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nathanwhon Imitating Human Behaviour with Diffusion Models

This sounds very similar to the game that was described in Ender's Game, with the giant and the two shot glasses. That's always been one of my wishlist games, excited to think that it is starting to become a possibility.

nathanwhon A Harry Potter Trivia Bot, Powered by GPT-3

A couple of ones it got wrong

"What is Hagrid's coat made out of?" - "Beaver fur"

"What does Harry Potter's seventeenth birthday cake resemble?" -- "Harry Potter's seventeenth birthday cake was designed to look like a red and gold Gryffindor scarf. "

"did Harry give Ron liquid luck before their quidditch match?" -- "Yes, Harry gave Ron Felix Felicis, or liquid luck, before their quidditch match."

The last one is interesting because it seems to get most of the "plot" questions correct, but failed that one.

nathanwhon AWS us-east-2 outage

Yep! https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

nathanwhon No, QuestDB is not Faster than ClickHouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

You stated it almost directly.

nathanwhon We got Linux on the iPhone, iPad and other idevices

From TFA, “Now it was just a matter of what I like the most, hacking on Linux”. This isn’t a product for users, it’s one of this persons hobbies.

nathanwhon Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale

I’m not trying to out myself as an unnuanced consumer of communication, but I literally did just that reading the parent comment. I wonder what is the percentage of the HN audience that did that

nathanwhon The control group is out of control (2014)

Honestly this XKCD arguing that psychic phenomena don't exist because they're not exploited for profit is a comforting difficult to refute argument for me: https://xkcd.com/808/

nathanwhon Apple's Texas-Sized Problem

This is not a good take. If unconstitutionality was as simple as ctrl-f the constitution we wouldn’t need the court system. Read here for a description of how the bill of rights creates “zones of privacy” which are breached by restricting access to abortion.

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/e-lessons/roe-v-wade-1973

nathanwhon My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs

How did you increase your typing speed so much? I’m sitting at around 70ish wpm and would like to increase it

nathanwhon Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor

I get this as well with my 16” MBP at work, my previous work 13” and my personal 13” work fine. So it’s definitely the computer and not the setup

nathanwhon Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price vs. 32-Bit Integers

Found the person who added all the special cases to the legacy code I’m working on :)

nathanwhon Linux Terminal Tools [pdf]

I think the reason that it seems petty is that distinction is just not useful information for most people. It’s at best a historical asterisk on whatever is being discussed. I don’t use Unix, and I don’t know anyone that uses Unix. Linux tools seems right to me because, I get the tools from whatever flavor of Linux OS I installed.

nathanwhon The Antitrust Hearing, the Role of Congress, CEO Questions

Admittedly I’m biased against that source already, but even then I don’t see how their evidence supports their conclusion.

There’s three main points I can see

1. The proportion of the traffic to their site from google dropped.

This isn’t convincing to me because there’s no evidence it’s because of their conservative viewpoint. Maybe their SEO was just outdated after the update.

2. The fact that a search for “Joe Biden” no longer goes to their site.

If you look at the numbers they’re quite low already, again they fail to demonstrate that it’s because they’re a conservative website that they’re not getting traffic

3. They have a bar graph that shows that “conservative” websites get a less percentage of their traffic from google.

Two main complaints with this, one the coloring of the bars in the graph is totally arbitrary. Two they again fail to demonstrate that the only thing that’s different is the political leaning of the site

I don’t really feel like they’re presenting the data in a misleading way or they’re lying, but they fail to connect the data to the conclusion. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence and they just don’t have it

nathanwhon All People in Canada are the Same Age (1997)

TFA will inform you of this though, it's intended to be a game of reasoning. Posting the answer is spoiling the fun for people who read the comments first

nathanwhon All People in Canada are the Same Age (1997)

Fun stuff, there's a few more on this page:

https://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/falseProofs/fallacies.h...

The last one in particular I thought was interesting

nathanwhon Ask HN: Has anyone fixed their own bruxism?

Having done two sleep studies, the first time it took me 45 minutes to fall asleep, so they gave me a (low dose) Xanax the next time, you can share this concern with your doctor and they should be able to address it.

nathanwhon New paint atomizer with over 95% coating efficiency

http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt List of TLDs, large enough companies usually have one, I’m not aware of what the utility of having a TLD is to a non tech company

nathanwhon Show HN: IRIX – color scheme editor and color tools

Feedback: the site looks quite clumsy on iOS Safari (images and text content squished to fit on the screen).

I clicked on the toolbox link and the page worked well enough, the tools didn’t quite fit all the way on the page though. I have a smaller screen (iPhone 7) so that may be the issue.

nathanwhon A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments

I enjoyed petulantly answering every question with “no” and the funding the final state to be “Consult Stackoverflow”

nathanwhon Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious

This comment is hilariously on the nose for how a lot of math texts read (at least in my experience)

$SIMPLE_CONCEPT that you’re trying your best to understand is easy if you think of it as a specific example of $MORE_COMPLICATED_CONCEPT that you surely can’t understand without understanding $SIMPLE_CONCEPT

nathanwhon Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews

I use this approach a lot too, but I’ve found that some people consider it condescending so know your audience I guess.

nathanwhon Show HN: Brain Test – Stroop Effect

The example on the first screen could use some work. Both the color and the word are “Green” so it’s hard to determine if the correct answe is green because that’s the color of the text or that’s what the word is.

nathanwhon Things to Know About GNU Readline

For anyone who isn’t already aware, fzf[0] does this exactly (and more!)

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

nathanwhon Distributed Filesystems for Deep Learning

Does Ceph not have distrubuted metadata as well?