skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great except the US economy has been fueled by debt for the past 50 years - and a lot of that money fueling the debt comes from overseas. You drop your compelling sales pitch to investors and their money leaves. I don't think you understand the ramifications of that. We're not talking about boot strapping industries - our industries are mature. They will lose access to world markets if the US decides to double-down on isolationism. That means negative growth for the largest industries in the US.
well, you did agree to go in business with crowdstrike, and base your company IT on windows, so...
We all eat too. Is there no place for “business” in eating? Should all restaurants be nationalized?
What vile people. Each step is a further descent into hell.
I think this model could benefit from dynamic pricing - higher demand equals higher prices.
Yes, do not rely on it for assessments. It generates ratings of 7 or 8 because those ratings are statistically common in its training data.
The bad person is the one who decided to lock and downsize public toilets. All the arguments about taxes are about money for public good that market can't solve, well where is it?
When I was in high school (ages ago) the boy’s bathrooms didn’t have doors. I guess it was to deter kids smoking, graffiti, and other bad things that happen. We were a middle class suburb so I don’t know how often this happened anyways. I was fortunate to never need to go but I always remember it.
With that one it’s probably a blessing there aren’t more.
This is so disgusting. The idea of milking maximum profit from such a basic human function really highlights the way extreme capitalism trends toward evil.
Where do you go if you don't have any money?
Not sure why anyone would want to play on a site that uses “yeah looks like cheating so you must’ve cheated” as a heuristic for a ban.
There’s no nefarious reason. It’s because they are prefabricated kits that need to be installed precisely to be gap-free. The installers obviously don’t want to or can’t install them with the correct tolerances.
Yes, completely agree here. But that’s not mutually exclusive with the rent a potty idea. Public bathrooms in parks and such are often, by necessity, quite spartan. They have no toilet stall doors, don’t have the soap filled as often as necessary, have those weird metal mirrors rather than more useful mirrors.

I would honestly pay for rent a potty even if public toilets were (and they should be!) available and convenient.
Well, it's an ancient Middle Eastern religion (you know, like Christianity) so they're probably saying things that would be very disagreeable to modern, liberal Westerners.

Sometimes it's a blessing to not know the language a song is sung in. I feel that way often, when I listen to Black Metal bands singing in Swedish or Norwegian.

I jest. The recording is really beautiful and reminds me of this more modern one (1936) of non-religious music also from the Middle East:

https://youtu.be/tTZDVKMZOrk?si=DYu6sPTKjPz9FnHr
Looking forward to their durable execution Workflows. Writing Temporal workflows has great DX but their pricing and hosting requirements put it out of reach for many projects.
I'm not very well traveled, but I think I've used a pay toilet in every country I've been to other than the US (and the little bit of Canada I've seen) They're illegal in many US cities (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets...), and American taxpayers don't like footing the bill. So we end up with Starbucks and Dunkin as de facto pay toilets, where you have to buy a pastry or drink to take a pee.

I don't really understand why it should be illegal to pay someone for a vital human need
short files only, but it is file transfer. of course nothing stops you from doing like tftp and splitting files to reassemble.
No, but we try to guarantee that you have food.
*in a perfect world with no monopolies, no information asymmetry and probably a dozen other caveats.
Agree, I got some anxiety thinking of the security implications of being handed an ipad of unknown source.

We are slowly getting to a place where people realize a USB-drive found in the parking lot should be met with suspicion. But target one of the higher-ups with an ipad didn't raise eyebrows? (maybe it did, hope so)
That’s not the correct comparison anyway.
I'm in Europe, and I think it's great. :)
This should help porting all the old Cobol and Perl apps out there, no?
Bootstrap Icons: open-source SVG icon library
We have not. Look at the economic history of the latter half of the 19th century in the US. We haven't experienced those levels and frequency of market swings since the creation of the Federal Reserve. Also, the Great Depression was a world-wide event. That was our first clue that isolationist policy was misguided.
Tinfoil hat: Government might want to track/limit/<remotely brick> CNC machine usage someday to say prevent weapons manufacture and encourages this behavior in a similar manner to the way it encourages social media platforms to censor speech. Some of the really advanced CNC machines have GPS in them and won't work in "bad" countries.
Alternate take - the toilets in Europe, while a euro or two, are actually nice and relatively well maintained. And relatively common.

So while you do have to keep a few coins on you, unlike cities like NYC or SF you can actually go to the toilet when you want and it isn’t a stress inducing nightmare wondering what sort of hell you are going to run across if you do actually find a toilet.

Places with ‘free water’ almost always have terrible water availability and quality. Same problem.
You missed the point because in practice you can always be a jerk within the boundaries of the law, no matter the law.
Cases where software failure tumbled stock prices and whether they recovered
Here-Doc Headache
Show HN: Visualize your finances with Moneystack and AI
My friends and I built a tool for personal financial planning. We all have day jobs, so we're not trying to make money off it. If you struggle with financial forecasting (like me) then please give it a go and let us know what you think.
They sometimes are but then it is easy to go around them
Almaty has nice mountains to see actually, but some seriously problematic neighborhoods and high crime.
Being allergic to enforcing the law post blm
Your post reminded me of “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” from G. M. Hopf
A public good is a commodity or service that is non-excludable (no one can be effectively excluded from using it) and non-rivalrous (one person's use of the good does not reduce its availability to others)

Examples include clean air, national defense, and public parks.

This isn't to say they shouldn't be provided by the government, but they're definitely not a public good
Go 1.23: Interactive release notes
With Kompute being the bicycle.
Companies don't want unions for the same reason they try to pay you as little as you are willing to accept.
They need to load data into the kernel eventually but that doesn’t mean that the first time the file is parsed should be in the kernel. For example, on Linux they don’t have this problem because they use the eBPF subsystem and so what’s running in the kernel is validated byte code. Even if they didn’t want to do something that sophisticated they could simply include a validator into the update process, as has been common since the 1980s.
Suggest you change the title to include open source. Looks like MIT.

Also does this work w existing frameworks like Tailwind?
I worked as a McDonalds janitor when I was a teenager, and I specifically requested it instead of cooking hamburgers. It was actually pretty pleasant. You got to walk around, talk to customers, go outside (to empty the parking lot trash cans) and so on. Yes, the bathrooms were messy, but I cleaned them so often they didn’t really have time to get totally disgusting.

Of course nowadays, I bet it’s not a dedicated job, and they make the single person working alone in the store do everything…
> There is the old Carlin bit about "for there to be an average intelligence, half of the people need to be below it".

This is true for the median, not necessarily for the average.
We tried a bunch of other tools ourselves and always found them overly complex. We wanted something simple & free.

Other (free) feature we are currently considering:

- More advanced AI
- Account for Interest (inflation/investments)
- Track savings
- Template directory to share plans
- Community created templates
> Put a mdxish flavored markdown file called index.md in a gist, copy the gist id, and go to https://mdx.com/{gistId}

^ README

Think you meant for this to be mdxish.com
If that got me a reasonably clean and reasonably available location, that's money well spent.

Cleaning and maintaining a restroom isn't free, and something needs to pay for it. Highway rest stops are usually pretty clean, but they are paid for with tolls/very high gas taxes.
I appreciated your comment and saw it earlier before it was detached. Thank you for sharing it. It got decent visibility to readers, as your points suggest. I suggest you cut the mods some slack for adjusting things on one of the heaviest trafficked threads ever. The phenomena dang describes with only semi-related reply to the first thread does exist and I myself have gotten higher points on posts that benefit from it, unintentionally and intentionally (didn’t realize that was abuse, sorry dang). I think we are better off with an ecosystem that limits such point/visibility seeking or accidental behavior, even for good content. Don’t take it personally.

(I do think there should be some way to skim for, say top X% rated comments particularly on mega threads, somewhat like there was/is on slash dot with its point filtering. This would have helped visibility for a detached comment like yours, would reduce the ordering benefit dang mentions for those using it, and improve usability more generally for busier readers. But that’s my 2 cents. These things always cut multiple ways.)

A megathread is always a tough place to add value, on any platform. Who am I, but I appreciate you and your comments and hope you continue to share with a broader audience that includes me here.
> You are describing common procedures here. Welcome to EU. /s

You are grossly uninformed. Some EU countries even encoded in their own constitution how the state neither has the right to gather specific types of data on their population, such as race and political affiliation, but also they can't gather data that can used to track people, such as cross-referencing data across ministries.

Please provide any substance to your personal assertion.
I’VE never been turned down. But I’ve seen others get turned down who don’t look like me ;)
Pubs are different, especially the bigger chains. They're generally too busy to police it. Big posh hotels can be good too - ask the lobby for the bar, then ask the bar staff for the toilet if it's not obvious.

A 8-table local run cafe? I wouldn't dare ask
> This all strikes me as a passive-aggressive reaction to FUD about homelessness and "out of control cities".

Anyone who has ever worked in retail or food service could tell you that nobody wants to have to deal with the public restrooms. They need to be cleaned frequently and it’s not a fun job.

It’s not just homeless people or FUD. It’s because the general public has enough outliers who cause problems that when 100 people use your bathroom every day, you’re guaranteed to get a couple who create some sort of mess.
I doubt any conventional web user knows or cares that “.me” is a ccTLD, or that it’s even related to Montenegro. If anything the reaction is “you don’t need a .com!?”
I'd suggest Astro (https://astro.build/)
We still have to find workarounds for crappy software. But with a continuous update model, we waste more time fighting with bugs because the bugs are constantly changing. Every week you have to waste figuring out what broke now. No thanks.
This reads to me like Nate Silver is joining a gambling company or a casino, because that's what prediction markets are all about.

I don't see difference or appeal with prediction markets. Betting, horse racing, it's all the same and it's encouraging people to lose their money where the house always wins.

Especially if it is a crypto company like polymarket, yuck.
Neither had toiler paper and toilet seats. Instead of weeding out bad kids who smoked and vandalized, all kids were punished. Negatively impacted nutrition and hydration habits during the following decades of my life.
And you don't even have to be poor, what if you just aren't carrying your wallet/phone?
A weird bit of trivia on his audiobooks:

When they set about making a new radio series after his death, they used his narration of Agrajag as the voice of the character. It was spooky and beautiful hearing him participate in his radio play after his death.
I was an EMT in the Los Angeles area for four years, and then in the Seattle area for four years. I developed the mindset that even if the patient died, we (the firefighters/EMTs/paramedics) had at least given them a chance to live that they would not have had without us. That helped soften the blow of the deaths.

That strategy was less effective for calls where the patient was declared dead on scene, and so no treatment was possible. I still remember each of those calls. Fortunately, I was never traumatized by them, in a PTSD sense. Rather, I learned the lesson of realizing how easily I, or one of my loved ones, can simply disappear one day; so I learned to make sure they all know that I love them, and to not take their presence in my life for granted.
It's getting closer with pg_upgrade. That just wasn't a priority as early as it was for MySQL. Give it time.

For large DBs though you may not be able to wait for it to happen offline.
before you get all smug recognize that linux has the exact same architecture, just because it wasn't impacted - this time.
Were they struggling with paying the employees?
"I'll email you the full update"
we are bound to see the YouTube ads equivalent of late night spot ads for lawyers with accelerated audio "have you lost someone to the 2024, 2025 or 2029 crowdstrike global hospital outages? if so you may be entitled to compensation. DM law5237 on X to find more"
That assumes police would respond quickly enough in this locale (they wouldn’t, you have to say someone is in danger for them to come quick), and that the taxi driver would care, since they might be betting (correctly) at worst, the police would ask them to leave the premises.

He was told not to come into the hotel anymore, but he did anyway. Any other solution would have taken too long to implement compared to just changing the locks on the doors and making the housekeepers happy, who you kind of need to operate the business.
Some people literally don’t have money for a small charge and they shouldn’t be denied using a public bathroom because of that. You’re right about everything else though.
> On the other hand, in Japan there are extremely few places with public trash cans. Those few that exist are typically associated with vending machines for beverages.

IIRC they removed them after a terrorist attack in the 90s.
Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?
Can anyone from crowdstrike or someone who knows what lead to this incident, how it got past QA etc... care to share?
That other thread with more than 3000 msgs may or may not have this info, hard to read...
Unfortunately, evaluating a good business partner is nearly as hard as doing it yourself. As in so many domains, if you're not an expert, you can't tell who actually is. Especially when that domain is genuinely difficult and even skilled people often fail.
I think it was in the early 90s when I first saw something do A/B style loading where it would record the attempt to load something, recognize that it hadn’t finished, and use the last known good config instead. Anyone studying high-availability systems has a wealth of prior art to learn from.
After attorney's fees, class action rarely pays enough to make the victims whole.

Suing individually is only an option if someone can afford a lawyer.
No. Engineering means something. This is a software ‘engineering’ problem. If the field wants the nomenclature, then it behooves them to apply rigour to who can call themselves an engineer or architect. Blaming middle management is missing the wood for the trees. The root cause was a bad patch. That is developments fault, and no one else’s. As to why this fault could happen, well the design of Windows should be scrutinised. Again, middle management isn’t really to blame here, software architects and engineers design the infrastructure, they choose to use Windows for a variety of reasons.

The point here m trying to make is blaming “MBAs and marketing” shifts blame and misses the wood for the trees. The OP is as on the holier-than-thou “engineer” trip. They are not engineers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41015319
The answer to this question should be self-evident. A city either offers free public toilets, or it becomes a free public toilet.
Let’s try cryptohack.org
In the US it's because the homeless population in most cities is rising, and they have few places to use the toilet.

Business owners perceive the presence of homeless people as bad for business so they don't want to encourage homeless people to stick around. And they think homeless people will trash their bathrooms or use drugs inside which is dangerous for other customers and brings police presence.

So business owners lock up their bathrooms. Result: Even fewer places for homeless people to use the toilet.
Is there no room for grocery stores and restaurants too, since all humans need food?

If you’re looking for a role for government here, I could see budgeting in some tax breaks for local businesses that make their restrooms publicly accessible. The infrastructure is already there, no need for a complicated business model.
Looks like you completely made up the interpretation that you wanted and fitted your point.
Your point can be valid, but it does lose strength when your interpretation of the previous comment gets both points backwards.
You posted this very relevant question (https://mastodon.social/@RicoElectrico/112814402646545749) but you included a hashtag that I filter out of my stream, because it's fucking annoying. I think Mastodon is much more specific in terms of what you should talk about and what you can read.

Like, look at this screenshot: https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/112813902808042779

That's how, I feel, serious/interesting people are using Mastodon. Less noise, more quality. As such, it's just like "SEO" - if you want to appear relevant, try being relevant. Use hashtags and talk about things you are interested/knowledgeable in, imo.

Also picking a good instance is important - it allows to have a local timeline that's relevant to you.
Or perhaps higher demand can be a signal to increase supply instead of price gouging. Why incentivize anyone to limit supply?
At least for a tikz equivalent, I found cetz [1] to be very useful.
I am not sure how it compares feature-wise. But I could easily build some graphs with it.

The one thing that really makes me excited when using Typst is that I find it very intuitive, meaning the time between not knowing how to do a certain thing and me being pleased with the result is much shorter with Typst compared to latex.

[1]: https://typst.app/universe/package/cetz/
The ones I used in Paris recently were no better, one worse, than any other free public toilet. IMO tourist taxes should be the thing paying for it.
easier to show a paid bill than to show true due diligence to your insurance when you're hit with ransomware.

that's the whole CS business model.
> They are also not entirely safe because people are idiots and get stuck without understanding that they can actually push through the barrier.

Most of the barriers I see in the US are one sided - they don't let you drive on to the tracks, but there's no barrier that prevents you from leaving.
> shops want to be where the traffic is, because they want motorists to stop and patronize them.

Citation needed? Motorists (as opposed to pedestrians) rarely stop at a shop because they passed in front of it (except on very long routes). Reason being, it is pretty hard to register what shops you're passing when driving

I don't think having a lot of motor traffic in front of it helps a shop
A quid pro poo situation, if you will ...
this animations were all the rage in Chinese wechat while this was going on
This rant is in such poor faith. Flagged.
The whole thing needs to be redesigned, so that antivirus and EDR solutions do not require such high privilege. We need a high-performance way for a possibly privileged service to export all the data that is needed for a decision, and then let the AV/EDR do its thing. If the AV/EDR is broken by an update, fine. At least the system won't go down.
There's https://512kb.club/ too.
> headquarters is making changes to protect their employees and their property.

Or to simply retain employees.

If you had your choice between two fast food jobs with similar pay but one of them requires employees to take rotations cleaning the public bathroom throughout the day, which one are you going to pick?

The issues with drug users are also very real depending on the city and location. Having to have cops or emergency medical people show up to your location a couple times for no other reason than you offered public restrooms is a quick way to make a company decide to no longer offer them.
With or without equations, just use MonsterWriter. It gives you LaTeX results without needing to know what LaTeX is.

But, yes LaTeX has other benefits, e.g. citing references, or creating PDFs according to layout and typesettings best practices.
The government should simply mandate that all restaurants, supermarkets, event venues, etc. above a certain size should be required to have at least a certain number of free public toilets.

Otherwise, the more stores that withdraw from offering free public toilets, the more burden it places on everyone else.

If it causes a slight increase in labor cost, at least it the cost will be borne equally by all, and benefit will be borne most by the most vulnerable.
In Texas, fast food places almost always allow people to use their bathrooms.

The few fast food places that do not let me go without complaint get a complaint to corporate and they lose my business for a few months.
If they have numbers o support their supposed wider experience I'd love to see them.

You can always find someone opposed to something, that doesn't necessarily mean that the thing is impractical.

How was the blood extracted from the sparrows? There was a surprising lack of information about animal welfare in the article. People interested in that might be opposed to those medical tests too.
I would say probably not.

Markdown is really more about getting words down in plain text with a very simple structure for rendering on the web.

Typst and LaTex make stark distinctions between composing and typesetting. They are programmatic typesetting systems with very structured and fine grained control over the look and design of a document once it's compiled and rendered as a PDF.

If all you're doing is writing prose then I honestly think typesetting programs are overkill unless you do want very fine grained control over how your documents look.
It couldn't happen on macOS: Apple stopped letting third-parties run code in the kernel after years of failures like this.

It also wouldn't happen on Linux: they use eBPF there which was designed by grownups and validates its inputs.
Great now I have analysis paralysis with all these options.