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I thought this was about UC Berkeley's TinyOS: https://github.com/tinyos/tinyos-main

This was a big deal in some academic circles in the early 2000s

Maybe make them look like rocks or brick walls?

If "i" wasn't called "imaginary" I don't know if anyone would find it weird when it appeared in physics.

In many ways i is as weird as negative numbers, irrational numbers, and transcendental numbers. But we're somehow ok with all of those.

(By the way, I don't mean to imply Scott Aaronson finds complex numbers weird. He's just wondering why not other systems, and even mentions quaternions as an alternative — which could be called weird in their own right... So in a sense I'm attacking a straw man.)

Great video, except for a few wrong details that really get to me...

- The pixels in an LCD aren't little light bulbs. They are little lamp shades. (The pixels in an OLED display are little light bulbs though)

- A CRT doesn't shoot light. It shoots electrons.

- The video makes it seem like pixels in an LCD update all at once. Not true! They're scanned.

- The video makes it seems that there's no temporal bleeding on CRTs. This sounds unlikely to me...

- The main difference in image quality between coaxial and composite inputs is not that coaxial needs to stuff audio and video together. It's that in coaxial the signal is shifted to a carrier frequency as if it came from an antenna (usually channel 3 or 4) so the decoder needs to bring it down to the frequency it uses internally (called the intermediate frequency) before sending it to the screen. This degrades the signal.

Argh I was making some changes and messed things up. Sorry about that.

This is a library for use in Streamlit (which is a Python framework for data apps), and Streamlit already supports Vega-Lite behind the scene. So I'm just riding on their Vega-Lite.

Here's more info about Streamlit: https://streamlit.io

(BTW I'm a cofounder there :) )

Check out the example app, linked in the README. I meant for that to be a replacement for the README, since it actually lets you interact with the plots.

But I'll add a picture to GitHub anyway

Oh hey, fancy seeing this here! I'm the author

I'll try to answer questions below.

I just have alternate layouts depending on what I'm doing.

English, programming, and some bits of Portuguese = US keyboard + compose key

Portuguese = US-intl (but in mine, all the keys you mentioned are dead keys. No Alt need)

Hey, Streamlit co-founder here.

This should just work out of the box in Streamlit:

caption = st.text_input("Meme subject or caption")

if caption: # do search here

If that doesn't work for you, do you mind posting in our forums? I'd love to get to the bottom of this!

Forums → https://discuss.streamlit.io

(Cool app, btw!)

Chrome on Linux here. Google Meet blurs my background just fine.

Or perhaps the opposite could happen: as more and more people start carrying devices that have access to the internet via cellular connection, airports could start providing Wi-Fi for free, as they could use that for tracking, marketing, and other "fun" uses

Actually, Observable is not JavaScript:

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observables-not-javas...

I think it's an amazing piece of technology, hosting some of the best interactive stories on the internet — but I too find it hard to use.

ttymidi http://www.varal.org/ttymidi/ Written around 2004 to allow me to make custom MIDI devices with Arduinos.

NiftyPlayer http://www.varal.org/niftyplayer/ Made in 2000ish to play mp3s on a friend's website.

Cardapio https://launchpad.net/cardapio Made around 2010 to replace the app menu in Gnome to support search, ability to navigate folders, and plugins.

TomatoInTheSky http://tomatointhesky.com/ Pomodoro timer with the ability to pause (which goes against the technique). Made in 2010 for my wife to study for dentistry classes while working in hospice care.

FiveHeadlines http://fiveheadlines.com Reddit reader that pulls 5 headlines from my favorite news subreddits, so I don't browse Reddit for too long. Made around 2014.

And now my joint project with some friends is where I work every day! Started in 2018 https://streamlit.io

There's actually a funny story here, and one day we'll tell it in more detail.

TDLR: it's a coincidence / slightly obvious given our names. We discovered the similarity on the day we launched our logo, and it almost made us change our logo and/or company name XD

We have since met the getstream.io folks and had a good laugh about it together.

What always bugged me about QR codes is that they're not human-readable.

I'd love if there were a standard where you'd simply have a human-readable URL plus some markers at the start and end to help with OCR. And you could standardize the font too.

For example: |: google.com [|

(edit: hackernews removes unicode...)

Genius. Will buy.

Hey, Streamlit co-founder here! (I'm otherwise not related to this article, btw. Just saw it on HN. Super cool!)

If I understand correctly you're trying to extend Streamlit in some way? If so, we have some features coming out in a few months you will probably like. More news on what exactly in a few weeks. Stay tuned :)

If you have any other questions, check out our forums at https://discuss.streamlit.io

Cheers

Hi bobosha

It depends on how you would define "production scale".

If you're talking about hosting a publicly accessible Streamlit app on the internet, it's definitely possible but will require you to set up an appropriate infrastructure around it: sticky load balancer, replication, orchestration, etc.

If you're talking about hosting something for internal use by your company, very often just a simple machine serving your Streamlit app is more than enough.

That said, we're currently working on Streamlit For Teams, which is a paid offering that will make it trivial to deploy Streamlit apps for these use cases. If you're interested, you can sign up here: https://streamlit.io/forteams/

(Co-founder of Streamlit here)

Not at the moment. There are a few reasons for this, but perhaps the most fundamental one is that Streamlit starts a blocking server -- so even if you could run it inside Jupyter it would pause your Jupyter session until you killed Streamlit.

(Co-founder of Streamlit here)

Hi J0e1, I'm one of the founders of Streamlit.

Regarding extensibility, we totally agree: over time, many people are going to want to write their own custom widgets. Which is why we're actually in the early phases of designing a plugin system for Streamlit.

So stay tuned!

Hey, another co-founder of Streamlit here. Let us know how this works out for your team!

And for the nerdier people on your team, they may appreciate our post in Towards Data Science today: https://towardsdatascience.com/coding-ml-tools-like-you-code...

Oh interesting. I did not know it used GCC. It feels super snappy, nonetheless.

Last time I tried it was a couple of months ago. I don't recall what it was missing, but it was some core part of my normal python development environment.

Clear Linux is blazing fast (compiled with Intel compilers), and supposedly has a strong security model -- but it also has an extremely limited package selection. To the point that it's just not usable for me.

Also, its package manager forces you to install "bundles" of somewhat related packages rather than just the specific packages you want and their deps. Maybe I'm missing something, but I find this very odd.

I'm not convinced of the "always rewrite" thing, but what you're talking about would be solved by writing tests when you fix a bug.

Who would say "Prince, like King" when you can say "Prince, like 'the artist formerly known as'"?

Reminds me of Millor Fernandes's "The cow went to the swamp — A vaca foi pro brejo", which is a book of Brazilian Portuguese sayings translated literally to English. Pretty amusing.

https://www.amazon.com/cow-went-swamp-English-Portuguese/dp/...

And #7 is missing a minus sign in the exponent. Otherwise the whole thing diverges.

Wow, that's a great idea. Sounds like loads of fun.

Same here. I'm a big fan of Gnome Shell nowadays. Simple, fast, beautiful. No more hours of tweaking my default install of $FAVORITE_DISTRO until it's usable. Love it.