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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 holograp…

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

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. …

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 …

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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 pe…

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 s…

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 leg…

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

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 …

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

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…

I wish John Conway was still around to comment.

Not fungible.

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 …

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 mo…

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…

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 proba…

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.

> (a) The term “energy” or “energy resources” means crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal …

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

I don't think you made it to the last paragraph either: > I know many interviewers also didn't get it, and it became just "do you know the trick to my puzzle". That pattern of fail…

Do I? yes. I also teach my students that the goal of an interview is to convince the interviewer you are a good candidate, not to answer the questions correctly. Sometimes they cor…

Yeah, very bad fit. Surprised they made an offer. Folks getting mad about whiteboard interviews is a meme at this point. It misses the point. We CANT test you effectively on your p…

With that level of nihilism/skepticism why would paying for the privilege give confidence you are not a product? Only a similar pile of words keeps them from double-dipping and mak…