MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fb03 | 2025-06-10 22:15:14+00:00
My time to shine! I'm a computer programmer but I've been making music digitally for about 15 years now

The software you want is called a DAW - Digital Audio Workstation. There are 300 DAWs, you need to find the one that fits your 'style' or 'workflow'. There are a multitude of paradigms, as making music is not a single technique.

Once you find your DAW, my recommendation is to just make lots of music. Make the music you imagine in your head. Make the tracks that don't exist but you wish they did. Your first 100-200-300 tracks will all be extremely crappy in hindsight, but when you finish them you'll think they are, at the time, a magnum opus each. Keep iterating that process over and over and after many years, you'll start making something that you'll feel semi-proud enough to be able to show your friends!

This is a track I've done 11 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlkoEI4Sq7w&list=PL2xsoYcYFo...

and this is a newer track, released "only" 8 years ago:

https://soundcloud.com/flipbit03/twothousandseventeen-feat-m...

so you can definitely notice the difference of what 3 years of music making look like in terms of progress

GOOD LUCK!
by rurp | 2025-06-10 22:15:18+00:00
I totally agree, IJ might be the single most disappointing book I've read given the extreme hype around it. The writing style felt very self-indulgent and annoying. The funny/clever parts rarely seemed amusing to me.

Enough people say they love the book that it's probably just a style thing that didn't click for me, but I regret how much time I spent slogging through the book and never bothered to finish it.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-06-10 22:15:21+00:00
Etymological fun: both "mistral" and "magistral" mean "masterly."

Mistral comes from Occitan for masterly, although today as far as I know it's only used in English when talking about mediterranean winds.

Magistral is just the adjective form of "magister," so "like a master."

If you want to make a few bucks, maybe look up some more obscure synonyms for masterly and pick up the domain names.
by pj_mukh | 2025-06-10 22:15:45+00:00
I have this dream of having 4-5 robotic construction workers* capable of tearing down a Single Family home and building a four-plex in its stead overnight.

Then, I just buy houses in High COL areas and start popping them up and moving families in ASAP. What are they gonna do evict working families? Good luck

Then dissolve the underlying corporation before the municipal fines kick in and escape into the night. Render municipal and neighborhood control laws meaningless.

*may not be humanoid, I'm skirting that debate here.
by dekhn | 2025-06-10 22:15:48+00:00
I looked through these articles and also did a bit more reading.

In multiple cases, the individual was given the opportunity to comply with the law (or request, in the case of a private business), refused, and then was arrested for trespassing when they were asked to leave. That's actually different from "Arrested for not wearing a mask".

In one article, the women who refused to wear the mask threatened to cough on people.

In another case, the lawsuit was thrown out by the judge; the individual who was arrested was actually given the opportunity to vote (in a no-mask area), but refused and then was asked to leave, then arrested for trespassing.

There certainly were rights violations, and unnecessary violence/arrests by law enforcement officials. I'm not excusing those, but I will observe that it's challenging to uphold the law in a rapidly changing medical emergency.

In another ac
by Infinity315 | 2025-06-10 22:16:20+00:00
Just ask any person who works in teaching or any of the numerous faulty AI detectors (they're all faulty).

Any current technology which can used to accurately detect pre-AI content would necessarily imply that that same technology could be used to train an AI to generate content that could skirt by the AI detector. Sure, there is going to be a lag time, but eventually we will run out of non-AI content.
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-06-10 22:16:26+00:00
> Maybe if it wasnt suck by funding hyperinflated bogus military tech… there would trees.

US military spending for 2024 was approximately $850 billion. Let's say we put all of that money into one of those $1-per-tree charities. That is 850 billion trees taking up around 7.98 million km^2 at typical planting densities. This is about 2/3 of total US land area. Maybe we can get some more value for money at scale and plant 1.275 trillion trees covering the entire US land area instead.

Once all those trees are grown, they would absorb anywhere from 10kg-25kg of CO2 per year. That's about 12 to 31 gigatons per year for all of the US land area.

The world currently generates ~41 gigatons of CO2 per year.

The just-plant-trees "solution" doesn't really work.
by const_cast | 2025-06-10 22:16:35+00:00
> The single biggest predictor for birth rate is people caring about kids or helping out / number of kids. It's that simple.

No, actually, it's women's rights. In every single country that has developed, we see birth rates drop as women get more rights.

Why? Because when women have the economic and legal freedom to control their lives, a lot of them choose not to have children. When they don't have that choice, surprise surprise, we don't see that.

Okay, we have a problem here. Turns out having kids, overall, is not a very sweet deal. People by and large only do it if you force them. Okay, we don't want to force them. So now we have to make incentive structures.
by muglug | 2025-06-10 22:17:15+00:00
I’ve heard a joke that under Steve Jobs, the number of big initiatives at Apple was limited to the number of execs Steve could shout at in a given day.

I see a similar thing at work — the number of projects a developer can get through isn’t bounded by the lines of code they can churn out in a day. Instead it’s bounded by their appetite for getting shouted at when something goes wrong.

Until you can shout at an LLM, I don’t think they’re going to replace humans in the workplace.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-06-10 22:17:46+00:00
A traditional bluegrass song goes,

“When I was a curly headed baby My daddy set me down on his knee Saying boy you go to school and you learn your letters Don’t become no dusty miner boy like me.”

These jobs aren’t undesirable because they pay too little, they’re undesirable because they’re more difficult and unpleasant than a service or office job. People have been encouraging their kids across cultures and time to strive for higher skilled labor / work not purely for economic reasons alone but because those jobs are better. It’s not a lie they’re unwilling to do it because everyone is unless they have other job options. Forcing people through economic and labor pressure back into their fields for migratory field labor is one of those things that probably sounds good for other people and not yourself, eh?
by ryandrake | 2025-06-10 22:17:58+00:00
> Its unethical for sure, seems like some engineers will do anything for their salary, but if they don't do it somebody else will and it is an exciting technical challenge.

I remember finding this out as a very junior engineer straight out of university. I was once asked to write code to cheat at a benchmark to make my company's product look better than it actually was. I had deep misgivings about this, but as a brand new junior developer, I was very hesitant to speak up. Eventually I told my manager I didn't feel comfortable with the ethics of working on that project, and he was totally cool with it! He said "No problem, we'll take that task out of your queue and give it to "Jim", he'll do it instead." Jim was thrilled and wrote the benchmarking cheating code himself.

There's always someone willing to do it.
by LightHugger | 2025-06-10 22:18:36+00:00
I don't think is exaggerated by gamers, if anything it's widely understated. The issue is that denuvo affects the 1% lows and latency much more than the average FPS. But the 1% lows and latency have an outsized effect on player experience, average framerate can be the same but if 1% lows and latency are miserable then you are playing a completely different game.

You are not wrong about the additional failure of AAA to keep their games optimized but the ways denuvo affects performance are particularly insidious.
by chasing | 2025-06-10 22:18:39+00:00
> A lot more people will be able to create software, and art. But the world wants a lot more of both, and experts will probably still be much better than novices, as long as they embrace the new tools.

"Hey, it'd be a shame if somethin', uh, happened to that nice bit of expertise ya got there, y'know. A darn shame."
by nabla9 | 2025-06-10 22:18:58+00:00
>The World Bank downgraded its growth forecast for the US in both 2025 and 2026, because of escalating trade tensions rattling investor confidence as well as private consumption.

US economic growth forecast halves compared to last year. Growth would be just 1.4 percent this year, down from 2.8 percent last year. Only 60% of the global growth.
by darkstarsys | 2025-06-10 22:19:47+00:00
I prefer Claude Code (the `claude` cmd line version, with Sonnet 4) because it's more like an actual pair-programming session. It uses my claude acct rather than costing extra per token. It also hooks into all my MCP tools (shell (restricted), filesystem, ripgrep, test runners, etc. etc.) which makes it pretty amazing.

After turning off its annoying auto-commit-for-everything behavior, aider does work OK but it's harder to really get it to understand what I want during planning. Its new `--watch-files` thing is pretty darn cool though.
by tdeck | 2025-06-10 22:21:28+00:00
I was recently trying to get better angular accuracy with servos and minimize backlash. One option that kind of worked was to have a pulley on the servo shaft which wound a string attached to a spring to add mechanical bias.

But I ended up giving up and going with 400 step stepper motors instead. They're larger, draw more current, and the drive circuitry is more complicated (it can't get simpler than a PWM servo after all). But they're accurate and significantly quieter.
by wolecki | 2025-06-10 22:21:37+00:00
Some reasoning tokens on this post:

>Intelligence too cheap to meter is well within grasp

And also:

>cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity.

Which is a meter-worthy resource. So intelligence effect on people's lives is in the order of magnitude of one second of a toaster use each day, in present value. This begs the question: what could you do with a toaster-second say 5 years from today?
by boshalfoshal | 2025-06-10 22:22:37+00:00
Pesimistically, you are right, there will be no new jobs. The entire goal of these companies is to monopolize near 0 marginal cost labor. Another way to read this is that humans are unnecessary for economic progress anymore.

All that I hope for in this case is that governments actually take this seriously and labs/governments/people work together to create better societal systems to handle that. Because as it stands, under capitalism I don't think anyone is going to willingly give up the wealth they made from AI to spread to the populus as UBI. This is necessary in some capitalist system (if we want to maintain that) since its built on consumption and spending.

Though if its truly an "abundance" scenario then I'd imagine it probably wouldn't matter that people don't have jobs since I'd assume everything would be dirt cheap and quality of life would be very high. Though personally I am very cynical when it comes to "agi is magic pixie dust that can solve any problem" takes, and I'd assume in the short term companies will lay off people in swathes since "AI can do your job," but AI will be nowhere close to increasing those laid-off people's quality of life. It'll be a tough few years if we don't actually get transformative AI.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-10 22:22:56+00:00
> 1. They are a detailed description of something the author actually did, and show a really cool solution or implementation of something

This is certainly entertaining, and feels insightful and informative. But usually it is inaccurate, subjective, or wrong, because it's an individual non-expert's experience.

> 2. The author has been thinking about a problem for a while and brings a clear, informative, well-argued insight to the problem space

Again, feels like wisdom, but an armchair expert is not an actual expert, and "I thought about it for a while" is not the same thing as "academics critically discuss at length and come to a consensus".

In almost all cases, actual experts have actually studied a thing for a long time, or practiced it for a long time, and have actual evidence to go on. Blog posts don't - because real experts tend to publish in books and journals first (which are peer reviewed), not blogs. If the blog post isn't showing its work with a lot of evidence, critical study, and consensus, it's extremely likely to be bullshit.

I say all this because in the 16 years I've been on this forum, I can count on one hand the number of front page blog posts that accurately portray my field. I'm guessing the real information is not clickbaity enough, or it doesn't validate the biases and expectations of readers. However, the number of posts full of bullshit has been endless.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-10 22:23:10+00:00
Ahh, so you fell for the spin. What about the "able bodied" laid off in the economy and no one wants to hire? What about the "able bodied" who just graduated and can't even get an interview because everyone wants 5 years of experience? What about the "able bodied" who can do basic math and realize that $8/hour can no in fact pay for rent that sky rocketed to $1200 a month?

Business and removing jobs and being rewarded with tax breaks while American workers can't find anything. Whose fault is that?
by tdeck | 2025-06-10 22:24:21+00:00
For folks curious about why these kinds of margins are built in for hardware products, I found these videos informative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwrkfHadeQQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IdAT_SIRK8c&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=63pnz-z_2sU&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D
by SparkyMcUnicorn | 2025-06-10 22:24:26+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the highest ranking model on the aider benchmarks leaderboard.

For benchmarks, either Gemini writes code that adheres to the required edit format, builds successfully, and passes unit tests, or it doesn't.

I primarily use aider + 2.5 pro for planning/spec files, and occasionally have it do file edits directly. Works great, other than stopping it mid-execution once in a while.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-10 22:25:03+00:00
No, it was an honest understanding that rounding up and shipping off millions of people can not be done in a way consistent with what conservative (against a federal paper checking sweep of the nation), Christian (love thy fellow man) America was at the time. Sadly we are a much different country now and put our desire to punish 'the scary other' above checks on government power or any pretence of following Christ's teachings.

People wouldn't have continued to come if Conservatives hadn't continued to employ and build business models around undocumented labor. Not addressing the root cause of the problem, employers willing to reward people for coming to the US, is the problem with the Reagan amnesty. Nothing else would have stopped immigration like stopping the reward for immigration would have. But conservatives are addicted to their bottom lines/business special interests and couldn't bring themselves to do what needed doing to stop what they term a 'foreign invasion'. At least the dems do it out of compassion and don't see it as an invasion. The conservatives just allowed the financing of what they see as a 'foreign invasion' for a small share of business special interest dollars.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-06-10 22:25:04+00:00
I still remember my jaw hitting the floor when the first DALL-E paper came out, with the baby daikon radish walking a dog. How the actual fuck...? Now we're probably all too jaded to fully appreciate the next advance of that magnitude, whatever that turns out to be.

E.g., the pelicans all look pretty cruddy including this one, but the fact that they are being delivered in .SVG is a bigger deal than the quality of the artwork itself, IMHO. This isn't a diffusion model, it's an autoregressive transformer imitating one. The wonder isn't that it's done badly, it's that it's happening at all.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-10 22:25:07+00:00
And how do you suppose that Kagi receives the money invested by their users? If you guessed by function of a VC firm, then you guessed right.

These are legal and contractual proceedings, with strict definitions of terms by law, not by popular opinion in the hacker community.

"Underlying motivations" of the investors is never a legal factor in any kind of investment deal. That's not something that can be accounted for by any kind of contract.
by pxtail | 2025-06-10 22:25:15+00:00
You hired a house cleaner, you told him everything he needs to know, he did a good job. Next time unfortunately he arrives with broken vacuum cleaner, he has another one, smaller, less powerful takes him longer to do the job but it's still done, not spotless but it's fine, he is a nice guy, has good attitude. Another time and he arrives with faulty steam cleaner, again , work is done but takes longer, not ideal outcome. This is happening again and again, he even asks you sometimes to wiggle the cord, push some buttons and try to troubleshot, you know, improving the vendor and stuff.
by dimitry12 | 2025-06-10 22:25:27+00:00
Do I understand correctly that chess-moving demo decomposes into:

- you recorded precise arm-movement using leader-arm - for each combination of source- and target- receptacles/board-positions (looking at the shim visible in the video, which I assume ensures the exact relative position of the arm and chess-board);

- the recorded trajectories are then exposed as MCP-based functions?

Bought the kit. Thank you for the great price! Are table-clamps included?
by const_cast | 2025-06-10 22:26:43+00:00
I mean, maybe, but we have to acknowledge that women were deliberately kept out of the labor force as a means of oppressing them. It's a lot easier to abuse women when they're not financially free.

It's a tricky problem space because it's tempting to just say "fuck it" and roll back the clock. But I don't think that'll work, because inevitably we'll just re-develop and we're back at square one.

We need novel solutions that incentivize women to have children without pushing them into situations where they can be taken advantage of.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-10 22:27:04+00:00
Sure. When the military murdered and/or raped 300+ villagers in My Lai, it was a very serious offense. The commander (lieutenant) was ultimately charged 22 counts of murder, and served a very hard three years of house arrest.

As you can see, the charges are quite serious, which can exceed 3 days stuck in house per instance of illegal homicide.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-06-10 22:27:10+00:00
I can't stress enough how much this is not true for any meaningful production threat detection software. Models regularly fail reversing even basic obfuscation tasks. Try it yourself. No, ChatGPT is not going to break Denuvo. Probably not even in OpenAI's wildest dreams.

Generating an image or sound is seemingly child's play compared to actual complex software tasks. There's not 1,000 different open source DRM codebases you can train against. It's not a diverse field.

Generating code to do script kiddie hooking? Sure. Reversing a complex multi-tiered obfuscation and trust platform? Yeah, right.
by abstractmath | 2025-06-10 22:27:34+00:00
similar to how Anthropic released Claude 4 shortly after the Sam & Jony announcement.

it's super competitive, which should be good for innovation, but there's also significant incentive to use PR tactics to sell that innovation for much more than it's worth.

Sam's comments about how we're super close to AGI fall flatter-than-ever, after the latest model releases (from all players) and the Apple paper confirming what everybody already knew.
by ActorNightly | 2025-06-10 22:28:18+00:00
Ah got it.

Given the text of the conversation, which happened early on, and things were unknown, its pretty easy to see the rhetoric is Fauci highlighting the possibility of shortage for masks for the medical staff given that in public they may not be that effective. Then later on, when there were enough masks for everyone and more studies came out, the recommendation was to wear masks.

And of course, masking, social distancing, quarantine, and vaccine were all proven to work post-hoc through studies overwhelmingly. So the big bad government was right all along.

The interesting thing is that you a) ignore his first sentence which clearly states his intent to prioritize medical professionals, and b) conflate his caution against shortages with him telling people to mask up.

The 2 explanations of why you think like this is either you are incapable of reading comprehension, or you are so ideologically driven that you basically make up reality in your head real time that fits your world view. And either reason is why conservatives should no longer be tolerated - because its not about my view vs yours, its about actual reality vs your insanity.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-06-10 22:29:06+00:00
"Thinking" is a term of art referring to the hidden/internal output of "reasoning" models where they output "chain of thought" before giving an answer[1]. This technique and name stem from the early observation that LLMs do better when explicitly told to "think step by step"[2]. Hope that helps clarify things for you for future constructive discussion.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2410.10630v1

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.11916
by tedsanders | 2025-06-10 22:29:22+00:00
Not quantized. Weights are the same.

If we did change the model, we'd release it as a new model with a new name in the API (e.g., o3-turbo-2025-06-10). It would be very annoying to API customers if we ever silently changed models, so we never do this [1].

[1] `chatgpt-4o-latest` being an explicit exception
by atombender | 2025-06-10 22:29:54+00:00
The Congressional Budget Office estimated [1] about 10.4m immigrants during 2020-2024, more than 3 times more than under Trump's first term, and of which most was illegal immigration.

The numbers cited by Republican scaremongers like Stephen Miller were probably inflated and derived from CBP border encounters, rather than on how many people were entering the country. But there does seem to have been a significant surge, partly thanks to new immigration programs that made it easier to entering the country while seeking asylum. Deportations seems to have remained high under Biden.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/us-immigration-s...
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-10 22:29:58+00:00
Well I didn’t expect some good coming from the ai revolution and yet.

If it helps to annihilate the « news » sites that depended over advertisement to be profitable, that’s great.

Advertisement and journalism should never have been in the same sentence, no one can provide full independent news when you’re at the mercy of advertiser threatening to bail out if you say something bad on them.
by squeaky-clean | 2025-06-10 22:30:14+00:00
"Productivity software" typically refers to any software used for work rather than entertainment. It doesn't mean software such as a todo list or organizer. Look up any laptop review and you'll find they segment benchmarks between gaming and "productivity". Just because you personally haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's not a widely used term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_software

> Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintings, electronic music and digital video). Its names arose from it increasing productivity