MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-10-24 20:02:43+00:00
Focus real hard and make it a practice. You'll need to try every night. Most importantly, have patience.

I started like you. Basically it disappeared instantly. @agentcoops is right that the still sleepy state helps. Your last few sleep cycles have the longest REM, so that is likely going to be the best time. But you really need to want to do it. By turning it into a habit your brain will start recognizing that it is important, so to keep it.

I highly suggest using pen and paper. Do not write on your phone. It'll help with maintaining that sleepy state. It's okay if they are just scribbles and illegible. It's better to start writing illegible nonsense than waking up and making it readable. This is especially true in the beginning. It's okay, it'll come with time. Just write down anything you can remember. A color, feeling, emotion, smell, taste, or anything. You can help the habit by writing "nothing" in it, just as a note to remind your mind that you're trying. I cannot stress the importance of the habit. The real reason the dream journal works is because you are teaching yourself that this is important to remember. Just like taking notes in class. Even if you never read them back, the act of note taking helps build that mental pathway.

Honestly, it may take a month (or more if you're really "bad"[0]) to write your first full dream. But you should be able to get something in a week or two. Remember, it took me a week to just recall a color. That's not abnormal. If after a few weeks you still have nothing, then set two alarms in the morning an hour or two before you normally wake up. The alarms should be about 45-60 minutes from the first. What you're trying to do is wake yourself up towards the end of REM, so trial and error might help. You're targeting the last or second to last cycle. But there's 2 reasons I suggest not starting there. 1) You haven't built the habit yet, so it's going to be less useful. 2) Disrupting REM leads you to feeling less rested, even if you got enough hours. You can also get less reliable results with a single alarm and it is probably better to start there, try to time it with your normal alarm.

[0] Not that you are doing anything wrong. Just that it is harder for you, which might be a thing given your condition.
by singleshot_ | 2025-10-24 20:03:08+00:00
Thais “whole problem” is precisely what the existing system solves. I bid a future obligation to pay the tax only without the obligation to buy the land. At the end of the year, the county gets the whole tax payment from me.

It’s tempting to talk about “the whole problem” but if you don’t know how the system works it can be hard to see the forest for the trees.
by tcmart14 | 2025-10-24 20:03:26+00:00
Yea but it is also about opportunity cost. I would love if we can do everything, but we can't. Sure, we can put a man on the moon again, but is the cost that we are not gonna be able to send a probe to Titan? Ultimately it comes down to resource allocation. Is putting the man on the moon for just merely because the people who did it are not around worth the resources? No, not compared to the other things we can do in space. Actually, putting a man on the moon again probably very much robs resources from other project that will actually push novel exploration.

Unfortunately it feels more like the drive to return to the moon is just a way for the high school quarter back to relive his glory days, as the stereotype goes and is actually less about accomplishing something meaningful to push science and understanding. Tons of things we could do to push science and understanding that is novel that we may forgo to relive former glory.
Show HN: The Σ-Manifold Manifesto
by mihend | 2025-10-24 20:04:11+00:00
This project explores the connection between *the linear structure of text* and its *emotional-aesthetic impact*. We identify *five fundamental relations* between consecutive sentences — labeled *A–E*. Each represents a shift of *subject-object*, i.e., a transformation of perspective and agency.

When texts grow longer, these relations form *sequences* — and from the infinite combinatorial space, *eight stable patterns (Σ₁–Σ₈)* emerge empirically. Each pattern correlates with a distinct *semantic and emotional field* — cathartic, heroic, meditative, humorous, and so on.

This allows us to instruct an LLM not through semantic prompts (“write a story about…”), but through *structural commands* — e.g., generate a narrative following sequence Σ₅ (Tragic Counterpoint). You can experiment with these archetypes directly here: [Narrative Generator](https://a2tg9zwayjuqzcpdznklve.streamlit.app/~/+/#narrative-...) or [via python](https://github.com/mihendr/Echoes-of-autonomy/blob/main/TEMA...)

Interestingly, there appears to be a parallel between these textual progressions and *musical harmony*. For example, if A–E are mapped to harmonic functions (I, IV, V, vi, ii), the narrative sequences behave like emotional “chord progressions” — where meaning flows, modulates, and resolves.

Coherence in the generated text arises not only from syntax, but from the *associative field* that the LLM constructs around these shifting relations. When asked to “switch subjects,” it spontaneously moves from Poet to Writer, preserving aesthetic continuity rather than randomness.

It might even hint at how *children acquire language*: by first sensing the melody of structural transitions, before mapping them to concepts and emotions. Such a method could eventually apply to *training neural systems*, where meaning is learned as flow — not as fixed representation. [Full text](https://medium.com/@mihend_80107/%CF%83-manifold-manifest-e3...)
by bigyabai | 2025-10-24 20:04:52+00:00
You're the same guy who's wondering why software quality is so low on iOS?

You refuse to vote with your dollar. You buy Apple's failed products like Vision Pro, and reinforce their insular self-destructive business model. You tacitly defend their right to commercialize free software and victimize yourself when alternatives are identified. There is zero feedback loop between you and Apple, just a wallet that keeps vomiting cash. The only outlet of communication that you can use to tell them to focus on the Mac or iPhone (eg. buying more Macs and iPhones) is being eschewed to support "the ecosystem" and replacement apps.

Therefore, you reserve no right to tell Tim Cook to stop focusing on the Vision Pro. You own one. You are one of the (sole) customers begging Tim to divert his attention away from the Mac, so he can focus on his visionary iPhone replacement. You wanted it bad enough to spend $3,500 that could have gone towards a college fund, three iPhones, six Macs, or an entire 16th birthday "come to the garage" surprise.

"WTF Apple" my ass, either take your lumps or buy a new product. We only hear this sort of moral floundering when monopolies form and people have to make themselves look helpless rather than an accomplice. Clearly Apple has no incentive to compete, but you also lack the balls to indict them despite rearing an entire family. Instead of commiserating with your faux helplessness, I will tell you to participate in a market economy to enforce the product of free market competition. You cannot make demands from a position of captivity.
by greygoo222 | 2025-10-24 20:05:08+00:00
Raising counter-examples shouldn't mean throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, and the author's point could easily have been made without repeating an extraordinary claim he fails to provide evidence for. If The Body Keeps the Score had arguments as poorly sourced as "this textbook said that PTSD co-occurs with inflammation, so Western diets could cause inflammation which could cause PTSD", the author of the Substack would rightfully criticize it as unsubstantiated bullshit. His own article should be held to the same standards.
by mycodendral | 2025-10-24 20:05:59+00:00
It’s implied by their function that they’re investigating a crime. They have no obligation to explain which one, and it’s usually a bad strategy for the agent to do so. Revealing details risks compromising the investigation or tipping off potential subjects.

"We came out here to ask you questions regarding a protest that happened on the the 11th of June" -- Sounds like textbook investigative work to me.

You're acting like they said, "We came out here to ask you questions regarding the crime of protesting that happened on the the 11th of June" which is not what happened.
by sgc | 2025-10-24 20:06:15+00:00
The biggest problem with public school is school size and class size. The last century of school building built prison-like megaliths, when it should have built a much more distributed system. Class sizes under 20 and schools under 120 at least through middle school would raise a far less pathologically self-centered society. But most people who vote/make decisions would have to care more deeply, so I think it's a non-starter in the US, and more and more some other countries.

Kids stop caring way too young as a self-preservation mechanism. This means many of them also stop trying... It's a spiral that can only be broken by restructuring.
by techcode | 2025-10-24 20:06:17+00:00
Depends on what you mean by this in "been doing this"?

While work now mandates "If you want to use Linux, it has to be Ubuntu" (and I complied). On personal front - about a decade ago I've moved from "vanilla" Gentoo to Calculate Linux - which was and still is 100% Gentoo.

These days difference is even smaller, but already 10+ years ago Calculate had sane profiles as well as all software packages as pre compiled binaries matching those profiles.

And although systemd is one of configurable USE keywords on Calculate/Gentoo - it's still not the default.

So there probably are some folks that haven't been touched by systemd at all... For now.
by kingkawn | 2025-10-24 20:06:41+00:00
Overarching intellectual models exist for the sake of the problems they solve, rather than to stake claims of supremacy over all other models. Religious-style thinking has important meaning in certain contexts, especially crises and periods of apparent helplessness. Scientific rationalism is useful for solving certain classes of problems in certain ways. To posit universality to either betrays a medieval relationship to thought, not that the person, whether religious or scientific, may be close to succeeding at their position’s impossible sense of their own centrality.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-24 20:07:29+00:00
> It was pretty evident Hunter would have been brought up on charges

No it wasn't. Trump had to threaten Zelenskyy to accuse him at all, which backfired immediately when Zelenskyy denied the accusations. He still claims that Trump manufactured the charges, and we haven't seen any damning evidence that suggests they were credible. I wager that's because the "evidence" wouldn't discredit Biden unless a court was forcibly compelled to do so.

> Hillary ran an email server from her office that contained government emails

This may be news to you, but government officials are allowed to use third-party communique to transmit non-sensitive and declassified information. The reason Hillary was never brought up on charges was because they never found any proof of wrongdoing. Same as Trump's SCIFs, if you want to go there.

> The real crimes started when Trump was running in his first term and Obama colluded with Russian agents to spy on him.

Again, source? We have no evidence that Obama was a Russian agent, whereas several retired KGB officers have attested to Trump's enrollment. I think you're misremembering a few details, but I beg you to link a high quality source if one exists.
by ddingus | 2025-10-24 20:07:39+00:00
A while back I saw a post where people ran a model over and over to accomplish a code base port from one language to another.

In their prompt, they told it to leave itself a note and to accomplish something each time.

Then they put the model in a loop and it worked. In one instance, a model removed itself from the loop by editing a file or some other basic means.

To me, iterative tasks like like multiply and long divide, look an awful lot like the code port experiment.

Putting models into loops so they get more than one bite at the task seems to be a logical progression to improve capability.
by eightysixfour | 2025-10-24 20:07:41+00:00
> It's not clear who you ask to acknowledge the game but it's very clear that neither team is going to do it, much less to work for out benefit.

I see very people trying to define a new platform for the US that clearly redefines the terms in these ways. Mostly just fringe folks, closer to Yarvin than a politician. I don't think the ideas are hard to grok, or to package and sell, but I do believe it is possible to create alternative political beliefs and brands (e.g. MAGA), and fully co-opt an existing political party.

I don't even think it takes that long to get a train rolling if you have the backing money and fame/platform. If you look at polling results on policy instead of party, there are some alternative alignments that can be drawn that have broad population support across many of the hot button topics, and then you can enter a few new topics into the mainstream discussion point.

Barring that, it is millions of people who agree these things are bad (see No Kings protests, even if some are just anti-Trump and not actually aligned) and are willing to stand up for it.

> The game is well into its end stage and the people who defined it, play it every day. What are the chances of those who haven't even figured it out yet?

People are fickle, that plays against them as much as for them. Trump is proof you can shift the paradigm in less than a decade but, ironically given their slogans, opponents are stuck trying to take us back to "normal" instead of defining a new one. Old people die. Vision can overpower nostalgia.
by devilbunny | 2025-10-24 20:07:47+00:00
My Lenovo would just randomly kill its battery even when it was supposed to be full suspend-to-disk - under Windows.

Setting the BIOS option to "Linux-compatible sleep mode" fixed this, but it took me FOREVER to figure this out and I'm reasonably certain I first heard about this fix in a comment here.

Not a bit of a problem since.
by ben_w | 2025-10-24 20:09:03+00:00
> Robotaxi is rolled out and we are not seeing crazy videos like we do with Waymo (who admittedly is doing more miles).

Robotaxi is two orders of magnitude worse than Waymo: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09/teslas-robotaxi-test-th...

> xAI seems to be SOTA, IIRC unbeated in coding performance for whole half year now or so

(1) Not according to any of the listings I've seen. I mean, don't get me wrong, they're occasionally at the top, but nobody is persistently at the top for more than about 6 weeks.

(2) xAI is not Tesla, and Musk has faced legal action because his work on xAI took talent and resources away from Tesla: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24177975/tesla-shareholde...
by adolph | 2025-10-24 20:09:36+00:00
> it is actually very rigid, with kids being able to play with just a small set of toys that don't really exercise their creativity

There exist various implementations of Montessori. AMI was founded by Dr. Montessori [0] and certifies schools so that parents can have some assurance of adherence to a standard. The many materials in a Montessori classroom, including things that look like a dollhouse, don't exist for unstructured play but are learning tools for the guide and student to use in their work. Once the student gets a lesson using a material, then they can choose to practice using the material in their self-directed work periods, which can be in groups.

My kids had a mostly positive mixed experience in Montessori. In addition to evaluating how a child comes to grip with the method, there is also how they work with their guide. My observation is that even skilled practitioners don't always achieve a strong rapport with every student. In those situations the Montessori classroom's weakness is that there is only one guide for all subjects as opposed to a traditional school's subject-specific teachers.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_Montessori_Interna...
by greygoo222 | 2025-10-24 20:09:55+00:00
It's completely sensible for most people to believe they are above average drivers, and all be correct. This is because there isn't a single objective measurement for "good at driving."

Imagine that 50% of people are cautious drivers, and 50% are fast drivers. The cautious drivers think being cautious is more important than being fast, so they all believe they are above average. The fast drivers, vice versa. Everyone thinks they're above average, and they are by their own standards, no delusion required.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-24 20:10:45+00:00
I have a clockworkPi dev console which has the built-in printer, and it has always been a 'quaint' accessory, but lately I have been looking at it with glee and wondering what strange and fruitful things I could do with it .. the first is of course a zine, for which it is the perfect printing device .. just carry it with me, print out this months issue, stable the whole sizzle together and duct-tape it in some random loo somewhere, as deserves all good zine format ..

So, yeah, there could also be a window of opportunity by which other readers of the zine could send their own message to be included in the distribution channel (i.e. the bog roll) and things could propagate.

Well, I guess the point is, that suddenly I think that receipt printers are really the only printer I want to deal with, ultimately. I've gotta stock up on rolls.
by the_gipsy | 2025-10-24 20:11:27+00:00
You said "buying tons of $20 scratch-off tickets". Of course I was referring to literally that. If you want to say gambling in general, no, not even that is correct. It can only be done where you mostly play against a complice and the house takes a small fixed cut. Nothing to do with lottery shit, that didn't make any sense at all.
by skybrian | 2025-10-24 20:11:33+00:00
The project to formalize everything has been tried before and abandoned. Some issues:

https://metarationality.com/sort-of-truth

Formalism isn't the right tool for a lot of semi-factual fields like journalism or law. Even in business, numbers are of course used in accounting, but much of it depends on arbitrary definitions and estimates. (Consider depreciation.)
by eldaisfish | 2025-10-24 20:11:51+00:00
Everything you describe is true only in some places, likely California. In much of the rest of the world, electricity demand peaks in the evening, when the sun is low in the sky and continues well into the evening, when the sun isn’t out. Notice how even the Wikipedia page about the duck curve lists mainly California. Even in Australia and the UK, daylight hours and electricity demand mostly do not overlap.
by akullpp | 2025-10-24 20:12:06+00:00
A lot can be done with just aliasing to the right tools:

alias df='duf'

alias ls='eza'

alias ll='eza -l'

alias cat='bat'

alias cap='bat -p'

alias man='tldr'

alias top='glances'

alias grep='rg'

alias ps='procs'

alias cd='z'

alias g='gitui'

alias gs='git st'

alias gp='git pull'

alias gu='git add . && git commit -m "Update" && git push'

alias check='shellcheck'

alias v='nvim'

alias len='wc -l'

alias uuid='uuidgen'

alias src='source ~/.zshrc'
by egorfine | 2025-10-24 20:12:28+00:00
Absolutely nothing.

But systemd projects and Rust rewrites have this one thing in common: them being pure virtue signaling they absolutely have to be noticed. And what's a better way to get noticed if not going for something important and core?

To me, Rust rewrites look like "just stop oil" road blocks - the more people suffer, the better.

PS: Disclaimer: I love Rust. I hate fanboys.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-24 20:12:43+00:00
> What's their redundancy and DR plan look like?

I toured a facility that utilized Parallel Sysplex / GDPS CA. This offers true RTO = RPO = 0. You could take a fire axe to any piece of hardware in the building and it would have zero effect. For catastrophic events, the guarantees relax a little bit, but they're still very strong. Someone breaking an entire fiber vault or setting half the datacenter on fire would still not compromise operations in this facility. It's essentially two datacenters in one, much like how an AWS region works with multiple AZs. Each side of the facility is entirely independent. Somewhere inside a mountain in Colorado a 3rd set of machines is passively replicating everything as well.

The most resilient mainframe solutions involve a purpose built facility. The cool thing about the mainframe is that it isn't very big. You can get do a lot of damage with what is effectively just 4 racks of hardware. You'll probably have another 10-20 racks worth of HSMs, firewalls, VPN concentrators, UPSes, etc. Most of the infrastructure is to support the mainframe. So, the facility doesn't actually have to be very large. It just needs to be in a really good location and built like a bunker.
by HPsquared | 2025-10-24 20:12:52+00:00
(too late to edit) I remembered this example of "unintentional amplitude modulation" of a strong AM RF signal: touching vegetation against a (presumably AM) radio mast. "Listening radio with grass"

https://youtu.be/b9UO9tn4MpI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41462574
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-24 20:13:33+00:00
Yes, the use case of receipt printers is really intriguing .. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698598) .. I find myself wondering what other simple micro-printing things might be worth the effort. The offline nature, the anonymity of the reader - this makes it an appealing media, suddenly, in the storm of digital life.

In my case, I will probably try to use my receipt printer as a zine production line. The nature of the format inspires some great article writing ..
by ludwigvan | 2025-10-24 20:13:50+00:00
I hate mosquitoes with a passion. Might be the only species that I would want eradicated from Earth.

From my experience (based in Turkey), mosquitoes seem to be getting more and more resilient. They have become an annoyance even in autumn, and I recall catching one last winter. A few decades ago, they used to only appear in late spring and summer. Anyone have a similar experience elsewhere?