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New comment by diatone in "Alice is impatient"

diatone — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:55:50 +0000

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 experience, great the distribution is low.

But for any t that goes high that they observe (which tends to be the case in a skewed distribution such as service latencies), it drags their impression of the distribution up, dominating the shape of that impression.

New comment by diatone in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

diatone — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:47:45 +0000

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.

New comment by diatone in "The Ask"

diatone — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:24:21 +0000

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 mix here.

New comment by diatone in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"

diatone — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:03:14 +0000

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 subject matter of TFA

New comment by diatone in "Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B"

diatone — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:05:33 +0000

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.

It makes sense to scrutinise Anthropic’s revenue in the lead up to IPO on those grounds; their AR figure simply isn’t comparable to revenue numbers from other firms.

However it doesn’t make sense to be sensational about this - iirc reporting GAAP revenue is a necessary condition of going public so the chickens will come home to roost one way or another.

New comment by diatone in "Claude for Small Business"

diatone — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:46:22 +0000

So if the benefits haven’t accrued to you, it must have gone to your customers right?

New comment by diatone in "I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now"

diatone — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:24:05 +0000

If your students were growing up to subvert your line of work, sure. Pretty sure that’s not the case though!

New comment by diatone in "Claude Design"

diatone — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:06:33 +0000

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’ve got already but it’s a clever adjacent step for sure. Same product new chrome.

New comment by diatone in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

diatone — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:49:03 +0000

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 and technical) is going to outperform the team that relies on a wizardly individual PM or analyst over the long term making promises over the wall to engineering.

New comment by diatone in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

diatone — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:12:26 +0000

Until they’re using consistent methods of reporting those figures, they’re not comparable. Same as any other company pre vs post IPO

New comment by diatone in "Some things just take time"

diatone — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:00:13 +0000

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 the Cynefin framework as a useful technique for practitioners here. It doesn’t have to be hard to choose whether or not rigorous planning is appropriate for the task at hand, versus probe-test-backtrack with tight iteration loops.

New comment by diatone in "Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase"

diatone — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:14:59 +0000

If 9 of those solutions are crummy and reviewing them takes longer than just doing it right once…

New comment by diatone in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

diatone — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:17:12 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom

New comment by diatone in "A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents"

diatone — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:04:36 +0000

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. However, the grid is set up to do so from non-renewable sources. And you want to do it while smoothly operating the network. This is extremely hard. Doing so quickly therefore elevates prices. That’s the rationale I could imagine being the case in EU markets.

New comment by diatone in "NaN, the not-a-number number that isn't NaN"

diatone — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:10:28 +0000

That’s not real math though, that’s a quirk of floating point math.

Multi Layered Calendars (2023)

diatone — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:26:59 +0000

Article URL: https://julian.digital/2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45730757

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by diatone in "Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys"

diatone — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:34:17 +0000

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.

New comment by diatone in "Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys"

diatone — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:26:16 +0000

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 differently: it’s a request, given limited resources let’s expend effort on a fairer society, not one with longer lived people.

New comment by diatone in "Ask HN: Should we stop worrying that AI will replace developer jobs?"

diatone — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:55:00 +0000

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 on the bridge. As far as I’m aware software engineering does not have something like that.

New comment by diatone in "The current state of LLM-driven development"

diatone — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 17:00:33 +0000

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 mode unique to LLMs.

edit: I don’t have personal experience around spending limits but I vaguely recall them being useful for folks who want to set up AWS resources and swing for the fences, in startups without thinking too deeply about the infra. Again this isn’t a failure mode unique to LLMs although I can appreciate it not mapping perfectly to your scenario above

edit #2: fwict the LLM specific context of your scenario above is: providing examples, setting up API access somehow (eg maybe invoking a CLI?). The rest to me seems like good old software engineering