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This is awesome!

Anyone discover any cool graphs to share?

For example, the simplest one producing something interesting I've found so far is:

  t%x

Which creates a growing jagged triangular graph when you press "play" for the "t" constant.

Naturally, this can be built upon to make weirder and weirder graphs, ex:

  sin(t%x)

Gotta love the "Customers also viewed these products" section on that page, for example:

"Salt Block Grilling: 70 Recipes for Outdoor Cooking with Himalayan Salt Blocks"

Looks cool, thanks for sharing.

Just a quick feedback note, under the "free tutorials" section, I scrolled passed the images thinking they were just gifs. Then got to the bottom of the page thinking, "Hmm, It really would have been helpful if he included an example video..." Then scrolled back to the top and through all the content again to see if I missed something. I tried hovering over the "gif" and then realized it was a link to YouTube.

Long story short, I think it would help the reader to have a "play button" or small icon overlayed on the image to indicate that it's a playable video, or (better?) embed the YouTube video directly in that space so the user doesn't have to leave the page.

Hope this helps, but open to feedback if I'm just an outlier. You can try the change in an A/B test, and see if the conversion rate goes up for people who visit the site AND watch an example video.

For a detailed comparison of various voting systems, check out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system...

There's https://millionshort.com/

> The search engine, which brands itself as “more of a discovery engine,” allows users to filter the top million websites on the internet out of their search, resulting in a unique set of results and placing an emphasis on content discovery. This approach to search is also designed to combat the impact that aggressive black and grey hat SEO practices have on mainstream search results.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Short

Extraordinary find! (While also heartbreaking to read that so many literary works have been lost.)

For another list of lost books, check out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_literary_work

This may be a dumb question, but is there really a "yup that conspiracy actually happened" book? Not literally a book with that title, but is there some resource that has a list of these?

Anyone catch the price? Or is this one of those "contact sales" products...

I wonder if players will be able to use this to prepare for opponents. For example, knowing where to hit and "seeing how they typically react" and then predicting where they'll most likely to return the ball.

If so, this could be expanded to other sports, maybe even team sports, where you can test set plays against the simulated defense.

Is it just me, or is it a little disingenuous to write the claim "...improve the accuracy of real time ETAs by up to 50% in places like Berlin, Jakarta, São Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, and Washington D.C."

When the actual numbers listed for those cities are:

  Berlin - 21%
  Jakarta - 22%
  São Paulo - 23%
  Sydney - 43%
  Tokyo - not listed
  Washington D.C. - 29%

Edit: (overwritten since can't delete a comment if someone replies?)

1000 years from now, I can only imagine the hidden Y3K bugs...

Very cool resource.

Have you thought about adding the scale of the author's following and/or social media presence?

For example, this story's author has 21,000 followers on Twitter, and a successful blog.

Another example is 200k in sales https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23502770 where the self-publishing author admitted that practically all sales were due to 35,000 Twitter followers.

Have you come across an example of a successful book launch where an (unknown) author didn't already have a large following?

Another excellent analysis of what Trends on YouTube [0]

"Is the trending tab rigged against creators? Is late night dominating the charts? Why does it feel your favorite controversial creator never trends. All of that and more, in the first ever data-driven look at the trending tab."

What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDqBeXJ8Zx8

I'm sure it doesn't hurt to have 35,000 followers :)

I've noticed a trend that these success stories usually flow out of an already existing user base.

Does anyone have any success stories from someone with no social media presence?

Can anyone recommend an easier alternative?

Can this freaky A.I. also generate the corresponding unit tests?

Or, for TDD, generate the unit tests first based on the function name and description. Then, if the dev updates any of those tests, or adds more tests, use that information in auto generating the appropriate code.

Any ideas as to a better system that can be designed and implemented under which these brilliant, but quiet, people have a higher probability of getting funding, becoming recognized and having an overall greater impact?

Looks great. Would be awesome if it had a hook to easily generate Anki flashcards from text selection.

Does anyone have an actual cost breakdown of every expense that goes into running a university? It would be great to see this for any major private college, and/or a public university.

In most of these comment sections I see speculation about why universities are so expensive. But have never seen the hard data to back it up. Is it really the luxury dorms? The bloated administration? etc... Anyone have the real numbers? And how has the budget breakdown changed over time?

Nice!

I like how at first it just shows the headlines/articles. Then, if you want, you can toggle the "show bias" switch.

Have you thought about an option to gamifying it a little bit by letting the user guess which direction the headline leans? And then revealing the direction and the news source.

For example, when the "enable bias guessing" switch is toggled, there's a slider that appears on the bottom of the headline. Or, simpler, just two buttons that say left, right. You can guess all of the headlines on the whole page, then reveal and see how you did.

Not sure if it's a matter of the overall submission count that's giving this impression, but in the last year, users submitted:

6,612 articles from nytimes.com [0]

91 articles from foxnews.com [1]

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

You can check out some existing builds here [0]. And you can also save/post a public link here to your custom build, once you have a tentative one.

https://pcpartpicker.com/

Unfortunately there's only a 50/50 chance he'll follow up.

(Serious question) I'm curious to hear more about "ruthlessly optimizing" your emotional environment and relationships. That is not something heard everyday...

Or if you'd prefer not to personally summarize, are there any books, articles, videos, etc, you can recommend that expand on this overall life philosophy?

I can corroborate this. YouTube especially.

Does anyone have any hard numbers to validate this? Or are we just random outliers?

LOL ohhh the irony... Why is this flagged?

It's an honest question, 34 points in under an hour, 28 on-topic comments of people interested in and discussing the topic.

Would it help to replace the overhead lights with UV lights?

Not necessarily for use when someone's in the seat, but also to blast in-between flights before the next batch comes on.

Did the earliest victims of Covid19 also show similar levels of clots? Or are we only seeing elevated levels recently? Could help to plot this over time as the lockdown extends. If there's a correlation, would help to stress the importance of staying active in quarantine, ex: lifting, stationary bike, jump rope.

And maybe also dietary changes due to lockdown: Higher sodium, more preservatives, less fruit and vegetables. Less trips to grocery store means buying more food that has a longer shelf-life than people would normally be eating.