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Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group did something similar (I guess) back in 2011:

https://www.microsoft.com/applied-sciences/uploads/publicati... https://www.microsoft.com/applied-sciences/projects/the-wedg...

Oh, you are right - I didn't think about the other direction at all. Thanks for the explanation!

Why not both via the same wavelength?

Replied to you elsewhere but this might be a German version of the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WorrpfjAYdc

Hah, these magic-heater ads seems to be more common than I thought. In another comment in this thread, I just linked to a different one (in German):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WorrpfjAYdc

Yours is much more interesting though.

Here's Big Clive doing a teardown on the device in your video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnLnk35XsY

> "It's not a short ad; I've seen it several times, so one of the times I recorded it."

FWIW, YouTube ads are just normal, unlisted videos. You can get their ID by:

- right-clicking on the video while the ad is playing,

- selecting 'Stats for nerds',

- copying the 'Video ID' from the debug info in the top left corner,

- appending this ID to 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='

This also allows you to see the account associated with the ad and how often this ad has been played already.

For example, here's a (German) scam ad promoting a cheap ceramic heater as having "effectively no energy costs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WorrpfjAYdc

Indeed.

> "Besides the general requirements of 'good faith' and 'balance', the EU rules contain a list of specific contract terms that may be judged unfair.

> Here are some situations where contract terms may be judged unfair under EU rules:

> [...]

> - Terms which allow you to alter a contract unilaterally unless the contract states a valid reason for doing so."

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...

The best way to predict a crime is to commit it.

(with apologies to Alan Kay who coined the original saying)

Somehow reminds me of Nokia...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7645482

frik on April 25, 2014:

> The Nokia fate will be remembered as hostile takeover. Everything worked out in the favor of Microsoft in the end. Though Windows Phone/Tablet have low market share, a lot lower than expected.

> * Stephen Elop the former Microsoft employee (head of the Business Division) and later Nokia CEO with his infamous "Burning Platform" memo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia

> * Some former Nokia employees called it "Elop = hostile takeover of a company for a minimum price through CEO infiltration": https://gizmodo.com/how-nokia-employees-are-reacting-to-the-...

For the record: I don't actually believe that there is an evil Microsoft master plan. I just find it sad that Microsoft takes over cool stuff and inevitably turns it into Microsoft™ stuff or abandons it.

I assume you meant integrate instead of assimilate?

I definitely want immigrants to integrate in our society (and am prepared to do this when I travel into another country). But I would not expect anyone to assimilate - which to my understanding means giving up their previous culture and take on the culture of the host country.

I was trapped in a room with a hungry lion. I gave it some meat spiked with drugs. The AI ignored the meat and decided that I only gave it the drugs. The lion died immediately. According to the AI, I was deeply saddened by this unintended consequence. So, obviously I did not survive. What?

On Linux? Evolution does this pretty well. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution

Mind expanding on this a little bit?

Cool research that seems quite relevant for my own research. Thank you for sharing!

The systemic problem with Unity is not only that the leadership makes bad decisions on a whim. Apparently, they made these decisions despite explicit internal opposition from their developers. When a company's leadership ignores their internal expertise, the company starts to rot from the inside.

> there is no coming back from this

German here. Absolutely no chance? What would be the first step in this direction?

I imagine that to make HSR happen, first one would have to create walkable cities which make people want to use public transport so that the local transit network gets expanded which in turn makes high-speed rail viable.

Couldn't one start locally with closing downtown to cars? Would there be any chance for this to happen anywhere?

At least the German ToS (updated April 10) do not contain any AI provisions.

https://explore.zoom.us/de/privacy/

Reminds me of the Warez sites around 1995 - 2000. Searching for "Photoshop 5 crack" or similar would lead you to a web site that would ask you to click on another link which would open a dozen popup windows. Many of those popups would also purport to have what you were looking for - just click on this link here (which opens a load of further popups). Teenage me spent too much time wading through these pages. To this day, I'm not sure whether any of these sites really had warez or whether they were just a huge clickbait mazes.

Touch and pen would generally require completely different calibrations because touch is detected by the capacitive touch screen whereas the pen position is tracked inductively.

However, I wonder why the pen calibration data is not stored on an controller on the display panel? That would absolutely make sense.

There's also e.g., HRS Group in Germany [1] - albeit much smaller with a revenue of about 200M €.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRS_Group

Wouldn't this incentivise doctors to only accept cases with a high chance of quick success?

Young child with cancer? Nope, not worth the risk.

Patient with mental health problems? Takes too long, outcome not easily measurable.

Obese patient with back pain? Let's do surgery instead of investigating and treating the root causes.

Another way to parse Markdown, HTML, or docx files would be pandoc [1]:

  pandoc --to json file.docx

or in Python:

  import json
  from sh import pandoc
  doc = json.loads(  pandoc("file.docx", to="json").stdout  )

Example output (reformatted slightly to reduce number of lines:

  {'pandoc-api-version': [1, 22, 2],
   'meta': {'title': {'t': 'MetaInlines',
     'c': [{'t': 'Str', 'c': 'The'}, {'t': 'Space'}, {'t': 'Str', 'c': 'Title'}]}},
   'blocks': [{'t': 'Header',
     'c': [1,
      ['first-chapter', [], []],
      [{'t': 'Str', 'c': 'First'}, {'t': 'Space'}, {'t': 'Str', 'c': 'Chapter'}]]},
    {'t': 'Para',
     'c': [{'t': 'Str', 'c': 'I'}, {'t': 'Space'}, {'t': 'Str', 'c': 'like'}, {'t': 'Space'},
      {'t': 'Emph', 'c': [{'t': 'Str', 'c': 'cursive'}]}, {'t': 'Space'}, {'t': 'Str', 'c': 'or'}, 
      {'t': 'Space'}, {'t': 'Strong', 'c': [{'t': 'Str', 'c': 'bold'}]}, {'t': 'Space'},
      {'t': 'Str', 'c': 'text.'}]},
    {'t': 'Para',
     'c': [{'t': 'Str', 'c': 'Here'}, {'t': 'Space'}, {'t': 'Str', 'c': 'is'}, {'t': 'Space'},
      {'t': 'Str', 'c': 'a'}, {'t': 'Space'}, {'t': 'Link',
       'c': [['', [], []], [{'t': 'Str', 'c': 'link'}], ['https://ix.de/', '']]},
      {'t': 'Str', 'c': '.'}]},
    {'t': 'BulletList',
     'c': [[{'t': 'Para', 'c': [{'t': 'Str', 'c': 'Item'}, {'t': 'Space'}, 't': 'Str', 'c': '1'}]}],
      [{'t': 'Para', 'c': [{'t': 'Str', 'c': 'Item'}, {'t': 'Space'}, {'t': 'Str', 'c': '2'}]}]]}]}

[1] https://pandoc.org/

Maybe a huge crane lifted it into the park from outside the park. Would the crane be in the park then?

Also got 11% - what does this number actually express?

I think we are all proving the author's point here.

For my decisions, the assumed intent of the rule was slightly different than yours: no potentially fast-moving objects that might cause severe accidents.

So: no cars, no bikes, no skateboards. RC toy cars with low mass are okay. Rowing boats are not okay because they might harm swimming people. The surfboard on the beach is okay because it is not moving fast within the park. Etc.

It seems your comment is missing a part: There's only one list item - which is truncated:

> 1. There had to be a certification process to use the controller, including risk analysis which would absolutely deny any attempt to

You click on the downvote arrow. However, you need to have sufficient karma for the downvote arrow to appear. You do not appear to have passed this threshold yet.

Also, if this was not a honest question but just a rethorical one: please read and take to heart the HN guidelines [1]. Essential part: It is better to explain why you disagree with the parent poster than to post snarky comments that do not contribute to the discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

IIRC, ripcord works perfectly fine as a Discord client (used it myself for some time) - but if you have ripcord and Discord clients running at the same time, logged into the same account, Discord's anti-spam measures are triggered, and your account gets banned. Discord support refused to reactivate my account, so I had to pester the Discord security lead on Twitter - who was so nice to reactivate it.

I absolutely agree. Furthermore, even if the federal government agreed to hand over operation and responsibility, Söder would certainly have to find a location in Bavaria for a repository for depleted radioactive fuel rods. However, Söder has always vehemently objected to building such a repository in Bavaria, blaming the geological conditions here.

This is just hot air.

P.S.: thanks for the COVID updates

Thank you for this information. FWIW: This does not seem to be an isolated opinion. I have read (vague) YouTube comments recently, that point in a similar direction.