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Rhapso commented on Memory access is O(N^[1/3]) vitalik.eth.limo/general/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

Rhapso · 2 months ago

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 commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

pfannkuchen · 7 months ago

I am just an enjoyer of garden path sentences.

I don’t expect people to be editing their comments for absolute maximum clarity on here, so it wasn’t a critique.

When I’m reading and my mind does a reparse, I feel amusement, I suppose because of the mild confusion followed by a brief puzzle solving exercise followed by understanding. The brain (or some brains, including mine, anyway) seems to treat this flavor of tension->resolution as humorous, as with other flavors of tension->resolution humor like taboo violation in a safe space, or close friends pretending to be about to hit each other.

Rhapso · 7 months ago

That is wonderful to hear. Thank you for sharing this.

Rhapso commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

mystified5016 · 7 months ago

Getting this upset over a grammar joke is not healthy.

Rhapso · 7 months ago

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 commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

9283409232 · 7 months ago

They were just making a joke. I understand humor might be too foreign and loose for people on HN but trust me, there was no maliciousness in their comment.

Rhapso · 7 months ago

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 commented on Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns victoriametrics.com/blog/... · Posted by u/mkl95

wbl · 7 months ago

If a distribute system relies on clients gracefully exiting to work the system will eventually break badly.

Rhapso · 7 months ago

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 commented on Accountability Sinks 250bpm.substack.com/p/acc... · Posted by u/msustrik

TeMPOraL · 7 months ago

My go-to example of a whole mesh of "accountability sinks" is... cybersecurity. In the real world, this field is really not about the tech and math and crypto - almost all of it is about distributing and dispersing liability through contractual means.

That's why you install endpoint security tools. That's why you're forced to fulfill all kinds of requirements, some of them nonsensical or counterproductive, but necessary to check boxes on a compliance checklist. That's why you have external auditors come to check whether you really check those boxes. It's all that so, when something happens - because something will eventually happen - you can point back to all these measures, and say: "we've implemented all best practices, contracted out the hard parts to world-renowned experts, and had third party audits to verify that - there was nothing more we could do, therefore it's not our fault".

With that in mind, look at the world from the perspective of some corporations, B2B companies selling to those corporations, other suppliers, etc.; notice how e.g. smaller companies are forced to adhere to certain standards of practice to even be considered by the larger ones, etc. It all creates a mesh, through which liability for anything is dispersed, so that ultimately no one is to blame, everyone provably did their best, and the only thing that happens is that some corporate insurance policies get liquidated, and affected customers get a complimentary free credit check or some other nonsense.

I'm not even saying this is bad, per se - there are plenty of situations where discharging all liability through insurance is the best thing to do; see e.g. how maritime shipping handles accidents at sea. It's just that understanding this explains a lot of paradoxes of cybersecurity as a field. It all makes much more sense when you realize it's primarily about liability management, not about hat-wearing hackers fighting other hackers with differently colored hats.

Rhapso · 7 months ago

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 commented on We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video] ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufe... · Posted by u/ColinWright

swayvil · 8 months ago

It's a funny little causal chain.

Everybody just wants a peaceful, prosperous life.

We serve a corporation, because the corporation promises that.

The corporation just wants advertising. That is, clicks.

So the universal desire for peace and prosperity is bringing about the clicky dystopia.

Rhapso · 8 months ago

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 commented on TPSV, an Alternative to TSV (and CSV) chtenb.dev/?page=tpsv... · Posted by u/ctenb

Rhapso · 8 months ago

The poor delimiter special characters in the ascii table never get any love.

Rhapso commented on The Tranhumanist Cult Test ewanmorrison.substack.com... · Posted by u/thinkingemote

michaelgburton · 9 months ago

Um. The Singularity isn't religious in its origin. It's literally a reference to a mathematical singularity.

I'm not entirely opposed to the article's characterization, but this is a big one to get wrong. What the term has become in its pseudo-cult modern context is entirely divorced from what it came out of.

Rhapso · 9 months ago

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.