skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It just doesn’t make sense for the average person to start their own cooperative, especially in any competitive domain. The risk-to-reward ratio is totally skewed towards the wrong direction.

This is really insightful and almost fully explains why there aren't more co-ops. Entrepreneurship AND capital aren't being materially rewarded for the huge amount of risk, so both founders and investors have zero interest in trying out the model, unless they're unusually missionary minded about the co-op model. That's two factors of production out the window. I think this is why market socialists often advocate for the government to ban traditional shareholder-owned corporations and force everyone into the co-op model, with capital allocation initially handled by a government bureaucracy. Founders and investors actually can't get there voluntarily due to high risk receiving little reward.
There's a limited number of TLDs available on CloudFlare.
In terms of actual features though (ignoring trivial syntax), Odin resembles more of Jai. In fact, when I first found about it a few years earlier I though it was an open source clone of Jai.

Today many features have diverged since then, and Odin is ahead by many aspects (mainly that the compiler is open source, but also that it’s already being used in production via EmberGen). I still really want the full metaprogramming capabilities that Jai has though (which is lacking in Odin currently).
The Fowlers called this habit elegant variation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_variation
A small but (IMHO) very neat detail is the Pascal-style syntax for defining variables (without requiring a separate 'var' or 'let' keyword):

// inferred type:
a := 23

// explicitly typed, the type is squeezed between the : and =
a : u32 = 23

OTH constants now require special syntax:

a :: 23

...but at least this is consistent with other places in the language, like functions:

my_func :: proc(...)

...and 'squeezing in the type' also works as expected for constants (which admittedly looks a bit weird, but is also hardly needed):

a : u32 : 23
I'm not the original commenter, and I agree it's opinion, but it's definitely one shared by every artist and designer I've ever spoken with. The only people I know who use GIMP are engineers and devs - either folk who are die-hard OSS supporters, or people who need to do a quick image adjustment and can't be bothered Googling the ImageMagick incantation for it. Not a sign of a healthy, competitive graphics suite.

I suspect if you surveyed 1000 art professionals, you'd get very few who like or use GIMP. You're going to get a very different result with something like Blender and 3D designers though, which really should make the GIMP devs pause and think what it is that Blender does well that GIMP doesn't.
I contacted them once before moving over and once after and they were good to me. I'm happy with them for domains but I wouldn't recommend them for email.
Substack link if you are reading from mobile or otherwise don't have an adblocker:

https://hasen.substack.com/p/odin-praise
I thought GEGL was taking care of most of the work for CMYK years ago, but I don't GIMP so that wasn't so.
Note: when browsing on mobile it isn't obvious that there are examples, the tweet from github isnt obvious that it is an example and the interactive graph doesnt look like one because it zooms into blank space

although I have a desktop and do development there, my interest in a new tool is frequently is sparked by my casual browsing on mobile, there might be (many) others like me
i think similarly, this db will tx arbitrary json and let you query it.

https://github.com/quoll/asami
I think why it matters to some people, though surely not everyone, is that words and names can evoke real responses in those people. And I mean real, like memories, feelings, associations, et cetera. Sometimes the real response is strong, even psychosomatic.

I don't think these people are faking it. Words have always seemed to have power.

When my wife and I were considering names for our child, there was one name in particular where she said that she could never name her child that. She had hated (HATED, apparently) a girl with the same name in primary school. The look on her face. The real emotions in her eyes. That name was definitely out.

I have seen people get in physical fights purely over a few words and name-calling.

I personally do not feel this way about words. I think we should not let words have such power over us. But for some people, words do matter that much.

As such, we have a choice when naming something. We can either ignore this power of words and risk having the name itself hold back adoption of the [product, service, whatever], or we can be aware of this power and conscious and conscientious in choosing how to name the thing.
we are already in fact: sulfur aerosols from ships is a quite huge negative radiative forcing. sulfur reduction technologies thus lead to an effective warming on top of the rest.
Honestly, I wish they would just get GIMP 3 out the door, GTK+ 2 isn't holding up. At this point, most people who are serious about editing images are probably on HiDPI screens. GIMP doesn't work properly on Mac laptops released since 2015, for example, and the rest of the industry has followed suit too.
So what is a good registrar that works with lego to do dns acme?
People ended up using crypto as a stock investment instead of as a currency and then they're surprised it gets taxed as a stock investment.
Microsoft Dev Box Now in Public Preview
That's is, that's what I do not understand the partisanship reaching a fanatic state to the point of completely distort reality. Yes, UK have lost the "empire" status in the 20th century BUT the Commonwealth is still there. They are still a talassocracy even if their grip on some of the most important colonies (Canada, Australia) is faded. Now they start facing a real threat to them and can't defend them in any way. China overpower Australia to a point UK can't logically even try to defend it. Russia overpower Canada to a very similar point. So far both power have no reasons to go to war, of course, but they can and UK know it very well. USA are the sole former colony very able to defend itself but is also the less keen to serve UK.

However both UK and USA are failed states, their extreme capitalism put too much of their population in poverty and without immigration they simply fall on their own weight.

As before they NEED a war to overthought the table and start over. And they have actually created that, it's not a secret, it's written black on white if only you read their publications from RAND to G8. They use a slightly strange vocabulary but it's clear what they state. They call themselves "the international community" or "the civilized world" but it's clear they just mean their fragmented former colonies. The same have happened in the recent past with the Korea war, as it happened their former colonies start to decide it's time to detach a bit, like SK an Japan themselves https://asiatimes.com/2022/08/japan-korea-defy-us-with-big-r... and even New Zealand https://thediplomat.com/2022/07/new-zealand-will-not-join-th... Australia itself suffering the submarines scam the UK and USA essentially have imposed to them ditching modern but limited French subs to exactly nothing since for a decade at least that's what they'll get (less than nothing since they have payed compensation for the late choice) start to falter undecided witch side to take. Only high treason neoliberal government in the EU keep the USA/UK side against their own Citizens interests.

Some in US and UK have already understood that their war is lost and they menace them to go nuclear in that case, see https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-nuc... and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11110441/Henry-Kiss... but the rest of the world, the BRICS start to unite knowing that it's freedom or death for them. They have all tested the "freedom" neoliberal nazi means, to a point in eastern Europe many would welcome back Soviet Union...

The above are NOT political or ideological positions but simply facts anyone observing with honesty no matter the personal political position can't avoid to see.
That's the thing: It is deeply ingrained in the very foundations of Japanese culture and society to always conduct yourself in a manner that will at the very least not hinder others unnecessarily.

Japanese are raised from the very beginning to be ashamed of making a mess and not cleaning up, to be ashamed of being irresponsible. Everyone is taught that "the Sun is watching you", that someone (or something!) somewhere is always watching you and judging you for your actions.

A westerner might shit up a public restroom, intentionally or otherwise, and say to himself "I don't care; cleaning this up is the janitor's job."

A Japanese person won't even dare, because they are taught to clean up regardless of a janitor.

It is a common tradition and mandate in Japanese schools for students to clean their classrooms (and every-so-often even restrooms!) themselves at the end of the school day. Yes, the schools have janitors, the students are told to clean up themselves anyway because that's just how good people behave.

This is all a facet of education and parenting, and the result of generations and millenia of such teachings. Their thought processes are fundamentally different from the west: A better society starts by being better individuals themselves first.

Public restrooms in the west being an absolute shit show (pun intended) are a reflection of failed education and parenting in western society. The west can, and should, do better.
If we can't terraform the Earth with all the necessary resources and energy available right on hand, how do we expect to be able to terraform Mars where we have no resources and no energy to do anything? (No matter what the article purports to say.)

These schemes are wishful thinking.
You can run this on your local machine

https://github.com/AykutSarac/jsonvisio.com
Last week, when that same discussion popped up, "schmichael" (who works on Nomad I understand) said "Nomad supports CSI like Kubernetes. Unfortunately many CSI storage providers assume kubernetes or adhere to kubernetes behavior even when it deviates from the spec, so there are gotchas."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32588931

That makes be a bit wary to use it because I would like my cloud storage to be reliable.
Looks good.

Slight quibble, JSON with large value fields (eg: 4K text as a single line) blow out the containing box dimensions in the web visualiser.

Maybe there's a flag to clip | wrap such values, if so I missed ny option to toggle it.

( I used MediaInfoCLI --output=JSON on some multitrack files from handbrake, the encode argument flags are a single large value )
My personal dream is house built into a slope. So earth around half-ish of the house can be used as thermal mass all year round.

Currently roof becomes heated. And there's crapton of insulation in the attic. Which heats up during the day in sunlight.. And then takes it's sweet time to cool down at night. And, if heat lasts several days, it doesn't even cool down by the morning.

Another solution would be a full-sized attic like in old houses. Now we didn't even bother to install crawl doors, because there's next-to-no space. Insulation takes up whatever is there. But large attic would be inefficient in winter. Unless we'd double-insulate it to keep heat in living quarters. But I wonder how long it'd take to recoup €€€€ and kwh/co2/etc spent for extra building materials/work wit lower energy usage.
I'm not sure why people are not talking about BUSD. It is arguably safest and fastest stable coin.

a stable coin gets its audit in US.
Porn, SMM, basically any international digital services on the PayPal blacklist.
A goofy name is interpreted like flirting. If she's into you it's cool. If she's not, you're a creep.
Open source works when big players decide it's economical to comoditize something and do it in the open to share cost and get testing, also good will, etc.

This is why it's mostly in infrastructure. But it works in product applications - like Epic contributing to Blender because it enables their platform.
Yes. But those shutters are pretty expensive + extra moving thing to maintain.
Bright light in the distance works for me. A lot of the interest is in the path finding process - dead ends and cycles included. A bright light in the distance that someone else has broken into measurable chunks is totally unappealing.
You know that lots of card providers can generate virtual cards for free on demand these days right? Another set of details that works the same as your original card but can be used for, say, just one site and cancelled at any time if it gets misused.

If that's your only gripe than that's probably the easier way than switching to an entirely separate financial system.
How did Elon Musk have so many kids? I don't think he spent much time with them
Most conventional parents cannot do what Elon Musk is doing.
You can download the tool
The title says TerraForm Mars but the article itself only proposes a solution for directing more sunlight to the planet's surface. That is a very, very long way from terraforming.

To really terraform Mars, it would for instance need an atmosphere with a decent amount of oxygen in it. And there's a slight problem with that: Mars doesn't have a strong magnetic field like Earth does. Which is the reason that Mars' atmosphere was blown away in the first place*.
How to solve that? Nobody knows, and this article doesn't even attempt to come up with a solution.

* https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-marss-magnetic-field...
I'd say that Google has these products (really, services) because of its ad business, not the other way round.

Someone more familiar with Google's oeuvre can probably answer this: all those well-liked services that Google unceremoniously cancelled — were they the ones that didn't help (or harmed) Google's ad business?
Less than 500 North Pacific right whales remain in the planet, only 30 of them visit Alaska, and the rest live mostly around the Japanese sea.

Spreading the idea that endangered animals eat "too much" is evil. Rotten to the core.
JSON Viso can be run locally as well

https://github.com/AykutSarac/jsonvisio.com
Okay but in 12-TET, there are only 12 notes. D# and E♭ are the same note, because there is only one note between D and E. On paper and in practice, the note between D and E is the same whether you write it as D# or as E♭. A piano doesn't know how the note is written in the sheet music.

EDIT:to be clear, I'm not disagreeing with most of what you're saying. 12-TET can't represent the desirable perfect fractions, and in a system which can (such as a just intonation system), the starting point does matter. And maybe a vocalist or a violinist would play D# and E♭ subtly differently, I don't know. My main point is just that in a whole lot of contexts, such as when playing a piano, there is no difference between the notes. Your comment made it look like there's always a difference between theory and practice which makes D# and E♭ different in practice, when that's often not the case. We do use 12-TET in practice.
Same for humans i'd say
Interesting. So all of the examples have salaried design and product folks?

Meanwhile there's thousands of volunteering FOSS projects that are engineers only. Do product & design people not have passion projects? Or they do but are for some reason unable to collaborate with engineers (or vice versa)?
Yep, some CSI providers do that, but as far as i know it's more niche ones (like VMware's), not any of the big cloud providers.
That couldn't be further than the truth. It's just a more convenient way of trading forex.
Because all the cloud providers never have downtime, DNS issues, etc? :)

At least when US east is down, half the internet is down.
This will be the first project that I will be sponsoring...
Personally I've never had a problem reading through json, I mean its designed that way to be flat and simple, but this could be brilliant for documentation, even auto updating with some schema changes etc.

Super useful for me in that way so thanks!
The terraforming proposed in the article here is extremely far from doing anything like restoring an existing biosphere on earth. (And it help there are no existing governments or billions of people on Mars to oppose such such a terraforming)
> Black&White-tv was almost HD, 625x625. Then they added 3Mhz color-carrier in 1966 and it was 300x300

Maybe adding color did decrease the luma bandwidth and hence the horizontal resolution. I'm not sure about that. I think bw signals just used less bandwidth overall.

But in no way did color decrease the number of lines in the image. Those are defined by the scanning raster and remained the same in color and bw television.
Nice! Thank you for that. Did not know that.
UK also.
You're falling into the exact argument trap you laid out yourself. Einstein had no clue what would be possible just 100 years later and just because we have no clue how to ever measure a singularity (which is actually not completely true, but let's not get into that) it would be very presumptuous of us to say that it will remain impossible another 100 years into the future. Just imagine if people kept listening to the guys who kept saying all the stuff we do today is impossible. Science is incremental steps - and we have to follow them disregarding of how worthwhile they might seem right now. Very rarely will someone come along and enable something directly that was thought impossible just recently. But over the long run, things work differently. Sure, we'll reach a lot of dead ends along the way while pursuing great things, but on the other hand we don't get anywhere at all by only listening to people who can't imagine anything.
The Himalayas' ancient earthquake-defying design
Ask HN: Any horror stories of having Gmail suspended in paid plan?
Hi everyone,
since there were plenty horror storries of people having their google account randomly suspended and couldn't get it back I have following question: is there any known scenario when it has happened for a gmail paid plan user?

Some backstory of this question:

For some time I've been trying to move all my important services to use my custom-domain e-mail address but I'm still very anxious that I can get banned to my google account for no particular reason and loose my recent e-mails (I'm trying to do a backup of my e-mails and upload it to my local server every couple months but sometimes I forgot about it and don't do it for like 1 year or so).

I've noticed that my free google plan is going out of free space and I'm thinking about switching to paid plan - maybe I'm too naive but I've also got curious if I'll become a "better class citizen" for google if I start paying them (and don't get my account randomly suspended).
It's time to get excited about space again
Why suppressing wildfires may be making the Western fire crisis worse
I forgot to add the last straw for me was the removal of GIMP's 'Fade' feature. I'm aware of the alterative but it's not as convenient.

User ergonomics in software is extremely important and its removal is a big anti-feature. At the time GIMP's developers didn't offer an apology, they just said that's the way it's going to be on 'technical grounds'.
This was used to good effect to 'recolour' the black and white versions of old Dr Who episodes due to the colour originals having been lost/destroyed.
We have. Look at the Wikipedia page on history of recessions as a place that makes it clear.
Better title: why are some C stdlib functions slower than some Bolin stdlib functions. Unlike with many other languages, it's totally fine to write C code and (almost) completely ignore the stdlib functions. The C stdlib is essentially just the least common denominator to get trivial cmdline tools working (badly) across platforms, but that's about it.
The Twilio exploit allowed the hackers to add a new device to existing Authy accounts. This allowed them to sync the keys between devices within the same account
But the state of california would pay for it and has a huge tax base. It wouldn't be cheap but isn't completely infeasible. Especially since water intensive agriculture tends to produce very expensive crops (nuts, avocados etc.). My back of the napkin is $20 billion capex based on existing water usage and existing desal plants.
> I used Photoshop for 8 years, including for web development, before switching to Gimp.

> Gimp is good enough for everything one needs in web dev, is free, and has a vital feature Photoshop lacks: the ability to run on a Linux workstation. When developing software intended for Linux servers the value of having a Linux workstation to easily do local development cannot be understated.

Precisely. You're a dev for whom GIMP is "good enough". If you were dissatisfied you might make a new tool, but since GIMP suffices, you happily use it and see no reason for anything else.

Meanwhile, artists and designers who work in Photoshop day in and day out - the people comprising the bulk of Photoshop's actual market - overwhelmingly reject GIMP, and they don't generally have the capability to make a new tool, so they stick with Adobe.

At the risk of making an imperfect analogy, imagine you wrote a French textbook. French teachers overwhelmingly rejected your textbook and didn't use it in their classrooms. But at the same time, other language professionals sometimes found it helpful for small things like double checking the conjugation of some obscure verb, and they'd defend it because they found it useful. Is your French textbook a success? I'd say no. I'd say you're not only failing your primary market, but you're lulling fellow professionals into a false sense that there's sufficient tools out there for that market, which is doubly harmful.
Not my experience. I tried their abuse email address, their abuse report form and I even made an account to contact support, but did not even receive a reply. Over 30 websites are still up. But to be fair, the websites are about selling certain pills and not about phishing.
Would fixing it improve their ad business?

I'm still surprised by how often people (not necessarily you!) forget about misaligned purposes: your purpose for using Gmail is to have a good email service; Google's purpose for running Gmail is to make money, _not_ necessarily by providing a good email service.

When purposes misalign like that, you get users bewildered about why such a competent company would be “incapable” of providing a less crappy service.

Compare with Thunderbird: they make money to pay the bills but no-one's getting rich. Their only way of getting money is by building a good email client — by building features that companies will pay them to build; or by making a general-purpose email client good enough that users will donate.

(I know Thunderbird is not directly equivalent because it's just a client, not an email server, but the email client part is comparable.)
> We really need an open source alternative to Photoshop. I just don’t know if gimp will ever be it.

If they are just, now, adding CMYK support (Photoshop has had CMYK for many years, as CMYK has been critical for printers), I suspect that you may be correct.
+1 that
This looks like a neat tool, but without the ability to collapse and expand most sections, it's only useful for trivially small JSON files :/
Data Storytelling Tip: One idea per chart
this might be a good place to ask: is there any tool out there that can help with json to normalised tables?

I know that many databases can store json, but i often have api's that i would like storing in tables, and feel that 'splitting it out' should be fairly trivial.

Each time i think about making a tool, i am put off by the fact that there is a voice saying 'someone will have done this, in a much better way than you!' :-)

EDIT:

Ignore that, i did that think where i didn't look at the link - this pretty much does what i would need
Flaw in that: I can leave the place covered in shit, my card gets reported by the next user and I just buy another anonymous card because I can afford it.