Hacker News: ninjinxo

New comment by ninjinxo in "Can a corporation be pardoned?"

ninjinxo — Sun, 25 May 2025 22:54:47 +0000

In Australia, if a company fails to nominate a speeding fine for a company car - either refusing or not maintaining records - then the fine is multiplied compared to that for an individual.

New comment by ninjinxo in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

ninjinxo — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 02:40:31 +0000

An N100 minipc or second-hand Dell Optiplex doesn't cost too much more than a rasp-Pi ($100-200), has a lot more power, and will only pull about 10W idle.

My optiplex shows as 8.191 kwh last month -> 11w average.

New comment by ninjinxo in "Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me"

ninjinxo — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 04:26:25 +0000

If voters are split 60-40 on an issue, that doesn't mean that the odds are 60-40.

You should instead be asking, what are the odds that that X voters could change their vote.

New comment by ninjinxo in "NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances"

ninjinxo — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:44:45 +0000

But is it still piracy if you compress them and serve only a likeness of the original?

New comment by ninjinxo in "The Fill and Flush deplaning method"

ninjinxo — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:12:01 +0000

Better off watching CGP Grey's video "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use" which has more discussion of the topic, more simulations, and puts forward better methods that are either faster or allow families to remain grouped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo

This is basically https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0733 but differs to the paper in that it doesn't consider: alternating odd-and-even row disembarkment, which would give passengers more aisle space to potentially speed-up luggage handling.

New comment by ninjinxo in "What's causing Australia's frozen chip shortage and how long will it last?"

ninjinxo — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:40:49 +0000

I really appreciated this joke.

For the non-Australians, we don't really say parmigiana either, it's parmi or parma and there's a lot of playful debate over the naming.

New comment by ninjinxo in "BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data"

ninjinxo — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 14:43:55 +0000

If I were the hacker, I'd edit maxwellhill to have email address ghislainemaxwell@gmail.com just for the shitstorm it'd create, context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838084

Aside from that, email addresses to usernames might be valuable - you could identify high-value targets from finance, crypto, or luxury item subs.

Or you could just make lists of people who post on specific subs for targeted harrassment.

New comment by ninjinxo in "When did SVB insiders begin to realize they were in trouble?"

ninjinxo — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 04:23:40 +0000

I'll ask the dumb question - he'd already taken his money out, what financial advantage is he meant to have then gained by encouraging others to do the same?

New comment by ninjinxo in "UK high street banks are quarantining from crypto"

ninjinxo — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:39:21 +0000

Yep, and if they're willing to limit deposits, they're liable to limit withdrawals too.

New comment by ninjinxo in "What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?"

ninjinxo — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:46:22 +0000

What if sleep is the best cognitive exercise?

New comment by ninjinxo in "So You Want to Compete with Steam (2018)"

ninjinxo — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:50:17 +0000

To be fair, Valve were sued into enacting their return policy by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), and no longer offer flash sales because of it.

Linux support is nice though.

New comment by ninjinxo in "So You Want to Compete with Steam (2018)"

ninjinxo — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:46:00 +0000

No, dota has a paid subscription ($5 p/m) which gates gameplay features, many of which would be really useful for newer players - ingame coaching, item suggestions, hero pick suggestions, death summary, live gameplay tips, avoid player list, ranked mmr double downs that can be used after drafting phase, exclusive modes, and live spectating (free users have to use discord streaming or spectate with 2 minutes delay).

New comment by ninjinxo in "So You Want to Compete with Steam (2018)"

ninjinxo — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:28:10 +0000

You mean the company that pioneered:

Microtransactions, real money loot-boxes, gambling, NFT marketplace, battlepasses

doesn't milk it's users?

Dota used to have $35 "arcanas", a high quality skin for a single hero which were released intermittently - but that wasn't enough money, they're now placed $200+ deep in the yearly battlepass. If you played any of their games, you'd realise they're one of greediest in the business.

New comment by ninjinxo in "Galactic-Scale Energy (2011)"

ninjinxo — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 03:14:15 +0000

It's not profound to say that sustained (infinite) growth is unsustainable, but it is of interest when it's within a conceivable timeframe.

It's not worth reading however, because the author whimsically extrapolates energy usage starting from 230 years before the invention of the lightbulb to get their exponential growth argument which doesn't hold at all for modern data.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC?end=2...

New comment by ninjinxo in "DeepMind: A Generalist Agent"

ninjinxo — Thu, 12 May 2022 18:46:01 +0000

What is an ant to man, and what is man to a god; what's the difference between an AGI and an (AIG) AI God?

The more someone believes in the dangers of ai-alignment, the less faith they should have that it can be solved.

New comment by ninjinxo in "Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What It Is?"

ninjinxo — Sat, 07 May 2022 15:57:12 +0000

Oh whoops, good pickup; I'd like to say I tried to simplify it for the explanation and brevity, but I completely overloooked that 1xn = n.

New comment by ninjinxo in "Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What It Is?"

ninjinxo — Sat, 07 May 2022 12:48:57 +0000

Since Peter is given the product of the two numbers, he should instantly know the pair if both numbers are prime, but since he doesn't it rules out pairs like (7x11) = 77 and (2x53) = 106.

Sandy knows the sum and has now been told that Peter doesn't know the pair. If the sum had been 6, the following pairs are possible: (1+5) (3+3) (4+2), Peter has just ruled out (1x5) and (3x3), so Sandy would be able to narrow it down to (1,5) if the sum had been 6.

So when she tells Peter she can't narrow it down, it tells him that the pair isn't (4,2) either (among many others).

And if Peter's number were 8: (1x8) or (2x4) he'd be able to solve it, but he doesn't so Sandy then knows that (1,8) isn't the solution either.

New comment by ninjinxo in "Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What It Is?"

ninjinxo — Sat, 07 May 2022 11:11:37 +0000

Reminds me of this problem:

Two numbers are chosen randomly, both are positive integers smaller than 100. Sandy is told the sum of the numbers, while Peter is told the product of the numbers.

Then, this dialog occurs between Sandy and Peter:

Peter: I don't know the numbers.