linuxguy2

Isn't it actually designed for working on Mars? Convection in the sodium heat pipes wouldn't work in zero G.

> generate heat that is carried to the Stirling converters via passive sodium heat pipes.

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

I looked into this last month when they posted this "job description" and was sorely disappointed. It seems the sum total of what they have is:

* A slack that might see a new message every 12 hours.

* A github

* A domain

Nowhere did I see anything that actually looks like a company, has money to pay anyone or even had a whitepaper that describes what this new technology is going to do or how it'll do it.

Initial deploy servers numbering 100k+? Yeah right, I don't think there's even 1 running.

I thought I had seen this before....

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14764125

It even links to the same site and the blog was posted by the same guy. I wonder why he's recycling content.

New accounts are green. Seems that two weeks is the threshold for showing up normal.

These reports are always well written and interesting reads. Thanks for continually producing them!

Who pays the power bill?

They're talking about the novel, 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Is this different than cells self-impaling on asbestos fibers because the Si nano-wires are smaller? In the video from TFA it showed some cells with wires going through them that were longer than the cell's diameter.

I don't think the two other responders to your question quite have the whole answer so I'm going to chime in. Warning: I'm not a kernel developer, have only read the article and work with linux daily.

To answer your second question, this doesn't have anything to do with disk changes/inotify/etc that a program would use. My understanding is that currently \many\ IO devices respond to the kernel's request for data by triggering an interrupt that then takes time for the kernel to get to for reading. The interrupt process can be a bit slow leading to latency when waiting for the disk to respond. The new system, rather than waiting for an interrupt, continuously checks the driver for new data and as it doesn't rely on an interrupt can achieve far better latency. Lower latency means more operation per second.

With spinning disks who are only able to do <200 operations per second with latencies around 5ms this won't have much of an effect but with SSD who are able to do >2000 operations per second with latencies around 0.5ms trimming off 0.1ms per operation (made that number up) via polling rather than waiting on an interrupt can mean about 20% more operations per second.

Yes, I think you missed that. From the article:

"It takes less than five seconds for your address to be harvested and scanned. The entire scan takes less than one second and scans over 100 common TCP and UDP ports. "

The very last line of the article:

> For all its benefits, there's also a downside to having large prefetch sizes: there's the chance of

Is the unfinished sentence a joke about a chance of not reading data completely or did the editor not include something?

Do you have any specific suggestions for a radio like you describe?

The evil bit is a real thing.

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/evil-bit-RFC3514-real-world-...

If I could flag/report/down-vote I would because this teaser video conveys zero actual information.

Also, based on your comment history it looks like you work for minbox and this is self-promotion?

From the article: "the researchers gathered adipose samples from healthy Europeans"

I've ran an exit node in my home for several years and the worst I've seen as a result of it is several DMCA notices and one polite call from the police in another state.

Has that ever been proven? I suspect it's as unproven as the theory that Tor operators are "common carriers" and as liable for the traffic that passes over their connection as an ISP is for the traffic that passes over its connections.

Isn't that assuming that people live in a state with an SREC market? In Missouri where there isn't an open market for SRECs my utility company offered to buy my credits for a puny $5 per which is down from above $20 per a few years ago.

I'm running an exit for $5/month on DigitalOcean that blows through its 1TB of transfer in ~3 days. I've received one complaint about it (due to someone emailing their abuse address) and their support gave me no trouble when I explained what was happening.

I don't think those provisions have ever been tested in court by an exit node operator.

Exit node operator here, had to login to address your comment.

One of the bigger advantages of a hidden service is that you can't be sure who's hosting it and where. They're great for hosting websites but do nothing for allowing access to other services. If you're worried about trouble from running an exit node you could contribute by running a relay or a hidden bridge which would be way more useful than a hidden service.

I've actually been contacted by the Michigan State Police in a child porn investigation and after explaining that I run a TOR exit node and have no ability to help in their investigation the officer I talked to was quite pleasant. I've heard nothing about it since then.

There are several news outlets that run hidden services for whistle blowers and people in danger or unable to speak openly so your idea isn't without merit but it does require pre-planning to be of any use. If you've got no way to communicate the existence of your service to people before they need it, it'll be of little use.