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Would I use Automerge? Hopefully this isn't TMI :)

I think it would need to clearly be worth the cost. I'm having a hard time imagining use-cases my users would have, and matter enough, that would necessitate it over the commit based backend..

I spent quite a bit of time as an FTE building out a robust-ish and efficient Yjs backend POC. This included refactoring the ProseMirror Yjs bindings into a proper TypeScript project, and specializing them for some funky use-cases. At the end of it all my personal takeaways were:

* State-based CRDT isn't great when you want a central authority in the mix anyway and are fundamentally trying to work with operations

* The exchange rate between ProseMirror's currency, steps, and some other replication strategies building blocks is too high

* ProseMirror should add the concept of range-relocation to its mappings; this is a bit of an aside but it would help retain user intent when reconciling concurrent edits involved in block relocations

As a concrete example for others imagine a knowledge base editor. You want allow certain users ONLY to comment and you want to enforce this on the backend. There are a number of ways this could be implemented but you may want the UX of optimistically allowing them to make that edit in the FE and then submit the ProseMirror steps to the backend. This will typically involve two fundamental ProseMirror steps(of which there are only a few) to set an attribute and set a mark on a node range.

You can relatively easily inspect the submitted changes to verify only the allowed operations are occurring, and authorize the user for them.

However Yjs just cares about syncing state so the documents end up equivalent, and its efficient diff format doesn't really have the info you'd need to determine what's going on. You'd need to have the actual document model loaded, and then diff the docs before/after to figure out exactly what happened. And/or patch into the Yjs binding diff algorithm which works surprisingly well but doesn't produce minimal changes and can often "over edit" the document model.

So something that was relatively simple with ProseMirror steps has become a huge thing with Yjs. And for what?

All that to say, Automerge is supposedly operation based so in theory it sounds like a better route for use cases involving a central authority(which is most if I'm speculating) and want to do extra processing on document operations.. But it'd need to bring a lot to the table to offset the time investment..
Even the best velcro wears down, gets contaminated, etc.

A large-pitch metal zipper with corresponding cloth just doesn't fail if you don't use cheap materials.
Thanks Neel! We totally agree that automated evals will become an essential part of production LLM systems.
I feel this issue is over exaggerated. The study at EWG says that toxic chemicals are released in Teflon pans at 464 deg (C or F? article doesn't say), versus 680 deg for non-Teflon.

I don't think 99% of people ever get their cookware that hot.
Is this really appropriate for a tech forum? Not getting into a flame war about who is right here, can Hacker News actually bring anything useful to this discussion that hasn't been discussed ad-nauseam elsewhere on the internet?
> There is a time for blitz chess, and there's a time for clockless chess.

Arguably, there is more time for blitz chess.
You seem overly concerned with that one issue.

Truth is if the government wanted to do this you'd have no chance in hell resisting using your AR-15. They's suspend the constitution and the military would be deployed Stateside.

You'd be an ill-equipped Russian soldier against NATO hardware like in Ukraine. 10-20 of you dead for every 1 US military member you take out.

The better option is to ensure you have a Democracy, so you can rule your own selves and kick the authoritarians to the curb. Authoritarians are always the folks that instigate the things you describe, be they left or right wing.
> The big mistake California (and other Leftist faux-topias) made was decriminalizing THEFT, ASSAULT, smoking and shooting on BART

This is exactly it. The problem is letting the drug use impact other people's quality of life, access to common resources like parks, etc.
I think my point (c) is flawed: governments already have equivalents with finalized implementations, and will soon legally mandate them. That cat is out of the bag, and dropping WEI would have no effect. And these alternative methods proposed by governments are far worse for user privacy than WEI.
And in any case whatever power source you're using cannot deliver infinite power.
I feel this often with peers and at my workplace. If there is something that I don't understand I try to come up with possible explanations. If it's about something that is frowned upon or unpopular then I often feel how people get defensive and think I want to justify the thing or expose them for not knowing something. I don't. I just want to understand and maybe get something helpful out of it, maybe learn something about others or myself in the process. But I feel I'm in a minority with this thinking and it's a great source for all kinds of misunderstandings. I guess we all have our blind spots, otherwise I could understand the persons that I described. Ultimately I think practicing compassion is key.
Little bit of a straw man there. Nobody said they weren't different things.

The promises of the legalize-marijuana crowd have not become true. There is still crime revolving around marijuana in CA, it's more expensive than it was before legalization, and the tax revenue is a drop in the bucket for CA.

So all we "gained" was a bunch more people using marijuana...
I thought it was referring to the planet being "deep" in the sense of being in one of the lower zones of thought. And the Fire was the conflict of galaxy-spanning import that was playing out there.

But maybe there was more to it?

By contrast, the meaning of the title of the sequel "a deepness in the sky" is fairly literal once you get to know more about the alien species and their habits.
Eh, I just look at the rotten tomato number and rarely dig into reviewer details. I'm looking for a decent comedy that most people think is decent. I usually don't need your thesis.
There is only one set of site where Chrome performs better than Firefox: sites made by Google. I can't help but assume that it's intentional.

Unfortunately, for many people those are very important sites.

The Internet desperately needs some government to step in and force Google to spin off Chrome as an independent company. It's the only hope we have of stopping Google from completely ruining the Internet.
Overproduction means you don’t ever see daily fluctuations you have a surplus every single day of the year. Unless storage gets insanely cheap that’s by far the cheapest safe option.

Hydropower dams are already storage. When you don’t release the water it’s saved until you do.

If you have enough rain from 3 months ago to release 10 MW 24/7 over a week then you also have enough water to release 15 MW for 12 hours and 5 MW for the other 12 every day etc. You can’t save 100% of the water or the river downstream runs dry but the minimum is generally well below the average flow rate.

This isn’t unusual, most dams ramp production up and down to maximize the value of the stored water.
Does this increase the interest rate the USG just pay to borrow money?
It's definitely sketchy. Rumors are it's coming out of HUST though.
Thank you for the collecting of the linkery, dang. Much appreciated!
This is an important point. While drugs are decriminalized, crimes such as theft are not.

Pro-drug decriminalization people often argue that stuff like theft is still illegal. However, there are so many drug-related thefts that our particular district attorney is unwilling to prosecute them.

As a result, law enforcement won't even take them to jail, let alone show up, most of the time. Typically, you file a self-report on your LE's website and then never hear about it again. The thieves know this, of course. (For myself, n=3 since 2020. Though, I did recover a stolen iPhone last week because I acquired enough evidence/telemetry/etc to warrant a response.)
If you are talking about data missing from the `text` column, for some reason it disappears after you read a message. The content is stored in a binary blob in a different column, which I parse like this: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/c73bc4d66...
I fully support decriminalization of all drugs, as long as it's far away from me and from anybody else who is just trying to live their best life.

Let's go build a 10-acre island that is full of free housing and free drugs for anybody who wants it.
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Hey! I recently finished reading this, and am almost through the prequel (A Deepness in the Sky). Outstanding Sci-fi/political drama/fantasy.

These are a tier below Stephenson, Weir, and the Children of Time books, but if you're through those, these two would be my next picks.

This book and its prequel share pacing, plot flow/tension, and character archetypes, but differ significantly in the environments and levels of technology they describe. A Fire is more mystical and fantasy, while the prequel is more Scifi. If you enjoy one, it's likely you'll enjoy the other. I'm enjoying the setting and conflict more in A Deepness personally.
I'm very skeptical of PoE now after 3 PoE adapters killed 3 Raspberry Pis I have.

I wouldn't want to risk something more expensive to that shit.

At this point I'd rather just have straight up 19V + and - cables bundled together with the Ethernet with some heatshrink around the whole thing to make it look like 1 cable.
Do this exercise. Pick any country. See how many taxi apps available. They may not be called Uber and Lyft, but I bet there are only a handful at best, anywhere you pick (see Careem). That's the nature of the business.
We're better for that competition. It led to the rise of Apple, Google, and so many other companies.

The antitrust folks need to do the same to Google Chrome.
That's probably the most important post here. Whenever this discussion comes up, people believe that HATEOAS is about magic clients consuming arbitrary JSON APIs. It's not. In HATEOAS the URLs can be arbitrary, but the format cannot.
I enjoyed this article for the most part until it got to the "LGBTQ2S+" bit and then I just couldn't escape the fact that the author seems unwilling to confront the obvious -

The gluing together of all of these groups under one banner is exactly an attempt to use moral superiority to frame an argument - it removes the ability to actually discuss each case.
Really? Mozilla is a political organisation and Brave, the very same organisation that hires a fired Mozilla CEO that publicly opposes same-sex marriage, is not a political organisation?

Cool.
Methinks musky-boy doth protest too much.
Yes, I am always worried about prequels for that reason, but I think I enjoyed this one more than the original. They are really very different in scope and story as you said, and the bittersweet quality of the connection between the two books enhances the ending of the prequel in my view.
As someone who spends more time than they should grandstanding on the internet, I understand why people do it. What I don't understand is why people are so keen to eat that up, especially when it comes to politicians. Doesn't it bother people that the top 600 people in the most powerful country in the world are wasting their time delivering hot takes? I find it difficult to blame the politicians themselves because they're doing what their constituents want them to do.
I couldn't see anything on your site. Does remote mean US only, or worldwide?
When S&P did this back in 2011, the DoJ opened an investigation in to them (regarding their activities in mortgage backed securities), and the CEO resigned pretty quickly as well.

Fun fact: Microsoft has a higher credit rating from S&P (AAA) than the US government (AA+) - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/faq.aspx

(Fitch withdrew their MSFT rating at the start of the year, but it was also AAA)
Like the other commentor said. It's usually a very weak effect, strong diamagnetism is uncommon. It's exciting to see replication of the material and it exhibiting properties we'd expect to see, as it lends credibility to the original claim.

Right now the original claim is on shakey ground because one of the authors rushed the publication, so there's problems with the original paper that needed addressing (I havent looked at the new paper yet). So there's a bit of parallel construction going on, the authors are fixing the publication while other researchers are working to replicate the material/claims.

So basically, people are super excited because so far, the material has been replicated to some degree of success a few times, and exhibiting properties that support the original claim.

The claim of room temperature super conductors is exciting by itself, but that the science is replicating to any degree in such a short window is awesome
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how good is "historically" the open source AI ecosystem?

usually community projects have different target constraints, right? (for example Mastodon doesn't even want to be Twitter, it wants its own thing, it wants to be a different answer to the social network/media question, even if there are obvious and fundamental similarities.) how does this play out in the open source AI communities?
At least error reporting has been improved recently: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2023/03/31/version-20-rc2.html
Really? I feel the complete opposite. I moved to Seattle recently from Europe, and I feel the contemporary houses way prettier.

Most of the homes in my suburb seem to have been built in the 60s or 70s and they could be described as a shed-like box coming in 2 or 3 variations. Most contemporary homes are also boxy, but I find them far more aesthetically pleasing.

But as someone else said it's a matter of context. If you were building in the historic city center of a European town with its own traditional style, contemporary architecture would feel jarring and out of place.
It's funny to me that governments (and citizens) aren't realizing you can't simply _do less_ and expect things to improve. As in, deciminalizing drugs could work if the effort that was formerly spent mindlessly arresting and prosecuting smalltime drug offenders was instead spent on increased efforts in community outreach and rehabilitation, but that's not what happened. What we got was a society in which drugs are no longer criminalized but no additional resources. Literally just a government and society _doing less_. Who thought this would work?

Speaking as a person in Portland OR, it's not the decriminalizing that isn't working, it's the absolute dipshit of a mayor in Ted Wheeler and the total apathy from the local PD that are our largest failing.
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I built this Plan and Solve (PS) agent because I struggled to build stable sequential tasks with LangChain and GPT3.5 turbo. After many failed attempts with LangChain's PS agent, I decided to build my own.

I built the agent in a way that it acts as a workflow automation co-pilot rather than trying to play AGI. For example, the user has to tell the Lemon Agent which task needs to be solved and whether the suggested workflow automation is the right one for the task. I decided to go with a PS architecture since I consider the separation of responsibility a great way to increase the accuracy of agents, which is one of the main reasons why I built this agent. I am actively thinking about adding a workflow automation-specific third agent that helps with input validation (so kind of a ‘PVS’ agent) to make the input parameter provision in each workflow step more accurate.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and get some initial feedback!
Right? If the world were a meritocracy there would be no such thing as bad management and incompetent leads but here we are with both being prevalent.
When I have no choice, I use a free throwaway email service. Unfortunately it's much harder to get a throwaway phone number so it greatly annoys me when services (Twitter, specifically) require one
Netscape had some fairly crazy, ill-conceived ideas of basically turning the Navigator ecosystem into an OS replacement, at least for the shell.

Netscape itself was terrible, but MS saw danger here, since it would effectively commodotize the underlying OS.

They went after it just hard enough to get antitrust oversight. TBH, they didn't need to go that aggressively. The whole thing looks a little ridiculous in hindsight.
i would put them a tier above the ones you mentioned, personally! but then again, i really love vinge. outstandingly good books.
I'd call it a dogwhistle.
"A deepness in the sky" is literally (well not quite, but it's the text in the book) a line by one of the characters.
You are forgetting that it's a 10 minute walk from Forest Hill to one of Toronto's poorest communities. They are part of the same community geographically. Same with Jane/Finch -- within walking distance of very wealthy detached suburban homes. It's even more jutted up against each other south of Bloor/Yonge, with some of the wealthiest high-rise condos directly against some of the poorest public housing and tent cities. I am not denying the existence of the divide -- it's very real and very stark -- I am however fascinated that it occurs on the same block. It's not a different part of town. It's the same geographic area sliced differently. That the two worlds are so separate, when literally next to each other, is what I was trying to point out.
> Netscape was a buggy piece of shit at its height.

Yes, it really was. But to their credit, they finally realized that they couldn't fix it, released the source, and set up Mozilla to run with it instead. And we got Firefox, which became the best browser at the time.
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> glTF is a Khronos standard and Apple refuses to work with them

Given that Apple created OpenCL and handed it over to Khronos, this seems a bit off.

> OpenCL was initially developed by Apple Inc., which holds trademark rights, and refined into an initial proposal in collaboration with technical teams at AMD, IBM, Qualcomm, Intel, and Nvidia. Apple submitted this initial proposal to the Khronos Group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL#History

Apple just has a long history of working with Pixar. I think they've been using Pixar's USD as the basis for their AR asset file format since 2018.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/apples-usdz-ar-file-for...
I swear I read the Netscape guys went to Microsoft hq in Redmond and posted signs all over the campus mocking Microsoft for being stupid and missing the web.

Rumor was Gates saw one and thought they were right so pivoted to destroy them.

Don’t poke the bear I guess?

I can’t remember where I read this or how true it’s likely to be, but it came to mind.
Only the last point was the why.
Voyager 2: NASA picks up 'heartbeat' signal after sending wrong command
I'm not surprised. Since the market is still controlled by drug dealers. Legalise the whole supply chain and let people buy opium and cocaine at the apothecary, like they did in olden days, see how things are then.
/"(This is a shame, because the best way to prepare a burger is a topic worthy of introspection.)"/

The answer, of course, is to stop eating meat because the factory farm industry is morally indefensible. (he said with some trace of irony, "expressing [...] dismay at the vast, cruel machinations of society.")
The amount of destruction from bombing Europe is greatly exaggerated I think. Most of towns and cities were hardly touched.
Here's some good news: there's a non-plastic, non-forever-chemical, really-compostable plastic straw on the market! https://www.phadeproducts.com/#

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> Microsoft was surprisingly prescient in attempting to move to the walled garden and attempting to control the stack from top to bottom.

And we stopped them and the world was better for it.

Now it's time to repeat the process for Google and Apple.

Competition is fundamentally important to healthy innovation. Look at how long we've been stuck in smartphone incrementalism - no new players can even enter the market.

Now Google is trying to control the web with WEI, AMP, exclusivity deals, and other anti-competitive garbage.

Nevermind the fact that most people now do their computing on smartphones, that the smartphone stacks are becoming payment stacks, that app stores are taxes on innovation, and that these companies are removing the ability for new companies to build healthy platforms.

It won't be long before they tax going to Starbucks and justify it because phone wallets are a core part of physical commerce.
Which is why I argue:

> Therefore, treatment should be much more easily be available and it should be much easier to have an intervention.

If drugs become burdensome enough that you have to commit crimes to feed your habit, then maybe the society should be able to intervene and help? If I have a drinking problem that I need to steal money for, the solution shouldn’t be cheaper alcohol, but a way for me to stop drinking. Same applies for drugs. Part of the reason why families support (reluctantly) drug habits is because getting help is often not easy or cheap.
He's talked about the custom format he uses for the text files containing his stories [1]. He has a bunch of text processing tools that help him connect story lines and make notes to himself regarding them.

There's also out there a version of A Fire Upon the Deep that includes at least some of his annotations. I'll update with a link when I find it again.

Check out this thread [2] right here - it has a link to the annotated version on archive.org, and the discussion includes references to scripts to format it more nicely.

[1] http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872593
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