Thanks - seems to work quite well.
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[1] https://github.com/Marsel-marsel/youtube-premium-video-downl...
To some degree, reduced rates for non-profit organization and schools are not offered because large companies want to be nice, but because they want to catch future customers.
On the other hand, they seem to have rather 'anti-woke' views. They already posted the same stupid (sorry) Twitter link in another thread and got similar responses, by the way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167067
So, they are certainly no bot by any sensible definition but rather someone whos is hindered by their strongly-held views and limited will or ability to critically evaluate sources. I wish them the best.
I am no expert on this topic but the first reasonably sciency and recent paper I found claims that all energy costs of a wind turbine are compensated after 6-16 months.
https://www.hb.fh-muenster.de/opus4/frontdoor/deliver/index/...
The supreme court actually has rejected most of Axel Springer's² arguments and limited the revision to a single question (AFAICT, IANAL): Are the news websites in question some kind of computer program (protected under Section 8 of the UrhG³). The supreme court argues that the lower court did not sufficiently discuss this question in their ruling.
The supreme court explicitly notes that the lower court should also consider whether Springer actually has the sole rights to the 'computer program'.
Some thoughts:
a) As the supreme court mentioned, Springer might only own (exclusive) copyright to some parts of the computer program. It seems that they embed a lot of other JS code, e.g., Google stuff. This might mean that Springer needs to show that ABP actually modifies Springer's code. If ABP modifies e.g. AdSense code or the code of an open source library that Springer's websites use, Springer's copyright might not be infringed at all.
b) In German copyright law, only works are protected that are created by a human author. (Obviously, the author can also use software to create a protected work.) Given that a lot of JS/CSS code is written by automated rules (or LLMs), rights holders might need to prove that an actual human wrote the code.
c) As posted elsewhere in the thread: the German copyright law explicitly allows people with limited vision or with limited reading ability (not defined precisely in the law) to use assistive technology in order to transfer a work into a more accessible version⁴. So, ad-blocker companies might argue that they are just providing assistive technology to people with diagnosed ADHD. Copyright holders would then need to go after the users of such software.
(A mentioned above: I am not a lawyer. Copyright law is complicated and interpretations are evolving)
¹)https://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/do...
²) big German media conglomerate, not to be confused with SpringerNature
³) https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/BJNR012730965.html#B...
So, ad-blocker companies might argue that they are just providing assistive technology to people with diagnosed ADHD. Copyright holders would then need to go after the users of such software. (IANAL)
This is still very much compatible with my claim that unskilled people profit from being reminded (repeatedly, not just in the exam at the end of the semester) that they know less than they think. I will avoid conflating this with the Dunning-Kruger effect in the future (Thanks!).
An recent study found that medical students' estimate of their own intelligence gets lower right after taking an IQ test (confirming the better-than-average effect). But one week later, their self-estimated intelligence returns back to their pre-test levels. To me this suggests that students (and all others) will overestimate their abilities - and invest less time in learning - if they are not constantly given feedback.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...
From the abstract:
"Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities."
> AFAIK this was because under the old system, there had been too many students registering for exams despite being woefully unprepared, and then predictably failing as a result.
True. That's the real Dunning-Kruger problem: incompetent people do not know how much help they need to get competent. It is our job to show them their weaknesses as early as possible so that they can effectively work on them.
(I believe that state-funded universities (as in Germany) have some obligation to not only educate the self-motivated top 1% but also offer a solid education even for less perfect students - at least if there is a societal need for their competences.)
Another, more important, reason is that written exams are not good tests of programming competence - especially as tasks and frameworks get more complex. We want to assign good grades to students who are competent at developing software in realistic settings, not in highly artificial exam settings.
One of my major fears about always-available AI agents is that they will (and already do) infiltrate and disrupt communication in families. In a dystopian timeline, kids won't learn life skills and attitudes from their parents but from the AI nanny made by an American megacorp. Why should kids trust their parents on anything if the AI nanny provides faster and more well researched answers? No need to ask Dad for advice anymore. No need to ask Mom why your friend with dark skin hasn't come to school lately - AI nanny will provide a step-by-step learning experience for you.
That's definitely not the only possible outcome, and each family will have a different experience. Not everyone has parents that give good advice. However, I can't imagine such a tool not having wide-spread effects on intra-family communication and relationships.
Is this a concern to you? If so, how would one mitigate negative effects? Is it the responsibility of software developers to avoid mis-use of such systems?
While I have no personal experience on that topic, I'd assume that a codec with a patent pool is a safer bet for a commercial project. Key aspects being protected by patents makes it less likely that some random patent troll or competitor extorts you with some nonsense patent. Also, using e.g., JPEG XS instead of e.g., pyrowave also ensures that you won't be extorted by the JPEG XS patent holders.
One may call this a protection racket - but under the current system, it may make economical sense to pay for a license instead of risking expensive law suits.
FWIW, there's also the non-free JPEG-XS standard [1] which also claims very low latency [2] and might be a safer choice for commercial projects, given that there is a patent pool around it.
Why do you wrap it? Couldn't you also form the burger patty without the cling film?
¹) https://youtu.be/RbmFmWqqq0c?t=19
²) https://youtu.be/33hG9-BCJVQ?t=5
(I'm not an expert, I just watched these videos)
> In the end we calculated the actual emissions to be 44,6 tons CO₂, due to the fact that we drove more truck kilometers than we had planned. This is less than 10% of 1217 t basalt’s CDR potential of 509 t CO₂. In summary: The mining and transport emissions are one order of magnitude smaller than the CDR effect, even with 300-500 km transport distances. This will only get better in the future with more green energy, electric trucks and optimized logistics.
https://www.carbon-drawdown.de/blog/2022-12-14-how-cdr-with-...
> We found compelling evidence that honey bee introductions indirectly decrease pollination by reducing nectar and pollen availability and competitively excluding visits from more effective native bees. In contrast, the direct impact of honey bee visits on pollination was negligible, and, if anything, negative. Honey bees were ineffective pollinators, and increasing visit quantity could not compensate for inferior visit quality.
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy....
Also:
> Feral bee colonies usually just die after 18-24 months. That's long enough to swarm repeatedly, so mite pressure isn't really a threat to honeybees as a species in the wild. They live long enough to reproduce and almost nobody tries to harvest honey from them for sale. There's basically no chance that mites will make feral honeybees go extinct. Rather, mite parasitism's an economic problem that threatens commercial beekeeping [...]. Keeping bees alive with both mites and pesticides, especially in the face of climate change, is really hard if you need to make money doing it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Beekeeping/comments/10jtmgk/wild_be...
Most supermarkets have a reverse vending machine that take cans and bottles, crushes single-use ones, and returns a voucher for the deposit.
Some videos of these machines in action (not sure whether there are people on HN who have never seen one):
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWqwu63eTPQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlfDavzHq7I - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozVpMDDawnw
"Files as Directories: Some Thoughts on Accessing Structured Data within Files"