Live data from Hacker News

The Bluesky Dictionary

avibagla.com

51–57 of 57 posts

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

#51
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may need to allow scripts from the domain avibagla.com, it shows 0 when the scripts are blocked.

All the scripts are ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR for me in Chrome, I'm assuming because of a corporate firewall.

Indeed, all I get in Firefox are CORS issues

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

#52

I noticed one of the cited bluesky posts was all in French, so one might argue that technically it didn't find the English word "mouch", but rather a different French word that happens to be spelled the same. But trying to sort that out seems unrealistically challenging. "Mouch" is only in the dictionary as an alternative spelling to mooch, so probably a pretty rare word to see in English.

Bluesky lets you select the language your post is written in before posting it and it is attached as metadata to the skeet. I guess the backend for this only searches posts in English, but it's possible the dataset is not 100% accurate due to some users forgetting to switch language before posting.

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

#54
Someone just got a double-combo:

> We just visited wheal Martyn museum in Cornwall, nice scones and a waterwheel, they also have a lot of gutters, sluices and pipes and a bit of a fixation about China Clay. More importantly they appear to be unattached at the moment

Both "wheal" (kind of cheating, that should be Wheal and is a place name) and "sluices" were new to the dictionary.

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

#55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what it's worth, there's 1.7bn posts on Bluesky according to this: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats The dictionary site has only checked 4,920,000 posts, which is 0.28% of all messages.

It's likely that the commenter has read less than 5 million posts worth of text though. So perhaps this still points to a lack of diversity in content.

You got me wondering. Supposing the average post is 10 words, and a typical page of text is 250 words, that would only be ~50 pages of text a day over the last 10 years. Which I don't think I manage, but over 20 years I am probably in that window.

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

#56
post #34

I'm surprised at how normal some of the unseen words are. I expected them to all be archaic or niche, but many are pretty reasonable: 'congregant', 'definer', 'stereoscope'.

dentel, exclaustrations, gryding, datolite, frabbing?

I can't keep up with all these new Pokemon.

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

#57
post #34

I'm surprised at how normal some of the unseen words are. I expected them to all be archaic or niche, but many are pretty reasonable: 'congregant', 'definer', 'stereoscope'.

For what it's worth, there's 1.7bn posts on Bluesky according to this: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats The dictionary site has only checked 4,920,000 posts, which is 0.28% of all messages.

It now claims to have checked 11 million posts but only seen "the" 16 thousand times. I'm not sure its numbers are entirely reliable.
Post reply on HN