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Wow... This is really disappointing on Replit's part, especially considering the company's emphasis on an ideal of developer empowerment / creativity / collaboration, this seems very excessive.

I hope there's more to this story than it seems, because Replit has been doing lots of good work and this would lower my faith in them...

Works out of the box on my manjaro install.

I'm working on Archivy [0] - a knowledge management system built around extensibility.

[0]: https://archivy.github.io

This article seems a bit disjointed and ambling.

Can we also argue that this surge of investment is correlated to people staying at home and thus having more money to spend that would have been used on food, entertainment, etc... ?

İm not sure whether or not this is correct considering the negative economic effects of covid for many people, but it might have caused a surge in investing for a certain deomographic.

Interesting. I wrote a post with the exact same idea back in July (https://www.uzpg.me/tech/2020/07/21/architecture-md.html) - I totally agree with the author.

It's also what I implemented for my project archivy (https://archivy.github.io/reference)

Oh there's nothing of the sort with Archivy. No information is sent back and there isn't even a server where it could be sent to really.

I haven't looked into redacting a privacy statement, might be a good idea :)

Hey HN! A few months ago in August I posted about Archivy [0] here, and got tons of useful feedback and really enjoyed the discussion. Since then, I've improved the whole project quite a lot and wanted to share and talk with you again.

I'm really excited about our improvements and am happy with our progress in this v1 release, it feels good to be back here after a lot of work :)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24199419

Thanks for sharing this. I loved your post last year and I'm happy you managed to do so much in 2020!

Good luck with Tiny pilot and keep us up to date :)

I really loved Player of Games!

The bizarre but shocking Azad society was super interesting and also the narration of the main character and his whole development was truly captivating.

I got a few nice sci-fi books for Christmas, including Exhalation by Ted Chiang and Peace by Gene Wolf.

I also want to read Godel, Escher Bach, it's been recommended to me a lot.

Definitely some interesting picks on this thread.

Although mistrust can sometimes be warranted, as a way to prevent others from poisoning your life, I agree that it's also something to be careful about.

This reminds me of a quote from EM Forster's novel Howard's End:

> “You remember ‘rent’? It was one of father’s words— Rent to the ideal, to his own faith in human nature. You remember how he would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say, ‘It’s better to befooled than to be suspicious’—that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.”

This quote links back to this article and mentions the cost of closing yourself off and growing distrustful, which is really losing faith in human nature and kindness.

Interesting read!

https://archivy.github.io - Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your own personal, searchable and extensible wiki.

Maybe a bit more than half-baked but still there's still much to work on.

Why do you think NLP is a good field for doing meaningful work?

He could also have jobs working on corporate chatbots...

I think NLP has as many meaningful jobs as other industries, but it's not at the top of the list.

I'm not close to being a father, but I can provide the experience of having learned not that long ago

At first my dad put me a bit on CodeAcademy [0] which taught me tons of basics but didn't really get me hooked.

What really got me into coding was by thinking of a way I could use it to build something related to my interests or that would be useful for me.

That seems to be what you're doing with the games by linking it to something he's interested in so that's nice.

It can really be anything though, and you should try to show him the enormous area of things he can do with coding.

In my case I wanted to do my english homework faster, so I tried building a very simplistic program that could find literary devices (metaphors, similes, alliteration) etc... in the literature texts I had to study.

Also you should make sure you don't force it and that the passion and interest comes from him, which seems to be the case with the way he asked for books about coding.

[0]: https://www.codecademy.com/

This looks like a cool project. Here's a bit of feedback / thoughts I'm having related to a similar project, Archivy [0].

The problem I have with these type of solutions is basically the time it takes to just quickly bookmark. Browsers bookmarks are built-in, and do this pretty well - it's just one button next to the search bar.

Solutions like these are a bit more limited as they aren't embedded into your browser UI, so you have to open a new website and paste the link in. This mere effort adds a layer of complexity which can kind of turn the user off to bookmarking.

I wonder how this issue can be solved, in my project and yours... Maybe browser extensions can provide a more native experience with less "content to bookmark" time spent.

Sync is another way to kind of counteract this -> people use normal browser bookmarks or whatever they prefer - and then there are options to sync them to your software for better organization / whatever your functionality is.

However, hand-coding all of these integrations is difficult and that's why building a framework of plugins [1] so users can work and distribute these integrations themselves, is in my opinion, essential.

[0]: https://archivy.github.io [1]: https://archivy.github.io/plugins

I'm exactly the same! I wrote a script [0] to convert the firefox json to a markdown file which I filter and put on my website [1]

[0]: https://github.com/Uzay-G/garret [1]: https://www.uzpg.me/attic.html

That's the approach https://archivy.github.io takes.

The API (https://hn.algolia.com/api) being used limits to 10000 requests per hour so I doubt there would be a problem.

Hmm I see that could be interesting.

The software this script is built around [0] comes with a developing [1] search functionality.

The idea is that using these plugins and the main software one can group / save / search their digital identity - and that's exactly what saving comments would work towards.

[0]: https://archivy.github.io [1]: https://github.com/archivy/archivy/pulls/159

I'm thinking about doing something like that - I'll implement it because it'd also be quite useful.

Do you think it would be worthwhile to be able to save upvoted / favorited comments also? I also have to think about what context (ie parent / child comments) it would be useful to gather.

I did the same a while ago with a really useful tool that had helped me save a lot of time [0].

I think it's a really good idea to provide thanks and gratitude like this because I know its very validating and motivational for someone to reach out and just say thanks.

This should be especially true for more niche projects that gather less recognition but you can still find very useful.

[0]: https://github.com/geoffreylitt/simple_recommender/issues/7

Exactly what happened to me also

This is hilarious...

> You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's..

> Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad.

Ouch.

Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built.

Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886 here and is not at all getting the same popularity. Anyone got ideas?

Really cool to see github implementing this and hyping it up with a nice video :)

https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/ is also a nice classless css library.

I found this article extremely interesting...

I wonder to what extent intelligence can/should be boosted by this type of education.

Either way, I believe school systems should try to encourage children in pursuing their interests

Not coursera but I'd definitely recommend Helsinki university's Elements of AI course [0].

It's quite accessible and a good introduction to artifical intelligence.

[0]: https://www.elementsofai.com/

Wow this is super interesting.

I had never thought of the idea of building your content around "seasons" but I do think it'd probably be an important motivator.

This idea could also be generalized to blog posts.

I'm just not sure what you'd structure your seasons around though.

I think this is an interesting post and agree with the ideas, however I do have something to point out about this section:

> What people desire from technology is well documented and can be summed up with a series of buzzwords. The difficulty isn’t knowing what society wants, it is knowing the path to get there.

Now I am one of those people who does desire this from tech products.

But admittedly, the general population ("people") does not care that much.

At least from my experience, people care more about the quality of the product and its ease of use. By far much more than the encryption of data etc...

This doesnt mean I don't think companies should make efforts in this direction, but I think it's important not to project these aspirations to more mainstream people who don't care

I wonder how this framework performs on speed. Rails is really nice but somewhat on the slow side, would be cool if the haskell alternative was more efficient.