skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but that is sort of on the path of assuming there are latent paedophiles out there which just seems a stretch. Everyone encounters children, usually quite regularly. Most people have their own, in fact. If they have an attraction to them that is so strong they're going to go off the rails they've probably had it triggered.

The paedophiles already know who they are. It is quite plausible that the number of additional offenders from easy access to pornography would just be a reduction with negligible other effects. The stats don't suggest traditional pornography availability has led to more sex - quite the reverse, in fact, based on my cursory readings.

But, as every comment in the thread points out, there really needs to be some effort put in to figuring out what would happen if it hasn't already been done. I'm not sure if you're looking for something here, we all agree there are multiple ways any change could play out.
I would rather buy a finance book that correctly defines present value than spells business right
For comparison, how efficient is the biggest Dyson Sphere humanity built so far?
I didn't downvote.

AFAIK it's not supporting Linux as a target platform.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Reddit at least shows up in searches. I also think it's important not to look at the past with rose colored glasses. I think some random forum is much more likely to disappear than a subreddit.
I have run a news website since 2019. Every hour, I have a crawler look for dead links. I replace about one link a day with a link to archive.org. The funniest ones are the day after an election when all the candidate websites go blank. The saddest are the government websites that go offline from 3am to 5am every week.
I see that. My point is that if the captured energy is used, and thus ultimately dissipated as heat, on the planet's surface, that planet is sooner than later going to have climatic imbalance.
I'm going to imagine because when the government tells Spotify that people are laundering money through their platform they kill the account and hand over data to investigators?

They don't deliberately run a service explicitly built to enable money laundering.

Basic things you can think about if you try really.
It so refreshing to see good education become more accessible regardless of your spawn point, bad spawn or not.
I was under the impression that GPS was a non-critical asset for aviation, ie. any plane can safely stop using it at any given time and keep flying with VOR and other navigational aids.

This article [1] introduces some of the scenarios where pilots rely on GPS only:

* GPS-based waypoints to optimize routing based on favorable winds and more direct routes even in the absence of VORs.

* RNAV departures and arrivals that rely "solely on GPS rather than radio-based [...] aids" with more precise spacing and hence higher capacity.

* GPS used as a substitute of ILS for some approaches e.g. in mountainous areas.

[1] https://simpleflying.com/gps-in-aviation-pilots-guide/
Shame-related norms in Hollywood vs. Bollywood
If you want to bring up CS101 so badly, surely turing machines and lambda calculus would be more relevant.

The actually interesting claim is that somebody has found a practical use for Interaction Combinators as a computing model for putting GPUs to work.
Earth already do this. We only use some energy for our purpose.
The CoreOS diversion was interesting to read. I've been daily driving CoreOS+i3 for the past year (I might be the only one in the world). I thought having a tiny immutable base OS would make the system easier to manage over time, but unfortunately that hasn't been the case. It's been an adventure but I'm ready to give up and switch to something more vanilla.
They do have other ways to navigate. Like land-based beacons (VORs).

Unfortunately these are being used less and less and even deprecated in favour of GPS waypoints. Even when they are still around the pilots have less experience with them because they no longer use them every day.
First comment on that Reddit thread:

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Hey folks! Kevin, product manager on Flutter and Dart here.

The layoffs were decided AT LEAST a couple of layers above our team and affected a LOT of teams. (I think I can say that). Lots of good folks got bad news and lots of great projects lost people. Flutter and Dart were not affected any more or less that others. It was a tough day...tough week.

It was crazy to be seeing demos and new things working and discussions about new customers the same day we lost colleagues and friends.

We're sad, but still cranking hard on I/O and beyond.

We know ya'll care SO MUCH about the project and the team and the awesome ecosystem we've built together.

You're nervous. I get it. We get it.

You're betting on Flutter and Dart.

So am I. So is Google.
You're harnessing the entire energy output of a star. No need to transport anything - this is gathering, not hunting.
Ask HN: Where to Find Items Being Sold by Closing Startups?
Hi. Are there places where I can find stuff being sold by startups that are winding down?
It's a test used for humans. I personally am not a big fan of the popular benchmarks because they are, ironically, the narrow tasks that these models are trained on. In fact, GPT-4o performance on key benchmarks has been higher, but on real world tasks, it has flopped on everything we used other models on.

They're best tested on the kinds of tasks you would give humans . GPT-4 is still the best contender on AP Biology, which is a legitimately difficult benchmark.

GPT tends to work with whatever you throw at it while Gemini just hides behind arbitrary benchmarks. If there are tasks that some models are better than others at, than by all means let's highlight them, rather than acting defensive when another model does much better at a certain task.
I use GPT for AutoHotkey scripts for personal use. It fixes things Windows can't do natively. I used it briefly for a shell script on Linux but I don't use Linux much these days. When I used Linux daily I had a folder full of scripts I either adapted or copy pasted from the internet. I can't program but I can copy and paste and make minor changes to make a simple script suitable to me. GPT makes a big difference on my day-to-day, Windows 10 is under my control and I didn't need to learn AHK scripting. I'm not in IT, I'm just a regular person with a Hacker News account.
Looking for Dyson Spheres or "the Simulation" or any other highly speculative technology is anti-science. It is the opposite of evidence based. I am so sick of these non-science ideas being promulgated and given resources when there is plenty of actual science (evidence based) that needs funding.
I suspect compound words are a major component of it.

In English "car factory" are two words. In Dutch an "autofabriek" is one word.

A dictionary might choose to list the most common compound words which quickly adds up.
Planet? Dyson swarms orbit a SUN, not a planet
They executed civilians.[1,2,3] You don't execute civilians. Any officer who gives you an order to execute civilians is giving you an unlawful order. This is so fundamental it is covered in basic training.

The reporting around this has indicated that basically there was a culture within the SAS that you needed to be "blooded" and serving SAS personnel were isolated, harassed or threatened by other personnel if they didn't participate by those who were in it.

The people being investigated may or may not have been acting under orders from higher officers...but the accusations are that they also directly threatened other soldiers if they objected to, or directly facilitated, those unlawful orders.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-20/former-sas-soldier-ar...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65773942
I think that’s mostly survivorship bias. The vast majority of books weren’t worth keeping so few survive. They were mostly religious texts, reprints of Greek and Roman classics and the equivalent of modern cheap fiction paperbacks, like a bunch of fantasy novels about Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable. They weren’t that expensive because they didn’t have anything beyond black and white print and a simple binding. The really expensive books were hand colored.

Most of the books that survive from that era are family bibles because they were the books treasured and passed down by families, rather than thrown away after reading. The book in TFA was in essence a historical reference so it makes sense he would add notes. These were literally the only places where that kind of knowledge would be stored
Contra Strong Towns
It is a question of the input method first and, as the sibling commenter said, grepping second. Fuzzy search could handle "-" as: "–", "—", "―", "‒" and other dashes. I input slightly more special characters on my phone as it is easier. On my computer I remember how I can easily write ° (on Linux and ChromeOS - Shift-AltGr-0) so I use it more. I don't know how to easily input a bullet point and I am too lazy to open a character table app every time it is needed.

In a way it is the same with programming languages. I think there are now programming languages supporting unicode operators for example, like =, ≠, ∧, ∨, ∩, ∪. But they suffer from the same problem. How to input them, how to search for them?
Discussion in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18521330 (44 comments)

And 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14997702 (8 comments)
I only speak English (and a few foreign fightin' words) and yet, I understood (I think) the meaning of "vorfeld, mittelfeld, and nachfeld" way easier than "the V2 and verb cluster positions".

Maybe I should just learn Dutch and dump English?
Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening thousands of Americans
I understand your point of view about polishing, and from the other comments too it is a common theme.

I believe polishing will be needed, but that doesn't exclude the creation of also unpolished worked.

From all the feedback gathered I will:

1. Live stream the unpolished work, this will help creating a sense of community and people would be able to be part of the short feedback loop
2. Collect the most interesting parts from point 1 and create polished videos
3. Write articles for whom prefers this media

Regarding the audience I'm not thinking of mid-senior developers that like to watch something on the second screen while working
> Well, so is building Dyson swarms and spheres. I'd bet that we will figure out fusion first.

Dyson Swarm doesn't require new technology. It is nothing but a collection of objects orbiting and gathering energy to power its own processes. We have satellites that orbit Earth but gather energy from the Sun.
> have you never written the same code for two different projects?

But note this prohibition is of "code that was not written by yourself" rather that written by yourself twice.
> Can you build decentralized fusion reactors?

My guess is that if you can build Dyson spheres you can build fusion reactors.

> This far the most efficient fusion reactor humanity has available to it exists approximately 1 AU away

Efficient in terms of what? With what are you comparing it to?
Well we have a very incomplete but about 10-15% efficient Dyson swarm on earth with solar and wind farms. Now we just need to scale up.
> The absence of seeing such a thing contributes to the idea that spacefaring life is incredibly rare.

This could also be due to the fact that the dark forest hypothesis is correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis
Bayesian reasoning applies here. Natural phenomenon is the most likely cause.

think of it this way: imagine in the future we travel to Alpha Centauri and find sentient life or even the remnants of such. That would be really bad. Why? Because if there are 2 civilizations in our galaxy, how likely is it that they're next to each other? Incredibly unlikely. It heavily implies that sentient life is much more common. Now imagine if we find a third at, say, Barnard's Star.

In Fermi Paradox terms this heavily implies that there is a Great Filter ahead of us and we're more likely doomed than not.

Finding a Dyson Swarm near us has the same negative implications (for us), especially given that the gap between a partial or full Dyson Swarm and colonizing the galaxy is relatively small (~100 million yaers) in cosmic terms so how likely is it that we find a Dyson Swarm that is a) near us and b) in that narrow window between the emergence of spacefaring life and colonizing the galaxy.
Plenty of people are already miserable. Might as well try if you are no?
Dyson sphere(swarm, because sphere is misconstrued as solid) is based entirely on known physics and can be made with our existing technology base, just not with our current industrial base.

SETI is a valid research priority.
Thanks, which of the two would people recommend for a C# beginner?
And is oidc well supported on all target platforms?
Project Management – A Tree Swing Story (2020)
> An exact match is of course a derivative

Not if neither is derived from the other.
Don't Manage Up, Team Up Instead
I think you were being absolutely precise, but I want to give a tiny bit of constructive feedback anyway:

In my experience, to not be misunderstood it is more important to understand the state of mind/frame of reference of your audience, than to be utterly precise.

The problem is, if you have been working on something for a while, it is extremely hard to understand how the world looks to someone who has never seen it (1).

The second problem is that when you hit a site like hacker News your audience is impossibly diverse, and there isn't any one state of mind.

When I present research, it always takes many iterations of reflecting on both points to get to a good place.

(1) https://xkcd.com/2501/
Agreed. Tauri for desktop, capacitor for mobile. Bring your own front-end library either way.
Singapore sees a doubling in Covid cases week on week
I hope I’m still around when some of these guys reach retirement age and say “fuck it, my family pissed me off” and give tell-all memoirs.
Deploy OpenZiti in Kubernetes with Ease Using K3d
To me, Dyson Spheres seem impractical. For one, where are you going to find all the material needed to cover even a fraction of the surface of a star? Additionally, if you do build something that massive, you'll probably influence the movement of the planets.
Ah, so extremely localized uses of pointers, got it, thanks.
I'm Dutch, I live in Germany. The language and grammar are different enough that I struggle with German. Dutch dialects in the north of the country are very similar across the border.

There's also the notion that the Dutch grammar has been changed quite a bit over the years and used to resemble German a lot more. Mostly things are a lot simpler these days than they used to be. Older Dutch texts are hard to read even for Dutch people. Even texts from the 19th century look very different from modern Dutch.

Finally, the reason English speakers recognize a lot of Dutch words is because a lot of English words actually have Dutch origins. For example, the word cookie is a bastardized form of the Dutch koekje. Especially a lot of naval jargon comes straight from Dutch. The reason for this is long trade relations, colonizing the same places (e.g. New York used to be New Amsterdam), etc. There even was a Dutch king on the British throne in the seventeenth century.
Everything on internet is intrisically ephemeral. Embrace that instead of fighting against it. If you want to archive stuff then make offline copies. PDF/A (especially the -1 and -2 versions) is format explicitly designed for archiving and works well for static content.

I think it is bit of a shame that mirroring is not more readily built into web stack (=http/html); if you could trivially make links that included local copy (as fallback?) this linkrot would be far lesser concern. The way how for example wikipedia links everything through archive.org is bit of a hack imho
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40376858
Why Britain is the worst on homelessness
Which Lazarus Cycle are you referring to?
Are you sure about that? There were no airliners for most of human history, so how could any statement about airliner whistleblowers stand for "entirety of human history"?
Picking on Ukraine, the US not having a policy of signing new people up to the anti-Russia military alliance every few years [0] seems like low hanging fruit. Or not working to integrate their intelligence with the CIA [1] for the last decade. I don't speak German but apparently Merkle said that we weren't negotiating in good faith to keep the peace either [2].

These are the sort of thing I suspect Russia would see as escalatory. I certainly do. A better diplomatic policy would have been to encourage neutrality. The western powers weren't going out of their way to make sure that the situation stayed peaceful. We could have treated this as the Russian equivalent of the US invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq and let it go away.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/23/ukraine-cia-...

[2] https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/77139/what-posi...
I mean you're either in a war period or a pre-war period ...

Although yeah the whole propping up non-democracies because they have cheap labor or cheap materials for decades does seem to have been a poor decision in the long run.
That ship has sailed, sunk, and sat on the ocean floor for a century. There is no way to enforce this and there never will be.
Right at the end of the interview Schulman says that he expects AGI to be able to replace himself in 5 years. He seemed a bit sheepish when saying it, so hard to tell if he really believed it, or if was just saying what he'd been told to say (I can't believe Altman is allowing employees to be interviewed like this without telling them what they can't say, and what they should say).
Interestingly Oryon is at least 2 years late if not 3. And we are seeing the exact same problem with previous Qualcomm attempt in Custom core, it is that ARM has caught up. Cortex X4 is not far off M2, and Cortex X5, which we should have more details later this year is expected, according to their CEO to have the largest IPC improvement in recent Cortex X history. If any Qualcomm competitor could simply buy a similar performance design at a lower cost, what competitive advantage does Qualcomm's custom core have?

And from what we are seeing, even the M4 design isn't all that far off from M2 either. Apart from the support ARMv9 which makes certain test in GB6 much quicker. It would be interesting to compare Oryon, M4 and X5 next year. Or we have simply arrived at another point where IPC improvement reaches a plateau.

Current leaked or early information of Cortex X5 from Mediatek suggest 1610 GB6 Score at half the clock speed of M4. Assuming no memory bottleneck it would have 3220 GB6 compared to 3800 GB6 of M4. Both on ARMv9.
https://archive.md/TV6JG
Until it isn’t. Too much faith on Google.
> this is gathering, not hunting.

This metaphor doesn’t make sense to me.
Why is this being so heavily down voted? Are people actually that bad at understanding sarcasm?
The overwhelming majority of the population you're defending supports the killing of Israeli civilians. This is according to their own polls.

The IDF, given the limited resources, comically unreliable allies, and the hostage situation, is doing a great job. You labeled your own argument to the contrary as being in bad faith because we both know that. :)
The dark forest theory is about intentional communication. It doesn't say anything about technosignatures.
Maria Hill: When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?

Tony Stark: Last night.

The Avengers (2012)
If he could've done it in a week then he didn't really need to do it at all.
> "Automation has always helped people write code

... doesn't say automatic copying.
Having a working version of some code to refine is often helpful. I most often just use the output as better documentation that I can interact with. I'll definitely grant you that I never end up using AI generated code directly in production. I find the technology extremely valuable though, dare I say transformative.
Thanks for sharing. I was unaware of this. I’ll have to check it out.

Based on what you’ve said it seems his messaging has evolved since this 2019 article:

https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/what-i-ve-done-makes...
I do not want to be living in your head. Why is searching the unknown with the tools at our disposal anti-science? Because it goes against some kind of norm held by what is deemed the "scientific community"? Who even is that and why do they get to say what knowledge to pursue?
The gunboat kind.
A lot of thought has gone into this and other possible explanations. Isaac Arthur, of course, has an excellent video [1] on this issue. His entire library on the Fermi Paradox is worth watching.

The short version of why this seems unlikely is that there really is no hiding a K2 civilization for many reasons. For example, access to this much energy and having a megastructure as large as the Solar System (give or take) would allow you to create incredibly high resolution telescopes (with an without interferometry).

But consider this: if you, as a spacefaring civilization, want to be left alone, the best way to do it is to make sure nobody comes into your neighbourhood. If you "hide" that may happen accidentally. Isn't it better to advertise your presence and otherwise keep people away to avoid unintentional conflict?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmCTmgavkrQ
You disassemble a planet for the raw materials. Mercury would do.

The real problem is that Dyson spheres are wasteful because stellar fusion is thermodynamically inefficient. If you harvest the material of the star and fuse it yourself, you can keep the lights on for trillions of years.
Is the phrase "as a European" ever followed by something that isn't condescending?
You are dodging the question down another layer.

Who gets decide what the real impact price of energy is? That is not easily defined and well debated.
Its not where energy is sourced but wher its used. And assuming it will be civilisation's planet like Earth. The whole energy of the swarm will be used there. - It just has to increase temperature (due to additional energy on the planet)
We are using the sun's energy that hits the earth. Some as light (which turns into heat), some as electricity (which turns into heat), and some as plant food > animal food > oil (which turns into heat)

A Dyson sphere would capture the sun's energy that leaves the sun, not just the fraction that hits earth. Using that energy on earth would release far more heat than our current activities.
Not to be confused with Bert Kreischer, the unfunny comedian.
What are all the target platforms?
The website doesn't have a list, or I'm unable to find one.

EDIT: never mind, I found it
https://wails.io/docs/reference/cli#platforms

It doesn't seem to support Android, IOS or web.
Two of the big unknowns are zero g assembly, and delta v requirements to move near earth or earth crossing asteroids (iron rich) into suitable orbits.

Certainly it’s possible an asteroid munching, cylinder ring producing large machine in space can be conceived.

Moving the material (or prefabbed rings) to the proper orbit seems like a large challenge.
>Not that it matters, the possession of either are clearly protected by the first amendment of the US Constitution, as no individual was harmed during the production of such material.

Wrong. Men are sitting decades for pen and paper art.

I read more details, Smelko was caught up in someone else's search warrant. Arguably Smelko did nothing directly other than being at the wrong place/time to set off the chain of events which lead to his 15 year sentence.

This is why I eagerly await jury duty notices, had I been on Smelko's trial I would have no-reason acquitted (known as jury nullification).