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> Premium Desktop Experience (soon)

It doesn't explain what the "premium" desktop features will be or what it will include over standard Hyprland

> The space race never was about science and exploration

To just blatantly ignore the decades of widely documented science NASA has done or contributed to is wild. I understand it raises your taxes by 0.5%, but really?? NASA is responsible for a significant portion of what we know about space and our neighboring planets, and that's if you ignore the amount of research and discoveries they've made about Earth, the planet that "always will be" our home.

Even if you ignore the actual scientific discovers, NASA and the space race are (partially or) directly responsible for inventions that benefit your everyday life. CT Scans, improved insulin pumps, scratch-resistant lenses, baby formula, memory foam, etc. You can find a collection of their contributions to your life here[0], though the page seems broken for me.

In 2021, for every dollar we put into NASA, it generated ~$3 in economic value. To say all NASA does is build rockets is just incorrect, NASA's benefit comes from the science they actively do with satellites, telescopes, probes, rovers, etc.

> Sure, Voyager went somewhere, but it was all a cover.

Past a small "Trajectory Correction Maneuver" thruster (which was fired only in 2017 and then 1980 before that), Voyager 1 isn't a rocket or have any other military impact. I'd happily argue the Voyager program is one of the greats feats of human achievement in history. It's in interstellar space for crying out loud!

Frankly, why even call yourself a hacker if you're anti-scientific progress and anti-technology?

[0] https://spinoff.nasa.gov/

What a wild false equivalency...

This article isn't even a discussion on AI copyright ownership. It's about training.

What if an evil robot race came along and begin draining your Martians of all their history, expressions, and entertainment. Would the Martians not be within their rights to go "hey, don't do that"?

Parent edited rather than responded:

Your "martians" already did pay for the rights to access the music (streaming services, cds, etc)! And if it's highly derivative they'll continue to have to pay (royalties). OpenAI/Meta/Anthropic did not pay, that's the inherent issue. They took when they should not have had the right to access, and trained against it.

The question is not the difference between your mythical Martians and humans, its difference between your Martians and AI. Your martians, like humans, have lived experience. They have emotions, fears, beliefs. They have family, children, loved ones. This all affects how they would express themselves. An "AI" has none of this.

A musician doesn't just pull from their life's experience "of music" to create music. They pull from their entire lived experience, their emotions, the experiences and emotions of their community and world.

An "innocent" AI cannot and does not have any of that. To say all a musician does to create new music is "listen to [existing] music" is reductive and ignores the inherently human expression that is music.

Yes, they're also currently $2 billion dollars in debt and are attempting to split into 3 separate companies.

"Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends" - The legal successor to Embracer. For their triple A studios and major ip rights (they currently own the rights to LOTR-based games)

"Coffee Stain & Friends" - For their indie studios. (Named after their most successful indie studio, the people behind Goat Simulator and Satisfactory)

Asmodee - Their board and card game group. They took out a 900 million euro "financial agreement" with Embracer to pay back part of their debts. Officially a separate entity as of February.

[0] https://embracer.com/releases/embracer-group-announces-its-i...

FYI, the Minecraft Fandom wiki is no longer maintained. The new wiki is https://minecraft.wiki/w/Yggdrasil

No? The concept of purchasing images online has existed long before NFTs

Ignoring the copyright issues, credit issues, and any ethical concerns... this approach doesn't work for anything not in the "database", it's not AGI and the tangential experience is barely relevant to the article.

The American government is actively working to move its communication exclusively to Twitter.[0]

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-r...

> If Dylan won, notch would would leave him alone and let him keep hosting the site.

Small correction, Dylan always planned to take the site down. They were playing for Minecraft capes[0] for him and his two teammates. The original livestream of the match is still up on Twitch also.[1]

[0] Cosmetics that used to be very rare and only given out by devs or at MineCon

[1] https://twitch.tv/videos/38469359

Twitch Streamer/Youtuber Ludwig is currently motorcycling across Japan and has used ChatGPT to help him learn Japanese for the last ~year (he previously had a tutor before that). ChatGPT told and repeatedly reassured him a common phrase for a more grateful thank you is あなたの助けに恩に着る which a native speaker (I am not) explained is "some Samurai shit" for being indebted to you. Whenever he uses it in his vlog series, it usually results in a confused reaction or laughs from the recipient.

From your own website;

China: 1,419,320,000

Russia: 144,820,000

World: 8,005,176,000

Russia + China = ~1.56 billion

(Russia + China) / World = 0.195 aka 20% or 1/5 of the world population

Here is a collection of datasets[0] deleted by just the CDC under the Trump administration. Please go through and justify how each is "in pursuit of ideological goals" and "100% should be taken down" in your opinion.

[0] https://archive.org/download/20250128-cdc-datasets

In this case, you would want the Affero General Public License (AGPL) which specifically has a carve-out (in?) for web servers. Section 13, "Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License." [0]

[0] "[...] your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (...) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version"

> The above Wikipedia quote is also contradicted later in the same article, which says that a driver named Louis O’Regan died in 2024.

The list of fatalities is for on the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course which is used by both the Isle of Man TT races and Manx Grand Prix races (the "amateur rider's alternative" to the Island of Man TT). Louis O’Regan died qualifying for the Manx Grand Prix, meaning the 2024 Isle of Man TT was deathless. The list is confusingly combining two races for some reason.

This is already answered right on the about page[0]. AoC is meant to be an educational experience, feeding it directly into a LLM isn't that.

> The leaderboards are for human competitors; if you want to compare the speed of your AI solver with others, please do so elsewhere. (If you want to use AI to help you solve puzzles, I can't really stop you, but I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you.)

[0] https://adventofcode.com/2024/about

> Why isn't the accessibility software good enough to not make the devs go extra steps on projects that are clearly not meant for everyone?

Is it not an extra step to intentionally hide the scroll bar? And thus, simply no extra work to just... not? Scrolls bars are a convenient feature for all users, nobody is judging the appearance of your website around how it looks with a scroll bar.

Polygon is owned by Vox Media and still pulls an estimated 15m+ monthly visitors per Similarweb. Kotaku is owned by G/O Media, a dying media company that has recently sold both its namesake sites Gizmodo and the Onion. But either way, does not warrant any sort of flagging of Polygon's content.

The Library of Congress does currently archive limited collections of the internet[0]. They have a blog post[1] breaking down the effort, currently it's 8 full time staff with a team of part time members. According to Wikipedia[2], it's built on Heritrix and Wayback which are both developed by the Internet Archive (blog post also mentions "Wayback software"). Current archives are available at: http://webarchive.loc.gov/

[0] https://www.loc.gov/programs/web-archiving/about-this-progra...

[1] https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023/08/the-web-archiving-te...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_archiving_initia...

There are so many beautiful quote I love from the West Wing... but this one stands out for me because of how (a decade off but) shockingly accurate it is.

The replaceable ports are not interfering with the battery. The battery is under the touchpad, not up near the hinge like the ports. [1]

I love my Framework 13. The battery life on it is fine, I'd estimate probably 6-8 hours and charges quickly. The touchpad is quite large which I really enjoy, I believe that's thanks to the 3:2 aspect ratio? It took a second to adjust back from a haptic touchpad to a physical one, but doesn't bother me at all anymore. The arrow keys are a none issue, the half sized up/down arrow is standard on most 13" (and even some 16") laptops I've seen.

[1] https://d3t0tbmlie281e.cloudfront.net/igi/framework/5gFFHIX1...

> It is highly unlikely it will say that, there's 10000x more articles on the fact that he isn't

Except this was an actual response that it was giving. Tweet from a related HN thread ~yesterday on Google search hallucinations: https://x.com/TVietor08/status/1793768913245020502

Those are fundamentally different things. You can tell a joke without understanding context, you can't express emotions if you don't have any. It's a computation model, it cannot feel emotion.

Fallout 3 was unplayable (without mods/patches) on Windows 10 for many years because of its dependency on "Games for Windows Live" from Windows 7

Modern American printings do now include the final chapter. Described on the back cover as "includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess's introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked"".

The "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" introduction is from November 1986. It covers the reasoning behind the shortened American edition[0], Kubrick's film, and his own feelings on the 21st chapter[1]. I think the final paragraph summarizes it well "Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they presumably know or is really a discardable limb. I meant the book to end in this way, but my aesthetic judgement may have been faulty" (Burgess xv).

[0] "I needed money back in 1962, even the pittance I was being offered as an advance, and if the condition of the book's acceptance was also it's truncation - well, so be it" (Burgess x-xi)

[1] "There is no hint of this change of intention in the twentieth chapter. The boy is conditioned, then deconditioned, and he foresees with glee a resumption of the operation of free and violent will. [...] The twenty-first chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation [...] The American version or Kubrickian Orange is a fable; the British or world one is a novel" (xii)

Gen Alpha has barely entered Junior High. Gen Alpha is 2010-Present, at best, putting them in 7th grade in the US.

Personally I use NewNewsWire. Great simple and unobtrusive OSS mobile app.

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

Actually, MotorTrends pulled this exact stunt (Tesla pulling fast car vs fast car) all the way back in 2016 with the Model X vs Alfa Romeo 4C.

Original full video seems to have been deleted but here's a Vimeo re-upload: https://vimeo.com/253258542 MotorTrend's Instragram promoting a short clip of it: https://www.instagram.com/p/BDHcw67Ixw1/