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New comment by lightyrs in "Searching for the Perfect Sync"

lightyrs — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:06:41 +0000

Really interesting deep-dive reverse engineering of Din Sync (Sync 24)

Searching for the Perfect Sync

lightyrs — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:06:41 +0000

Article URL: https://sunshine-jones.com/searching-for-the-perfect-sync/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569976

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by lightyrs in "We Will Not Be Divided"

lightyrs — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:59:48 +0000

» Have there been any mistakes in signature verification for this letter?

» We are aware of two mistakes in our efforts to verify the signatures in the form so far. One person who was not an employee of OpenAI or Google found a bug in our verification system and signed falsely under the name "You guys are letting China Win". This was noticed and fixed in under 10 minutes, and the verification system was improved to prevent mistakes like this from happening again. We also had two people submit twice in a way that our automatic de-duplication didn't catch. We do periodic checks for this. Because of anonymity considerations, all signatures are manually reviewed by one fallible human. We do our best to make sure we catch and correct any mistakes, but we are not perfect and will probably make mistakes. We will log those mistakes here as we find them.

New comment by lightyrs in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

lightyrs — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:44:30 +0000

This was really fun. Nice job.

New comment by lightyrs in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

lightyrs — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:40:51 +0000

Interested to know what's changed (if anything) in the two years since this was written.

New comment by lightyrs in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

lightyrs — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:39:42 +0000

They specifically used "VPN" in the error message but I can't remember the exact text of the whole message.

New comment by lightyrs in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

lightyrs — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:02:56 +0000

Last night I was blocked from HBOMAX (or whatever brand they go by these days) for being on a VPN. That was the first time I've ever encountered something like that on HBOMAX. I wonder if there is some coordinating event here.

New comment by lightyrs in "Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app"

lightyrs — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:08:59 +0000

I made several attempts to try to get it to generate something more esoteric. Here is a story about a computer falling in love with a potato chip who becomes a sentient meth addict.

https://g.co/gemini/share/598cc68832a9

New comment by lightyrs in "Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)"

lightyrs — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:45:55 +0000

I don't get it but I'm not sure I'm supposed to.

    life + death = mortality
    life - death = lifestyle

    drug + time = occasion
    drug - time = narcotic

    art + artist + money = creativity
    art + artist - money = muse

    happiness + politics = contentment
    happiness + art      = gladness
    happiness + money    = joy
    happiness + love     = joy

New comment by lightyrs in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

lightyrs — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:09:41 +0000

Having kids is an excellent solution to this feeling. Besides occupying any time you used to have for unnecessary work, they have an uncanny ability to remind you just how little you actually control. However you get to the end of the OCD tunnel, the journey is often very worthwhile.

New comment by lightyrs in "Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity"

lightyrs — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 07:52:08 +0000

I really enjoyed this. I try to run my team similarly.

Where I disagree slightly is vendors. If the need filled by the vendor is well-defined and low-complexity, sure, I'll go for it. Otherwise, I'm doing it in-house nine times out of ten.

Where this starts to get tricky is when some worthy competitors emerge, utilizing your foundation to scale quicker and more effectively. Then you might wish you had hired more people earlier. But overall, I think starting from this perspective is a lot safer than the opposite.

New comment by lightyrs in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

lightyrs — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:21:29 +0000

> It did not reduce student drug use. In face, it backfired and taught kids about interesting drugs that they probably wouldn't have found learned about otherwise.

I will never forget the day in fifth grade when a DARE representative came to our class with a briefcase full of samples of esoteric (to me at least) drugs. The way they were presented made them extremely appealing to me, similar to perusing the choices at a high-end candy store. I don't know for sure if this had any effect on me but I strongly suspect that it did.

New comment by lightyrs in "My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar"

lightyrs — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:21:46 +0000

My 6-year old was invited into the cockpit for the first time on January 1, 2024. I was wondering the same as you up until that moment.

JetBlue US Domestic

New comment by lightyrs in "In praise of blowing up your life"

lightyrs — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:31:22 +0000

I propose that this fellow does not have any children or other dependents.

New comment by lightyrs in "Ask HN: How to build empathy?"

lightyrs — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 19:18:22 +0000

Cognitive behavioral therapy can help.

The intellectual pursuit of empathy often results in individuals who know what empathy should look like and are good at faking it.

Real empathy requires you to recognize and process your emotions differently. This can be learned over time but usually not by directly attacking the problem.

This is just based on my own experiences.

But I can imagine this is frustrating for you and it seems like you’re already doing the hard work of recognizing there’s an issue. Good luck to you.

New comment by lightyrs in "Show HN: From Markdown to Video"

lightyrs — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 01:04:39 +0000

This is phenomenal. Great work!

New comment by lightyrs in "Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing"

lightyrs — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:23:12 +0000

I have a bigger problem with how IP law is written and enforced than the actual notion of IP law. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that IP should enjoy some protections, however, the current enforcements are in many cases downright abusive to consumers and smaller creators alike.

New comment by lightyrs in "Chatbots aren't as difficult to make as you think"

lightyrs — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:45:50 +0000

Sample applications are rarely difficult to make. I built a bot as an experiment for my team (https://m.me/PigeonCorps) and we've run into a lot of issues that fall outside of intent classification and response. The most complex issues related to non-trivial chatbots (or atypical chatbots) in my experience have been:

  - session management
  - horizontal scaling
  - dealing with platform changes
  - dealing with platform downtime/bugs
  - hierarchical data presentation
  - matching intents within hierarchical/nested flows

I agree, however, that most chatbots we see are not incredibly complicated, however, I think the typical points that are emphasized in these types of articles (intent classification) are not the hard parts.

New comment by lightyrs in "Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder"

lightyrs — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:38:16 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply and helpful explanation.

New comment by lightyrs in "Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder"

lightyrs — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:11:37 +0000

Tried to add my first chord Bmaj7(no3) and it doesn't seem like the app recognizes it (can't play the chord or change the key of the song).