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There are atm machines popping up where you can go and deposit cash to get btc. They typically have phone number requirements for transactions under $3000 (over requires ID) and they are located in places with cameras (e.g. gas stations/convenience stores), but those restrictions are easily worked around (burner phone/pay a homeless person/disguise) if you have the desire.

Unfortunately, it seems this is an issue that won’t be fixed. Despite it being an issue for many users, talking about it typically just leads to downvotes even if the comment is productive in that it proposes solutions. It would be simple to fix either by allowing users to blacklist paywalled urls or creating an auto-outline bot or something but for whatever reason it doesn’t seem to be worthy of addressing despite the fact that invariably there are people that have issues with it as evidenced by comments like this one in pretty much every paywalled submission.

It’s a shame, really, because it likely prevents a lot of good discussion that would take place if everyone could read the linked content.

Great story. Only hiccup I saw was that he mentioned the patio was always usable due to their location but towards the end he said it was “enclosed”. Are there enclosed patios still susceptible to weather?

Looks like it’s webm which doesn’t work on ios safari. I couldn’t find a link to an alternative version in the source unfortunately.

The trick being to shoot around the star I presume? That’s the only “trick” I’ve ever heard of - curious if there is another.

This wasn’t an egregious “wah, paywall” comment. I asked if there was a way to filter these out that maybe I didn’t know about and asked about there being a solution to the issue with some type of bot.

I don’t believe a workaround had been posted at the time I posted. I also attempted to try outline, but got an error on their site for the URL (something along the lines of url not valid for outline).

Is hn open source? If so, I’d love to try and contribute something perhaps that would allow users to filter out stories with a user-managed url blacklist. Seems like a reasonably simple solution. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the info regardless; I’ll refrain from complaining about paywalls from here on out (although, to be fair, this wasn’t a blanket complaint about paywalls; I’d asked if there was some type of filter I didn’t know about and proposed a possible solution).

Non paywalled article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-bill-defines-insid...

Very cool - will check it out. Many thanks!

Saw that too and am curious as well. Uneducated guess is either fires or refineries.

Looks like India has the worst as far as I saw. Some areas above 400(!). For reference, Sydney is mid to upper 100’s which is still not good and likely as you mentioned fire related.

Oh man I remember the first time my buddy showed me his Zaurus out front of a bar in NYC - he had some kind of Remote Desktop with a Linux shell in that tiny screen. He had to scroll around to see stuff with the stylus in a not-so-user-friendly a manner and the input was slow as balls but I was absolutely enamored. I at the time was very proud of my newly released Motorola Razr in my pocket yet here was my buddy with this magic device showing me up. Thanks for the trip :)

Except, if I’m reading correctly, the restriction is on the offenders license and they are prohibited from driving any vehicle that does not have the lockout device.

Anyone have a non-paywalled version? Frustrating to only be able to read the first paragraph.

For mobile users:

>Thanks for sharing your experience with our new formatting UI. I'm sorry to hear it's been a little disruptive so far. There isn't a way to revert to the old formatting method, I'm afraid. We don't currently have plans to make the new formatting configurable though we are carefully considering all our customers' feedback.

Frustrating to get such a definitive “not going to change it” response like that. At least with a company like Google they wouldn’t even bother responding. Why even bother offering to accept feedback if they’re not willing to take it to heart? Maybe it’s just an attempt to placate their users. I don’t see why they would have an issue offering some type of preference setting or inline selection for this. What would be the harm in allowing users to so choose?

Seems like it’s becoming another dark pattern whereby developers are forcing their decisions on users a la Chrome not allowing developers to disable the browsers built-in autofill.

Looks like gasoline/petrol which is sometimes used by people to huff (inhale) to get high.

I came across this video from the linked Wikipedia article. It’s a good video but lacks much detail IMO. I was hoping for something longer and more in depth (although it did lead me down a rabbit hole of Field of Vision videos which are all excellent). Does anyone know of more detailed vids about the building? The suggested YouTube videos didn’t offer much.

Same. Although I did end up migrating to a DO droplet so I could use it outside of home and share with family/friends. Absolutely can't live without it now.

Reminds me - they still don’t allow developers to disable chrome auto-fill which renders typeahead/autocomplete functionality useless since the chrome auto fill covers up the typeahead dropdowns. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21238375

Can anyone comment on the efficacy of ad blocking with NextDNS compared to Pi-hole?

Legal names aren't critical but would be nice. I think that if the business posts the name that would be close enough.

Very interesting idea - many thanks!

It looks like this is targeted at ML/AI but I have a tangentially related question: does anyone know of open source or other publicly available lists of US businesses? Just business name and address?

I’m building out an app and we receive documents from all kinds of vendors from all over the country. The app is for our business to manage our client data. I was hoping to find a list of business I could throw in the db rather then piecemeal add the addresses in one by one as the documents come in.

I looked at some of the data service providers (infoUsa I think was one and d&b being another), but one dataset for just business names and addresses they were asking $50,000 for. I think my use-case is unique in that these companies typically sell this data as sales lead data which it definitely is not in my case (we don’t even sell b2b).

Anyone know of anything like this? I suppose I could just scrape phone books but I think if I can’t find the data we will just resort to one by one entry.

Indeed. Just keep in mind that it could be worse :)

No worries! Happens to everyone at some point :)

Ehem. I think you might be looking for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21503005 :)

Hmm, you sure about that? You might be getting results from a fallback DNS server.

  _____________________________
  | ~ @ TRUHQWSOSX3 (muser)
  | => nslookup archive.is 1.1.1.1
  ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

  _____________________________
  | ~ @ TRUHQWSOSX3 (muser)
  | => nslookup archive.is 8.8.8.8
  Server:  8.8.8.8
  Address: 8.8.8.8#53

  Non-authoritative answer:
  Name: archive.is
  Address: 94.16.117.236

FYI: archive.is doesn’t resolve for people using cloudflare dns.

OT: but WP paywall is by far the most hostile of popular news org paywalls out there IMO. Using an addon like 1blocker is thwarted by virtue of the site redirecting to the homepage (although you can hide element screen a couple of times and view the entire article from within there).

I wonder if this strategy was pre or post Bezos purchase. Either way, I avoid WP at all costs. (I know clicking the ‘web’ link here can bypass - I’m just venting and I apologize for that).

Thanks for the outline link.

It’s not worth pointing out anecdotal instances of these occurrences since it’s so personalized and dependent on ones own experiences and state of mind.

What it offers, though — in the only way I know how to describe — is an alternative perspective. It’s like stepping outside of your usual self and evaluating things from an almost objective and completely different point of view. It’s this perspective that allows for revelations that otherwise wouldn’t happen in a sober state. This is a result of physiology and the chemical interactions in the brain due to ingestion of the substance.

It’s quite an amazing experience. Sometimes it can be scary, or odd or just funny. But in my experience, it has led to some very profound experiences and insights.