MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by styanax | 2025-07-06 13:33:11+00:00
Flying by the seat of my pants, this page of information has details which we can guess at - 27,799 are South Korea, 27,690 are Korea Telecom (so close that I'll say it's a 1-to-1 match). Wikipedia tells me as of 2015, KT ran more than 140,000 Wifi hotspots.[1]

Further down the info, we see 28,587 (almost the same number as above) HTTP titles are "Gargoyle Router Management Utility" - which is an opensource variant of the OpenWRT world which patches the code to include the Clacks header.[2]

I'm going to conclude that there's a direct correlation in this data (it all being one and the same endpoint/device pattern) and that 30,000 KT Wifi hotspots across South Korea have their management UI open on the public interface and not locked to the internal network or a VPN, etc. running this Gargoyle patch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KT_Corporation

[2] https://github.com/ericpaulbishop/gargoyle/blob/master/patch...
by kqr | 2025-07-06 13:33:14+00:00
I'm not sure that'll happen, because Emacs itself is not so much end-user software as it is a platform/VM for developing and running Elisp code.

There are many great applications and compatibility layers written to run on Emacs:

- Evil for a decent editor,

- calc for a good, flexible calculator,

- magit for version control,

- smerge for conflict resolution,

- dired, org, notmuch, tramp, eshell, outshine, comint, htmlize, etc.

and each of them deserves a "the good parts" book!
by WillAdams | 2025-07-06 13:34:45+00:00
Reasons behind this:

- many U.S. truckers are owner-operators --- the rig has to appeal to them, and is in many ways, an extension of their self-perception

- bring up a map of the U.S. and plot occupations on it, removing "school teacher" and "farmer" --- for many rural counties, the most common (and one of the best-paying) is long-haul trucker --- I can still vividly recall the elaborate drawings and plans which many of my classmates in a rural school would draw up of elaborate 18-wheelers (that this situation was brought about by the county board of supervisors being comprised of large land owners who wanted an essentially captive population to work their farms is a different discussion)
by OjotCewIo | 2025-07-06 13:35:19+00:00
Assuming that you save 1/3rd of your monthly net income, and spend only 2/3rds of it on expenses -- which I believe is already beyond what most people can do --, and that you are already frugal (which means that you don't have easily cuttable expenses [*]), you'd need to save twice as long as you planned to live off of those savings. If you wanted a buffer for 4-5 years, you'd need to pinch every penny for 8-10 years, and do that -- presumably -- while you are in your thirties, and raising kids. This can work, but mostly as an exception, I think.

[*] I don't consider expenses that improve health and lifestyle "cuttable" -- organic food, locally produced meat, food supplements / vitamins, therapy, dentist, gym / sports, etc. I've recently learned that even holiday trips (which are insanely expensive, assuming you are not from the US, to the point of being financially injustifiable) are crucial for mental and marital health.
by refset | 2025-07-06 13:35:36+00:00
The thing that tipped me over the edge into learning ClojureScript was the news almost exactly a decade ago about achieving self-hosted compilation with eval [0] (kudos David!). In the end that specific capability was not quite practical enough for what I needed, but it proved a level of sophistication and maturity in the stack that has only increased since.

Today we also have sci/scittle/cherry for anyone who's seeking that runtime Clojure->JS eval vision. And now with Jank (LLVM Clojure) on the horizon this year it's never been a better time to try Clojure, regardless of which hosted runtime you're enthusiastic to use - Basilisp on Python, ClojureCLR, ClojureDart etc.

[0] https://swannodette.github.io/2015/07/29/clojurescript-17/
by jen20 | 2025-07-06 13:36:43+00:00
Taxis in the US are one of the most regulated services around, and they were still utterly atrocious.

Sure, they’re mandated to not refuse service, but you try getting picked up in Manhattan with a suitcase mid afternoon (when it’s obvious you’ll be taking the fixed fare to JFK in heavy traffic). To this day, the meter being “broken” is a tactic used in taxi strongholds like Las Vegas, even with this regulation.

The sweet spot for taxis was London, but I will go out of my way to avoid taking one lest I get forced to listen to the drivers views on Brexit for the entire ride.
by cainxinth | 2025-07-06 13:37:31+00:00
First I tracked laps when I swam. That got boring so I tracked time instead. I would try to resist the urge, but I would occasionally pop my head up to see the clock and know how much time I had left. One day, I decided to give that up too and just swim as long or as short as I wanted to that day. It was a good decision that has only increased my enjoyment of swimming and hasn’t resulted in a drop in my fitness.
by WillAdams | 2025-07-06 13:38:00+00:00
The problem of course is that during WWII, every narrow gauge feeder line of less than 100 miles length in the U.S. was pulled up and shipped to Europe for the war effort --- after the war, there was little effort made to rebuild them (the big 3 focusing on the individually owned car and so forth) --- remember this the next time a European boasts about their wonderful rail system:

https://armyhistory.org/railroaders-in-olive-drab-the-milita...
by rincebrain | 2025-07-06 13:38:16+00:00
Part of the problem is that some of these services have enormous upfront costs to work at all.

It's fun to say "let's go write a complete replacement for Microsoft Office" or the Adobe suite or what have you, but that has a truly astonishing upfront cost to get to a point where it's even servicing 50% of the use cases, let alone 95 or 99%.

Or there's other examples where it's not obvious there's sufficient interest to finance an alternative - how many people are going to pay for something that replicates solely the old functionality of Microsoft Paint or Notepad, for example.
by echoangle | 2025-07-06 13:38:38+00:00
> It would be like asking for the GPS coordinates of the moon

No problem at all, just give the location where the moon is at the Zenith and use the distance as the altitude.

> Reason this works for the ISS is because of the subsatellite point. It can receive GPS signals regardless of altitude above the Earth’s surface.

No, wether the object can actually receive GPS signals is completely irrelevant to wether its location can be described in the GPS coordinate system.

You could describe the location of the Sun in GPS coordinates too, the altitude value would just be very large.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-07-06 13:38:47+00:00
"Distribution rights" aren't laws of nature. If you're making physical media, you get a license to sell physical copies of the game (containing the licensed material) for a limited time, to people who are allowed to keep them once your sales license has expired.

The digital equivalent would be: you get a license to sell digital copies of the game (containing the licensed material) for a limited time, to people who are allowed to re-download them once your sales license has expired. (And you are allowed to provide that downloading service, but not continue to sell the games, nor make them available to people who have not purchased them.)

It's not that hard – and the existence of Steam demonstrates that many people are already doing things this way.
by rvnx | 2025-07-06 13:38:52+00:00
You don't have to find a maintainer.

Not updating the system is usually a solution to such problems.

At best there is a nginx or an API in front that acts a reverse proxy to clean-up/normalize the incoming requests and prevent directly exposing the service.

Example: banks, airlines, hospitals, air traffic controllers, electricity companies, etc

All critical services that nobody wants to touch, as it works +/-
by alganet | 2025-07-06 13:39:02+00:00
You're full of shit.

Let's see what LLMs say when I correct them:

https://imgur.com/a/R7DXCRx

So, either way you're wrong. If ancient aliens were innofensive, the LLM should have not accepted the correction.

_LLMs cannot handle talking about culture_, and neither can you.
by fouronnes3 | 2025-07-06 13:39:03+00:00
You totally could use it for docking. A real ISS docking manoeuvre takes several hours. Orbits are very predictable and I'm quite confident that the error you'd get projecting your orbit 15min into the future would be good enough to get within close radar range for the final approach. In fact you probably could do it, even if your spavecraft doesnt have DNS at all, and you have to do the DNS resolve from a ground laptop before you board it. Soyez can dock within 3 hours of lauch. Orbits are very predictable in this timeframe.
by skyboo | 2025-07-06 13:39:18+00:00
I recently used the washroom at a Starbucks. The one where you have to enter a code to get in. Once I was inside, there were no knobs or any mechanical way to lock the door - just one circular button with a lock icon on it. I pressed it, and the button lit up as green. Pressed it again, it lit up as red. No indication on what light colour meant what. Does red mean it's unlocked? Or does it mean it is locked, since red usually indicates no entry.

It made for the quickest pee break ever.
by famouswaffles | 2025-07-06 13:39:51+00:00
>But the Internet caught on very fast, and was very, very popular. It was completely obvious how positive it was,

>By contrast, generative AI, while it has a contingent of supporters that range from reasonable to rabid, is broadly disliked by the public.

It is absolutely wild how people can just ignore something staring right at them, plain as day.

ChatGPT.com is the 5 most visited site on the planet and growing. It's the fastest growing software product ever, with over 500M Weekly active users and over a billion messages per day. Just ChatGPT. This is not information that requires corporate espionage. The barest minimum effort would have shown you how blatantly false you are.

What exactly is the difference between this and a LLM hallucination ?
by kgeist | 2025-07-06 13:40:28+00:00
Model: Qwen3 32b

GPU: RTX 5090 (no rops missing), 32 GB VRAM

Quants: Unsloth Dynamic 2.0, it's 4-6 bits depending on the layer.

RAM is 96 GB: more RAM makes a difference even if the model fits entirely in the GPU: filesystem pages containing the model on disk are cached entirely in RAM so when you switch models (we use other models as well) the overhead of unloading/loading is 3-5 seconds.

The Key Value Cache is also quantized to 8 bit (less degrades quality considerably).

This gives you 1 generation with 64k context, or 2 concurrent generations with 32k each. Everything takes 30 GB VRAM, which also leaves some space for a Whisper speech-to-text model (turbo & quantized) running in parallel as well.
by Hojojo | 2025-07-06 13:40:35+00:00
The other platforms on PC are exactly the same though. If you're against Steam because of this particular aspect, you should be against almost all platforms on PC as well as every console and phone platform. This is how it works on almost every digital media platform. It's not sufficient reason to treat Steam like a monopoly, because in itself it's not anti-competitive behaviour.

It's also not solvable unless you legislate platform agnostic licenses that are valid regardless of platform. Fat chance of that ever happening and I doubt that's actually what you're suggesting.
by OjotCewIo | 2025-07-06 13:40:38+00:00
> It's okay to make money doing one thing, and enjoy yourself by accomplishing something great doing another.

Maybe.

First, the thing done for money (or the way it is done) shouldn't at least be at odds with your identity (and/or work ethic).

Second, if you consider how large a proportion of our waking lives are spent at work, you start questioning whether just "neutral" is good enough, for a job.
by Ygg2 | 2025-07-06 13:40:40+00:00
> The supposed "sheep" that want to get on the plane first are people that want to get that precious overhead bin space to avoid checking a carry-on bag at the gate.

They are still sheep. Fighting for better spot on the butcher's table.

So let me get this straight. Rather than fighting airlines for better flying conditions, they fight each other for earlier boarding time.

Not sure who said it, but consumerism truly is slavery perfected.
by tossandthrow | 2025-07-06 13:40:54+00:00
I find it difficult to believe that the price of training has not gone up.

I am not as convinced as you. When training is 7 year degree to achieve some specialization it simply is not for everyone.

Also, ubi is not anti work - it is merely the acknowledgement that not everyone have salary worthy things to do.

The alternative it havy financialization as in you receive a tip when you bring down you neighbors garbage.
by babymetal | 2025-07-06 13:41:23+00:00
I'm a bookseller who often uses Ingram to buy books wholesale when I'm not buying direct from publishers. I've used them for their distribution service since opening 5 years ago because they are the only folks in town who can help bootstrap a very small business with coverage of all the major publishers (in the U.S.). They're great at that, for a small cut in revenue.

Six-plus months ago they put a chatbot in the bottom right corner of their website that literally covers up buttons I use all the time for ordering, so that I have to scroll now in order to access those controls (Chrome, MacOS). After testing it with various queries it only seems to provide answers to questions in their pre-existing support documentation.

This is not about choice (see above, they are the only game in town), and it is not about entitlement (we're a tiny shop trying to serve our customers' often obscure book requests). They seemed to literally place the chatbot buttons onto their website with no polling of their users. This is an anecdotal report about Ingram specifically.
by soueuls | 2025-07-06 13:41:30+00:00
I found some interesting bits in this article but overall I think it’s being overly cynical.

In the past ten years, I worked with one guy from Nigeria and a bunch of people from Iran. Bitcoin (or rather cryptocurrencies in general) have been more than just mere gimmicks.

Sending money from one side of the world to another, for such a low fees, even when the central bank of Nigeria is blocking USD transfers, even when bank transfers to Iran are being blocked, has been very useful in itself.

As for AI, yes if you use it as a God, you will be disappointed. Yes it can’t do everything. Yes it will hallucinate.

But it’s been a great learning environment for me, I keep asking questions to get an overview of things.

I used to learn concepts such as « clean architecture » because AI is never tired, it can provide endless variations to the same problems, until you better understand the underlying principles and the recurring patterns.

When I work on a project, 20-30% is creative, cutting edge, never seen before. 70% is CRUD, necessary boilerplate.

I know what I am supposed to be doing, I can verify the result, double check the validity of it.

Why would I waste hours typing letters?

Do I rely on AI for everything? No I don’t.

But pretending it’s completely useless, is nonsensical.

Yes it’s just statistically inferring the next token, but it’s actually a very simple, powerful concept.
by zug_zug | 2025-07-06 13:41:48+00:00
20% of Americans use weed.

I think HN crowd is more likely to read one article out-of-context and over-extrapolate. In this case, there's no article even linked, just an abstract, so anybody jumping to conclusions from this isn't being very HN.

Somebody who was really HN would read the whole article, see what doses, what % risk change, what age, see what other studies say, etc.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-07-06 13:43:03+00:00
> In my first comment I referred the Scandinavian countries. Read up on the flexicurity model of Denmark.

Denmark does not have UBI. They "just" have a good welfare system, good income redistribution policies, and strong labor policy.

They do not make the case for UBI, they make the opposite case -- that the problems of present can be solved without UBI.

> You cannot within the confines of the responsibility of the monetary systems (Eg. The FED). What you are seeing now is that the FED "prints" money that accumulate at the top because the fiscal powers (Eg. the government) are psies who do not dare to redistribute - this is called the velocity of money. And there is a higher velocity of money when they are in the hands of the people than in the pockets of the rich.

You can, and they have. In fact, much of the US wants the FED to lower rates right now, but they have not.

I agree with you that people lack the wherewithal to redistribute more effectively, or at least as a stated goal.

Trying to make sure I'm hitting the points you're noting here but the FED is not "printing" tons of money right now, they have tightened monetary policy, especially relative to the last ~6 years.

It's unclear if the use of "velocity of money" is right here -- I think you're referring to propensity to spend, which would increase velocity of money. Yes, poor people spend more of their income than rich people, and that is stimulative to the economy, and so arguably policies should be crafted that encourage productive work for pay rather than rent seeking or pure accumulation of capital. I'm not sure if that's your point, but that's what I take away from it.

> Regardless, proposing UBI on American forums is generally like setting fire to a wasp nest. Americans have been conditioned to support the oligarchy in quite some decades now.

Welp, that's kind of an unproductive way to end, but sure. Conditioned or not (I'm American), I'm still looking for a good argument for UBI and haven't found one.

Good arguments for better redistribution are easy to make, good argument for higher taxes are good to make, good arguments for better social safety nets are easy to make -- but still can't really find one for UBI specifically above the other options.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-07-06 13:43:20+00:00
I am a huge AI supporter, and use it extensively for coding, writing and most of my decision making processes, and I agree with you. The AI features in non-AI-first apps tend to be awkward bolt-ons, poorly thought out and using low quality models to save money.

I don't want shitty bolt-ons, I want to be able to give chatgtp/claude/gemini frontier models the ability to access my application data and make api calls for me to remotely drive tools.
by swat535 | 2025-07-06 13:43:22+00:00
Yea I think the problem is that people don't realize how expensive the upkeep of live games are.

Most new releases rely on Multiplayer, the publishers have to come up with creative ways to monetize it.. so they introduce cosmetics, stores, etc in order to fund the ongoing development and cost.

This causes a backlash and eventually the game gets dropped because people don't want to pay a subscription.
by alganet | 2025-07-06 13:43:26+00:00
Remember, the claim I challenged is that LLMs know culture and can handle talking about them. You need to focus.

Most people are not prepared to handle talking about culture. So, LLMs also aren't.

They are not any better than asking an average person, will make mistakes, will disappoint.

Egyptologists are better equipped to talk about egyptian myths. LLMs cannot handle egyptian culture as well as they can.
by rich_sasha | 2025-07-06 13:43:43+00:00
It is striking to me how small the payloads are for these drones - up to about 25kg.

There's a lot of talk about how cheap these drones are - and indeed they are. But the payload is like 1/20th of a classic cruise missile too.

If they are 100x cheaper, then sure, this maybe a decent tradeoff (depends also on reliability, probability of getting destroyed etc.) but it's not like a small drone is just as good as a big and very expensive cruise missile.
by Hojojo | 2025-07-06 13:44:11+00:00
It's not any form of lock-in or anti-competitiveness, and it's not an aspect that's specific to Steam. You actually need to substantiate that instead of just claiming it. Almost all the online digital platforms do this, even non-gaming ones, and it's weird that it's only being argued here because it's about Steam.

This is a digital media rights issue, not a Steam issue.
by alganet | 2025-07-06 13:44:29+00:00
An LLM that offends people and entire nations is what many would classify as _misaligned_.

Let's say I have a company, and my company needs to comply to government policy regarding communication. I cannot trust LLMs then, they will either fail to follow policy, or acquiesce to any group that tries to game it.

It's useless garbage. Egyptian myths were just an example, you don't need to bite it so hard.
by ksec | 2025-07-06 13:44:51+00:00
Zen 6c is about to get 256 Core Per Socket, 512 vCPU / Thread, or 1024 vCPU in a Dual Socket System. That is 2560 Request Per Second ( or PageView ), and this doesn't even include caching.

If I remember correctly that is about half of what StackExchange served on daily average over 8 servers. I am sure using Go or Crystal would have scale this at least 10x if not 20x.

The problem I see is that memory cost isn't dropping which means somewhere along the graph the memory cost per process together will outweight whatever advantage this has.

Still, sounds like a fun thing to do. At least for those of us who lived through CGI-Bin and Perl era.
by echoangle | 2025-07-06 13:45:01+00:00
> You can use GPS to describe a point on Earth.

No, you can describe any point in the universe using GPS coordinates. You just lose some resolution the further away from earth you are because it's basically spherical coordinates (like polar coordinates but for 3D). And the system isn't inertial but earth-fixed, of course, so you would have to give the coordinates together with a time.

And if you're describing the location of the moon and the sun, you would probably pick their center of gravity.
by wiether | 2025-07-06 13:45:21+00:00
It's not the work itself that is exhausting: it's socializing at work.

This comments deeply resonates with me because that's exactly how I feel.

When I'm wfh I have to put an alarm to remember to stop working because I'm in the flow and can work for +14h without feeling tired. Whereas, when I'm the office, I have to take a walk mid-day because I'm already exhausted by the socializing.

And to be clear, it's not that I don't enjoy socializing at work, it's just that it drains me quickly.
by rubyfan | 2025-07-06 13:45:34+00:00
I would add that the artificial divide is purposefully made worse in corporate environments. IT and Data & Analytics departments put curbs on user programmable anything typically in the name of expense. However, I would argue that these controls exist only to prop up the department’s managers and hand them an outsized role at the senior management table. It’s not just engineering snobbery that creates this divide, it’s a purposeful exertion of control for the sake of control.
by alextousss | 2025-07-06 13:45:38+00:00
I may haven't fully understood your answer, but a typical household mirror could reflect 90% of the laser power in a single coherent direction. Any sufficiently polished metal tool would have dangerous specular direction. I'm not sure of the math for a diffuse reflection, but the laser classification is here for a reason.

A human eye being transparent up to the fragile retina, yes, a laser would penetrate the eye and be concentrated in an extremely small spot on the retina. That's exactly the reason why we have safety around lasers, and why everything above 5mw is strictly for enclosed use. 40 watts shot at random in the void is definitely dangerous by all measures.
by PoshBreeze | 2025-07-06 13:45:49+00:00
I shouldn't have worded it that way. I wanted to stress that the £10 would have been way more than the price per unit if there was a bulk order.

As for it being a bit of a rip off yes it was a little bit. I found the same part for cheaper literally the next day.

In any-event. It isn't the important part of what I was trying to communicate.