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by brchr 10y ago
I find it really interesting that modern CPUs are designed for "interrupt coalescing," where they group interruptions into clusters. It’d be great if modern desktop/mobile OSes were designed for that: "Only notify me onc
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by brchr 10y ago
Okay, so we can say that: 1. CO2 is currently the highest it has ever been since human civilization has existed (10k years, roughly). 2. CO2 is currently the highest it has ever been since humans have existed (200k years, roughly). 3. CO2 i
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by brchr 10y ago
"CO2 levels higher": Would you mind sharing your source on this? Here are the last 6,000 years [1] (it cuts off at 4713 BC because that happens to be the earliest timestamp available in Postgres). The source data from the NOAA are
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by brchr 10y ago
Well said, and I share this intuition and desire 100%. I’ve been working on building a platform for data-driven journalism at https://numer.al -- It’s a prototype that turns public APIs into live D3 charts. (Working on embedding
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by brchr 10y ago
I would love to hear any feedback you might have! I completely agree with you about fact-checking. One mini-feature that’s implemented right now is the ability to select a range in a graph and then copy/paste the URL, and when someone
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by brchr 10y ago
If you’re trying to make a point about a change over a specific period, you can select a range and the selection gets appended by JS to the URL, such that if you send someone else the link they’ll see exactly the selection you made. It’s al
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by brchr 10y ago
Agreed that it'd be interesting to try to figure out what explains those cycles and steps. Recessions in general? Would be interesting to see what correlated with those points in time.
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by brchr 10y ago
Here, for instance, is a graph of manufacturing jobs per capita in the US: https://www.numer.al/us_bls_data/figures/manufacturing-emplo... It’s quite clear that manufacturing jobs have just been slowly and steadil
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by brchr 10y ago
Oh I stand corrected that the BLS doesn’t break that out! Here’s a comparison of men (in black) vs. women (in blue). Very interesting. https://www.numer.al/us_bls_data/figures/labor-force-partici...
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by brchr 10y ago
For me prose is a really hard medium for parsing trends like the ones Will is describing here, so I made a scraper that turns the Bureau of Labor Statistics API into live D3 charts that refresh themselves every day and stay current. I’ve fo
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by brchr 10y ago
Thank you! Yes, I’ve been working on it as a way both to visualize and to stay current with some of the things I’ve been seeing in the news that are of interest to me, related to the environment, the energy sector, economy, etc. With the el
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by brchr 10y ago
@mastazi Thanks for the heads up! I was testing in Chrome and Safari and missed that one completely -- apparently they allow for a circle radius ("r") to be defined in a stylesheet, but Firefox doesn’t. It’s cross-compatible now -
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by brchr 10y ago
I wanted to make more sense of some of these CO2 headlines, so I put together a scraper that generates live D3 charts of the most recent CO2 measurements from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and keeps them up to date. Here’s weekly:
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by brchr 10y ago
Even with tools to automate the search through listings and get you ahead of other buyers, one of the tricky parts of apartment hunting is its “optimal stopping” structure: you have to decide when to commit without knowing whether an even b
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by brchr 11y ago
I'm aware of portions of that literature, but haven't studied it explicitly. What do you think are the most interesting things happening in that space at the moment? For me one of the most salient things in that space -- albeit a
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by brchr 11y ago
Author here. Delighted to see this near the top of HN this afternoon, and to see the healthy discussion it's provoked. Happy to answer any questions as best I can if you've got 'em.