skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a parameter I don't think the Fermi Equation takes into account:

I call it "Fragile Universe", based off of the notion of the "Fragile" or "Vulnerable World Hypothesis" [1].

f_c is the parameter for the fraction of "civilizations that reach the technological level whereby detectable signals may be dispatched", so that handles the "Fragile World Hypothesis". Alien civilizations can wipe themselves out, exhaust resources, etc. before we get to see their detectable signals [2].

What the equation doesn't take into consideration is the possibility that an advanced species can trigger the destruction or total reset of the entire universe, eg. by nucleating the vacuum collapse. The first advanced species to reach that point could kill every species in the universe and start the whole thing over from scratch.

This is an extreme version of the anthropic principle [3]. We exist because the universe hasn't been reset yet. By us or otherwise. Presumably we might be the first to get there.

Universe fragility could be the reason we don't see aliens. We could be the very first, and we could wind up hitting the reset button.

[1] https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf ; tldr: advanced species can trivially wipe themselves out and will tend to do so. Not just nukes, but in the extreme, your average citizen can create grey goo at home with the press of a button that will turn the entire planet into paper clips.

[2] It could be that the time frames in which advanced civilizations emit detectable signals are so geologically small as they shift into non-detectable modes (eg. dark forest, disinterest in expansion, shift into a higher plane of existence, etc.), but that's orthogonal to the discussion.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Google for "low platelet" sure, if you already know that's important which she did not. The hard part here was entirely noticing that there was an urgent problem.
Same thing for ecstasy: Can be anything from filler scam, to an MDMA dosage that will probably send you to hospital, to drugs that work very similar to MDMA and can also be called ecstasy to weird ass hard drugs that are something completely different.

In Vienna we have an organization that checks pills or powder from the batch you bought and tells you what exactly it is.
Love the shroom experience, hate all the yawning and sore jaw after.
Parquet is only a mess if you try to mutate it, usually you consider them as immutable and have the data stored across many files.

Also batched-row access is negligible given the compression benefits you get with the columnar format, which is probably why it's still king in ML; I think given what I'm seeing in the industry and recent trends (e.g. Velox).
even LSD doesn't usually work immediately. it usually takes something like 30 minutes to an hour to start having effects.

i think one of my records is something like 12 hours after dosage to start feeling the effects. which i think happened because i also ate a bunch of food before taking

i use LSD recreationally every 1-2 weeks or so
Thanks. FWIW, it feels to me like this would be best as a global setting, not per-repo? Or, I guess it might be more aider-y to have sane defaults in the app and command line changes. Anyway, happily plugging away with the architect settings now!
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Likewise, I found a studio tape recorder in a shop once (silver metal, so probably 80's or 90's era), it came with the manual which was mostly just electrical schematics so that you could both figure out exactly how it works, and figure out how to repair or replace components of it.
Gorton Recreations
Unless they are advertised as medical practitioners, I don't see how they could possibly be liable for bad medical advice. You can't sue your friend or dad for bad medical advice. Maybe you can if they claim themselves to be a licensed medical practitioner you'd have a shot at a successful lawsuit.
This looks like a cool progress bar.
From personal experience, the most time consuming maintenance issues arise because of the following things:

- third party dependencies, compatibility issues, breaking changes

- code that is bloated with abstractions and indirection

- performance issues, especially when worked around via caching etc.

- bad error handling

- inconsistent data

Simpler code that can be followed and stepped through in a straight forward manner avoids 3/5 of these from the get go. Patterns and abstractions that emerge over time are sometimes beneficial. Legacy code or third party code that overuses abstractions is really more of a hindrance and significantly slows down how fast I can understand, own and fix things.
Musk isn’t a credentialed elite—someone who holds power by virtue of attaining credentials to run an organization or institution with regulatory power. Musk holds power by virtue of having a populist cult of personality.

The credentialed elites are the Ivy League graduates who go work for government and do things like have the SBA make loans to minorities that white people aren’t eligible for: https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/court-rules-biden-admin-di.... They’re the ones who see, for example, immigration and affirmative action as moral causes—even though most voters oppose both—and have injected those ideas into all our government programs, corporate HR, etc.

What happened is that a plurality of voters decided that they’d rather have billionaire industrialists in charge than the Ivy League pencil pushers.
The Science of Cravings: Why the First Bite Always Wins
I browsed through the article, but it's not clear to me if they're only encrypting data at rest (that you open up with a login session, but then: their referenced docs mention alice and bob exchanging messages, so that can't be it), or that they're encrypting messages and sending them out (i.e. it is similar to openpgp, but then their own custom thing? how would that interoperate with anyone else?).

Perhaps it makes more sense if you already know how they operate technically. There's a chance I browsed too quickly and missed the explanation... The article reads a bit confusing with the mixing of (a)symmetric concepts.
> Would it be true to say that last month I had hemorrhagic fever symptoms when I had the flu?

Yes, especially if a few dozen others with the same thing die in a short period and you're in an area where hemorrhagic fever is naturally found.
That looks like a separate issue, but will investigate. Thank you!
We won't be able to do it either soon, as they will mandate connecting with it through an app and we're like fuck that. (if we're not already there)
Look at raw data, not media reports. I posted a link already. The UK's economic growth is very similar to comparable EU economies.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...
Rights are of limited use if there's no practical way to exercise them. Hiring a software developer to change an OS or an app is rarely a practical option for most consumers.
China is building the most new coal power, by a large margin. They love coal.
I don't think DigiCert has the power to change literally every internal validating mechanism to check if a certificate is expired or not. But you seem to know more, so I'd ask you expound on that.
No. I’m talking about genius. Not savant. Savants likely can’t relate to your emotions. Geniuses can. The difference is just if it takes them 1 second to parse what takes you 5 minutes to do the same they often don’t realize this unless you tell them.

That being said what I talk about lives on a gradient. The smarter you are the greater degree of tendency you have to write shitty code.

The cleaner your code the higher possible chance you are stupider. It’s not a definitive sign but there is a correlation.
Might throw it into an AI later.
> There is a huge list of exact correspondences between Christian concepts and Communist concepts.

Those concepts are not particularly _christian_ in themselves, they're more constituents of an institutionalised belief system implementing hierarchical control points. It's proven efficient, and you find it in the Roman antique society, you find its equivalent in complex societies, even today in republics, in companies, etc.

Founders, constitutions or associates pacts, policies, fellows/staff members, executive managers, CEO or chairman, internal inspection, HR, etc.
Not a fraud. Hi. It me. Still in the hospital right now
But surely this could just be done with a constraint software, with better accuracy and less likelihood of making something up?
> If the US government didn’t purge most of its software experts in the 90s on the basis that the US would be buying, not building

I hadn’t heard about this before, would love to learn more. Got any good links?
According to the page they're using https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave
You are right, we will get bailed out by some yet uninvented technological solution and never face consequences for our own hubris. The climatologists are handwringing as you suggest because the solution is surely around the corner in the mind of some broccoli headed teen developed on a tick tock attention span. The ship will sail quite smoothly into the future. We have never been wrong before.
People who are just trying ro make end meets with no hope of improvement do often adopt this thinking. It is that or alcoholism, drug use and gambling.

People need meaning in their life and work that mistreat you is not that.
The exact same point holds when you use mugging, which specific word you use is pretty orthogonal in this context.
> (even if most phones and tablets really run a UNIX-derived OS behind the scenes).

Key phrase being "behind the scenes", iOS completely obscured the concept of files to its users for a long time. I don't remember how downloading files off of a website worked though.
Why doesn't it just communicate a unique conversation ID and then use a backchannel like opening up a web connection instead? It is supposing that you are able to make a call but not connect to the internet?
Wikipedia is definitely not a public square. It is an encyclopedia. What you said, about it being

>like a library with steep rules

is entirely correct. That doesn't make it bad, not at all! You're right: There are very few equivalents of a public square, digitally. I consider HN to be one, even more so than email. Email chains get awkward with multiple people, and email addresses are (of necessity, due to spam, like others already said) non-public.
One time I snorted ketamine with a bunch of hairy middle eastern guys on a club toilet in Tel Aviv and the next day I was courageous enough to rent myself a car and drive to the dead sea, when I had given up navigating the shitty bus booking websites for dead sea transports the day before.

There might be something to it. Unfortunately, the last few times I tried to buy Ketamine I got scammed with Cocaine, which I abhor.
> Curious if the video aged well.

Just watched it, and I would say that it did age very well.
Do not make the mistake of the craftsman who claims to have 20 years of experience, but in truth only has 1 year of experience repeated 20 times.
Interesting analogy with road lines! But I'd suggest constraints are actually more fundamental than that. They're not just rules we impose for safety - they're the very fabric of how systems work and evolve.

Think about database queries: those aren't arbitrary limitations like road lines, they're expressions of what's logically possible within the system. When we model these constraints explicitly (using something like ASP), we discover they're not restrictions - they're revelations of the system's inherent nature.

This goes beyond datagrams or interfaces. It's about understanding that constraints aren't something we add to systems - they're what systems are. Every API you've ever used, every protocol you've implemented, every interface you've designed - they're all manifestations of underlying constraint spaces waiting to be discovered.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this perspective. Have you ever encountered a situation where what seemed like an arbitrary restriction actually revealed something fundamental about the problem you were solving?
Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents
Hey HN, we’re Gregor and Magnus, the founders of browser-use (https://browser-use.com/), an easy way to connect AI agents with the browser. Our agent library is open-source (https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) and we have what is the biggest open-source community for browser agents. And now we have a cloud offering—hence our Launch HN today!

Check out this video to see it in action: https://preview.screen.studio/share/r1h4DuAk. There are lots more demos at https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use on how we control the web with prompts.

We started coding a decade ago with Selenium bots and macros to automate tasks. Then we both moved into ML. Last November, we asked ourselves, “How hard could it be to build the interface between LLMs and the web?”

We launched on Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42052432) and have since been addressing various challenges of browser automation, such as: - Automation scripts break when the website changes - Automation scripts are annoying to build - Captchas and rate limits - parsing errors and API key management - and perhaps worst of all, login screens.

People use us to fill out their forms, extract data behind login walls, or automate their CRM. Others use the xPaths browser-use clicked on and build their scripts faster, or directly rerun the actions of browser-use deterministically. We’re currently working on robust task reruns, agent memory for long tasks, parallelization for repetitive tasks, and many other sweet improvements.

One interesting aspect is that some companies now want to change their UI to be more agent-friendly. Some developers even replace ugly UIs with nice ones and use browser-use to copy data over.

Besides the open-source we have an API. We host the browser and LLMs for you and help you with handling proxy rotation, persistent sessions and allowing you to run multiple instances in parallel. We price at $30/month—significantly lower than OpenAI’s Operator.

On the open-source side, browser use remains free. You can use any LLM, from Gemini to Sonnet, Qwen, or even DeepSeek-R1. It’s licensed under MIT, giving you full freedom to customize it.

We’d love to hear from you—what automation challenges are you facing? Any thoughts, questions, experiences are welcome!
Your advisor pays your tuition for this class that doesn’t exist.
> The incentive behind the work of DeepSeek might very well be wrong (something along the lines of a state-sponsored attempt at shrinking the US first mover advantage in AI to nil)

In the space of international relations, right and wrong don't apply nearly as much. Is open sourcing this any more "wrong" than the export ban on high end Nvidia GPUs?

The open sourcing by DeepSeek (presumably with CCP consent) just happens to be good for both the CCP and the broader open source AI community at the same time, but don't take it as some kind of principled stance by them.

Finding ways to take away other countries' competitive advantages is a major activity off all governments, large and small.
This is how I sometimes use ChatGPT - to test out my ideas.

And some of those ideas push the boundary... quite a bit. In this case, in experimental quantum physics.

It all started with this offhand comment I made on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166072

Then I got to thinking... and -- well -- you can follow the discussion.

I LOVE this format for sharing information! Just share a conversation you had with ChatGPT, instead of talking and talking. Those who want to can explore it in that format. I even worked this idea further into a provisional patent that I filed, which goes from a linear chat to actually useful ways of communicating:

https://app.engageusers.ai/provisional.pdf

In any case, if you read either one, I'd love to hear your feedback!
you know that it is always the government that will put you in prison, or send you to war

You're merely playing word games here. A person keeping another human being against their will is called slavery or abduction instead of prison. Similarly, it's only called war when it's a government doing it, otherwise it's called activism, terrorism, or gang warfare (note the overload of the term).

The main difference between a corporation and a real democratic government is that a government is accountable to all its citizens, instead of its shareholders. I understand that this is a difficult concept to grasp for US citizens, but the rest of us living in actual European democracies don't deserve your childish derision. No system is perfect, but don't make the mistake of thinking that the US government is the best (or even a good) example of democracy out there.
Elon will also make more money personally than even Accenture senior managers could have ever dreamed of. He's also achieved 100% regulatory capture by simply being in a position to fire any regulators investigating his businesses. Quite an achievement.
2C-B never had any headspace effects for me except in very high insufflated doses (and even then it was minimal), taking normal doses orally would just give me a couple of hours of visuals. For me it was nothing like LSD in terms of headspace.
Sometimes, or oftentimes, the law is used against the citizens. Ride sharing is a real improvement in a lot of european countries.

I suggest watching this with subtitles, while it is a comedic skit taken to the extreme you can see how taxi drivers were viewed before ride sharing apps disrupted the taxi industry.

https://youtu.be/UWc9-z8QpXw?si=2MQJ96IZ_eqxJi0A
when i take lsd i almost seem to gain the ability to see and hear my thoughts. i can imagine stuff with my mind's eye normally, but with lsd it's like i can see concepts directly. it feels like instead of thinking in words like usual it's like i can think with raw energy or something and i have more access to things

also it's a lot easier for me to recall like trauma and other buried stuff when i'm on lsd
The visualization helped me realize something: The index doesn't change after the swap, so you always end up with the biggest number "in hand" after a full deeper level iteration loop.
It doesn't really matter what their intent is when the result is the same.

Also...

> Do you think they disbanded pandemic prep because they wanted people to die in a pandemic

Are you familiar with the term reckless?
Not a direct answer. But with https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline a whole bunch of organizations are publishing projects. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2024/organizatio... It's aimed at students, there is payment, it's not full-time, but might be a better projects than random github issues.
For DMT it's immediate. Even closing your eyes you see colors (flashes of light). I was sitting at a wooden table and the grain patterns were moving especially the circular placemat in front of me with concentric rings. And I remember being scared of my own arm like wtf is that. It was brief though minute or two it was over.

I have not done LSD or mushrooms as I have a bad childhood/repressed memories and I worry of having a bad trip.
> Nothing excites me more than the prospect of feeling thing and seeing things I have not experienced before.

absolutely same
> better than people who don't care

IME it goes deeper than that: caring is ruthlessly stamped out by crushing bureaucratic processes. Results don't matter, what matters is never being responsible for a mistake. Fans can fix minor mistakes - in corporate America, even the smallest misjudgment is fatal. The only way to win is to never actually do anything, but keep up the appearance of being busy.
A real RETVRN list. The Unabomber is the giveaway.
When doing the initial design start in the middle of the complexity to abstraction budget. If you have 100 “units of complexity” (lines of code, conditions, states, classes, use cases, whatever) try to find 10 subdivisions of 10 units each. Rarely, you’ll have a one-off. Sometimes, you’ll end up with more than 20 in a group. Mostly, you should have 5-20 groups of 5-20 units.

If you start there, you have room for your abstraction to bend before it becomes too brittle and you need to refactor.

Almost never is an interface worth it for 1 implementation, sometimes for 3, often for 5-20, sometimes for >20.

The trick is recognizing both a “unit of complexity” and how many “units” a given abstraction covers. And, of course, different units might be in tension and you have to make a judgement call. It’s not a silver bullet. Just a useful (for me at least) framing for thinking about how to manage complexity.
Optifye is positioned hard as a way to make it easier for management to squeeze every drop of blood out of workers, it's pretty fucked to try to use the real issue of women's safety as a defense for this. If this had anything to do with women's safety, that video and the website would have been completely different.
You should still call. They do pay attention to constituent call volume and the high response so far is visibly shaking even people in R+20 districts.
Whoa! STOP!

At no point did anything say when I was creating stacks that this info would be public for other users of the site! I was shocked to find what I’d been ranking (which luckily was just chip flavors) available for anyone to see. What if I’d tried putting clients to evaluate in there?

You can’t just collect personal data and share it like that!
Can you share some data about this?

Here's another dataset about performance regression doing `$inc`s as fast as possible on the same object.

Mongo 3.4.24:

332,037 stats update in 100s. (3,321 stats updates per s)

Mongo 8.0.4:

287,553 stats update in 100s. (2,876 stats updates per s)

(higher is better)
DM-42N is cheaper than HP-42S was originally, and an order of magnitude cheaper than the HP-35 was at its time.
My Mom was in the ICU back in 2024 due to lung and heart issues. I wouldn't say I blindly followed what GPT suggested but it definitely helped to understand lap reports, ECG, and other imageries to understand doctors' lingo
> which I have to assume that they are just hallucinations

They definitely are, in one way or another ;)
I've had great luck using either Athena or DuckDB with parquet files in s3 using a few partitions. You can query across the partitions pretty efficiently and if date/time is one of your partitions, then it's very efficient to add new data.
So, it took me a while to figure out what this was. This is essentially a round-robin polling tool, with ranked results. Each poll-session has only two options that you choose between, but the entire poll can have n-options. At the end, you'll see the options ranked from most-chosen to least-chosen.

A gif, or something explaining the "what" on the home page might be good. I get that the conventional wisdom is to show the problem you solve, but "make better decisions, one choice at a time" left me confused. When I actually used one of the demo stacks, I was like, "Oh! I need this!"

Congrats on building a cool tool. I like it. I hope it goes well for you.

One feature I would be interested in is to separate answers by user. (Even if it was anonymous, with no user data collected) I would love to see what packages of choices came through a stack.
I hadn’t heard of gleam. Looks cool! I like working with elixir in a lot of ways but never was a Ruby guy, and I think I’d prefer the C-style syntax.
I used to write technical things. I would not be heard anyway.

I don't feel like giving free inputs to an AI company. They will use it and once they have domination they will abuse their position.
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