skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the linked article is very shallow. Heise [0] goes a bit more into detail, sadly the actual ruling isn't available yet.

Quick Summary from the Heise article: Axel Springer tried to claim that the website itself is a copyrighted work and therefore an adblocker would not be allowed to modify it. However the court decided:

1) Removing elements (ads) from being displayed does not modify the originally transferred HTML, but only the data structures as generated by the browser, which is allowed to be modified by the user. Otherwise using a browser without images would also be in breach of copyright.

2) The website in itself is not a copyrighted work, as there's no original creative effort involved in generating the HTML.

[0] (in German) https://www.heise.de/news/Landgericht-Hamburg-Adblocker-vers...
Assuming you've considered using something like Arq on your photos library folder, mind sharing why that's not a great solution?
Regarding posterity...I think when we die no one will care much about our data. I recently wrote a will and this included documenting my bank accounts. A death notice is sent to the banks when you die and and whoever specified on the will can access these funds. This ticked a big box in my mind and resulted in me dropping some unecessary tech.

You have got me thinking though about my backup of family photos/videos. My backups are all too clever, encrypted and inaccessible at the moment. I feel inspired now to make sure photos/videos are easy for my family and future generations to access.
The criteria for success are to learn more about yourself, learn about other people, keep your head, and be dating someone exclusively at some point in the near future (he says 6 months or less if you use this method) with an eye towards potentially marrying that person.

The similarity to sales is just in increasing leads. He says that's often the primary hurdle people need to get over -- to take the pressure off and keep expectations low when taking someone out on a first date, and to have lots of "first dates" with lots of people, keeping a very open mind about the types you'll consider dating once.

Dating for me always had heavy emotional overtones and expectations, to the point where I felt like I had to have a "good sense" that someone was a potential good match before asking them on a date.

His framework was helpful to me because it was enabled me to start using my brain and thinking rationally (instead of emotionally) about the problem, and to lower the pressure and my own expectations about dating.

That being said, it would have been super helpful for me if there had been a book geared towards folks on the Aspergers/Autism spectrum explaining the unique pitfalls relationships can encounter when one person is on the spectrum... though I didn't know I was on the spectrum at the time.
Your first network is co-workers, so being hired at a big or venture backed company with well connected co-workers is a good start. If you get a job doing consulting at a consulting company, you'll meet new companies all the time in a risk free way.

Your second network is physical events - meet-ups, conferences. Note, these should be technical for your field of expertise, not like a business networking meet-up, which suck.

Third is your online presence - the open source communities you submit to, twitter connections you've replied intelligently to, etc.
I'm not a farmer, but this comes up a lot. Most modern farming (the type done for money commercially and not as a hobby)is fiendishly complex. The tractors are massive and are driven by GPS and have all kinds of massive machines connected to them.

If you want a simple and cheap tractor, you can find a Farmall from like 40 years ago and restore it easily for like a grand or two (at least my friends dad was still doing this in 2008).

Typically whenever a once competitive firm becomes a lazy monopolist, at some point others want to break in and get a piece of the profit pie. It could happen someday.
Probably not appropriate but the Reddit channel r/kidsarefuckingstupid is proof positive. Also the lived experience of everyone who remembers being a child. Or has children. Or knows any. Yup.
Where are all the bullet shooting missiles?
My family "memorable" photos and videos are all stored on Telegram. We lost a bit when we converted the group to supergroup though. My mom is in her 80, really happy to navigate through the old ones when she likes. She can upload new media files to the group. I believe Telegram is the best tool that helps her: it's super easy, fast.

For the rest (e.g, snapshots, non-sense ) I have them copied between devices thanks to sync tools. I also do cold copies when I feel I need to do that.

I hope when I am 80 or 90, I would be still able to find my images on telegram then...
"OMG, knifes can hurt children, yet evil store owners continue to sell knifes anyway!"

Here's a controversial thought: maybe you should educate your children?

And if that doesn't work, maybe children shouldn't be allowed to be on social media, since (if I recall correctly) it's proven to be bad for them anyway? (By the facebook/instagram leak?)
IMO, and dismiss this as just gut feeling if you want, but it was just a matter of time before there was a 3rd big player. Console gaming was getting too big, too fast for there to be just 2 options for the market. Someone was going to come along and do it better than Sega.
Now, all credit to the bigwigs for having the business savvy to pull it off. But with the size and scale of console gaming, 2 consoles was just not going to cut it. (PC gaming was finished as a true competitor due to cost differences).
The low prices in recent times was anomaly from demand shock. Looking back to 2018 the prices don't seem that different. At least for crude oil.
I’m looking to improve, simplify, and more efficient but here is my present setup for our family (no extended family yet).

We use Apple Photos as the primary, of which I export a backup once a while (at-least yearly for sure). Because Apple has’t solved what everyone ask — a way for two or more users to merge Photos, I use Dropbox[1] on the other devices (wife, daughters) to collect into “Camera Uploads”.

I split the content into “Screenshots” (PNG), Videos, and Photos with Hazel[2]. Photos to imported to the Primary Photos Library, Screenshots, and Videos are either deleted or sorted weekly (few minutes), monthly (30-min-ish), quarterly(30-min-ish), and yearly (about 3-5 hours on a day around the end of the year, with the other digital clean-up task) during my digital chores that I do. My daughters produces a lot of them that I need to throw out. She can position her iPad and video-shoot while she talks her way cleaning her desk for an hour.

The photos and videos are now in my primary device iMac (for now), with a second backup on a 2012 MacMini running many other digital errands. The 2TB iCloud+[3] is good enough for now.

I would definitely love to clean this steps and move to a more non-proprietary format (read non-Apple) to Open Source tools/process.

I tried Google Photos because it was easier to combine and I even had one of their large plan but it turned out to be one of the messiest thing I tried. Stopped using them[4].

I will be reading and learning from the other interesting comments in this thread. Thanks to all.

1. https://www.dropbox.com

2. https://www.noodlesoft.com

3. https://www.icloud.com

4. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/how-to-delete-all-photos-and-get...
Spray foam pays for itself, so it's basically free in the long run. Interesting enough people don't bat an eye when someone quotes them 20-30 k for a new Kitchen but if you quote someone 20-30 k to insulate their entire house they look at you like you killed their mother and sister.

The average home has 2000 ft of linear cracks. Everything from poorly sealed doors, windows, and envelope. It's like the equivalent of keeping your front and back door open all year around. So even after spray foaming there is some leakage (blown door test).

Really, Spray foam isn't that expensive, you should be paying about $3 -$4 a sq/ft at around a R-21 which is cheaper than most tile or carpet installations.

https://huntsmanbuildingsolutions.com/en-US/

If I were building a house I would probably go with ICF forms all the way up and Spray Foam the attic and basement floor (under the concrete floor). If I were renovating, I would Spray Foam and try to make the job large enough to cover the contractors minimum charge. Even a couple of rooms can really help the utility bills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapidity

That's amazing, and it was well explained in 1908!
Yet students today are learning a horrific bastardized version of it. Physics is absolutely terrible when courses and books try to to remove the "complicated" math, and in its place they put something more complicated and ambiguous.

Teach the math!

It's like Greenspun's Tenth Rule, but for math:

"Any sufficiently complicated scientific theory contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Complex Analysis."
> Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $95.00

And yet the stock stabilized at $83, meaning a lot of people are not sure the purchase will actually go through.
Yes, I bet you could do something interesting there, but one of the lessons is that social graphs can become very noisy, especially if people have an incentive to add edges. Don't expect a purely technical (reputation) system to solve what is a social/cultural problem.
How Volkswagen is reinventing itself as an EV company
So as I'm driving, the debate is going on, but as soon as I slam on my brakes, it's already happened! They're already on their way! Oh but now the squirrel is out of the road and I'm late so I speed way back up and the debate hasn't even started yet now.

No. The only thing that is "happening right now" on Andromeda from my point of view is the causality wave (light) that is hitting me right now. It's nonsense to talk about anything happening "right now" if its causality wave hasn't reached me yet.
Why some VCs are hopeful of a pullback in sky-high valuations
As I mentioned, you will have to roll back not only the database, but the relevant application state as well. This is really error-prone if repeated enough times, or the flow of control is through many different methods, etc.
Alder Lake is more power efficient under low to moderate loads, which includes all gaming. It's only less efficient under loads pushing it at 100% on all cores when it's on a high power limit.
If you've got a lead on how to do this, I'm interested. Last I looked, Gamepass on Linux only worked for streamed titles through a browser.
or the alternative to push payments back to cash only or quit because its not worth the hassle.
Confusingly, perhaps intentionally so, it's a global number, not a UK one.

Details here. https://alecmuffett.com/article/15902

Disclosure: I wrote the blogpost.
> Also, it's only worth getting a Push if you have Ableton; as a controller for Ableton it really shines.

Quick addendum here: I've got a Push 1 that I cribbed for $150 on Ebay a few years ago (a steal at the time!) and absolutely loved my time with it/Ableton Live. When I switched my machines over to Linux though, Ableton didn't follow, so instead I picked up Bitwig and tried using that as a drop-in replacement.

Now, Bitwig is a pretty dang good DAW (I could write an entire essay's worth on why I love it), but what really knocked my socks off was DrivenByMoss' extentions[0]: this guy wrote an impressively expansive Bitwig plugin that lets you use the Push as something other than a generic MIDI controller. What's more is that I think I actually prefer the DrivenByMoss workflow to Ableton's. Partially because of Bitwig's modularity and partially because of the degree of control on display, you can do some outright stupid stuff with Bitwig+Push that isn't really possible on Live. It really is some of the most fun I've ever had making music.

[0] http://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/Reaper/Reaper.html
>Which of these are commonly accepted (or even argued by a sizable minority) to have free will in a metaphysical sense?

Of the two that would be the wave functions, some of which are people, and people are what's argued to have free will.

>That may be true, but it doesn't seem like it has anything to do with the ill-defined notion of "free will".

Nondeterminism in physics is the space that free will is allowed to fill, and if there was none, there would be no room for free will.

>I'm also not familiar with anyone who views human behavior to be anything like a collapsing wave form

Human beings are physical systems, quite chaotic at that. It is possible that deep inside your brain, decisions turn on molecular events that are uncertain due to quantum mechanics. Evidence for free will? Not really, but it's a hole in determinism that makes false the statement, "physics leaves no room for free will."
100%.

Since you usually work across an org chart (not _in_ an org chart), and the company is paying more for your time than their FTEs, you can make great impact in relatively little time. Consulting is also great if you have trouble staying at a single place, as you usually don't spend more than a few months at any given assignment. (Usually. I know consultants who are on multi-year assignments with a single client. Those projects are usually very large.)

The disadvantage of being a consultant to large companies is that you're usually not working at the cutting edge, though this depends on the context for your presence. You're more likely to go deep (i.e. tweaking kernels, re-compiling source for major OSS products, etc.) if you're with $CLOUD_PROVIDER working with a client spending millions/year with them than if you're with a boutique consulting shop doing high-level strategy for which technical implementation is a minor factor. This is usually patched by your consulting company's bench time policy.

A consulting company is only as good as the consultants they employ. Good consulting companies hire opportunistically (i.e. ahead of their sales pipeline) and budget large bench times. In other words, their profit models plan for their consultants to spend, say, 30% of the year unassigned so that they can train/work on personal projects/breathe/etc.

Not-so-good consulting companies (IMO) (or very sales-driven consulting companies) hire just-in-time and expect their consultants to be staffed more than 85% of the year, with any training done after-hours or during the weekend. These outfits typically operate closer to agencies or contingent labor shops where profit is directly proportional to the number of people they staff, but some newer consulting companies start off like this (because it's easier) but never aim for the former model (because it's more expensive).
This is as free as you can get and I don't think anyone ever posited "free will" as something other than this.

I would not call this free, it's a choice completely determined by you and the environment. Same situation, same resulting choice. Every single time. And people have certainly used free will to mean many different things.
If you like to sign in and like, comment on stuff and enjoy normal YouTube experience then YouTube Vanced can be used. Afaik it lets users sign in and do what the original app from Google does.
As the other user pointed out, if you do not want to sign in, you can use newpipe from f-droid. Also, on web-browser, you can use https://invidio.us instance.
How are your soft skills? If you’re suitable, in those 5 years you can easily climb to the next level at FAANG, which is way more prestigious than a PhD, and includes all that money you mentioned. Very clear mistake to do the PhD.
We can leave one liner memes in Reddit. No harm done.
>But against small units of well dug in, or hidden enemies - mortars, snipers or troops in trenches, I'm sure they'd be great. I'm thinking basically a grenade with wings that can hover, spot a target and be guided by an operator ~1km away.

I don't know why people insist on flying grenades with lots of electronics. That is very expensive. It would be more logical to use the drones for physical target acquisition and surveillance and then use an actual grenade launcher or other conventional weapons to do the killing blow.
Agree.

Add lives saved by various requirements. Subtract lives from increased traffic fatalities [1]. Multiply by the number of businesses decapitated by lockdowns.

Do you know what we gonna end up with? I don't...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people...
The transition from the white background of "theory" to the black background of "space" is so satisfying for some reason
That's exactly what I used to say before I tried kak. I had been using vim for about 6 years and thought it sounded like vim with multi select and wasn't impressed.

The reality is, you change the way you think about editing. It took about a week away from vim but eventually I could see the selections in realtime. Not as a gimmick like with multicursor vim, but as the basis of everything. I have been using it exclusively for 2 years and haven't looked back once. Single-cursor editing is about the same speed, but selection oriented editing blows vim out of the water with anything with 2 or more edits.

It's like if a notepad user said "what's the point of vim? I can just use a mouse and arrow keys??" Vim changes the way you see things - you see a space separated word so you use W or a line with whitespace at the beginning so you use I. It's hard to explain other than you change your understanding of editing.

Edit: that gimmick comment might annoy some people. I used to use it and love it. But the reality is, it was just an add-on to an already-grest editor. After my plugin phase of vim, I realised it didn't really add much at all. So 'gimmick' is probably too harsh
The problem with porn doesn't really come from accidental exposure to particularly 'extreme' material, I think. That might just be a start. The core problem is, for young people (adolescents) and adults alike, the deliberate search for porn (with hormone-fueled determination, it'll get around technical hurdles) as part of an addictive pattern of behaviour. To counter that, there's no substitute for voluntarily and consciously avoiding it. This may be helped by education: knowing why it's bad, and also knowing why it seems appealing, i.e. sex education and basic addiction psychology, as well as knowledge of the other porn-associated problems as informed by one's broader moral framework. Good luck.
Everything you said about Nash equilibrium is true, I didn't mean to imply that it can only be found in perfect information games via iteration.

What I wanted to say is that methods for finding it via iteration and self-play exist and are well defined but only for perfect information games.

The research itself is here: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/rebel-a-general-game-playing-ai...
> Except that nearly 100% of political donations from Twitter employees go to Democrats, so it is Democrat-aligned

Yes, because we live in a market-socialist utopia where the giant firms that dominate the economy are controlled by democratic vote of their workers, not some dystopian system, let’s call it “equitism”, where society is organized around the interests of and firms are run by equity owners who generally are not the same people as the workers.

And also in a world where campaign spending is entirely by official campaigns with disclosed donors, not by notionally independent groups spending unlimited money with no requirement for tracking and reporting expenditures or donations.
Absolutely not, Microsoft owns your operating system on your general computer. At least you could argue that I am, in some sense, willingly entering the ecosystem by buying an xbox. Blizzard and Minecraft are primarily PC games.
We sync a shared folder with dropbox. Backup with backblaze.

Our local "copy" is basically our personal laptops. This has required manually upgrading our SSDs over the years though because we have around 1TB of photos and videos.

Our off-site copy is backblaze. We don't keep a non-cloud off-site copy.
People may be flooding into vertical integration, though the history of that isn’t great. (Look at AOL/TimeWarner or Verizon/AOL/Tumblr/Yahoo)

All it takes is missing one generation and the house of cards gets written down. Someone can create the next generation blockbuster for a lot less than $69bln.

To argue against myself, they’ve become a lot better at picking trends since Balmer left too.
Organizing Starbucks got going 18 years ago, and kicked off 37 years ago.

SEIU finally won two elections recently. Actually they slipstreamed behind the work of the Wobblies to some extent. Other stores were already organizing so we will see. These things take effort and time.
As a point of order, is a non-citizen the same thing as a legal immigrant? I assume legal-immigrant means one has obtained citizenship.
Not worth the hassle of paying legally-required income tax?
Open protocols and decentralization are web1 not web3. It's how the web was originally envisioned. Web3 is specifically about replacing centralized authority with cryptographic authority. But whether that's actually useful enough for anyone for it to be considered a revolution on the web like web2 was remains to be seen.
I don't know German law, but "no derivative works" generally only applies to things you reproduce yourself. If you download a webpage, it's not copyright infringement to hit F12 and edit a paragraph. You're not distributing a derivative copy. You're just modifying the reproduction you were implicitly licensed by the web server delivering it to you. If editing the HTML on your own machine was illegal reproduction, just viewing it would be too. (And in American law, if something is publicly viewable, they can't condition your license to additional terms you aren't required to agree to first. See hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn Corp.: https://matthewminer.name/law/briefs/Miscellaneous/hiQ+Labs+....)
How much revenue will this actually raise? The previous threshold was $20k which makes me think this new policy will mostly just result in the IRS catching the neighborhood bike repairman who made $3k last year on Venmo and didn't report it rather than some shadowy ecommerce millionaire tax cheat.
Oh wow this brings back memories. More than a decade ago I lived in shared housing where each room has its own telephone port. The idea was every person was supposed to get their own internet. But after a few months of troubleshooting my housemates' internet issues I decided to open up my wifi to everyone else. I used Chillidog, a captive portal software that runs on ddwrt. I had a 3 hour continuous-use limit, after which weird stuff would happen to their images like being turned upsidedown or blurred. I used this very site to make it happen!

Eventually, my housemates just contributed to my internet bill and dropped their own subscriptions. I got rid of the captive portal and went with something more traditional
Note that it's commercial transactions, not your friends & family payments:

"Starting Jan. 1, the IRS said, if a person accrues more than $600 annually in commercial payments on an app like Venmo, then Venmo “must file and furnish a Form 1099-K” for them — reporting on all the commercial income they collected through the app.

"The tax-reporting change only applies to charges for commercial goods or services, not personal charges to friends and family, like splitting a dinner bill."
I do this and I put the takeout zips into AWS as well. The odds of losing access to both at the same time are sufficiently low.