MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmantis | 2025-08-17 10:09:57+00:00
I2P doesn't have exit nodes like Tor, so it's essentially the same thing as running a Tor relay from an outside perspective, with a few positive differences.

I2P is mainly an overlay network that routes traffic only inside the network. The upside is that providers won't ban your IP for participation if you run a node. I know that with Tor, many datacenters/CDNs don't care whether it's a relay or exit node and will blanket ban all known IPs of the network. You also won't attack someone on the clearnet or somehow participate as a scapegoat in clearnet crimes.

I've never heard about any consequences for running non-exit relays in Tor, though if you're in a country that strictly punishes usage of any anonymous technology, that might be risky anyway.

I2P has several commercial "outproxies" that proxy traffic to the usual internet, but that's not the intended usage and it's not enabled on typical users' routers.

UPD: Anyway, if you feel uncomfortable sharing others' traffic and want to only use it as a client, you can disable transit traffic completely in both Java and C++ implementations.
by tlb | 2025-08-17 10:10:45+00:00
Google has probably sent data to almost every /24 in the last hour. Probably 99% of their egress data goes to destinations where they've sent enough data recently to make a good estimate of bottleneck link speed and queue size.

Having to pick a particular initcwnd to be used for every new TCP connection is an architectural limitation. If they could collect data about each destination and start each TCP connection with a congestion window based on the recent history of transfers from any of their servers to that destination, it could be much better.

It's not a trivial problem to collect bandwidth and buffer size estimates and provide them to every server without delaying the connection, but it would be fun to build such a system.
by skydhash | 2025-08-17 10:11:30+00:00
> To be honest I think the difficult and learning curve is part of the goal. The people who operate in these worlds don’t want it to be easy for anyone to come along and get involved.

If you’re using the git tool, it’s very easy to get it working and easier to use afterwards. It allows you to use you own environment and not someone else’ web app. If you’re the maintainer, people send you patch and you can script out the review phase. If you’re a contributor, it’s actually a few command to send a patch to anyone. And learning how to cleanup your commits is always good.

I can understand the pain if your only email account is gmail. But there are good smtp providers out there.
by troupo | 2025-08-17 10:12:10+00:00
> Cookie banners are the result of a different piece of legislation, the ePrivacy directive. Have you read that one too?

The huge obnoxious cookie banners that everyone pretends are due to GDPR are neither due to GDPR nor due to ePrivacy.

It's the industry's unashamed deliberate sabotage of GDPR
by churchill | 2025-08-17 10:12:27+00:00
On one hand, I can understand your frustration at demographic & social changes. Everybody would be offended at that, no matter their race/nationality. On another, I think you're channeling your angst towards the wrong direction.

Over the past 30-80 years, Western countries collected social security contributions from workers but instead of investing/saving them, spent it all like tax. To fund pensions for that now-aged generation, you need fresh, warm bodies to pay taxes.

Sadly, that generation (boomers) had q modest fertility rate. They also live significantly longer than when social security became a norm in the West. 20-30 years more. So you need to tax their kids aggressively for longer to fund pensions & benefits for the boomers. Oh, and since the boomers' kids are having even fewer kids, it's a vicious cycle.

One way to remedy this is to suck in taxpayers from other countries & put them to work paying for the comfort of the boomers until they shuffle off the mortal coil.

So, here are your options:

1. Cut off the boomers and let them starve. But, it's untenable since their votes are a huge bloc and they'd revolt.

2. Expel every single immigrant and tax receipts will plummet. Your indig. young people will pay even more taxes to fund the boomers, unless you revert back to No. 1. Again, not tenable unless you abolish your democracy and establish a dictatorial state.

3. Maintain the current model and let it drag on.

It did not have to be like this. You could have taken Singapore's path of accumulating massive reserves ($2.5 trillion for 6 million people), but you didn't. I hope you figure it out, but I don't think anything drastic will happen.

Just like in Greece, when European lenders told them to impose austerity, leftist parties claimed they'd get into power and maintain all the benefits they'd promised the people. Fuck the globalists.

But, they got into power and realized their finances were well and truly fucked and they had to quietly undergo restructuring despite all their huffing and puffing.

Many immigrants commit crimes, yes, and I believe they need to be repressed. But, many others gratefully work and pay taxes. If you want to expel them, you need to be ready for the options above. Even if you are, many of your countrymen are not.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-08-17 10:12:59+00:00
Big caveat here:

This website's method doesn't work at all for humans the way it works for LLMs. For humans, there is a strict time limit on these IQ tests (at least in officially recognised settings like Mensa). This kind of sequence completion is mostly a question of how fast your brain can iterate on problems. Being able to solve more questions within the time limit means you get a higher score because your brain essentially switches faster. But for LLMs, they just give them all the time in the world in parallel and see how many questions they can solve at all. If you look at the examples, you'll see some high end models struggling with some the first questions, that most humans would normally get easily. Only the later ones get hard where you really have to think through multiple options. So a 100 IQ LLM in here is not technically more intelligent in IQ test questions than 50% of humans.

If anything, this shows that some LLMs might win against humans because they can spend more time thinking per wall clock time interval thanks to the underlying hardware. Not because they are fundamentally smarter.
by Arainach | 2025-08-17 10:14:44+00:00
I've given blanket forgiveness for anyone in my life who voted for Trump in 2016, but anyone who voted for him a second time after watching his hate-driven anti-competence regime the first time around is written off in my book. At that point we're back to "I didn't care until it hurt me personally" - a viewpoint Republicans take on so many issues (see also the Republicans who said "I guess not ALL homosexuals are evil" only after a close family member came out).

These people haven't changed and they'll still be off supporting hate and awful causes until they're directly burned, so it's not worth wasting time or energy on them and I'm certainly not obligated to forgive them.
by jibal | 2025-08-17 10:15:18+00:00
"they are still minds, and to deny even that seems willfully luddite"

Where do people get off tossing around ridiculous ad hominems like this? I could write a refutation of their comment but I really don't want to engage with someone like that.

"For me, all human thought is pattern matching"

So therefore anyone who disagrees is "willfully luddite", regardless of why they disagree?

FWIW, I helped develop the ARPANET, I've been an early adopter all my life, I have always had a keen interest in AI and have followed its developments for decades, as well as Philosophy of Mind and am in the Strong AI / Daniel Dennett physicalist camp ... I very much think that AIs with minds are possible (yes the human algorithm running in silicon would have feelings, whatever those are ... even the dualist David Chalmers agrees as he explains with his "principle of organizational invariance"). My views on whether LLMs have them have absolutely nothing to do with Luddism ... that judgment of me is some sort of absurd category mistake (together with an apparently complete lack of understanding of what Luddism is).
by Telemakhos | 2025-08-17 10:15:33+00:00
AI has a 140 “IQ” but understands nothing. That’s because AI does not understand anything: it just predicts the next token based on previous tokens and statistics. AI can give me five synonyms for any Latin word, because that’s just statistics, and it can regurgitate rules about metrical length of syllables, but it can’t give me synonyms matching a particular metrical pattern, because that would involve applying knowledge. If I challenge its wrong answer, it will apologize and give me further wrong answers that are wrong in the same way, because it cannot learn.
by troupo | 2025-08-17 10:16:10+00:00
It's a good question, which has a very obvious answer: even government websites are built by clueless people and/or marketers and/or using shitty tech.

Which you can see when you click on "personalise" in the cookie banner.

That's why GitHub reneged on their "no cookies policy" for example: they got taken over by shitty people with shitty tech: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/no-cookie-for...
by golol | 2025-08-17 10:16:33+00:00
IMO many misrepresentations. - pretraining to predict the next token imposes no bias against surprise, except that low probabilities are more likely to have a large relative error. - using a temperature lower than 1 does impose a direct bias against surprise. - Finetuning of various kinds (instruction, RLHF, safety) may increase or decrease surprise. But certainly the kind of things ained for in finetuning significantly harm the capability to tell jokes.
by pembrook | 2025-08-17 10:17:11+00:00
Oh definitely, the decentralized private market absolutely got together in secret to devise a plan to undermine the beautifully designed EU legislation by using cookie banners.

My flower shop down the street that has a cookie banner on their Wix website is secretly trying to undermine the government.

It couldn't possibly be that the largely unaccountable central planners in the EU's technocratic maze of a government designed a dumb piece of legislation.
by holowoodman | 2025-08-17 10:17:17+00:00
So you argue that humanities are like art, cooking, literature, sexual preferences: a matter of personal taste, which I supposedly lack. The general consensus about matters of taste is that it is pointless to argue about those. And that matters of taste are an indulgence, important only to fans of that particular variety.

Which means that humanities cannot be important to mankind as a whole, because most won't appreciate them, as they are a matter of taste. And they are as arbitrary as other matters of taste, lacking the universality that is necessary for usefulness. Good riddance!
by defrost | 2025-08-17 10:17:31+00:00
Yeah ... nope.

Before and after unedited context of Elon clearly shows him throwing "a Roman salute" twice.

Highly edited footage of Bernie Sanders holding his arming up in greeting as he turns and greets and waves to a crowd is nothing like the gesture made by Elon .. and with a proper unedited context even less so.

At least try and provide better footage to support your claim.
by extraisland | 2025-08-17 10:18:55+00:00
There is an option to that question where it has a relatively positive outcome and you have lunch with her and presumable are on better terms afterwards. Which tells me that the author isn't dog whistling at all and it is more a lampooning the weird cringe stuff that you are expected to take part in one of these large corps.

In fact something like this sounds like it comes straight out of office space.
by precommunicator | 2025-08-17 10:19:10+00:00
Quoting from proposed text:

> When executing the detection order, providers should take all available safeguard measures to ensure that the technologies employed by them cannot be used by them or their employees for purposes other than compliance with this Regulation, nor by third parties, and thus to avoid undermining the security and confidentiality of the communications of users.

EU demands impossible.
by ryao | 2025-08-17 10:19:50+00:00
You don’t need a speed test website to see this problem. Just run a ping on your own while doing a big download that saturates your connection and bufferbloat will happen unless there is some active queue management to prevent the ping packets from waiting in the queue behind the download packets. This happens anytime that there is a fast/slow transition in the internet and the slow connection cannot keep up. To prevent packet loss, the packets will be buffered, which works well for short spikes, but prolonged activity will result in a noticeable backlog and if buffers are allowed to be sufficiently big, you can get arbitrarily long delays, which are visible in ping times.

The worst that I have ever seen was about 30 seconds when visiting a foreign country where bufferbloat was occurring at peering links. The bufferbloat in peering links is likely visible from western countries if you ping residential IPs in developing countries and monitor the ping times over days. Some parts of the day will have very high ping times while others will not. The high ping times will be the buffer bloat.

In most western countries, the bufferbloat typically occurs at people’s home internet connections. As is the case in all cases of buffer bloat, the solution is to be willing to drop packets when the connection is saturated. If you limit the bandwidth just below what the connection can handle, you can do active queue management to solve the problem.

That said, I suggest you stop posting replies. Your crusade against the idea of buffer bloat makes you look bad to anyone with enough networking knowledge to understand what bufferbloat is. I also strongly suspect I wrote an explanation that you will take zero time to understand and rather than take my advice, you will post another reply to continue your crusade. :/
by albertzeyer | 2025-08-17 10:21:27+00:00
No, it was not difficult at all. I really wonder why they have such a bad example here for GPT1.

See for example this popular blog post: https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

That was in 2015, with RNN LMs, which are all much much weaker in that blog post compared GPT1.

And already looking at those examples in 2015, you could maybe see the future potential. But no-one was thinking that scaling up would work as effective as it does.

2015 is also by far not the first time where we had such LMs. Mikolov has done RNN LMs since 2010, or Sutskever in 2011. You might find even earlier examples of NN LMs.

(Before that, state-of-the-art was mostly N-grams.)
by jpc0 | 2025-08-17 10:21:29+00:00
Are you just a mean person on general that you think bringing a problem to the attention of wait staff would cause them to become malicious?

Be a nice human being and you won’t receive that treatment. If your McDonalds wait staff are generally malicious without any provocation, well vote with your feet, nobody is making you eat McDonalds, the sales numbers will correct he problem.
by roenxi | 2025-08-17 10:21:44+00:00
https://www.trackingai.org/political-test is almost the more interesting part of the website, there is a surprising uniformity of left-libertarian political views.

Even assuming that companies prune out authoritarianism from their models for whatever reason, surely we'd expect at least one of them to drift over into mild economic right-wing territory. It'd be interesting to know what is causing that bias.
by eqvinox | 2025-08-17 10:21:46+00:00
> While on the Mensa Norway test GPT-5 gets over 一四, on an offline test it goes down to ~一二.

Since IQ tests are fundamentally timed, those numbers are meaningless to compare with human numbers. Or maybe dangerous since it's hard to de-context them even if you know that. Hence my cheeky 漢字.

(Yes they might be useful to compare LLMs with each other, but that is outstripped by the risk of misreading it against what we know as "IQ".)
by rcxdude | 2025-08-17 10:22:16+00:00
It's designed for embedded systems: it's not so much arbitrary GUI applications as a specific one, in fact the OS is more like a library for a single application than a traditional server or desktop OS. It's not that much unlike a single-process docker container, one where it can be quite hard to draw meaningful security boundaries within it. (you can, of course, run stuff as different UIDs, but generally the application needs to have permission to do basically everything on the system, one way or another).
by coldtea | 2025-08-17 10:22:51+00:00
>Pro tip: You don’t get to decide for someone else what’s “just” politics. If someone else says it’s important, while you’re interacting with them, it’s important.

It's rarely, if ever, important to any concerned party's day to day life. It's bullshit partisanship instilled into idiotic brains by the media and social media.

Just because they say it's important, doesn't make it so.
by Macha | 2025-08-17 10:23:24+00:00
Do these same people refuse to use Go because the homepage has a gopher mascot that could be straight from western children's cartoon courage the cowardly dog on the homepage?

FreeBSD because of the cartoon devil? Bash because of the GNU goat with the facial expression that could be read as smug or stoned? Google's logo is some printed characters in primary colours, is that too childish?

Nah, that people have such a visceral reaction to the anime girl is not just because it's "childish" as so much else of our industry is "childish" and passes without comment, or sometimes even causes criticism when it gets taken away for blandness (see all the complaints when projects redesign their logos to Helvetica work marks)
by nsoonhui | 2025-08-17 10:25:44+00:00
Another component of this theory concerning g is that it's largely genetic, and immune to "intervention" AKA stability as you mentioned. See the classic "The Bell Curve" for a full exposition.

Which makes me wonder what's the point of all the intervention in the form of teaching/parenting styles and whatnot, if g factor is nature and immutable by large? What's the logic of the educators here?
by reactordev | 2025-08-17 10:26:11+00:00
While as noble as that sounds, there’s only so much nice in the tank in a day. Wait staff and fast food workers are treated terribly and so you end up with folks about to snap.

There’s a lot of evidence of this happening in the USA if you just do a search. It’s uncommon, but it happens. At those prices, I’d just rather purchase the item to be made again.

But yes, be a good human.
by jadamson | 2025-08-17 10:26:35+00:00
https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/10/angry-driver-forces-protester...

It literally happened, though? Bus and everything? More than once, in fact:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/09/watch-motorists-...

https://news.sky.com/story/furious-commuters-drag-extinction...
by Hilift | 2025-08-17 10:26:38+00:00
There are two aspects. "Charge" and "costs/who pays". When someone can start a Kia with a USB cable, the owner pays for that. Kia may have a fee for replacing something, but that doesn't factor in the calculus of "there's a reason these people are buying our product, and we assess they will continue to do so."

Note that Kia offered a maximum of $6,125/$3,375 for totaled/damaged vehicles.

The previous formula:

"You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiple it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall. If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt. If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall."
by cycomanic | 2025-08-17 10:27:45+00:00
I still don't get it. What are the autistic traits? And are we talking about a clinical diagnosis of autism? The examples you give don't help me really. Nearly 100% of people I know (including myself) have small idiosyncracies that are comparable, i.e. one friend can't leave the house without checking multiple times that the stove is off (I would consider that a mild case of ocd but not autistic), my facial expression often gives people the impression that I'm bored or angry...

It seems almost like you confirm that autism has become to mean neurodiversity (even in the mildest form). Maybe I should phrase the question different, how do we distinguish between autism and other forms of neurodiversity?
by ezst | 2025-08-17 10:28:42+00:00
> a strong multinational

Don't you think that it makes them obvious high-value targets? I mean, that's not even like this profusely pragmatic take has no precedent in the real world: the Snowden revelations showed that all major tech companies were in bed with the NSA to spy extrajudicially on everyone. It's a leap of optimism to think they would "fight legally for its own interest in protecting its customers".

Then, compare that to the low-scale/low-value/hobbyist/residential service providers. How high do you think the chances are for a malicious state-actor to "corrupt" many service operators without it widely being known and publicly dealt with? There's also a deniability dimension to this: XMPP uses OMEMO as a zero-knowledge encryption scheme: whatever the users are doing is none of the operator's business, and the choice of encryption scheme and implementation is purely a client-side affair, so now you are no longer dealing with "reluctant" operators, but potentially millions of end-users using strong encryption. And that is assuming the server is operating in the open, but nothing prevents service operators from offering it over tor (with very little impact on the end-user-side), further raising the bar for the malicious state actor.
by silverliver | 2025-08-17 10:30:59+00:00
Isn't democracy rendered impossible with laws like this?

I mean, if slavery was still legal or LGPT still illegal, would the government have been able to use this technology to smother political movements before they ever start? Wouldn't the government be able to add client-side scanning for words or phrases they don't like (not just images of child abuse)?

For democracy to work at all, people must at least be able to freely discuss there contrarian thoughts amongst themselves, even if they run contrary to the ruling party's wishes. I did not expect the cradle of democracy to be the one to kill it.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-17 10:31:05+00:00
And a bunch of Android, and various other things that impact that your life. Ignoring the elephant in the room just for a second: C++ left gradually more and more, and more performance on the table and eventually somebody is going to stroll past and take it - that was Rust and sure, the C++ people are angry "No, that's ours, we were coming back to get that". Were you though?
by dingi | 2025-08-17 10:31:12+00:00
Contrary to the popular trend, I usually stick with Node and NPM for most of my projects. That said, I’ve run into plenty of headaches with CommonJS vs ESM quirks. Sharing code between frontend and backend (via shared libraries) still feels messy because of those differences. In one project I actually had to switch to Bun as the runtime, since Node kept failing at runtime, and strangely enough, Bun just worked without issues.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-17 10:31:37+00:00
That’s how bad things have gotten, and a lot of it is because it’s profitable to fan the flames of rancor.

I don’t see it improving. I think there was a post, a couple of days ago, where some folks concluded that social media is unfixable.

“Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

https://youtu.be/aCbfMkh940Q