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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on COP26?
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The Para-Academic Handbook [pdf](hammeronpress.net)
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
I believe one of the features of the now-sunsetting CZI Meta was setting up search alerts for journal publications. I've been using Stork to do this for a few weeks and have found it very useful for helping me stay up to date with acad
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Stork, Powerful algorithms for publication tracking(storkapp.me)
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
For a second I thought that this person's middle name was "URI", as in Uniform Resource Identifier
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
Blow the whistle and quit?
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
Yeah I also do this: I own my domain and I use a catch-all setup at my email provider so <anything>@jpreston.xyz goes to my inbox. I suppose the advantage with a non-custom domain is you leak no info about yourself, the masked email i
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Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago(aeaweb.org)
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
You can still use 'straight Git', maybe with some PR management system like GitHub/GitLab/... . The difference is you can't rely on the diff to be useful, instead you'd need to provide a good commit message sum
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
It's not a joke but yes, I am aware that the name is amusing ;)
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
Thanks for the pointer to VSM, I've not come across that before! I will probably update the essay at some point when I've had more feedback and started playing around with the ideas more. As for the other mentioned models, I mainl
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The WOPRS Organization Model(jpreston.xyz)
28 points by wcerfgba 5y ago|9 comments
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
I'm using GitHub Pages and Jekyll. I wrote the theme from almost-scratch, I think I started with a basic theme and then ripped out everything I didn't like, and then started building up again. Due to limitations on available Jekyl
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
Not exactly the same but Syften ( https://syften.com/ ) can do this kind of 'listening' for social platforms like HN, Reddit, ... . Possibly you could reach out to Michal about extending their ingest with arbitrary&
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
I did open an issue on GitHub to gauge interest in upstreaming it :) If you like it, leave a thumbs up :) https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/2952
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
Yes I was originally considering crawling and indexing on my local machine as well but once I realised I could build this with Searx and leave all of that work to Bing/Google/DDG/... it removed a lot of complexity from the pr
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Custom Search Engine Built on Searx(jpreston.xyz)
79 points by wcerfgba 5y ago|17 comments
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
On a related note, the Uyghur Tribunal has started again. Main website at https://uyghurtribunal.com/ , and a live-stream for September 12th at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkr3pC1BmI .
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Uyghur Tribunal – Live Hearing 12th September 2021(youtube.com)
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Norway's Fossil Fuel Reliance Is Going to the Ballot Box(time.com)
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
Don't. Domain squatting is a shitty practice and we shouldn't engage with exploitative practices. Otherwise, we signal demand, which justifies the feasibility of the practice. You can probably come up with variants of your desired
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A Catalogue of Chords Example(jpreston.xyz)
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
I find jazz has a similar problem: there may be a band leader but usually each instrumentalist is of note, and there is no way I am aware of to track each performer in an ID3 or APE tag. Consider for example the Cannonball Adderley album &q
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
From [1]: > Does Helm have access to my emails? > The architecture of the system has been designed so that it's not possible for Helm to access your emails. Email senders now support sending emails over an encrypted SSL/TLS
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Custom Search Engine Built on Searx(jpreston.xyz)
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A Catalogue of Chords Example(jpreston.xyz)
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The Internet Oracle(internetoracle.org)
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
The original article, not linked from NG, appears to be "The United States’ contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean", available at https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabd0288
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
> In his decision denying Sinclair's motion to dismiss, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff split from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on its controversial server test, also known as the server rule, that says a website can only in
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by wcerfgba 5y ago
Maybe these people shouldn't be decision-makers then. We need both greater transparency in decision-making processes, and greater education amongst the population about statistics, causal inference, and the scientific method. In order

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