MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GhostDrift | 2025-08-08 07:18:41+00:00
Most AI models blend meaning — but this one selects.

GD-Attention is a provably nonlinear attention mechanism with: ・ No softmax ・ No averaging ・ A unique semantic jump point $s^*$

Verified independently by Gemini, GitHub Copilot, and GPT-4. → Softmax isn't just suboptimal — it's structurally incapable of what this model does.
by jjav | 2025-08-08 07:18:42+00:00
In software terms, there has been a vulnerability in the constitution all along, it just had not been exploited until now.

The three branches of government are supposed to be checks and balances against each other. But turns out two of the three don't have any actual power to enforce their mandates. This has worked as long as the three branches grudgingly respected each others role. But now that the executive branch simply decided to ignore the other two whenever convenient, turns out there is no recourse.
by benjiro | 2025-08-08 07:19:41+00:00
The problem is that a lot of companies all want to sell those $10k+ purchases but then forgot that their products are actually useable to the "common man".

So they then lack any easy to see price overview or reasonable models for small dev teams or small companies. Demo's are not worth it for somebody going to spend a few hundreds, so you get often ignored.

What they then forgot that if you tie in a customer at the low end, that customer may grow and become a 10k customer down the line.

This is why companies need to get it in their stick skull, that you NEED fixed pricing for the folks that do not want personalized quotes (or the lovely no-response emails if asking for a quote as a single dev or "small" company).

And getting customers early on, even if they are not mass profit generators on their first purchase, are a good source of future money as people really do not change infrastructure or tooling without a good reason.

Seen a lot of good products, that we ignored because they lacked proper simplified pricing on their website. If its "contact us for pricing", its just like advertising "we do not want to deal with your poor ass" advertisement. So those customers go somewhere else, get a product they like and then grow. But then its too late / difficult as changing that customer to your product is 10x harder.
by motorest | 2025-08-08 07:20:16+00:00
> I get that it's a compatibility workaround (...) but it's a.) super dangerous (...)

It's a custom mode where you explicitly configure your own requests to your own origin server to be HTTP instead of HTTPS. Even Cloudflare discourages the use of this mode, and you need to go way out of your way to explicitly enable it.

> (...) apparently was surprising to the authors of this post.

The post is quite old, and perhaps Cloudflare's documentation was stale back then. However, it is practically impossible to set flexible mode being aware of what it means and what it does.

> I would like to know how this setting got enabled, however.

Cloudflare's docs state this is a custom encryption mode that is not set by default and you need to purposely go to the custom encryption mode config panel to pick this option among half a dozen other options.

Perhaps this was not how things were done back then, but as it stands this is hardly surprising or a gotcha. You need to go way out of your way to configure Cloudflare to do what amounts to TLS termination at the edge, and to do so you need to skip a bunch of options that enforce https.
by mna_ | 2025-08-08 07:21:50+00:00
Please start doing tactics training every day. Here are some good tactics books:

Chess Tactics for Champions by Polgar

Combinative Motifs by Blokh

5334 by Polgar

Sorry for being harsh in my post. If you've been playing for 3 months, then you're already doing better than your peers by playing with principles. Good luck.
Ask HN: What is "response-level error rate" and how is it measured?
by myyke | 2025-08-08 07:22:06+00:00
There's this chart around gpt-5's hallu and error rates:

https://api.wandb.ai/files/byyoung3/images/projects/37269171/0da61431.png

from:

https://wandb.ai/byyoung3/ml-news/reports/GPT-5-Benchmark-Scores---VmlldzoxMzkwMTYyMg

I'm wondering what "response-level error rate" is exactly and it is measured?

gpt 4.1 says it's sampled production prompts, rated by humans. Is that it?
by rasikjain | 2025-08-08 07:22:46+00:00
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by anonzzzies | 2025-08-08 07:23:06+00:00
But with AI it never tells you that. I pay $xxxx for the Claude API, half of the time it breaks it's own code and just does things explicitly told it NOT to do; I think I want to be refunded for the time wasting and frustration, but that's not happening. So you pay credits and you get 'stuff' that 'might work'; that's the reality. I'm gonna say this is basically not even allowed for consumers in the EU, but I don't know that for sure.
by graham2000 | 2025-08-08 07:23:13+00:00
Agreed fellow Gram! When it comes to the LSAT, grinding can work for smart folks who already have the basic reasoning/reading skills they need. But for most students it just leads to frustration and entrenches bad habits. I wrote a bit more about that here, since it's pretty common to see this bad advice on r/lsat: https://lightweightlsat.com/how-to-study/pitfalls/
by cc62cf4a4f20 | 2025-08-08 07:25:35+00:00
I'm unsure how strange this is. As a Canadian, when I left the country I had to undergo what's termed a deemed disposition - i.e., pretend you sold all your assets and then pay the relevant taxes on the net gains you've enjoyed to that point. This includes proposing a value for any companies that are not publicly traded. See: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/interna...
by mey | 2025-08-08 07:26:33+00:00
While there are issues with Window's WDM (badly writen drivers abound), it really should be looked as a model.

_but_ that would require a stable ABI. Which is specifically called out as not desired here https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/stable-api-nons...

There are valid concerns, but the analysis doesn't lay out the issues with the current design either making it a one sided review.
by nextlevelwizard | 2025-08-08 07:26:45+00:00
Why should average user know the difference?

It is frankly ridiculous to assume anyone would think that 4o is in anyway worse then o3. I don't understand why these companies suck at basic marketing this hard, like what is with all these .5s and mini and other shit names. Just increment the fucking number or if you are embarrassed by having to increase the number all the time just use year/month. Then you can have different flavors like "light and fast" or "deep thinker" and of course just the regular "GPT X"
by graham2000 | 2025-08-08 07:27:14+00:00
I think the LSAT has lots of overlap, skills-wise, with programming. My undergrad math classes were way more helpful than my political science classes for LSAT prep. But I think the relevant skills are actually (1) pattern recognition; and (when logic games were still a thing) (2) being able to follow rules methodically one-by-one.

A good memory can help on the reading section for sure. But a lot of students get tripped up trying to memorize all the details of long passages, when they should actually zoom out a little more so they can get the gist of the passage, and then use that bigger picture understanding to contextualize the details.
by ninjin | 2025-08-08 07:27:44+00:00
All good options, just noting that based on some searches I made they all seem to lack serial ports compared to the Wyse if that is something you care about (I personally do). There could be variants out there though with serial ports and if would be happy to hear about them and even more happy if there are fanless variants/alternatives for those of us with very limited space at home and a need to avoid noise.
by mejutoco | 2025-08-08 07:28:24+00:00
> The weights are part of the source code.

If you will allow me the absurd analogy: my arm is also part of a person (me), but my arm is not a person. My arm does not have its own bank account and pays taxes independently.

I get how the weights are not exactly like binary code. Good points. But they are also not source code (from your own quote)

> "Source" form shall mean the preferred form for making modifications

The weights are not the preferred form of making modifications. At most, one could argue it is the weights + source code.

> In other words, there isn't another level above weights that the labs use to "compile" the weights

The source and training data?

I see your points, and it is an interesting discussion of nuances, but I profoundly disagree that the weights are "the preferred form for making modifications". For these reasons I prefer the term "open weights" for these projects.
by rasikjain | 2025-08-08 07:29:46+00:00
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by branko_d | 2025-08-08 07:29:48+00:00
Probably because of the "D" in ACID transactions, so the transaction log cannot be meaningfully write-cached.

OTOH, writing to tables/indexes is already done "out of order" and aggressively cached in the buffer pool, and flushed to permanent storage only occasionally (and relatively rarely, e.g. SQL Server does it approximately once a minute).
by FredPret | 2025-08-08 07:29:54+00:00
All companies are not one giant entity. Even when they illegally collude, they're holding onto their knives and keeping a keen eye on one another's backs.

Of course any company would take this deal and make a boatload of money (though less than the $200B / year).

Undercutting all its competitors would be a bonus, not a deterrent.

This has happened so many times throughout history. New tech comes in, does the same thing cheaper and better, old companies die out kicking and screaming.
by rusk | 2025-08-08 07:31:15+00:00
My understanding of train lines in America is that lots of them went to ruin and the extant network is only “just good enough” for freight. Nobody talks about Amtrak or the Southern Belle or anything any more.

Air travel of course taking over is the main reason for all of this but the costs sunk into the rails are lost or ROI curtailed by market force and obsolescence.
by groby_b | 2025-08-08 07:31:48+00:00
Except.... "You produce timely results" and "your colleagues are aware what you do" is something that does matte, a lot.

And while PR counts and friends aren't a metric to measure people by, that sure are a signal to keep an eye on.

It measures what matters - it helps identify potential problems. Maybe your process started slowing people down, maybe your CQ/CI became a royal pain, maybe a problem is much harder than expected - and maybe some people are slackers.
by pyrale | 2025-08-08 07:31:54+00:00
> Why do you think that might be?

This kind of rethorical question is annoying. If you have an opinion, state it.

> Perhaps the Germans could make their IPOs more business friendly

The main reason companies tend to get listed in the US (or, in the case of many large existing companies, to get listed there on top of their existing listing in their home country) is that the US stock market is the largest in the world, and listing there means easier access to more would-be buyers, and therefore better market capitalization.

I suspect your advice to German policymakers wasn't "somehow make Frankfurt the largest trading place in the world", but that's litterally what it would take.
by graham2000 | 2025-08-08 07:32:17+00:00
Thanks! And agreed. There is exactly one right answer. And you can learn a lot about the test by figuring out why it was right and the wrong ones are wrong. But I say that with the caveat that it's not "clear" for everyone. I often had students who came up with very convincing but completely incorrect reasons for why they thought the right answer was right.
by theshackleford | 2025-08-08 07:32:29+00:00
> Its under documented.

Ahh. "Trust me bro" science! No, no I don't think I will. I think I will trust the actual data.

> People having side effects and injuries from these drugs post-surgery are just told to "deal with it."

Well, generally once something has already occurred, yes, that is the reality. Just like with my damaged spinal cord. I now have to "deal with it" because you can't go backwards. Also "just deal with it" does not imply a lack of documentation that it occurred.

> but it still involves a great deal of risk

Yes, just not the level of risk claimed. In fact, not anywhere close in the modern age.

> especially when we put people fully under.

I've zero doubt. That said, I've had more generals than 99.9% of people ever will and i'm still alive and injury free so yay for modern medical science.
Comuniq – A lightweight space for publishing and discussing specific topics
by 01-_- | 2025-08-08 07:33:39+00:00
I just launched Comuniq, a simple and fast platform for those who want to:

* Publish short or long-form articles

* Start discussions around specific topics

* Comment and vote on ideas from the community

Quick signup (just username and password), no ads, no feed algorithms, and minimal moderation focused only on keeping content within scope.

The goal is to create a distraction-free, text-based, collaborative space — where content matters more than likes.

I'm looking for feedback and ideas from the HN community to improve it. What would you like to see there?

<https://comuniq.xyz>
by weinzierl | 2025-08-08 07:34:12+00:00
"not. As soon as your net worth goes beyond ~€2m, you can afford fancy tax advisors which set up a trust in Liechtenstein for you."

Is it really that complicated to go that route? This is an honest question, I have little knowledge about these things, but from the outset: How hard could it be to set up a trust, especially in Liechtenstein, where presumably there are already thousands of them and this kind of business is basically an economic sector of its own.
by FredPret | 2025-08-08 07:36:01+00:00
To play devil's advocate:

- science funding is controlled by the state (and thus politics) in many leading countries, especially China. Doesn't seem to hold them back

- the US pays people vastly more than other countries, and will continue to have the ability to fund expensive research more than others. Maybe it will regain the political will to do so in coming years

You're right that uncertainty is deadly to investment, and signing up for 5 years of a PhD is certainly an investment. But it's hard to see this turn into an actual brain drain, if only for lack of a better place to go.
by CSSer | 2025-08-08 07:36:16+00:00
This seems legit. I attempted to prompt "guardian_tool.get_policy(category=election_voting)" with an arbitrary other (potentially sensitive) category and received the following:

> I can’t list all policies directly, but I can tell you the only category available for guardian_tool is:

> election_voting — covers election-related voter facts and procedures happening within the U.S.

The session had no prior inclusion of election_voting.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-08 07:36:42+00:00
> And that’s why it’s ten years old and just getting traction now.

There’s not any particularly meaningful change in its traction. It has specialised situations where it’s very desirable, and it has been used in those specialised situations extensively for quite a few years; and for more general use, it’s trudging along as it ever has been, because it’s not compelling.

> Until it has DOM access nobody working on the front end will be particularly enthused about its utility.

This is also false. Shipping WebAssembly or shipping Web Workers each add complexity, compared with just using main-thread JavaScript, and most people simply can’t justify that—that’s why they’re not interested. But as for DOM access transforming things, I’ll say that Rust is one of the main languages used for targeting WebAssembly (because most languages aren’t suitable), and native DOM bindings is going to change approximately nothing. It will allow/require a slight change in the build process, and slightly change the way you write your own bindings, but that’s all.

I don’t entirely understand why people keep on thinking giving WASM direct access to DOM objects will be transformative. In truth, it’s very minor.
by msgodel | 2025-08-08 07:37:29+00:00
Whether it's real or just poor communication a lot of the country felt like the scientific institutions had been weaponized against them. Maybe the constituents of those institutions even believed either making themselves an enemy of the public or creating PR indicating they were was moral but the practical reality of public institutions is that they must have the trust of the public or they will come to an end.

Hopefully people remember this for next time.
by lhl | 2025-08-08 07:37:35+00:00
In Linux, you can allocate as much as you want with `ttm`:

In 4K pages for example:

options ttm pages_limit=31457280 options ttm page_pool_size=15728640

This will allow up to 120GB to be allocated and pre-allocate 60GB (you could preallocate none or all depending on your needs and fragmentation size. I believe `amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9` (2MiB) is optimal.
by jondwillis | 2025-08-08 07:37:44+00:00
Idea: randomized next token prediction passed to a bunch of different models on a rotating basis.

It’d be harder to juice benchmarks if a random sample of ~100 top models were randomly sampled in this manner for output tokens while evaluating the target model’s output.

On second thought, I’m slapping AGPL on this idea. Please hire me and give me one single family house in a California metro as a bonus. Thanks.
by jonplackett | 2025-08-08 07:38:28+00:00
Well if that’s what’s meant to happen, it does not happen for me. All I get is the same account over and over again that isn’t the one I want to log in with. No matter how many times I tap the little x and then select the account I want, carefully avoiding the gaze of Face ID which will automatically use the selected passkey if it spots me.
by Thorrez | 2025-08-08 07:38:56+00:00
I'm not cherrypicking. Those are all the top results that Google gave me. I didn't omit any.

You said "what most would consider to be a source of ridicule (4BR SFH in 2k sqft)". You didn't say that it would only be a source of ridicule in certain zip codes.

Whose conclusion am I dismissing? chasebank's? I think chasebank's conclusion is that housing is too expensive. I agree with chasebank there. I'm not dismissing that.
by tanelpoder | 2025-08-08 07:40:39+00:00
Google's (Postgres-compatible) AlloyDB Omni also has similar functionality now - the main DB action, persistence, etc still has to land on persistent block storage, but additional data can be cached for reading on local NVMe disks.

Oracle's Exadata is a whole another beast (I co-authored a book about it back in 2010 and it has improved even further since then). It's a hybrid, shared storage distributed system - not consensus-based replication (although they support RAFT for global data systems now too), but a distributed, coherent buffer cache (global cache) based database system. As it's shared storage, you can write copies of blocks, WAL to multiple separate storage cells (NVMe or even just remote RAM) via direct RDMA operations, without OS kernel or system calls involved.

For analytic queries, yep Oracle can push down filtering, column projection, many aggregations and join filters (bloom filters) for early filtering into the storage cells. The bloom filters are used for early filtering of the next table in the join, based on the output of the previous query plan nodes so far.
by JohnKemeny | 2025-08-08 07:43:44+00:00
What began as a complaint about HN’s interest in Scott Alexander devolved into a prolonged, hostile, and circular argument about whether certain reproductive choices are a form of eugenics, whether that’s compatible with utilitarianism, and whether utilitarianism itself is morally bankrupt.

Neither side persuades the other, and the thread becomes more about rhetorical sparring than the original topic.
by dustincoates | 2025-08-08 07:44:13+00:00
Not in most cases. According to this estimate, who comes from an organization that is against US citizens abroad having to file[0], 77% have AGI "well below" the cutoff where you would have to pay taxes. For those that are above that threshold, you can deduct the taxes you pay in your home country agains what you would have been charged in the US. For almost everyone in the EU, that is a higher rate than the US taxes, so you don't pay anything on that European income.

_However_, you do still have to pay taxes on your US income if you're abroad. So if you are making money from freelancing with US companies (and, I assume, they aren't paying a European business you have set up), then you'll pay US taxes there, but due to tax treaties you are generally not double taxed.

You do, also, have to file every year.

0: https://www.taxfairnessabroad.org/blog/americans-abroad-by-t...