skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One example: Britishfinance/"Ireland as a tax haven"[1]

Summary: A user, Britishfinance (believed to be Paddy Cosgrave, disgruntled founder of the web summit, a major EU tech event that moved from Ireland to Lisbon as the Irish government wouldn't give him what he wanted) spent about a year primarily editing articles related to Ireland to make a link of claims about the country being a tax haven the most prominent feature of them. Case in point, look at the overview for the article on Ireland after the user edited it [2]. It's since been rolled back somewhat by other wikipedia editors who felt that was a disproportionate amount of space given to that discussion.

But Wikipedia isn't so well equipped to handle this kind of dispute.

1. Ireland certainly has benefited from its tax policies, including both competitive but undisputed to be the right of the country, like having a lower corporate headline tax rate than its neighbours, and

2. Ireland has been involved in tax loopholes, such as the now defunct double irish/dutch sandwich stuff

3. You can find sourced articles for all of this.

So at what point does putting this information as the most prominent information in a wide variety of Ireland related articles cross from being just adding facts to encyclopedia articles to being politically motivated? When one side is an active wikipedia admin and the other side is a bunch of casual editors or users who don't edit, who gets the benefit of the doubt?

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/bgyfet/til_theres_...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Republic_of_Irela...
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I've had the same thing. I got the hang of it with peaceful mode, and launched the rocket :)

Then I went back and tried with biters there, and enjoyed it. There is definitely an extra element with them present.

Every time I start a game now, I customise it and keep the biters, but make them weaker and less aggressive so they're not a constant pain in the arse, but still present.

I totally get the anxiety around "things piling up", but that is something you learn how to deal with. One of the things I found useful is the concept that a stockpile sitting on a conveyor belt is as valid as a sitting in a chest. And rate-limiting production by "there's no more room on the belt" is also perfectly valid.

It does get more fun when you get to the flying robot stage, and there's a screen full of whizzing robots making everything happen.
There's an extension called Epiverse that does something similar. It used to have its own comment sections like Dissenter, but has since shifted to just showing discussions on reddit/HN that point to the webpage you're currently on. It's actually how I discovered HN.
I really didn't enjoy the game with the biters turned on, but absolutely loved it when I switched to peaceful mode. There are enough problems to sort out without them, like "why do I suddenly not have enough iron plates", or "why do I suddenly not have enough copper plates", or my personal favourite, "why do I suddenly not have enough iron plates again"!
How would they be faster than microwave / laser terrestial towers, that already travel around the great arc?
Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims
Except that you're talking about a completely different situation - Microsoft was attacked for defaulting their browser in their operating system, which had majority market share.

This isn't really the case with Chrome though - on Windows, I keep having my browser reset back to Edge with fullscreen ads, on macOS the default browser is Safari (and it keeps spamming me with notification advertisements to use it), on Android the default browser on most US devices is Samsung Browser...

It's hard to argue that Google is really abusing people to use Chrome when there's an uphill battle on every single popular platform for users to actually install it.

If Google is really pushing an inferior product, how will you argue for antitrust when the users need to go out of their way to use Chrome on pretty much every platform except ChromeOS? What's the equivalent antitrust argument here?

"Google doesn't want to freely give their server capacity to anyone for server-driven features" doesn't really make for a strong argument. How do we structure the argument here? "This browser is very popular so it needs to be taken away from its developers"?
People do and people do. The first person to jump on this will get thousands of retweets in publicity as others pile on to get justice.

Of course, there’s no “justice” to speak of if you get stuff for free, so paid social is where it’s at. Paying customer to service provider relationship is radically different from one of a product-to-dealer.

Normalising free service is exactly what incumbent de-facto monopolies want, it empowers them and destroys any potential for competition. They hate paying users because that’d mean actual responsibility and people voting with their money.
Correct, it sounds like they are getting the AR using a 'passthrough' mode stitched together from the multiple cameras and some sensor fusion to give you an eye-level perspective live video feed they can manipulate with all manner of neat effects.

Wearing an HMD is always going to disconnect your attention from where you are and teleport it to someplace not shared by those around you, there is no way around that and it's not a bug either. AR just makes that separation a little fuzzier.
Part of me is happy about their decision to make an expansion because my friends and I can return to this amazing game in a year and enjoy a fresh experience.

But I would have liked to see what else this amazing team could have done. Like maybe a city building simulation game, optimized as well as Factorio? Would have been amazing for sure.
The most prominent project on mozilla.org at time of writing is Mozilla VPN. Pocket also gets substantial screen space dedicated: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/
I live in London. When the pandemic started last year, our street organised themselves into a WhatsApp group and quite quickly majority of the household were on it. Our next door neighbour even made a list of households with the names next to them. Initially it looked OK, as most things when you just getting started. People were offering each other to pick up groceries or some other services in case they can't leave their house,etc. Just for the context, the street is in an affluent area with very high stats on virtually any social measure. Also, most properties are residential houses with only a handful apartment blocks. After only a couple of weeks,if not sooner, the usual patterns started to appear: people were trying to find their position in the group,so organisers, helpers,fools,and other categories started to emerge. People started sharing their nonproblems and asking for help,while subsequently ignoring all the advices given to them. Entire street kept quiet for days about an old campervan parked on the street when someone plastered it with abusive writings,until someone said they don't support that kind of behaviour. Shortly after the entire street joined and made tons of comment on how bad it is. Then people complain about their neighbours without even trying to talk to them. Others pretend they care about some causes,while doing the exact opposite and etc. Eventually the group was getting less and less posts and it got to the point where the street was before the pandemic: quiet, very few know their neighbours 3 houses down the road, social classes,etc. All this on a street with less than a hundred buildings, so I can imagine what larger neighborhoods and groups are like.
100%. As an undergrad in the 90s I came to this conclusion as well. Then when YouTube, Khan Academy, and MOOCs hit critical mass in the 2010s, I could see the beginning of the end. COVID-19 has greatly accelerated the demise of in-person learning, and the fact that colleges continue to charge the same tuition is clear evidence that what they're selling isn't education, it's credentialling.
For even bigger, you can find plenty of Android tablets with SIM slots.
Most providers these days round up to the next full bit, though. Some even charge by the byte!
In that vein, I'd suggest Radio Paradise. Also add free, listener supported, and has been streaming amazing mixes for over 20 years.

https://radioparadise.com/
"Nowadays, the most common way to integrate a third-party into your website is either to just paste its `<script>` snippet somewhere in your code, or use some "Tag Management" software (awful name!) like Google Tag Manager, Tealium, or even a tool like Segment"

I feel that this is misleading? Why would I use Zaraz over e.g. Segment? If I am not mistaken, Segment offers Connection Modes which essentially allow you to move the computation and execution of third party scripts sich as analytics and tracking pixel to the server side?

I'd like to understand how you compare to Segment and what your actual USPs are.
And they even have talks on how to run a big virtual conference and some lessons learned :

* https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/matrix_communities/
* https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/jitsi_scaling/
* https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/vircadia/
Stockholm syndrome is not even a real diagnosis. But it is pretty clear form the story that Jobs was abusive towards his employees and the employee tries to justify and rationalize this. Call that what you will.
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Not only are magistrates elected in my state, but they aren't required to have a law degree nor pass the bar. They take a short training course and test. In this case the original magistrate was arrested for gambling with campaign money, perjury, etc. The second magistrate was a retired cop and former police chief. Needless to say he was hostile to the defense the entire time while not questioning anything the trooper said, even stuff that was blatantly false.
Yet neither you or op seem concerned of being killed by the police for no reason, like it happened to many. Perhaps you are in the demographic that wouldn't be shot by a cop but could still be judged unstable by a medical professional.
Of course Wikipedia has some unique problems due to its fundamental structure, but on the whole it is roughly as accurate as other Encyclopedias [1]. But not every study agrees [2]. See also [3]. It seems to be also be field dependent, and I have to say that personally, as a mathematician, I have never seen anything wrong in any article about mathematics.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/438900a

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249362832_Compariso...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
Cops who do the right thing are punished by their fellow cops, look up what happened to the real Serpico.
What is your argument here? That we already work with state machines implicitly in UI code so there's no point in making it explicit with a library? That Svelte's reactive mechanics are so good that it doesn't make sense to use an external library even if it is specialized for modelling things as a state machine?

Because I agree with you that Svelte is great and reactive programming is powerful but if you had a problem that looked and acted like a state machine, why you wouldn't just use a state machine? And if someone had a library ready to go that managed it for you, so much the better.
> factorio is vastly superior in regards of gameplay

I dare say Factorio is the best game in the genre!
> We should not create an extra judicial system that has no checks and balances

You should be way more concerned about police brutality then.
The Atlantic: Liberals Are Choosing Convenience over Workers
> I strongly recommend reading Michael Collins's memoir Carrying the Fire

Can confirm. Read it a couple of months ago and decided it was the best of the Apollo-era biographies and autobiographies that I've read.
I know you are being factious, but it is much worse than Electron apps. One advantage of JavaScript's focus on smaller libraries and aggressive tree shaking at build time is that it is pretty good at only shipping code that is actually called.

In the python world you have to do all the work by hand. I've literally spend time copying and pasting code out of libraries and into my code just so that my build wouldn't balloon by 100MB because I wanted to call a 100 line function.
Maybe Linux distribution specific builds of Chromium isn't a good idea, instead there should just be Chromium distributions, e.g. https://brave.com?
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I think one of the best parts of this game are some of the unique multiplayer mods that exist. If development was to focus on creating some really fun and polished multiplayer mods that would attract 50+ people continuously to each game, I'd happily pay a monthly/annual subscription. It's a shame though that typical multiplayer numbers are fairly low in the order of 20-40 players in each of the top 2 games, then 10-20 games averaging 5 players, and hundreds of empty games. I wonder what it could be like with a multiplayer tower defence style game with 100+ players, or with 5-10 innovative and fun multiplayer game types all filled with enough players to make each game viable?

There are plenty of mods in this game that increase the number of resources, buildings, technologies, etc by a factor of 5 or more and I personally find this is far too complex and takes the fun out of the game and makes it too repetitive and clinical. Fragmenting the small-ish user community between "base game" and "DLC game" would possibly make the multiplayer experience non-existent due to low player numbers.
How I spend $500 per day because of a misconfiguration
A computer with that long lifespan will also help a lot of people with diseases such as Alzheimer's. Its becomes really hard to cope with the ever changing operating systems as one gets older.
This is pretty similar to the 90s/00s situation with Internet Explorer! It's an apt metaphor; IE6 emerged as dominant at the conclusion of the first browser wars. Chrome is today's IE6.
Denmark to build 'first energy island' in North Sea
I'm a Chelsea fan, but I don't think this belongs here unless you have some sources on Tuchel using new data analysis techniques for strategy or something.
My feeling about this (and a lot of the similar games: opus magnum, spacechem, etc), is mixed.

I like the idea of them, but I don't actually enjoy playing them. They feel so much like programming that I generally just go and actually work on programming projects. That way I get the same problem solving challenge, and the end result is something I can actually use.

Why would I want to spend time solving made up problems when I can solve real problems in my hobby projects?

These days, the games I find myself enjoying are games with a interesting story, or that are mechanically fun to play (e.g. twin stick shooters and similar).
It's entitled to demand someone provide that, or be "lazy". Inform yourself - checkout said users post on stack exchange.
Every Chromium user needs to understand that Chromium is a Google project, and Google like to sacrifice a random project once in a while (don't be evil huh?).

I'm completely unaware of how Google handle these decisions internally, but from the point of view of an outsider they are trying to optimize their resources and output as much as possible. If some service is not extremely successful and profitable, and it's being actively maintained, someone at Google will eventually suggest to move on to other stuff.
About the DoD, I think Starlink will be beneficial as UAVs will be able to stream with less latency and higher quality, which eventually means better targeted democracy.
> DLCs fragment the community

Some games allow all players playing the DLC if the host has it installed. I think this is a nice way of doing it without fragmentation.
I played and completed this game a couple months ago also after first playing the tutorial/demo levels.

I feel like the demo levels were setup to teach to to fear and deal with the biters. As a result when I played the real game they were no big problem in the early game because I immediately invested in building walls and appropriate armaments. In the demos I felt like they were too much to handle and too easily overpowered me.

In the real game things are staged so the biters are initially weak, far away, and attack infrequently giving you plenty of time to prepare for them. Biters causing damage disproportionate to my ability to blink off just wasn't a problem in the real game for me. They caused more damage over time, but by the time they did I had endless supplies of the things they were breaking and automated repair, etc.

Once I automated defences (and cleared out nearby nests-- which kind of acts like a useful arcade minigame with its own strategic elements-- e.g. inching turret outposts closer to the nests), it's unusual that biter attacks took any of my attention at all -- maybe just a glance on the map if it told me something other than a wall had been destroyed.

Later in the game, pressure from the biters created logistic challenges that kept the game interesting. Basically when you've mastered the ratios and the supply chains, and deployed logic to balance your fluids, and whatever-- the game can get a little grindy without some kind of hazard here and there. And keeping the weapons/repair supply chains satisfied at your outposts is a significant engineering challenge itself.

Some people I've seen complaining about the biters I think didn't play the tutorial/demo levels and were just caught completely by surprise by them and massively under-invested in defence/offence.

As you note-- there is peaceful mode. From reading the subreddit I understand some number of people run without the biters. I believe there are also settings you can adjust to make them less of a problem without turning them off completely.

I found that some of those stressed you experienced get better as I went on, because I learn how to fix them ("oh, this again?") and aren't too starved for the basic resources needed to do so. Some tools, like construction robots also make some annoying problems a LOT easier to deal with.

I felt I'd basically mastered the game once my solution to a problem in an area could be to sweep it with the demolition tool, remove everything, than rapidly churn out some novel blueprints, tile them all over the place... then be back up in running quickly and not feel like I was losing anything by wiping away the prior work.
This work should be put in the wikipedia list of outsider art[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_outsider_artists
Hoping to hear back about sessions soon. I submitted one, and while I have a script, I'd like to refine & practice it iff I'm going to be presenting.
You can even fork an individual formula by creating a tap, adding the one formula you disagree with, and customize it to your heart’s content.

The only drawback is that the Homebrew organization won’t support, update, or build bottles for, custom taps.
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Hey, very interesting work!

CPython is build in C. Can you differentiate through that? I.e. then Python programs also become differentiable? Similar as JAX.

How much control do you have about the gradient? In some cases, it can be useful to explicitly define a custom gradient, or to stop the gradient, or to change the gradient, etc.

Can you define gradients on integral types (int, char)?
Nonsense. Since nothing can be perfect then we shall never change anything. Makes sense?
Which is also referenced in the fifth paragraph of the article: https://lwn.net/Articles/843607/#:~:text=this%20brief%20noti...
That includes violent criminals being shot out of self defense. I wonder what the stat is for murder by cops when the victim didn’t have a deadly weapon.
I think what they are doing is more than fair.

It's basically them saying we consider that the next version we will ship corresponds to the work we promised (which is more than true).

Now, they want to extend this base game and are announcing that they will come back in a while with an extension. There is no subscription shenanigan, no weird trickery with you surrendering your data. They sold us something and delivered and will now work to offer another thing at a price of their choosing. Something that people will be able to buy it if they do desire and knowing what they are buying.

That seems refreshingly straightforward and honest to me.
You can still pay for Encyclopædia Britannica if you really want to.
Why don't you use a T9 keyboard anymore ?
That's the exact opposite of my plee. If you're drawing graphics to the screen or something else that's dependant on being colour accurate, then what you say is fine. But the overwhelming majority of CLI tools aren't. My point was that for regular command line / TUIs, the programmer should not chose specific colours and instead respect the terminal preferences of the users. Terminal preferences differ wildly and you may quickly find people cannot use your terminal app because it is unreadable on their terminal.

You'd be surprised just how wildly different some peoples preferences are. For example I know of people who choose different colour schemes for a DB server (red background) vs a web server (green background). Or a dev server vs prod server. Myself, I choose a non-black background due to dyslexia (coloured background are easier for me to read than black backgrounds). Others might have chosen a non-default background colour to reduce eye strain.

CLI don't need to be artistically brilliant and for a great many people it's an essential productivity tool. So please don't impose your preferences onto others. If developers want to add their own design flair to UIs then they can expose a HTTP endpoint as well, or even an optional "--true-colour" flag or similar environmental variable. But if they want to release a UNIX-like CLI tool then please stick to 8+bright colours by default.

## TTYs

Also, while one this topic, if anyone does add colours by default (even if it is just the 8+bright) then also please check that the output terminal is a TTY. If it isn't then please don't output any ANSI escape sequences at all. This is so that your application works being piped. eg

# foo's STDOUT is a TTY
$ foo

# foo's STDOUT is not a TTY
$ foo | grep bar

In the later example, if you're not detecting whether STDOUT is a TTY and subsequently not including ANSI escape sequences then `grep` (et al) will receive them and that could cause weird behaviour in the subsequent applications (I do appreciate there are occasions when you do specifically want to pipe ANSI escape sequences. But those occasions are less common than the UNIX norm of auto-disabling escape sequences when STDOUT != TTY).
> they will have a hit.

This right here is Appleism.

And why wouldn't Occulus, HTC, Magic leap or big boy Microsoft have a hit?
That's not a great comparison. The free stuff like Wikipedia is supported through donations. In theory, if you're using it then you should also be donating a little to it.

I think if you are using a service/site run by a for-profit company, then it's probably fair to assume that they are making money off you somehow.
I'm guessing that means personalized search autocomplete from the url bar.
I helped restoring JK Rowling official website [1] from 004 to 2010, which was entirely in Flash. It was a reproduction of her desktop / house, with a lot of fun sections, secrets, easter, eggs. After years rebuilding it (with swf files, decompiling them to understand the Ajax calls, etc), browsers announced they were going to stop supporting Flash, so all the hard work was almost useless (a few people saw it and loved it, though).

I tried Ruffle but unfortunately it still doesn't support all the original Flash features, so most of the website is unusable yet. But I wait for the way when they complete it and the website can be browseable again.

[1]: https://www.therowlinglibrary.com/jkrowling.com/en