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Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by handfuloflight »

piker wrote: post #35
handfuloflight wrote: post #26

Say you were going to cold email a lawyer to pitch them to use this, what would you write?

Probably something like: " [Person] - hope you're well! I wanted to put Tritium on your radar. It's a word processor jacked on steroids built just for transactional lawyers. From built-in defined term annotation to multi-document search/replace to redlining and much, much more, it will help your team work faster and more effectively on existing Word documents and PDFs. You'll even pick up errors from outside counsel.…

This is a bit too heavy on the feature side. As in, here is what this is, not what it will do for you.

What would you say if you were going to focus on a pain point and a problem that this specifically solved for you, that it can also solve for the other lawyers who are not using this and that is not being met by the other options?

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by piker »

tough wrote: post #33
piker wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing it does is cast the PDF to grayscale to render for speed (lawyers rarely care about the color of a legal doc in PDF), so perhaps I'll make that an adjustable setting which will trade off speed for clarity. Otherwise, it uses PDFium for PDF rendering so it should come out just as well as what you see in a Chromium-based browser.

might be an issue with DPI / Retina screens on macOS? it's really more blurry than any pdf on chrome https://imgur.com/a/AElOuaA

Oh, yes, that is also a cheat code to render them quicker -- it downsamples the render to save time. That will improve in future versions as Tritium uses spare cycles to increase the resolution.

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by piker »

handfuloflight wrote: post #41
piker wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably something like: " [Person] - hope you're well! I wanted to put Tritium on your radar. It's a word processor jacked on steroids built just for transactional lawyers. From built-in defined term annotation to multi-document search/replace to redlining and much, much more, it will help your team work faster and more effectively on existing Word documents and PDFs. You'll even pick up errors from outside counsel.…

This is a bit too heavy on the feature side. As in, here is what this is, not what it will do for you. What would you say if you were going to focus on a pain point and a problem that this specifically solved for you, that it can also solve for the other lawyers who are not using this and that is not being met by the other options?

Take one feature: redlining. Right now every corporate lawyer knows what a pain in the ass it is to do something as simple as a diff. It takes probably a full minute (imagine if it were like that to run git diff for you!). Tritium runs the redline in microseconds, because it's built for lawyers.

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by philsnow »

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #18

It's a catchy name, though ironically tritium is not legal in the US, generally[1] (for "frivolous purposes"). Guess this is serious software! 1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/30.19

I pine for a DSL for legal documents, both because it’s tedious and tiresome to parse prose like this:

> Except for persons who manufacture, process, produce, or initially transfer for sale or distribution self-luminous products containing tritium, krypton-85, or promethium-147, and except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, any person is exempt from the requirements for a license set forth in section 81 of the Act and from the regulations in parts 20 and 30 through 36 and 39 of this chapter to the extent that such person receives, possesses, uses, transfers, owns, or acquires tritium, krypton-85, or promethium-147 in self-luminous products manufactured, processed, produced, or initially transferred in accordance with a specific license issued pursuant to § 32.22 of this chapter, which license authorizes the initial transfer of the product for use under this section.

... and also because it is ambiguous / error-prone / subject to interpretation, especially when figuring out antecedents of pronouns, referents, and textual boundaries.

I tried four times to read the above by paragraph without reformatting it with some parentheses etc, but failed.

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by philsnow »

philsnow wrote: post #45
blacksmith_tb wrote: post #18

It's a catchy name, though ironically tritium is not legal in the US, generally[1] (for "frivolous purposes"). Guess this is serious software! 1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/30.19

I pine for a DSL for legal documents, both because it’s tedious and tiresome to parse prose like this: > Except for persons who manufacture, process, produce, or initially transfer for sale or distribution self-luminous products containing tritium, krypton-85, or promethium-147, and except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, any person is exempt from the requirements for a license set forth in section 81 of…

.... I think it means that you can make self-luminous products without needing a license, as long as you got them from somebody who does have a license.

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by socalgal2 »

Couldn't enter Japanese into the web version. Looks like it trying to read keys directly. Copy and paste don't work. Right clicking doesn't bring up a context menu with system options so no looking up words using the locally installed dictionary. No OS level spell checking that uses the user's dictionary.

I guess all of that is TBD though I suspect based on the tech choices will be way harder than it sounds.

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by piker »

socalgal2 wrote: post #48

Couldn't enter Japanese into the web version. Looks like it trying to read keys directly. Copy and paste don't work. Right clicking doesn't bring up a context menu with system options so no looking up words using the locally installed dictionary. No OS level spell checking that uses the user's dictionary. I guess all of that is TBD though I suspect based on the tech choices will be way harder than it sounds.

Copy and paste don't work on the web version, but they should work (including pasting formatting out into Office products) on desktop. Similarly for fonts. If you're using a font that contains Japanese characters it should render. It doesn't (yet) do a great job on falling back.

Try the download!

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by piker »

LorenDB wrote: post #47

I tried coming back to HN using my mouse's back button, but it seems Tritium is eating mouse back button events.

Apologies if that's the case. It's just a WASM application intended to demo the real desktop application. No nefarious purpose there, but perhaps the limitations of the "preview". Try the desktop version!
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