skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It always felt like if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines.

I agree. But there is a more nuanced take:

RISC OS was amazing. It was a tour de force in the 1980s, predating Windows 3, Apple System 7, OS/2 1.1 (the first version with a GUI), and of course Windows 3.0. But it was very limited in some ways and it still is today. Acorn killed the RISC PC 2 "Phoebe" which could have supported dual CPU SMP -- but Acorn's OS couldn't.

So Acorn would have needed to change OS to a new OS at some point, and if so, the computers wouldn't have been Archimedes any more. They'd have been ARM boxes with other OSes running on them. Some kind of UNIX probably. Then they'd have won.

But this did happen and they did win. ARM boxes running UNIX are everywhere and they are in the pockets of something like 2/3 of the human race, all day every day.

The real missed chances were not for RISC OS everywhere, which was never going to happen. I loved RISC OS but it was doomed. Hand coded ARM assembly for an always-on internet-connected SMP machine was not going to happen.

The 2 real missed chances are other things. That if other OSes had got in first, before UNIX, then they could have won big.

Around the time Acorn was giving up on desktops, BeOS was moving from PowerPC to x86. Imagine if Be, spurned by Apple, did a deal with Acorn instead. A $2500 BeOS desktop workstation with 4 passively-cooled ARM chips, silent and with blisteringly fast smooth multithreading, in 1998 or so, years before Windows 2000?

Or if Be didn't want to play, an ARM-based Amiga with QNX?

But the big missed chance was a whole decade earlier.

Apple built and evaluated an ARM-based Mac called Möbius in the late 1980s.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/04/where_computing_went_...

It was a possible successor to the Apple IIGS and it ran Apple II and IIGS code, and 68000 MacOS apps too, faster than any of them on real silicon at the time.

If it had the bravery, Apple could have gone directly to ARM from 68000, bypassing its entire PowerPC era and entire Intel era and about 20 years of technological detours.
No. Death is already something that is mostly undesirable, I don’t think making “death by suicide” more undesirable than other types of deaths helps in any way.

If someone is sick, he will tend to get treatment for his sickness, be it mental or not. If someone refuses to treat himself (and this happens a lot for non-mental sickness), there is anyway little one can do.

Finally, I think looking at where the world is hurling toward and why, I feel it should be accepted by all that some individuals want to commit suicide as an altruistic gesture.
Martha Stewart built that empire well before she dabbled in insider trading. Wikipedia says that she sold $230 thousand of ImClone stock. I doubt that paying that back--and to whom?--would have seriously hurt.
Exactly, mankind has potentially amazing capacity to move into star working trekkish utopia within 1 century (not meaning warp fantasy but how society and individuals in it work). But so many stars would have to align, starting with dropping most religions and killing on spot most dictators that it won't happen.

But we should aim high, higher than we think our potential is, to actually get somewhere.
There are a few other HTTP/1.1 servers at that kind of size https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/benchmarks.html
They dumped the prior dev team over a year ago (the ones that added the nft plug-in & fanzone crap) & it is mostly a ploy to get a free dev team as was speculated when the whole "source available" thing got announced 4 months ago (but they seem to have left it to the night before to do anything hence the complete mess that's been going on).

The license was always going to be restrictive & focused on what only benefits them as they would never want any clones, etc to be able to make use of it. Also the terms when I look at it from an ex plug-in dev stance seem to prevent any new / updated plug-ins from being built with the plug-in api headers which afaict would fall under their license & surplanting the prior one (no idea if they've changed the in-file stuff or not as I cannot look at their code to avoid issues with work my own player).
Why the ** do they have to use a 8.9MiB png as hero image? I guess it was generated by AI?
Focusing on merge and cycle times is fine, but speed doesn’t guarantee quality. I’d like to see more on how this impacts stability and user experience over time.
Think of the health and the environmental benefits \s
We need to prioritize. Have you ever tried to survive in the wilderness? Shelter, water, fire, and food. Priorities.

> A $5 billion project is small enough that it won't affect others,

$5 billion would go a long way to providing shelter, water, fire, and food for the homeless in the United States.
Totally fair. Speed is just one piece—it's key to balance it with quality and stability. Faster cycles are great, but only if they don’t compromise long-term project health.
On a related note, I thought that by 2024 we would have displays with 250+ dpi resolution, but to my disappointment I'm still waiting for this to be a reality on anything but small laptop screens. A lot of the rendering tricks that corrupt the appearance of fonts have to do with how few pixels are available for rasterisation. We should have been getting print-quality text by now.
I'm reminded of Stravinski's Rite of Spring, the first performance.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring#First_p...

> The complicated music and violent dance steps caused some to boo. They started to shout and whistle. They argued, and other people who liked it argued back. Then some people started to fight. In the end the police were called. Stravinksy was very upset and ran out of the theatre. The performance was a scandal, but this actually made people curious and soon the ballet became very famous. It was performed six times that season, and there were no more interruptions during the other performances.

I had a similarly negative reaction when I listened to it for the first time, but over time it turned into the opposite, it's addictive and I have to go back and listen to at least parts of it once in a while.

Still, just because this performance caused some violent negative reactions does not mean anything that is at first rejected is good. If it still sounds unappealing the second and third time, it's probably not for you unless your taste changes a lot.

Recommendation (a truly excellent free course for the interested non-music-professional "HarvardX: First Nights - Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots"): https://www.edx.org/learn/music-arts/harvard-university-firs...
user name checks out ;-)

thanks for sharing this knowledge.
If you are based in US, you get 1 billion tokens per day for free from Gemini.
No, Excel was the Mac-to-PC port. Word was already native on the Mac very early on, and that line ended with Word 5.1A, which to many people -- including me -- is the classic Macintosh version. PowerPoint too, but that was acquired: it's not an MS in-house project.

Word for Windows 6 is the point where the Mac and PC codebases converged. And, FWIW, it did so by porting the Windows version to a MacOS Windows-like component library, and Mac users hated it.
Thanks for raising closed hardware too, and I presume you are talking about the Intel ME (backdoor spyware [1] that Intel puts into all their chips via their closed source proprietary firmware). It's a complete blackbox, other CPU that no one knows entirely what it does, but has full access to your main CPU/memory/computer, and allows it to be remotely controlled by anyone with Intels signing keys.

We need to open this too, or at least be transparent, and your points on closed firmware/hardware is really important.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
Depends on region know or how it’s linked. Having another account works regardless.
The Linux rng allows writing to a file to effect this.
Yup the cuts across the public sector are far-reaching. I work in research and we're finding it a lot harder to get govt grants (from GNS specifically, but I hear it's the same in other fields of research)
So in a nutshell:

Apple specifically wants that you cannot use non-apple displays by artificially worsening the experience for the user while strengthening the illusion that Apple's hardware looks better - even though the only reason it does is because Apple themselves made sure to make other displays look unnecessarily bad.

It's hilarious there are people that actually think this is totally okay and not just plain anti-competitive with just enough plausible deniability to get away with it
Stepping on my soapbox once again to say that putting money towards science doesn't take away money from everything else. There's no shortage of money, or corporations that can be taxes, or people who didn't pay their fair share that can be taxed. Don't get upset with the science, get upset with the politicians who don't give a shit about the programs you care about or enforcing tax law.
Everything in every society is just "made up".
How about if we aim our compassion higher?
It's a hill, I don't think anyone said it's the hill.
"Have you ever tried to survive in the wilderness? "

Often enough. Quite succesful, even though I brought most basic supplies with me. So I know about basic needs.

"Right now on earth there are plenty of people who do not have these basics."

And there is a possibility, that this always will be the case.
And I would not wait to find out and stop with all general progress till then.

My compassion is with humanity as its whole, not with every single human. I fear, I have not limitless compassion and I don't see, how we can stop all wars just like that(the main reason for famine today - can you stop the Gaza war for instance?), but I see how little effort can be spend to finance such an interesting mission.

Also, space exploration is a tool to bring humanity together.
Honestly, I’d rather just pay an agent to handle it all.

In order to trust the AI I’d have to learn everything myself anyway. I don’t have time for that.
Tbh Home Depot is to lumber what gas stations are to sandwiches. Actually this is unfair to gas station sandwiches, but you get the idea.
they keep making the mistake, almost as if it's part of their training that they are regurgitating!
Won't it generate tests that prove the correctness of the code instead of the correctness of the application?
As in: if my code is doing something wrong and I ask it to write tests for it, it will supply tests that pass on the wrong code instead of finding the problem in my code?
Do you have a working config for this on Linux?
If an official comes to my door with an identity card I can presumably verify who the person is (although often the advice is to phone the organisation and check if unsure) but I don’t necessarily believe everything they tell me
Nope, it's not really about the language - any mainstream language/platform can be used well or badly depending on who's guiding the design of the app (assuming somebody is, instead of falling into the "agile means no design up front" cult). You can create an elegantly structured, maintainable app in python, node, rails, .net or you can create a big ball of mud. Perhaps apps in Elm, Rust, Haskell et al have a bias towards better design because they themselves attract an elitist crowd who think more consciously about these things. If Haskell ever caught on enough to have an "eternal September" moment then the world would be littered with shitty codebases of pseudo-pure-functional code that somehow broke all the idioms that are supposed to make the language great.

I once had a client who'd had a shiny but disorganized MVP developed on .NET, and of course as the org tried to scale and ramp up new features, the devs had to fight more and more against the design (or lack of it in some parts, or overly complex over-design in other parts). At some point he met some dude at a networking event who had built a successful business on a Node codebase, and became convinced that we should rewrite from the ground up in Node because our performance problems were all the platform's fault. Wrong wrong wrong. But it's much easier to believe a sales pitch than to do the hard work of learning what good, performant design in your chosen language/framework looks like.
There's also the new GC(s) that are almost ready to merge that have different properties that can be tuned.
I was using something called "cash" (I think? Not sure) I think here in Sweden in the 90s, probably around 1998, which was chip but NO pin, ie. just like cash, if you lost your card you lost the cash.. That was supported in a very few places but I was constantly nagging shops to support it.

This was then gone for a good while, whereas today I guess its back in a way, you get some kinds oy payments (food etc) without pin, and a few others, until it will require a pin, then allows a few more pin-less buys, but I think it also depends on the sum.
I don't blame mvp at all. At $prev_gig, we did agile and mvps and all that. BUT we also focused on ownership. You build it, you support it. Forever, or until officially handed off and accepted by another team. Everything has an owner.

You can still get teams who are scared of what they own and refused to update it, but that is a whole lot of "and so? Do it" when you have a healthy product backlog that is single stack priority and the higher priority thing requires output from them (while a pain, it didn't happen _that_ often).

To be fair, $prev_gig was a very well ran company in a lot of ways and better than any other shop I have been in.
OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look
>The scientific method converges on the truth.

There's actually quite a big assumption in here -- namely, that the truth is constant over time and throughout space. (This can possibly be weakened slightly, but that's the gist.)

I personally think the laws of physics probably are unchanging, and I certainly hope they are (because that means the scientific method converges). But whether they actually are is not only unknown, but a question that cannot be answered by empirical science.
It was either sell it & shoutcast or kill both off since aol in 2013 was changing & there's lots of other projects under them at that time which were killed off instead of what was thought to be a better option to keep it going elsewhere.

Alas going to radionony which has ended up becoming llama group after some funny business stuff going on was a mistake though some of the other options that I was aware of at the time weren't great either.

And I'm not defending aol either as there were things that I didn't like under their almost 15yr tenure of ownership but it was never condescending like this lot have been over the past 11yrs which their licensing terms have reinforced.
But you use it with a negative connotation, and trying to portray it as just as bad as enduring constant abuse.

I don't want to be abused. I just want to discuss my hobbies in peace without alt-right people showing up and telling me to kill myself.
This article sort of lists the ideals, but is factually contradicted by the immense amounts of non-impactful and trivial AI papers, who have around 20 authors each.

There does seem to be a strong incentive to publish whatever and distribute the credit among dozens of people.

For the rare actually impactful research the advice is a bit trivial, you might as well quote Feynman:

1) Sit down.

2) Think hard.

3) Write down the solution.
it barely touches on how maintainability and contributor ex. are affected. The Dora report also touches on burnouts and dev health. Speed alone isn’t the whole picture. Would love to see something related to that as well. Will these posts be updated?
It's a fantastic way to make a random, newly written web server in C safe and secure.
Totally agree, I used to muck about with a couple Creality ones and was totally spending much more time tinkering with the printer than actually printing.

Got an A1 mini in the recent sale and it's been so refreshing being able to just focus on what I actually want to do, which is printing stuff.
Did you get a reply from the author? I've been nerd-sniped so I'm very keen to know what the problem actually was.
It's 0.1% of the annual US revenue spread out over many years. So probably more like 0.01% per year. Picking on this one project, which is good science, is silly.
That Message from Your Doctor? It May Have Been Drafted by A.I.
maybe the american government should start negotiating drug prices more effetively like the australia does with the pharmaceutical benefits scheme
I think that might end up with "Oops! All Smallpox."
Hey, just checked. Server didn't crash. I wonder what happened?
They're very unlikely to have that as I don't remember it falling under the remit of things to be collated when things were sold from aol to what now calls itself "winamp" - they primarily got a stripped down 5.666 & what's offered is their iterations though aspects of what was winamp3 would be within the gen_ff plug-in.
Oh yea we have this too of course.
We changed it to Most Lovable Products to reinforce that we don't just do the minimum, we need our customers to enjoy it
Cool! I also wrote my own C web server (sources linked below) which ran a commercial website for a while. It's amazing how small and light you can make an HTTP/1.1 webserver. The commercial site ran on a machine with 128MB of RAM and 1 CPU (sic) and routinely served a large proportion of schools in the UK with a closed source interactive, web-based chat system. However that was 20 years ago when the internet was a slightly less hostile place.

He mentions bots make great fuzzers, but I think he should also do a bit of actual fuzzing.

http://git.annexia.org/?p=rws.git;a=tree
Requires:
http://git.annexia.org/?p=c2lib.git;a=tree
http://git.annexia.org/?p=pthrlib.git;a=tree
Global EV Charging Points with Open Charge Map
I've always wanted to try XTC. I've also thought about coating with plastidip (spray on) but haven't tried it yet.

Tbf medium-large sized prints you can see it's printed up real close but from arm's length at 0.12 height you can't really tell.

Only thing is terrible overhangs/bridges...I need to pick up an AMS already!
> I get that postgres is a good default in many cases ...

And Datomic can run on top of PostGres anyway right? So it's not as there wasn't a lot of the knowledge that wasn't reusable: not for the queries themselves but everything about managing the database. Or am I wrong here?
Jet fighter helmets

BESM-6 mainframe (if there’s any alive still)

Drilling control systems

Medical ultrasound scanners

Screenless, but… a 3D-printed level with remotely controlled cockroaches.

(I’m looking forward to “challenge accepted” comments except for the last two ones)
Not really, there are plenty of communities with diverse opinions as well.

And just like in real life, belonging to a community or group may require you to be aligned to a certain mindset/opinion that is important to the group.
Yes, we're talking about Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) here.
Not the Linux-based SBCs (Single Board Computers)
For most of my life that number has been 0. The past five years I’ve seen it slowly rise into double digits. The level of anxiety is still the same because I always go “but then what?”.
I’ve been both concertmaster and second chair in younger orchestras. They both are great roles but very different.

Concertmaster has a similar level of pressure to the conductor. You’ve got more attention on you and the audience takes more queues from how you play, so you’re a kind of soloist all the time. Many violinist prefer not to be directly in the spotlight all the time so, while there is competition for the role, generally there’s some relief knowing you can count on the best player to lead.

The concertmaster is also the right hand of the conductor. Thats why they come out just beforehand and tune the orchestra. They will also remind the orchestra with subtle queues on any recent instructions from the conductor, especially on pace/timing. If there are soloists performing, the concertmaster works extra closely with them (often including more practice sessions).

Once the hierarchy is settled generally the envy dies down, though inevitably there’s politics as others in the orchestra have their own opinions on who is best/who should lead.

A second chair does need to be able to step up if the concertmaster gets sick. The surprise factor here is definitely challenging but, having played first chair a few times because of it, I had fun getting the spotlight and the opportunity to audition for the future first chair role through my performance.

Concertmaster is similar to a lot of leadership demands - you both have to be an outlier top tier in individual performance and perceived as a good leader by the rest of the orchestra. Other instruments already feel violins get all the attention and that violinists are oblivious to the privilege, so it goes a long way to demonstrate your respect and support for the other first chairs. I personally found a strong relationship with the first chair cellos was key.

I did play a piece where parts of a solos were distributed throughout the orchestra. We all had a lot of fun with that, quite the challenge to make it feel seamless. Dvorak and Brahms both used the mechanic to create unique instrumental voicing.
New GUI client for ClickHouse database
DbGate, open-source client for various databases, recently added support for ClickHouse database. There is quite wide support of this engine, including ClickHouse weird features like sorting keys and not-unique primary keys.
>Unless it's one of those cursed things installed at the customer thousands of miles away that never happens back in the lab.

I had a bug like that in my previous (telcom embedded dev) career. Ended up driving to the customer premises (luckily mere 200km), working two weeks on collecting traces for the repro, and a day on the patch. Once I figured out how to trace the repro, the rest was trivial - the bug was glaringly obvious in the trace. Which in hindsight means I didn't really need to drive there at all, I merely needed to properly implement tracing the repro, and send the built artifact to the customer.

The problem would have been trivially solved if I had sufficient experience with tracing, or found a colleague with sufficient experience. However this one time the experience was bought & paid for with the trip.
For some years we lived in a rowhouse development about a mile outside the Washington, DC, beltway. It would be difficult to overstate the general shoddiness of the construction, which was from the early 1980s. But with the firewalls, we rarely heard the neighbors--we could just hear one household's TV from a corner of the basement. Now, there were a handful of times, averaging perhaps every other year, when somebody would have a loud late party.
Even after reading through this it is not clear at all what is it! "Something-something-fediverse"
> First, you can’t go faster than cars or avoid traffic (in practice),

that is not true, in cities the car speed is usually limited to 50, a lot of trams go 70 on certain sections. Also "or avoid traffic" a lot of trams go completely separetely from the traffic.

> because modern suspension beats aging fixed rail (it tends to be shaky, again unlike trains).

Depends on the city, but a lot of cities that I visited have a very modern trams that are not shaky (helsinky, zurich, bratislava, riga, edinburgh, bordeaux...). Also the technology of the rail building has changed and the new lines are meant to be quiter and more stable

> Trams are electric? Given how buses are basically commodity in our oil-centric world, I can only imagine how trams look at the balance sheet in comparison

No idea what you mean by this but I would assume that the cost of running things is lower, the c02 profile is for sure https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint