My personal bugbear is the network coverage.
Context: London / UK (EE).
Yes, I have 5G at home, but it's just one bar and sometimes even this one bar will disappear. Yes, there is 5G/4G all around the city, but you can't hold an uninterrupted conversation over FaceTime Audio while on the overground train or driving. I'll not even discuss the underground.
However, uninterrupted, low-latency, average bandwidth is a hard market and even harder to design.
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The problem with files is that they usually don't provide what users need or expect in 2024.
Having multiple users editing one file at the same time is hard, especially if they're non-technical and they don't understand git diffs. To make that work, you need CRDTs (or operational transforms), and those can't really be represented nicely in plain text formats.
Even something like a music library, where you have n devices authorized to make changes, each device keeps an offline copy, and all changes get "synced up" when devices get online, is just far, far easier to implement with a servr guarding over a database than with a raw file on some cloud drive.
CRDT at the very low level is an append only operations log with snapshots.
This can be easily stored in a file. The trick is to solve merging with another version you just got from a friend. But then operations are idempotent and appending two operation logs with idempotent operations is simple.
Yes, ideally OS would provide a container that it natively merges, but meanwhile nothing prevents apps from storing their data in say sqlite based append only logs and when needing to solve conflict/import/merge just append new operations.
In between being laid off and recently finding a new job recently, I worked my way through this book and built a website using htmx.
It was such a pleasant experience compared to the frontend work I'd been doing in react. I never felt like htmx got in the way, it just worked and I almost never needed to think about it. I spent all my time solving problems and learning CSS.
Thanks for writing the book and making it free!
Exactly, htmx is such a pleasure to work with
munhitsu commented on Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync flashnotesapp.com... · Posted by u/munhitsu
धन्यवाद, it works!
Regarding the first bug: after installing the mobile app again, it imported all the notes again, so now I have 3 copies of each note.
Thanks for confirming.
Regarding tutorials; Good news - 1.4.1 release should be available in the App Store and it comes with the fix for tutorials duplicates. From now on each tutorial document have a hardcoded UUID, so when they get generated on multiple devices they still get merged into one single Document. CRDT is beautiful.
Bad news - existing users need to remove old tutorials for the fix to work. Matching old and new tutorials based on title only could cause problems for some users. Sorry.
munhitsu commented on Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync flashnotesapp.com... · Posted by u/munhitsu
Installed on my phone and mac, looking great so far!
I'm currently learning Hindi and have been taking notes in the class. This is a great opportunity to make flashcards out of them!
Edit: a quick bug report: it duplicated all the examples
Edit 2: it crashes when you type बे (type ब then add an "e")
I've learned more about the Unicode - Unicode grapheme clusters are fascinating.
So, the Hindi bug has been fixed - when you have a chance - please give the 1.4.0 release a spin.
munhitsu commented on Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync flashnotesapp.com... · Posted by u/munhitsu
Installed on my phone and mac, looking great so far!
I'm currently learning Hindi and have been taking notes in the class. This is a great opportunity to make flashcards out of them!
Edit: a quick bug report: it duplicated all the examples
Edit 2: it crashes when you type बे (type ब then add an "e")
thx - on it
munhitsu commented on Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync flashnotesapp.com... · Posted by u/munhitsu
Is your "recall probability estimating algorithm" similar to FSRS's retrievability?
https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/wiki/ABC...
If you ever feel like moving beyond the Apple market you might look into https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite I've been using it in my own Anki-clone and am very happy with it.
I still remember Piotr Wozniak's strong opinions about using ML for spacing prediction. But indeed market moves and even now SM is doing research in AI (again) https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/ai-in-supermemo
CR-SQLITE is awesome. In my dream parallel universe OS would natively support: - file - folder - pipe - op-log and provide primitives to merge op-logs (remove duplicate entries).
Maybe CR-SQLITE could be a gateway, but it feels a bit too high level. E.g. you can't just concatenate two op-logs and leave deduplicate to something else (I might be missing something)
Android version is a roadmap candidate. Baby steps ;)
munhitsu commented on Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync flashnotesapp.com... · Posted by u/munhitsu
I think everyone working in this space (i.e spaced repetition learning, tools for thought etc) should read Andy Matuschak (https://andymatuschak.org/). There is a lot to learn from his work.
thanks!
munhitsu commented on Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync flashnotesapp.com... · Posted by u/munhitsu
How large of context can it handle?
Currently it's GPT-4 Turbo under the hood, so should be enough for the use case