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Theory of Constraints(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by diatone 1mo ago|1 comments
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by diatone 1mo ago
Hey HN, six years ago I submitted a toy to render terrain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23660898 Since then I've ended up with a new account, but I still have the underlying Netlify app running. I didn't h
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The Diamond-Square Algorithm(diatone.net)
1 points by diatone 1mo ago|1 comments
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Methinks It Is a Weasel(diatone.net)
4 points by diatone 2mo ago|0 comments
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Datasaurus Dozen(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by diatone 2mo ago|0 comments
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by diatone 3mo ago
AIUI: my intuition is Alex and Alice are points in the distribution. They don’t think about their experience in terms of population statistics. They see their individual latency times, and use that as their sample. If t is low in their expe
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by diatone 3mo ago
First word of second sentence: > Stability ie: lack of volatility, ie: integrity, ie: I know it does what it says and don’t have to second guess that.
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by diatone 4mo ago
If we can just simulate the business accurately enough we can solve having to interact with the market… which is also trying to solve interacting with us… We just need to do it more accurately… Something tells me people will still be in the
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by diatone 4mo ago
A cursory glance does make it appear like either a prolific individual, or a bot. The fact that the novel bears little relation to the analytics posts, which seem to bear the style of LLM prose, makes the whole thing fishy. Ironic given the
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by diatone 4mo ago
Revenue recognition for private companies generally is less precise than for public companies, which in the US are obligated to report under GAAP, which uses a different indicator than annualised revenue so public companies are comparable.
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by diatone 4mo ago
So if the benefits haven’t accrued to you, it must have gone to your customers right?
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by diatone 5mo ago
If your students were growing up to subvert your line of work, sure. Pretty sure that’s not the case though!
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by diatone 5mo ago
Yep agree it looks like it’s taking the existing generated artefact, parameterising it within an inch of its life, exposing a pseudo WYSIWYG for the parameters and calling it a day with a few export options. Not a huge leap from what they’v
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by diatone 5mo ago
You’re illustrating one of the points of TFA - a team that is equipped with the right tools to measure feature usage (or reliably correlate it to overall userbase growth, or retention) and hold that against sane guardrail metrics (product a
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by diatone 6mo ago
Until they’re using consistent methods of reporting those figures, they’re not comparable. Same as any other company pre vs post IPO
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by diatone 6mo ago
Without commenting about the frequency of negligence myself, I suspect at least that you and GP are in agreement. I doubt GP is suggesting ‘go ahead and be negligent to feedback and guardrails that let you course correct early.’ Plugging t
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by diatone 6mo ago
If 9 of those solutions are crummy and reviewing them takes longer than just doing it right once…
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by diatone 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
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by diatone 10mo ago
Chiming in as Australian with no context on European situation. AFAICT the key drivers of cost inflation are to do with reconfiguring the electric grid to transfer power efficiently and reliably from plants that produce renewable energy. Ho
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by diatone 11mo ago
That’s not real math though, that’s a quirk of floating point math.
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Multi Layered Calendars (2023)(julian.digital)
1 points by diatone 11mo ago|0 comments
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by diatone 1y ago
That’s possible, I suppose. I think @btbuildem was expressing a personal distaste for other uses of power, and an avulsion to the technology because of that. For example: labor camps.
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by diatone 1y ago
Iiuc it wasn’t a comment about what the perfect lifespan is. It’s expressing a concern about how people in power might apply life extending technologies, like they do many other technologies, to exercise and entrench that power. Or put diff
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by diatone 1y ago
Probably worth clarifying with GP what responsibility and accountability they’re referring to. Where I live, if an engineer signs off on a bridge design and the bridge personally collapses, they are personally liable for harm done to folks
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by diatone 1y ago
For one - I’d say scoped API tokens that prevent messing with resources across logical domains (eg prod vs nonprod, distinct github repos, etc) is best practice in general. Blowing up a resource with a broadly scoped token isn’t a failure m
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by diatone 1y ago
FTA > That’s exactly what it means to hit a wall, and exactly the particular set of obstacles I described in my most notorious (and prescient) paper, in 2022. Real progress on some dimensions, but stuck in place on others. The author inc
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by diatone 1y ago
I’ve read some blog posts by Geoff and there’s a useful idea here but it’s surrounded by so much storytelling. To dig up the lede: LLMs are proving useful in some instances, consider staying abreast of developments here to find ways to do a
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by diatone 1y ago
Take a photo on your phone, OS recognises the link in the image, makes it clickable, done. Or, use a QR code instead
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by diatone 1y ago
Same as it’s always been. https://7powers.com/
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by diatone 1y ago
Deep fakes have always been horrible. The idea that someone - anyone - can take your image and represent you in ways that can ruin your reputation, is appalling. For example, revenge porn. Having your likeness used to express an opinion tha

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