skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"until recently, Jupyter notebooks were the only programming environment that let you see your data while you worked on it."

This is false. Org-mode has had this functionality for over two decades.

https://orgmode.org/
We don’t hate our Rafales, submarines and nukes at the moment though!
Infralog: Track Terraform state changes
I built Infralog, a tool written in Golang that listens for changes in Terraform state and streams them to a webhook. The idea is to provide real-time infrastructure change tracking, making it easier to react to updates, trigger automations, or monitor drift.
TLDR: True, most things can be fixed if configured and setup properly. Just the way the are often used and provided examples encourage many of the problems.

Env vars can be scripted, many companies use a tree of instance/group/project scoped vars though, leading to easily breaking some projects when things higher up change. Solvable for sure, guidelines in companies make it a pain. There are other settings like allowed branch names etc. that can break things.

With security, yes I mean mostly secrets management. Essentially everyone who can push to any branch has access to every token. Or just having a typo or mixing up some variables lead to stuff being pushed to production. Running things in the public cloud is another issue.

Passing artifacts between jobs is a possibility. Still leads to data pushed between machines. Merging jobs is also possible, just defeats the purpose of having multiple jobs and stages. The examples often show a separation between things like linting, testing, building, uploading, etc. so people split it up.

With dependencies I mean everything you need to execute jobs. OS, libraries, tools like curl, npm, poetry, jfrog-cli, whatever. Prebuilt images work, but it is another thing you have to do yourself. Building more containers, storing them, downloading them. Also containers are not composable, so for each project or job has its own. The curse of being stateless and the way Docker works.

Starting containers is not slow on a good runner. But I noticed significant delays on many Kubernetes clusters, even if the nodes are <1% CPU. Startup times of >30s are common. Still, even if it would be faster it is still a delay that quickly adds up if you have many jobs in a pipeline.

I agree that dev machines and runners have different behavior and properties. What I mean is local-first development. For most tasks it is totally fine to run a different version of Postgres, Redis and Go for example. Docker containers bring it even closer to a realistic setup. What I want is quick feedback and being able to see the state of something when there a bugs. Not needing to do print debugging via git push and waiting for pipelines. Pipelines that setup a fresh environment and tear it down after are nice for reproducibility, but prevent me to inspect the system aside from logs and other artifacts. Certainly this doesn't mean you shouldn't have a CI/CD environment at all, especially for releases/production deployments.
Sure, but it seems like a very fragile thing to pin your business on…
The upside is lower tax, but the downside is that you have to live in a boiling hot construction site where the main form of entertainment is going shopping. It's not a simple decision.
how about slop factories that don't abuse workers as a start? do people ordered to make bad games deserved to be treated like slop?
> I don't have anything of substance to say

Thanks for saying something anyways. I wish more people would follow your example.
I would say "might," as opposed to "would."

Big systems have big surfaces, no matter what quality they are.

Dependency chains may be more of an issue. I think several of the last few big exploits have been compromises in fairly small packages, that were incorporated into larger ones.

Then, there's the "Bro Coefficient." Who wrote the package should count for a lot.

I'd trust a package written by "linus.torvalds," a lot more than one written by "L33tCoder420LOL," even if the Web site is super-sexy, and it has a gazillion GH stars.
Upvoted to save you, out of pity for this terrible joke. :)
Interesting drug

This study (in mice):

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57860-0

Previously published literature from last year exploring the drug in mice as well:

- https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2400420121
If and only if the LLM is able to bring the novel, unexpected connection into itself and see whether it forms other consistent networks that lead to newly common associations and paths.

A lot of us have had that experience. We use that ability to distinguish between 'genius thinkers' and 'kid overdosing on DMT'. It's not the ability to turn up the weird connections and go 'ooooh sparkly', it's whether you can build new associations that prove to be structurally sound.

If that turns out to be something self-modifying large models (not necessarily 'language' models!) can do, that'll be important indeed. I don't see fiddling with the 'temperature' as the same thing, that's more like the DMT analogy.

You can make the static model take a trip all you like, but if nothing changes nothing changes.
If you're expecting a significant portion of EU citizens would take a stance with Apple instead of the EU, you'd be wrong.
Here's a pleasant article on the subject from Richard Stallman, the developer of GNU / Linux.

https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
The implication is that "building space rockets to escape Earth" is bad.
Show HN: Trophy – Gamification Infrastructure for Developers
Hey HN! I'm Charlie, one of the co-founders of Trophy.

Trophy is a platform for developers to build and ship gamification experiences for any web or mobile app without having to roll any of the backend yourself.

We provide APIs and SDKs to shortcut a lot of the legwork building features like Achievements and Streaks, and a dashboard where you can tweak the experience without having to make any code changes.

My co-founder Jason runs campfirewriting.com and always wanted to build a gamification system to boost retention, but always pushed it back in favour of other core features. So we decided to build something that cuts out 90% of the work and doesn't require constant maintenance when you want to test new ideas or features.

How it works:

- Track interactions: Integrate the SDK to track any user interaction across your whole user base in a few lines of code.
- Configure features: Use the dashboard to build one-off or multi-level Achievements and daily/weekly/monthly Streaks driven by user interactions.
- Measure and tweak: Use the admin panel to measure retention, and to tweak the experience at any time.

I'm excited to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Being this fast is not a "premature optimization", it's a qualitatively different product category. ~immediate feedback vs. long wait time enables entirely different kinds of working.

Also:

> since the users are used to the high performance, they might think your code is slow.

I wouldn't worry about it in general - almost all software is ridiculously slow for the little it can do, and for the performance of machines it runs on, and it still gets used. Users have little choice anyway.

In this specific case, if speed is makes it into a different product, then losing that speed makes the new thing... a different product.

> There are always a thousands things to work on, so why spend effort on things that users, at this point, don't care much about?

It's R&D work, and it's not like they're selling it. Optimizing for speed and low resource usage is actually a good way to stop the big players from building moats around the technology, and to me, that seems like a big win for humanity.
I'm not sure what you mean... could you elaborate?
I can read what was said without your interpretation of it.

Fast forward 20 years and Europeans will be hopelessly dependent on SpaceX just like they are on big tech now.

They're billionaires because they invested in tech that the whole world is dependent on now. Chastising them shows that European technophobic bureaucrats still don't get it.
That's really insightful, actually. Dang.
I still can't even see what supposed anti-technology content there is in the quote. But perhaps there's a broader context to incorporate that those from Europe could explain to Americans?
Companies have always been a “<insert any country/state/city they do business in> company”.

If you have a business, every new jurisdiction you do business in requires you to register as a business and comply with their tax/labor laws.
Pretty obvious—"Guys, this year we need a few people of color and especially women on the hackathon, I don't want another white wiener party!"

So they artificially skew the participants by granting bonus points for any minority groups.
> I assume there are many thousands of developers like me that detest macOS

Out of millions of buyers. Developers are almost an irrelevant demography to consider for such a fundamental change.
Huh, just checked. My previously deleted account is now a suspended account, so I suppose probably it was taken over by scammers for a while.
Great advice. I think it's one good rule. It needs to be combined with other good rules, like "meeting time can be precious".
so we're blaming programmers and artists for decisions made by product?
How is that supposed to work?

Apple doesn't have the market share it has in the US - it's at 33% in the EU compared to 57% in the US. Sure, they are popular, but they are still just another phone brand. They simply don't have enough hardcore fans to make a huge impact on a political level.

The EU doesn't have the same kind of large-scale quasi-religious "all government bad" movement seen in the US. People may be skeptical about some details of some government regulation, but in general it is understood that consumer protection regulation actually protects the consumer. Calling the EU evil for this isn't going to work.

Due to Trump's recent political movements there is a huge anti-US sentiment, especially around US tech companies. We're seeing near-unanimous support for governments exploring ways of getting rid of Microsoft and Amazon, and even tech-illiterate Boomers are asking me if I switched to Signal yet. (For context, WhatsApp is universally adopted here - even my 95-year-old grandma is on it!) People aren't going to trust Apple, simply because it is American.

So no, I don't think Apple will be able to successfully paint a picture like that. They could try, but they would just be made fun of in late-night talkshows.
I would guess that for the most part we won’t have “true” decentralization, but given the EU has mandated interoperability between big providers like Apple and Facebook I can imagine that we will eventually have major services that are EU centric (either in certain markets or most/all of the EU), and there will be ways for people to use their own setup as well (basically multi polar distribution, plus the ability for someone to do it themselves).
Isn’t Ampere essentially the only company making server grade ARM chips.

And all the rest of ARM customers are making mobile/desktop.

So Ampere is going after a completely different segment that the rest of ARM customers aren’t addressing.
Everything that can be connected in a negative way to the current government gets flagged, so this will probably get flagged soon too.
> People would literally rather die impoverished, uncared for, and with no dignity in a failing system

False equivalence. You don't have to give up your country to fix it.

> than maybe have a few brown people around who casually speak a different language

The state of most larger european cities is already well beyond that, bringing with it tons of problems.

> "work ten times harder than any local for literally anything"

That's literally saying they help companies regress the standard of living that locals have fought for.

Meanwhile overall these economic migrants are a net negative financial impact overall because most of them do not come to work but to benefit from generous social programs that they have never paid into.
No additional terms up to 2^(10^10). - Michael S. Branicky, Apr 16 2023

How did he do this?
Intelligence is seperate from goals: if you're only interested in gaining power and wealth for yourself, then concern about the rest of the system is only incidental to what you can get for yourself.
This feature has definitely been abused by fans of the current US administration. Anything close to being critical gets flagged and needs manual intervention to be brought back.
It's fine but a proposal to do something without the political will to make any of the difficult compromises required to achieve them is meaningless.
I wonder what they will replace their MacBooks with ...
If it was merely about taxes and regulations then nobody would want to choose California over almost any other state for their startup.
Those weren't lies, they were hypotheses spread and acted on based on incomplete information in an environment where time was of the essence.

Yes, some of them were wrong and mistakes were made.

A far bigger mistake would have been to do nothing and wait for complete information.
Hopefully we'll see non-US tech salaries increase due to its importance.
Where in the EU?
Ok but why is that bad here? Because they are not interested in serving the tech needs of the Dutch, and have other interests.

That's not an anti-tech stance, quite the opposite!
>You will need familiarity with basic calculus (differentiation, chain rule), linear algebra, and basic probability.

So if I'm at the point that math skills, rather than programming skills are my barrier to interesting courses like this one, does anyone know of any good resources? I don't seem able to teach myself calc from a book like I did Python.
I don't use bluetooth much and I have no idea what the technical details are, but surely an attacker can find a way to either guess or determine what bluetooth devices your phone is paired to and then pretend to be that device. (like a keyboard)

Also according to my experience there is no "permission for bluetooth", it all falls under "Phone" or whatever other permission on Android.
Fiction: an exoplanet research company stumbles upon ruins of an ancient alien civilization, investigates it with profit and power in mind, then accidentally releases some ancient evil that plunges galaxy into war.

Reality: an exoplanet development company stumbles upon ruins of an ancient alien civilization, and quickly paves it over before anyone else notices, because there's nothing worse for a real estate developer than having to wait for a green light from archaeologists.
Related: "Dark matter is a symptom of the grant system" https://twitter.com/martianwyrdlord/status/19020048646301083...
Make a subsidiary in Ireland, Apple paid 0% taxes by transforming every imposable EUR as a patent licence, imposed in Ireland. Then they bought US treasure bonds, where the yearly interests amounted to 50USD/american citizen.

They stole from european and american tax payers.
EU can mandate that Apple open up more interfaces for 3rd party LLM assistants to run locally,
Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?
I am not a U.S. citizen, and I have to say that even before this year, I was beginning to have some second thoughts about traveling to the U.S.

I traveled last time to the US in 2014, but in the last 10 years or so, it seems to me that there has been a huge increase in violence, and I have huge fears about guns. I live in Europe and the thought that there are mass shooting is for me too high risk specifically considering traveling with my family. I understand probabilities but still more than 0% is a huge risk just for visiting a country.

Now I also read about non-US citizens being detained on the border.

I was planing this year to travel to some tech conferences in US but it seems that it is not a good year.

PS: Imagine why this is a throwaway account because I read they check the phone, laptops at the boarder. This is 100% more crazy that I am afraid to even speak on the internet about it.

Am I paranoid or are there other people in the same situation?
No.

The implication is that it should not be an oligarchy but a democracy that inhabits other planets - which is indeed a valid stance.

The issue is not going to space. The issue is supporting a system where a single entity controls it, supporting a dictatorship.

Which is funny, because the US had this stance. At least under WW2 and the cold war.

Who know what happened, the US population allowed corporate greed to take over - what a shame.
I've noticed another issue: 2FA software fragmentation. Over the past 30 years, I've accumulated more than 600 online accounts (many of them dormant), with about 25-30% offering 2FA. As a result, I now have three separate apps for generating codes. I could consolidate them into one, but, frankly, I'm too lazy. So instead, I often find myself scrambling between different 2FA apps and devices just to locate the right account.
The docs here [0] do a decent job explaining it.

You create an environment, restrict it to the main branch, add your secret to it and then tie your deploy workflow to it.

If someone runs that workflow against another branch it will run but it won’t be able to access those secrets.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs-an...
corollary: who is joining a union to pump their stock price?

This is all opinionistic, but use a bit of logic here. Ask yourself what a union is and what the incentives are.
> they don't have a model of the world

Must it have one? The words "artificial intelligence" are a poor description of a thing when we've not rigorously defined it. It's certainly artificial, there's no question about that, but is it intelligent? It can do all sorts of things that we consider a feature of intelligence and pass all sorts of tests, but it also falls down flat on its face when prompted with a just-so brainteaser. It's certainly useful, for some people. If, by having inhaled all of the Internet and written books that have been scanned as its training data, it's able to generate essays on anything and everything, at the drop of a hat, why does it matter if we can find a brainteaser it hasn't seen yet? It's like it has a ginormous box of Legos, and it can build whatever your ask for with these Lego blocks, but pointing out it's unable create its own Lego blocks from scratch has somehow become critically important to point out, as if that makes this all total dead end and it's all a waste of money omg people wake up oh if only they'd listen to me. Why don't people listen to me?

Crows are believed to have a theory of mind, and they can count up to 30. I haven't tried it with Claude, but I'm pretty sure it can count at least that high. LLMs are artificial, they're alien, of course they're going to look different. In the analogy where they're simply a next word guesser, one imagines standing at a fridge with a bag of magnetic words, and just pulling a random one from the bag to make ChatGPT. But when you put your hand inside a bag inside a bag inside a bag, twenty times (to represent the dozens of layers in an LLM model), and there are a few hundred million pieces in each bag (for parameters per layer), one imagines that there's a difference; some sort of leap, similar to when life evolved from being a single celled bacterium to a multi-cellular organism.

Or maybe we're all just rubes, and some PhD's have conned the world into giving them a bunch of money, because they figured out how to represent essays as a math problem, then wrote some code to solve them, like they did with chess.
Yeah I also have a phone without a headphone jack, I just bought a pair of usb-c wired headphones today for that reason.

Bluetooth was a mistake.
Hi there - I spun up a simple web app to measure your GPU power use. Trying to keep it up to date and it has been a fun project as I try to transition to software engineering after a doing it in the background since 2021.

this is a very simple approach — if anyone has an averaging algorithm that might give a more accurate reading of second to second use, do let me know!
I personally dread the world in which physical supply chains get decentralized. A multi-polar world is a tinderbox.
What do you mean "what's the point"? Before Apple got to the point of being subject to this particular attempt at regulation, it amassed billions in revenue and reached a 3+trillion dollar valuation.

Very few startups (innovative or otherwise) will ever come close to that. Only a handful of companies globally are subject to these regulations.
>EU buyer here, I am extremely hype for forced interop and think it almost justifies the existence of the EU on its own.

That was my point. There is no "we".

>That's the case for every regulation - policy is made by activists.

Maybe, but when regulation made by activists starts touching the lives of people that don't care about the thing activists want, they may not like the idea of activists deciding for them. So far all the companies regulated by EU have accepted the regulation - we don't know how most people will react if suddenly something they want is not available to them because of a minority that think their expertise is above their wants.
It’s getting pedantic, but the key idea is that Agents can solve problems traditional state machine-based workflows couldn't.

Your point is moot since many of these modern workflows already use LLMs as gating functions to determine the next steps.

It’s a different way of approaching problems, and while the future is uncertain, LLMs have moved beyond being just "cool software" to becoming genuinely useful in specific domains.
Am working for a large company in the EU. The amount of bureaucracy is insane.
Please lets just call things what they are.

This is not "anti-technology"-- it is just a potshot at Elon Musk.

You could also accuse it of mixing up issues of infrastructure independence, wealth inequality and increasing plutocratic tendencies. All of those do deserve a nuanced discussion (instead of a single catchphrase).

But labeling this as as "anti-technology" is simply incorrect, and we need to do better than that.
I play an Apple apologist online (sometimes).

Most here would agree that a public API is a liability regardless. Anything you can keep private (SPI) you should.

Opening up an API that has all manner of hooks into your Apple device is going to be (obviously, I think) one of the most challenging of API to expose. While a 3rd party watch might needs these API, a whole lot of n'r-do-wells (looking at you, Meta) will likely figure out a way to exploit it in their apps.

It's a can of worms or a Pandora's Box if you will. If Apple is forced to expose these API, but only after kicking and screaming, I would not be surprised.