samwillis

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by samwillis 7d ago
1. I didn't say we designed folding iPhones, I said devices. 2. Receipts: https://postimg.cc/8sDTTT0W I think this was a first year project, and a small correction: mine want quite the same aspect ratio.
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by samwillis 7d ago
Good design is inevitable. In a completely clean room environment where a designer had never seen a folding phone, but had all the context of the iPhone and everything Apple had done, they would develop almost exactly the same design and fe
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by samwillis 2mo ago
They have made it very clear that the mechanical translation is the starting point, and are refactoring to remove as many unsafe declarations as possible.
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by samwillis 3mo ago
contenteditable I believe was in IE 5.5 in ~2000, I remember playing with it back then. It landed about the same time as "Outlook Web Access" which is arguably the first SPA, originator of AJAX, and first use of XMLHttpRequest. I
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by samwillis 3mo ago
They have compiled to WASM64, the newer 64bit version of WASM. That's not available on iOS yet. WASM till recently has had a 32bit address space, to match the limitations of JS numbers. With 64bit WASM you have to use BigInt rather tha
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PGlite reaches 10M weekly downloads(electric.ax)
4 points by samwillis 3mo ago|1 comments
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AI agents as CRDT peers – building collaborative AI with Yjs(electric-sql.com)
3 points by samwillis 5mo ago|0 comments
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by samwillis 6mo ago
It's disingenuous to suggest that "Yjs will completely destroy and re-create the entire document on every single keystroke" and that this is "by design" of Yjs. This is a design limitation of the official y-Prosemir
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by samwillis 7mo ago
Have you considered doing property tests with Mathematica as an oracle? An ai based development workflow with a concrete oracle works very well. You still need the research and planing to solve things in a scalable way, but it solves the &q
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From science fiction to reality – you can build difficult things with LLMs now(electric-sql.com)
2 points by samwillis 8mo ago|0 comments
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Scaling long-running autonomous coding(cursor.com)
290 points by samwillis 8mo ago|197 comments
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by samwillis 8mo ago
I'm convinced that LLMs results in all software needing to be open source (or at the very least source available). In future everyone will expect to be able to customise an application, if the source is not available they will not ch
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by samwillis 9mo ago
Manifold works on solid triangle meshes, OpenCascade is a true BREP kernel that represents solids as edges (straight and curved) and surfaces (not meshed) computed from those edges. There is no triangulation in the root model in OpenCascade
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by samwillis 9mo ago
Higher level overview and links to the other related papers: https://medium.com/@vishalmisra/attention-is-bayesian-infere...
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The Bayesian Geometry of Transformer Attention(arxiv.org)
4 points by samwillis 9mo ago|1 comments
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by samwillis 9mo ago
Yes, exactly. The other reason Cloudflare workers runtime is secure is that they are incredibly active at keeping it patched and up to date with V8 main. It's often ahead of Chrome in adopting V8 releases.
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Attention Is Bayesian Inference(medium.com)
152 points by samwillis 9mo ago|32 comments
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Concurrent JavaScript: It can work(webkit.org)
4 points by samwillis 9mo ago|0 comments
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by samwillis 9mo ago
This is one of the main use cases we are building "Durable Streams" for, it's an open source spec for a resumable and durable stream protocol. It's essentially an append only log with a http api. https://githu
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by samwillis 10mo ago
> But they need to FEEL the weather You mean they need to smell it!
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by samwillis 10mo ago
The key limitation (at the moment) is that it only supports a single connection. W're planning to lift that limitation though.
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by samwillis 10mo ago
This is such awesome work! We *are* going to get this integrated with the ongoing work for "libpglite".
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by samwillis 10mo ago
You can use http://electric-sql.com to sync into PGlite in the browser from postgres. There are docs here: https://pglite.dev/docs/sync
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by samwillis 10mo ago
I'm not aware of anything trying to compile timescale for it. Some extensions are easer than other, if there is limited (or ideally no) network IO and its written in C (Timescale is!) with minimal dependencies then its a little easer t
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by samwillis 10mo ago
There are a few people using it in prod for customer facing web apps. Extensions are also available - we have a list here: https://pglite.dev/extensions/ . We would love to extend the availability of more, some are more
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by samwillis 10mo ago
We have a long on running research project with the intention of carting a "libpglite" with a C FFI and compiled as a dynamic library for native embedding. We're making steady progress towards it.
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by samwillis 10mo ago
It's now used by a huge number of developers for running local dev environments, and emulating server products (Google firebase and Prisma both embed it in their CLI). Unit testing postgres backed apps is also made significantly easer
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by samwillis 10mo ago
Hey everyone, I work on PGlite. Excited to see this on HN again. If you have any questions I'll be sure to answer them. We recently crossed a massive usage milestone with over 3M weekly downloads (we're nearly at 4M!) - see https
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by samwillis 10mo ago
I'm really intrigued by the use of differential dataflow in a static site toolkit, but there isn't much in the way written about it. If anyone from the team are here I would love it if you could explain how it's being used? D
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by samwillis 11mo ago
Oh, yeh, don't get me wrong. I meant impossibly expensive to drop into a mid range car with no scaling up from a higher value lower volume product range first.

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