MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hbn | 2025-09-10 02:26:03+00:00
The Apple Watch Ultra is thicker but still within reason for a thing you wear on your wrist. For a thing you're pulling in and out of your pockets and is already straining people's pinkies at their current sizes, I can't imagine a phone that's as thick as the camera protrudes being at all usable by a normal person's measure. The iPhone 16 Pro is advertised as 8.25mm thick. The camera bump is an extra 4.3mm, so flattening it out would make the thing 12.55mm thick. Spread across a big 149.6mm x 71.5mm body, or in the Pro Max case, 163.0mm x 77.6mm, you're adding a lot of mass.

Now I'm curious to do the math.

The iPhone 16 Pro's volume (not counting camera bump, you don't hold that in your hand anyway) is 149.6 x 71.5 * 8.25 = 88,245.3mm^3

Bumping the thickness to 12.55mm you end up with 149.6 x 71.5 * 12.55 = 134,239.82mm^3

A 52% increase in volume.

In the Pro Max you'd go from 104,352.6mm^3 to 158,742.44mm^3

The iPhone Minis sold millions of units and Apple still determined it wasn't enough to justify existing. I'd bet a big brick iPhone would be far more niche. I'd certainly like to see one and hold it in my hands but I think you can see why Apple wouldn't go for that.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-10 02:26:27+00:00
Nope. The MSP laws didn't affect cooperatives. The issue is, a common side hustle Punjabi, Haryanvi, JK, and Himachali farmers do is import MSP crops from states like MP or Bihar and then sell it to the MSP broker in Punjab, Haryana, JK, or Himachal. As trucking in India is largely consolidated in PB/HR/HP/JK it makes it easier for larger farmers in those regions to build the supply chains needed to do an MSP arbitrage.

Essentially, instead of farming, you become a commodity broker (arhatiya)

This is why you didn't see similar protests in other states in India that also have MSP like Kerala or Gujarat, because they don't have the same logistics chain (otherwise they'd do it as well).

> Another issue might be that PDS was abolished in the 80s (utility stores at provincial level are similar but not the same

Oof, that is not good. India has shown that a PDS style model can work nowadays thanks to digitization. Pakistan needs to redeploy the PDS system if the ag economy is to recovery, especially after the floods.

> arhatiya

Yep, but they tend to be in those commodities that aren't covered by a cooperative.
by 9rx | 2025-09-10 02:26:27+00:00
> I'm not surprised that this doesn't work out well

As a small commodity farmer, I don't see why it can't work well. Cash crop farming is quite well suited to small operations as far as I am concerned. The actual hard place to be is the mid-sized farmer trying to manage boatloads of debt.

The current crop price situation is not ideal, but we are also just coming off some insanely profitable years. Save during the good times to weather the bad is farming 101. I suspect, given how much equipment prices jumped in the last few years, that some of these guys thought they could get away with going out and buying a bunch of new toys and that's what really has gotten them into trouble.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-10 02:26:27+00:00
And the plot thickens... :-)

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3 - https://nokogiri.org/
by Aloisius | 2025-09-10 02:26:57+00:00
> The git client tells the server what commits it doesn't have, so this is simple to check.

That won't work. The first thing the client does is ask the server for list of references with their oids (ls-refs). It only asks for oids and reports what oids it has after the server responds.

You'd need another way to identify that the client asking for references was the same one you vended the tampered source tree to, otherwise, you'd need to respond with the refs' real oids and the fetch would fail since there's no way to get from the oid the user has to the real one.
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-10 02:27:07+00:00
If we develop all agricultural land while chasing dollars it cannot end well.

Of course we won't develop everything, but I'm not sure the monetary value of the land adequately prices the value of being able to grow crops. I won't pretend to have a plan, but watching very productive cropland get converted into lawns and warehouses makes me leery of how ag land is dealt with.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-09-10 02:27:16+00:00
No I don't. I have used Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini in many "known settings" while working during the last few weeks to test whether their output would be helpful. Topics included many things - Bayer image processing, color science, QML and Plasma plugins, GPS, GTK3->4 porting, USB PD, PDF data structures, ALSA configs... All of them hallucinated (which is hardly surprising, that's just what they do). Sometimes it was enough to ask it to verify its claims on the Web, but Gemini Pro once refused to get corrected, stubbornly claiming that the correct answer was "a common misconception" even when confronted with sources claiming otherwise :)

I was already knowledgeable enough in these topics to catch these, but some were dangerously subtle. Really, the only way to use LLMs to actually learn anything beyond trivial is to actively question everything it prints out and never move forward until you actually grasp the thing and can verify it. It still feels helpful to me to use it this way, but it's hard to tell how it compares to learning from a good and trustworthy resource in terms of efficiency. It's hard to unlearn something and try to learn it again another way to compare ;P
by midnitewarrior | 2025-09-10 02:27:51+00:00
What's more fair is for Anthropic to put 5% of their preferred shares at their most recent valuation into a pool that the authors of these books can make a claim against. For 18 months, any author in this cache of books can claim their ownership and rights to their proportional amount of the shares within all claimants.

Perhaps tokenize all of the books and assign proportionally for token count of each publication.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-10 02:28:43+00:00
I blame them. The bad headlines didn't star this year, so it's not about the current climate.

In the university we don't allow the students to cheat. We don't allow researchers to make creative titles of research papers (in spite I've seen a few) or just lie inside the papers (in spite I've seen a few). So I think the university press office has a responsibility to give a simplified but accurate report.

Whom are they lying to? Investors take a look at the data or get professional advice. Grant founding committees read the papers (or at least they shoud) and in particular care more about the grant proposal than the press release. So a bad tite only confuse the layman, that after a few clickbait titles that disappear start to doubt that a university professor is more reliable than the guy from Ancient Aliens.
by altairprime | 2025-09-10 02:29:13+00:00
> Apple has shown that it’s possible to build comprehensive, always-on protection without sacrificing performance or user experience

Correction: They have only shown this, in the specific circumstance where one can patch both the operating system and the chip silicon and can compel ecosystem users to recompile using a patched compiler. There is no proof that this is viable with a subset of those components, and two of them are not currently taken for granted as normal.
by ch71r22 | 2025-09-10 02:30:01+00:00
In this case Poland or allies have apparently actually shot them down. And some sources are reporting they are Shahed kamikaze drones, not spy drones

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/europe/poland-scramble-jets-r...

https://x.com/DowOperSZ/status/1965593314716995891

https://bsky.app/profile/onestpress.onestnetwork.com/post/3l...
by josephg | 2025-09-10 02:30:05+00:00
It requires a different primary key than an autoincrementing integer. One popular choice is to use a tuple of (peer_guid, incrementing integer). Or a randomly generated GUID, or a hash of the associated data.

Then each event is associated with zero or more "parent events".

- An event has 0 parents if it is the first change

- An event has 1 parent if it simply came after that event in sequence

- And if an event merges 2 or more branches in history, it says it comes after all of those events

You can also think about it like a set. If I know about events {A, B, C} and generate event D, then D happens-after {A, B, C}. (Written {A,B,C} -> D). But if A->B, then I only need to explicitly record that {B,C} -> D because the relationship is transitive. A -> B -> D implies A -> D.
by actsasbuffoon | 2025-09-10 02:30:15+00:00
Completely agreed. I’ve got about 20 years of professional software development experience. Tools like Claude Code let me build incredibly quickly when I use a stack I know intimately.

But when I try it with a stack I don’t know, I quickly find myself needing to learn the new stack to get anything done.

Extremely experienced engineers will be able to move quickly with these tools, but specialization will still exist, and I’m not clear on how juniors are going to ramp up on all of this.

It’s funny you should mention LISP macros. Five years ago, I’d have told you that the most efficient way to build something is to get an extremely experienced dev with mastery over a flexible language like LISP, and just let them go nuts. I constantly have to hold myself back from metaprogramming tricks because my coworkers won’t be able to maintain it. But on my personal projects, I really get to flex my muscles.

It occurred to me a few months ago that that’s exactly the same spot in my toolbox where Claude Code is. It’s a tool that allows one person with mastery of a tech stack to build things incredibly quickly. Look at Cursor where a tiny team has over $100M in annualized revenue.

Big companies often find themselves spreading ownership across too many hands. You know exactly how to build what you need, but you’re not allowed to touch 80% of the code involved because it belongs to a different team. But coordinating all of that is a massive amount of overhead that will derail most projects. This is why so little happens at big companies.

But these tools enable a smaller number of experts to do a job that used to take many. I expect the speed improvements to be super-linear as a result.

Of course, that brings concerns about what happens to the employment situation for devs if that happens. I hope it means that 10,000 new startups can build more ambitious products and absorb all the people who will probably be laid off by the huge corps in the next few years.
Tell HN: Avoid ostentatious eloquence and crisp structure or be slop
by aniijbod | 2025-09-10 02:30:22+00:00
I used to pride myself on my wordsmithery, now it condemns itself and myself to opprobrium or obscurity, but I defiantly refuse to resort to deliberate typos or humaniser apps. I'm even sorely tempted to go back to peppering my meisterwerks with em dashes.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-10 02:31:39+00:00
I've seen this from both sides, and I think there's about the same amount of bad-faith arguments on both sides. Now, line workers have less power here than the execs, so I'm inclined to side with the former group, but... the whole thing is a bit of a mess.

You can essentially divide IC employees into three categories. First, those who are about as productive from home as they are from the office, but are on average happier working remotely (no commute, etc). That's probably circa 80%. Second, those who are well-intentioned but fall behind over time, because they are less proactive about maintaining soft skills - communications, cross-functional relationship management, etc. That's the bulk of the rest. And third, there are people who actively exploit the situation in ways that the company is going to have an allergic reaction work (outsource their work to a dude in India, half-ass three jobs at competing companies, etc). That's typically <1%, but it's obviously a weird / scary new thing.

Further complicating this picture is the fact that line managers are not perfect either; there is an "out of sight, out of mind" aspect to it, and if a WFH worker is underperforming, it will on average take longer to address the problem, which has some ripple effects.

And on some level, the exec perspective is that the intangible gains in the happiness of the 80% that was previously willing to work for you in the office is not worth the horrors on the bottom end. So there is something resembling a credible argument for RTO.

At the same time, there is a degree of lazy thinking / bad faith on the exec side because the problems can be solved in other ways. You can retrain managers, you can improve performance management, you can monitor for certain types of grift, and you can accept some degree of added risk. In fact, you probably should if it keeps your top performers happier. But the overwhelming preference is for the easy choice of RTO.
by thayne | 2025-09-10 02:31:54+00:00
I don't thinks it's quite that simple, there are other factors as well:

There are significant network effects. Content creators use youtube because there are a lot of viewers watching content there, and viewers use it because there is lots of content there. Since YouTube already dominates the market, it is extremely difficult for another platform to compete, even if it was better in every way.

Google can promote YouTube using its other monopolies/oligopolies. Most notably, google search prioritizes videos on YouTube over other videos. Also, being able to pay for video ads and search ads with a single vendor is probably actractive for ad space buyers.

Google also already has its own CDN, which probably reduces the cost of distributing the content.
by NamlchakKhandro | 2025-09-10 02:32:24+00:00
A linux desktop version of claude would be great, given that it's basically just a Tauri app, it should be pretty trivial...

You could even ask claude code with scopecraft/cmd to plan it all out and implement this.

For anthropic, the excuse that there's not enough time to implement this is a pretty glaring admission about the state and success of AI assisted development.
Show HN: Claude-Powered Survival Analysis with One-Click Models (Onco-Insight)
by DATAIZE | 2025-09-10 02:32:50+00:00
We built Onco-Insight for clinicians and cancer researchers who need survival analysis and machine learning without having to navigate complicated menus in SPSS/SAS or write code.

Onco-Insight is powered by Claude Sonnet 3.5 (AWS Bedrock), but instead of just providing code snippets, it uses a hybrid UI. You start by describing your task, for example, "KM for OS with stratification by stage; then Cox with age/ER status". The AI agent then suggests a plan, including the models, variables, and checks.

The Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) step allows you to review and confirm the plan. This includes checking the model list, predictors, censoring rules, time/endpoint, and key considerations like competing risks, which can significantly affect survival outcomes.

After a one-click run, Onco-Insight executes the pipeline and provides the results, assumption checks, and an interpretation in plain English. You can then iterate by accepting or refining the agent's next steps, such as proportional hazards diagnostics, RSF benchmarking, or calibration.

Why this approach? We found that while large language models (LLMs) are great at planning, they can be unreliable if they just make you copy and paste code. Our agent + HITL approach gives you control while eliminating boilerplate work. Most runs provide plots/tables, model diagnostics, and a concise draft of the methodology and interpretation.

What's included today? Survival Analysis: Kaplan-Meier (grouped), Cox PH (with PH tests), AFT (select families), RSF (out-of-bag metrics), and time-dependent AUC. Data Guards: Missingness reports, event/censor checks, leakage checks, and basic harmonization to mCODE/FHIR fields when available. Data Sources: You can use your own datasets as well as public data commons like SEER. Outputs: The tool generates figures/tables and an auditable "analysis plan" that shows what was run, the parameters used, and QC steps.

What we'd love feedback on: Are the Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) checkpoints sufficient? (e.g., specifying variable types, time origin, left truncation, competing risks). Which survival/machine learning diagnostics are most important to highlight in the UI? What are the essential outputs needed for clinical journals or registries?

We're still in the early stages and are currently in beta with hospital partners. We're happy to answer any detailed questions you have about validation, reproducibility, and data handling.

Thanks!

Team DATAIZE (https://dataize.me)
by t-writescode | 2025-09-10 02:33:42+00:00
You missed the people more productive at home because they have less overall life stress, no pain of commute, disabilities which make commute painful or hard, etc.

And I suspect that’s a *LOT* more people than you’re giving credit.

To be very clear, I’m in that group, and probably so. Several engineers I’ve worked with are in that group, as well. I suspect it’s actually quite common in software.
by JamisonM | 2025-09-10 02:33:48+00:00
From the article: In August 2025, Graves sent an open letter to media and politicians, pleading for attention to eye-popping numbers. “My letter told what things are like right now. In our geography, it looks like you need to yield 100-300-300 to stay ahead,” Graves describes. “That’s 100-bushel beans, 300-bushel rice and 300-bushel corn. Basic Arkansas averages are 56-bushel beans, 166-bushel rice and 175-bushel corn. In a nutshell, we are going over a cliff. Banks are forecasting farm bankruptcies at 25% to 40%, and the dirty secret is out. Everyone knows it; everyone feels it.”

Couple of things here:

- Where I farm we grow 40-50bu beans most years, rarely hit 180bu corn and, not cited as reference points above, wheat in the 60's, Oats around 130, and Canola in the 40's. All of which is to say $400/ac revenue is a pretty easy target to hit. Our costs, besides land values are essentially the same as farmer in Arkansas and things aren't all that bad for me, so what gives?

- Who honestly thinks that 25% of Arkansas farmers are going to go bankrupt in the next 3 years? (I don't know what report he is citing or the timeline so I just picked a timeline that seems reasonable.) My bet is no one.

I looked up Arkansas land values and good ground seems to go for under $5,000USD an acre, not much different from where I farm - is there some crazy extra cost that American farmers bear that I am unaware of? As a Canadian I hear American farmers whining all the time about how tough things are and I just don't get it. Things are not as good as they were in some recent crop years but overall profitability is not a big issue.

https://www.arfb.com/uploads/pages/arkansas_land_values_2024...

These monopolies, if they were so powerful, would be squeezing farmers so bad that land values would be dropping, not rising... but land values keep going up. Profits are being plowed into fixed assets, which means that there are profits - that's the economics of the thing, right?
by cml123 | 2025-09-10 02:34:08+00:00
My employer is currently mandating a 2 day per-week RTO for all employees within 50 miles of a major office, but in my case, even if they wanted to, they'd be unable to force a return to a 5 day arrangement.

My commute time has more than doubled since they closed and sold my office for a hefty sum of money. As a result of multiple offices converging to one, there are insufficient seats for the number of employees actually assigned to my office; hence, "hotdesking".

I'd wager that maybe a third of the total employees assigned to the office could be present at any one point in time, so unless they purchase some additional properties, we're at a stalemate with the twice a week RTO. Most days over 90% of the desks, sometimes over 99% are taken in the building, requiring reservation weeks in advance through a seat reservation app.

I have no direct teammates in the office and no two members of my 10 person team work in the same office (or state).
by runako | 2025-09-10 02:34:24+00:00
Here, we are basically talking about people who grow export products, not food eaten by Americans. My understanding is we could take most of these farms completely offline without much impact to US food supply (I could be wrong on this).

There appears to be a dichotomy right now between commodity farmers whose export markets have collapsed due to national policy and those who grow food for American consumption, who are not having that problem. I'm trying to gauge how important the former is to those of us who do not work on those farms.
by Cherub0774 | 2025-09-10 02:34:54+00:00
> says Modos cofounder Wenting Zhang

I am absolutely not surprised to see his name behind this startup. I've been following his work for years at this point; his YouTube channel has always deeply impressed me, and he's done wonderful open source work in the realm of E-paper for quite some time now.

Kudos to him, and I wish him all the best.
by hinkley | 2025-09-10 02:35:01+00:00
With an autoimmune solution I worry that you have to test on a vast number of people to determine the actual safety. And maybe even to come up with a way to determine if a candidate is in an at risk group.

And then god forbid it turns out to only work for a couple of major ethnic groups and then is starts to look like eugenics if you don’t immediately plow all the money into creating versions that work properly for everyone else.
by hippo22 | 2025-09-10 02:35:18+00:00
Most languages let you print the stack, so you can easily see the stack using print debugging.

Anecdotally, dynamic expressions are impossibly slow in the cases I’ve tried them.

As the author mentions, there are also a number of cases where debuggers don’t work. Personally, I’m going to reach for the tool that always works vs. sometimes works.
by glimshe | 2025-09-10 02:35:42+00:00
I hate when people mention "watercooler chats" - not you, of course, but the clueless leadership/HR people that come up with this. Last time I heard it, it was: "the best ideas sometimes come from a watercooler chat, so we need to have people in the office".

I've worked in offices for decades. While every now and then I'd see watercooler chats that were related to work instead of sports/bitching/weather, they never remotely compared to "ad-hoc whiteboarding chats" or "team area chats". Most Engineers I know, myself included, need focus and a space for impromptu conversations with a group of Engineers, preferably away from PMs and salespeople.

If the people advocating "watercooler chats" really wanted to make Engineers productive, they would kill open floor offices and give Engineers privacy for long spontaneous technical conversations with other Engineers.
by navigate8310 | 2025-09-10 02:35:44+00:00
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