Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

Post by tgv » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 12:54 PM UTC

Scaevolus wrote: post #40

Aside: if you want a source of high quality Piano MIDI recordings, you should check out the MAESTRO dataset: https://magenta.withgoogle.com/datasets/maestro > The dataset contains about 200 hours of paired audio and MIDI recordings from ten years of International Piano-e-Competition. The MIDI data includes key strike velocities and sustain/sostenuto/una corda pedal positions. Audio and MIDI files are aligned with ∼3…

Post by c0n5pir4cy » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC

kolinko wrote: post #115

progval wrote: post #27

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> If you live in Europe, this restriction may be considered "gatekeeping" and exempted by the Digital Markets Act. That's not how the DMA works at all, there is no concept of gatekeeping practices. Instead, the EU Commission designates companies that act as gatekeeper for some services (current list here: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers-portal_... ) which then puts constraints on what they do.

But we have various exemptions that are for all the companies, no? E.g. you're free to hack and crack software to do your own backup copies.

Post by 1970-01-01 » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 1:15 PM UTC

Giefo6ah wrote: post #15

If you live in the USA, the "decoy notes" may be considered an "effective technical measure" from the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act". If you live in Europe, this restriction may be considered "gatekeeping" and exempted by the Digital Markets Act. Don't bring attention to yourself by asking for permission. Publish your codec, and if the company cares about this they will send a cease and desist. If you want the wo…

Post by rcxdude » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 2:05 PM UTC

maplethorpe wrote: post #82

eru wrote: post #56

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How do you know this? How would you falsify this hypothesis?

You could train an LLM on a dataset that intentionally excludes certain data, and see if it is able to extrapolate outside of its dataset and come up with those excluded items independently. For example, remove all code from your training data, and then see if the model can code regardless.

Post by wombatpm » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 2:33 PM UTC

lukan wrote: post #78

embedding-shape wrote: post #77

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> Worst case it'll get taken down, Eeh, worst case scenario you'll get sued as Microsoft will have no problem with handing over everything they have from your Windows installation information, GitHub accounts, NPM authentication and everything else they own today if the courts tell them to. You can't just commit crimes on the open internet without really hiding IPs and what not, and expect that to not come back to ha…

"You can't just commit crimes on the open internet " Who said it is a crime, are you a lawyer?