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Ymmv, but I will never use Quill for a production project again.

We started using Quill 1.x around 2016, I initially liked it a lot. Jason proactively reached out to me when I first tweeted about considering Quill, and he was helpful when I had questions about the implementation.

Fast forward to 2019, we were running into some bugs, Quill 1.x was in maintenance mode, and 2.0 was effectively undocumented [1]. I reached out to Jason on Twitter [2] to get a sense for the timeline, and he basically told me to get lost. (Also his company Slab now blocks me on Twitter, though I imagine he just meant to block me from his personal account.)

Everyone has stressful days, especially when building a startup, so maybe that was just a bad time for me to reach out. My best guess is that they were focused on their own company (fair!) and barely had the time to maintain Quill for their own internal usage, let alone release it as open source. If that's the case, I wish they'd been upfront about it.

5 years later, Quill v2 is finally live. I'm glad to see Slab is still around, and I hope they have the bandwidth to publicly maintain Quill going forward. But if you're thinking about using this in production, I would push on what their commitment is to supporting it, and have a plan for if they stop responding.

(Jason, if you're on this thread, no hard feelings, water under the bridge. Feel free to ignore or chime in with your own perspective.)

[1] https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/2435

[2] https://twitter.com/nickbaum/status/1177240103925796865
That doesn't make sense. If miners are break-even only after pricing in future valuation movement, then they would just buy BTC at SPOT.

No need for all the capex, opex, uncertainty of hashing success, and time-limited acquisition of doing the work of mining.
The question of what is an Erdős problem and what is not is not black and white. My team has managed to solve a problem that's sort of an Erdős problem. In the early sixties, Leo Moser asked about the value of some quantity. In a 1985 paper, Erdős commented that the quantity “seems likely” to be less than 1/4. It was known to be at most 2/7. After a long line of improvements by several teams, we were the first ones to go below 1/4.

For those who are interested, https://www.sfu.ca/~vjungic/RamseyProjects/section-11.html describes the question. Our answer is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14179, and a popsci account of our result is at https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-break-bounds-i... .
> We can use basic math

The math checks out on paper, the arguments make sense.

And yet, whenever I see a very dense city, I also see an extremely expensive place to live.

When observations contradict theory, I have to think there's some flaw in the theory.
Frankly, I don't know. Here's a lead though, with plenty of references.

https://www-wikiberal-org.translate.goog/wiki/Liste_de_scien...

My denial is tactical in nature for the mere fact I don't think being eco-friendly or a climate-skeptic changes anything in the end when it comes to CO2 emission. Going the amish way certainly does, but 1°) nobody is advocating for this 2°) it wouldn't be feasible for whole societies, they would collapse. Additionally the proposed solution to the greenhouse gas problem, namely energetic transition, is compromised by the ongoing Peak Everything [1]. It's of course not an absolute wall and people working on obscure topics such as [2] are contributing a lot more than people arguing for or against the reality of anthropogenic climate change on a political level. These people should instead focus on other issues where activism would be a lot more useful, in particular the decline in insect populations (about 75% loss in 26 years for Germany, in absolute mass, not number of species) [3]. Advocacy to get rid of neonicotinoids would be a more efficient way to combat the impeding collapse of Nature.

Finally, I don't think it's a matter of political decision: we don't have the solution to the problem of greenhouse gas and the only outcome it can have is a form of self-punishment and eco-morale. I'd prefer to die of starvation in a desertic earth than suffer this kind of hypocritical tyranny that advocates both for reduction in natality and substitution immigration to offset it.

The only form of solution I could be satisfied with is some kind of AI-driven system to figure it out, not for its supposed super-cognitive abilities, but for the methods employed in ML. In this perspective, every new scientific paper, every ecological experimentation should be logged and ageggated automatically to update some global gradient, without having to face political mediatic inertia. This would allow us to deploy solutions such as Lorenzo Furlan agricultural insurance against pesticide [4]. Of course I had to use google translate for this link. This proves my point.

[1] https://shorturl.at/IJMS1
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/abs/pii/S2...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations
[4] https://www-pollinis-org.translate.goog/publications/lorenzo...
I remember seeing him as one of the megaminds in Vim Kayzer’s A Glorious Accident[0]. That was a show that would put many people to sleep, but I profoundly enjoyed it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Glorious_Accident
I completely agree with you that some errors could be missed if no one noticed them. This seems entirely separate from the idea that people could become angry if the line were stopped, but of course you are right.
I work on web-adjacent-shit, mostly data processing stuff in Kafka that eventually ends up on the web.

I don't get to recurse over JSON, occasionally I get to design a system from scratch and that's more fun, but it's usually not more complicated than "draw boxes that point to other boxes and/or cylinders on screen". Sometimes I draw a picture of cloud.

I like my job just fine, it's a decent job, and I like my managers and coworkers as well, but it's just disappointing that enthusiasm for math and theory is what got me to this stage of my career, but I never really got to use it, and I don't see that ever really changing for me.

Maybe I will write a paper at some point at least.
Chickens totally have different personalities. Some are shy, some are friendly, some are adventurous, some are timid. And it can change. They aren’t machines.
LSD is noticeable at 1/20th of a milligram and decidedly active at 1/10th.

One doesn't avoid that with meticulousness, it's protective gear or nothing. Hoffman had no reason to be wearing a hazmat suit, at least, none he was aware of.
In the last photo in the article, why are the panels at such a steep angle and pointing away from the sun?
this is pretty cool, the scrape with only main content needs some work, scraping something like cnn article comes back with a lot of excess things like advertising messages repeated etc.

but cool
Your question sounds like: “are power lifters employable as movers?” The answer is sure, if they want to be movers, and if they have other qualities needed to be a good mover.

But if your question is whether DL theorists are employable as DL theorists, the answer is again - sure, but you have to be really good at it.
If food is served every day without the need to earn it there is no need to use your brain.

I have a lot of cats, i toss snacks in the back yard. They are about interested enough to find 80% meanwhile the birds sitting on the roof 40 meters away study the situation carefully and wait for the right configuration of cats before they fly in and snatch the remaining snacks. They see all of them, they never mis one.

Im sure they think my cats are dumb but cats in general are not.

I use to have a stray cat with a gaze powerful enough to win any stairing contest. He pulled tricks that took me years to figure out - seriously.
> When their time came

Were they mature?
> that just coincidentally happens to have the letters Qt at the beginning

That's not what I was trying to say. I just thought it's worth pointing out that QtCreator is really a general-purpose C++ IDE. (It's my favourite C++ IDE, btw.)
People wouldn’t usually get fired for hanging out in someone’s office. All these people have after-hours access and most offices are not locked. It’s *OBVIOUSLY* not about the act of going into an office and locking yourself in or even causing a disruption to one person’s day…
I'm pro animal welfare. And i'm (trying) not to make absolute justifications for killing animals.

But i really do use loose heuristics like minimizing pork because pigs are smart, beef because its terribly energy inefficient and less healthy. While plant protein is good but not appetizing.

Chickens get the short end of that stick. Delicious and dumb.

I have years of weight training where I've developed mass. That said, yep it's a crock of shit to be intaking so much daily protein so I just don't do it anymore and it's not a big deal. I'm trying.

anyway, your definition of smart is more like evolutionary adaptation. What is consciousness is pretty much still unanswerable. Physics killed God; we're all just stimulus-response machines. So this discussion on spectrum of smartness is too loaded.
If you'd prefer to watch something slightly less disturbing, this is a great movie I enjoyed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnage_(2017_film)
> Dennett is a mainstream eliminitavist

He is often described that way, and even used the term himself sometimes, but he was not (and was careful to say that he was not) an eliminativist about everything. For example, he was not an eliminitavist about consciousness or free will. He believed those things are real--they just aren't like what many people think they are like; they don't have the properties that many people think they have.

With regard to consciousness and free will, Dennett was a physicalist: he believed consciousness and free will are physical processes that obey physical laws. That does place limitations on what consciousness and free will can do, and I think an unwillingness to accept those limitations, to accept that those limited concepts of consciousness and free will are the only ones we can actually have, drove a lot of the opposition to Dennett, though his opponents did not explicitly admit it.
> Your corporate job isn't a democracy.

If corporate jobs aren't democratic, what kind of political organisation are they under?
There is no current problem just another media attempt to push the narrative.
Having run the Cherry Blossom Ten Miler with somebody else's bib (he was a friend of a friend and out of town), and having gone to the Philadelphia Marathon in 1983 to pace a friend, perhaps I'm not the most trustworthy commentator. The use of "rabbits" in distance races used to be common, yet it seems to me that the would drop out or drop back by the halfway mark.

But hey, I paid for the Philadelphia Marathon registration, and for that matter the pacing didn't work out.
So, let's get this straight.

All the power utilities of the world share one single electron.

And they rent it out to billions of subscribers, concurrently, multiply booking that electron and charging everyone.

What a racket!
The cert expired in 2014.
LLama3 looks particularly good at tool calling

Groq's low latency is particularly good for tool calling

Seems like two techs that will make coding obsolete :-)
I was trying to get it to code some general web scraping code, and it just repeatedly refused even given some convincing, what kind of system prompt are you having luck with?
empathy isn't abstract, it's in our brain as a mechanism that promoted survival... now if you are telling me that modern people (knowing that modern nutrition already stablished that in 99,9% of the cases, it's perfectly possible to live off a plant based diet, with B12 [livestock is also supplemented ]) don't feel empathy for animals in the ballpark of birds/mammalian is pretty naive... considering that people are actually aware of what takes to kill an animal & what's the state of stuff like "battery cages" when raising eggs at commercial scale; i think either you are one of those rare meat heads that can kill stuff, butcher and eat or you aren't aware (go watch Dominion or whatever)... because most city people buying fancy fatty meat or cheap burguers, would feel nausea/sorrow by killing anything & probably would stop if they need to kill to eat meat
There’s a really good eulogy on Ars Technica[0], as he was personal friend of one of the reporters.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/philosopher-daniel-d...
I'm not the best person to ask but I believe it helps a lot! How much signal it adds, relative to others, I couldn't say. But obviously they should mention it in their application.

The ability to make something people want is so central to what YC is looking for that it's the company motto; and sooner or later "want" has to mean "want enough to pay for". Sounds like your friends are already there.
> Why would somebody buy one of those instead of a house? Because they're $350,000 instead of $400,000.

That's one reason, but another common reason is that they just want to live there and there isn't a house available on the market so they take what they can get even if that is the apartment for 400K.
Garbage content on the web existed long before LLMs were the new hot thing on the street. There are ways to weight or even exclude results that are poor quality, and that'll still be necessary.
I worry about the unintended consequences of a plan like this because you might inadvertently break the cycle of the average neighborhood getting more desirable over time. And as much as it's silly that our entire financial system depends on the spice flowing it's where we're at. Having lots of square footage and (relatively speaking) spacious lots means that neighborhoods can grow to be roughly as nice as the residents have money.
I also learned that some people are missing the "mind's eye" and don't have the ability to play music in their head.. I always thought everyone could do those things but then found out that's not case!
The only practical use of MPTCP for me is to use mobile and Wi-Fi network together to boost the speed. iOS and WeChat both support this. However, I always turn them off because my mobile network is metered. So in the end, MPTCP is useless for me *personally*.
In Japan, they are in fact closing down public services, including schools, because many towns are depopulating. Even if taxation and administration are centralized, when the population of an area decreases, it is hard to spend the same amount of money on services there, since the other areas have relatively more people and more costs.

The article actually doesn't make much of a case for its claim about America being ill-suited to handling a declining population and it doesn't actually examine other countries and how they've coped.
They must be using this service.

https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-library/blob/ma...
I crossed over from medical to software because of this issue. The reality is that so much of the software created for us falls short because the depth of knowledge almost always isn't deep enough. It is painfully obvious to us that if the software devs knew medicine as well as we did they wouldn't have made many of the design decisions that they did. I know that is an unsatisfying answer but it's how my colleagues and I feel.

My advice to you is to enter this area only if you or someone involved is capable of getting very deep into the kind of medicine you're writing software for. I don't just mean "they commonly do procedures X and Y and tests A and B a lot".

The reputation of people in medicine not liking tech is wrong. We just don't like using bad tech, which is most of it.

It would help if you gave more targeted thoughts on what specifically you're looking to develop.
I understand where you're coming from, but let me offer a different perspective. There's a certain class of individual who loves the challenge of "breaking" something, but prefers the reduced problem space, risk mitigation, and formal validation that such a job provides. Look at the schools with the top cybersecurity competition teams, and you'll find fertile recruiting ground for such individuals. The NSA knows this, and actively recruits these individuals from these schools. Arguably, they provide a more comfortable working environment for those so inclined than your typical big tech job would provide. With regards to the effectiveness, the recent Kaspersky hacks should show that the feds have some capability in this regard.
Ask HN: What are all the different ways a programmer can make money?
I wish, I wish, I wish that Ronald Reagan had taken the role played by Paul Heinreid (he was considered for it). Then it would be conservatives who bore one about Casablanca, and they are less ubiquitous in the press.

And if you want to be anti-colonialist, you can look at Edward Said's take on the movie in Orientalism.
Not required, but a deflationary asset used as currency discourages borrowing, and companies and governments love borrowing.

If you knew that inflation was going to rapidly increase, the smartest thing you could do would be to take out as many loans as you can and buy usable assets, like a car and a warehouse full of canned beans.

Imagine you take out a loan to buy a car. Tomorrow, hyperinflation happens and the currency has lost 99% of its value. You can now pay off your car with a can of beans.

Inflation is also an avenue for a government to steal the excess value produced by an economy over time. Probably just a coincidence though.
I strongly believe this is very wrong. Just a $3500 tax deduction for children brought an increase in levels of 5-10% more children if im not wrong and it didn’t cost the states anything. Imagine if it was a $10000 reduction and so many people will have kids. Prove me wrong “shrugs”
Because god is an entomologist. I mean it's not just the beetles. Just count the terrestrial arthropods.
This was the first Monkey Island game I played.

I remember getting my first PC at thirteen and have some pirated games on it, Quake 2, Descent Freespace, Moto Racer (Enter your name!), and The Curse of Monkey Island was something different, so wholesome and funny, I was in love with Elaine, it also make me interested on storytelling, I guess because of that game I started to watch more movies and read more books.

And this game have the option to hear all the voices on Spanish, it wasn't something common, so me knowing no English at all, it was a new gaming experience and the connection was deeper.
Crypto "currency"
Full article title

>NASA VETERAN’S PROPELLANTLESS PROPULSION DRIVE THAT PHYSICS SAYS SHOULDN’T WORK JUST PRODUCED ENOUGH THRUST TO OVERCOME EARTH’S GRAVITY
I agree with most of that article, but the answer to the question in the title is “it depends on the practices”. Some of software engineering best practices are universally applicable, and they really matter. Using version control for source code. Writing functional specs in some form (at least very high level in half page of text) before writing code. Using meaningful names for variables instead of a, b, c, d. Commenting the source code when necessary.

The part I disagree is about the OOP. It’s not the best to write software, but very often the best way to design software which has to deal with complicated mutable state.

FinTech system running on servers probably doesn’t need mutable state much or at all: things are immutable, transactions are appended to append-only ledgers, and the mutable state is only present in external systems like SQL databases. However, it’s borderline impossible to make a videogame, rich text editor, a file system, GUI framework, or an XML DOM without some form of OOP.
Again: I know builders.

The size of the home is not a structural rule of the building industry, and is not universal or permanent. Just like any business, it's something builders decide based on who their market is and what they think they'll buy.

The described strategy might be what you're seeing in your area and might be the only thing that makes sense to your own tastes, but there are plenty of cities and counties where the pressing demand from buyers is for other things. In trend-leading communities, demand has been growing for years for denser housing with immediate access to retail and commerce; for efficient homes with low utility costs or green considerations; for small houses, condos, and townhouses that are well-appointed but accessibly priced and low-maintenance, etc and this is what builders have been building when they've been able to get cleared to build at all.
And that’s also true insofar as it’ll never be a perfect measure and in some cases (such as comparing a mature project to a brand new fork), it’s a bad measure.
It can be a general-purpose C++ IDE and also very tightly coupled to Qt at the same time.

Visual Studio is also a general-purpose C++ IDE and yet I don't think anyone would say it's independent of Windows.
Can the robot ever only scream? Then it's not suffering. Suffering is what creates movement, an internal impulse to an external action. Suffering can only exist if there is any external and an internal, which I'd argue is also a valid definition of consciousness, but I couldn't imagine how to test it.

In a test on suffering, if a subject has been inserted to fake consciousness, then we would still be measuring consciousness- we'd be measuring the consciousness of the mastetmind behind the robot/fake.

Suffering isn't so easily dismissed, any conscious entity will tell you.

I agree it is reductionist- that is the point of philosophy, to reduce to a point. RIP DD, you know he was a true philosopher because he came to a final point.
>”It might be a good idea to, y'know, let them in and allow them to work.”

There is no need to be glib. The United States already has the world’s most generous immigration policy. And, what is likely the most lenient stance towards illegal immigration and foreign labor of any developed nation.
No experience with Jason, but I have to say I’ve spent waaay too much time reading the Quill code trying to figure out how to patch around weird behavior. Which is frustrating because that’s what a RTE library (vs roll your own) is supposed to be. Not sure about v2, but the v1 code is just not very well architected.

There are basic features we’ve held off on implementing for fear that it will lead to a million little bugs.

The Delta format is the best thing about Quill by far. But I’d advise anyone looking for more than bold/underline/italics to use prose mirror.
And both are a dupe of: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40059892>
I think this point of view is greedy. FOSS is about sharing code, not enslaving other developers or organizations indefinitely into the future.
AI can talk with me. Why need a friend in real life?
Thanks for you great contribute. I'll work all on this.
I love Sāṁkhya philosophy, how it tries to objectively and logically come to the conclusion of the presence of prakṛti (nature, observation) and puruṣa (observer).

And you're quite right. Patanjali in the Yoga Sūtras says that the seer abides in its own nature, that is what pure consciousness is. The consciousness being conscious of its own consciousness. The only way to know that is to have citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ or the absolute stilling of the mind by shutting down all senses.

It's definitely very difficult to wrap my head around it, but it's still fascinating that if one follows the Yoga method properly, there might be a possibility of having that pure-consciousness experience.
It is absolutely a cult which preys on the naïve. It’s amazing that young founders give up equity so cheaply to chase credentials that pay so poorly, on average, relative to FAANG.

Someone will win in every YC batch, and it’s YC itself, which holds all the lottery tickets. Most everyone else loses.
There's always one of these in these discussions. "We thought we were nice to them so bringing them into existence simply to consume them feels ok"