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kewp··on Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library
Tried to put it into my svelte project. Build failed. Went onto github to report it. A reproduction url is required ... so not submitting a bug ... and looking for something else to use ...
kewp··on A new semantic chunking approach for RAG
Oh right, I remember now. Thank you for explaining it
kewp··on A new semantic chunking approach for RAG
Thank you for the explanation, I remember hearing about this now
kewp··on A new semantic chunking approach for RAG
What is RAG?
kewp··on Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
I wish he had tried instead to do the faster subset of typescript, that is a pet peeve of mine and I've love to see how it would be done!
kewp··on HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI
This is great, have been looking for something like this.
kewp··on Puzzle Languages (2009)
This is how I felt when trying to learn Elm: the program had to be correct, exactly correct, or it wouldn't work. You had to make every piece, every function, fit precisely, to define it's shape, it's exact inputs and outputs and effects ... in the end I found it very restrictive. I like the idea of loose-ness by default and adding contraints gradually (like javascript -> typescript).
kewp··on Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples
Someone on YouTube mentioned that LK99 is ceramic ie not metal which nullifies many of its potential uses even if it does turn out to be superconducting
kewp··on What it's like to go blind (2015)
I loved reading this, it made me emotional. I've always been afraid of losing my sight and this made me feel less scared.
kewp··on The Waluigi Effect
are these LLMs just answering the question "if you found this text on the internet (the prompt) what would most likely follow" ?
kewp··on Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions
anyone know how to use this? kind of confusing install instructions in the readme
kewp··on How does GPT obtain its ability? Tracing emergent abilities of language models
Isn't it possible that intelligence is P(words|every sequence of words you've ever heard)?
kewp··on The internet changed my life
I agree completely. The internet was such a blessing. Thanks for posting this
kewp··on Supabase open sourced their dashboard
Just installed via the developer quickstart https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/studio#deve... but getting a connection refused error.

I'm assuming it's because of the db. Any advice / guide on setting that up?

kewp··on Interactive IPA Chart
Sounds like someone dry heaving. Is that we actually sound like when we talk?
kewp··on Why AI is harder than we think
I'm getting 403 Forbidden errors?
kewp··on Joyce Project
I like the idea but I wish it didn't do a full reload each time you click on the links - all this space on the right where it could display things
kewp··on What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur
Where did he get $10m without VC money?
kewp··on Show HN: MobX-Style Observables in Svelte
Hey. See my answer to the same question below.
kewp··on Show HN: MobX-Style Observables in Svelte
Reactivity, yes - works the same as MobX's autorun. But not derived values. You can ensure something gets updated by wrapping it in $:

``` $: value = $x + 2 ```

but you can do that somewhere else as well

``` $: { let y = 20 $value += y } ```

Makes it insanely hard to track where changes come from. You can't say "this value is _only_ updated by these changes".

You can do this with derived stores, though. But each store must be it's own, separate value - with MobX's observable you have a central object representing your entire state, each of which is made automatically reactive, and putting in a derived store is just prepending with -get-. It's much cleaner.

kewp··on I Really Blew It (2020)
I connected a lot with this right until the Why Failure section. I thought he was going to admit that he had a blind spot, that thinking he was the one who needed to 'imbue (others) with (his) style of thinking' was solipsistic.

It reminds me a lot of myself. I'm always sitting with a feeling like I've got some special perspective, that I'm the only one trying to 'figure it all out' and I'm always on the verge to, and when I do it will be incredible. And as I get older at the heart of it I feel something much sadder - a fear and a loneliness. An inability to engage and stand my ground with the people around me. Though that could be just me.

kewp··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2018)
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: c, multiprocessing, numerical analysis, linux, windows

Resume: https://www.toptal.com/resume/karl-penzhorn

Email: karlpenzhorn@gmail.com

kewp··on Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
It's the Internet - remember that remarkable decentralized network for informational retrieval developed by ARPA in the 70s ? It's going to change the world !

It's always on. Anyone from anywhere can interact with what you create instantly. What else is like that ?

kewp··on How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself
What about time and money ? Most people need jobs to pay the rent. But some have cash from a wealthy family. It makes such a big difference but nobody talks about it, which makes those who are trying to do it with no money and on evenings and weekends feel like they're just not trying hard enough.