skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you mean by anyone at all? By the owner of the private key. Not by anyone.

If I log into my computer and turn my private key into a plaintext blob, as a file or a Python object or something on a USB stick or a QR code that I photograph, then anyone who happens to have compromised my computer at the time has my public key, too. Even if I subsequently fix the compromise, they still have my public key.

I do not want this to happen.
I think the safest space away from the gen AI sludge will be offline. But even that will make it vulnerable to its influence.
I've just ordered the first three, thanks.
It could be passive aggressive, or it could be that frontline employees at these places are seeing things that you're not and headquarters is making changes to protect their employees and their property.

Not every instance of fear is FUD, sometimes the danger is real.
I get a

> Trac detected an internal error:

> IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

So it looks like it is pretty dead like most projects in this space?
It differs city by city, in some you have better facilities.

IMO it’s more about drugs and sex than capitalism but yea I agree the state of public toilet availability is a disgrace in Germany
"children with autism tend to be finicky eaters..."

I haven't read the research but this sentence from the article suggests that there may be a relation to the microbiome. Because what we eat is controlled by microbiome. We crave sugar because organisms in the gut that feed on sugar are hungry. But I agree that the composition of the microbiome changes all the time and it's hard to draw conclusions.
> if a big tech would create a map of publicly available toilets

You don't need big tech for this: OpenStreetMap [1], a map (actually, a database) that works like Wikipedia, is there for all of us :-)

It has information about public restrooms, whether they are accessible, gratis, and toilets are only a very small part of OSM.

The more people contribute, the more awesome it becomes.

A sibling mentioned Organic Maps, it's one of the many apps out there to conveniently use OSM (and contribute).

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/
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First time I tried Kimchi, I didn't get it. It just tasted bitter. But I grew to like it a lot after a few more times.

It seems to serve a similar role in Korean cuisine as the pickle in American cuisine or the pickled ginger or wasabi in Japanese cuisine.
I used to practice architecture. In general (1) there are not regulations/laws/codes requiring the practice. The gaps at the floor are to facilitate mopping and reduce the damage from overflow floods.

For first responder access, I have seen a hospital requirement for outswinging doors for one-holers with privacy locks. This allows the door to be opened when a person is collapsed against the door.

(1) “In general” because there are almost certainly niche regulations that require it. For example the construction standards of a state prison bureau, local board of education, etc.
The domain on the email clickback, https://click.convertkit-mail2.com/, literally doesn’t resolve for me.

EDIT: because I was using quad9 doh, and this domain is on their blocklist
I see, there is a distinction. Good point.
What about countries with political strife like Myanmar? We can't hope that 100% of countries all experience significant growth, fast enough to outstrip the impact of rising temperatures. There will be laggards stuck on low GDP. Also, a lot of these economies rely on outdoor work, widespread AC can't help with that.

If we get to the 3-4C warming scenarios, these countries will be terrible to live in, regardless of AC, and I won't blame them when they all try to escape to colder Europe.
now that got me thinking of a startup to build public restrooms that monitor the visitor with AI.
Yeah, there are pleanty of dead and abandoned projects in this space. Maybe the concept is worthless without a tool for metadata management?
Also I should probably have specified that by "missing" I mean, "there is nothing well maintained and production grade" ^^'
Meanwhile you could probably have dropped into a Starbucks, bought something small, and used their bathroom. There have never been a lot of explicitly public bathrooms in cities like NYC.
To keep you from staying there for too long and lowering productivity.

This was invented after having a foreman check that you pissed or shat in the toilet like they did on a ford assembly line was deemed to expensive.
I’ve been working on a personal finance tracker that uses automerge as the primary backing store.

One trick we’ve been pulling is tailing the automerge contents into a sqlite db in-browser for more complex querying.

(some notes on how/why here: https://tender.run/blog/tender-and-crdts)
In some cities? people that have the means to spend $10 to go pee.
There needs to be more innovation in turd extraction
OP made a great contribution to the discussion.

Going off on a cynical tangent over protocols is just noise, and adds nothing of value to the discussion.
I have a urinal bottle, collapsible toilet, and bottle bidet in my van. I never fear needing to urinate or defecate wherever I am.
It seems like we're both trying to make a distinction that the other person thinks is unimportant. But if the crucial marker for you is whether anti-malware protection is built into the OS, then I've got great news for you: Windows has built-in AV, too, and it's more than enough for most users.

The distinction I was trying to make is that the anti-malware strategy used by servers (restrict what the user can do, use formal change control processes, monitor performance trends and compare resource utilization against a baseline and expectations inferred from incoming work metrics) is different from the anti malware strategy used by "endpoints" (scanning binaries and running processes for suspicious patterns).
I think the lesson should be that many of our own models are also probably wrong in ways that might look very silly in 50 years time.

Science should always be a humbling field.
Someone let me off this planet. I don't want to live here any more.
I remember listening to hhgttg on my parent's kitchen radio as a young child. I didnt't get much of the humour but the episodes were still a marvel to me: just bursting and fizzing with ideas and fun.

I bought the book with pocket money in '79 when it came out - I remember the kind of oilslick-pattern cover, and being secretly pleased that no-one I knew had heard of it. I read it until it fell apart. His proof of the non-existence of god was probably my first Mobius loop, at least until I discovered Hofstadter in the library.

Teenage me was unexpectedly charmed by So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and was perhaps a little hopeful of meeting someone like Fenchurch one day.

So, a part of my nerd hustory I guess - albeit not something I've thought about for a while. Thank you Mr Adams.
Not free enough for publicly-funded research. I don't think copyright should apply at all to research that taxpayers paid for, it should instantly be public domain.
I guess that's true in touristy places but in general there's nothing stopping anybody from using the WC, just walk in. Would be nice to buy something but asking politely will do too, I've never been turned down.

In Turkey they really like putting formal structure to that kind of stuff and venues at the high street sometimes have a lock with a password which is printed on the receipt with your purchase. One particular McDonald's was a pioneer in this, as their location was at the most crowded and central place where people used to meet before the proliferation of cellphones.
I agree it CAN be physical, but it's far more likely to be physical if the men affected were 60 plus, who are far more likely to have physical issues than young men.

While 18 year old men can have physical issues which could cause ED, IN GENERAL, 18 year old men are in the prime of their life and also are usually extremely horny. I remember one kid I knew in school telling me he would jerk off 3 to 5 times per day! Not many 60 year olds are doing that...

The point is this, generally at 18-25 roughly your body is working better than it ever will, so I would be inclined to believe that if young men cannot get hard, on balance and probability, it's more likely to be mental than physical.

If it was physical, then why don't we see the same trend in older men?
Car helmets should be a thing
I agree with your comment, not because I don't think there is any hope, but because I see a situation were valid and viable hope is buried in the noise of feel-good-show hope and subsidy-ogling hope.

I am not saying it will be easy to build it, or cheap, or without any drawbacks, but...

It is physically possible to generate energy by cooling the planet.

Its cold in space, its cold up there. To run a heat engine you need 2 temperature baths at different temperatures.

Lets take for the higher temperature our surface temperature, and for the lower temperature the temperature at or slightly above the tropopause (say 11 km above surface, somewhere between polar and equatorial regions).

At that height temperatures might be say -50 deg C.

Now consider the following engineering challenge: a buoyant vessel holds taut ~12 km "atmosphere elevator", made of SCG (single crystal graphene). Along such cables could be suspended chimneys made of light fabric, or perhaps pipes conveying coolant up and down, ...

As a thought exercise: suppose the hook floating in the tropopause/bottom of stratosphere is used to heave up and down buckets of water (the same number of buckes going up and down, so apart from friction this transport costs no energy (think of a pulley).

as the water travels up it freezes, giving off heat at a higher layer, closer to dark cold space where it would end up anyway eventually, as the ice is lowered it absorbs heat from the lower layers. If the water/ice buckets were insulated, and only brought in thermal contact at the top or bottom of the structure, then it would dump the heat at the top only, above the CO2 and water blanket where it can more easily escape to space, and it would absorb heat only at the bottom. This means we could run a heat engine at the surface generating energy, without proliferation concerns (because when we do it its for energy, but when others do it it must be for weapons, or for gaining experience requisite for weapons)...
I wonder why the gates aren’t designed so that they only present a barrier on the entry side of the track, and not the exit side of the track?
I struggle to see how it is convenient. At least on Android, when you pay for something, it doesn't use the installed app, but makes you login in the browser. And they still don't support 2FA or Passkeys properly, making me to receive an SMS almost every time.
I understand that this complexity exists. But in my experience with Google Compute, this isn’t a 1%-of-the-time problem with something getting stuck. It’s a “GCP lacks the capability” issue. Here’s the API:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/inst...

AWS does indeed seem more enlightened:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_S...
It's not like they have keycards on the toilets (least not the vast, vast majority). You can just walk in the use them. Wetherspoons reliably have clean bathrooms and there are a lot of them.
something small costs 5 dollars in starbucks. thats some expensive pee
Yeah I've been following it on and off since it was camli-store. Maybe it tried to do too much at once and didn't focus on just the blob part enough, but I feel like it never really reached a coherent state and story.
Exactly !

Question is: why half+ of Fortune 500 companies allowed Crowdstrike - Windows hackers - access and total control of their not-a-ms-windows business ? Obviously Crowdstrike do not do medicine or lifting cranes differentiation. "In the middle of the surgery" is not in their use case docs!

There was somewhere Mercedes pitstop image with wall of BSoD monitors :) But that is not Crowdstrike business either...

And all that via public internet and misc clouds. Banks have their own fibre lines, why hospitals can't?

Airports should disconnect from Internet too, selling tickets can be separate infra, synchronization between POSes and checkout don't need to be in real time.

There is only one sane way to prevent such events: EOD controlled by organization and this is sharply incompatible with 3rd party on-line EOD providers. But they can sell it in a box and do real time support when called.
> The Radar Key opens handicapped toilets around the country that are otherwise locked.

I’ve never heard of this type of thing in the USA. Handicap stalls, if available, are just next to the rest of the stalls in any given location. They’re usually a bit bigger to accommodate a wheel chair, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a special entry mechanism.

Is the UK version a physical key or some RF tag?
Should be able to suck it out into a biodegrageable bag, no wiping required
Because the website seems to have a temporary issue, the project must be dead?

Tahoe-LAFS seems alive and continues development, although it seems to not have seen as many updates in 2024 as previous years: https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/graphs/contributors
A lot of people who create content don't want their content to feed AI. They love what they do and they don't want their work to support a system whose purpose is to debase and commoditize that work. The only way to avoid that is to never publish to the web, everything published to the web feeds AI. That is the web's purpose now.

Also there are plenty of people who create content because they love it, and also need to be able to make a living at it, because doing so at the level of quality they want is time consuming and expensive.

But mostly because even people who produce content because they love it want to share that content with the world and that will be nigh impossible when the only content anyone sees, and that any platform or algorithm surfaces, is AI generated. Why put in the effort and heart and work to create something only for an AI to immediately clone it for ad revenue? Why even bother?
Yes it’s a big lesson, not so much in noticing other examples in the past but in thinking critically about present day conjectures yet to be resolved.

So many smart, credible people build up lines of thinking (a necessary step and best that can be done presently) around subjects. These get discussed, reported on, worked with, and very easily become conventional wisdom. Yet so often they turn out to be way off course.
$5 coffee is cheaper than most pairs of pants.
I grew up in a neighborhood that had no outlets. Very, very safe place to play as a kid. We’d be in the street all day long, riding, walking, playing.

I returned recently, and the atmosphere is completely different, because now the streets have been extended. Through traffic completely changed the dynamics.
https://archive.is/2024.07.20-035804/https://www.scientifica...
I see how this can be a problem. It's probably not O.K. to offload the Taxi industry toilet costs to 3rd party businesses.
The full text of the 1956 consent decree, as reprinted in [1]:

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Catalogs/Western-E...

[1] Western Electric and the Bell System: a survey of service. Edited by Albert B. Iardella. Western Electric Company, New York, 1964.
Yeah QUIC would probably be a good protocol for such a system. Roundtrips are also expensive, ideally your client library would probably cache as much data as the local disk can hold.
"Often, when I ask "why?", I'm treated as if I'm completely refusing the subject."

Exactly! :-)
you are repeating the campaign, not actual economic argument.

why the country was broken? because it pandered to external loans and then small elite robbed everything.

what is the current economy doing? proving even less services than before just to prepare for new loans. money is still not reaching the services.

gov saving is a contradiction. gov spending is the goal of government. no government is a profit making machine. like he made you believe Argentina should be in the campaign. that's literal crazy talk. nobody look at a govt a judge it for how much it saved for retirement but how the people and infrastructure is being served. that is what brings real investments.

the point Millei supporters refuse to see is that there's no "improving a credit score via hardship" if the goal is not too reset back to loans and corruption.

two Brazil presidents ago the loan+corruption cycle was addressed by a president who didn't cut costs, she put laws against corruption in place, which led to a Senate coup against her. lol. but that's the real solution to a broken country. not "tightening the belt". again, that only makes future loans look better, not the overall economy. and if your care about loans instead of the country next step is kind obvious.
A number of past discussions and related things: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=typst

1 year ago, 146 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35250210

8 months ago, 34 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38354422

2 years ago, 53 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423590

2 years ago 30 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209794
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What does this have to do with the government? My point was that PayPal is terrible and why is there no widely used alternative to it? I know there are alternatives, but usually only about 5 people use them. And somehow in Germany (and it seems in the US too) everyone still uses PayPal.
We’ve tried that with Prohibition, the War on Drugs, and speed limits. Even where speed limits are enforced, people speed.
White on light green and light green on white. I guess some people never learn.
More like based on the prior that all projects in that space arent' in the best of health. Thanks for the github link, that didn't pop up in my quick google search.
The RADOS K/V store is pretty close. Ceph is built on top of it but you can also use it as a standalone database.
> Ukraine is a sovereign nation, with the right to make its own decisions

That's why it imposes it's own vision on the language they don't even use.

> Neither you nor Russia have any say in this whatsoever

Neither you nor Ukrainians have any say in how people who speak English should use it.

> That's how this works.

Lol?
Years ago, when I worked at a hotel, we had to lock down the bathrooms because a specific taxi driver would come and absolutely ruin them. The housekeepers threatened to quit simply because of this 1 person, and we had no reasonably cheap way to stop him, other than removing access to the bathrooms for the public.
The search results aren't very good

https://tinyurl.com/seargovresults
is creating deepfakes legal? at the moment, yes. they’re using it in an obvious parody manner, so the “impersonation” claim is a stretch at best.

is “cyber stalking” legal? doing research using publicly available information is quite legal. stalking tends imply you’re harassing or intimidating someone, that doesn’t seem to apply here. conde nast told them to go away, and they did.

so, yes, i ask again: press charges over what? someone being uncomfortable or intellectually intimidated isn’t a crime.
Just have emergency services use the bus lane?

And if there isn't one, your problem isn't traffic calming, your problem is the lack of bus lane
Did you write this? Pardon me if you did, but your comment sounds ChatGpt heavy, especially the open call for participation at the end.
you really don't see the contradiction in your own argument?

well i guess you must be a Canadian desperate to move to Rwanda then...
From the guidelines:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

If you think people shouldn't do this, I'd be interested in hearing why not, and what you'd consider a better alternative.
The gov usually contracts out its coding. Waa this made contractors under the federal gov or actual gov employees?
Rent-a-Potties, paired with some kind of mobile app, make good business sense to me. Especially if you can get some kind of network effect / critical density mass going in a given area.

A person is out and about town, and suddenly has to go, bad. They pull out the app and find their closest Rent-a-Potty. It appears on their map with a green dot - that means the last person to use it considered it reasonably clean, a good sign. (Everyone knows that people whose usage of the Rent-a-Potty is, ahem, strongly correlated with the state transition to an orange or red dot face price hikes, or possibly even expulsion from the app as a whole, so there's good reason to leave it at least as good as you found it.)

They tap the dot, hit "Reserve", and the timer begins. A 4 digit PIN code appears on the screen, your secret incantation to the hall of the porcelain throne. These things are not cheap - $1 per minute for the first 10 minutes of reservation, $2 past that. But they're emptied every night, the sink always has hot water, and the soap is always refilled.

Some people have tried to game the system by {your deviancy here}; the company has responded with {countermeasures you're smart enough to think of here}. Some enterprising souls could theoretically {countercountermeasure}, but honestly, implementing {countercountercountermeasure} isn't a huge concern for Rent-a-Potty's C-suite, compared to the recent competition from new market entrants like Loolurker, AirPnP, and Pouber.
Looks like a cool idea and it could benefit from a more complete and detailed illustration and explanation of the architecture.

Reads like the authors skip to implications before clarifying the design.

Also, a stylistic sidenote, narrower columns of text are much easier to read, newspapers and journals do this for good reason
And McD. And Shake Shack. And others.

(Yes you might need to buy something but seems like a small effort for it)
So before Uber did taxis return to dispatch center for such things? With their own version of Danny DeVito?
And yet, this is baked into climate change models if you’ve been paying attention.

Unfortunately, yes, even after we hit a plateau of emissions, we’re going to see effects.

The important bit is that, yes, we are seeing changes, and yes, we are seeing dreadful environment effects, we’re making progress to slow this down.

We’re fortunate that the last few years gave us excuses to shift policy that otherwise would’ve had us keep going down this path for another decade+.

I would certainly hope those pushing the “doomerism” takes in this thread do not work for any AI companies, cloud computing, NVIDIA, or other organization responsible for insane datacenter power growth this past year.
There would be unintended consequences from car helmets.

Maybe they would interfere with looking over your shoulder.
_ in Rust
I live in South Australia and I feel like public toilets are ubiquitous and still increasing in number. Mostly they are either accessible or have a separate accessible toilet. The only exception to this is in areas where they have public social issues. My mum is a little bit financial about toilets so she always struggles when overseas. We even have small self cleaning toilets at the small playgrounds in the suburbs. It would be interesting to understand why we ended up like this.