skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, depends on how you count the “age of MIDI”. Majority of Nintendo 64 games used a MIDI pipeline… you’d take MIDI and a sound bank, convert it to some proprietary format, and drop it into your game. By “PCM” I just mean sampled instruments. That includes stuff like SoundBlaster and Roland SoundCanvas.

FM was only a short slice of MIDI music in games. A lot of that was Genesis / Mega Drive.
Right. It might be a case that the bank knew it’s ridiculous too, but once it was flagged they had to investigate. When investigating they had to ask some script questions expecting some specific answers. Sometimes you have to read between the lines and see what they really would want you to say to move on, and they can’t spell it out as they’d be audited and scrutinized.
This was my thought too but I can't seem to find anything from Spotify's new policy that touches on content removal for subjects unwilling to appear on a recorded podcast. Maybe legal disputes could be playing a hand here, however the timing is too convenient. Easiest answer seems to be Spotify is doing some cleaning on their yard after the recent backlash.
Same boat here, the only reason I switch DDG to Google was to find more relevance on programming / CS issues. But I feel like it's getting worse.
While the problems I have mentioned are big ones, the day to day is generally quite pleasant. Also, if hybrid work takes hold, then owning housing may be less of a pipe dream provided you are okay with long commutes.

People deal with the isolation by taking up hobbies and joining affinity groups that are associated with them. For this there is a lot of opportunity.

I should also point out that high salaries will be eaten up completely by the sky high costs of everything in the Bay Area. It’s only equity windfalls, if properly invested, that will truly get you into a good place financially. A lot of people decide that a few years of this will net them enough money to attain their goals someplace cheaper (the Sun Belt, for instance), so they jump into the rat race with the understanding that it is finite and transient.
Ask HN: Why Are There So Many 10 Minute Email Sites?
If you Google “10 Minute Email” there are at least a dozen sites that all purport to do the same thing.

Why?

Is this it’s own identity scraping scam guised as identity protection?
Sounds like a great equifax product
When cigarette ads are removed, people can still get cigarettes.
I'm always impressed with how much risk they take from generation to generation.

N64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, and Switch.

GB, GBA, DS, 3DS, and Switch.

All of them feel like a generational leap instead of the incremental improvement model of other companies.
Cool to know, thanks!
Oh man, here's the impetus for a new low price air carrier, Squid Games Airlines.
It is that simple. You do not have the right to fly on a private service.

Especially if you have wilfully ignored the terms of service and caused disruption to other passengers.
There is nothing dismissive in GP's comment. Deep breath, mate. Deep breath.
> It's an engineering problem, as far as I understand.

That is far from being clear.

People in the 1700s were totally convinced that building a perpetual motion machine was just "an engineering problem".
They are asking for people CONVICTED of causing trouble on planes to be put on this list .... of course they are free to appeal their conviction
I'm sure it is in their terms that they can remove anything whenever they want. They do it to music all the time.
Their next earnings report is going to be even worse and the one after that even worse than that and so on. They're in a death spiral.
Indeed. It seems quite insane to me. That a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of cancers and many more debilitating illnesses every year could be reasonably expected to be fine, let alone beneficial is just baffling to me.
I know perfectly well that legality is different from ethics. But in common sense terms, charging money for what you don't intend to offer is fraud.
The nice thing is that most games don’t _feel_ underpowered on Switch. Sure the graphics don’t look as good but it’s not laggy in the games I’ve tried.

For example: Immortals Fenyx Rising is cross platform, but it feels smooth. I would rather play on Switch than other consoles so I can occasionally play while traveling. It’s really nice to have the same game, same save point, with same controller on the TV or on the go.
Ethical or not, it's a long-accepted practice. We can argue about whether or not that should be how the world is (I agree it shouldn't be!), but that is how the world is. If you buy plane tickets without understanding that you may end up not being allowed on that plane when it takes off, through no fault of your own, that's on you.
Interesting are you using Flutter and Nim, or just Nim on backend?
He's not doing research...he's having people on telling stories. So me his scientific data that is peer reviewed like the research he is going against.
> but he's the one who started the escalation.

No.

Telling a paying passenger who is not behaving belligerently in any way that they must vacate their seat so that an airline staff member can fly in that seat is what starts the escalation.
Atlas-1
What if you needed to recharge your PSP battery while playing? It had video out, but it was never designed for a couch experience. It was the typical Sony let's do all the things at once mentality. No one bought it for that reason alone, but it, and all the other weird features of the PSP, probably helped it become the only viable portable competitor to Nintendo in 30 years.
It did this one. I bought the WiiU and waited 4 years for breath of the wild. If they had moved it to be a switch only title I would have cried and bought a switch :p

Ms did it with flight simulator. They said it would be on XBox One. But it never came :(
What is a food truck? Can it dump the food in my mouth?
I owned a Lynx and it was incredible to have something with colors when the competition was the original B/W Gameboy.

But I was the only one I ever met to own that, which meant I could never trade games or share the excitement. The lower cost Gameboy had "network effects", and so ended up being a much better buy for a random kid.
What's next, Kissel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissel
And you really like spreading that on all the threads here is seems
Given that United wasn't the one who dragged him out of his seat and beat him (that was airport security), it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that United should have been liable for this. Most likely United just wanted the lawsuit out of the news, so millions of dollars was cheaper for them than the lost goodwill -- even if they would have ended up winning the suit.
Yeah the analogies aren't useful. The actual laws about air travel are though. Airlines can legally bump you from a flight. There are laws about what kind of compensation you are due if this happens.

https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...

That said, the rule seems to be that once you've boarded, they need specific reasons (behavior, safety, etc.) to remove you from the flight. In this instance, it sounds as if the airline fucked up.
The Last Refuge of Scoundrels
Thanks for dropping that link. This thing looks fantastic
No, I'm not insinuating. I think I was clear enough: if you want others to bear financial responsibility for you cause, lead by example. Otherwise you do what any other hypocrite does: shaming people for something you yourself is guilty of.

Do a Neil Young thing, Steve. Pull your catalogue.
The reason for cancelling the ticket is separate from the request to leave the plane. I can talk about the latter without discussing the former, and I've responded civilly to every comment by talking about the fundamental rationale behind private property, public transport, contract rights and refusal to move resulting in an escalated response.

You seem to be creating the very "vile place" that you are complaining about.
> (The kind of arrogance you’ve displayed through this whole thread is why we have post like a few days ago about how HN has become such a vile place lacking civil discourse. Go read the fucking story and then see if you sit there so smugly behind your keyboard advocating violence against passengers)

Oof. Pot, meet kettle.
No. Bell’s Theorem states that if subatomic particles have any “hidden variable” which we cannot currently measure, then that “hidden variable” will either have no effect at all on the particles, or that it will have to have instantaneous “nonlocal” effects on them.

If this hidden variable has no effect at all, then it is useless. Most physicists don’t care to include extra variables in a quantum mechanical theory that have no effect at all. By definition, they could not be measured, and so they would be extra baggage to carry around to no effect.

Physicists don’t much like nonlocal theories either. Any theory that requires information about the particle at A to travel instantaneously to B in order to change the state of the particle there is going to be hard to sell. You might have heard of a fellow called Einstein, who proved that nothing can go faster than the speed of light.

Thus, most physicists take the easier road, as it requires only that subatomic particles are indistinguishable. All this means is that particles are too simple to be uniquely identified. You can in principle tell the difference between two baseballs, because they have different patterns of wear and other markings on their surface. But those wear patterns and markings are formed out of the complex arrangements of trillions or quadrillions of atoms. It is easy to see how rearranging the ink molecules on the surface of a baseball could create a unique baseball, or how selectively removing molecules from the surface of the leather (by scratching it, for example) could do the same.

But subatomic particles are too simple to have that kind of internal state. Even atoms are only slightly distinguishable. Most carbon atoms have 12 electrons, but a carbon ion might have 11 or 13 electrons. You can distinguish between the atom and the ion, but not between two atoms or two ions.
It's much more like the public sex offender lists maintained by some states - the key word in the article was "convicted"
Oh, that sounds fun! In a similar ( only thematically) vein, I've quite enjoyed Cartel Tycoon.
> HN must be blocked in China

It was only blocked in recent years. As far as I can recall it's around 2019. They usually only block things that are influential enough.

And most engineers do have VPN. I'm actually surprised there are so few votes from China since many people I know do check out HN frequently. My guess is they're mostly lurking and don't have enough karma.

> I wonder how it’s impacted their engineering culture to not have access to forums like these where people can freely share knowledge.

There are many engineering forums and communities - as long as they don't get political it's perfectly fine. IMO the engineering culture is very strong in China (not as strong as in the US, but far above the world average). But I'm yet to see something great and big like HN as many high-quality contents are limited in private WeChat groups. The bigger problem is not that people cannot express themselves freely, but rather communities tend to get deteriorated over time like Quora and Medium.

Maybe a close approximation to HN would be V2EX [0] (Interesting it's also blocked in China. So in fact, many communities outside GFW still target the Chinese audience).

The barrier for people to participate in English communities like HN is still the language. People use Stackoverflow daily because they could skim through the code. But the majority still prefer reading and writing Chinese.

[0] https://v2ex.com/
Isn't the Bloomberg terminal something like that?
In the past I don’t recall seeing newspapers or tv networks worrying that selling ads would undermine democracy itself.
> the arcimoto SRK

This is an insanely cool vehicle, never heard of it before. Thanks!
A really bad accident forced me to leave motorcycles for a car, but never adapted to it; I just hate going around enclosed in a box.
This might bring fun back to driving, I just hope it comes to Europe at an affordable price and (even more important) decent support warranty that doesn't make you want to sell it at the first battery substitution.
Peasants Wear Ultramarine
> and caused disruption to other passengers.

That is precisely what United did.
At first I imagine the libc killing the process if argv is empty.

Otoh if you want libc to be possibly a little too clever, perhaps it could make an effort to try to discover a sensible value for argv[0] based on looking around /proc etc to find the path to the binary. That seems like way too much complexity and failure points for a few mostly inconsequential corner cases.
Once upon a time I used Linkedin to keep track of my contact list, which seemed to be its purpose back in the day.

It doesn't be so useful for that these days; especially since you can't get your contact data back out of the system anymore.

So I ended up removing my profile.

I keep meaning to hand-extract contact data so I can leave linkedin completely. Possibly I'll do that when I need to change my email later this year.

Meanwhile, has anyone noticed that you can't actually scrub the feed to get it completely empty? Even if you unfollow everyone and everything, and tell linkedin you're not interested in any activity whatsoever.
It's becoming more common to see violent rhetoric used across the political spectrum. What a shame.

Violence, even threats of violence, does irreparable harm to others.
Good example, but for different issue: Apple Store don't have local pricing scheme, unlike Steam.
https://github.com/target/mmk-ui-api

> Fundamentally, Merry Maker operationalizes three key processes:

- Preserving a baseline of existing pages by saving the code being served by a website along with the network traffic generated by test transactions

- Scanning the saved code for any malicious indicators

- Scanning the saved network traffic for any potential compromise
Better title:

Delta CEO wants to treat unruly passengers like potential terrorists...

Isn't it enough to just ban then from Delta airlines?

There are just that many airlines so it's not that people could just switch airlines for the rest of their live.
Just like the German soldiers running concentration camps during WW2 right? Rules are rules, doesn’t matter if the majority of people disagree with them.
Settling doesn't mean they were in the wrong. It just means they felt the price of settling was cheaper than the price of the bad publicity generated by dragging out a legal fight.

(United employees didn't physically touch him; that was airport security.)
What about? Whataboutism?
Yes I do - several posters attempted to offer new evidence to the gentleman and he doubled-down on his argument rather than acknowledge new information. His argument fundamentally advocated that violence was acceptable despite his acknowledgement that he didn’t actually have any background into the story.
Netflix removed in-app purchases on iOS years ago. They have to honour existing subscriptions though.
Sex offenders and obstinate passengers are a curious comparison.
> I am for free speech, not for a bunch leftist technocrats deciding whom can speak on twitter, facebook, etc

You are for free speech, but against the exercise of free speech rights by private parties in deciding what speech to relay with their resources, which is the basis of the marketplace of ideas?
No idea, but I too want to know. Following.
My biggest annoyance so far is the inability (and inconsistency) to have a one-liner to get a pointer to something else than a struct.

I can write x = &Foo{...} but somehow x = &42 and x = &foo() are not allowed, which forces me in some cases to declare useless variables that hurts readability.
It’s legalized fraud.
> Words can indeed be violent under the correct context. That is a legal fact. https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/verbal-threat

"Page does not exist"

You are linking to a 404 page.

You pretty much didn't establish a legal fact, nor made a point that is even relevant to my statement.
it's called bowling
Thank you. That lists services and one game, which costs less on Android, where Google still takes 30% fee.
Funny thing that public. Everyone thinks everyone else sees it their way. You can always pick out the authoritarians in the room, because they are usually the only ones without doubt "the public" will be on their side.
My take is that the game really shows how destructive someone can be by monomaniacally exploiting everything to achieve a single goal. The game isn’t about harmony in any way. Sure you can choose to pollute less but after you become strong enough there is no longer any incentive to do so. The natives simply become ants to be swept aside. They are not a significant part of gameplay any longer because your defenses take care of them for you automatically.

What makes the game so enjoyable is that it’s so open to creative problem solving. Things that work well for one stage become antiquated in later stages. How do you load/offload your full train in around in less than 10 seconds? How can you keep materials flowing to your factories quickly enough and get rid of bottlenecks?

The demo doesn’t really communicate the amount of depth you can get into as far as that aspect goes (at least when I played it).
Just go to the back of the bus, sir.
Ask HN: Best crowdfunding alternatives to GoFundMe for a product launch?
I had a weird idea related to this about 3D “shaping” massive structures in outer space. So, say you go and mine an asteroid, then put a bunch of metal into a giant “box” for lack of a better word. Then say you could tap into a large energy source from a star. Could you emit energy waves into this box that causes the metal to form itself into a certain shape? I’m thinking of those videos where they put grains of sand on a surface and vibrate it at different frequencies to produce varying shapes. With the right interference patterns, could you 3D form a spaceship hull inside the giant box full of metal floating in space?
Bumping prior to boarding is indeed a long accepted practice. Removing someone from a flight after boarding is not. It is counter to the law except in the rare circumstance that the person poses a risk to the flight.

https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...
I'm not sure that allegedly running a pill mill and trading opiates for sex is a crime that is punishable by being dragged down the aisle of an airliner. I checked the laws there and that is not mentioned. And, we typically have trials with defense council and juries before punishing someone.

Basically, two wrongs don't make a right.
Where did I say that? I can personally object to something without invoking the government to action.
To be fair the opposite extreme (wall of text) is much much worse in terms of readability
Can you tell me more? Last I tried (a number of years ago), the recommendations were completely mainstream and uninteresting, whereas Discover Weekly routinely dredged up almost-unknown artists that quickly turned into favorites. Can Apple Music do something similar today? Does it use a similar approach to Spotify or is it curated somehow?
> There can be many situations where the opposite of 1) applies: where the only thing that matters is worker skill and effort, like moving bricks from one pile to another without tools (presuming that is a necessary and irreducible task). In that case 2) can be the largest lever possible.

You're absolutely right here, of course. However, I'd argue that the "necessary and irreducible task without tools" constraint is much stricter than we see in practise anywhere in real life.

In my experience, even mundane tasks like these (I grew up on a pseudo-farm for some early years of my life, so I have seen plenty of variations of the moving-bricks task) can be optimised to the point of near elimination if performed in a system that encourages thinking.

When comparing the two neighbouring pseudo-farms where I grew up, you could easily see one operated with much higher efficiency than the other even when they had roughly the same moving-brick-like tasks to perform.
Are there any papers on this matter that are not made by explicitly political think tanks?
It's the lists that I'm comparing not the passengers themselves - the point is that putting someone, after conviction, on an appropriate public list that 3rd parties can use to decide whether or not to buy a house next door to a person or to sell a plane ticket to someone - is a way to apply public policy.

It's a mechanism that has already been tried elsewhere, it's not a new idea
Thanks. Recognized the name for mixed-signal simulation. You just made my day.
I want to know who is the person on the images. Very innovative marketing idea.
facebook has similar issue. I ended up explicitly liking all the underwear ads - at least they look good
The valid guesses: https://github.com/hannahcode/word-guessing-game/blob/main/s...
Reductio ad absurdum. This analogy couldn't be worse.
People on the street have multiple ways to deal with your shitty behaviour, including distancing or removing themselves from the situation.

Not so much on the plane. Also, you do realise that streets can't crash and kill everyone who was walking on them?
What “Definition” do you expect?
My completely subjective one, duh.
not as big as other consoles.
The filter is the skill of self-directed learning. It is a meta skill that can be built, which then increase opportunities dramatically.

When I see the jib "they skipped a bunch of steps", it tells me that the person who received the advice needs to work on creating their personal learning system. Ideally, you feed your system a topic or idea, and it walks you through the exploration and work of understanding and applying that knowledge. It's not necessarily a piece of software. It can be a checklist, a journal, doodling on whitebords, blogging, whatever. Ultimately, all human knowledge is accessible through language. Whether that is true or not, if you act from that frame, there's nothing you can't learn with the right support and systems in place.
It is immediate on all phones I have tried it on. 5 seconds is unbearable.
I think I half agree with you. A lot of Jon's segments were just straight up mean -- well beyond playful mockery which made him hard to watch sometimes and he got away with it because of the comedian label. Where I disagree is that he was always open about his politics and knew that his show was "serious takes with light hearted delivery" and made it a point to not talk about topics from a position of ignorance. When you hear him talk off-camera it's clear that he really cares about getting it right and saying something intelligible through the jokes.

When I listen to Joe it's different, I'm not saying he couldn't run with the bit of "I don't know nuthin' about nuthin'" and come from a place of empathy and curiosity which would be cool. But what it is in practice is "I'm a moron and you shouldn't listen to what I think I don't know what I'm talking about buttttt and then speaks authoritatively on some politically charged topic he's supposedly ignorant of."
There’s a lot of gray areas too. I recall a flight where the guy across the aisle from me simply could not sit in his seat. Before we even took off they had multiple conversations with him trying to get him in his seat. In the air, he would repeatedly get up and try to lay down to sleep in the aisle. Their talks with him and me being the nearest seat, had me on edge the whole time expecting I was going to have to break up a fight or dodge a rouge fist. I firmly believe this guy needed a probationary period on air travel.

Also Let’s not forget stadiums ban people for heckling, booing, or other extreme conduct. You’ll get kicked out of a movie theater for disruptive behavior, etc. The punitive actions shouldn’t be too foreign.