skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stadia will be a free gaming service next year. If they launch a free to play game, people will switch internet provider for it.
What do you do if you aren't based in the US? Are you able to gain a tax-exempt status or do that only applies to US orgs?
Gah, you're right - I set it up ages ago and haven't touched it since; it's set to sleep and wake automatically, not to actually shut down. You would need to schedule startup through the BIOS if you wanted it to fully shutdown (I'd done that with my previous desktop).
Neuropathic pain is an utter bastard to treat.

There are medications that are effective - gabapentin and pregablin (for some lucky people, me been one of them) but for others they aren't, Opiates don't do much neither do OTC painkillers - There is some evidence that Tramadol can help.

I'm glad we are continuing to make breakthroughs in the field even if it's a decade or two before they may show up, pain is an incredibly useful notification that something may be wrong except when the thing that is wrong the notification system as a whole.

I can cycle 60 miles, work all day etc but some days if someone steps on my foot I could drop them on the spot.
Yup, precisely. I use Postmark for transactional emails and a very small subset of bulk emails; Mailgun handles everything else.
Good points. Reminds me of an HN discussion about Star Trek: Voyager, where they build tactile, non-touchscreen controls for a shuttle, and there are backup tactile controls for when a crewman loses vision, for example--can still fly the ship etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20670810
Disclaimer : I have only seen SF and NY in the US.

Netherlands is one of the best countries I've been to. Its squeaky clean throughout with excellent infrastructure. Most of the roads, public transport systems look spanking new and are not overloaded. Its also quite green. The long distance trains are also pretty fantastic compared to the ones you might find in the UK or US. Amsterdam is one of the most liberal cities in the world with a good startup eco system. It definitely is one of the best countries in the world. The USA honestly feels like a downgrade compared to it.
Why would the US be alarmed? China is far from pulling a Chagos Islands.

On the day we're discussing Noam Chomsky on HN, we have a NYT article as example... But apparently people just swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
I used it yes. I didn't design it.

In all the times I've used a GPS - the shape of the Earth mattered not one bit to me.
Balking at the difference between 30% and 3% is just as silly to you as balking at the difference between 3% and 0%?
Starlink satellites are mostly put into deliberately low orbits to guarantee they degrade over the course of a few years and burn up in the atmosphere. This is not at all the same as putting the same number of normal LEO satellites in orbit from a space junk perspective.
Not disagreeing but clarifying that the big psychedelic medical studies also rely on integration work as it dramatically increases the value of the treatment. This I am paraphrasing from what I have learned from the Psychonauts podcast.
Their house, their rules.
This seems fun. Any advice on getting started? It's so tough to find new sites. I tried making a website before to find new interesting sites, but it never took off.
The title reads like a not the onion post
> One of the more plausible invention stories is that Satoshi was an arms trafficker who needed a verifiable way to pay large sums of cash anonymously.

Let's leave the conspiracy theories to the pro-Bitcoin folks, it's kind of their speciality.
You're right, you can't just create competition out of thin air. The competition already existed at that time. Part of the abuse of their monopoly position was to use the dominance of Windows to also capture other markets, including the Office market, Web browsers, etc. We would have had a far healthier ecosystem if the monopoly had been broken up. Look at where Lotus SmartSuite, Corel Office, StarOffice, and all the rest are today. They were not able to compete commercially in a market distorted by a monopolist, and today are shadows of their former selves.
Do you think Trump worked hard? Yet he is at the top of the tree right now.
Indeed, it’s not like it’s invulnerable to economics. We need to make sure that the costs are too high. Like most crime, this is less about sentencing than it is about the probability of getting caught.
I mean, you either accept the plan or not. The author clearly accepts the plan. Instead of writing reams of text about how much they care about the birds, they state clearly that's one negative characteristic of the plan: the birds are fucked. You may disagree, but you have to commend the honestly and lack of trying to weasel out of it as we've come to expect.

And frankly, the behavior of stopping reading of a proposal when you get to a point of disagreement is the root cause for why people have to do such weaseling: otherwise, people who do that would just stop listening or leave the room. So what we get are leaders who are forced to come up with ornate, wishy-washy language to lead people to the end of the argument so they can, maybe, digest the whole thing at the end.
Can Sea Water Desalination Save the World?
There is a debate though (a debate that perhaps shouldn't exist...)
I'm not sure what your point is. You can get satoshi or any cryptocurrency for that matter anonymously, there doesn't need to be a record somewhere that ties wallets to real people.
> Catalonia can enact his own laws, and it does so.

Sorry for just pointing out one thing, but it was what you started with so I feel the need to correct it.

Yes, Catalonia can enact their own laws. But even if they do, Spain reserve the right to override them, with what they feel like. Catalans I've spoken to, have expressed this to be a pain point, especially when the relations to Madrid are poor.

Madrid can always regain control over Catalonia according to it's laws, and them having this ability, makes peoples drive to independence stronger.
Adware based products win in the marketplace.

Google can't change that.

At least the money from those adware products goes toward deep tech r&d. It could be worse.
While those points can be seen as very subjective points it was still a good article with real life experience behind, thanks for that and good luck!
Thanks for letting us know, I just rolled out a fix to the hidden content. Can you let me know if you're still seeing the issue?

We use Vuepress for the docs and it's awesome!

https://vuepress.vuejs.org
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How can you go from "we set up a very simple experiment that shows that depressed people can tell more if someone is controlling a light" to "depressed people see the world more realistically?"
I've made this exact point before as well. High on the wish list of any authoritarian/repressive regime would be a monetary system where all economic activity and transaction is visible to them.
Much of this research is aimed at understanding present nutrient cycling. Remediation is secondary.
People buying masks in Hong Kong might disagree.
This is mostly tangential, but the (I pressume) owner of the site, Eliezer Yudkowski, is the author of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which is a great book about rationality, cognitive biases and the scientific method as applied in day to day life. It’s free to read on the web and has a podcast version as well!

I’m not affiliated in any way, just a big fan of the book.
Without the exchange it is difficult to convert the Bitcoins into goods and services. That's where the governments are getting people: when they try to spend their ill-gotten gains.
This will be the end of android.

GNU/Linux is already available on handhelds that can connect to traditional networks but this will make things trivial. All android will be is a runtime that will slowly die as google attempts to weaponise it.
People don't get to choose their own gender, they get to choose their own gender expression. Freedom of expression (to some greater extent) is quite popular in most societies. No-one's complaining about good-faith mistakes, but if we could arrange for those mistakes to be very difficult to make then so much the better.
Much of that technology was improved and miniaturized, and incorporated into the Apple Face ID bar at the top of the iPhone X.
No different to "round-earthers" using technology which uses "flat earth" as a simplifying assumption in the design (hello! Google Maps).

Neither party seems to want to acknowledge that the other party's model works just fine within its domain of applicability.
Agreed, it’s easier to game. But often these ‘spam’ sites combined with an adblocker actually mean you get the content you wanted without ads and bloat.

Where as the ‘official’ site has a long load time due to design bloat, videos and other non-content which can’t be blocked with a simple blocker because it’s a part of the actual website.

Google seems to assume name brand websites have good content. I rarely agree.
Most city driving is below 22mph, so this is a useless bit of info. Living next to a stop sign in San Francisco, 100% of the traffic near my place is at speeds less than 22mph and I can assure you that the tire noise is completely inconsequential compared to the revving engines and obnoxious exhausts.
Looking for Market Research projects from growing companies to test my MVP
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Previously on HN, 4 months ago, front page, 181 votes, 146 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115607

Has the site policy towards this topic shifted since that recent highly-popular post with long-time HN contributors commenting in it?
I know what you mean, but discoverability is the one area where I think Powershell is actually doing pretty well. The Get-Command cmdlet lets you search cmdlets by Module, Verb, Noun, etc, and supports all kinds of wildcards. Plus the built in help (aliased to man) is usually very detailed and provides numerous examples.

I think the bigger issue is that MS stuffs all the modules you don't need into every session, so when you want to do something simple against your DHCP server, you also have to tab past all your AD, SAN, NFS, etc, etc cmdlets in the process, which is just dumb.
can't you exclude pinterest results by adding -pinterest in your query?
The OP was asking what the price is when they do have an enterprise use case or their scale grows beyond your defined constraints.
Perhaps on a technical level it's easier to access the Bitcoin ledger than bank records but LE has far more experience with the later.

Also, if you solely receive and send bitcoin outside of an exchange, you can easily remain pseudo-anonymous in that anyone can see that wallet X has received Y bitcoins and send W bitcoins but without a person attached to the wallet, it's useless information.

This is way crypto currencies are regulated at the edges, if fiet to crypto is watched just like any other bank/exchange, then criminal activity has a hard time getting money out. At the end of the day, it's difficult to buy 'real' things; food, clothing, housing with bitcoin.
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Conventionally, I always figured if one were that smart they would realise crime wasn't a good cost-benefit balance in the first place.
There were a quarter million unique videos on the site, almost half of which were previously unknown to law enforcement.
Really? Because Chrome allows me to navigate to all manner of sketchy sites- should Google be dropping Chrome? I mean, it's about as specious of reasoning as claiming that financial regulators will go after Google over donation buttons in apps. At that point, the whole thing is so far removed that it feels like being worried over getting struck by lightning. Heck, Chrome will even autofill a saved card into a donation page for me. Does Google need to follow KYC for every Chrome user and every page they visit?

Sure, maybe the argument can be made, but come on. We all know this is so that Google can get their nice 30% cut, and cut off any alternate funding sources for Android apps. Otherwise, shady developers will just require a "donation" instead of a purchase. That is behavior that Google would be reasonable to police, but to claim that action from financial regulators is what's causing this is just silly.
No, don't do that. You don't want any data about the transfer, period. Even if no one can see it now, you should assume (given you want to hide what you're doing) that any trace you leave, wherever, will eventually become public or seen by the one you're trying to hide from.

The only way to make yourself untracable is to leave no trace
Yeah. There was a leak recently from a Chainalysis employee who claimed that they were unable to trace transactions through the Wasabi wallet, which is a wallet that integrates a coinjoin mixer. I think there are other coinjoin-based mixer services operating.
GP comment sounded like it was in a town or city (school nearby), where average speeds are lower and "high speed roads" are not the norm. In towns and cities, engine noise definitely dominates tire and wind noise, especially revving from stops, and would thus be vastly improved by electric vehicles. Not to mention smell and air pollution which are always worse in fossil-fuel vehicles.
When the state seizes the coins they are magically clean at this point and are put back into circulation via the auction process.

Not all states will respect that so yes chainanalysis software will have to be updated to account for that and it does affect the fungibility
That road is crazy, especially for an international border. Mind you, it's not as bad as the Irish border, as the only way to determine you've crossed that is that Google maps changes its units.
I've done mango, and it's pretty good. I could see lemon being nice. Dried Fig is also great on pizza.
Okay, so what if we abandon the idea of making first stages reusable, and just make sure they all splash down in the south-east bay, until it's sufficiently filled up to build on? I mean, worst case, you hit Fremont, right?
The second one seems more of a technical one and can be solved if Soli can reliably recognize user attention, which can effectively be a "hotword" for gesture. This is hard and not sure even it's feasible with this tech, but given all the excitements in this thread on potential privacy issues I guess it's doable :D

The first one seems more troublesome. This is less intuitive than touch screen based interface. The only way I see fighting against this is to standardize a set of generic gestures, map onto existing equivalent touch/voice actions and push it to the Android ecosystem. But not sure how many third party manufacturers will join this parade. Does this technology work well under screen? The industry is now obsessed with getting rid of notch and if Soli blocks this path then it will be a pretty hopeless fight.
You seem to be agreeing with me in a disagreeable tone. Instrumentalism [1] is precisely what I am rooting for.

That's exactly what I said in my OP: "All scientific models are scale variant e.g contextual."

>You can't charactierize your loacl approximation as a general theory

The exact same criticism can be laid upon your local approximation.

You have chosen precisely the scale at which your 'general model' works.
And you have ignored all other scales at which your 'general model' doesn't work.

You are chery-picking your scale - the domain of applicability of your model.

>Just like the Newtonian model works well until you reach the scales where relativistic effects demand the shift to relativity.

And what if you go the other way? At quantum scale neither Newton nor Einstein works.

>Just don't expect to project it outside of its useful scale

That's exactly what I said also: "Scientific models are pragmatic at best. Useful for a particular purpose within some domain of applicability."

So I don't see how you could possibly be appealing to any notion of a 'general theory' without also coming up with a 'general and objective utility function'.
What may be a useful to a Quantum Physicist needs not be useful to a Cosmologist.

The only hope for a 'general theory' is the Theory of Everything. We don't have one of those. Well, physicists don't - theists do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentalism
The FSF provides a fairly long (strongly worded?) list of reasons on this page.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.en.html

IMHO proprietary software is better than no software, but open source software is better than proprietary software in terms of societal benefit.

My favorite open source business model is the "Free Software Product" model. (Best articulated here -> https://sfosc.org/docs/book/business-models/#free-software-p...)

The core ideas are:
1. Free software products have trademarked, proprietary distributions, with commercial terms attached.
2. Free software products (may) have 100% open source distributions, but they must use different trademarks and naming conventions, and receive no direct customer support or interaction from the upstream. They are strictly downstream repackaging of the proprietary upstream distribution. This is true regardless of which source code repository is being committed to - the user relationship is defined in terms of the commercial product, not the free software project.

By either using this model on its own or combining it with OpenSaaS, I think it is entirely possible to run a profitable business, while providing public access to the code that benefits society.
Thank you! I'm glad to see there's progress on this. I've been holding off putting the infrastructure automation into CI/CD, due to the incredible amount of work it would take to create a least-access policy. Tooling like this will help a lot.
Monero is also traceable.

https://www.wired.com/story/monero-privacy/
> (there are) incentives for all these organizations are aligned towards those same interests.

> But in practice, we don't observe that these organizations blindly support 'those at the top'.

That isn't the same thing. I'm not sure how you connect these.
This is better illustrated in specific countries, where the incentives are fierce and immediate. You still see dissent there too, but that's not relevant to the point ("I don't see it all the time so it's not true", missing the point).
Ask HN: GSuite / Office365 Alternatives for Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
Please humor some quick background: I'm on the board of a very small neighborhood advocacy association in an incorporated city in Florida, and trying to bring them into the digital age. The association is voluntary, with minimal dues income at $10 / household. Our dues are mainly allocated to put on a yearly neighborhood picnic and to pay for expenses related to the larger advocacy that the association board and members participate in. Our neighborhood is bordered by several "historic designation" neighborhoods, which makes ours a target for developers looking to churn maximum profit per acre. Most of our advocacy and work goes towards keeping the neighborhood an actual neighborhood, pedestrian and bike friendly, keeping green spaces green, and welcoming to families both new and legacy. It's a non-intrusive, well-intentioned group of people mostly on their own dime and time.

We've gone through the arduous review and appeal process with both Microsoft and Google but was ultimately denied the free to use, nonprofit account, as we're a Florida State-registered and validated nonprofit, and not 501(c)(3) federally registered. We've explored the paid route, but would cost the dues of 36 households, when only 22 participate presently. We can't get corporate sponsors as we haven't found any willing to donate with no federal write-off. We can't register as a 501(c)(3) because the registration process and yearly requirements are cost-prohibitive. We can't get grants to pay for registration because we have to be registered to apply. It's a tough chicken and egg situation.

What we're in need of:
- An [email] account for 5 board officers
- Collaborative cloud storage
- Groups / Forums that residents can subscribe to
- Email lists

I've so far been unable to find services that will cater to state-registered, but not federally registered (501(c)(3)), nonprofits for these needs. Mixing services is not ideal, but would still be a welcomed last resort.
I'm pretty sure by now somebody has seriously claimed that Bitcoin cures cancer, speaks Romanian and cure male pattern baldness.

Anonymity and protection from the Big Bad Government were definitely talking points used by many cryptocurrency enthusiasts. "It can't be banned and can't be seized", rings a bell? Except of course if the Big Bad Government comes knocking at your door and tells you to hand your wallet over "or else".
Section 10 of the original white paper is about privacy. It imagined bitcoin transactions being public, but still about as private as stock trading transactions that are published on a ticker tape.

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Bitcoin transactions turned out to be a great deal less private than that, because separate transactions from the same wallet can be linked via the change outputs (unlike separate trades on a ticker tape).
What you quote seems to be the Google Payments policy, not the Google Play policy:

"Any individual or business processing transactions with Google payments must adhere to these policies."

These apps weren't using Google payments, and it is suspected that they were taken down for not using Google's payment systems (despite not being allowed to).
I have to agree. Something to get people to notice the handset, think it's unique, but it really doesn't add much value.

I paid for a Google Daydream headset. Half a year ago it stopped working on their supported device (Pixel 2 - driver issues). Now they say the Pixel 4 won't support Daydream because people weren't using it, of course they weren't if they don't support it properly. They release proto tech as marketing gimmicks, which they may have long term plans for, but it's not fair to ordinary consumers to create interim abandon ware like this.
I could never get used to PowerShell, but in languages like Bash I /really/ like using short flags in the REPL (for speed), but long flags in scripts (for legibility). Unfortunately, this means there's a higher bar to learn and I've never seen a way to enforce this (I rarely see others use this convention). I hoped PowerShell would address this or the ISE (maybe great autocomplete negates the need for short flags?)