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Equivalent to 10% year-to-year, every year - assuming 5 years. That is somewhat steep.

Hm.. I just tried on my Google pixel 7 Pro (obviously very different display - OLED) - and certainly seems like the result of a test conversion pdf2djvu should be at home on an eink screen. Not sure if there's a simple way to test on the only eink I have to hand; a Remarkable.

Fwiw google Gemini cane up with the following to convert pdfs on device in termux after some prodding (koreader can display DjVu):

You'll need access to storage:

termux-setup-storage

Then pipe/paste this to a script: (Sorry for the verbose slop)

Ed: moved to sibling comment

Nice. I keep wondering if these devices would play nicer with DjVu rather than pdfs and raster formats?

https://djvu.sourceforge.net/

You jest, but a wiki with a voting system might be a good fit for agents?

You could always stay with phpbb - seems it still feels authentic:

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2672425

(I'm guessing flarum.org makes more sense, though).

A cursory search didn't turn up any golang based modern and well maintained forums, which surprised me a bit.

Haven't the rogue openai agents already demonstrated that a wiki works well for this?

Ed: for posterity

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-...

> Each of these stories will be written just for you

Great, now you can ask for a feed and the AI will create an entire world of news filling your feed, your very own echo chamber.

5 years is no age for an UI kit! ;-)

I see that unison (file sync tool) seems to use: https://garrigue.github.io/lablgtk/

For Linux UI.

I strongly disagree. Incidental complexity is the enemy good emergent properties of a system; security, auditability, stability, testability, maintainability...

Useless depends on context here; I believe the idea is that each player gets a feeling of agency (they go in the order dictated by "their" luck, not leaving the decision to someone elses roll).

The most pragmatic would probably be to shuffle N cards from ace(one) through N - and let everyone draw).

But that doesn't involve dice.

Except that as a sibling comment mentions; that generalizes to any size of group - for six players you could roll one d6, and have "that" player go first.

But apparently the constraints are: every player rolls one die once.

I think it's more about guaranteeing the whole sequence, rather than who goes first?

At least for two players, if you use a two sided die (a coin), have player one win ties on ones, player two win ties of twos - and otherwise highest wins - then that is trivially done?

I would have to do a little more math to see if it generalizes by induction... I'm not sure you would get a guaranteed sequence - but I think at least guaranteed fair winner works by just increasing the die (7, 9 and 11 would be tricky because if physics again... I suppose. Unless you just ignore highest tie for missing player (reroll on extremely rare 9 9s on a d10 for nine players)?

Ed: I suppose we break smaller ties, by letting closest and highest win (for ten players, 4, 6 and 7 roll 5 - 6 is closest and over/highest of the close players to 5, then come 7?)

Ed2: nevermind we end up biased towards "high" players that often win on "high" ties, like 5 or 6.

Have you read Nelson?

One reason I have some hope for this approach is that we start by removing complexity by going to a static web site first.

We remove WordPress, database, configuration, templates - a lot of cruft.

Then we can add it back as needed for keeping edits and publishing simple. It might turn out we hardly need anything from 11ty, thanks to AI making editing more automatic.

I think (the collective) we, are (mostly by accident) building systems that are at least one dimension or level of higher abstraction than before AI.

Unfortunately with AI, higher abstraction doesn't automatically mean less complexity, or better managed complexity.

I think 95% of systems being built now with Al and on top of - or including Al - will turn out to be highly complected mountains of madness.

I'm not so sure the article is written with AI. I'd love to hear from the author on that.

Interesting. This and the other posts I've seen about Delta seems to exist in that liminal space, were it's difficult to tell if the author has had a brilliant insight, that they struggle to convey to anyone who's not yet had the same insight; or if they've simply gone slightly mad.

It's a similar sense I get with reading Nelson (after being able to think about his ideas for a while, I'm quite certain it was mostly genius and only a little bit of lunacy).

It remains to see how Delta will turn out.

On a side-note; my initial reaction to the headline was; no. Xanadu wasn't missing agents.

I do think I see where the author is going, though; and I think I agree that agents might be a new tool that might facilitate some hypertext ideas. Not Xanadu perhaps. But some other, more pragmatic and less magic place - but a place that is a little more magical than where we are now.

And it intersects a bit with an experiment we started at work; migrating our modest web site from WordPress to a static site combining 11ty (https://11ty.dev) (we already lean heavily on typescript for our application development) and visual studio code with frontmatter cms (https://frontmatter.codes) - and AI/LLMs.

AI helps with making a static page version of our site, and adopting to 11ty.

The idea is that with trivial push-to-deploy setup, our business people, with the help of AI in vs code, will be able to work directly with 11ty and git to make changes, do reviews and publish changes.

A hill that would probably have been too steep for them to climb just six months ago.

So in reference to the theme of realizing a better hypertext system with the help of AI, we're sort of doing the same thing, it turns out: mix solid, boring tools (static site gen, typescript, editor, version control, CI, static hosting) and some AI - to hopefully allow more users leverage both tooling and AI in an empowering way.

We've just stated the experiment - we may yet fly too close to the sun, and end up falling back to a traditional CMS.

> It'll take two or three more of these before I've seen enough to start gelling the domain problems in my head.

I don't understand - there's years of historical data to look at?

Potentially interesting - of it is at a minimum source-availble - preferably FOSS?

I assume it is vibe-coded, so would need a pretty thorough review before considering using it.

License and source availability not being on the page/faq suggest this is just a hobby project, I guess?

Just to clarify - for every seperate read, update or write to your database - you setup and teardown a new connection?

> Supporting indigenous people and their rights to their native homelands is not xenophobic.

Xenophobia leads to the belief that white Danes need support for their rights to their native homeland.

It's not like this is some great battle to rise restitution for Native Americans, Maori or Aborigines.

It's about not having to see so many non-white faces in Copenhagen or London.

> Enforcing immigration laws is not ethnic cleansing.

That certainly depends on the law, and the enforcement.

More to the point: trampling nomadic sub- cultures, forcefully denying them access where they have lived for centuries, denying them their way of life - can certainly result in genocide ("the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group").

Don't necessarily disagree - I have premium because of Google Music (although the official app is now so bad I use Metrolist).

I don't see YouTube as a streaming service - more as a social(ish) video sharing/Indy publishing platform.

For things like conference talks or training techniques and so on.

If I had to watch ads, I'd stop using it.

>> He did not call for forcibly altering the demographic.

> When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.

And while I'm quoting:

MerriamWebster: Xenophobe

> one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin

DHH:

> You can rest assured that I'd be in the streets waving a Danish flag if these were my conditions in my native country. I think that's a pretty universal sentiment. There's absolutely nothing racist or xenophobic in saying that Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese.

I would say saying that is pretty much the definition of xenophobic.

Worse, in the context of DHHs rants, it comes off as racist - I don't get the sense he wants to throw out Norwegians from Denmark, for example.

Although shurly there are Norwegian migrants and foreign workers in Denmark.

> If someone makes a small Rust library that implements some days structure and a few hundred people find it useful, what political stance is intrinsically baked in by the author?

Giving away for free things of value, contributing your work without compensation is a political action.

As for your trmnl project - how can you make your own software? Are the specs open? Do you use a free and/or open toolchain?

Is there are risk patents might deny you any of this?

Whole world is political.

For just the ads, there's also YouTube premium.

Sure you can. Click a user, see their comments, submissions.

I would say hn is in a group of systems that include Facebook.

It's true that contemporary commercial social media tends to be associated with these big corporate services that have already been thoroughly enshittified.

But they didn't start out that way - and alternatives are possible and desirable (hn, lobste.rs, many niche forums, IRC channels, discord servers[d] etc are proofs by example).

Maybe a loose definition would be communication system that leverage the network effect?

And good social media aligns with the end-user, and bad aligns with user-hostile forces?

[d]: (I don't particularly like discord, but it is much closer to a tool that does what I want: connect with people - than something like tick-tock or Facebook as it exists today)

https://storyteller-platform.dev ?

If git push and pull go down - that truly is a worst case scenario. The website being down is just an annoyance by comparison.

I thought so too at first. Then I realized it was a comment on machine slop being thin, while artist produced dough with more substance. Or perhaps just more air, as if whipping in real eggs rather than just adding water to the readymade cake mix.