MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GauntletWizard | 2025-09-01 18:49:21+00:00
My "AI" response was actually pretty good; It summed up the number of minutes per hour, making only one (glaringly obvious but understandable by some metrics) error:

> Hour 12: The hour (12) is never greater than the minute (0–59), so the time is 0.

Misunderstanding how human clocks work, but right for this clock.

It then doubled that, because there's two 12-hour periods in a day, which was useless but reasonable, and finally divided by 1440 minutes in a day, and got an answer of 9%

Then I asked again, and while it got the same answer, it used totally different "reasoning" that was wrong in a unique way.
by EricHallahan | 2025-09-01 18:49:45+00:00
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by ranger_danger | 2025-09-01 18:50:04+00:00
No they're not. Please cite a single source of this happening.

There were unofficial statements made by third party android news sites that Catalan police claimed that "Every time we see a Google Pixel, we think it could be a drug dealer"... which, while obviously wrong on its own, is completely different than claiming they are actually arresting people on suspicion of drug dealing merely by using GrapheneOS.

Please stop spreading misinformation.
by btrettel | 2025-09-01 18:50:29+00:00
I don't agree. I think most people would think that "patents" implies that a patent office has granted a patent.

For what it's worth, confusing patents and patent applications is a pet peeve of mine as a former patent examiner. I've seen people criticize the USPTO for apparently granting a patent on some nonsense, but when I look at it, the USPTO rejected the application. The problem is that people can't tell the difference between a patent application and patent. I saw an opportunity to clarify this issue and I took it.
by shinryuu | 2025-09-01 18:50:48+00:00
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by bruce511 | 2025-09-01 18:50:53+00:00
I think this is fair, by both Bear and yourself. He's free to attach any license he likes, you are free to use it or not.

Obviously the goal of Open Source licenses does not include making money. You might, or might not, but it's not a priority.

Equally your goal may be to only support Open Source projects. That's fine. For you removing support for this project makes sense.

Once a project reaches the stage of needing to create an income stream, Open Source licenses are no longer appropriate.

Yes, some developers are naive in thinking Open Source licenses protect their income stream. Yes some users are naive in thinking that projects will remain Open Source forever.

Source-available, or Shipped-with-source of whatever you want to call it is a proprietary license which is just fine. It's not Open Source, nor does it need to be.
by Taek | 2025-09-01 18:51:15+00:00
Well, there are a lot of shortcuts built into engines like stockfish that don't perfectly mirror how beginners vs advanced players think.

For example, certain types of piece forks are easy for newer players to spot (knight forking a king+rook on the back rank) and others are harder (bishop forking a king and a pawn in the late game when nobody is on the back rank), but stockfish is going to find both just as easily.

So if you want to get deep into complexity you do need a model of different players and what types of advantages are easy to see for them.
Ask HN: What are three things that is must in 1-1 calendar scheduling tool?
by kathir05 | 2025-09-01 18:51:33+00:00
Today, calendar scheduling market is crowded with lot of tools like calendly, cal.com etc. with tons of feature and options with higher pricing. But for simple 1-1 scheduling, what are the features that needed for solo founders, professionals like indie hackers, developers, PMs, students, researchers for simple networking with prospects.

Is there any tool who provides minimal things?
by idle_zealot | 2025-09-01 18:51:44+00:00
> Especially if the query is complex (e.g. give me a summary of USAs current lunar missions and progress towards a lunar base.)

This terrifies me. The number of ostensibly smart, curious people who now fill their knowledge gaps with pseudorandom information from LLMs that's accurate just often enough to lower mental guards. I'm not an idiot; I know most people never did the whole "check and corroborate multiple sources" thing. What actually happened in the average case was that a person delegated trust to a few parties who, in their view, aligned with their perspective. Still, that sounds infinitely preferable to "whatever OpenAI/Google/whoever's computer says is probably right". When people steelman using LLMs for knowledge gathering, they like to position it as a first step to break in on a topic, learn what there is to learn, which can then be followed by more specific research that uses actual sources. I posit that the portion of AI users actually following up that way is vanishingly small, smaller even than the portion of people who read multiple news sources and research the credibility of the publications.

I value easy access to information very highly, but it seems like when people vote with their feet, eyes, and wallets that's not what you get. You get fast and easy, but totally unreliable information. The information landscape has never been great, but it seems to only get worse with each paradigm shift. I struggle to even imagine a hypothetical world where reliable information is easy to access. How do you scale that? How do you make it robust to attack or decay? Maybe the closest thing we have now is Wikipedia, is there something there that could be applied more broadly?
by tadfisher | 2025-09-01 18:51:49+00:00
Yes, that's the motivation.

These days I would explore the TPM option, but I'm worried that has less legal teeth than a physical key if I'm in a law enforcement situation.

There's also practicality; I really, really don't want to tell my boss that TSA or whoever had access to the company git repositories and databases for X minutes or hours, and that's sidestepped by checking a bag with the Yubikey (wastes their time) or mailing it to the destination (needs a warrant).
by sarlalian | 2025-09-01 18:52:04+00:00
I mean, there’s a chance it’s exactly what he said, “I didn't give it much thought at the time, but knew that I wanted the code to be available for people to learn from, and to make it easily auditable so users could validate claims I have made about the privacy and security of the platform.” … it doesn’t have to be some to be some sort of nefarious OSS altruism, it really could be, “maybe people would want to see how this works”… that ends up leading to … oh crap a bunch of people who have never contributed, and will never contribute, are hosting versions of what I created and taking money that I really would like to have to feed my family.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-09-01 18:52:22+00:00
I think if we accept that market concentration for essential services cannot alawys be avoided, there must be an obligation for these companies to provide those services to everyone.

The difficult part is how to guarantee this right without opening the floodgates for all sorts of scammers and organised criminals.

We need some sort of due process proportional in cost to the effects of account terminations (or rejections) on people's lives.
by p_l | 2025-09-01 18:52:41+00:00
Backlight is a trivial example.

In the past it meant you were unable to even boot the install media, these days it often means something might boot but ends up stuck because it can't initialize for example input devices so you can't load extra driver - which you first need. For every OS you want to boot.

EDIT: In fact, I have a funny example. On my laptop, out of laziness, vendor didn't include necessary ACPI data for sound to work properly.

Why?

Because for windows they could just ship a minimal INF file that declared a "driver" for the speakers which was actually just collection of parameters for a generic driver. As we say in Poland, "finished, time for Counter Strike".

On Linux working sound required patching drivers to include potentially dangerous settings as "quirks", including things like capacitance of capacitors connected to amplifiers.
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by alpaca128 | 2025-09-01 18:52:53+00:00
The original point in this thread was that the lab isn't necessary for LTT to produce their content as they successfully appeal to a large audience either way. Which is obviously true, given the lab did not exist for most of the channel's lifetime and growth.

You argue that it's beneficial for informing the consumer. It is, but no one here disagreed with that.
by lazzlazzlazz | 2025-09-01 18:53:07+00:00
I haven't found this to be the case. I check both regularly and much of the "science" that has engagement on Bluesky is thinly-veiled political slop earning engagement as a form of tacit "resistance". It's paper thin (and even the comments here on HN demonstrate a bit of this effect).

X downranks links in general, unfortunately, so unless the research is reformatted for X (rare) it won't get much engagement.
by tlb | 2025-09-01 18:53:45+00:00
You could try adding more cowbell on a branch, test it with audiences, and revert if they don't like it.

But branches are only really useful if you can merge. If the more-cowbell branch tests well, and the faster-tempo branch also tests well, you'd like to merge them. But the file formats in music production don't generally allow such things.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-09-01 18:54:03+00:00
Yea I agree a 2 state solution is probably the worst thing that could happen for the palestinian populace right now because within a year it would lead to dresden levels of destruction and an actual full throated genocide of all the palestinians when the state inevitably starts lobbing rockets at tel aviv and jerusalem. Even if the vast majority of palestinians dont want that they wouldnt be able to stop iranian backed terrorists from doing it and thats all the excuse israel needs to annihilate a sovereign palestine.
by syngrog66 | 2025-09-01 18:54:07+00:00
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by nilmethod | 2025-09-01 18:54:26+00:00
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by sofasofa | 2025-09-01 18:55:00+00:00
The difficulty with sharing projects is why we built Sesh (https://sesh.fm), like Figma for music. We auto-resolve edits live in the same session, no Git-style branching/merging to think about. Just share a link, see collaborators' cursors, record and edit together in real-time. It’s early days, but we’ve had some fun seshes so far. Happy to answer questions.
by rectang | 2025-09-01 18:55:27+00:00
I use Git with Lilypond[1], text-based music notation software: https://lilypond.org/

It's akin to working in LaTeX with Git, in that there's a source file that gets tracked, while the PDF output is untracked. And it's great because this is real source code and the Git diffs and commits are meaningful, unlike working in binary formats.

I feel fairly confident that decades from now my work will be recoverable, a confidence that I don't have when working with proprietary binary formats.

What options do I have for text-based DAW? I accept that this is a niche preference for solo work; I have difficulty imagining that such a platform would be suitable for traditional studio collaboration. I've dreamt about building something myself using AES31 if I only had another lifetime — but maybe someone has beaten me to it?
by alephnerd | 2025-09-01 18:55:55+00:00
> in their early industrial periods.

> The same will happen in other developing economies

Most western countries developed in an era where trade was nowhere near as globalized and instantaneous as it is today.

A steel mill in 1920s Pittsburg wasn't directly competing or face disruption from a steel mill in Essen, compared to today when you are competing with public-private steel mills in China, India, Vietnam, Iran, Indonesia, etc which while also unionized and (relatively) well paid jobs, are fine working 6 day workweeks and 10-12 hour shifts for a $6,000-9,000 a year salary with a pension and free or subsidized housing, and can export finished products globally in days instead of months.

Heck, even the oil industry is now outsourcing critical geological and petroleum/chemical/mechanical engineering jobs to India [0]

And this is the crux of the issue - a major reason the US and Western Europe had manufacturing dominance throughout much of the 20th century was because it had the right mix of human capital, financial capital, and technology concentrated within their borders.

This isn't true in the 2020s anymore - a lot of technologies are fairly democratized now, a lot of alternative domestic capital markets have formed, and research output and human capital has expanded massively across countries.

Heck, China, India, and ASEAN today share developmental indicators comparable to or significantly higher than the European portion of the Warsaw Bloc during the 1990s.

And even in newly industrialized countries like South Korea and Turkiye, the same abusive working standards in manufacturing industries remains, but now being powered by migrants from Vietnam/Indonesia/China or Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan respectively.

[0] - https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/big-oil-is-offshorin...
by nativeit | 2025-09-01 18:56:12+00:00
This prompted me to learn about the following git features/extensions, namely `git-annex` and its list of adjacent items ("what git-annex is not"[1]) that might be useful (or suggestive of an alternative) in the context of music production:

> git-annex is not git-media, although they both approach the same problem from a similar direction. I only learned of git-media after writing git-annex, but I probably would have still written git-annex instead of using it. git-media uses git smudge filters (recently supported in git-annex as well; see unlocked files) and may be a tighter fit for certain situations. It lacks git-annex's support for widely distributed storage, using only a single backend data store. It also does not support partial checkouts of file contents, like git-annex does. > git-annex is similarly not git-fat, which also uses git smudge filters, and also lacks git-annex's widely distributed storage and partial checkouts. > Similarly, git-annex is not git-lfs, which also uses git smudge filters, and appears to lack git-annex's widely distributed storage and partial checkouts. > git-annex is also not boar, although it shares many of its goals and characteristics. Boar implements its own version control system, rather than simply embracing and extending git. And while boar supports distributed clones of a repository, it does not support keeping different files in different clones of the same repository, which git-annex does, and is an important feature for large-scale archiving. > git-annex is not the Mercurial largefiles extension. Although mercurial and git have some of the same problems around large files, and both try to solve them in similar ways (standin files using mostly hashes of the real content).

1. https://git-annex.branchable.com/not/
by hungmung | 2025-09-01 18:56:33+00:00
Drivers on their phones scare the living shit out of me. I've driven across America way too many times, and there are a lot of people on the interstate that are texting or just browsing the internet while they drive at full speed. My partner riding shotgun would count them but it became somewhat impractical after a while. There's a trope in my head now of teens/young-20's driving fucked up Altimas going 90mph+ down the interstate with their eyes down on their phones and not looking at what's in front of them at all. I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen one rear end a semi ala Jayne Mansfield by now, which is apparently becoming not uncommon.

Edit: forgot to add. I was one of the first vehicles to the scene of somebody who plowed head-on into a boulder while driving about 60mph. Killed 4 people. I was able to find the police report later and it turns out the driver was updating her Instagram in the moments leading up to the crash. That sort of thing leaves an impression on you when you see it first hand.
by vinibrito | 2025-09-01 18:56:50+00:00
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