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We also map how close these outages are to oil and gas pipelines
We will also be incorporating ocean fiber outages, Starlink outages, and whatever else we can find that helps us make sense of the world in near real-time
The future of news is data
Major updates in the past month:
- Added AQI
- Adjusted map colors to make precipitation radar more visible
- Tweaked UI/styling
If I find some time to work on it:
- One hour minutely precipitation forecast
- Allow toggling of all data in plots.
- Settings UI + persist to cookie.
- Minor bug fixes.
I just made Little Riddle, a word game for my mom. I took a list of popular nouns, verbs, and adjectives and found words that rhyme with each word. Cleaned up that list, removing obscure words and words that didn't really rhyme together. I then asked ChatGPT to come up with a clue for each rhyming pair. I just gave it to my mom for her birthday and she loves it. It's based on a analog word game people refer to as "Ro…
I'm on parental leave and working on the new site for a non-profit, Falling Fruit. https://github.com/falling-fruit/falling-fruit-web We're looking for more contributions - it's a React / Redux app that tries to replace the current site and mobile app with one codebase, and then go from there - join us if you fancy!
One of the linked data sources (for Philadelphia trees) is http://phillytreemap.org/map/ , which currently points to an odd online betting website...
I think I might have posted this before, but: I'm open to having a regular "What are you working on?" thread. I even reserved https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoisworking for that. But it shouldn't be on the first of the month, colliding with Who Is Hiring threads. How about, hmm, the third Saturday of each month? or maybe Friday?
It's a great idea and I would like it.
I think it works to tie it to the month, and it's strange to say the month name when you run it on the 21st.
I'll move it to the 3rd of each month unless it's the weekend, and then I'll push it to that Monday.
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It's a great idea and I would like it.
I've been running these monthly since 2021. I think it works to tie it to the month, and it's strange to say the month name when you run it on the 21st. I'll move it to the 3rd of each month unless it's the weekend, and then I'll push it to that Monday.
The problem is that they get flagged and downweighted because unofficial monthly regular threads are (informally) not allowed here. Otherwise people try to start too many of them, and it's one of those things that only works well within limits.
The solution we hit on with whoishiring (a long time ago) was to make it official, give it basically a system account, and take it out of the realm of individual submissions.
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Good topic. Trust isn't properly understood yet. Look at Sir Berners-Lee: smart guy, but he put "trust" as a component box in his vision of the so-called Semantic Web as if it was an API that you could just call. Trust is of course an emergent property of a well-designed, reliable, transparent, safe and secure system, and as such it is a relation between a system and its human users. Please write up what you find out…
Will do. Origin story; planned to write a short series of very tiny booklets on cybersecurity for some students. Question arose; what is the most atomic concept in cybersec from which to build? Networks? Crytptography? Identity? Risk? Quality? After about two months I decided it was Trust. Totally sucked me in to reading everything from tribal anthropology to cold-war game theory. It feels like a great invisible dark…
It's very alpha at this point with no styling. I'm also working on getting addresses, websites, and instagram links gathered and added. Plus collapsing down the entries, so a place with multiple awards only shows up once, with all of its awards. Right now it's just 1 results per award.