skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main issue is that in MAME's normal operation it waits for the start of a new video frame, runs all the emulation as quickly as possible, and then sleeps the rest of the frame time. (so-called "hurry to sleep" that became a big deal on phones). That works fine for games and computers and even Game and Watches, but it introduces lag when talking to the outside world.

Even that is OK for serial/parallel and Ethernet comms with emulated machines, but MIDI is a special case where there's enough lag between pressing a key and hearing it that even crappy players like myself get completely discombobulated.

You can record what you want separately as a MIDI sequence and then play it through the synth in MAME to get a .WAV you can paste into a DAW, but MAME as a real-time workflow isn't there yet. Our basic plan is to increase the "frame rate" for synths significantly (to something like 240 Hz) but there are of course complications with that that we need to work through.
How are you defining a "safe level"?

Everyone in the world has been exposed to some amount of lead and most live out relatively long and healthy lives.
Fortunately, the Cootings machine did not develop any immunity against PEG-9.
As a customer I'll give this case. To control my smart speakers I need to use a mobile app. This is a problem because my wife and son do not use mobile devices, I have an iPad that I unlock with my fingerprint so they can't use it and it goes with me when I am out. I have a large number of cheap Android devices but I can't trust them to keep them charged... These are cheap Android devices, half the time you plug them into the wall and leave them there for 12 hours and they are still 0% charged.

If I could turn the mobile app into a desktop app or a web site then they could use the smart speakers with the computers and they'd think more of my "smart home" purchases.

I think some businesses think they want a mobile app but if they make their customers mad and sad they would be better off without it.
I mean one example was Jobs was an exceptionally good product/UX guy but an exceptionally bad parent. Arguably similar for Musk, lol.

Depending on your views you might see Thiel as an exceptionally good tech exec but an exceptionally bad political kingmaker (unleashing forces he regrets & can't control).

But yes, also terribly mundane. Musk for example seems to fall for every midtwit conspiracy and agitprop post on the social media platform he owns, like your random poorly educated uncle.
Yeah. It's probably a data management and cultural problem, not so much a technological one.

It would be comparatively easy to maintain historical continuity of old data over time, as long as storage costs keep decreasing. Could also have a system like Git or Fossil, that automatically retains history, or just move stuff to an `archive.subdomain` when you're done hosting it. The Internet Archive's budget was only $36 million in 2019; it seems like it'd also add barely a rounding error for any government or large corporation to sponsor it as a safe place to park data long-term.

The problem is that people don't always copy old data to new media, or make redundant copies of current data, and do the other things you need to do to keep digital data safe. Instead we leave it sitting on old hard drives that are slowly rotting away, or simply remove/unpublish/delete it when it's no longer getting enough views. And this is exacerbated by the fact that the systems we use don't provide easy and scalable ways to preserve data by default, so it incurs extra effort and cost to do so.

Society-level information retention and integrity doesn't directly help push out new monetizable products, so there's little economic incentive for anybody to care about it.

The culturally important stuff will probably survive, because people will copy that, just as has always been the case. But as was also the case through history, much more will also be lost, which kinda sucks, especially given the sheer amount of information produced and at risk these days, and the thought that we probably could save all or most of it given modern technology.
I went on a backpacking trip to Isle Royale about 12 years ago, and learned about Moose Boulder (without realizing it was a hoax) before departing. We inquired with some locals about the possibility of reaching it, and we were told to not even think about it. They gave us the impression that it would be hell, hiking through thick foliage without trails and whatnot, so we abandoned the attempt.

Isle Royale, though, was an amazing experience. It's the only park I've ever visited that doesn't have a litter problem. I was there for a week, and I didn't see a single piece of litter. I think the higher barrier to entry for this park results in a different sort of clientele, the sort that has at least a modicum of respect for the rules in such places.
This is pretty huge around tech, finance, politics/political donations, VCs, and advertising. Between that and it being one of the biggest fraud cases ever seen, a retrial is inevitable.
In this case it might actually make it worse. Why are you suddenly, while in the US (for example), ordering physical services in India?

My bank locked my credit card once due to suspected fraud. I asked what triggered it and they said "You never buy gas on this card". This was 15 years ago and I'm sure the algorithms have only gotten better.

A different bank used to ask you to tell them if you were planning on traveling so that your card would continue to work, they stopped doing it and said that they had improved their fraud detection and this was no longer necessary. My guess is that they take the data provided by airlines[0] when you book a flight and use that to tell where and when you're traveling.

[0] https://www.marqeta.com/blog/data-details-what-is-level-1-2-...
It blows mine to see that a one line Twitter throwaway comment is worth bothering HN with.
We're big fans of Plogue and some of their research has been incorporated into MAME (and vice-versa).
There's all sorts of stuff wrong with this, but why is an agent giving them a "hot or not" rating?

Surely that can't be the only thing necessary to flag them based on their social media posts. As using here as an example, I down vote things I meant to upvote or vice versa constantly. Imagine being denied a visa based on that.
I'm not opposed to that.
Developers are the first group to adopt AI at work. Here's why that matters
Some of those do have RL meetings, such as BlizzCon. Or they're comprised of RL friends.
I remember when interviews with Elizabeth Holmes really started to go awry. She would be asked very straightforward questions but respond with these bizarre meandering answers that never really got to the point. It was strikingly different from the way politicians don't respond, and after a few of these I started to think that something was up. However, a fair number of people I talked with back then thought she was absolutely brilliant and that her answers were the workings of a deeply complex mind.

It's mean spirited, but the phrase "she's what stupid people think smart people sound like" struck me at the time. I think the same may be true here. This kind of behavior has been reinforced so much in their lives that in some cases they start to also get high on their own supply. But they to are profoundly stupid people, and start to think that how they interact with the world is what smart people "sound like" and it perpetuates into these spectacular fraudulent failures.
Lack of culture on your part?
> Kids and pregnant people should consume dark chocolate sparingly

I've never met kids that like dark chocolate. Pregnant "people" (IME they're usually women) famously have appetites for all kinds of interesting foods.
You call them naive like if it was a bad thing. I for one welcome the naive ones, they don't feel like they are transparently trying to take advantage.
The following is our current strategy. We used to be all-in on SQLite but we have discovered some nuance as we grow. We do B2B SaaS/PaaS for banking sector.

If we have a customer that is OK with RPO measured in minutes-to-hours and they have fewer than 5k active users, we are perfectly happy running with SQLite on a customer-managed VM and instructing them to use snapshots for backup & restore. Everything on one simple cheap VM in Azure/AWS/on-prem. One storage volume to snapshot. No weird tricks.

If the customer demands stronger consistency between their underlying record system and our system (specifically at time of catastrophe) and/or has more than 5k active users, then we are starting to push towards a separate cloud-native stack. Azure SQL Server Hyperscale with geographic replication to another region within ~100ms of the primary region. I looked long & hard at some of the SQLite replication options, but there is no way in hell I could get them to pass due diligence with the kinds of CTOs I have to argue with regularly.

SQLite is incredible for keeping it light & simple, and we still advocate for this where it fits the overall technical strategy. In terms of performance, before you reach a certain breakpoint, it is very hard to beat SQLite. You have to do it wrong on purpose to make it slower than a single node hosted solution on equivalent hardware.
Who cares about the history? What matters is people who are alive today. And clearly the Kosovar people alive today don't want to be part of Serbia, and that's the end of it.

No one wins with this endless reaching back in to history. if you search long and hard enough everyone can find some valid (well, "valid") reason to be upset with pretty much everyone else. And all about some people who are long dead.
> This i good news you're posting.

Not good news, it's "slightly better than it could be" news.

> wages are growing faster for your market right now than they have at any time in your career so far.

Best in two decades doesn't mean "best in the postwar era", which is the usual horizon for labor conditions. And yeah, having started working in 2000, I've been blessed with real-terms wage stagnation for most of my working life. What luck! Why am I not grateful to unbridled capitalism?!?
Damn, moral self-righteousness must be better than fuckin' heroin, shocking more people aren't out here donating kidneys given that.
It certainly seems so to me, but IANAL nor a legal scholar.

I'm curious whether or not this kind of thing was what the Constitution's authors had on mind.

(I've also heard that the meaning of "peers" has changed, but no idea if that's really true.)
I haven't seen any of the videos. I'd assume that there's some creative use of a camera to give the illusion that no one is behind the wheel.

After all, in the the "two girls one cup" video the girls eat chocolate ice cream. There was a camera cut between filling the cone (with something that is not ice cream) and the girls eating from the cone. It's clear that in the cut when the girls are eating from the cone, the brown runny soft soft substance is chocolate ice cream. Your imagination fills in that it was the "not ice cream" from the first shot.

Edit: You must have added the link while I wrote the above comment.
Gee if only the FAA could have certified unleaded gas some time in the last 3 decades. It’s not like us GA enthusiasts enjoy depending on an expensive leaded gas.
> As you can imagine alcoholism is not that heritable

Alcoholism is that heritable: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345133/ At ~50% heritability, it is in no way unusually low, and entirely comparable with many other traits.
It really depends on the location. Every city has a different perception of their tap water in the USA.

Where I'm from we drink tap water with no filter etc.
Are the terms in question known?
I wish it were easier to make interactive diagrams where you can turn detail on and off or click on a section to zoom in and show more detail
Welcome! You now know who Terence Tao is :)
Because 4K+ dimensional embeddings are functionally useless.
It is frustrating. From a consumer's POV, the system just denies you stuff for no apparent reason.

From a bank's POV, they're losing billions of dollars to card fraud operations, and there are very clever fraudsters who do their best to be indistinguishable from legit users.

Legit users in rare situations (such as being cross-border) are often collateral damage. You can only understand what heuristic you're triggering by knowing a bit about patterns of fraud, which is an unreasonable demand on innocent consumers.
Ask HN: Pledge/Unveil port to Awk/gawk?
non-awk reference examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28535255

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/porting-linux-pledge-to-go

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/09/15/
Just speaking from personal experience, I’m fat because I eat cake and ice cream every day and walk 6,000 steps on a good day. I don’t really see a mystery here tbh.
Perhaps, but then make the other add buttons in the sidebar look like buttons as well to be consistent. At least, that's what I would do. I hate having to guess what's selectable without hovering.
I miss the old Youtube when it was so hard to get money from ads that inauthentic channels were actually rare.

Most people just wanted to share stuff likes video games or memes, some dreamed of fame and money of course, but they had no idea how to get there, they filmed with whatever camera they already had without Youtube, they didn't take a loan to invest in a perfect sound studio setup.

Of course, I'm not taking unpaid labor for granted, I really wish they'd get the money they want and deserve from ads, but stayed simple. But because of competition, that's impossible. Now they all look the same, because they got advice directly from the Youtube company on putting red arrows and stupid faces on thumbnails. And jumpcuts.

Good thing there's still 10 year old minecrafters who don't give a damn about all this or can't buy decent equipment, if I can still find their channels through the impenetrable algorithms.
When I was playing (about a decade ago) we made heavy use of static images. A few people drew their characters, others pulled images from online, and our DM would always flash an image of whatever boss we were about to encounter. These were all intended to be rough approximations, and were typically shared with deviations, e.g. "my character looks like this guy, but he uses a staff instead of a longsword, and he has a lot more hair!" My girlfriend plays with some artist friends, and they regularly doodle their character's escapades.

Art is nice. Customized art is nicer. Also, it's interesting that (as you note) it's far from universal. My group would likely have enjoyed using AI art for our campaigns, but my girlfriend's groups have completely rejected it.
Wait, wasn’t leaded gas banned in the 70s?

Are you telling me all these aircraft that fly over my house are filling the air with lead?

How much environmental lead contamination are we talking here?
For those unfamiliar. The road mostly has four lanes on each side. And speed limit is 100-120km/ph depending on what part you are on.
This is just yet another attempt to piggyback off the HN crowd's enthusiasm for Sqlite in order to advertise fly.io.
Twitter suspends MN Rep. Phillips' account ahead of 2024 presidential filing
Not sure if you're aware US immigration is sort of a shit show.
Really very good indeed. From my time as a magazine editor, you only come across people who can write that well once in a blue moon.

This line made me laugh out loud:

> Though the reporting in Going Infinite suggests that Bankman-Fried is an unrestrained sociopath, Lewis’s general attitude toward Bankman-Fried may be best summed up as “I love my gamer son.”
The presence of antibodies isn’t as big of a signal as we once thought.

There have been several companies developing antibody tests for various things, including your body’s own natural receptors. They have been appealing to people with chronic illnesses as an explanation for unexplained symptoms. For example, implying that if their tests show antibodies to certain receptors then that is a diagnostic clue.

Then some researchers started using one of the company’s tests with a control group (healthy volunteers) and discovered that healthy people had the same antibodies at the same rates as the sick people. They couldn’t differentiate between the sick group and the healthy group at all by the presence of antibodies.

So there’s a lot more to this than simply looking for antibodies to a substance. I don’t know enough about the topic to say exactly what that nuance might be, but after reading the research and talking to some experts in this field I don’t put much weight in simple binary analyses of antibodies.
The only odd part is that it took so long. Leaded gasoline has been known to be toxic for many, many decades.
I saw a Tesla driving down I-5 yesterday and the person in the driver's seat was wearing headphones and holding their phone in a way that made it seem like they were playing video games (landscape mode, both thumbs hovering). In the passing lane. Barely doing the speed limit. Simply unacceptable on this highway where the right lane typically travels 0-5mph below the speed limit and the left lane travels 5-15mph over.

We locked eyes and you could tell they were embarrassed but I highly doubt they stopped. It looked like actual tech/screen addiction to me. I think they were just worried I was a cop, but when they saw just a normal car they went right back to it.

In some ways we can't blame Tesla for this kind of thing. But it's hard to believe they're doing anything to discourage or mitigate antisocial behaviors.

At the very least Tesla should have a "merge right when appropriate" priority in their Autopilot offering. It seems drivers all over the Bay area have forgotten this basic traffic-mitigating rule too. Many transplants seem oblivious why people passing on the right are so much more aggressive than those passing on the left.
i have respect for people who can ask these seemingly-dumb but valid and good-faith questions, knowing that they may be judged for it. we all have gaps in our knowledge.
He's just a rich failson.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=failson#1748...
config.services.postgresql.enable = true;

^ NixOS one-liner to get a local Postgres going. I tried SQLite for a single VPC startup MVP but then just used Postgres because it was just as easy and it's just better to build backend software with.

And then when it made sense to use a managed Postgres instance, it was trivial to migrate.
I had to generate bunch of these at work, because reasons, and I found out that you can use Caddy to do this by including `tls internal` in your Caddyfile.

The first time you install it, it will prompt you to install the root cert.
What's interesting is that blue cruise in my car specifically says "hands off" when it's active. Though it does also say "be ready to take over at any time" and yells at you if you look away.

I didn't realize that Ford was ahead of Tesla in that department!
MAME emulates the SID but the code dates back to like 2004 and doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the modern SID emulation engines. We prefer BSD or MIT licensed components to GPL ones so there's been some hesitation to just grab one of the popular SID engines (and our base C64 emulation is generally decent if you aren't trying to break the hardware like most demos, but it's also slow because the mapper PLA is emulated in the hot path).
> "The government should not be using algorithms to scrutinize our social media posts and decide which of us is 'risky.'

This article isn't super clear about what agencies are using this for what purposes, beyond looking at visa applicants, but visa applicants aren't US citizens and aren't in the US, so they don't have the same set of rights that citizens do, nor should they.
> who are you (as a random online service) to assume you can act as my big brother?

They are not trying to protect you. As a card holder you would not be damaged by fraudulant purchases apart from the inconvenience of reporting them. They are protecting themselves because if that transaction is later found to be fraudulant then they will have to return the funds and will likely be unable to recover the product they shipped or other costs incurred.
Ask HN: How do you manage meeting monitor during face to face meetings?
I'm curious how you manage your meeting screens. I'm wondering which applications you use to continue the meeting on the screen.

It's up to me to manage the meeting screens where I work. I am using Powerpoint.

The first page of Powerpoint is the cover page stating the name and date of the meeting.

The second page is the Agendas page.

The third page contains the decisions taken at the last meeting.

Starting from the fourth page, each page contains an agenda and additional documents related to that agenda. I present the text, images and videos that I can present on Powerpoint. But if I need to open additional Word, PDF or Excel, I give links to them as well. During the meeting, I open those external documents by clicking on the links.

The last page is the closing page.
I run a SaaS based in the EU. Most of my US customers have problems with their subscriptions, because US banks automatically assume that any "foreign" charge must be fraud, and block it.

I am wasting so much time explaining that they need to contact their bank, and they waste so much time calling their banks… it's disheartening.
> as people seek more engagement, their content gets worse. What’s going on here?

This is a well observed trend where appealing to a broader audience makes the content worse.

People, as individuals, are unique and therefore interesting. Appealing to more than one person relies on what those people have in common.

The more people you try to reach, the less in common they all have. If the content is going to speak to what they all have in common, it becomes very surface level.

Therefore all things that want to get mass approval must be very basic, vague, and shallow. This is the capitalist way of creating content.

Conversely, when real artists struck chords with large groups of people, it was because they stumbled upon something unique that many people shared. This unique thing was then valued by large groups of people, and became culture.

Real culture is hard, not reproducible, not predictable, and initially unprofitable. So it is not valued by capitalism. It happens despite the economy, not because of it.

Art must always start that way, or else it is simply content.

//EDIT

I also want to add that this is not a new thing and it's root cause is not social media. It is any media that is shared, whose goal is a large number of eyeballs. This has happened with every medium and will continue to happen forever.

If you don't like it and want it to stop, then you want more socialist policies.
This happens because the cost of developing (or buying) good software and people to build a decent anti-fraud system is very clear to measure and the impact of the false positives is not. Also, as credit card fraud is usually the bank's responsibility, it makes sense for the leaders of that area to go towards more false positives than false negatives.

But it does not need to be that way and the government can and should help.

In my country (Brazil) banking is well regulated industry and we also have some good consumer laws. Both those things help a lot to show a clear impact of badly designed anti-fraud system to the banks. For example, the central bank has an online channel, where you can open a complaint, which the bank is obligated to answer/solve in 5 days and might get fined millions if they get lots of valid ones.

I used to get my card denied very often, with no heads-up or call to confirm. So I raised a complaint at the Central Bank, got an apology letter and call from my bank manager and I never again had my credit card blocked anywhere.
Thanks for the reminder of that videos existence!