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egonschiele··on Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
It’s wild how few keyboard shortcuts you can use on an iPad. That alone has been enough to make me use mine less.
egonschiele··on On keeping sketchbooks
I do this too! Here are some of mine: https://i.imgur.com/eVql2EO.png

I've been keeping sketchbooks since the early 90s. It's a real treat to be able to see my work from that long ago.

egonschiele··on Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation
I wish Jazz had been more popular. I loved Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2, and I believe there were plans to make a third, but they decided it wouldn’t sell enough copies. If anyone here can recommend platformers similar to Jazz that run on a Mac, I’d love to play them. I never got into shooters or 3D games, but always enjoyed platformers like Mario and Contra, and Jazz felt perfect for me.
egonschiele··on When to invest in marketing
I used to sell homemade watercolor kits. I tried advertising in a bunch of places: Instagram, Reddit, Pinterest. I was targeting my audience pretty well but it just did not work.

I happened to mention this to someone in marketing at my company, and he said buying ads for a single product like that rarely works. Advertising is useful if I can direct potential buyers to a shop where I have a variety of art goods. Then the next time they need something art-related, they might visit my shop. But selling just watercolor kits I was better off making YouTube videos, making posts on Reddit, etc. My CPA was something like $35, and I was selling the kits for $29.99. I ended up selling them to friends and family, and giving a few as birthday gifts.

egonschiele··on Code Is Not Literature (2014)
I'll present a different take. There are some basic things you can do to make your code more readable:

- avoid double negations

- use grep-pable names and avoid string interpolation

- keep code duplication if that version is more readable and maintainable.

I'd love to see a longer list. In my experience, engineers too often code as if keeping the code as short as possible is what matters, instead of optimizing for code that is easy to read.

egonschiele··on Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
Module-based would be ideal. For context, I'm building a writing app. I have basic functionality + OpenAI integration, but these things have been a huge pain:

- collaborative editing

- offline editing

- faster loads with sw caching

- git history

- end-to-end encryption.

It's taken me forever to build these, and the code's still not where I want it to be. If you had modules for these that I could pay for, I totally would.

egonschiele··on Show HN: imessage-exporter, a CLI app and library
This doesn't return all messages unfortunately, and the way the algorithm works, it will return a few results at a time, forcing you to re-pull for more results. I wanted all the messages I had received from my dad, and it was impossible to do this way.
egonschiele··on Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
Have you tried using Lexical? I found it to be very buggy and ended up replacing it with Quill.
egonschiele··on Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
I wish the cheapest non-free tier was cheaper, but I totally agree that building an editor with all the features listed is very time consuming. I love that you are working to tackle this issue!

If I had one request, it would be instead of making me jump from $0 to $150 a month, have a usage-based model similar to OpenAI or Firebase, with functionality so I could cap costs to say $15 a month.

egonschiele··on Launch HN: Roundtable (YC S23) – Using AI to Simulate Surveys
Some people worry that biased AI models will deepen inequality. Your product seems particularly primed for this scenario. I might even say that a product like yours would exacerbate this problem. What is your plan to ameliorate AI bias?

On a more personal note, while all of the AI advances have been very interesting, I worry that AI will reduce human connection, and a product like this sure seems to do that. You are telling users that they don't need to talk to real people, and can just get feedback from a model instead.

Edit: for example, here's your dataset by race: https://imgur.com/a/134epoN

I asked, "Which race is most likely to commit a crime?": https://imgur.com/a/4QJZo2O

egonschiele··on PdfGptIndexer: Indexing and searching PDF text data using GPT-2 and FAISS
Depending on the size of your data, chiseleditor.com is a free option.
egonschiele··on Fast
Fun fact on the Eiffel Tower: during the Chicago World's Fair, they wanted to build something that would rival the Eiffel Tower. After a LOT of proposals, and work, and time, they came up with... the Ferris wheel.
egonschiele··on Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
Thanks for the response! Very impressive results from Midjourney.
egonschiele··on Is it possible to write games like Pac-Man in a functional language? (2008)
Hey, it's my time to shine! I rewrote Chips Challenge in Haskell years ago: https://github.com/egonSchiele/chips

It's not better than using C, but worked just fine when I wrote it in 2014. I'd say, unless you're planning to sell it, write the game in whatever language you enjoy.

egonschiele··on Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
Wow, that logo is gorgeous. Who is the artist?
egonschiele··on BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
On the flip side, with individual contenteditables, you can be more confident you're not accidentally editing a block you didn't mean to.
egonschiele··on BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
Wow, I love this. I'm currently building an open source editor that has a lot of overlap with BlockSuite[1]. In Chisel, blocks are also the fundamental building block (pun intended). There are flavored blocks, and it also has a local-first approach, using service workers to make things fast. Chisel has a different focus since it's meant for writing fiction, but plenty of things seem the same.

My code is pretty slapdash, as I have been playing with what I actually want from this editor. BlockSuite's implementation looks much more polished. I've been meaning to refactor, and this might be the time to start!

[1] https://chiseleditor.com

egonschiele··on Show HN: An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor
That's logical, but there are plenty of Markdown WYSIWYG editors out there, so this is not unusual. Quilljs is a famous example.
egonschiele··on Text Editor Data Structures
I've been wondering if there's a good algorithm to handle highlights in a piece of text. If I highlight some text, lets say the part between the => <= here:

"Idioteque" is a song => by the English rock band Radiohead <=, released on their fourth album, Kid A (2000).

If I want to then edit this text, is there an efficient algorithm for figuring out the start and end index of the highlight for the edited text?

egonschiele··on Function calling and other API updates
Is it accessible anywhere?
egonschiele··on Function calling and other API updates
Oh, I 100% agree. I just haven't seen another model come close. I'd love to hear someone tell me why.
egonschiele··on Function calling and other API updates
I'm not sure about function calls but the lower price for embeddings and longer context lengths should help with fine tuning?
egonschiele··on Function calling and other API updates
Anyone know how they pick who to invite off the waitlist for GPT 4? I've been on there for a while. My project is open source and I wonder if that is getting me deprioritized.
egonschiele··on Function calling and other API updates
- The API is extremely cheap

- There are plenty of open source tools built on top if it (example list: https://github.com/heartly/awesome-writing-tools)

While I wish this work was open, they are both the best and cheapest option out there... by a mile.

egonschiele··on Function calling and other API updates
OpenAI continues to impress. Function calls will make working with JSON much easier, a current pain point. Dropping the price of embeddings and increasing context length means searching through your own content should become faster and more accurate.

> $0.0015 per 1K input tokens and $0.002 per 1K output tokens, which equates to roughly 700 pages per dollar.

This is such an incredible steal, especially when you consider that no open source option comes close to GPT3.5.

egonschiele··on Apple releasing segmentation/pose for humans and animals, embedding for 27 lang
Does this mean Apple is making it easier to run models on Macs? I have a fairly powerful Mac studio, but I've found it very hard to run any model on it.
egonschiele··on Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
No, I would love to try it out but unfortunately I don't have early access yet.
egonschiele··on Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
I believe there are benchmarks, but I can informally second that opinion. I'm building a writing app (chiseleditor.com) and there is nothing as good as the ChatGPT models right now.
egonschiele··on Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?
Just a JSON blob in firebase. I am looking into making an electron app, so the data stays local:

https://github.com/egonSchiele/chisel/tree/adit/electron

egonschiele··on The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Familiar (Rich) Winners
Getting a leg up in life because your parents left you a big inheritance, is unfair to those who don't. There are many different types of fairness, not just one.
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