skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.”

Richard Perle, chair
The Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board
July 11, 2002

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/who-said-war-would...

"Iraq remains a destabilising influence to... the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East. Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export programme to manipulate oil markets. This would display his personal power, enhance his image as a pan-Arab leader... and pressure others for a lifting of economic sanctions against his regime. The United States should conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq including military, energy, economic and political/diplomatic assessments. The United States should then develop an integrated strategy with key allies in Europe and Asia, and with key countries in the Middle East, to restate goals with respect to Iraqi policy and to restore a cohesive coalition of key allies."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/m...
I think you’re confusing group rationality with individual rationality. There is never an individual incentive not to be individually rational, by definition. Bad Nash equilibria, in game-theoretic terms.
Preferences do not need to be rationally justified; without axiomic preferences, we have no preferences at all.
I recall a particular incident where Waymo was marketing their car being able to drive a blind man to a drive-thru, way before the thing could safely drive more than a mile on it's own. My understanding is that in 2021, it still can't navigate parking lots (which would preclude using it for drive-thrus).

Later, they were talking about how sophisticated their technology was: It can detect the hand signals of someone directing traffic in the middle of an intersection. Funny that a few months later, a journalist got an admission out of a Waymo engineer that the car wouldn't even stop at a stoplight unless the stoplight was explicitly mapped (with centimeter-level precision) so the car knew to look for it and where to look for the signal.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/08/28/171520/hidden-ob...

The article is seven years old at this point, but it's also incredibly humbling in how much bull- Waymo puts out, especially compared to the impressions their marketing team puts out. (Urmson's son presumably has a driver's license by now.)

In at least one scenario, the former Waymo engineer upset he had failed to kill anyone yet ("I’m pissed we didn’t have the first death"), caused a hit-and-run accident with a Waymo car, and didn't report it to authorities, amongst other serious accidents: https://www.salon.com/2018/10/16/googles-self-driving-cars-i... Said star Waymo engineer eventually went to prison for stealing trade secrets and then got pardoned by Donald Trump. Google didn't fire him for trying to kill people, they only really got upset with him because he took their tech to Uber.

I'd say Waymo has a storied history of dishonesty and coverups, behind a technology that's more or less a remote control car that only runs in a narrow group of carefully premapped streets.
> I'd argue that giving users high quality answers to their Google searches

A lot of people have seen this argument. That's why every google search on a technical topic is now polluted by blogs describing "how to do X with Y" that are written either to sell Y, or for pure self promotion.

Unfortunately said blogs are useless for the advanced user since 90% are just a beginner's tutorial with info that i could have figured out from the docs in 2 minutes.

Yet another marketing strategy that failed the nerds...
That's a source that Iraq has oil. What is your claim?

I often see it claimed that the US for some reason wanted Iraqi oil. I just haven't seen evidence for this.
For hiring software devs, I don't care about soft skills on a CV. If I'm concerned, I'll pull that thread in an interview. I'd much rather see those traits demonstrated rather than claim you have them and fall short of my expectations.

Recently, I've also seen people put progress bars for soft skills on a CV, as if they're close to mastering the skill or at least levelling up. It normally takes up a lot of space and is virtually meaningless.
> Free browsers typically make their money from search engine royalties.

Please name names and map them to that.

I know that Chrome is owned by Google. I also know that Firefox makes money from Google for having it as the default search engine. I configure my browser to use DDG. How is your product any better in terms of preserving my data?
Maybe because it's fun to cheer on a TV war from a barstool (USA! USA!). The early parts of a war, especially when fighting an incompetent enemy, make for great entertainment.

Western countries aren't ruthless enough to really win wars in the Third World. They should think less like Rome and more like Byzantium. But those opening scenes look amazing.

I can't answer your question though, so I'll leave it at that. Maybe it's the wrong question. Probably best to ask simply for 'people' who supported regime change as opposed to a straightforward trackdown and punishment of guilty parties.

For instance, at this point I'd probably place George Bush at the progressive end of the political spectrum, or at least as an ally. A lot of people have changed their seating position in the last five years.

As usual, James Howard Kunstler has an opinion regarding Afghanistan, a person could argue that the shadow of the CCCP looms over the US. History doesn't repeat, it rhymes:

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/strange-days-ahead/
The UK launches public enquiries for these sorts of failures. Calls are being made for one now, i think. Is there any equivalent in America?
Do they do this even in their EU stores?

If so, is there any source showing that? I'm sure some of the DPAs would be excited to hear about a company using biometrics, likely in violation of Art. 9 GDPR.
Seeing as Symbian descended from EPOC32, the later Nokia Commicators are kinda Psion Series 5s with radio. Of course the mad multiple UI layers Symbian had means they aren't software compatible...
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The Fall of Afghanistan Shows the Failure of Democracy
Reverse Vesting Protects You
We have empirical data showing how safe actual level 2 self driving cars are in practice. So there’s no reason to work from base assumptions. Yes, level 2 self driving cars cause avoidable accidents, but overall rate is very close to the rate people do. The only way that’s happing is they are causing and preventing roughly similar numbers of accidents.

Which means people are either paying enough attention or these self driving systems are quite good. My suspicion is it’s a mix of both, where people tend to zone out in less hazardous driving conditions and start paying attention when things start looking dangerous. Unfortunately, that’s going to cause an equilibrium where people pay less attention as these systems get better.
> I’m a tech guy, not a military guy. And in terms of the kind of tech I’m into it’s that weird decentralized crypto tech like Bitcoin, not SaaS.
Unfortunately it will stop working some time in the 656th century.
Disaster in Afghanistan Will Follow Us Home
Correct, that is exactly what I was referring to. Back in the old days of addons to Firefox it used to be possible there as well.

Vieb looks cool, but I've already learned Vimium and likely won't switch. Same as with screen and tmux. Maybe tmux is better, but why do I have to learn a tool every 15 years, right?

UI of Vieb is gorgeous. So slick, restrained. Love it.
CSS Grid Tooling in DevTools
Guess you never heard of the 4 or 5 Ps of marketing? Because the first P is "Product".

Product, Price, Placement, Promotion.

I think you're mistaking "marketing" as only referring to "Promotion".
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A lot of this functionality can be done by using multiple windows in Safari. Drag a tab out into its own window: boom! split browsing. (But in Safari I'm not limited to 2)

I use that a lot for the same use-case as the "sub pages" here: drag a tab into its own window, then command-click to my heart's content. When I'm done, the whole window gets closed. (Also this is without even using tab groups)

And Apple's Handoff already does the work of maintaining a seamless browsing experience between devices.

I do wish you luck and hope you find some true value differentiators.
> the goal is to do better

Why is that "the" goal?

Who sets "the" goal?
>we will see L4 in some major metro areas in the US by end of this decade

I think you're far more likely to see L4 on limited access highways in good weather. A robotaxi service in a major city seems much more problematic given all the random behavior by other cars, pedestrians, cyclists, etc. and picking up/dropping off people in the fairly random ways that taxis/Ubers do. (And you'll rightly be shut down 6 months for an investigation the first time you run over someone even if they weren't crossing at a crosswalk.)

And for many people, including myself, automated highway driving would actually be a much bigger win than urban taxi rides which I rarely have a need for.
You can change your DNS provider without changing the registrar.
I don't think a novelty résumé needs to be so conventional, people will mostly, in my opinion, either dislike it for not following layout/organisation conventions or look past all that altogether.
> It was Windows 98 that ruined the experience and thrill of "going to the network", because Microsoft decided that the web and the local desktop should merge into a single, seamless experience.

One weird side effect of this was that Internet Explorer and Explorer itself were integrated. At a time, you could set your desktop wallpaper to an HTML page. There were even "HTML apps" introduced around the same time* which I believe is still being somewhat continued today for Windows 10 widget development

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
> but conveniently trying to avoid letting anyone judge for themselves

Do you believe that your mind may be doing some interpretation (with or without "your" knowledge) in the formation of this conclusion?
What do you think will be easier to do by then: More port numbers, or a new calendar?
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You are spot-on! Back when I was an anesthesiology research fellow (U.C.L.A. Department of Anesthesiology, 1979) I was first author on a number of papers resulting from my experimental work. As was expected and routine, I passed my manuscripts on to my research director for editing. Invariably he'd make changes each time I submitted a freshly typed revised draft. One day I noticed he'd changed some things back from the way he'd revised them to my original wording. From then on, I submitted papers for publication when I felt they were ready. And they were accepted for publication.
> Slap "google" on an open source tool and it'll get 50x uptake, for instance.

"Used to". These days i'd think "how long till they cancel it?" instead.
The usage as a noun is quite well established outside tech. For example, in finance, market prices are called Asks and Bids. In the game of cricket, the target score for the team batting second is also called Ask.
At this point it's history: because China borders with Afghanistan and has a primary interest in the stability of the region.

Wang Yi (the Chinese Foreign Minister) last July met in Tianjin a delegation of nine members of the Taliban.

He promised support in the reconstruction of Afghanistan and asked them to interrupt links with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, accused to have perpetrated attacks in the Xinjiang. For Beijing, some Jihadist Uiguri would be affiliated with the organization.

Wang promised to make the country part of the new Silk Road, contributing with infrastructure investments (motorways, hydroelectric energy, ...). This would prevent social, political and terrorist instability, while saving an unpleasant military action.
Ideas Generation Hacks
I've added a second quote that more directly addresses the question. But even the first one clearly points to the role of oil in deciding the invasion: there's no need to price the thing out because Iraq has more than enough oil to pay for any and all reconstruction itself. Of course that's going to be a factor in any invasion decision.

In any case, further quote from the second one:

> To this end, as Whitehall documents obtained by the Independent show, the US and British sought to privatise Iraqi oil production with a view to allow foreign companies to takeover. Minutes of a meeting held on 12 May 2003 said:

"The future shape of the Iraqi industry will affect oil markets, and the functioning of Opec, in both of which we have a vital interest."

> A "desirable" outcome for Iraqi's crippled oil industry, officials concluded, is:

"... an oil sector open and attractive to foreign investment, with appropriate arrangements for the exploitation of new fields."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/m...
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Its the goal of the LessWrong/Rationalist community.
It looks awesome!

My main 2 concerns would be :

1. Performance

If it is slow, or a memory hog, like many browser before, that would definitely be a major issue.

2. Privacy

It's 2021, claiming privacy won't cut it anymore. We know the drill.

Do you have have a way to ensure you have no visibility of what people browse? Because else, I am sure you'd become an interesting target for various groups who need or want this data.

Even if you have no interest in using this data, you can be coerced in providing to various bodies, or it can be hacked, which it probably will be, as we can see nowadays with every company with valuable private data.

So the best protection is not have this data on the first place...

Just my 2 cents anyway. Don't listen to people on the Internet :)
There are many things I wish they would do and this isn't at the top of the list for me.
Is the Gym going the way of Blockbuster?
Made for people who (like me) think stuff gets lost on online boards and wiki pages.

Learnt a lot while building it, especially when overcoming hurdles with efficient list updates in DB and streaming them back via websockets.

AMA, technical or not.
Then I'm afraid to say, it reached the UK several years ago. (Perhaps decades.) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ask#Noun definition #2. (Definition #1 is the directly problematic one.)
I agree. I've been in this game 35 years, and it has been true most all that time. The examples in TFA are really all rather recent -- and frankly quite stupid (IMHO). Yak shaving is a thin reference to Ren and Stimpy, but requires complete explanation for it to make any sense; and, when it does, it's just dumb. If an analogy or metaphor requires much explanation, then it really isn't very good. It should 'click'.

But, I go along with it, too. At least the new cliches replace the tired old Star Trek/Wars allusions. Let the new generation have their day.
> I'm sure there are folks who are willing to pay that kind of money for this experience

I hope those folks are aware that Vivaldi gives them the same experience for free.
Well, at least I do have a very strong emotional response to empty marketing. The GP just got the wrong emotion, it's not a hurt ego, it's fear and distrust.

If I go searching for a product, and its marketing material can not answer my questions, I do expect that company (or whoever distributes it) to betray my expectations in a way that will hurt me a lot. Honestly, this feeling has a quite strong empirical foundation, so I'm not a bit ashamed of it and don't imagine it will ever change.
I've watched a number of his videos. He has a hobby of finding old CRT TV's and "resurrecting" them (basically replacing the minimum amount of parts to get them working, the focus being on the diagnosing part). Here's one that he gets to work that he found in the desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZIJQ-cKDs
Serious question: what are you doing (or can you do) to prevent your company from getting sherlocked out of existence?
How to Solve Climate Change
The rational approach is to acknowledge that you do not have sufficient information to proceed, or acknowledge the various assumptions (better word than “belief) that you are using.

If you are using contradicting assumptions, then you should probably check to see if you are doing so because you want the conclusion that you are getting from the assumption.
For me, that was the one gripe that I didnt agree with in the article.

I pretty aggressively manage notifications on my phone. And will selectively disable either the entire thing or the little red bubble depending on their use case.

Also you can clear individual notifications by selecting them or swiping them off. Or you can en-mass delete them, theres an X at the top right of the main banner

For example:

By default most are off. I really dont need notifications from say...Pandora or Zoom or Youtube.

For things that i check, work email, phone calls, texts or chat apps or even TOTP/push like DUO I allow the banners and badges but generally disable sounds.

My kids daycare app that is largely required for basic communication, absolutely abuses the communication feature. Every time a picture is posted you get one, and if they post say...10 you get 10. They ONLY get the bubble, so i know theres something i should check.

This makes it look like theres more work than I put into as well. In general i deny notifications. For those that I want it I allow them and if they abuse it, i simply trim down what is bothering it. Its actually a pretty solid system imho.
I second “bank fraud”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28193639

If a bank extends credit to someone without doing their due diligence, they’ve definitely been defrauded but that’s between them and the crook, not the person the crook was claiming to be.
Ugh, that #444 in the article is horrific to try to read.
It almost certainly is, at least when combined with the intentional inattention that follows.

Making it a crime isn't an "obvious solution" to actually make it not happen. Drunk driving is a crime and yet people keep doing it. Same with texting and driving.
Swindler's Table
https://news.gallup.com/poll/9994/public-opinion-war-afghani...

88% approval in the US in Oct 2001.
right now, its not worth $15 a month, or even $9. I see this as a cash grab from a non supported browsers that is a browser theme.
The interest in regional stability is probably rooted in oil. The U.S. hasn't taken any captured oil fields and sold the oil for themselves, as far as I know, so I think they just want the region to be a stable, predicable marketplace for dead dinosaurs.
>This doesn't seem very rational. If your beliefs are in conflict and you're content to not resolve that, then pretty much by definition you're accepting a logical inconsistency.

This is just my perspective, but very few beliefs or values map to the whole of reality...they tend to bind to certain aspects of it with a variable priority along the spectrum of that particular dimension, wither its personal agency, the color red, public health, spiders, etc.

However, reality rarely provides us with the ability take a position purely on one factor...nearly every context in which a decision is required operates at the nexus of an uncountable number of these dimensions. Some you can feel swelling to the fore as their slope in your mental 'values' model increases, others stay dormant because you don't see how they apply. This is how most of my decisions that might look outwardly 'inconsistent' arise, there are confounding factors that dominate the topology and steer me in a different direction.
This is an unfair answer.

The Second Iraq War was not based on any altruistic motive. If it was, the US would say so, instead of manufacturing evidence for WMDs. We can safely conclude that the actual reasons for the invasions are something that the US government wanted to hide.

Beyond that, the war in Iraq killed more people than Saddam Hussein's genocide, so that justification simply doesn't fly. It's complete bogus, through and through.
The only one here I don't hear frequently is "yak shaving." I use "giving a mouse a cookie" for that.
1Password team rewrote their app to fix internal team communication issues
Breadth and depth

Game communities call them both depth, which is a huge error.

I played an RTS that claimed to have depth because of the insane amount of armor and weapon types. In the end, the armor/weapon strengths & weaknesses were still just rock-paper-scissors. Having hundreds of them just meant you had to look them up on a spreadsheet, in order to make the simple rock-paper-scissors decisions. This is breadth with no depth. Although confusingly, gamers will still call it "depth," not having the distinction of "breadth" in their vocabulary.

Meanwhile simple ancient games like Go can achieve a large amount of complexity with simple rulesets. That's real depth. I think depth is probably hard to invent intentionally.
How would that (specifically targeting children with drones) benefit the US?
Microsoft had .corp as a placeholder for years, intending admins to input their own domains. (Which many promptly never did.) However, I'm not aware of them ever recommending or using .local for anything.
The sign outside is worth something--sadly.
One of my many pet peeves are people who travel to more than a 100 countries to get "experiences". It feels misguided, wasteful, excessive and done to impress others, as a sort of a status symbol. I bet he wouldn't be able to name all those countries and cities that he's been to. A deep and meaningful experience requires way more than a superficial visit.
For someone like this with little experience, being unconventional is probably OK because they aren't being judged by the same criteria as an experienced hire. That said, you can be unconventional and still provide the reader with the basic facts they'd want to know (like 'what are your accomplishments?' or 'did you attend school?').
Biden Outs Intelligence Officials and Locations During Briefing
I haven't tried it myself but DCS supposedly has a fairly accurate helicopter simulator.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/helicopte...
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that even being less wrong is NP-hard.
Also, these cars know the speed limits for the road but let you set cruise control/self driving above the speed limit. Seems like for safety purposes that should not be allowed. Not only are people paying significantly less attention but they also are speeding.
Yeah true - in particular for new / innovative games.

Whereas open source versions of old popular games seem to do very well, because it's less about the surprise and more about the nostalgia. See openra for example.
WiFi calling doesn’t use the device’s VPN settings?

Even if it doesn’t, the poster said they also use a router VPN.
Historian suspended by Facebook after sharing document by Goebbels
Last time I was in a Walmart, it felt like they were doing everything they could to communicate they didn't want me to shop at their store.

* Gates at the main entrances

* Cameras everywhere

* "Security" walking through the store in clearly marked uniforms

* Self checkouts with UX that clearly communicates a lack of trust.
That was my first thought, thinking it was some kind of operating system for neckbeards.

The second thought was if this was some kind of a Motorola spin-off.