skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something somewhat like it in chemistry.

If you look at the energy per unit mass, e.g., J/kg, of different materials, you'll note that curiously many fuels (hydrogen, methane, petrol) and explosives (gunpowder, TNT, ANFO), you'll find that the former are roughly ten times (or more) greater.

What makes explosives, well, explosive isn't the total energy contained within them, it's the rate at which it's released. Jet fuel contains ten times the energy per unit mass than C4, and can in fact melt (or at least significantly weaken) steel beams, but it does so by burning over time.

What explosives do is to combine oxidiser and fuel in the same package (as with gunpowder and ANFO), or contain chemically-unstable bonds with high potential in a state which can be triggered by a sharp shock (TNT, C-4/RDX). The total energy released is smaller, but the rate of release is far greater.

It may be possible to use more conventional fuels to generate explosions. This happens with hydrogen gas, particularly in a stoichiometric combination with oxygen, with petrol within an internal combustion engine (the fuel burn is explosive), and in a fuel-air bomb (a/k/a thermobaric weapon), in which a fuel is widely dispersed in the atmosphere and then ignited. The blast generated is typically far weaker than of an equivalent conventional explosive, but can still be explosive rather than a deflagration (rapid combustion not generating a shock wave). Incidentally, virtually all cinematic "explosions" are in fact deflagrations, often using either flammable gas or suspended powder. There are also relatively frequent dust explosions involving powdered foodstuffs (grain, flour, sugar, etc.) which are a hazard where large quantities of such materials are stored or processed (grain silos, processing plants).

USCSB investigative video of an explosion at Imperial Sugar: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Jg7mLSG-Yws>

Raw video of the blast: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=LQZGWjVwN58>

In particular, storage combinations of potential fuels and oxidisers in close proximity can lead to explosions.

There's also the case of spontaneous combustion particularly of oil-soaked rags or compost piles which shares some characteristics with criticality incidents. That's where heat release which in smaller concentrations would be benign reaches the ignition point of the materials involved. Large heaps of freshly-mown grass in particular can spontaneously ignite. I've had the experience of moving a large pile of woodchips which had been left in sub-freezing weather and discovering that the core of that pile was literally steaming hot, and was melting snow and evaporating water which had flowed in toward it. The chips weren't charring, but they were distinctly warm.
No, it's a decent analogy. How often do the pickles and lettuce fall out of your burger? Most people would never experience that behavior, and they'd keep buying burgers. People who had their hand slapped and their repairable burger taken away would be saying "This restaurant is abusive, please don't eat there," and a bunch of HN commenters would probably show up and call them idiots for caring about edge cases.

That's what it means to say "what they can get away with." That's the meaning of that phrase. If Samsung were just mailing anthrax to every third customer, they could not get away with that and they'd go out of business very quickly. If they treat a small subset of customers with extreme contempt, they can get away with it.
The breach is legit: https://wise.com/help/articles/1Tyvn34K9tp08aZ0y0Hqe0/data-b....

Cyberscout is also a legit company and the email is send by the official Wise mail (in my case). Besides I got the exact same pop-up within the Wise app. Just be careful, scammers will be using this method soon probably.
I applied for the free dark web monitoring account, but didn't upload any documents, just basic info. It's performing a scan right now.
Many of us have had those ambitious tech ideas...
I suspect the quagmire might come as much from dealing with government institutions as it does from programming. Does the provider already have relationships that facilitate that?

If you can work around that, then the EDIFACT thing means that it is very inaccurate to say you have a "straightforward CRUD app". I am a freelancer and if I saw those two statements together it would be a red flag, like you were trying to minimize the complexity to try to pay poor rates or didn't understand what CRUD was or just wasn't thinking clearly.

EDIFACT in a modern context where we have human readable formats like JSON, looks like a nightmare. I suggest that you see if there are any libraries you could build off of such as pydifact.

You should also start trying to collect a comprehensive documentation of everything that software is doing for you. In detail. No programming team can be successful without that information and aside from the EDIFACT stuff and bureaucracy that will probably be the biggest bottleneck is discovering that.
no. it might seem strange for someone who is not aware of whats going on. reality is often strange
Depending on the area of logistics OP is in, it's not unlikely that he'd need on-call engineers for his logistics management system. Blockages in supply chain can be extremely expensive.
Yes, but coffee shops a la Starbucks are a relatively recent thing, and they sell "coffee" that looks more like a milkshake than a cup of coffee...
I disagree with this line of thought. Spacex took a big risk to get to where they are, just because they happen to have pulled it off and it provides some “public benefit” doesn’t mean it should just be taken from them. And if it’s buy out that still doesn’t solve the problem because people value things completely differently.

This stifles innovation and the willingness to take on risk for a reward down the road. If you actually pull it off and reach some level of “public benefit” it could just be taken from you.

Is Amazons same day delivery of medications a “public benefit”?
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I don't understand what the issue is. You don't know how to type the different diacritical marks? Or the textbox isn't accepting them? (Which seems like it would be a browser issue, not an issue with the site.)
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NPR has the story, as this other comment noted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41203477
We gonna pretend that private sector projects aren’t failing all around us?
> I'm also not convinced that advertisers are afraid of showing their ads close to "questionable" contents.

Really? How many large corporations ran ads next to content like 4chan has hosted long before more modern boycott ideas took hold? How many CEOs personally want their content running and supporting verified Nazi accounts [1] on Twitter?

It could well be that companies join such add non-profits for the same reason they join open-source non-profits or non-profits that assist the the company in any of a legion of choices: so the company doesn't have to spend as much in house money to keep informed of what is going on. Do you think all companies that subscribe the Wall Street Journal, or Nature, or MIT Tech Review, make zero decisions utilizing information they find?

My guess is this, like pretty much all Musk lawsuits, amount to more embarrassment for Musk (recall how he was forced to buy Twitter in the first place...)

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-mus...
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974165

Tom7 content deserves being posted every day though.
At this point I think it's quite obvious that the cure is worse than the disease.
I didn't get that from the tone. I inferred this person was trying to convey the perceived importance of some critical things and gave good examples with clear knowledge of the problem domain in a limited space. IOW, I thought it was very well articulated and helpful, FWIW.
I'm running a team of SDE's and, from my experience, bringing development in-house is the last resort simply because of high risk/high cost. You have to pay your devs hell or high water whether they are moving at a rocket or turtle speed. We have worked with oil&gas and logistics customers, and their in-house development always drags 2-3 times longer than expected. If your pocket can allow it - you may try it but about 80% of customers I have worked with or talked to moved from in-house development to outsourcing it.

My team would love to look at your project for free just to give you an option to consider. Feel free to contact me at Polarwind99@gmail.com
Taylor, wow! I think you're the only person I've actually seen implement WAAS to boost GPS precision. So cool!
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They built comparatively poor QA into the design of the Saturn V. I've seen very revealing pictures of the bottom of the engine, where the exhaust leaves the combustion chamber on an F-1 engine. There was this kind of symmetrical bunch of holes, and one slightly dug in hole, maybe a quarter of an inch thick. A mistake. They had started drilling in the wrong spot and quickly stopped. That was a deviance, it was logged, but it was within spec.

That's Saturn V in a nutshell.
Google calendar fs, using Google calendar to store data in events, was inspired by this. Any others?
This story appears to be a sloppy, confusing summary of a Business Insider piece by Albert Cahn, the man mentioned in the article. The fact that SCNR makes no reference to this piece is telling:

https://www.businessinsider.com/homeowners-insurance-nightma...

Cahn is the founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, or STOP, a New York-based civil-rights and privacy group, so he certainly has a dog in the ring here, but he also has a horror story to back it up.

The source article on Business Insider contains much more important details:

> Travelers admitted that it screwed up. It never conceded that its AI was wrong to tag me. But it revealed the reason I couldn't find my cancellation notice: The company never sent it.

> Travelers may have invested huge sums in neural networks and drones, but it apparently never updated its billing software to reliably handle the basics. Without a nonrenewal notice, it couldn't legally cancel coverage. Bad cutting edge tech screwed me over; bad basic software bailed me out.

So basically, this comes down to a dispute over how much moss is too much moss to make a roof structurally unsafe. But it sounds like the process goes straight from "AI detects a problem" to "policy gets cancelled," without human review in the middle. Perhaps a less error-prone way of handling it is for the AI's recommendations to trigger a human to go out to the home and investigate?
During most of the time USSR existed, computer electronics were away from the optimum enough that ternary logic was competitive with binary.

It was just at the late 80s that this changed.
I’m frankly surprised this is legal. I can’t imagine something like this passing in the EU.
You can use VMs instead. I don't think the distinction matters very much though.
Ironically, it seems the article itself was written by AI
> Why should workers be expected to subsidise a specific part of a city?

Precisely. Of all the various arguments for why everyone should be forced to work in an office, this one is perhaps the most ridiculous.
Have you tried using other OCR packages? I had to give up on Tesseract after every mode and model I tried read a quite plain image of "77" as "7" (and interestingly the javascript port reads it as "11"). Pic related: https://i.postimg.cc/W3QkkhCK/speed-roi-thresh.png
Expanding on this idea - can health insurance companies fly a drone over my house and see me in my hard eating a cheeseburger and cancel my coverage?

Can an auto insurer do the same and cancel my coverage because they see me doing burnouts in my driveway?

Seems like a giant privacy violation but I'm no legal expert.
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I totally agree, but OP's post doesn't seem to be of that type - it's not like he's chasing some nebulous tech buzzword ("Sprinkle in some blockchain!", "Be sure to utilize AI!"), but he has a good idea of the specific pain points, at least in broad strokes.

At the very least, similar to other comments about hiring a small group of senior freelancers, I think to start it makes sense to find a very good contract product manager who can map out, very explicitly, exactly what the pain points are and what a software solution would look like to fix them, stack ranked by "biggest bang for the buck" (i.e. most positive impact to revenue or reduced cost, divided by rough estimate of size of the fix). At that point the total investment would be very low, and then they can make the call of whether the risk of doing something not using COTS tools makes sense.
Not at all.

A monad is just a type constructor and two functions respecting some rules.

It can be widely different from the State monad ranging from useful (Option) to completely weird (the naive list monad) to doing nothing (identity monad).
Sounds like the homeowners' complaints aren't with the surveillance itself but with too many false positives in the algorithm that marks surveyed processes "uninsurable". It would be just as bad if an agent came to visit and arrived at the same wrong conclusion.

I would further have issues with any drone flying over my property uninvited... even if I don't strictly have issues with companies automating such inspections conditional on them being agreed to in advance.
I think Queen had pretty much faded by the 80’s, there were a couple of songs that you’d hear (we will rock you), but they weren’t high profile at all compared to others you’d hear on a classic rock station.

Until Wayne’s World. That catapulted them back into a new generation outside of just a couple of songs.

Then they got another kick with Adam Lambert, and they’ve been higher profile since. (Though personally, I think Night at the Hip Hopera probably did something for them too)
Technically right, but the original code only optionally depends on Numba, and Numpy is ubiquitous in scientific Python.

The problem I was trying to solve in all those boilerplates is basically that Numpy still has overhead and dropping it to lower level is trivial if Numba is used, but the package maintainers doesn’t want to introduce Numba dependency for various reasons. And the diff is showing that change from Numpy/Numba to C++ with pybind11.
> It's some kind of a "Temporarily embarrassed FAANG engineer" situation.

FAANG engineers made the same mistake, too, even though the analogy implies comparative competency or value.
This is my all-time favorite book, I’ve read through it numerous times. The level of detail and scope of focus is breathtaking. Its narrative reflects to me a deeper truth about the asymmetric leverage that mastery of a new technology bestows, and the unpredictable outcomes of its inevitabile diffusion among humans in a barely-stable world. I can’t recommend it enough, I feel like I learned something major about the nature of our species after completing it.
I feel like better transparency about policy holders’ attitude to home maintenance leads to better pricing of risk and that’s a good thing - the problem is really the lack of warning from the insurer that they are about to be dropped. Not even giving the policy holder the chance to take corrective action sucks, and hints at a future where you need to be on best behaviour even in private spaces
This is awesome :) can we use this directly on our entire db?
Normally in a pub you have multiple drinks over the course of an hour or more while you socialize. It's a very different scene than restaurant where you order a meal, eat it, and leave. Cafes/coffee houses could be similar but still, while I have been known to drink several pints at a pub, I can't imagine drinking several lattes in sequence -- the caffeine would seem too much.
The sibling comment looks way closer to port of Go which is rather unidiomatic C#. I understand where it is coming from, but there is a much terser and type-safe way to express it:

#pragma warning disable CS8509 // The switch expression does not handle all possible values.
// Justification: The switch expression is exhaustive, and Roslyn emits optimal default guard.
// In AOT, ILC should be able to statically prove by whole program view that only two subclasses of Tree exist and optimize it away.
// In practice, it seems null check and recursive nature of the call prevent it for now. It is still compact and fast codegen however.

var treeWith3Leaves = new Tree.Node(
new Tree.Leaf(),
new Tree.Node(
new Tree.Leaf(),
new Tree.Leaf()));

var leaves = NumberOfLeaves(treeWith3Leaves);
if (leaves != 3) {
throw new Exception("Huh, something went wrong.");
}

static int NumberOfLeaves(Tree tree) {
return tree switch {
Tree.Leaf => 1,
Tree.Node n => NumberOfLeaves(n.Left) + NumberOfLeaves(n.Right)
};
}

abstract record Tree {
public record Leaf: Tree;
public record Node(Tree Left, Tree Right): Tree;
}

Once we have type unions[0], the syntax could be easily promoted (assuming current proposal state) to e.g.

union Tree {
Leaf;
Node(Tree Left, Tree Right);
}

Or a bit lower-level variant:

record Node(Tree Left, Tree Right);

union struct Tree {
Leaf;
Node;
}

This will allow to remove exhaustiveness suppression and not pay for (house of) leaves.

[0]: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/18a527bcc1f0bdaf54...
> You're being pretty dishonest in your replies here.

All I'm doing is responding to your (incorrect) numerical assertions. I really don't see how that can be "dishonest". If you don't like the direction of the conversation, I strongly recommend you counter with numbers of your own showing where the problem you think you see lies. That's how we get to a policy discussion on which we can agree. All you're doing right now is shouting at me because I don't see the same reality you do. Let's discuss the reality, no?
Personally I think you can lower the cost by just making it difficult on the end-users side. If you put a scary pop up and require the password and bury it in the setting then boom, grandma who doesn't know the difference between wifi and the internet won't have issues.
> You can make a single file executable that does not require any dependencies

Which is not distribution friendly. Thanks for finally understanding you were wrong all along.
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Not in the article but (pulling this out of my ass here) I wonder if ternary logic is ever so slightly more quantum resistant since modeling ternary systems using a "natural" spin-1 (-1, 0, 1) system is way less accessible vs spin-1/2 systems which "naturally" model binary operations
It's not malicious compliance, it's non-compliance. Apple still has 100% control over which apps you can install on your iPhone in the EU. The EU must force Apple to provide EU citizens with some way to bypass mandatory "notarization"[*]. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for scary warning screens -- malicious software does exist and Apple devices should be secure by default. But the DMA is toothless if Apple can "comply" and still have their final say over what EU citizens can and cannot install.

[*] "Notarization" for iOS is a misnomer and imposes a laundry list of requirements in addition to "the app isn't malware". The guidelines aren't even a separate document; they're quite literally a subset of the App Store guidelines (notice the "only notarization requirements" checkbox):

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

Compare that to the macOS notarization requirements, which are quite succinct and are anything but a subset of the macOS App Store guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...

(macOS of course still allows you run apps that aren't notarized after passing through several scary warning screens.)

These extra unnecessary guidelines, along with the fact that you still need a paid Apple Developer account at $100/year to submit your apps for notarization (even if you just want to use them on your own device and distribute them nowhere), shut out FOSS entirely and render the DMA nearly useless from my point of view.
That basically only happens if you do a water fast with distilled water.

Regular mineral water will avoid that.
Profound condolences to his family and friends. Reading about his journey was heart-breaking, all the more so knowing that he would never be able to hold or know his daughter.
> Milkshakes per se are a bit out of fashion but nowadays the fashion is "coffee shops" like Starbucks

Milkshakes are one of the most popular things Starbucks sells.

Though for unfathomable reasons they insist on adding coffee to almost all of them, as if that were the reason people buy milkshakes.
There’s a lot of advice here regarding the dangers of your plan, and I’ll add a little of my own, but I’d like to offer one note regarding why you are correct for considering this.

What exactly is the nature of this software you’re running on? Is it an aged or decaying platform? Worst case, is this a PHP thing that has to have updates carefully monitored in the event of eventual security breaches and hacks?

And what exactly is the health of the software provider? If they can’t be bothered to respond to you and the sort of budget $300M/year can afford… I’d be sweating bullets for sure. You need to have a plan for them just disappearing one day.

---

That said: I just committed the cardinal sin of helping to buy a company that had a decaying software stack, thinking that we could just straight up replace the whole software stack. Gave ourselves a big fat year of development and a big, experienced team, and still couldn’t pull it off in time. Harrowing experience.

Someone else here suggested getting a small freelance team and "letting them go nuts." I think an approach where a small team was building new, independent microservices that supplemented your main stack, and then gradually replaced features — until finally just a small core was left to be replaced with something modern — would be a feasible approach. This would need to be a very long-term plan with a lot of commitment.
Here is the book on Infinity DFW penned: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-More-Compact-History-Infin...
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Jake posted as jseliger on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jseliger

He blogged at <https://jakeseliger.com/>, and numerous of his blog articles were submitted to HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jakeseliger.com>. That includes numerous topics, over the past year or so his experience with cancer, often concerning frustrations with the process and mechanism.

His essay on agenticness especially strikes me as hugely insightful and underappreciated. It was submitted several times to HN but saw little discussion:

<https://jakeseliger.com/2024/07/29/more-isnt-always-better-d...>

Jake's wife, now widow, Bess, blogs at Everything is an Emergency: <https://bessstillman.substack.com>. That also details the cancer / caregiving experience, from the point of view of a wife, caregiver, expectant mother, and emergency-room doctor.
Congrats on the launch. Sounds cool and potentially useful, but I don't want to read blog posts or book a demo. I'd put a proper video at the very top of the page instead of the animated typing you currently have.

FYI your <title> tag needs to be updated.
Neat, you could pair this with a paint program and display vector graphics.