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> Is there enough time in the lifetime of a star to build and use those structures?

If a brown dwarf, most certainly

> Are there plausible social arrangements stable enough to last the duration of such a project?

Could just be an unterminated machine process initiated by living beings at some point

> Are there intelligent beings with a drive to limitlessly expand their population?

This one, I agree. I think once we start expending enough we'll realize there's only so much that extra matter and energy will get you and it doesn't bring you closer to "solving" the universe or escaping it and you just stop going for more.
The flooding issue is huge in Houston. The city was built on a swamp and the fact that buildings sit there now does not make it less of a swamp.

There are places around the city that are high enough not to flood horribly, but even if you live in such a place you still have to deal with Houston summers (April through October) when being outdoors for any length of time is miserable.
It massively depends on the nature of the service and your target market.

A general piece of advice: identify the closest measurable factor(s) to "the more I do $X, the more business value I get out of the service."

For example, if analyzing more data improves business outcomes, consider usage-based pricing (e.g., GBs of data). If the value comes from sharing with other departments or collaborating, then these features could be part of a pro plan, or you might use per-user pricing.

Another important point is that it's usually better to have a customer pay nothing (e.g., a free tier or a 50/50 chance of converting them to a serious plan) than to have a customer who pays inconsistently, such as $0.75 one month, nothing the next month, and $1.10 the following month. These customers are problematic; they'll demand support and play the "I'm paying" card, and you'll incur card processing fees. Avoid this by setting a minimum charge or offering a small free tier to attract users who might pay later.

This is what I often end up at honestly, but it may not suit you;

Lets say each $thing is 1 cent.

Free trial
Requires card, 14 days with 1000 credits (encourage urgency to evaluate now, not later - many eventually forget), customer pays with card for anything over the 1000 in those first 14 days - but is not auto charged for a standard plan on trial end. They are then emailed to encourage conversion or the account will be deleted 30 days from trial end (encourage urgency, keep a clean platform/GDPR compliance).

Standard
$20/User/Month - each user gets 2000 non rolling over credits per month, but that is aggregated at the org level e.g an org with 5 users gets 10,000 credits. Additional credits are 1c.

Pro
Additional features. Depending on how much value those create you either tack on a $featuretax e.g add $10 a user, or if they are just low value nice to haves/quality of life when dealing with large volume, then
trade them for a higher minimum volume so $50/user/month gets you 5000 credits per user.

Anyone who does serious volume come talk direct, but they get a discount in exchange for contractually committed usage.

-Always possible to alert on overages at an account level (100% alert to main contact should be default), cap is usually appropriate too.

This model gets you a load of stuff for free, mid volume users can add extra users for free, or choose extra nice to have features instead or aswell. A minimum charge is instituted per user, regardless of thier usage. User is not feeling like each click costs money "It's included", at least until they're using your platform in volume at which point "they're in". Door is open to doing enterprise/high volume deals.
Recursive Definitions in Lean
The dyson sphere can power a huge factory, capable of making thousands if not millions of warships per second. It can also power a star-sized laser capable of vaporizing pretty much any incoming army, or even bigger objects like small planets. Your dyson sphere will be safe to everything but civilizations capable of playing marbles with stars and black holes.

Also you can use your star-sized factory to make starships with fusion reactors. Not a problem.
Dang it’s impossible to read the article, everything is couched in racism, it’s exhausting. This is bad for everyone isn’t that bad enough?
I checked out the website, and it's really hard to even know how to use. Plus, the first thing I clicked on, "Equal or Not?", has errors.
What a disingenuous error message. I like Apple’s approach to TCC/permissions but this is quite obviously profit driven and intended to drive developers to the App Store with all the associated fees
I've never heard that subclaim before despite the quote coming up many times so maybe it's not as widespread as you think.

And you specifically said the quote was "believed".
On the one hand, thank you! It never even occurred to me that they kept it but hid it.

On the other hand, I just tried it, and it doesn't actually help at all -- it actually makes things worse. Because it's still autosaving the whole time. "Save As..." saves my current file to a new file... but the old file still has all the changes until that point, despite never having manually saved.

So I still have to go through the whole step of reverting the changes in the first file. Only with "Save As..." it's actually harder, because the first file is no longer open. I have to go find it and open it and revert.

Ugh.
I recently flew on an A320neo and then an A320ceo a few days later, both in similar cabin positions and the difference was incredible. On the neo I could easily talk to the cabin crew without raising my voice, the ceo felt like I was having to shout.

I’m flying on an A380 in a few days, that will be interesting experience after only flying long haul on 777s in the past few years
Imagine how many reports Trump-related videos get . Or anything political. The threshold for a report actually triggering a review or take-down action must be very high. So useless. Even if was pulled down, a new one would show up. The scam is just too profitable and you tubetoo slow. Hence it endures forever.
If you just downloaded it but didn't open the file, you are not infected.
But you are just saying that things are different because they are different. What happened in the last 70 years to make obesity a mass epidemic in the West?

It clearly wasn't the mere existence of unhealthy foods, the Japanese have tons of unhealthy food as well. You can get a burger there without any issue.
Aversion to d-lang in particular is strange. Was it not (an acceptable) answer years ago?
The New York City blackout and the Murray Hill riot are examples of criminals taking advantage of a situation where the police were on strike or unable to respond, not of a panic. I'm not going to go through the entire list of incidents of civil unrest in the United States, but the first entry is described as an anti-government protest, not a panic either.

Who do you expect to appoint intellectuals?
Certainty Is the Mind Killer – USF Commencement Speech by Greg Lukianoff [video]
The ABNF (RFC2045 section 3) specifies there can be either 0 or 1 in the message headers and message part headers:

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Maybe if I feel motivated enough I’ll fork it and make one that uses easy-rsa, because when I look at this I don’t really see any provisions to do anything like revoking, for instance. Or really much of anything besides signing CSRs.
Even if you mount the DMG, there is no infection. You'd need to launch the malicious app.

Edit: its not an app but a command-line binary with ad-hoc signature.
I wish this was understood more. To burn 1K kcalories takes considerable effort. To not ingest them, avoid that pizza. Hell, pizza +beer or coke probably is way more.
This is literally an article about how infill/density became easier in Houston, removing the need to expand residential zoning outwards to flood plains and refinery backyards to continue growing.
Do you have anything to back up that "assurance" or are you just baselessly defending random companies' inner workings?
Fusion reactors could create ingredients for a nuclear weapon in weeks
Why would disk space be an issue? Guids are 16 bytes each. Even if you have 10k contacts, that's only 10k guids your email server has to store. That's 160kB. What's the big deal? You get more spam than that daily. Why wouldn't you persist 160kB to never get spam again?

> work, we regularly saw people opening emails years after we sent them

So? There just really isn't a need to revoke anything until you receive spam on that address. Maybe we're just not on the same page about how this works. Here's a more detailed overview of what I have in mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40402046
Most bad vibes I see on social media, including Hacker News, have nothing to do with solving problems.
I don't think the laws of physics allow reusing burned fuel
Last I heard (I am not a brain scientist) we don't really know what fidelity we would need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading#/media/File:Who...
https://archive.ph/8pnUZ
Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International "Data Cartels"
Yeah but planes fly a lot over the span of 25 years or so; granted, they need to be repainted every once in a while. It does add up, is all I'm saying.
> Is there enough time in the lifetime of a star to build and use those structures?

Easily. Sci-fi has misconstrued what a Dyson Sphere is to the point where the preferred nomenclature is "Dyson Swarm". A Dyson Sphere was never a rigid shell around a star. Such a thing isn't possible with any known or theorized material. And it makes no sense even if you could.

So a Dyson Swarm around our Sun would be approximately a billion O'Neil Cylinders (orbitals 2-4 miles in diameter and 10-20 miles long). You don't have to build them all at once. Build them as you need them. The more you build the more industrial capacity you have. They can all be built independently too.

I imagine it would take less than 10 years to build one once you have the capability.

> Are there intelligent beings with a drive to limitlessly expand their population?

Population is only one concern. A more driving force may well be the desire for energy and raw materials. Raw materials, and in fact most problems, can be reduced to being an energy problem. Some things will require a truly mind-boggling amount of energy eg interstellar travel.

Our Sun won't live forever. It's estimated to go into a red giant phase in 4-5 billion years, that will end up swallowing the Earth most likely. Long before then, life won't be able to exist on Earth as the Sun's solar output is increasing by about 10% every billion years. Earth as it stands now to us as we are now will be uninhabitable in ~1.6 billion years.

So to be truly long-lived we're going to have to do something about that. There are lots of options. Those include reducing the energy that hits the Earth, moving the Earth or moving our species to a different system. The last one is particularly attractive because white or red dwarves will likely exist for trillions of years. Every one of these options requires a vast amount of energy.

> ... swarms of space structures, each orders of magnitude more massive than Earth

That's not what a Dyswon Swarm is.
Unless it was user-disabled Gatekeeper (https://support.apple.com/guide/security/gatekeeper-and-runt...) is running on your system to prevent malware infection when you have accidentally opened a malicious app, so you should be fine either way.
A very cherry picked point of view. Here are the actual goals:

"Reducing car use and increasing cycling levels will help address many of the challenges we face, including the climate crisis, air pollution, health and inactivity, road danger, congested roads, and fairer access to amenities, jobs and services. It will enable children to travel independently, create more pleasant streets and strengthen the economic recovery of our town centres and high streets. As we emerge from the pandemic, cycling, walking, wheeling* and public transport will help us achieve the goals that will ensure London’s success."

"The UK must significantly reduce its carbon emissions to meet its legally binding goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and avoid the worst effects of climate change. The Mayor has set an ambitious goal for London to become carbon neutral by 2030. Transport is responsible for more than a quarter of London’s carbon emissions, although this proportion is increasing as other sectors decarbonise more quickly The electrification of London’s buses, now the greenest fleet in Europe, and the rollout of charging points will help reduce emissions, but this will not be enough. Even if all new vehicles are electric by 2030, transport emissions are still likely to exceed what is needed to limit global warming by 1.5°C without substantial traffic reduction. Swapping private cars for sustainable modes is therefore essential."

(https://content.tfl.gov.uk/cycling-action-plan.pdf)
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Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when using Hacker News?
Me it's the lack of transparency regarding how stories are ranked.
Likely unnecessary cope.

When in a cupboard the oil separates on top, so it can make mixing more difficult by both having the oil spill out when stirring and having the driest peanut bits stuck deep at the bottom.

Upside down places the oil underneath and the driest parts more accessibly near the removable part of the container.

I always imagined after stirring and placing it in the fridge upside down provides that “last mile” guarantee until it gets to temp in the fridge.

After the first use it goes back in the fridge right side up.
Are any of those better than the alternative, or just cheaper?

I suppose if the alternative is “this only exists on one platform” or “this doesn’t exist at all” then maybe, but I find it a bit sad how keen we are as a profession to accept compromise and mediocrity to save developer time and expense.

I get it, but I don’t like it.
Can’t even copy or paste at all on an iPhone.
Is Privacy Worth It?
NB, for any budding bathynauts: carbon fibre is strong under tension, which is precisely the use-case for higher-than-ambient-pressure vessels such as air- and space-craft.

It's far less comparatively strong under compression, which seems to have been the principle failure mode of the now-permanently-submerged Titan.

The failure modes of explosive vs. implosive failure are also relevant. High-pressure implosions tend to collapse the entire hull, whilst so far as I understand, explosive failure, particularly at the relatively low pressure differentials of air and space flight, tend to be localised, and the fibre-reinforced nature of composite materials should reduce damage to the neighbourhood of the initial failure point in many cases. Implosive failure needn't actually penetrate the hull so much as crease it, a mode which CF handles poorly respective to the application.
The setup for this - the clause saying that if you didn't sign an exit agreement within sixty days the company would reclaim your equity - was in the equity plan and grant documents: https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1791584341669396560
Flight hours or flight cycles?

I suspect that pressure hull and wing spars experience the greatest loading and fatigue, and may be differentially influenced by overall flight time and takeoff/landing cycles.
You're wondering whether preferences and tastes can develop or shift over time and with exposure? Obviously they can and do.

Presumably you’re pointing to “ahh so we CAN pray the gay away!” or whatever other ridiculous intervention you can imagine. The pushback on this mode of thinking has little to do with whether people’s preferences can hypothetically change and more to do with 1) who the fuck cares outside of theological arguments which have no standing in developed legal systems, and 2) the “interventions” are generally barbaric and across the board not shown to be effective.

Obviously people who want to voluntarily attempt these interventions are more than welcome to (and do). But that’s never what the conversation is about.
Most likely that's correct. Unless there exists some MacOS issue where just loading the thumbnail or metadata from that file would lead to exploit. It's extremely unlikely that's the case of a 0-click unpatched exploit on a random public file, but just wanted to note this for completeness - if you're paranoid about this case for some reason, it's possible in theory.
Since CSC ServiceWorks does not have a dedicated security page for reporting security vulnerabilities, Sherbrooke and Taranenko sent the company several messages through its online contact form in January but heard nothing back from the company. A phone call to the company landed them nowhere either, they said.

I imagine it is a low priority. How often does someone try to hack a laundromat?
Might as well store the PB on this so it never becomes a problem
Most TLDs serve glue records with 1-3 day ttls. It's not surprising to me that some servers had the old glue cached (well, I'm assuming they've got traffic... I would be surprised if my domains' glue were cached anywhere of note)

If you can configure your old nameservers to serve the new NS records, sometimes that's helpful.
What’s the deal with us interbreeding with Neanderthals then? If they produce viable offspring with humans then aren’t we the same species? Or is there more to the definition of species then than my admittedly freshman biology class that I brain dumped as soon as I got done with school?
1. This had nothing to do with how equity was distributed. This was a clause in an agreement that employees were asked to sign when leaving, not when they joined. As other comments have stated, it's entirely plausible he was unaware. Exit agreements aren't something you expect CEO's to be poring over in detail -- they have HR and lawyers for that.

2. 3. Presumably the company is working on that, and this tweet is the first step? This has become pretty public by now anyways.

4. Have you resigned from every job you've ever had if you made a mistake? If you wrote a design document with a single mistaken requirement? This one clause was one miniscule aspect of running the company out of hundreds of thousands. Demanding resignation is massively disproportionate here.

5. "Reconsider your life" is outside the scope of this.
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Directly working on this stuff with many many companies of different sizes. I know nothing about OpenAI or Sam in particular — perhaps he is a particular involved CEO and was aware — but I can tell you definitely having a CEO of a company this size paying more attention to the business than this type of stuff is extremely normal.
I don't know whether Sam Altman personally knew about the clause, but clearly OpenAI as an entity knew - it didn't appear out of thin air, and employees who were leaving were clearly away of it. There was even a bit of a minor hullabaloo on Twitter a week or two ago when another employee left and noted that they gave up their equity because they refused to sign the non-disparagement document.
The video has a tad too much editorialization but good info nonetheless about an ongoing problem
maybe Ubuntu? the web development flow (so closely tied to firebase) might suffer a little bit, but I imagine a fork for non-web env's would be quick and welcome
This is a good point. They could cause hemorrhoids, hip dysplasia, mumps, gynecomastia, hirsutism etc. If you think about it anything could cause anything
You don't understand dissatisfaction at a computer company going four years with zero improvement in cost to performance ratio?
HNRankings helps: https://hnrankings.info/
You mean aside from the notes she left found at her home saying she did it?
Not a lawyer, but "general release of claims" seems like a term of art which I would expect to be a something that would waive your right to sue, and not an agreement that includes a non-disparagement clause.
But if you want to get beyond Jupiter, then whole Dyson swarm is useless to you, because you don't have source of energy. And again when somebody will get control over such swarm, then such person has control over whole civilization around that star which was foolish enough to build it and rely on it at a first place.
>Why is Julia better suited than any other language?

Because it is a language specifically targeted for doing numerical analysis.

Python, which is it's main "competitor" has a notoriously poor syntax for mathematical operations with miniscule standard library support for mathematics, a very limited type system and abysmal runtime performance. Julia addresses all of these issues and gives a relatively simple to read language, which often closely resembles mathematical notation and has quite decent performance.
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F-35's helmet sights: A key advantage over the F-22 in visual combat
No details on the ruling whatsoever, the article is a mish mash of popular touted fears of policing. While I share these concerns, i was hoping to get something of substance about the court ruling.
> Is there enough time in the lifetime of a star to build and use those structures?

It's built in centuries, a star lived for billions of years (a few live for only hundreds of millions, but that's still enough).

Your other questions assume literal aliens would behave on the exact way you expect them to. That's not a sane assumption.
It's standard boilerplate.

So it could well have just been part of the template that their legal team likely started with.
If there was too much transparency marketers would try to game the system. It works well enough the way it is. But I have observed that stories in which the comments are unproductive or too heated tend to rank lower.
The bombings of London during WW1 and WW2, and the Allied bombings, were attempts to cause panic among the civilians and thus the countries to collapse. It never happened.

Although the V1 attacks did not cause panic and caused little damage, they were cheap to make and fire, and caused the British to divert enormous resources to stop them - resources that were not brought to bear on Germany.

On the other hand, while the V2 attacks also did little damage and caused no panic, they were terrifically expensive for the Germans to make, and was a huge diversion of their resources. Since there was no defense against them, they did not divert Allied resources away from attacking Germany.
This seems like fake news. It would extremely dumb to have such a policy since it would eventually be leaked and be negative press
1-3 apply exactly the same to python, 4 is just false, SymPy is written in python, it has nothing to do with Julia.