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I find it interesting that the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) also was backwards compatible with the Sega Master System.

Inside the Genesis they had the hardware for the Master System, which included the original Z80, the original sound chip. The Genesis graphics chip was evolved from the Master System and could work in Master System mode. You needed a cartridge adapater.

The other surprising thing is that you could actually run the Z80 in parallel with your 68000 when running a Genesis game. We used the Z80 as a sound co-processor running MIDI and playing sampled drums without bothering the 68000.

On the PS2 system's PS1 backwards compatibility this pattern is quite similar, not mentioned in the blog posts is that the IOP which acts as the PS2's sound co-processor contains an R3000 like the PS1 and it's underclocked to directly run the PS1 titles.

Apparently on later editions of the PS2 Slim they removed the R3000 based IOP and replaced it with a PowerPC microcontroller! It had to fully emulate the R3000 and the SPU as far as I know to fufill the IOP duties including the PS1 emulation.
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I used to live beside a commuter train elevated line (in Ireland, not Japan). Many nights after the line shut down, there’d be at least some maintenance going on, sometimes extensive maintenance. And that was just on the short stretch I could see. Heavy rail takes a fair bit of maintenance, and 24 hour buses can _mostly_ plug the gap in places that have them (volumes are way lower at night).

Irish Rail sometimes runs late services around Christmas and New Year, but have been fairly clear that it’s not sustainable, and even then there’s an hour or so gap where the tracks are cleared before normal service starts up around 05:30.
Show HN: UnChatGPT custom GPT – rephrase text to make it more human
If you like game of life watch "backwards game of life" video by Alpha Phoenix, definitely my favorite video of 2024: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pjrVbdafY
Indeed, twin studies form the strongest leg of Bryan Caplan's argument in support of the signalling hypothesis in his book The Case Against Education, which I highly recommend anyone trying to refute it read and try to debunk. If you want an itemized list of citations this is where I'd start.
> Christoph Hellwig is one of the oldest subsystem maintainer.

Also it's not his domain, from Marcan's Reddit response Greg is one in charge of maintaining this area.

So this is drive by reviewing.
I get the argument that syntax highlighting can be distracting, but I think the real issue is bad highlighting. Overly bright themes, too many colors, or inconsistent styles can make code harder to read. But when done right—like with semantic highlighting that differentiates mutable vs immutable variables—it can actually enhance understanding rather than clutter the screen. Maybe the problem isn’t highlighting itself, but how it’s typically implemented?
> Are we really buying this?

No. I'd figure that most HNer's know The Guardian has a strong "optimistic fluff" bias, and some of us feel like venting our spleens about potholes and poorly-maintained roads.
This is a lot of fun. I remember Hotline from the dial-up years, and how frustrating it was to use over slow connections, but also how much better and Mac-like it was than most BBSes.
Apple doesn't give their Chinese customers any privacy.
After decades of using IDE's from Think Pascal/C, MCL, Borland C++/JBuilder and lots of Visual Studio and mostly PyCharm these days, I was forced to use an Eclipse IDE for a model driven dev project a few years ago.

Worst IDE experience ever and this tainted the 'Eclipse' brand for me forever.
To not believe aliens exist is pretty arrogant, but to believe they have visited this planet is the very unlikely thing
This is what you want: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41847640
I am an amateur developer (my own stuff and open source) and I always pick the same stack when writing something. This is because I found the optimal, third-best stack that pretty much fits everywhere with minimal friction.

It is not optimized. It is not the fastest. But it works everytime.

This is akin to using the arrow library in Python whenever I have to do the slightest date whatever. Display a date? arrow. Manipulate a date? arrow. Store a date? ISO. Yes this is a dependency, yes, there are edge cases but it mostly works - certainly better if I had to understand dumb vs full dates etc.

Unfortunately I am a curious and excited person and I keep changing this "ideal stack" twice a year but still.
It's truly disheartening to see Vi Hart's videos being removed or made private. Her unique approach to mathematics has inspired countless students and enthusiasts. The remaining video, "On Gender," offers a glimpse into her perspectives beyond math. It's concerning to think that harassment or negative experiences might have led to this situation. I hope that, in the future, creators like Vi can share their work without fear, and that platforms can find ways to preserve and respect such valuable content.
They wanted to execute Thomas Paine so I'd say about then
Which is why trucks already have 24v as otherwise they would need too much wire.
True. But when a tiny minority (folks with heavy trucks) have an intense interest in getting away with something, while the vast majority can't be bothered to pay any attention to the issue...
The decline of entry-level roles is worrying. Companies are optimizing for immediate productivity but forgetting that juniors grow into seniors. No training, no pipeline, no future talent...
Not "religious" (even though I've used the word "zealot" right here) but rather political or social.
All my IQ tests show results between a chair and a fly. The testers were horrified, and so I was.

I am still wondering over all these years if this is the test or if this is me :)
Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk's Team
This is so cool! I love to see people hacking together apps for the reMarkable tablet

I made a little app for reMarkable too and I shared it here some time back: https://digest.ferrucc.io/
If companies don’t invest in juniors because they 'might leave,' they’ll just end up with a team of burned-out seniors who eventually leave anyway.
> The thing is most Americans just don’t think much about Europe at all.

Well they don't even know what's out there. 40% of Americans never left the US, 11% never even the state they were born in [1]. And even if you travel to another state, culturally it will be pretty similar to where you came from - same language, same TV/radio stations, same car dependence, same politics.

In contrast, in Europe... pretty much anywhere outside of Russia only needs about two to three hours worth of car drive and you're in a country where you don't know anything, in the Balkans you won't even be able to read because Serbs write in Cyrillic, and on the eastern border you can even play warzone tourist if you don't mind the risk of getting arrested or shot (or you can sign up for a combat tour with the Foreign Legion). Every one of our countries does stuff differently and you have so many opportunities of learning, it is mind blowing sometimes.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lealane/2019/05/02/percentage-o...
However, "hard to connect" with Microsoft, is not the case. When it came from their own notes. It's also not hard to connect IBM with the Fuhrer, but that's also in the past. Doesn't mean it never happened, though.
If you looks at the history then you will see that many different solutions have been proposed but Christoph's responses essentially boil down to 'do it somewhere else' and 'no not there', until it is basically 'not at all'. He is not in a position to make this decision, only Linus is. The patch as it stands lives outside of any sub-systems within Christoph's purview, he is simply being obstructionist out of tribalism.
Focus on building real projects, contributing to open source, and gaining practical experience. Strong problem-solving skills, knowing system design basics, and some cloud familiarity (AWS/Azure/GCP) help. Networking and referrals matter a lot—try to connect with industry folks on LinkedIn or attend meetups. Most importantly, don’t just grind LeetCode—show you can build and ship things.
You don’t need to mention monads, just imagine an Optional as a list with at most one element.
Right? The golden age of game dev—low-level programming, custom hardware tricks, and figuring out how to squeeze every last drop of performance out of the PlayStation. I’d love to see those internal docs and training materials. Probably a treasure trove of lost optimization techniques!
> It's completely understandable for wanting to take things slow and not be too quick to put it in places where there would be no going back.

Have you even seen the original thread? It wasnt about "taking it slow", he was trying to block R4L permanently.
Warriors! Come out to play-ay!
Given the desperation for economic growth in the UK, the idea that they would inflict such a massive bit of self harm on themselves over increased spying options is frankly ludicrous.
The UK needs to be reminded of 1776 before they reprise what gave rise to the 4th ammendment.
Probably just knee-jerk downvotes from people who misread the title and assumed you were confused. Honestly, the PS/2 vs PlayStation naming overlap is fair—Sony could’ve picked a more distinct name!
Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
where else would a liberty bell explode
Because the alternative to using one name is using more than one name. These days I'm pretty sure I'm using `select` to mean `map`.
How about this on android driven Onyx Boox ereaders? Would it be possible?
I didn't know that it isn't allowed?
VS Codium even endorses downloading the files from there and installing them in Codium. Is this against their TOS or something?
DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, Nvidia, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
https://archive.ph/q7R2S
This is a brilliant use case—handwriting input combined with LLMs makes for a much more natural workflow. I wonder how well it handles messy handwriting and if fine-tuning on personal notes would improve recognition over time.
Looks like he was a manipulative asshole. The kind of boss I despise so much that even if was in the process of inventing a universal cure for cancer I could not work with him.

It is sad that such assholes attract similar people in their direct entourage and we end up with utterly toxic management teams.
That’s awesome! Love seeing the reMarkable get more functionality through creative hacks. Just checked out your app—what was the biggest challenge you faced while developing for the reMarkable?
Okay, but how long is reasonable to take to tell someone that their patch is too big to be reviewed?

> We were meticulous in our submissions to avoid wasting maintainers
time. We even waited two months without hearing a word before we sent
an inquiry as to the status of one of the submissions. We were told,
rather curtly, that anything we sent would likely be ignored if we
ever inquired about them.

It's reasonable to ask that people make smaller-sized patches to get reviewed, and it's reasonable to have to rule out some things due to not having the bandwidth for it compared to other priorities, but it's pretty ridiculous to expect people to know that those are the reason their code isn't getting reviewed if they're not allowed to inquire once after two months of radio silence.
I love Linux and have no preference to either C or Rust, but locking Linux in to a programming language that was designed in the relatively early stages of computing will lead to Linux dying in the long term.

There will be fewer and fewer new C programmers with people instead taking up newer systems programming languages like Rust or Zig.
Homeless Toys
Gaza has nothing with which to do a deal. So far as I can see, which admittedly isn't necessarily all that far, the only parties there that have any meaningfully influential levers to pull are Israel (whose current (unpopular) leader is welcoming this) and Egypt (who have the Suez canal).

(I don't think anyone outside the region is sufficiently motivated to care, though now I think about it I wonder if Iran could buy a nuke or ten from either Russia or North Korea? If so, or indeed if anyone else in the area can, they also become relevant).
Building a list of European projects/companies, can you help me to add more?
hi, i'm building an up-to-date list of recommended European projects, to support and strengthen the European tech ecosystem, specifically for users interested in privacy and sustainability.
Exactly! There’s something about handwriting that makes it feel more personal—like scribbling notes in the margins of a spellbook. The shift from typing to pen input definitely changes the vibe of interacting with AI.
Speaking of "disheartening": your fellow devs who wrote the Pylance extension decided to mount a ReDoS attack against anyone who opens it in a debugger. I merely tried to investigate an issue that I had. [0] [1]

Being on the receiving end of a deliberate ReDOS attack feels more than disheartening. This is not shedding a good light on the VS Code development team as a whole. This is a despicable act.

[0]: https://darmstadt.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/...

[1]: https://darmstadt.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/...
And there's still not a COBOL training pipeline.
I didnt do anything during lockdown, that is, I carried on mostly as normal. I co-founded a community that was about socialisation for kids and being outdoors. None of us have long covid. None of us had anything worse than a flu.
I also have friends that I didn't see closer than 10 metres during lockdown, they stayed indoors and watched Netflix, ordered food online, and behave themselves. 8 of them have "long covid". I understand anecdote isn't evidence, but when this whole thing became political I decided I can only make decisions based on experience and not what my better insist upon me.
I haven't touched Gecko in a decade, but your second paragraph sounds like my experience. My best record was something like a single character bug fix taking months (might have been years?). Yes, the review flag was set to the right person.

I still remember the story where some other guys had to meet some Mozilla folks for lunch and nag them for reviews…
CuBit: A Gen­er­al-Pur­pose Oper­at­ing Sys­tem in SPARK/ Ada (2020)
UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov't spying worldwide, reports say
> It seems like a huge technical factor holding back a stable ABI is the C compiler itself.

Not really. Every OS has a stable C ABI, otherwise there would be no stable OS API functions and no application plugin APIs. The actual reason seems to be that they simply do not want to commit to a stable ABI/API so they are free to make breaking changes and remove outdated APIs. Fair enough, but don't blame it on the compiler!
Confusing a minority of fringe members with the reasonable group of "psychedelic advocates" as a whole just delegitimizes the whole movement. There will always be some who take reasonable ideas to absurd extremes.

As a point of comparison: "social drinking advocates" vs. those who like to get blackout drunk every night.

The idea that everyone should be pressured into taking psychedelics is an absurd extreme. Psychedelics can be a powerful catalyst to growing as a person, but they're not a magic potion that makes you grow emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually.

They're likely going to bring your unprocessed ideas and personal issues to the forefront which can be very productive if you want to face them. But those who carry around demons that they've repressed and absolutely don't want to face would probably have a terrible time on psychedelics.
way behind the curve, and it still works plenty well both on this site as well as, very recently, to a comcast agent.
The proposal could be the other way around. You'd ideally want some time to protest a proposal.
DeepSeek coding has capability to transfer users' data directly to Chinese gov
Yes, and now compare to what happened. You could differentiate between words and actions and what exactly was affected. For someone to "sabotage the Rust experiment in the kernel" you would need to determinate that that person did something that a) effectively damaged / obstructed the project (which - if GP is right about that that person has no power to stop the merging of the patch anyway - is a dubious claim), etc.

Misrepresenting the voicing of opposition to some process as "sabotage" seems completely out of line for a any kind of community project. If you define things so loosely, then every side in any disagreement could always label the other side of doing "sabotage". This reflects the sentiment of many Rust people to "be on the right side of history" where everybody else automatically is wrong and even voicing objects and criticism is already "sabotaging" on the true path.
ish, yeah, but when you go work at a job it seems like half the people there are because they're smart and half are they're because they're upper-class/wealthy background, and some are there because they worked really hard, and a few are there by accident. at a daily experience level it's very clearly more complicated than smart=money; it's just one weight out of many.
If buying is not owning, piracy is not stealing.
That would be next-level immersion! You could probably achieve this by rendering the LLM’s response using a handwritten font—maybe even train a model on your own handwriting to make it feel truly personal.
Option 3: Cook talks to Trump and asks for tariffs in the UK until this demand is rescinded.
But not high quality for teaching children. They arw great supplemental resources that teach intuition. Nothing less, but also nothing more.
Actually if you figure that out please post it here!! I'd love to see that!
Yeah, but employees are just resources.. You can always hire new talent.. Until not ;)
Or for some reason in the rear view and side mirrors!
I think the thing I really didn't like was the lack of an OAuth like flow with fine-grained permissions

Basically authentication with devices is "all-access" or "no-access". I would've liked it if a "write-only" or "add-only" api permission scope existed
PEPFAR, created by _Republican_ George W. Bush, is dead as part of this, here's _Republican_ George W. Bush claiming it saved 25 million lives in a talk two years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOUWlL_HLQ

Unless we're all pointing at everyone we don't like, regardless of if they were the most notable _Republican_ of the past few decades except for maybe Trump, and calling them Democrats.

Here you go with this most Democrat of websites: https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/global-health-update... - on that website they now list 26 million lives - and "it’s a matter of life and death".

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell
I wish rust took inspiration.. Same story regarding moving away from llvm.
I get what a regular expression like that does, but what leads to it being executed?
The C++ situation was completely different, Linus said from the get go "no way", thus nobody put serious work writing c++ code for the kernel. With Rust Linus essentially said let's see how it goes, but specifically said he would deal with maintainers who would be unwilling to consider code that would be necessary for R4L.
Based on this people invested significant work into writing code that is quite widely used, only to now have a maintainer saying he'll oppose any Rust code coming into the kernel, and Linus saying the guys trying to get the code in are the problem.
I haven't seen any luxurious campuses in the US, though I don't have much experience with student housing and services. Some departments are baseline modern office buildings, while others remind me more of Latin America than Europe. And some would be eerily similar to the USSR, if you painted them light blue.

Large part of the cost explosion is simply Baumol effect. In particular, universities employ many professionals, and professional salaries have grown ridiculously high in the US. Median full time income is something like $60k, which means that anything above $120k should be high income by the usual definition. But if you ask a professional, $120k is not a particularly good salary.

Another large part is the growth of mandatory spending. Roughly speaking, many administrators are mandatory, because they exist for external reasons. Universities cannot cut them, unless the external environment changes. The more regulations and expectations there are, the more administrators universities require.

Then there is the issue that American students expect to be taught, which makes education more expensive. I studied in a European university, where the curriculum was structured around exams. Classes were offered when the resources allowed it, but you were expected to pass the exams regardless. Very convenient if you are sufficiently independent. And less so if you are not.

The public research university I'm at recently had something like 15% deficit in core funding. Mostly due to tuition fees and state funding lagging behind inflation. There is simply no money to move around.
There is another hat: cannot resist pigeonholing other people

once you get someone pigeonholed, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy
Can you provide an example. I just don't see it tbh.
Especially since closures in java really don't work with checked exceptions at all.

That's why vavr avoids it at all costs. Eg:
```java
assertEquals(
Vector.of(1, 3),
Vector.of(Some(1), None(), Some(3))
.filter(Option::isDefined)
.map(Option::get)
);
```

If `Option.get` was throwing a checked you'd always have to wrap it in try-catch. I understand that this is a break with the type system (meaning it is not strong typed Maybe/Option in that sense). But otherwise you'd be worse of than with stupid null checks IMO.
Why now? I gave up on this at least 10 years ago. If you can't even get techy people to think about the ethical ramifications of encryption etc then it's a lost cause. What makes you think now it's different? They said it couldn't get much worse 10 years ago, as did they 20. Do you really think the UK population has a breaking point where they will suddenly understand privacy and why it's important?

The UK population generally wants to put their fingers in their ears and pretend everything is ok. Remember we're all descended from people who didn't go to the colonies to try to get a better life.
Kind of reminds me of Kenneth Reitz somehow
I had a client doing this in 2016. It was ancillary to their main business which was matching movers with homeowners. They eventually pivoted into an insurtech offering using computer vision models to do what you’re suggesting, collecting the data at the point of moving by using the movers to do the “heavy lifting” of scanning the items. They ended up being insurance intermediaries before folding so I’m not sure how valuable the idea is. Maybe things are different now.
If Pulse (which is a competing product, the premise of which is threatened by both closed and open models) wants to dispute the post earlier this week, it should provide samples which fail in Claude and Gemini. The image [1] in the post is low-resolution and fuzzy. Claude's user manual specifically says: "Images uploaded on Claude.ai can be up to 30MB, and up to 8000x8000 pixels. We recommend avoiding small or low resolution images where possible."

> We have hundreds of examples like this queued up, so let us know if you want some more!

Link to it then, let people verify.

I've pushed a lot of financial tables through Claude, and it gives remarkable accuracy (99%+) when the text size is legible to a mid-40s person like me. Gpt-4o is far less accurate.

[1]: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6707c5683ddae1a50202bac6/...