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xingyzt

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Xing Liu, cosmology student, dabbles in web dev

https://xingyzt.net, https://github.com/xingyzt

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github.com 1y ago

Show HN: LA Wildfire Satellite Analysis

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pmerka.github.io 1y ago

Snowflake Growth Simulation

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www.theregister.com 1y ago

A cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash

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liorpachter.wordpress.com 2y ago

The two cultures of mathematics and biology (2014)

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Examples of good technical UI designs

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www.physicsforums.com 2y ago

The Pantheon of Derivatives (2017)

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www.theverge.com 2y ago

The Fandomization of News

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

UK MoD accidentally sends classified emails meant for US (.mil) to Mali (.ml)

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plato.stanford.edu 3y ago

Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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x-ing.space 3y ago

Show HN: How Stars Evolve

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Recreating Apple’s “Magical” VR UI on a Quest Pro [video]

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x-ing.space 3y ago

Show HN: A Very Niche Formula Calculator

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Jerk Systems and Chaotic Circuits

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x-ing.space 3y ago

Show HN: Voxel map of my school, made with WebGL and SDF raymarching

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asd.gsfc.nasa.gov 4y ago

Luvoir Space Observatory

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www.mathmatique.com 4y ago

Constructing Integers in Set Theory

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paradise.caltech.edu 5y ago

It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004) [pdf]

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allrgb.com 5y ago

AllRGB

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marctenbosch.com 5y ago

Let’s remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (Introduction to Rotors) (2019)

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Exploring the Alien World of Brine Pools (2019) [video]

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ndjson.org 5y ago

Newline Delimited JSON

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etudes.ru 5y ago

Cubic Parquet

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observablehq.com 5y ago

Multiscale Turing Patterns in WebGL

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areobrowser.com 5y ago

AreoBrowser

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www.maa.org 5y ago

Generalized Baseball Curves: Three Symmetries and You're In

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Things Developers Believe About Video Files, Proven Wrong by User Uploads [vid]

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jbr.me.uk 5y ago

Futurese: The American Language in 3000 AD (2016)

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devinacker.github.io 5y ago

Celldemo

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chrisharrison.net 5y ago

Rethinking the Progress Bar [pdf]

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ebsynth.com 5y ago

EbSynth

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Maybe because FIRMS uses data from satellites in polar orbits, which only pass over the area once every few hours? With choosing near-Earth polar vs. farther geostationary orbits there's a tradeoff between space and time resolution.

It's accurate. Stellar winds are the primary driver of mass loss for stars near the end of their lives. Asymptotic red giants have extremely voluminous and sparse atmospheres very loosely bound by gravity; any excess radiation pressure would create an instability and blow away portions of the outer envelope. Eventually this exposes a dense, glowing carbon/oxygen/neon core surrounded by a fraction of the original atmosphere (exact composition varies), which we call a white dwarf.

Further reading: Ch. 13, Carroll & Ostlie, Introduction to Modern Astrophysics

According to the description of this NASA image [1], they flew a 7-million-cubic-feet super-pressure balloon in 2009. Approximating as a perfect sphere, that's around 120 feet in radius / 80 yards in diameter. And "When development ends, NASA will have a 22 million-cubic-foot balloon", which is around 170 feet in radius / 110 yards in diameter. These things also look squashed when inflated [2], so they're probably even wider horizontally. Basically, you can fit an entire football field inside along with some stands.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-NSF_super_press...

2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Super_v_zero_pressur...

Yeah, when I first shared it in a developer discord server I joked that Microsoft was operating a black market Bing-conversion program. Seems too shady even for Microsoft though. I guess they want me to inject ads/trackers into the results, but I don't see how it's easier with these search engines?

Reposting my experience from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27326268:

As a dev of an extension with 10k users I get 3-4 emails a month in my spam which ask me to monetize my extension by secretly changing its users' search engines. My extension is open-source and quite small, but if the change was sneaked in I think most of the users would not notice. I stick to using userscripts for the most part since you can easily check their downloaded source and disable updates.

Example:

Beth Anderson <beth@monetize-extensions.com> Mon 10:58 AM To: Mostly Spam <dev@x-ing.space>

Hello

I am Beth and I am offering monetization for browser extensions, with everything that is going on our team was extremely focused and productive in creating a way to earn revenue on extensions.

We offer to change default search to Bing or Yahoo on your extension which can earn up to $800 a month per 5000 users. This is a premium product by invitation only and can easily be added to your chrome extensions.

You are might curious to know if it is allowed? And I must say that this is completely allowed! Please reply to this email to discuss this further!

Looking forward hearing from you!

Beth Anderson

Business Development Manager

Can confirm. As a dev of an extension with 10k users I get 3-4 emails a month in my spam which ask me to monetize my extension by secretly changing its users' search engines. My extension is open-source and quite small, but if the change was sneaked in I think most of the users would not notice. I stick to using userscripts for the most part since you can easily check their downloaded source and disable updates.

Example:

Beth Anderson <beth@monetize-extensions.com> Mon 10:58 AM To: Mostly Spam <dev@x-ing.space>

Hello

I am Beth and I am offering monetization for browser extensions, with everything that is going on our team was extremely focused and productive in creating a way to earn revenue on extensions.

We offer to change default search to Bing or Yahoo on your extension which can earn up to $800 a month per 5000 users. This is a premium product by invitation only and can easily be added to your chrome extensions.

You are might curious to know if it is allowed? And I must say that this is completely allowed! Please reply to this email to discuss this further!

Looking forward hearing from you!

Beth Anderson

Business Development Manager

Nowhere in that citation is there concrete support for your claim that these words led to the video being taken down.

4:15 But if that's the case, then I'm pretty sure all of my 1800 videos will be taken down, as it's pretty much black against white to the death every video, and I don't think it's supposed to work like that.

They're probably a lot easier for screen-readers, too.

That might be true for more minimal TUIs, but I don't think most screen-readers can handle the multi-paneled ones like OP.

WebAssembly Studio 6 years ago

The clickable divs should be focusable and have the aria button role. <div tabindex="0" role="button">...</div>

Olbers' Paradox 6 years ago

You can click to unhighlight. I find it useful for linking to a section of a page without an anchor nearby.