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Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable
Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable
Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia
Hey HN,<p>After months of hard work, I am excited to share the first ever semantic map of Australian law.<p>My map represents the first attempt to map Australian laws, cases and regulations across the Commonwealth, States and Territories semantically, that is, by their underlying meaning.<p>Each point on the map is a unique document in the Open Australian Legal Corpus, the largest open database of Australian law (which, full disclosure, I created). The closer any two points are on the map, the more similar they are in underlying meaning.<p>As I cover in my article, there’s a lot you can learn by mapping Australian law. Some of the most interesting insights to come out of this initiative are that:<p>⦁ Migration, family and substantive criminal law are the most isolated branches of case law on the map;<p>⦁ Migration, family and substantive criminal law are the most distant branches of case law from legislation on the map;<p>⦁ Development law is the closest branch of case law to legislation on the map;<p>⦁ Case law is more of a continuum than a rigidly defined structure and the borders between branches of case law can often be quite porous; and<p>⦁ The map does not reveal any noticeable distinctions between Australian state and federal law, whether it be in style, principles of interpretation or general jurisprudence.<p>If you’re interested in learning more about what the map has to teach us about Australian law or if you’d like to find out how you can create semantic maps of your own, check out the full article on my blog, which provides a detailed analysis of my map and also covers the finer details of how I built it, with code examples offered along the way.
Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)
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Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft
Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft
Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
For the last 5 years I've been working on a layout engine that targets CSS2 and some more modern properties.<p>Live demo: <a href="https://chearon.github.io/dropflow/" rel="nofollow">https://chearon.github.io/dropflow/</a><p>It matches browsers in all cases I can find where they agree, and it's fast. It supports `position`, `inline-block`, `z-index`, and complex properties like `float` and `vertical-align`. It doesn't support high-level layout like flexbox or grid yet, but you can get intrinsics to easily divide space yourself and paint multiple layout trees. It has a great text layout implementation, and supporting non-Latin scripts is a top priority.<p>I've wanted this to exist as far back as 2013, and the desire kept coming up: for a way to get detailed intrinsics, for high quality rich text layout to canvas and SVG, and for server-side rich text. We currently use it in CellEngine for our new canvas-based spreadsheet library to layout text in hundreds of thousands of cells, and will be using it soon to render PDFs with thousands of pages in a few seconds.
The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance
Memories is a FOSS Google Photos alternative that you can self-host (it runs as a Nextcloud plugin).<p>Website: <a href="https://memories.gallery/" rel="nofollow">https://memories.gallery/</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/pulsejet/memories">https://github.com/pulsejet/memories</a><p>Demo Server: <a href="https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/" rel="nofollow">https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/</a>
(demo runs in San Francisco on a free-tier cloud vm)<p>Memories has been built ground-up for high performance and is extremely fast when configured correctly. In our testing environment, it can load a timeline view with 100k photos in under 500ms, including query and rendering time!<p>Some features to highlight:<p>* A timeline similar to Google Photos where you can skip to any time in history instantly.<p>* AI-based tagging that runs locally on your server, identifying and tagging people and objects.<p>* Albums and external sharing.<p>* Metadata editing support<p>* A world map of your photos, supported both on mobile and the web<p>* Did I mention it's extremely fast?<p>Would love to hear feedback from the HN community! :)
Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance
Memories is a FOSS Google Photos alternative that you can self-host (it runs as a Nextcloud plugin).<p>Website: <a href="https://memories.gallery/" rel="nofollow">https://memories.gallery/</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/pulsejet/memories">https://github.com/pulsejet/memories</a><p>Demo Server: <a href="https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/" rel="nofollow">https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/</a>
(demo runs in San Francisco on a free-tier cloud vm)<p>Memories has been built ground-up for high performance and is extremely fast when configured correctly. In our testing environment, it can load a timeline view with 100k photos in under 500ms, including query and rendering time!<p>Some features to highlight:<p>* A timeline similar to Google Photos where you can skip to any time in history instantly.<p>* AI-based tagging that runs locally on your server, identifying and tagging people and objects.<p>* Albums and external sharing.<p>* Metadata editing support<p>* A world map of your photos, supported both on mobile and the web<p>* Did I mention it's extremely fast?<p>Would love to hear feedback from the HN community! :)