MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by emmanueloga_ | 2025-04-26 21:11:26+00:00
The article suggests running Kuzu in a FastAPI frontend for network access. A caveat: production Python servers like Uvicorn [1] typically spawn multiple worker processes.

A simple workaround is serving HTTP through a single process language like Go or JavaScript, since Kuzu has bindings for both. Other processes could access the database directly in read-only mode for analysis [2].

For better DX, the ideal would be Kuzu implementing the Bolt protocol of Neo4J directly in the binary, handling single-writer and multi-reader coordination internally. Simpler alternative: port the code from [3] to C++ and add a `kuzu --server` option.

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1: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/deployment/server-workers/#mult...

2: https://docs.kuzudb.com/concurrency/#scenario-2-multiple-pro...

3: https://github.com/kuzudb/explorer/tree/master/src/server
by spwa4 | 2025-04-26 21:13:03+00:00
> Perhaps quality of life is about more than just material goods.

With subsistence agriculture the US can support maybe 2-3% of it's current population. The EU is (far) worse on this front. And with the Eskimo's way of life it can support 0.01%. So what about that little problem? And this can't be fixed without changing that lifestyle ...

That this superior way of life is suffering and death for nearly everyone never seems to get discussed for some reason.
Show HN: Fizzbuzz.md – Turn a Markdown file into a coding challenge
by kmdupree | 2025-04-26 21:13:05+00:00
I work at a small startup trying to hire engineers and got tired of looking through resumes. As Joel Spolsky points out, they're not great indications of technical ability.

Instead, I decided to throw together a take-home challenge that applicants could access via an API. "If they can't solve the challenge, I don't need to see their resume," I told myself.

FizzBuzz.md is a better version of the solution I built for work. It lets applicants send questions and submissions to configurable email addresses via API so the email addresses aren't exposed directly. (Less spam, FTW)

Hope you find it useful. I plan to use it going forward.
by beezle | 2025-04-26 21:13:12+00:00
Late comment on this: saw a short talk by Dr. Eisele at a regional APS conference a few weeks ago on some research aimed at a future non-silicon based solar panels that are easy and cheap to manufacture but also do not lose efficiency at higher temps (as is common with current panels)* Her group apparently is at patent stage on some newer, follow-on research.

ref: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-020-00563-4

*that's all from memory, hopefully didn't misrepresent anything
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-26 21:13:27+00:00
> Is that really important to the broader conversation?

Habeas corpus predates the Magna Carta [1]. A U.S. citizen's right to habeas has been wilfully abrogated by the state. If this stands, I'm absolutely for taking all the pardoned January 6th nutters and sticking them in Guantanamo or wherever come 2028 or 2032.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus#Origins_in_Engla...
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-26 21:13:30+00:00
If you think it's wrong then it certainly does not 'has to happen if you want to live in a sovereign nation under the rule of law'

If you can't criticize the overall objective (large-scale depopulation of America because so-called undesirables don't meet arbitrary legal criteria) then at least criticize the approach - don't call it an ugly but necessary business.

Call it a completely unnecessary violation of civil rights and due process that it is! Don't make up garbage about sovereignty.
by scroogey | 2025-04-26 21:13:59+00:00
For what it's worth I'm all for both. As someone who dabbles in both domains but does neither professionally, there's a very distinctive difference in how AI fits into the process of producing art and producing code.

For code, it augments my ability to produce code. It's very easy to tinker and modify that code if I so choose, and it's much easier to steer it into the right direction (at least when it comes to the output of the code). For art, it just replaces things. If I create an image with AI for example, it's not that simple to drop it into Procreate and start tinkering with it. There are no layers, no brushes, no masks that come with it - it is the output. I'll just re-prompt, or try to find style guides or reference pictures, but there's no place for an artist in the loop. Others might be using these differently of course, but at least my impression is that it's much more of a replacement when it comes to art.
by llmguy | 2025-04-26 21:14:37+00:00
I think if you're looking for proof you're setting too high a standard. But Seattle's experiment hasn't gone well AFAIK. Higher wages = less hours to go around = less money, less economic output, less investment, and so on.

https://evans.uw.edu/faculty-research/the-minimum-wage-study... https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20180578

"Relative to outlying regions of the state identified by the synthetic control method, aggregate employment at wages less than twice the original minimum—measured by total hours worked—declined."

On the other hand, taxing restaraunts with unhealthy food and forcing that money to go to low income workers maybe isn't so bad. I think NYC taxes soda directly for instance. Imagine if they forced that money to go to workers.
by perching_aix | 2025-04-26 21:15:15+00:00
I don't understand this post. Both the chatbots and the image generators are controversial. The voice and music generators are controversial. The whole field is controversial.

It's reasonable to hard skip on AI videos because almost all are currently slop, to the extent that I don't see why you needed to explicitly suggest to your wife to skip, rather than her noticing it on her own and doing so automatically.
by europeanNyan | 2025-04-26 21:15:17+00:00
> And plenty of people seem to accept, if not love, gen-AI art. I don't get it, but it's true.

I get a kick out of generating photos with family and friends in different styles like Play-Doh, Simpsons, Ghibli, etc. All of them like it, too. Maybe that's what people like, a very relatable use of the technology.
by grugagag | 2025-04-26 21:15:20+00:00
Of course it’s terrible and that’s because it’s low effort trash with the sole purpose of making money. But AI gen doesn’t nenessarily have to be that though, it’s just the slop wave washing everything off. When humans use it to speed up their some tedilus processes but the whole project doesn’t look/feel rushed I have no problem with what tool they used.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-04-26 21:15:30+00:00
If you have sidecar containers that feed your regular containers, or you need to test a Dask KubeCluster, or deploy Helm charts, this kind of lets you work with the real lifecycle. Tilt is kinda better at watching for code changes in all your containers than docker-compose too, and has a nice UI to watch logs and see what succeeded or failed.
by daxfohl | 2025-04-26 21:15:31+00:00
I thought so too, but it seems reasonable considering we're 70% water, much of it flowing and actively taking stuff out and around. Plus cells are apparently way more dynamic than is typically conveyed in high school bio (I think there was a quantamagazine article a while ago). So it's perhaps surprising that a body's atoms aren't fully recycled even faster than that.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-04-26 21:15:55+00:00
I actually mentioned this same worry in a previous comment on this post thread, and I don't think that i'm missing the point about Trump doing certain things in way more aggressive and possibly new ways. It's something that should be cause for lots of worry.

However, as I explained above, the deportations of citizens are nothing new and though it's good that they now receive attention, they should be viewed from the wider context of decades of federal overreach and authoritarian practices by certain agencies.

my other comment similar to what you mention https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803664
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-26 21:16:52+00:00
Price went up ~1.5%. That is objectively a small cost.

> While menu prices did increase, costs rose by an average of just 1.5% –equivalent to about 6 cents on a $4 hamburger, down from the 15-cent increase reported in the September study.

McDonald's gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2024 was $14.710B.

https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/...
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-04-26 21:17:53+00:00
LLMs are not good enough to replace programmers, authors or journalists (and I suspect never will, since they still rely on accurate and human written sources to produce anything of value)

However, AI art generators in their current form may render all artistic jobs unlivable within 20 years. Learning to draw is one of the most time-intensive skills to master. A master's degree in CS is sufficient to secure a good job, but five years of experience in art makes you a "novice". AI art is just good enough to devalue art as a whole, making it an infeasible profession to pursue, as it's already near the minimum wage on average.

In 20 years, there may not be any new professional digital artists. All art will become AI art. Do we like that world? Cheap, corporate, lazy, with no sign of effort or dedication.

I want LLMS to go away as well, but at the very least, there will always be a market for real text, and always be people able to produce it.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-04-26 21:18:28+00:00
No, it isn't. An index is a quantifiable measure. I said the behaviour of people in the aggregate, not measuring the behaviour of people in the aggregate.

How do you measure civic participation? Why would you even try? It is genuinely baffling to me that people view quantification as an end in itself when any understanding of human behaviour tells you that a huge proportion of the population just shut their brain off when a number appears (that is the point made in the original post, we have this problem with "the economy" that leads to people making such bad policy choices because of this mindset).
by drivingmenuts | 2025-04-26 21:18:49+00:00
I find AI handy in two cases - writing quick boilerplate and assisting when I'm coming to grips with a library. In my case, I've never used the Qt libraries at all, and I'm trying to learn how to use them. Most of the code gets rewritten several times as I try different things, but it's handy to have something fill in the blanks if I can't remember the name of a function.

Ultimately, it's me who's responsible for the end product and I accept that and review the code. But it's definitely been handy.
by dottjt | 2025-04-26 21:18:53+00:00
I mean, that's probably a different dynamic. I didn't have to interact with the adults in that scenario, I could just be alone in my room.

To be fair, I think I was just a shy child/teenager. I didn't really feel comfortable talking, it's more I'd just sit and listen. In the back of my mind, all I really wanted to do was watch TV or playing videos, and often what would happen is I would just sit in front of their TV.

That's not to say that their friends weren't interesting people. It's just more, as a child I didn't really feel like I could directly interact.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 21:19:58+00:00
It's a valid question.

My guess is the actual objection is the artificial feeling of the Google specific information. It cannot possibly be useful in any other context to know what the Street View car in Bermuda looked like when they did their coverage.

Whereas knowing about vegetation or architecture feels more generally useful. I think it's a valid point, but you're right that it is all down to memorization at some point.

Though some memorization is "vibes" where you don't specifically know how you know, but you just do. That only comes with repetition. I guess it feels more earned that way?
by blaze33 | 2025-04-26 21:19:59+00:00
Seems to me the Dalai Lama used the 7 years cell replacement thing as a metaphor to explain some classic Buddhist teachings.

> still dwelling on something that happened thirty years ago.

Exactly that: clinging causes suffering.

Buddhism also goes a step farther, they have a whole doctrine about emptiness and no-self: there's no permanent or unchanging self to be found.
by kashunstva | 2025-04-26 21:20:28+00:00
If this administration had an actual plan for priorities in science, I suppose I could understand shuffling grant funding among them. But there is no plan other than to destroy.

While I no longer live in the U.S. and would never return, I grew up there & did benefit enormously from access to public academic institutions and to the Federal grants in science research that allowed them to thrive. Seeing this whole apparatus dismantled and sold-off for scrap is beyond sad. Finally the party that has striven for so long, since at least the late 1950s, to eliminate public education - and perhaps the whole academic enterprise is on the verge of achieving results beyond its wildest imagination. I hope that they are satisfied now; but doubt they are.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-26 21:21:10+00:00
I was absolutely gobsmacked by the three minute chain of reasoning this thing did, and how it absolutely nailed the location of the photo based on plants, the color of a fence, comparison with nearby photos, and oh yeah, also the EXIF data containing the exact lat/long coordinates that I accidentally left in the file. https://bsky.app/profile/matthewdgreen.bsky.social/post/3lnq...
by neilv | 2025-04-26 21:21:10+00:00
> Why do we celebrate AI-Copilots but reject AI–Generated art?

That's not the generalization that I would make of HN sentiment.

But one generalization I'll assert is that there seems to be a very strong undercurrent of self-interest, often to the point of cheating. It's not universal, but it might be over 50%. The field has been selecting for, and refining for, people who seek big paychecks, and train for the BS rituals (e.g., FAANG interviews, resume-driven-development, metrics, Agile reactive theatre, growth scam startups).

How are all those people going to think about tools that might give them an edge in their operating mode. Would they be thinking about quality, maintainability, security, team, company goals, or ethics.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-26 21:21:12+00:00
I feel the sentiment on HN for both is very positive. But yes, I am negative personally on generative AI. It really comes down to the 3C's and how current LLM training blatantly stomps on them. Yet another piece of business making billions relying on artists without compensating and people wonder why the art community becomes so cynical.

I'm indifferent on co-piliot stuff. For my domain it isn't as useful as using snippets, but code tends to be easier to follow the 3c's on than art. Most coede people don't want copied already is obfruscated or simply not publicly readable.
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-26 21:21:29+00:00
man idk, maybe it was the long conservative rule after the crash? Maybe it was the long austerity? Maybe it was the huge mass of natives that voted to crash out of an agreement with a bloc that handles over 80% of their trade?

More seriously...

- for US: The newest NBER IV estimates put the wage effect of all 2000-19 US immigration at +2 % for non-college natives. Show me a UK study of similar vintage that finds anything near –2 %.

- for UK: UK real wages tracked productivity one-for-one after 2008; BoE and NIESR pin that on capital deepening, Brexit and austerity. Not on immigration, which the MAC finds moved wages by _at most_ –1% (aggregate, not yearly!) and the final report was ~0.1%, basically a null finding.

- We've already been through lump of labor, so I don't know why you've been banging on equilibrium.

And to finally address your time horizons: Short-run? Mariel-style shocks still show null effects. Medium-run? 2009-20 UK data flips positive. Long-run? Productivity wins. Pick your horizon. Immigration is at worst a rounding error next to TFP, which is positively associated with migration.

Happy to dive deeper, but at this point the burden of proof is on anyone claiming large negative wage effects. The best evidence, across multiple methods and countries, just isn’t there.
by crooked-v | 2025-04-26 21:21:41+00:00
It's also weird to me, like...

I've used AI art a lot for tabletop RPGs. The level of actual creative control isn't great, even for what should be an easy case of one character in profile against a blank background. Even if you know how to use it well you're wrestling the systems involved to try and produce consistent output ot anything unusual. And that's fine for Orc #3 or Elf Lord Soandso, which are only going to be featured for fifteen minutes at a time and in contexts where you can crop out bad details or use low-effort color grading to get a unified tone.

But for a graphic novel? What? I can't imagine giving up that level of creative control, even as someone who sucks at actual drawing. You'll never be able to get the kind of framing, poses, and structuring you want, doubly so the second you want to include anything remotely original. It's about the absolute worst case for actually using these generation tools.
by efitz | 2025-04-26 21:21:56+00:00
“My cells” are not “me”.

Without resorting to metaphysics, “I” am a slowly-but-constantly changing set of experiences, memories, predilections and preferences that happens to be instantiated in and associated with a particular physical body. My relationships with other people tend to be the most important things to me and the things that most shape whatever direction my identity is going.

My body is not the same exact set of cells or molecules that I was 30 years ago. But I’m like the Ship of Theseus- the essence of what I am is a direct consequence of my formative experiences regardless of what pieces I’m built of at any given moment.

It’s my choice (within the constraints of how brains work) of how much I let past experiences affect my current behavior. But I can’t forget those experiences and if I could, then I would not be the same “me” in a much deeper sense than just having different cells or molecules.
Show HN: I made a tool that uses AI to turn my ADHD brain into a super power
by pmx | 2025-04-26 21:22:08+00:00
I really struggle to keep my notes organised, and often can't make any sense of hand written notes after meetings. I did some experiments with Claude and ChatGPT where I blast random thoughts at them during a meeting or brainstorming session and then have them output a nice document that pulls it all together at the end. It worked incredibly well but it was a bit cumbersome to keep sending messages to the chat and telling the ai each time what to do. So I took the idea and built a tool, it makes it easy to throw random notes and voice recordings (images and document support on the way) and then just let the AI organise it all and create a nice, well-organised document. You view the document in the tool, download it as PDF or markdown, and soon you'll be able to share it via email. The system references your notes in the document that is generated so you can always see where a specific point came from.

I've made it so that you can subscribe for a two day trial for free without entering any payment details. I'd really love your feedback and ideas, especially if you're neurodivergent because I really think AI can help people like us!

It mostly works on mobile but the experience isn't as good as desktop (I'm working on that!)
by Chris2048 | 2025-04-26 21:22:45+00:00
Apologies, It was the FBI that arrested her, but may not have been to whom she lied; This is described as:

"Obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the US"

-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/d62bd73e-a370-40e4-...

My understanding is that even in the case of an ICE agent, can also be a felony:

https://www.birdsall-law.com/legal-implications-of-interferi...

The agents are described by the FBI agents as "Agents from [DHS], [ICE ERO]" without scare-quotes - are you implying that they weren't legitimate agents? That said, FBI and CBP agents are also described as being present, so the distinction between ICE/FBI, and a judicial/administrative warrant seem unimportant.

> Nor did she "lie", she refused them entry to an operating courtroom

She appeared to co-operate (leading them away to talk to the Chief judge), while actually helping the subject evade arrest (returning and actually instructing them how to escape).

The first part, the deception, is what makes the lie rather than a mere upfront refusal.

> which she was 100% right to do

obstruct the agents? In which case they are right to arrest her.. I'm not sure what your angle here is.

> nothing you said is accurate.

Seems to me your own corrections are just as inaccurate. The above should clarify.
by brk | 2025-04-26 21:23:09+00:00
FWIW, I do a lot of talks about AI in the physical security domain and this is how I often describe AI, at least in terms of what is available today. Compared to humans, AI is not very smart, but it is tireless and able to recall data with essentially perfect accuracy.

It is easy to mistake the speed, accuracy, and scope of training data for "intelligence", but it's really just more like a tireless 5th grader.
by cirego | 2025-04-26 21:23:36+00:00
Tilt can also help validate things like:

- Service discovery

- Volume mounts

- Ingress and Certificates

- Metrics scraping and configuration

- Dashboards

It’s really quite powerful and replaces the need to mock things out with docker compose. If you’re deploying to Kubernetes, Tilt gives you the option to avoid “development-only” setups like docker compose.
by IshKebab | 2025-04-26 21:23:42+00:00
No, CMake can do everything Autotools does, but a hell of a lot simpler and without checking for a gazillion flags and files that you don't actually need to but you're checking them anyway because you copied the script from a someone who copied the script from... all the way back to the 90s when C compilers actually existed that didn't have stdint.h or whatever.

CMake is easy to upgrade. There are binary downloads. You can even install it with pip (although recently the Python people in their usual wisdom have broken that).
by dkh | 2025-04-26 21:24:13+00:00
Culinary skills at the high-end are typically passed on directly from chefs to their apprentices, intending to be used, built on, and passed down again. It doesn’t really work the way being described, which is fine, because there’s no way to shape this scenario into a comparable one.

Any attempt to compare the A.I. stuff to some analogous scenario is deeply flawed if it does not include 1) that A.I. instances are not humans, but computers run by companies, and 2) the incredible scale at which it can operate.

The actual actions taking place are secondary at best, and the situation cannot be judged on that alone. It must be debated in the context of the actions being undertaken by machines, owned by companies, motivated by profit/market share/growth/whatever, with little communication or collaboration with the humans who created the works, and that they can now generate outputs based on those works at a scale, frequency, level of precision several orders of magnitude higher than a human can ever compete with. It cannot be compared to any sort of person-to-person scenario. The enormous scale this operates at, by actors that are not human, is the core of the situation.
by mindslight | 2025-04-26 21:24:42+00:00
Truly an administration that values intelligence and the intellectual work required to support modern society, or at least you might think so reading supportive rationalizations from otherwise smart people. At least Mao's Great Leap Forward was trying to help his country, as misguided as it was. Chairman Plow's Great Leap Backwards is going to consign us to the dust bin of history.
by jayd16 | 2025-04-26 21:25:13+00:00
> 6. Expect no more of anyone than you yourself can deliver.

This one probably requires the most nuance. Certainly in your adult life you need to allow yourself to delegate to others and trust that others are better than you at certain things.

From an emotional standpoint its good advice. You shouldn't expect to get more than you give from a relationship, etc.