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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
I'm more of a desktop user, but I wasn't happy with what was out there so I made my own (but only for Melbourne): https://davidjohnstone.net/weather/melbourne . I'm tempted to turn it into a proper Austr
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
Yeah, the network effect is strong, but there's never been a better time to challenge it. I think the potential of success is partly based on quality of the alternative, but also on the direction Twitter goes from here. It doesn't
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
It seems its decentralised nature is a hindrance to some or many potential users[1]. My impression is that it's often treated as an alternative, but not really a truly viable alternative, and the field is wide open for something bett
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
I'm skeptical that it's a viable alternative for most people, who don't care about the fact that it's decentralised.
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on a Twitter alternative?
4 points by davidjohnstone 4y ago|10 comments
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
Thanks, that's interesting. Yurou Zhong, in her book Chinese Grammatology, traces the end of the latinisation movement to a precise date in 1958 when Zhou Enlai gave a speech "当前文字改革的任务" ("The Current Tasks of the Script
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
The comparison between Latin in Europe in the early modern period and literary Chinese in the Sinosphere for much of history is pretty good (and often made). Latin and literary Chinese are very different languages, but had similar roles in
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
> This is only because the plan for simplified characters died midway through. There was a second round of simplifications that would have gone even further with talks of full phoneticization if that succeeded. I was under the impression
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
The New York Times' article on her life has a couple of corrections for things that look like they were written earlier and not updated with the latest when published. For example: > The earlier version misstated at one point the le
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
I wondered the same. The main downside is that you need to do some processing to extract the entries from the dump and get the plain text of the fields you want. I'm also a little surprised they didn't think Wiktionary was suffici
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
I also made a fast-loading news website. It should be roughly as fast as yours. https://www.thenewseachday.com/
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by davidjohnstone 4y ago
You put square brackets around parameters. e.g., routes/greet/[name].tsx https://fresh.deno.dev/docs/getting-started/dynamic-routes
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
I read this a month ago. Excellent book. Incredible story.
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
You're right about the numbers often being expressed in W/kg, because power to weight is more important than power when going uphill. For big climbs (more than half an hour or so), that number is closer to 6W/kg for the best,
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
2,400W is around (and possibly more than) what the strongest track cyclists can sustain for about five seconds. Tour de France cyclists racing up mountains generally sustain around 400W, which is enough to go 25+km/h for hills that are
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
To improve compression of a sorted list of words you can replace the (initial) letters repeated from the word above with spaces before compression and add them back as an extra step after decompression. For example, if the previous word was
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Show HN: I made a dashboard for Covid in Australia(thenewseachday.com.au)
1 points by davidjohnstone 5y ago|0 comments
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
According to Wikipedia's list[1], it's the strongest earthquake Australia has had since 1997, and that one was in a remote part of Western Australia. "A Seismologist tells @abcmelbourne it’s the biggest earthquake Victoria ha
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
My understanding is that all numbers in the dump correspond with Facebook accounts, so this shouldn't be the reason. Another option would be that someone else has that number listed for their account. Has Facebook always required confi
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
I don't think that helps, because the address space of numbers is too small so anything is reversible. My solution to this was to generate 99 extra random numbers that start with the same digits as the real one and send them all to the
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
I don't know what there is to do other than to be aware that the combination of your name and number (and maybe some other details) are not private, so there's no reason to trust anyone just because they know those things. As far
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
Done. https://www.thenewseachday.com/private-facebook-phone-number...
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
You haven't heard of thenewseachday.com because I quietly put it up online last week.
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
I laughed, then had another idea: Rather than send the server one number to check, generate another 99 random numbers in the client and send them all to the server. The client receives the status of all of them and shows the status of the e
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
Oh, you're right, there are some email addresses, but not many. In the first 10,000 rows of Australian data, there are 62. I could be wrong, but I think the extra data about users (i.e., location, email address, relationship status, wo
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
> I'd imagine that could be more successful on here, heh. You're right about that! If I was to make a HN-friendly version, I'd probably make static JSON files that list all the numbers, indexed by the first four or so digi
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
I don't have much insight on this. I accidentally downloaded that one first when I meant to download the Australian one, but quickly realised my mistake because the CSV file inside the archive was correctly spelt. Then I got the actual
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
Interesting, I didn't know you could do that. When I write "I'm not saving the phone number you enter" I mean to convey the idea that I'm not doing anything else with that number. As far as I know, the number and an
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
It is the Australian version (although I accidentally downloaded that Austrian data first). I turned the phone numbers into local Australian numbers without the international code, where mobile numbers are always 04?? ??? ???.
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by davidjohnstone 5y ago
I also made an Australian version: https://www.thenewseachday.com/facebook-phone-numbers-austra... The data is separated by country and it seems it isn't perfectly consistent (i.e., the Australian data is one CSV file

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