skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it can be super thin (compared to sun scale) so you wont need lots of material, like you dont need lots of gold to plate contacts. And as there is not a lot of mass there will be not a lot of influence on gravitational field.
Very nice! I will use it for my next weekend project :)
One solution to this is the Matrioshka brain, which consists of many nested "shells" around the star. Each one absorbs the radiation from the hotter shell inside it (or from the star, if the inner shell), and radiates waste heat to the cooler shell outside it. The temperature differential between the inside and outside of each shell is what allows work to be done. The outer surface of the outermost shell, maybe 5 billion km (~35AU, or a bit further out than Neptune) from the star, will be close to the ambient temperature of the interstellar medium, and will radiate heat at only a few Kelvin into it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain
I don't want to say they are practical, but for sure you would build them with planetary matter so you would influence the movement of planets as you would dismantle them. At the end you would not have any planets left.
Yeah, its mostly a matter of database/server exploits. My personal wordpress site got white-hacked; left a friendly note telling me to update. I switched to static instead.
The OP’s second point is that you would change the gravitational balance of the solar system if you disassemble mercury.
Thx and have fun on your next weekend project!
There was nothing explicit in the linked court document AFAICT, and I sincerely hope the judge isn't making decisions based on gut feeling and "common sense".
You do notice in your example Spotify doesn't shut down? Afaik, nobody is allegeding that Tornado Cash maintained user accounts for money launderers.

It'd be more akin to if you had say McDonalds and people used your parking lot for Craigslist transactions (some of which were fradualent). Should you be required to close that McDonalds?
Sure, and what happens next with the trajectories of the remaining planets?
My question when it comes to Dyson Spheres is, how does one get the sphere to stay there?

In contrast, a Dyson Swarm is easier for my uneducated mind to understand.
You dismantle the planets to build Bishop Rings and O'Neill/McKendree cylinders which form your Dyson Sphere/Swarm.
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I think the down votes are more because it’s a low-effort take, and this site (while it continues to slide in that direction, still) isn’t Reddit.
I don't think the article and researchers meant it's actual rigid sphere, that's just the Star Trek based popular opinion. Dyson Sphere is Dyson Swarm, people just didn't get it the first time.
Signal? Protonmail? Personal safes? Https? Car window tinting/privacy films? Government mints? What reason is there to use cash today except to engage in crime?
More or less, yes, but it doesn't have to be extremely local. Here's a variant of the example that introduces a function call boundary:

https://godbolt.org/#g:!((g:!((g:!((h:codeEditor,i:(filename...
Science need theories. Theories can be used to look at the world in search of evidence.

We have two nice theories here. People just doing the search now.
Let me guess: they are surprisingly easy to force them into all reds.
I think there's a good argument for Elixir and Phoenix. It's shocking how easy it is to do just about anything with it. An excellent database wrapper, incredible async story, beautiful at real time. You can substitute in a JS SPA framework if you need to, but I think you can go really far with LiveView before that's a requirement.
Ooooh so thats what happened. I just recently restarted using my Facebook account after about 6 years of not really using it. I found it odd that I was only scrolling to android games ads, some diy videos and some rage-motivated generic posts from accounts I don't know...

I liked more the Facebook that showed me the humblebrag posts of my friends/connections (and I'm not being sarcastic)
It's almost like you should work with your local environment when making a yard/garden and not against it.
Funny thought - want to solve global warming? Disassemble Mercury! Earth's orbit in theory would space a bit further out
> Gio is pure Go

7% C is not pure Go.
Don’t forget WorldCoin!
Unfortunately personal accounts have a usable quota, service accounts have to go through all the approvals (at least 4: getting allocated at all, which cost center, what resource allocation, what scheduling priority, and this is assuming you need zero "special permissions")

Doing the same with service accounts as you can do with a personal account takes weeks before you can even get started, and informs the whole management chain what you're doing, which means it informs essentially every manager that could complain about it of exactly the right time to complain to be maximally obstructionist about it.

Or to put it perhaps less ...: using service accounts requires the processes in the company to be well thought out, well-resourced with people who understand the system (which this issue shows: they don't even have those at Google itself), well-planned, and generally cooperative. Often, there will be a problem somewhere.
Well, a translation can be: a NixOS user tried some from the IT dark-modern age and find how much it suck, nothing extraordinary, unfortunately most people fails to even understand that some Big of IT have interest in crappy solutions because they allow commerce while good ones do not.

Back then was the full-stack-virtualization era where a large flock of biped sheep say that VMWare "is the future, today" of course on x86 with the incredible overhead it have. For some times the psyco-PR-drug works, than paravirtualization start to be know with docker before, k8s after. Again the aforementioned flock run for the mania again ignoring the fact it's a nonsense.

Ladies and gentlemen this solution have only ONE purpose sell pre-build crap for those who do no know how to work themselves, mostly the Dev part of DevOps who in mean have issues even deploying their own private personal desktop at home, not even a homelab. They do not care about the tremendous overhead, "hw it's relatively cheap and I'm rich enough to buy more", and they consider normal the abysmal level of complexity. So we see in-production docker images built by no-one-know who, perhaps with his/her ssh keys authorized "oups, I forgot to remove them" and so on.

NixOS unfortunately have a terrible language, Guix System unfortunately it's mostly focused on HPC/academic usage instead of homelab/desktop usage, but that's the "modern IaC" since years. They are incredibly simpler and light than the modern crap pushed to sell pre-made images, offering "cloud services" of various kind and so on, yes Hetzner or OVH or Amazon do need to been able to sell so they do need these monsters, but users do need to AVOID them and re-learn how to use and deploy OSes and app, perhaps in a less archaic ways than the 80s style...
He posted it when this list was getting viral and acknowledged it without saying it's not the real one. I read it as a tacit confirmation at the time.
https://archive.is/hFwFd

Shameful that India, of all countries, is taking the side of an empire that is trying to reconquer a former colony.
I thought the efficiency of a Dyson sphere/swarm was typically measured by how much of the star's total power was being used?

We are not capturing 10-15% of the sun's total power output.
Pretty sure solar panels are 20% plus now with some much higher.
Whenever you think like this, it's useful to look into how modern efforts differ in more detail.

Concorde was very loud and very fuel inefficient in an industry where efficiency is king, the modern struggle is not in achieving supersonic flight, but in doing it efficiently and quietly.

Similarly, the space shuttle was iconic, but more recent safety analyses have shown that it was a miracle only 2 launches resulted in total loss of crew, as initially it had a 1 in 9 chance of failure, later missions getting to 1 in 90. In comparison, all current human rated vehicles have to do better than 1 in 270. The Shuttle was also horrendously expensive, reusable in name only, and was limited heavily by requirements for it to be able to do certain things that it never actually ended up doing. Dreamchaser is supposed to be commercially viable, it can't burn billions per launch.

Similarly, with going to the Moon. We want to do more than just an Apollo style moonshot and establish a sustainable long term presence there (well, NASA wants to do more than that, Congress seems to just want to give money to Boeing), so now we have to make giant, spacious sci-fi-esque landers/bases that refuel in orbit before heading off.
What does "NK" mean?
They'd be perturbed a little but it's not like they'd go colliding into anything. It's not a big deal; shell theorem applies.
Tony Stark built this in a cave with a box of scraps!
Interestingly, all of those supposed spheres are around dwarf stars, which make them inherently more practical for two reasons:

1) Much less material required

2) Much longer star lifespan (trillions of years rather than a handful of billions)

However, what's interesting is that those spheres all seem to be around red dwarf stars, which are much more active and shorter-lived than white dwarfs. They're just not as stable.

Our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is a violently active flare star -- and it's also a red dwarf with an estimated lifespan of ~4 trillion years.
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Ever heard of the 3 body problem? No way we can reliably model that.
The video has a slowness about it (pushing myself to be critical here because it’s all amazing). It would be interesting to pair the VR experience with some fast moving virtual content. Like flocks of birds shooting past. Or projectiles.
I would assume its not 'safety critical' but 'business critical', disabling GPS would mean slowing down departures / arrivals which means the airport losing money. I recall there being a similar issue with Lufthansa and SFO causing planes to get rerouted to oakland.
And the New Yorker piece in question: https://archive.ph/ulZsu
The widespread opinion is that the Space Shuttle was a colossal blunder and diverted a huge amount of funding into a dead end program, and misled a great amount of engineers all over the world, to the point where national programs had huge versatile spaceplanes in the plans (some still do! mostly in the zombie mode though). A fleet of specialized spacecraft could have been way more productive than a jack of all trades and master of none. Productive in absolutely every sense - output-wise, job-wise, infractructure-wise, innovation-wise, sustainability-wise.

Shuttle was a political artifact and the reason behind the downturn (or at least one of the factors), not a victim of it. DC is a niche spacecraft that makes much more sense than Shuttle.
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I didn't actually know how silicon wafers were cut before, so it was actually somewhat informative.
GPS is now often unavailable in eastern/northern parts of Europe due to Russian jamming. Some smaller airfields already had to update their systems not to rely only on GPS.
Dyson spheres can be very low tech. To reiterate, it's a swarm of objects orbiting the star, not a rigid sphere.

If you have the time and raw resources, it was possible with 1960s technology.
I guess he refers that the stars are only fusion reactors that are creating surpuls energy (more than is neede to sustain reaction)
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Somewhat related: NYC Rain Gardens https://home.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/rain-gardens.page
So in summary a former NixOS user now use a preconfigured OS dedicated to run one single platform (k8s) and still suffer for having to tinker with everything.

It would have been fun or wise if she had gone back to Nix in the end.
You’re not really running a business if all your content is on someone else’s platform and they don’t pay you for it.
https://archive.ph/bozq8
360 pages, but also added the xLSTM paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04517
Autocracies are inherently unstable and dangerous in this regard. They have every incentive to be irrational and unwilling to negotiate. They call it “sovereignty”, which it isn’t — just a sparkling dictatorship.

Autocracies have no place in the modern world.
Most open source code comes with too many restrictions on ownership to be reasonably called a "gift". For example, see the GPL which exists specifically to restrict ownership and usage.

If I let you use my car but only how I specify (subject to change at any time) and the title stays in my name, it's not legally a "gift" is it?
What a strangely narrow way of looking at this.

Work isn’t the only responsibility.

What is the correlation between taking a week away from responsibilities - work, family, etc. - and job satisfaction?
is there nothing here about attention?
I had the same experience.

Immutable OS are great when you have a team of people to manage the tooling and process complexity of deploying and managing them, end users who only want to use software running on those servers, not the servers themselves, and you are bringing servers up and down all the time, then you actually reap the benefits of standardization and infrastructure as code.

But when it's just you, you want to interact directly with the OS, and it's just one device, it's just foot guns all day.
I will also. I heard a lecture on Kolmogorov complexity at an AI conference (perhaps AAAI IN Austin in 1984?) and it forever changed my view on complexity and patterns in data.
How could the press release not link to it shakes head
The disconnect is the dyson searm is in space and we’re earth where we want to use the energy. How does it get to earth?
If cash, tobacco, or motorcycles were in invented this century they'd have been outlawed. Digital encryption barely squeeked through due to popping up before 9/11.
A dog-whistle camouflaged by criticism of OOP since it is out-of-fashion.
> Any stories or events you can talk about? It sounds interesting
reply

Paul Graham fired Sam Altman from YC on the spot for "loss of trust". Full details unknown.
Good to see there's still some people vouching for old-school programming virtues. Among all the capital-driven centralization, scaling and complexification dominating the conversation I thought I was going crazy...
I don't think you understand how courts work
You can see business pages and their info on Facebook without an account. If they publish their email you can also contact them.
The other real difference is that the addressable market for most drugs is quite small in terms of number of customers. The vast majority of people just don’t need a particular medicine, especially the life-saving variety. The more niche, the more you have to charge to make up for the large R&D costs.

There are, of course, also instances of gouging. But it’s not like these things should inherently cost $20/mo, or whatever, if you want to be able to pay biomedical researchers enough not to go do something else highly compensated like finance/consulting/whatever. Sadly, I had a lot of classmates in engineering school who went that route instead. We urgently need more nuclear reactors, but one of the smartest guys I know, a nuclear engineer, is doing healthcare private equity.

A lot of saas is more like $200+/mo for businesses, and chatgpt might be $20/mo for consumers, but there are companies paying $1m/mo or more for that api.
Mobile era of computing would have happened just as much if Jobs had never lived.
> Unfortunately these are being used less and less and even deprecated

Fortune may have something to do with it.

Like copper land communications that cost billions to establish over
almost 100 years, are extremely resilient and can be repaired by
anyone with a ladder and pair of pliers. They're being ripped out
across Europe and the US because the private companies they were sold
to want to shrug maintenance to squeeze out a little more profit.

It's just not your fortune.
https://archive.md/24ICN
Carmack says the darndest things.
Actual paper is here: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00459-8

God knows why a press release wouldn't provide a direct link
There are several possibilities here.

First, the Earth already receives a ton of energy from the Sun that is "wasted". We estimate that at about 10^16 Watts of power, compared to humanity's energy usage, estimated at 10^10-10^11 watts. So Earth has a ton of energy dissipiation "built in" that we're not "using".

Second, there is some inefficiency and thus heat dissipation in converting solar output into usable energy. Doing that in space means a bunch of heat dissipation happens in space rather than on your planet.

Third, it's relatively straightforwward to counter any increased heat dissipation on your planet by reducing that solar output that hits your planet. How? You build something at the EArth-Sun L1 Lagrange point. Reducing that solar output that hits the EArth by 1% would likely be unnoticeable to us but could cool the Earth significantly. Also, what do you build there? Well, lots of things. More orbitals, solar power collectors, etc.

Fourth, how do you get power down to a planet? There are several candidates. One is to beam it down. This adds a conversion cost. But here's another: you build a n orbital ring [1] 100-150km above the EArth's surface. There are a ton of reasons you'd want to do this: interplanetary travel, cheap travel to and from LEO and easier travel across the planet (ie up to the ring, down to another point on Earth on cable cars, basically). But consider this: it gives you a rigid structure to attach solar power collectors to and you can run power transmission cables down from the ring to the planet's surface.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E
The argument that this is 90% of what matters in ML seems a bit bold. AFAICT it is completely missing reinforcement learning, which has been source of some mindblowing results (from Deepmind) in the past decade. It is also missing other stuff that I as a layman found fascinating (graph neural networks, 1.5 bit networks, ..). Also, I am not sure how much the Kolmogorov complexity actually matters, it's more philosophical than practical. So beware, it is a very opinionated list.
I still use Nix to build docker images, part of this is to see how bad the rest of the industry really is. It's slightly worse than I imagined it would be.
This is malicious compliance and I love it. Basically, in Britain it's illegal for them to report on this, so they just published it everywhere else instead.
Vorfeld, Mittelfeld and Nachfeld look more like German.
> Should we avoid infrastructure development if it’s poor areas?

Yes! If you can avoid it, yes. Pressure should be applied to areas not already struggling. Just to reiterate my original point, which you didn't address, if your system consistently results in disruption of the lives of the under privileged, it's a bad system.

Also if caring about people is soft, I'm glad I'm soft.
Tornado Cash is permissionless. Any data the creator of Tornado Cash could hand over, the government would already have because Ethereum and EVM-based blockchains are public by default.

The only service being run is a web client and relayers to permissionless smart contracts. I believe these are/were being run by a foundation.

Also some things you can discover if you try, really.
Linus had a lot of positive things to say about AI and Linux at the end of this recent interview: https://youtu.be/cPvRIWXNgaM?si=dVHbqyeBY8z-MYIH
It still wouldn't work in the way you think it might. Advertising is about keeping something "top of mind", companies won't want to link their brand in someone's mind to when they're pounding off.

This is doubly so considering the use of remarketing cookies. While you're watching something that's bound to fill you with regret moments after the fact, you won't want to see an ad showing the Amazon products you were browsing previously.
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>Big of IT have interest in crappy solutions because they allow commerce while good ones do not.

This is really true, I don't want to go into specifics but I've witnessed a standards committee advertising how much "vendor added value" their product allows (which is fancy language for the standard being incomplete and unusable without extensions). Oh and don't forget arbitrary limits on capabilities for no good reason so that in a few years marketing teams can release a new version with a fancy nickname to keep the hype running.
Someone far more deserving of the title, Dennis Ritchie, died a week after Jobs' stupidity caught up with him. So much attention to Jobs who didn't really deserve it, and so little to Dennis Ritchie who made such a profound impact on the tech world and society in general.
And don't forget StarLink that revolutionized satellite communications.
It would indeed be inadvisable to use all of sun energy captured on Earth, but they're not going to be used entirely on Earth.
Just an hour ago, I learned about Przybylski's Star. [0]

> Przybylski's observations indicated unusually low amounts of iron and nickel in the star's spectrum, but higher amounts of unusual elements such as strontium, holmium, niobium, scandium, yttrium, caesium, neodymium, praseodymium, thorium, ytterbium, and uranium.

While the explanation is likely some unknown natural process, salting a star with an impossible chemical composition might also be a way for a technological species to create a monument, correct? This seems like it would involve moving less mass around than a Dyson Sphere/Swarm, although it would need a constant feed, if I understand the situation correctly.

Astonishingly, there appears to be no contemporary analysis of this star.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybylski%27s_Star

"The Star That Shouldn't Exist" - Prof. David Kipping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maMDGZOD3mI

"Why is There Plutonium in This Star? Przybylski’s Star with David Kipping" - Event Horizon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbjdaPy4mw
They will gain a lot of lawsuit if they admit they trained on youtube dataset because not everyone gave consent.
Was a joke :)
Totanly agreed. We as a profession do not learn what existed before, only what the latest are doing and it's tiring. We value creating instead of reusing and maintaining, as seen in the extreme in the evaluation process at Google. We have Show HN for brand new stuff and not Remember HN for past, proven technologies put back to use.

As said eloquently by Lu (https://www.todepond.com/):

NO MORE IDEAS
WE HAVE ENOUGH

NO MORE TOOLS
WE HAVE ENOUGH
It doesn't, there's no need for planets at that time, people live on rotating artificial habitats that form the Dyson sphere itself.
I'm amused by all the "but the Dyson Sphere might affect the natural environment" comments.

Building a Dyson Sphere is 100% incompatible with Sierra Club philosophy!

It is about ruthlessly destroying the natural world and replacing it with something you prefer. At maximum scale!
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On first blush, this sounds like a good idea. Thinking deeper, the company is so small that it will be easy to identify the author.
I kinda like Lex, but he never asks any difficult questions. That’s probably why he gets all these fancy guests on his show.
But you can pretty easily bring down their power grid