Hacker News: Rhapso

New comment by Rhapso in "Memory access is O(N^[1/3])"

Rhapso — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 22:12:18 +0000

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...

New comment by Rhapso in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

Rhapso — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:04:12 +0000

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

New comment by Rhapso in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

Rhapso — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:50:44 +0000

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.

New comment by Rhapso in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

Rhapso — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:14:13 +0000

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.

New comment by Rhapso in "Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns"

Rhapso — Mon, 05 May 2025 01:43:16 +0000

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!

New comment by Rhapso in "Accountability Sinks"

Rhapso — Sat, 03 May 2025 12:33:23 +0000

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.

New comment by Rhapso in "We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]"

Rhapso — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:02:56 +0000

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

New comment by Rhapso in "TPSV, an Alternative to TSV (and CSV)"

Rhapso — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 03:48:13 +0000

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

New comment by Rhapso in "The Tranhumanist Cult Test"

Rhapso — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:35:42 +0000

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.

New comment by Rhapso in "People are just as bad as my LLMs"

Rhapso — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:51:46 +0000

Lower quality is fine economically as long as it has a good enough reduction in cost to match

New comment by Rhapso in "Second death reported in growing measles outbreak"

Rhapso — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:04:30 +0000

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.

New comment by Rhapso in "Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata"

Rhapso — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:09:05 +0000

I wish John Conway was still around to comment.

New comment by Rhapso in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

Rhapso — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:08:10 +0000

Not fungible.

New comment by Rhapso in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

Rhapso — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:59:35 +0000

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.

New comment by Rhapso in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

Rhapso — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:59:53 +0000

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.

New comment by Rhapso in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

Rhapso — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:41:41 +0000

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.

New comment by Rhapso in "Ask HN: Best Security Practices for Activists?"

Rhapso — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:34:54 +0000

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...

New comment by Rhapso in "Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding"

Rhapso — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:36:10 +0000

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.

New comment by Rhapso in "Declaring a National Energy Emergency"

Rhapso — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:48:00 +0000

> (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!

New comment by Rhapso in "Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding"

Rhapso — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:39:52 +0000

Unless they actively modified a bittorrent client, even leeches upload and share some chunks.