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by antics 6mo ago
Author here, my personal mission is for people implementing this to have clear, actionable advice. Which is something we did not when we started. If you want to chat about it I'm happy to help, just email me: clemmer.alexander@gmail.co
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by antics 6mo ago
Hello again Germán! Since the product we make is, basically, a local-first markdown file editor, I would humbly suggest that the less-well-known algorithm we recommend is thus also local-first. But, I fully believe that you do a ton of stuf
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by antics 6mo ago
Author here, sorry if this was not clear: that specific point was not supposed to be an indictment of all CRDTs, it was supposed to be much more narrow. Specifically, the Yjs authors clearly state that they purposefully designed its interfa
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by antics 6mo ago
Author here, I did not specifically mention OT in the article, since our main focus was to help people understand the downsides of the currently-most-popular system, which is built on CRDTs. BUT, since you mention it, I'll say a bit he
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by antics 6mo ago
Hi folks, author here. I thought this was dead! I'm here to answer questions if you have them. EDIT: I live in Seattle and it is 12:34, so I must go to bed soon. But I will wake up and respond to comments first thing in the morning!
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by antics 6mo ago
Author here. To be clear, we do not in ANY WAY compete with Yjs! We are a potential customer of Yjs. This article explains why we chose not to be a customer of Yjs, and why we don't think most people building real-time collaborativ
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by antics 6mo ago
I'm the author. Literally 0% of this was written with AI. Not an outline, not the arguments, not a single word in any paragraph. We agonized over every aspect of this article: the wording, the structure, and in particular, about whethe
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Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs(moment.dev)
272 points by antics 6mo ago|160 comments
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by antics 7mo ago
Our approach, which is behind a feature flag right now, is to allow users to attach "assets" to jj change IDs (these are sort of like stable git commit SHAs). This is how we will power inline comments, and it's how we'll
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by antics 7mo ago
I think responses like this are a good reminder that technology is most leveraged when it's useful to both people who are technical and nontechnical. For the first time in the the 70+ year history of software, the cost profile of &quot
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by antics 7mo ago
Moment is distinctive because (1) it's natively programmable, and (2) has a native, high-performance, live collaborative editing. For (1), programmability is why our templates[1] are generally so rich. See, e.g , our NES emulator[2] o
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by antics 7mo ago
Author here, speaking only for myself, sometimes you're right, and I do want to create a new Next.js app, deploy it to our internal Kubernetes cluster behind our corporate intranet with all the credentials and so on. And sometimes I
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by antics 7mo ago
Not 100% sure I understand, but, if you opt into sharing a doc, we do spin up a collaboration server on your behalf, and editors do not have to set anything up to use it. The bulk of the work we've had to do is to make this seamless an
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Show HN: We want to displace Notion with collaborative Markdown files(moment.dev)
29 points by antics 7mo ago|14 comments
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Collaborative editing with AI is hard(moment.dev)
6 points by antics 8mo ago|1 comments
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by antics 10mo ago
> Unfortunately, when it sold out to Microsoft, the clock started ticking. “Please just give me 5 years before everything goes to shit,” I thought to myself. And here we are, 7 years later, living on borrowed time. Man, sometimes I feel
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by antics 11mo ago
Any time something costs trillionths of a cent to do, there is an enormous economic incentive to turn literally everything you can into that thing. Since the 50s “that thing” has been arithmetic, and as a result, we’ve just spent 70 years t
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by antics 11mo ago
I like this but based on what I am seeing here and the THRML readme, I would describe this as "an ML stack that is fully prepared for the Bayesian revolution of 2003-2015." A kind of AI equivalent of, like, post-9/11 airport
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by antics 1y ago
I do actually really like this, but there it is a little ironic that the website advocates for straightforward, unpretentious UI ( e.g. , one should make a button "look like button" not, say, a kitschy bird), but this idea is expr
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by antics 1y ago
Kind of, kind of not. I think it's fair to argue a lot of theory people would argue that it is effectively guaranteed to terminate, for any reasonable definition of "guaranteed." As I mention elsewhere, for a coin where P(H
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by antics 1y ago
What is our goal here? I'm willing to continue this discussion but after answering these questions and seeing your responses elsewhere it does not seem like your understanding is improving ( e.g. , still misunderstanding that the algor
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by antics 1y ago
> What do you mean by "exponentially, not asymptotically, but for finite n"? Exponential is by definition asymptotic and continues infinitely, no? In statistics, we generally separate asymptotic bounds—which usually make guaran
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by antics 1y ago
I'm not sure we're on the same page about what this result practically means, so let me re-state it a few different ways, so that people can draw their own conclusions: * The von Neumann approach will "appear to be O(1) (cons
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by antics 1y ago
So, the problem in its original framing is: can we simulate a fair coin flip with an unfair coin? As stated, I do actually think the von Neumann response answer ("this is actually technically possible") is fair, in that if I wante
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by antics 1y ago
While I obviously think randomness extractors over adversarial sources are very interesting, I think talking about them specifically in this example complicates the point I'm trying to make, which is that it's incredible it can be
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by antics 1y ago
If I give you a biased coin can you simulate a truly random coin flip with it? The answer turns out to be yes. Flip the biased coin twice: HT = heads, TH = tails, and HH/TT = flip twice again. The general study of such things is called
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by antics 1y ago
The legacy of the electric motor is not textile factories that are 30% more efficient because we point-replaced steam engines. It's the assembly line. The workforce "lost" the skills to operate the textile factories, but in t
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by antics 1y ago
I am not sure we are on the same page that the point of my response is that this paper is not enough to prevent exactly the argument you just made. In any event, if you want to take umbrage with this paper, I think we will need to back up a
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by antics 1y ago
Sorry, I can't edit it any more, but what I was trying to say is that if the authors are correct, that this distinction is philosophically meaningful, then that is the conclusion. If they are not correct, then all their papers on this
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by antics 1y ago
I am not sure if you mean this to refute something in what I've written but to be clear I am not arguing for or against what the authors think. I'm trying to state why I think there is a disconnect between them and more optimistic

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