will offer $200 to anyone able to add an automated build->release and to at a minimum get a compiled binary available that runs on Ubuntu. (Windows/Mac would be awesome). PR to go to main open repo.

- $200 For a web assembly version that can run online.

Contact details in my profile.
https://archive.ph/47Jtm
The Sabatier reaction has been known since 1897. The Wiki article also gives some examples of Power-to-gas systems that were built, so I don't know why you claim it's not real. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
Crops under solar panels: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=planting+under+solar+panel&...

"researchers are showing how panels can increase yields and reduce water use on a warming planet."

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

"As of 2020, the total worldwide offshore wind power nameplate capacity was 35.3 gigawatt"

Many areas need large amounts of cheap clean electric, but don't need them 24/7. If your CO2 sequestran or hydrogen generator or desalination only runs during the day, or when the wind is blowing, meh.
Current consumer friendly rack battery LFP prices are at around 400 EUR/kWh for 6000 cycles at 80% degrations, that's 0.074 EUR per kWh out the the battery.

5 kW inverter price are about 700 EUR, if you assume you have to change them every 7 years and you're getting 6 MWh/year out of the inverter that's 0.017 EUR/kWh.

PV prices are around 0.5 EUR/Watt peak and where I live in France you get about 1000 hours of equivalent peak production per year so that's 0.02 EUR / kWh produced by the panels assuming 25 year life.

All in all you're at about 0.11-0.12 EUR/kWh if you manage to consume all produced/stored kWh, which is easy if you have one or two electric vehicule charging at home.

As mentionned here the hard part are 3-4 winter month where solar production is way lower than the rest of the year.

An additional data point for gaz form of energy storage: a standard "35kg" propane bottle has about 450 kWh of energy in it, if you need 1.4 MWh of heat in the winter to complete solar + heat pump output that's just three bottles. To my knowledge no way to produce/fill it from gaz produced from summer electricity with home sized equipment (yet).
> The planet's ecology can't sustain a herbivore human race.

quotation needed. All scientific literature (that isn't sponsored by the livestock industry) is claiming the exact opposite.
Moral Foundations Theory and Disciplinary Controversies
It’s not self driven at all. It has no opinions itself, it’s responding to its “masters” inputs and pulling crap from a very large database.

Humans are self motivated and driven by goals and desires we create ourselves and change on a whim. We daydream and imagine things which don’t exist not because we are being ordered to by a human operator.

GPT-3 doesn’t do anything by itself. It’s just a big lookup table that does nothing unless a human tells it to.
> The set of things that make us us is vanishing at an alarming rate. Eventually it will be empty, or close to it.

Computers can speak, but can they love? Can they care? Can they dance?
Can QC simulate that?
RMS wasn't able to fool his own EMACS DOCTOR:

http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...
Old constructions are diffusion open, meaning moisture can move freely in and out of it. New constructions are diffusion closed, meaning you have a steam barrier on the inside which blocks the moist indoors air from traveling into the walls. This however requires an airtight house and mechanical ventilation.
I like zsh and it’s my choice of shell.

But at the same time I feel it’s too close to bash.

I can still run bash scripts, so why does everything at the command line have to be almost, but not quite bash?

I think it would be nice with a bit more of a paradigm switch that could open up for some new interactive possibilities. But bash alternatives seems to be mostly a better version of bash for some definition of better.
Everybody already knows that code running on a computer cannot become sentient. I don't know why this is interesting. Someone said a dumb thing, breached their contract, and got fired for it. The end.
Biggest difference: immigrant learns the language of the host country.
Normal computers would have suffered the same fate if they were only good for scientific calculations.

Computer revolution was funded by demand in business, gaming and automation. It's the cash flow that funds long term R&D. Not potential benefit.

There is no such demand for quantum computers. Everyday problems have too small complexity for them to be useful even if algorithm exists.

I suspect that computational biochemistry will have funders from drug firms and companies doing materials science to keep funding the research for quantum computing, but the total sum will not be billions per year like it was in computer revolution.
> Not everyone is economically minded and there is no political will (or legal basis) to force these people for their own good.

Not for their own good, but for the common good sure there is a legal basis. Eigentum verpflichtet.

Same direction as mandating solar panels for roofs.
> the next upgrade wiped the custom code!

Good for the agency: More hours to bill, if re-doing that work?
People who proclaim themselves to be "Christian Mystics" are more gullible and prone to self deception than smart CS students.
So, the good news is that we can generate all the power we will ever need from the sun using cheap solar panels that will last a very long time.

You are mixing up a few trends here. The world population is expected to peak at around 10 billion people end of this century. Some places will indeed have shrinking populations but that isn't true everywhere. Aside from genocide at a really monstrous scale, the reality of a population that big is that it will consume resources and energy whether we like it or not.

Given that, solar power is a cheap and clean solution that with price and production growth trends suggested in the article might be more than enough much sooner than some people seem to think. Exponentials are funny like that.

Energy generation is a dirty business today. This seems like it is the whole premise for your negativity. Here is a fix that seems on track to challenge that whole notion. The beauty with things like this is that they have a certain inevitability about them. Population growth creates the demand for energy. Meeting that demand improves the economics. And at some point the problem melts away. The wheels for that have been in motion for a while now. And all the article suggests is that we are going to be fine a bit sooner than some people thought. Extrapolate current trends and it adds up to synthetic fuel being cheaper than fossil fuel.
Sounds great!

I wonder: Why is sand better than the dirt that’s already on site? Dirt, after all, contains water, which I believe should have an even higher thermal capacity, or not?

Also: How about combining this approach with a heat pump instead of resistive heating?
That's precisely Wish's business model, as far as I can tell.
It depends on your goals. You mentioned bootstrapping. If you intend to bootstrap, then its 100x easier if you host everything on-premise. While some people feel they dont have the experience, in actuality, its nothing major. Do you know how to setup a dev environment locally? Ssh? Run unix commands? Then you got what it takes to host everything on-premise. Otherwise you are looking at paying 4-10x the costs if u use the cloud

If you are funded of course, then investors expect you to hire a team and focus everything on finding product market fit instead of managing infra so using the cloud makes more sense
There is another such project going on now, to connect Australian solar farms to Singapore via a deep sea connector. Of course Singapore would have a hard time placing enough solar to power their city, Australia on the contrary has vast swaths of land it can't and doesn't need to populate or farm (at this stage).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-30/nt-sun-cables-austral...
IMO proposing we "disallow remote updates" because we don't know what backdoors could be sneaked into devices is akin to proposing we outlaw fudging spreadsheets because we don't trust accountants.

It's not really practical or enforceable. If a world power wants to hide something nasty in silicon or software, a bug bounty program isn't going to cut it. Maybe if the government had a genius-savant who could stare at silicon dies and find malicious circuits.
Because they use a dual layer construction with an air gap between the inner an outer walls. This gives space for condensation to occur and evaporate again without effecting the living space.

In old buildings with solid walls you can get condensation on the walls that will evaporate because the living space is heated and we'll ventilated. If you clad that wall in insulation you can prevent the evaporation which leads to damp problems.
I think the path to actually considering those models to be sentient is to make them able to assimilate new knowledge from conversation and making them able to create reasonably supported train of thought leading from some facts to a conclusion, akin to mathematical proof.
A good boss is up front about this. Yes, he gets some credit for shepherding this product through (even if that is a minimal contribution in this case), but it is dishonest for him to mislead others he did it himself.
I don't have a magical solution since you didn't give much context. I suppose that completion is enabled (compinit, complist) and generally working since you mentioned it for ssh & scp. Maybe you're just lacking the file that contains the completion instructions for rsync. It should be named "_rsync". In my case, Debian's "zsh-common" installs it in "/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix/_rsync".
s/crimeless/cromulent
> What does this mean then?

Imagine I post an article that’s fraudlent and ”proves” that small rocks of a certain size and color keep away tigers. You won’t then see 200 articles saying they tried to replicate this and failed. What you see is 2000 articles dealing with how to find rocks of this exact size and color, siting my paper to support why it’s relevant to be looking for rocks in that category.
The point is that in some situations it can be more cost effective to generate additional energy than implement energy saving measures such as insulation improvements. My house was built in the 1600's it's very difficult to insulate properly.
yes, quite right. Not all religions treated the same, especially not those deemed seen as 'foreign'
Saddam Hussein did quite a bit more then just “challenge the bully”…

I suppose genocide of the Kurds is acceptable on the internet as long as your suitably anti-American while you do it. Those darn American imperialists!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
What apps do you use on ipad for development?