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by mg 3y ago
For me, it was always more important to discover authors than to discover books. When I find a author whose thoughts and theories I am interested in, I usually read everything from this author. Usually their most popular book is the best on
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by mg 3y ago
A link is a dynamic thing. If you print or let users download a PDF of a Wikipedia page and for the attribution you link to a page with the edit history, what happens when the link is shut down or repurposed to show something unrelated or c
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by mg 3y ago
What does attribution mean in the context of Wikipedia where each page is created by many authors, most of them pseudonymous, many of them anonymous?
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by mg 3y ago
Is Bluesky still the only software which supports the AT-Protocol? Is it open source so you can run your own instance? Does Bluesky federate with other AT-Protocol instances?
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Ask HN: Best way to self-host your own tweets?
3 points by mg 3y ago|4 comments
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by mg 3y ago
With the current Twitter debacle, I think self-hosting my "notes about interesting things" (aka tweets) in a way it is accessible via the web, activitypub, bluesky and RSS might be the best way. Is anybody already doing this? It s
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by mg 3y ago
I have not looked into it very deeply yet, but as I understand the Bluesky project, this would not be as easy for Bluesky as it is for Twitter and Reddit. You can use your own domain as your identity. Even when you use a service like bsky.a
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by mg 3y ago
What's funny is that while Twitter wants you to log in and goes at great length to prevent you from reading anything when not logged in, the situation is exactly the other way round with Bluesky. They limit who can sign in, but openly
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by mg 3y ago
In most countries, the officially suggested intake of Vitamin D per day is 800 IU. There is a study that showed that running around naked in the sun for 30 minutes is equivalent to taking 15000 IU: https://ar.iiarjournals.org&#x2
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All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today(masto.ai)
116 points by mg 3y ago|99 comments
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by mg 3y ago
There are thousands of tools (shellscripts, makefiles ...) which execute "python -m": https://www.gnod.com/search/?engines=af&nw=1&q=python%20-m Even in Google's own repos. Starting any of those
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by mg 3y ago
There is one problem with those: Security. Using modules (even if they are in the standard library) on the command line lets malicious code in the current dir take over your machine: https://twitter.com/marekgibney/stat
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by mg 3y ago
With "tools" I meant statistical tools, aka statistical tests. Because the log is a time series where events happen at random times, the typical tests like the t-test are not readily applicable. One way I am currently generating p
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by mg 3y ago
If there are runs of zeros, this should result in a number greater than 25000: for i in {1..100000}; do echo $((RANDOM % 2))$((RANDOM % 2)); done | grep 00 | wc For me, it always comes out very close to 25000.
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by mg 3y ago
Since it is just a text file, it is easy to merge it with other data at any point in the future. So you could log your position on a different device. And only when you want to analyze the data, you write a script which converts the positio
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by mg 3y ago
Yes, it is a single file. 30558 lines so far. Some lines from today: 2023-06-27 06:40 Wakeup 2023-06-27 06:40 Last_night_sleep_time: 07h21 2023-06-27 06:40 Last_night_sleep_interruptions: 1 2023-06-27 06:40 Yesterdays_Step
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by mg 3y ago
What works for me is that when I'm on the go, I just write events into a text file on my phone. 2023-06-27 16:00 Drink_Coffee? Yes And type them into my log when I'm at home. Sounds cumbersome, but it's in fact quite easy. I
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by mg 3y ago
That syntax would be valid, but I usually let a dice decide, so the value is Yes or No. And since I usually take 400mg ibuprofen, I have introduced a string for this in particular: Take_Ibu400. So in my log it looks like this: 2023-03-23 12
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by mg 3y ago
Holy moly, my 3 year old post on the front page! The power of blogging. Cool. Quick update: Yup, I am still doing this. I enhanced my tooling in VIM quite a bit, and logging is super fast now. Earlier today I entered log line number 30558.
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by mg 3y ago
When every transaction is rated, the buyer will still get nagged by the seller to give them the star. My thought behind giving one star to one of the last 3 rides is that the seller does not know when the buyer will give out that star. It m
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by mg 3y ago
One could say that a "rush hour ride" is a different service than a ride at a less crowded time. Hotels in a small town might have better reviews than hotels in New York. But if you want to stay in NY, you compare between the hote
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by mg 3y ago
I often think that marketplace rating should work like this: Every 3 rides, you get asked "Which one of the last 3 rides did you like the best?". Then the driver you select gets 1 star. So an average driver would get 0.3 stars per
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by mg 3y ago
Using a language with a faster runtime makes the system run faster. But it does not compound. So you are limited to a ceiling at about an order of magnitude faster execution. Making better decisions on a daily basis compounds. You evolve to
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by mg 3y ago
What other people use does not change how you can use the language. You don't have to use types. I just took a look at the 4 latest Show HNs which are written in Python. None of them uses types.
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by mg 3y ago
I have a theory (which nobody I ever met shares) that the visually most beautiful language is the one that long-term results in the fastest development of a project: Visual noise is like inflation. A constant tax on what you do. But you bar
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by mg 3y ago
Not sure. Currently Google gets a normal website (not an error or a 404) for every page. Just with different content. When search site:reddit.com "best bicycle" I get a page a page "Best bicycle for a beginner?"
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The Reddit strike could severely impact Reddit's SEO(twitter.com)
6 points by mg 3y ago|4 comments
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Twitter now prevents using a search to get a chronological feed(twitter.com)
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by mg 3y ago
Yes, I meant those 5 specifically. It would be interesting if there is enough demand for a forum about a topic so that it gets 30 million users and there are absolutely no competitors on the web.
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by mg 3y ago
On Tildes, I can see one alternative: ~music seems similar to r/music. The Motte seems to be more of a general forum for any topic?

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