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Rhapso
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
You have to cool memory when it reads or writes, so accessible memory scales with surface area, not volume. O(N^0.5) becomes the new floor.

If it turns out the universe is holographic, then you have the same bound. This might just be enforment of the holographic principle...
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
That is wonderful to hear. Thank you for sharing this.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
Assuming this message is in good faith, I appreciate your concern for my mental health.

I appear to have attracted the trolls, which is ok. That happens when you stand up to them. I don't tolerate bullies going ignored. I'm serious, but not as upset as you may be concerned.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
If it is a joke, it seems more like mockery than good humor.

> I understand humor might be too foreign and loose for people on HN but trust me, there was no maliciousness in their comment.

Adding your own mockery doesn't help with my perception of the situation.

Malice isn't required to do harm and it's absence doesn't really change my opinion on the situation.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
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Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
And i believe that so much that I don't even consider graceful shutdown in design. Components should be able to safely (and even frequently) hard-crash and so long as a critical percentage of the system is WAI then it shouldn't meaningfully impact the overall system.

The only way to make sure a system can handle components hard crashing, is if hard crashing is a normal thing that happens all the time.

All glory to the chaos monkey!
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
Honestly is is just like Insurance. You understand the value of things you are protecting (and simple compliance has a value to you in penalties and liabilities avoided) and make sure it costs more than that to break into your system.

At a corporate level, it is contractually almost identical to insurance, with the product being sold liability for that security, not the security itself.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
Hey, make an artificial intelligent entity significantly more capable than any individual human, then be surprised you have a goal misalignment with your superagent.

We gave AI legal personhood in the 1800s and we were doomed from there
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
The poor delimiter special characters in the ascii table never get any love.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
More than that, "singularity" isn't even an exciting term. It is a boundary beyond which the model being used obviously cannot predict behavior.

I personally think the singularity happened back in the 90s and its just been very disappointing instead of the rapture that was imagined.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
Lower quality is fine economically as long as it has a good enough reduction in cost to match
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
As an immunocompromised person who lost measles resistance, this is terrifying.

Vaccines don't only protect you.

I went on an immunosuppressant during covid, i was suposed to re-up MMR beforehand, but we had a major nationwide vaccine shortage at the time (all plants re-tasked to produce covid vaccines) so i couldn't. This doesn't seem a fun way to die. I guess I just mask up and hope.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
I wish John Conway was still around to comment.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
Not fungible.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
Helium? Finite supply that is only going down until we get off planet.

It seems like the actual value of gold is that it is useless, and thus not used up, and all the easy gold is extracted. We could just use numbers instead.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
With the current communication capacity, "transport" isn't horribly relevant. Free exchange of any currency backing substance would be as bad as bitcoin for fraud. So why bother moving it? Oil changes owners all the time without going anywhere.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
If you are trying to pin a currency to a standard, gold isn't great. Its value is almost entirely speculative and it lacks meaninful intrinsic value at this point. If you demand to leave fiat currency, an aluminum or steel standard might make more sense. Rare earth metals, or even just petroleum would be my proposal. Maybe someday we will have a duterium pinned currency.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-...

Is a start.

It gets complicated because we are getting to the point where using signal is itself being seen as probably cause for investigation: https://kmlawfirm.com/2023/02/28/its-not-what-you-say-its-ho... so I encourage everybody who doesn't need such security to use signal anyways, if only to add protection to the vulnerable.

Pay attention when you scan signal QR codes: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/rus...
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
Right, but did they? It being easy doesn't mean data scientists moving fast and breaking things bothered while they were already doing something illegal.
Rhapso
·l’année dernière·discuss
> (a) The term “energy” or “energy resources” means crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals, as defined by 30 U.S.C. 1606 (a)(3).

They hide the fun stuff at the bottom. Solar and wind don't count!