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D3 could be the right tool for this. When I first used D3 years ago, it seemed so incredibly overkill. But maybe it's just right for something like this project, with these specific requirements.

When I first used D3 years ago, it seemed so incredibly overkill. But maybe it's just right for something like this project, with these specific requirements.

Will look into this, thanks.

Offhand do you know if that offers:

- 100% stacked area (also known as percentage stacked area)

- inverted axis (so it's vertical, not horizontal)

Since multiple chart libraries are on HN's first page right now, thought I'd ask a question. Working on a project that requires a very specific chart type, which almost no chart frameworks provide. Anyone know of a library that offers:

- VERTICAL 100% stacked area chart

- Images can be used as background for each series

- Dynamic - mouseover displays information when hovering over a slice of the chart

The only thing I can find is this [1] but it seems to lack key features. Currently I've resorted to building a custom chart in SVG with js but it's pretty rough.

[1] https://docs.anychart.com/Basic_Charts/Stacked/Value/Vertica...

I really enjoyed these settings:

- Autopilot on

- Using the motor bike

- Setting roads to "casual"

- Season to summer

- Cycle timer of 3 minutes

- Setting cruise control to max 120

- Hitting "c" until you get complete first person view

- View distance: Ultra

- Detail: Ultra

Very cool experience, sort of put me in a trance a bit.. and I can't quite put my finger on why!

Looks like you can use the arrow keys too.

> "only one out of three new hires in 2021" stay with the company for 90 or more days.

This is truly amazing. I'm guessing the warehouse biz has the most effect on this stat, but still. Wow.

This is crazy. Seems like a really bad sci-fi story if it wasn't true.

When I saw Gattaca back in '97 I thought it was crazy. Now I'm not so sure.

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

Google has had house ads for its own products on the search homepage since at least 2010. I'd like to see a screenshot of the "banner ad" claimed by OP. Text ads on Google's homepage are nothing new. I don't see a banner ad on the homepage at the moment, I see a text ad for "Learn about the latest innovations coming to Google Search"

Anyone have a screenshot of said banner ad?

Great site! I was surprised to see some aerial/drone imagery in the street view collection. For example, this in Ukraine:

https://randomstreetview.com/ua#sis3u_jvl2j_2j_5_-s

"Lawyers for the customers expect maximum payouts of $395 to people who replaced multiple keyboards, $125 to people who replaced one keyboard, and $50 to people who replaced key caps."

Marketing yourself has always been, and will continue to be, valuable. This marketing can take many forms.

The interpretation part hit home: "The results from our study emphasise that the ability of AI deep learning models to predict self-reported race is itself not the issue of importance. However, our finding that AI can accurately predict self-reported race, even from corrupted, cropped, and noised medical images, often when clinical experts cannot, creates an enormous risk for all model deployments in medical imaging."

I opened your site in multiple separate browsers and the starting card arrangement was the same in all of them. Do you start new users off with the same setup of cards to ensure a good playing experience and hook them?

More perspective.

Apple: founded in 1976 (46 years old)

Microsoft: 1975 (47 years old)

Google: 1998 (24 years old)

I did. It was pretty superficial.

Exactly. I don't have a horse in the race, but every time Bitcoin was down, it seemed to somehow emerge stronger later on.

Related: http://twitter.com/internetofshit

Great that this old tech is still being shared, examined, and executed. All our current tech has such a rich history that is most often ignored.

Appreciate it, thank you!

That's an interesting viewpoint, thanks for this. I hadn't thought of it that way but I guess I can understand that angle. To your point, the HTML title of the page is "36 Years of Microsoft Windows Control Panels Design History" which is what shows up as the title/first line in Google searches.

Great suggestion, thanks!

Thank you for the kind words! It was fun putting together. All this old tech was precious and formative for so many of us.

It's on my todo list - thanks for stopping by the website!

Hey, my son and I run this site. Cool to see it here. Thanks for stopping by!

His prediction is that a machine will pass the turing test in 2029.

And yes, there's evidence of incredible machine learning discoveries all around us. You'd have to be willfully blind not to see those. AlphaZero in Go & Chess, the protein folding miracles of Deepmind, all the amazing work being done today. The field is racing ahead. Human minds are good at seeing linear progression. Our brains aren't particularly good at exponential growth, which is what is happening in this field.

He was inventor of:

the first CCD flat-bed scanner

first omni-font optical character recognition

the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind

the first text-to-speech synthesizer

the first music synthesizer capable of recreating a grand piano