skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The initial Iraq invasion was to enforce Kuwaiti sovereignty and stop Saddam's unilateral aggression which was destabilizing the region. We tried bribing him with aid, but he still invaded, so the U.S. kept true to their promise to enforce agreements. The U.S. helped a small country and protected its image.

The second Iraq war may or may not have been WMD based, but Saddam slaughtered hundreds of thousands of mostly Shi'a and Kurdish civilians. Saddam's badness to ease of defeat ratio was probably the highest in the world, making him an easy target. You never know what will replace a bad dictator, but I can see how it would be hard to stand by knowing the guy has killed so many and do nothing.

(Not a conservative, per se, but I try to understand all sides.)
I maintain that it isn't just hard, it is computationally impossible.

We should all know that given a belief about the world, and evidence, Bayes' Theorem describes how to update our beliefs.

But what if we have a network of interrelated beliefs? That's called a Bayesian net, and it turns out that Bayes' Theorem also prescribes a unique answer. However, unfortunately, it turns out that working out that answer is NP-hard.

OK, you say, we can come up with an approximate answer. Sorry, no, coming up with an approximate answer that gets within probability 0.5 - ε, for 0 < ε, is ALSO NP-hard. It is literally true that under the right circumstances a single data point logically should be able to flip our entire world view, and which data point does it is computationally intractible.

Therefore our brains use a bunch of heuristics, with a bunch of known failure modes. You can read all the lesswrong you want. You can read Thinking, Fast and Slow and learn why we fail as we do. But the one thing that we cannot do, no matter how much work or effort we put into it, is have the sheer brainpower required to actually BE rational.

The effort of doing better is still worthwhile. But the goal itself is unachievable.
Trend Micro Office scan says this site is malicious...

I think they compare URLs to popular other domains.
Your view is very, very naive.

> Thousands and thousands of dollars for a BIMI certificate is just ludicrous.

VMCs are between 800 and 1500 USD

> Certificates are certificates are certificates.

The x509 certificate is, but the process to verify your ownership of the supplied 'mark' (your logo) is not.

The VMC issuing procedure is very involved, it requires the CA to confirm with your local trademark office that your company owns the trademark. For VMC the CA is also required to verify (by phone) that the person who requested the VMC does indeed work for the company, they are also required to verify that the person who requested to certificate is allowed by the organization to do so.

The CAs are actually doing work here, there are real costs.

FWIW: Digicert currently sells VMC for a discounted price of 800USD, which they claim is not even economically viable. Without the discount expect VMCs to be ~1500USD.
What we hope to achieve someday is to make this a layer between your operating system and your web apps. Sorry for my pretencious phrasing, but essentially we want to be like an operating system for your web-apps. hope that makes a bit clearer
Suggestion: don't do marketing gimmick like "psst. want to know a secret?" it's very clickbaity and makes me (probably unreasonably) aloof to the whole thing.

I commend the attempt at coming up with a "better" browser, but like others have said, this is too expensive. One time purchase expensive is ok as long as I own a copy of that version forever, but subscription and cloud crap, I'm out. I like the idea of keyboard first and workspaces (haven't tested yet, but hopefully something almost as good as savestate on a VM), but these are things that make me want to try it at least, but not at this price.

Edit: just realized it's only mac OS? Can't use Linux makes me even more out. Good luck though, I don't know who your target market, but it's not people to whom "the browser is a primary tool", but only a minor subset of them.
> That way the company’s Saudi owners could raise investment capital from subsequent “investors” (AKA “suckers”) all the way up to the IPO, cash out, and walk away, whistling innocently.

The rest of the article is debatable but reasonably well-supported with links, but not the thesis. It should be straightforward to link to the SEC Form 4s and other public records showing the pre-IPO investors sold off their significant stakes. Even granting all of the facts below, if this didn't happen, it implies the investors were incompetent rather than malicious.

(I don't mean to imply they did or didn't sell off; I don't know much about Uber's financials. It's just weird to me that an essential point of this argument didn't get easy research.)
most other vegans are not really looking forward to lab grown meat

I've had the same experience. Not vegan myself, but eat mostly vegetarian for health reasons (continue to eat fish and dairy, and a burger every blue moon).

Vegetarian/vegan cooking (whether or not you add dairy and eggs to the mix) can be quite tasty, hearty, and fulfilling on it's own.

I personally hope the "lab meat" stuff is just a stop-gap to get western eaters used to a reduced- or no-meat diet. But, if lab meat ends up economical and environmentally friendly, I'll be happy.
It's an ambitious and admirable goal to be completely logically consistent, but I've given up on that. Sometimes there are two different but consistent stories for the same thing. I get that maybe it doesn't seem rational, but sometimes there's no way to pick between stories.

And, also, sometimes you think you've settled on the right path, but then you later get a new piece of information and have to reevaluate.

So to me it's not so cut and dry.
Ha!

To anyone who believes this, I encourage you to checkout this series of blog posts: https://www.nemil.com/mongo/1.html
I see a lot of comments claiming the right kind of marketing definitely works on nerds, and a lot of incensed "nerds" responding with "not me, not fazed by that stuff."

The first type of comment is looking at the aggregate, including all the people who don't read HN and who are somehow labeled as "nerds." The other type of comment draws conclusions from a sample population of one HN reader and their aggregate behavior over recent memory.

I have definitely been moved by an ad once or twice in the past decade, and may have even made a small purchase because I thought the ad was brilliant. But I wouldn't say I generally respond well to advertising. Isn't this the scale of engagement that marketers expect? Something like ten thousand impressions yield one click?

It seems to me both types of comment are looking at the same behavior through different lenses. Or am I underestimating the effectiveness of ads on other markets?
Nominally 2500 Watts (design power), in practice about 1500 to 2000 Watts, during that gust it maxed out the meter at 5 KW, so no idea how much more but quite a bit more (I never expected that or I would have picked the range a bit different).
I'm working on building it from scratch for SigmaOS :P. Should have it out in a couple weeks!

edit: implementing Chrome extension API. All Chrome extensions will be available :)
Honestly, this just seems like a cheap rip-off of Vivaldi. All of the features(yes, all of them) are already present in Vivaldi, including the split screen, tree style tabs, sync, global search, full keyboard support. Slapping some UI makeup on top of an already existing product does not warrant a hefty fee of $15 in my view.
Also, I don't see any proof that my data is secure. For all I know, you guys will sell off my data after 3 years when this doesn't work out.

>We charge $15 per month, no ads, and no data monetization.
Isn't it kinda strange that a browser is promising us no ads in the UI, for a price? Like, wasn't that already established? I don't see any other browsers that show ads in the UI(regarding the new tab content, you can easily turn them off). This looks like snake oil the more I look at it.

>You can quickly find pages in your history and already-open pages across workspaces.
Have you ever typed anything in a chromium address bar?

Apart from the snooze and done features, tell me one thing that this browser achieves that isn't already available through free, open-source, trustworthy extensions whose code I can see and audit.
Because Bush was saying God is on US's side and we are the good guys.
The Commoditization of Us
This looked innocuous at first glance, but this "antigravity" Easter egg has been found to have security implications.

See "Hacking with Environment Variables", which specifically exploits the antigravity module for arbitrary code execution - https://www.elttam.com/blog/env/#content

Previous HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23828045
There are quite a few professionally manufactured solar TukTuks.
Debian is Arch for the lazy. It's also Arch for the professional who understands the pitfalls of the "rolling" release model.
Even in Europe we don’t have an equivalent to McMaster Carr. We can certainly procure the materials we need, but as far as I know there’s nothing quite practical like that US shop.
I don't disagree but I have to say this absolute reads like a voice-over from an Adam Curtis documentary.
What you’re suggesting is that we need data to improve. But we’ve had data. We knew long ago that many of the decisions around the war on terror were bad ones and/or justified with bad information. Even many veterans who served will tell you we had no business deploying people to some of those areas.

Actionable data isn’t worth very much if you don’t act on it. What we need is accountability. I don’t know how you hold the decision makers behind the war accountable though.
I think there's confusion on "minimalism" the aesthetic choice and minimalism the life-style choice. Real minimalism is about reducing foot-print (both spacial and ecological) to just the necessities and things that bring you joy. "Throw-away-ism" is consumerism wearing a minimalism shaped mask, which is ironic because minimalism is at least partially a rejection of consumerism.
If I was the CEO, instead of thinking i could pull off self-driving cars, I would have gone with some lease/buy/discount program with Tesla and Model 3s - incentivizing an electric fleet as much as possible.

I would have boosted the charging station capacity or invested in quick charger convenience areas.

I would have also invested in partnering quick quickbooks, to have accounting/expense tracking built in or stupid easy.

depreciating assets are normal, but leaving the world to fend for themselves on how to write that expense off was their big problem IMHO
Does “that's a big ask” count?
Geohashing: an outdoor recreational activity inspired by xkcd
> As I remember Elon Musk saying, the best part is no part.

IIRC, the saying originates from Mikhail Koshkin who designed the T-34 tank, often extended with “...but the essential function still performed”.
I think it originated in the older phrase, "that's a big ask."
The details are how you determine whether or not a piece of marketing is bullshit, i.e., an attempt to defraud the viewer. It has nothing to do with ego.
I just learned this myself the other day...

I was looking at the "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" book by Al Sweigart (which admittedly i have not read cover to cover, but rather use it as a reference) for some help with a little polite scraping, and lo and behold the webbrowser module...See chapter 12: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/chapter12/

I have not played much with it yet, but man, python continues to impress me!
Playing with DeFi crypto news try out user experience fun
Because US is hegemon and can essentially do as it pleases without immediate consequence. This is why Russia and China have been focusing on destabilizing the US and minor geopolitical moves to chip away as opposed to directly challenging US authority.
Please do not forget to mix oil in the ratio.
> await await await await

Oh yeah, right, because the first thing that comes to mind when writing bash scripts is "I sure wish there was more 'await' noise in all this code!"

Anyways: 'async' in the Python and Javascript sense was a mistake, future generations will think we were insane to adopt it.

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
Sure, I suppose there are a few pure ascetic folks out there who make all their purchasing decisions like Spock from Star Trek. If you're one of them, good for you.

That's FAR from the norm, however.
This sounds cynical but yes, unfortunately, there are many incentives to not be rational.
> Regardless of what they claim to the contrary, if they had confidence in their safety record, they would've launched it in California, not Arizona.

California only months ago opened up permits for paid robotaxi rides. So no, they couldn't have launched it in CA. If you've noticed, they actually are testing in SF with a permit.

> Waymo has lied about the capabilities of their technology regularly, and for that reason alone, should be assumed unsafe.

What lies? Their CA disengagement miles are for everyone to see, their safety report is open, they have had 0 fatalities in their years of operation. Seems like you just made this up.
Oh, sorry about that!

Hopefully you give it a try when you update eventually :)
maybe this will give me a final push to try it!
> This, technically, gives the President the power to invade the Netherlands without getting (further) approval from Congress.

Insofar as it does that, it gives the President the authority to wage open ended war anywhere on the planet as long as a US citizen is held by the ICC, since the President has sole discretion to determine what means are necessary.

OTOH, that provision is also arguably an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power with no effect whatsoever, since if it delegates anything less than the ability to do anything Congress could allow it isn't specified.

On the gripping hand, the War Powers Act already allows the President to wage war to get a US citizen released from the ICC (and for almost any other reason) anywhere on the planet as long as they ask Congress before too long after starting the war.
Interesting, I assumed it didn't, given the prevalence of stories about driver watching movies on their phones. I guess they just leave one hand lightly on the wheel, but are still able to be ~100% disengaged from driving the car.
Germany already had democratic values and Japan had been formally westernizing for a century prior.
Who questioned him? I’ve only found that racinello interview and my takeaway was that daszak seemed, how to put it, like an atypical sort of scientist with a curious background. Fauci’s response, “I want to say, officially, that you don’t know what you’re talking about” seems consistent with my speculation as to Daszak’s less overt affiliations.
The closest I've found is this one, but it's not what I was referring to: https://ricktu288.github.io/ray-optics/
And: if you have a smartphone in your pocket there will be attempts to couple your smartphone device ID to your mugshots from various angles.
Asking for better accountability doesn’t imply non-Americans getting involved.
I chuckled a bit, but it took me a while to realize what code repository it is from. Chuckled again.
Awaiting on every line is hardly parallelism.
Being at Nokia Networks during that last phase, I could observe in first person how many of those things went.

Nokia used to have internal shows to get employees feedback for future products, Maemo not having a radio modem was a common remark, naturally they couldn't add it due to Symbian.

Also think that Elop gets more blame than he deserves, as many see his connection to Microsoft and not the bonus from Nokia's own management board.

NetAct versus other networking products, also suffered from the same culture issues, by the way.
Well it is not a marketing claim, everything is stored locally on your device for now, and later would be using Apple’s cloud system for cross device syncing. A data breach is very different from us misusing your data or monetizing it to be clear
Grammar nitpick: first person is not a voice.
Clearly not very seriously.

Neither the Secretary of State[1] (whose employees are in peril at the airport) nor Biden[2] has anything on their public schedules.

Also, this is the kind of thing one has to plan for, not wing it and figure it out after the fact.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28197904

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28197884
Me too and I'm a long time Python programmer.
I don't know how Tesla ever presumes to achieve FSD when they cannot detect stopped objects in the road, especially emergency vehicles. This is incredibly disappointing.

Does anyone know if the FSD Beta has this ability?
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Hey there! Thanks for your comment :)

Here’s my take on tab groups (Safari) vs workspaces (SigmaOS): they seem similar, but they feel very different.

e.g.

• you don’t always see all your tab groups = no behaviour change, people will still pile up tabs they don’t need. Think of Slack: when you’re done with a workspace, you delete it. But if you’re done with a tab group, you just leave it there to clutter your browser, like many people do with Bookmarks.

• you don’t need to work from tab groups = most people won’t organise their work, and still feel overwhelmed

We’re trying to rethink the UX of how to work on browsers. It’s not just about the indidividual features. So what are you missing?

• Every page / web-app is like a task on a to-do list. You can mark it as done, snooze it for later, or move it to another workspace

• SigmaOS' keyboard shortcut system is designed to make you feel fast and still allows you to use shortcuts on web-apps

• When you do research and command-click on pages, they open as "sub-pages" showing you where you come from

• You can rename your pages to organize yourself and find them faster

• Split screen is really awesome for multitasking (but you knew that) :)

All in all, it can be difficult to explain how different it is, without trying it out. It would be great if you could try it out and give us feedback :) Really curious what you think!
WiFi calling
I don't really agree, the point is to provide high-level abstractions that hide a bunch of complexity. But even in a high-level non-functional language, there's not a lot of friction in terms of the model of the language vs the hardware. An array of ints in java is basically 1:1 to the underlying continuous, mutable block of memory.
That's fair. My Latin is non-existent, and I clearly was too eager to look at example source instead of reading the description. I'll take my criticism and walk away.
What do you think about having a versioned "science stack" for various disciplines? Genomics, Neuroscience, Astronomy, Condensed Matter, Materials Science, etc. It would be somewhat prescriptive, but if you stay on the ~~rails~~ (not a put, not intended), happy path, then a lot of your needs and choices are made for you.

Everything is containerized. All the batteries are included. Each commit also records all the tests to assists in any upgrades that might occur over the life of the project.

The stacks would be versioned, but also include a mechanism to update individual components w/o breaking the whole system. The root-node containers would have source, and one should be able to "rebuild world", so we aren't relying on cached packages from a distro that is long dead. I am trying to revive some software that was last installable on Debian 4.

The whole workflow's ultimate product is a paper and an executable notebook in a way that is easily reproducible by anyone. The full software stack is rebuildable from scratch using only source (like a FreeBSD build world). One should be able to take a paper from an archive 50 years from now and recreate a bit for bit copy using one command.
I can't seem to open the game; the site keeps on loading; is there any fix for this one? I'm looking forward to trying the game.
I think it's called JavaScriptCore? It's Apple's and works with WebKit.
Isn't that a non-issue since a few years ago, because google/apple put in mac randomization?
What made you decide to build it from scratch? By following a different system you're leaving a lot of free work on the table. For example, I extensively use Vimium, Dark Reader, Stylus, TamperMonkey, and LastPass. By doing it from scratch, all of those extensions would need to be re-implemented in the SigmaOS API. I love the idea of SigmaOS but I can't abandon Chrome/Firefox if I can't have LastPass, for example.
On the contrary to your overall point: The fatal crash rate per miles driven is almost 2 times higher in rural areas than urban areas. Urban areas may have more accidents, but the speeds are likely lower (fender benders).

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/urban...
Correct. It's not (primarily) a training thing, but used to ensure the driver is driving and not sleeping/watching movies/whatever.
No, there’s also the possibility of inheritance.
Full self driving is one of those things where getting 80% of the way there will take 20% of the effort and getting the remaining 20% of the way there will take 80% of the effort.

Tesla auto-drive seems like it's about 80% of the way there.
Studying logical fallacies and behavioral economics biases have been the best ways for me to become more rational. I'm constantly calling myself out for confirmation bias, home country bias, and the recency effect in my internal investment thought process.

Learning about logical fallacies and identifying them in conversations is great. Don't tell the counterparty of their logical fallacies in conversations cause that's off putting. Just note them internally for a more rational inner dialogue.

Learning other languages and cultures is another way to learn about how different societies interact with objective truth. Living other places taught me a lot about how denial works in different places.

Thinking rationally is quite hard and I've learned how to abandon it in a lot of situations in favor of human emotions. How someone feels is more important than how they should feel.
Will changes such as machine-readable road markings, car to car communications, and traffic management systems make this happen quicker.

For example, couldn't emergency vehicles could send out a signal directly to autonomous vehicles or via a traffic managagemnt system to slow down or require the driver to take over when approaching. An elementary version of this is Waze which will notify you of road hazards or cars stopped on the side of the road.
Does it have/use emergency braking in case of danger, if you don't use self-driving?
OK. So the things under google GitHub organization are personal projects for which googlers didn't bother to get the permission?
Phones have become so important in our lives. In 1996, you never needed the internet to do anything, as our society was based on other technologies. People could live their lives without the internet, or even without a mobile phone and it would be no problem at all.

Now the internet, and increasingly mobile internet is becoming the default way of accessing almost any service, so having a phone that works for you is something that people are ready to pay for. You end up using it so much, that people feel like it's not a waste of money.
Yes, they're very annoying. I'm working on implementing extensions ASAP so you can use those on SigmaOS (or maybe even built-in natively? ;p)
1 down 9,996,480 to go on the shallow-web. Seems like nintendo got tricked by their genius lawyers. Well played legal eagles. Once the rom data is added to blockhain nintendo will cry. <---Hint
This is common the world over. What is not common the world over is that there is this thing called exceptionalism which America uses to tell itself that they are the good guys in everything they do and in general better at everything they do. This is something I haven't experienced anywhere else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism