skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Does this mean that experts, as a group, are liars who shouldn’t be trusted? No."

That's a bit of a silly answer, isn't it? Lies necessarily undermine confidence in what someone is saying. It would be _foolish_ to continue to put the _same_ trust in that person as if nothing happened, at least until they've regained that trust. I'm not saying you wouldn't hear that person out if practical reasons made that sensible, but you'd do so with a greater skepticism than before. People in positions of authority must be especially careful as they are like the city on a hill. They are under the greatest scrutiny and their actions are also most capable of producing scandal and rotting the proverbial fish from head to tail

"Which brings me to the reason experts should be more reluctant to lie to the public: They aren’t experts on the topic of when to lie."

There is no appropriate scenario when lies are morally acceptable. I realize the author is operating according to some utilitarian calculus, but utilitarianism is a bankrupt and morally pernicious moral theory. Lying is not just wrong because it has bad effects, which it most certainly does and some of which have been described by the author, but also because it is intrinsically wrong. It perverts speech which is intrinsically ordered toward telling the truth (lies couldn't work otherwise). It is an act of power and domination. You don't always have to. or even must not, tell the truth, or you may in some cases engage in mental reservation, but never lie. And in the case of Fauci & Friends, I am not convinced that he could not have achieved the same thing without lying.

And frankly, Fauci would not be responsible for how people reacted anyway if he acted rightly. That's another thing that needs to be stated. Authorities shouldn't be totalitarian and coercive overlords. If an authority makes a sound recommendation, and people choose to ignore it and this leads to bad results, that's on those people, not the authority. If you take your ego down a notch, acknowledge your own limited power and the limits -- epistemic, practical, and moral -- of your authority, then you'll understand that society isn't "run" by its leaders. Society exists on its own and leaders play more a guidance role. You job isn't to secure some end result at all costs. That's dehumanizing and treats citizens as if they lacked personhood and personal responsibility.

"the same mistake so many smart people make — that because they’re smart about one thing, they’re smart about everything."

A general truth. People well-versed in one area are easily tempted into thinking they're competent in all areas.

"Think of them as an overprotective parent, not as an enemy."

An overprotective parent thus becomes an enemy, as in, their good intentions do not bless their actions and their infantilizing treatment is itself harmful. Besides, when people find out they're being infantilized, they cease to trust you and begin to suspect evil motives. So if you're going to frame lying as a practical matter, then at least be consistent and accept the consequences of your actions.
And statista.com contribute to it as they share cookies with Facebook after their cookie manager. Unless you click on the small text "Confirm my choices" instead of the big blue button.
Why does Windows use backslashes for paths and Unix forward slashes? (2010)
There is no strongly-held opinion anywhere in the world that you can't play that rhetorical trick on, which may be why there are whole papers that have been written about why it's almost never persuasive to deploy gotcha statistics that way.
You're not wrong :) Do the robots in those videos use hydrolics?
Just look back at all of the fallen economies. They fall from inflation.

"Although the Emperor Constantine (reigned AD 306-337) is considered by many to be among the greatest of the later Roman emperors, he was unable to fix the failing Roman economy. The inflation persisted for nearly two hundred more years, during which time taxes were massively increased. Internal problems were further compounded by the economic situation, such as the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, which often led to mob riots. Eventually, the Roman government was unable to pay its armies, which then often turned their swords on Rome itself. In the end, it was primarily Germanic tribes, such as the Goths and Vandals, who dealt the final death blows to Rome, but that would not have been possible if Rome’s economy were not weakened by a particularly excessive and long lasting inflationary cycle."

https://dailyhistory.org/What_Role_Did_Inflation_Play_in_the...

"The Ottoman economy was disrupted by inflation, caused by the influx of precious metals into Europe from the Americas and by an increasing imbalance of trade between East and West. As the treasury lost more of its revenues to the depredations of the devşirme, it began to meet its obligations by debasing the coinage, sharply increasing taxes, and resorting to confiscations, all of which only worsened the situation."

https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire/The-decline-...

"Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans... Eventually, the Colonists applied their technologies to more efficiently produce wampum, which caused inflation and ultimately its obsolescence as currency."

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

"The Nazis planned to bomb Britain with clouds of forged bank notes."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/nazis-planned-...

I could go on and on..
Saving a panicky drowning person can involve them punching you etc. Local hazards can include sea life, infections, debris, rocks etc leading to a host of serious injuries.
> URL-based imports (no need for NPM)

What happens when there is the next Codehaus-like shutdown, and so much source code just won't work? Or when a bad actor takes control of a domain that commonly hosted packages (perhaps through completely legitimate means, such as registration expiration), can get a completely legitimate SSL certificate for it, and responds to requests for packages with malicious code? I think the abstraction, and to some degree the centralization, of package management is generally a good thing
Virtually every youth-serving organization used to not handle abuse of youth properly. I am not going to pin this just on the Catholic Church. Other youth-serving organizations, like sports, other churches, YMCAs, etc. were all deficient.

I am a volunteer in the Boy Scouts of America. Its market-leading and pioneering youth-protection programs are still examples to this day, and the vast majority of claims in its current bankruptcy process are from before these programs started. Society has changed, and youth are much better off for it.
Where is the feed this is based upon from?

Google news rss seems to be different and is full with amp links:

https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
New Study:Vaccine Rollout Driving Hopeful Attitudes and Behavior Among Consumers
Exactly this.

In addition, the default shouldn't be "therefore miracle".

The default assumption should be "humans are easy to trick".

My claim here, is that if we put our brightest minds on this, they will come back with a terrifically mundane explanation for it. In the same way that weeping statues are always just water from a pipe somewhere.
Who said we won't have nukes?
> things most have come from a creator because nothing can ever just exist.

This isn't the "watchmaker" argument, this is the "principle of sufficient reason" argument applied to existence. The principle of sufficient reason is "an effect must have a cause sufficient to explain it". Things exist _right now_, but (so goes the argument) they didn't always exist (that is they are not things-which-must-by-their-very-nature-exist). Therefore, the fact that they exist _right now_ needs a cause that operates right now. The causal chain of why-does-this-contingent-thing-exist-right-now cannot be infinite. Therefore, the causal chain must terminate in some being that must by its very nature exist.

This argument was not made by Christian theists, but by Aristotle over 300 years before Christianity came into existence. It was rediscovered by Christian theists a millenium and a half later (in the 1200s) and accepted because it matched what God said of Himself to Moses 1200 years before Aristotle (Exodus 3:14)

https://biblehub.com/exodus/3-14.htm
ICU4X: Solving i18n for client-side and resource-constrained environments
Grew up Protestant and rejected it because of the hypocrisy I saw around me. I saw "good church going people" who I knew were not good people and I saw how they were able to use the authority of their positions to exert influence. I also found that asking too many inconvenient questions in youth group meetings led to uncomfortable situations. It became clear that the religion part of things had little to no impact on how good, bad or decent the people practicing it were. People were good or bad, religious people simply had a metaphysical framework they could use to excuse themselves... and the bad ones would do just this. Led me to reject confirmation and leave altogether. Now it's been 40 years and I am more convinced than ever that I made the correct decision. Religion is fundamentally flawed as I see it practiced around me and needs to be kept out of civil society strictly and completely. You want to practice it in your home or church? Go for it. You want to inject it into civil society (schools, government, etc)... you need to be stopped utterly and completely.
Yes, there are dangers in restoring forests. I'm thinking of China's Three North Shelter Program here. While very ambitious and farsighted, the monocultures they establish are vulnerable to diseases, pests and other factors, and are a weak starting point to rebuild ecosystems. If those trees die, all the resources put into the effort will go to waste. Also, the new forests put heavy strain on the water table, which worsens the effects of desertification. The water table can only recover if the forests become strong and dense enough to retain humidity and cool down the ground. My (totally uneducated) advice would be to strengthen existing forests and ecosystems, merge them (if necessary, by reallocating agricultural use to other ares) and slowly expand them towards the affected areas.
I've seen this ship mentioned a couple of times. I kind of assume the subtext is that we should stop sending live animals by ship (except for perhaps specialist and breading stock), which I totally agree with, as much for the dangers of spreading disease as for an ethical concern for the animals involved.
Contentious Union Vote at Amazon Heads to a Count
In a previous thread GP commented that it was to avoid creating a mass public fuss about it and also giving them time to respond to each user and actually understand if users resonated with their reasoning.

All in all, the note is written really well and I appreciate the way they went about it. I think maybe including this reasoning in their email FAQ section would be useful
You are assuming causality there. It could be that an individual’s mindset could lead to both less criminality and more religious participation. It’s not obvious that sending criminals to church would make them less criminal.
One of your sources is overtly Christian and the other is quite conservative[0]. Here is an academic survey of such studies; seems a lot more nuanced: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261834488_Religion_...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times
Can the law keep up with technology?
I don't believe that governments promote massive multi-billion dollar infrastructure-upending projects on optimism and "luck". Your 3-part explanation notably leaves out any effect that 5G might have on mass surveillance, i.e., the annihilation of privacy and private communications. But maybe that's simply implied when we say "IoT".
After almost two years I've finally polished it enough to make it publicly available!

It uses collection initializer syntax and linq expression trees to set up bindings in a concise way.
EBind interprets expression trees to delegates which makes it very fast.

It's highly configurable, extensible, and safe for the mono-linker and AOT compilation.
When you're claiming overtime but are actually sleeping in your bed, for example.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bilks-nypd-unearned-ove...
You can write TypeScript natively with Deno.
You don't need a very significant load to blow up a person.
I'm not so sure it's so clear cut. What if you want to find the truth and advance our collective understanding without risking your career by putting too fine a point on your research and offending the powerful ideologues who have demonstrated time and again their ability to make life hard for dissenters? Having read a bit of the article, it seems like they've done a good job of using subtext to point out that the data doesn't fit the narrative without making their subversion too obvious. Perhaps we would argue that they should be forthright about their dissent, but that's also easy to say for us who have little to lose. Moreover, I don't necessarily think it's a good idea for scientists to weigh in too much on ideological affairs, even if it means they support my priors (which may or may not be what you're suggesting). Thinking like that is what got us into this mess in the first place.
C# 9 function pointers turned out to be the fastest solution for creating delegates from System.Reflection.MethodInfo.
Fatties are a much bigger health problem than eating disorders, rather stop thinking that a normal human body is a "unrealistic" one. Way to go america!
Feel for the maintainers, tough to keep own stuff together -- but also first reaction is that another massively influential part of the web/opensource being stored on GitHub. I'm not anti-MS by any means but just reminded of the dominance of so much of our global codestores being on there
According to reports, the backlog of traffic should be cleared in about 10 days. They must have some spare capacity available in order to do that.
Netgate isn't exactly your average open source contributor either. In fact, their product is very much closed source.

Even the areas of it that have been "open" have largely hidden, incomplete and non-buildable for the longest.

It's really a mixed bag. They pay for a bit of development but throw their weight around in ways that are harmful to the project.
This is great. Google News has been unavailable in my area for years.
Just curious: which denomination were you?
ooh... dealing with Parkinson's disease makes sense. came to comments to bash mouse smoothing as such. I hate that thing.
More subtly, people will be one order removed from the design decision if the turbine material simply increases the maintenance costs of the aircraft, but the problem will still be there!
Exceptional!

I am a heavy user for `find <> | xargs grep` -- this makes my life so much sweeter. Thank you @birchb!
Seems like the scribes and Pharisees that are trying to troll Jesus and he trolls them back?

To be clear, I think Jesus is trolling the right way. :-)
Just replace the word “taxation” with “rents” and imagine that each city is owned by an individual and it’s their own private property. Suddenly this becomes OK under anarcho capitalism, right? Such private cities exist, eg Walt Disney World.

So now, imagine that each city’s owner chose to “go public” and sell shares of the city to each citizen equally, and they put in place bylaws. So now you have a democratic society.

In fact that is how cities like Boca Raton came to be owned by the residents. How is paying taxes to the city of Boca any different in your view than paying rent to locate your business in Walt Disney World?
Same here, I don't think I have ever heard mater pronounced may-ter except by public school boys referring to their mother in English. I studied Latin from 1st form to 3rd form, 1966 to 1969. Hated it then but in recent years I've been making desultory attempts to learn it again.
I think you may need a nap. First line of the article:

> Octopuses have alternating periods of "quiet" and "active" sleep that make their rest similar to that of mammals, despite being separated by more than 500 million years of evolution.

The article is aware that cats and dogs and other mammals dream. The fact that cephalapods, who are obviously very alien compared to us, do is the new bit.
1. Grew up there.

2a. "Verbal inspiration" - while the words were written by people and they certainly did recount their experiences in their own styles (perhaps involving consulting others who had been there), but God (through the Holy Spirit) breathed into them the words they were to write (cf. 2 Timothy 3:16). Basically God's not going to be like "eh oh well whatever if the Bible just goes away."

2b. Translation is, inherently, inexact. This is why it's good for pastors to learn Greek and Hebrew; but there are two main points I'd like to make here. The first is that while not all of the meaning may be conveyed perfectly, there is a lot of effort that has been put into ensuring that the essence will remain there. The second is that, when the meaning may be initially unclear, let Scripture interpret Scripture.

2c. As for which books are included and which are not, I haven't researched this enough to give a thorough answer.

3. Laws are divided into three categories: civil, ceremonial, and moral. Civil is laws to govern the nation of Israel, which don't apply today. Ceremonial laws related to the worship life of Israel. Jesus is, in essence, the fulfillment of these laws (cf. Romans 10:4, Acts 15); as such, we are no longer required to follow them. This leaves the moral law, God's will for believers. Most of the 10 commandments fall into this category (as summarized further by Jesus saying "love God and love your neighbor"). Anyway (as pointed out below), Jesus kept the entire law because we, with our sinful nature, cannot.

4. I'm lucky enough to have a church that believes what I believe near me; regular bible studies and a few online devotions that I follow also help.

This was a but rushed to finish; sorry. Feel free to follow up.
I would posit that the most fundamental idea in the Bible is that humanity has fundamentally continued to be selfish and prideful while God has continually chosen to extend grace and keep his promises to people (mainly covered in the Old Testament). He dis this to the ultimate extent by living with us and dying on the cross so that all of the promises could be fulfilled once and for all (new testament).

It is exactly the selfish and prideful that decide to leverage select words/passages/ideas out of context for their own power over others rather than their inward correction of self.

Lastly, I’d add that many of the passages/letters written were to the audience of CHRISTIANS. I bible doesn’t really demand that non-Christians apply any of this to their lives until the first foundational stone is set. Paul even writes to this effect in 1st Corinthians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Awakening
> Religious people also donate significantly more money to charity.

Religious people donate significantly more to their churches. Whether that's charity which actually goes on to help people is highly variable. You can say we haven't really figured out how to replace them, but to me it seems pretty clear. Replace a patchwork of "charities" with an actual support network which works for everyone and not just parishioners. Fund it through taxes. You know, the was every single other developed nation in the world handles things. The whole "charity is just as good as sound policy" thing has never panned out and is why we have so many medical bankruptcies as just one example.
They're talking about announcing a shift in tactic. Until recently, "broken windows policing" had been very popular: prosecute the small crimes and you will remove the criminals from the system, before they escalate to bigger crimes.

Even before that, there was a tactic of prosecutors competing with each other to be "tough on crime", prosecuting every minor offense so that people would feel safe. It's popular with voters, but it doesn't seem to work. Most notably, people don't feel safe, even as crime falls and prisons fill up.

Baltimore has problems of its own, and it's clear that whatever they've been doing hasn't worked. So they're announcing a change of tactic. We won't know if it works for at least five years.
>UBI

Ok, how do you fund it?
Scott Alexander recently wrote a great piece about class in America: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on....

tl;dr: one of way of looking at class is that it's not one ladder, defined solely by economic status; rather it's three ladders (Working/Middle/Upper), which are largely independent, and which intersect both economics and culture. In this sense, Jeff Bezos is not actually upper class ("old money"), but the world's most successful middle class worker; and the reason Trump appealed to the working class despite exorbitant wealth, was an enthusiastic embrace of working class culture (baseball hats, fast food).
But you seem to equate the acknowledgement that some people have it worse with segregation. That by saying some social groups have it worse due to the centuries of injustices and therefore they should have temporary preferential treatment to reduce(key word here) their poverty levels is to perpetuate segregation. It's not, because the opportunities given to different groups are not equal specifically as the result of earlier segregation.

So if you don't help them out now, that's what's increasing segregation because their state doesn't improve, we never reach the state of equality of opportunity if some sides have a permanent handicap due to earlier injustices. You're saying that helping out is what perpetuates segregation - it's the exact opposite.
The point is it's easy to see if someone uses neutral pronouns all the time or only for trans people.
> And NYC is best place to live/work as a young person

NYC is the best place to live/work if you don't plan on having children, which is the ultimate arbiter of whether a given environment is indeed "good for young people" or not. If it wasn't for the flood of people moving into NYC from regions where people still have kids at higher rates, the entire city's population would quickly collapse. It's a genetic graveyard.
As of right now yes, the US government is making records public such as who you marry, where you live, in some cases your salary. It's pretty bad we don't condemn that first.

All of this info is generally public because of our legal system requiring we be able to find people we need to sue. It's all old and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Then again, when the millennials do that (you know when they are 60 years old), they will inevitably build in a way to be sue proof.
For those who are wondering.

The canal is shallow at the sides, for a ship as this, this creates a suction when it's not in the middle.

The captain wasn't going straight ( zigzag) and while he wanted to get out of the suction on the left side, the ship turned way too much to the right.

There's a really good animation here at 1:03 in the video ( dutch): https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/03/29/zeevaartschool-maakt...

Video is talking about a "sea driving school" that simulated the incident in their simulator.

My info above is the Dutch information required to see the video from 1:03 till after the animation.
Most companies can't fire everyone all at once. If you didn't need your employees, you wouldn't have them in the first place. When both sides have something to lose, then finding acceptable compromise is in everyone's interest.