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kinowon Compilers for continuous integration of Fortran projects

>That said, I hope it is understandable why I am "a bit slower than the rest of the industry in this regard".

You are doing a great job. I worked with research institutes from Australasia, and now am working with others from Europe. There are heaps of people from different backgrounds like yours, geography, physics, engineering, etc., that inherit or start coding projects.

And people with different ages too. I've seen people fresh off university learning about tests, and also researchers with a great reputation and lots of papers written that were getting the hang of what were unit tests, CI, a server and a client, and other concepts that are so common to people in IT.

Nothing wrong with that. Keep up the good work, and keep slowly improving the code. I hope you have somebody else to work with you on this task, and do some code review or discuss when you need to work on something new, or perhaps a group at your company/work that has some Research Software Engineers.

Most RSE's I know are familiar at working with people from different backgrounds to slowly improve projects without blocking/stalling research, simulations, and publication. Thank you!

kinowon How does the sky turn dark at night?

Hey, thanks a lot for sharing Nick's video! I hadn't seen it before, but the details about colours, light and atmosphere were super interesting, especially if you are into photography and painting.

kinowon Dallol

Not as impressive as Dallol, I think, but in Rotorua, New Zealand, there are similar hot springs with iron & sulfur that create similar colours and patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiotapu

kinowon Colombia's Special Word for "You"

> from vossa mercê

Which in some Brazilian soap operas sounded more like "vosmece" or "vosmercê", especially when said by people with country side accent (caipiras).

kinowon Japan sees rise of 'ramen girls'

That movie is really great. If anyone likes ramen, you'll definitely enjoy it.

kinowon Aho – a Git implementation in Awk

I thought the same think. And it is super common in manga and anime, so a lot of people know wordslike aho, baka, kuso to have a bad meaning in japanese.

kinowon Toolong: Terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files

I maintain a workflow manager, and had both textualize and logdy on my list of projects to try soon. Planning to add a TUI written in textualize, and was thinking in something like logdy (or use it directly). Not sure which way to go now, will play with both now and see which version users like best. Thanks for logdy, and thanks to the creators of toolong too!

kinowon Data Structures for Data-Intensive Applications [pdf] (2023)

Me too, some text, links, but no actual code or link to download.

kinowon WebAssembly Playground

Ah, I used your site a lot after I bought a beginner's telescope some years ago, thanks for all the fun I had waking up early to spot satellites! Had no idea it had any wasm, interesting!

kinowon Framework Laptop 16 Review

Yeah, me too, waiting for an NVIDIA GPU for Blender (AMD and Intel GPUs perform really badly with Blender)

kinowon A cautionary tale about software dependencies during major geopolitical events

I read the article and got the same impression. It had no conclusion on global event affecting dependencies. More speculations rather than facts.

kinowon Ask HN: Any good (free?) TTS article readers?

I use the Read Aloud Firefox extension to read newspaper articles and the wandering inn stories. Works well for me. In the configuration there are free and premium voices. I enable Google Translate voice and increase the speed a bit.

Main repo (website there too, or search on Firefox extensions): https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud

kinowon Someone was breaking into Orange Spain RIPE account (and break their /12)

I was affected by that attack. After lunch here in Barcelona several sites started to time out on Firefox: GitHub, Twitter, Hacker News, Canva, DuckDuckGo. While others like Reddit, Google, YouTube kept working.

Found via Twitter that others had already tried changing DNS servers, and then did a tracepath and found that I couldn't reach the resolved IP's. Thought it would have been a misconfiguration of Orange. Then on Twitter (accessed via Orange mobile, which funnily worked fine -- probably a different network?) I found a thread of the people in Spain complaining about it, where someone later replied with links to the RIPE account take-over tweet.

Took about 2-4 hours for the service to be fixed. Haven't fixed any other issues so far. One of the articles pointed that it could have been due to someone that was not using 2FA, but there were no sources in that article.

EDIT: the article mentioned above https://bandaancha.eu/articulos/secuestran-cuenta-ripe-orang...

kinowon Ask HN: I am trying to understand the best tools for the blind on the internet

>I had a major eyesight scare this year, and it has gotten me thinking a lot more about accessibility.

Thankfully it was just a scare. My family has some eyesight issues, so I've always been curious on how visually impaired users navigate the web.

It helps that in my high school there was a boy that was born blind. He used a braille machine during class, until he got a thinkpad configured with a screen reader. Later he joined a bank working in IT, and I remember he already knew Linux very well during high school (early 00's).

>Can anyone point me to the best resources which might help me understand how visually impaired users navigate the internet today?

I use the Wave accessibility tool [1] on my websites, and whenever I am reviewing pull requests for $work, or Apache, Jenkins (it&plugins do very poorly), and other Open Source sites (latest one was the CWL Conf 2024 [2]).

Another thing I use to test accessibility is try to navigate the site with Orca (with/without looking at the screen). You can install that on any Linux machine, completely free. Microsoft screen reader is better than Orca, or at least was the last time I checked it. But I am a Linux user -- and plan to continue being even if my eyesight gets really bad.

It is relatively easy to learn Orca, you just need to learn a few shortcuts, and the commands to enable/disable it. And testing web sites will help you both learn to use the screen reader, while also helping other visually impaired users if you submit bugs/pull requests.

Here's a great video that shows what you hear when you open a browser with Orca enabled/running: [3]. If you are running Linux just try typing `orca`, then open a browser, and follow this link: [4]. There you can find most of the necessary key bindings to navigate a website with Orca. Give it a try and experiment how that works.

I don't know much about maps, GPT, etc., but I hope Orca and these links will help you to learn more about web accessibility.

[1] https://wave.webaim.org/

[2] https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwlcon2024/pull/...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI76P-KPZec

[4] https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/07/02/an-orca-screen-rea...

kinowon Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip

For anyone who hasn't heard about the BSC, you can check out the website or, if you are more inclined to read code:

- https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/autosubmit/ - project I joined last year to work on, a workflow manager used in MareNostrum to run mainly (but not exclusively) climate experiments - https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/ - other projects from my department - https://gitlab.bsc.es/explore/projects - general projects

There are also lots of interesting projects, like Aina, a project in partnership with Generalitat de Catalunya (like the council? prefecture?) to foster the Catalan language with models and tools using HPC resources: https://projecteaina.cat/

kinowon Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip

It still is. You can just book it with reception directly, or if you attend a meeting or conference. Whenever I get friends in Barcelona I always invite them over too (anyone that works there can request a visitor badge and schedule the visit -- necessary avoid conflicts).

kinowon Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall

Interesting! I am living in Catalonia now, but in Barcelona. I haven't seen (or paid attention) to a wall like that. Will pay more attention and try to find some nearby. Thanks!

kinowon How many jacaranda trees are there in Sydney?

I was surprised when I first saw a Jacarandá in Auckland, New Zealand. I was not aware that there were so many Jacarandás so far away from South America, nor that the name was the same in other languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaranda:

>The name is of South American (more specifically Tupi-Guarani) origin, meaning fragrant.

There are other Tupi-Guarani words that made it to other languages, like Açaí, Piranha, Capybara, ...

kinowon Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

Haven't read either, but both sound interesting! Thanks!

kinowon Barcelona Supercomputing Center

If the guide is not available just DM me one or two days before you arrive. Any BSC staff can give a tour to a small group. But it is necessary to schedule ahead and avoid events/other tours.

You can also visit the luminous click on Via Laietana. It is old, free (on the sidewalk), but interesting.

You can enter any library to browse. Abello library in Les Corts hosts the Asimov Foundation collection. I think the Sagrada Familia library has the scientific illustration collection, etc.

I remember seeing a really old elevator in the Gòtic neighborhood... I can't remember the name of the museum where it was but it was at the museum entrance (you can just walk in and have a look).

You can also walk in most campi like UPC, UB, etc. They have some exhibitions and also panels with history of the uni and faculties. As well as libraries too.

Have fun!

kinowon StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops

It is one of the few workflow managers that support cyclic graphs (e.g. ecflow, cylc, prefect, covalent more or less. ), instead of working only with DAGs like Airflow.

It is a feature common for weather and climate workflows, and I think other HPC and machine learning workflows too.

https://kinoshita.eti.br/2021/10/01/cyclic-workflows-with-cy...

kinowon Climb aboard Brazil's hurricane truck of happiness

I translated the title and couldn't believe it. Que dia.

kinowon Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

Started reading it one or two months ago, still on book 6. Enjoying it a lot, even installed Read Aloud to have text to speech and listen to the stories while doing some household chores.

kinowon Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

Oh boy, if you start going through old posts you will find a lot of interesting stories. And once you subscribe to some of the stories with that reddit bot, you have a weekly/monthly series of stories to read.

kinowon Japanese words of Portuguese origin

Probably caqui too (from kaki), and kabocha (same name). And other food depending on where you are in Brazil (manju, dorayaki, gobo, rakyo, azuki, wasabi, ra-men, udon, ...).

Other words are used in management, like in English (kaizen, kaban).

And in games & sports, besides jokenpo, there's also kendama that's sometimes used (bilboque in portuguese? That toy Chaves & Kiko always fight for :). Judogi, sensei, most judo moves are not translated as in English and we use the Japanese version in Portuguese too. Some in anime and tech, like mecha, otaku, manga, anime, mangaka.

And in the Brazilin-Japanese community it's common to switch to a version of Portuguese that mixes some words that were widely used: benjo (bathroom), kusai (smelly), gohan (food, rice), kitanai (dirty), se-no (ready-set). That varies in each region and community, but it's common to switch to use these old-fashion words like benjo, which is how all my family spoke in the countrysde of Sao Paulo, but sounds redneck/wrong if you say that to a Japanese nowadays.

kinowon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://kinoshita.eti.br/

CSS only, no JS. Trying to make it as accessible as possible. Mainly about programming and some art stuff.

kinowon Introducing PyPI Organizations

I think this might help a little with the typo-squatting attacks, since it should be easier to filter for the most popular (or all?) organizations in PyPI, and I guess it will be harder for attackers to create malicious projects in an organization.

kinowon Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?

I love my old Thinkpad, but its old nvidia is not enough for blender. How's the performance of your setup? Could you share the exact model & gpu you are using?

kinowon Pandas 2.0

Your link is broken for me, but going to their website and clicking on the 2.0 what's new link takes me to the same URL. They might be updating it... the closest I found was the Sphinx docs source for that: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/doc/source/wh...

kinowon Welcome to the PyPI Blog

Thanks for the brief comparison and for the links!