ludwigschubert

I’ve seen other people use "interactives", "interactables", and "explorables" (as in "explorable explanation"). Those feel a little forced to me.

At Distill we simply called them "figures" or "diagrams"; sometimes "interactive figures" or "interactive diagrams" when the distinction needed to be made.

Is the misalignment _necessary_? I always thought the hole got its rotation from the infalling matter.

I’m only an enthusiast, but my understanding is that it’s the black hole’s rotation that causes poles in 3D. The visible accretion disc, I believe lies in the plane in which the black hole rotates.

It’s great that you’re finding a way to pay people quicker that’s less bad than payday loans!

What stops employers from paying wages more often right now? When I worked in the US, some places would pay you every two weeks. With instant bank transfers, couldn’t that frequency go down to weekly or daily, without the need for a middleman?

Not OP; I read it like this: employers get to decide which portion of an employees wages are available for Payflow’s early withdrawal scheme. After that percentage of the wages has been withdrawn through Payflow, the remainder will be paid out normally, i.e. at the end of the month.

Thank you Chris, Nick, Sam and Janelle for putting things so eloquently. Distill is probably my favorite project I've had the fortune to contribute to, and that's largely due to you and everyone else involved. I'll continue to do my best to keep our "beautiful artifact" online indefinitely. <3

Out of curiosity I just ran some counts using `jq` on our metadata[0]: We seem to have published 48 articles overall[1], of which 22 list at least one of our editors as an author. 10 of those list an editor as the first author. That leaves 26 articles entirely from outside the editorial team. Those are indeed predominantly from the more recent years; I'll try to perform an aggregation to quantify that.

[0] I'm sure there are more elegant ways to form these queries: https://gist.github.com/ludwigschubert/cd2bc4686e3fc6c8202c8...

[1] excluding editorial updates; if that still seems high: this includes every individual article in a "thread"; check out the [Differentiable Self-organizing Systems](https://distill.pub/2020/selforg/) thread, the [Circuits](https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/) thread, or the [Discussion of Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features](https://distill.pub/2019/advex-bugs-discussion/).

Me too! In a much simpler setting a former colleague of mine, Jacob Hilton, tried such an exploration for the vision part of a OpenAI CoinRun model. It’s the first part of this paper: https://distill.pub/2020/understanding-rl-vision/

Mozilla making your point for you: Firefox Developer Edition (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/)

Ah, I think I may see the missed connection! It's like a jigsaw puzzle because archaeologists really do assemble fragments of old scripts. Sometimes the translation efforts can only give you probabilistic answers that in turn influence where you're likely to place a fragment.

A family member of mine works in the space academically, and they really have giant catalogues with pictures of fragments, and they experiment with different arrangements and what they would mean to their translation efforts. Unfortunately I don't have a link. :/

EDIT: a random CS paper that talks about automated solutions to the pure assembly part of this (without the text translation): https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10553

Well done, I particularly enjoy the rug-plot layout and the “marginalized” densities actually being in the margin of the diagram. \o/

Aligning axes across plots/small multiples is such an underused technique imho!

(Have you considered writing the authors of the Distill article/making a PR to their article? Just wondering; your diagram is already nicely presented on your blog.)

Duuuude the mixer effects (reverb, filter, distortion, etc) are super responsive and wonderfully inspiring to play with — I haven’t even changed the pattern and had minutes of fun just playing with multiple effects at once, using two fingers to rhythmically move two sliders at the same time… this is just hilariously well done considering it’s all in-browser.

I hope you can keep working in the music space; this level of polish is sorely needed. Fantastic job, drumnickydrum; and thank you for sharing!

We can even engage in idle speculation; maybe the author uses “boat” to make the situation feel easier to grasp. A boat being stuck sounds like it has less consequences than a ship being stuck.

We can make it that place! And I think you’re correct; anything that’s shipping containers is a ship in my book.

Thanks for illustrating that aspect of space time!

Maybe driving similarly engaged your sense of navigating the external world?

(I have no personal experience of the effect you describe.)

Take a look, first-name-fellow! :D https://gotpapers.scene.org/?p=849

It's funny how there are regional differences in how to avoid the postage fees. I remember friends switching sender and recipient on the letter and then not using any stamps instead. (Not that I ever tried that myself.) I had never heard of the glue trick. :D

EDIT: I shouldn't have run to Wikipedia; much better explanation at scene.org (go figure): https://gotpapers.scene.org/?p=849

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PLK = "PostLagerKarte", literally "mail storage card". It was (abolished 1991) a way to receive letters anonymously; like a P.O. box without your name attached to it. The [Wikipedia page](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postlagerkarte) even explicitly mentions its "illegal usage in the computing scene", so GP was likely referring to his friend using their P.O. box for (illegally) cracked software.

Here's a shot at translating that Wikipedia paragraph:

> Until their abolition, PLK cards were especially popular in the cracker scene because, compared to a regular P.O. box, no personal data had to be shared with the respective post office. PLKs were primarily used for anonymous sending and receiving of pirated software on floppy disks. [citation needed imho] The PLK addresses themselves were often listed digitally in the cracktros.

Come on, that’s neither helpful nor kind. The controls were larger in previous OSes, and now look like they violate Apple’s own 44pt minimum size target.

Yeah, funds, or anyone who makes investments essentially. Unlike banks, which focus on the sale and generating revenue from fees etc. rather than investment insight. Investopedia isn't always the best source, but for definitions they come in handy: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/buyside.asp

(I had a brief internship in finance on the buy-side and had to look up a ton of terms like that, to the degree that I was given this tongue-in-cheek "guide": https://www.amazon.com/Damn-Feels-Good-Be-Banker/dp/14013096.... It's immature af, but managed to teach me the cliches and terminology.)

I think it’s a fair ask - imagine using fish on a monochrome screen, for example. I could imagine using underlines or inverse text frontage autocomplete in such a theme/mode. Let’s see if someone here already knows such a theme, or gets inspired to make one. ;-)

Is anyone aware of efforts to build a a “strict mode”-type of setting, or a SQLite competitor? I’d love to use a single file as db with stricter type enforcement.

Yeah. Execute program has a short and sweet explanation with in-browser demonstration: https://www.executeprogram.com/courses/sql/lessons/no-type-e...

Yeah! This particular article is part of a Thread and so didn’t go through peer review. Here’s an example of peer review on GitHub from an older article: https://github.com/distillpub/post--activation-atlas/issues?...

In general on the Distill front page there are “peer-review” badges that link to the GitHub issues containing the reviews.

Cool to see this upvoted here, though I will say this is fairly deep down the weeds — if you’re new to the topic of analyzing trained neural networks neuron by neuron, I’d suggest starting with our introductory article: https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/zoom-in/

It turns out the author links a Google Form for reporting problems in the app:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeox139lwja1Yl94dIZ...

Not sure what you mean, are you missing a specific ad blocker? There are some ad blockers for Safari, both on macOS and on iOS. 1Blocker, AdGuard, Wipr, are examples I know to work well. (Many are paid, though, or have paid “premium” tiers.) Edit: others in this thread also mention Ghostery, KaBlock.

I understand your frustration about generic names, but the URL situation ain’t so dire:

This HN submission links to Gruber’s website, his post title links to the app’s GitHub page (https://oblador.github.io/hush/) which has a direct App Store link. (https://apps.apple.com/app/id1544743900)

That’s a delightful result you all; and beautifully explored, too!