skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A former student of Alan Watts, then a Taoist monk, found Orthodox Christianity after his searching, and has become a revered Priestmonk across the Orthodox world - he offers his own journey and offers the Eastern Orthodox Christian perspective of seeking God and His revelation.
https://orthochristian.com/81732.html

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/illuminedheart/father_...
>The impersonal concept of deity was actually an experience of the non-being from which we have come [already], and that the true understanding of God - the highest, fullest understanding of God is God as person, as I AM - He has revealed Himself as I AM. Archimandrive Sophrony, from His Life is Mine

Small short booklet Fr Seraphim Rose wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Revelation-Human-Heart-Seraphim/...

In my own journey out of buddhism, taoism, stoicism, psychadelics, Fr Seraphims writings helped clarify why their was still a hole in my soul, and why western Christianity made no sense to me.

In the Orthodox Christian perspective, they are the Church that followed the Council of Jerusalem (the Book of Acts), the earliest writings of the Church (St Ignatius, the Didache, etc.) then all the councils which codified the canon of scripture, the Ecumenical Councils, etc. Every council must affirm previous dogma; believed everywhere, by all (Orthodox Christians), and at all times - so the below article on the Essence and Energy distinction of God, by St Gregory Palamas, affirms the early writings of St Basil and the Cappadocian Fathers of the Church who were fighting heretical notions of what God is - the Church defined what He is not. The Cappadocian Church fathers affirm the Apostles and scriptures, etc.
http://orthodoxinfo.com/phronema/florov_palamas.aspx

This is a nice comparison video of Tabernacle and Jewish Temple worship, and its continuation in the Orthodox Christian temples. The western church in Rome was of the same One Mind of Christ in worship, Creed and sacrament until 1054, and then subsequently the Protestant revolted against their dogmatic innovations, and yet now are splintered into thousands on thousands of beliefs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkmh68urI6A

WHAT IS THE NOUS AND HOW IS IT DISTINCT FROM THE SOUL?
https://orthochristian.com/79038.html
One way.
Covid-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?
Briefly came in contact with it some time ago when our team had to hack up some demo for the IBM voice assistant. We disliked it very much, I have a hard time understanding what people see in it. Everything is cumbersome and slow.
If you are hiring people to do the work, why do you need to spend time in apprenticeship?
Yeah wikipedia is still the go-to jumping off point for most science and math topics. It's has articles as informative as many domain specific textbooks, but covering all areas. I would claim it's the single best technical reference humanity has produced yet. Can't this be enough? It doesn't also have to be the arbiter of all truth.
It's fixed in 5.13.4.
In the US it has to be approved by the FCC
I once bought something with AJAX requests.

No, it wasn't unfair to the vendor. The vendor had an issue on a web site where the sales window closed, presumably to give the vendor time to process sales and print/mail tickets, but this was enforced front-end only. I was mid-check-out when the window closed with no warning.

There were plenty of tickets left. There was plenty of time left too (the vendor had switched from paper to digital tickets for COVID19, so...).

I think there was an exploitable security bug in there too, but I don't think anyone will exploit it. It's a little shop.
Some things should be done because they are the right thing to do and not just because they are profitable. We're only hurting ourselves with this myopic approach to infrastructure especially.
Whitey on the moon [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwkXZ0SmTs
> Wikipedia says all LEO or military authorized to assist the convoy are given a countersign. This is to prevent tricking into a roadblock like you suggest.

I wasn't suggesting anything in particular, but I think the sort of roadblock you'd use to slow down a convoy like this would involve a staged accident to force a detour of the convoy to a less secure route. An awful lot needs to go wrong for that to even be possible, and at the end of the day there's still combat with heavily armed law enforcement needed to get near the cargo.

It seems pretty futile, since the end result of applying even an overwhelming (and somehow previously undetected) force to the convoy is probably going to be a ruined road, a ruined semi, and a difficult to open, boobytrapped vault on the road that weighs so much you'd need a crane to move it.
Is the very concept of the parasocial relationship here the problem?

Previously, only a very select few people would be able to be the subject of such a relationship. So, it's fairly easy to protect them from the pitfalls of it. Bodyguards, gated communities, limited in-person socialization with non-peers, etc. In other words, celebrities. Of any stripe. They've been dealing with this issue for years.

But now, we have YouTube, Twitch, OnlyFans, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and probably dozens more I can't even think of and have never been exposed to.

And someone making rent by slinging nudes on OnlyFans doesn't have enough cash for an entourage. They don't have the lawyers and accountants available to advise them and help them set up companies to make certain transactions to disguise certain facts about themselves. Like where they live. They also don't have anyone who is decent enough at public relations to help them navigate the fine line between seeming personable while not sharing too many facts about themselves.

But they'll have a segment of people completely engaged with them in one of these parasocial relationships. And in a way they do encourage it. And in another real way, it's the job they've chosen. When any of them talk about "building relationships with viewers" and how it's important, that's the kind of relationship they are talking about: a parasocial relationship.

The vast majority of people do not have the means to deal with parasocial relationships that go wrong. And even those with the means sometimes get hit. Ronald Reagan was shot by a man trying to impress Jodie Foster.

And I think those building parasocial relationships that contain sexual intimacy are particularly at risk.
The Indus basin: untapped potential for long-term energy storage
> use a performant web server i.e. not PHP or Ruby.

PHP in an ordinary deployment behind Apache2 or nginx is very fast. If you're writing a Web service and your top two criteria for the language are "fast" and "scripting language" and PHP doesn't at least make your short-list, you've likely screwed up. It's the one to beat—you pretty much have to go with something compiled to have a good chance of beating it at serving dynamic responses to ordinary Web requests, and even then it's easy to screw up in minor ways and end up slower. Persistent connections, sure, maybe you want something else, but basic request-response stuff? Performance is not a reason to avoid it, unless your other candidate languages are C++ or very well-tuned and carefully written Java or Go, something along those lines. Speed-wise, it is certainly in a whole other category from Ruby or Python (in fact, even "speedy" Nodejs struggles to match it).

Now, WordPress is slow because a top design goal is that it's infinitely at-runtime extensible. And lots of PHP sites are slow for the same reason that lots of Ruby, or Node, or Python, or Java, or .Net, or whatever, sites are slow: the developer was very bad at querying databases.
LG Nova Proto Challenge Submissions Due 7/21, Monetary Prizes and More
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I've noticed that too, which is strange because some entries are rendered fine (e.g. Names of bacteria in the antibiotic entries). I'll have to poke around and find out what's wrong.

Thanks!
This was exactly what I was thinking. Space is big and we don't use it as much as we should. Let's fix that instead of taking the Internet from people who need it.
That why they called him an cosmonaut instead of astronaut.
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Something about the tone kept raising my hackles, and the shoe finally dropped at:

I hope that this doesn’t come across as mocking. I find this genuinely sad. I strongly believe that relationships are preferable to aloneness.

He summed it up nicely at the end:

The real article should have been called “The Dangerous Decrease in Moderately Liberal Men Who Are Willing to Date My Woke Friends Who Compete With Me for the Last Few Single Woke Guys in Their Thirties”

I think he considers himself one of those Moderately Liberal Men who have been put off by some subset of extremist progressive women. You may well be in that category; I'm pretty close to that target as well. I have more sympathy for the Woke Women than he does.

One of the big mistakes I think he makes is seeing a "horseshoe" in that graph of extremism vs affiliation. That's not really what the "horseshoe" is about. The idea there is that the far left and far right actually have a lot in common, if only they'd stop yelling at each other long enough to realize it. But that's not what the graph says. It only says that moderates tend not to fight a lot, and extremists do.

So I think what he wants to say is, "Hey, crazy woke women. You'll be a lot happier if you stop playing ideological games and start taking moderation more seriously."

Which, ya know, is probably true. I hate that bit where I'm biting my tongue because I know if I open my mouth the next words will be "Well, actually..." That's not going to end well. And that sucks. I want to be right. I want them to be right. I want them to be right for the right reasons. Surely we can agree on that, right?

Well, no. Because there's more going on than that. And I don't want to write up all that because this comment is already too damn long. But I'll shorten it to "Getting stuff done means picking your battles."

He really seems to want to gripe about that, and citing various anecdotes about women who were bad to him despite agreeing with him. And all I can say is, "Get over it." Both your dating life and your political goals will be better for it.

And that's where that quote about the relationships bugs me. Yeah, relationships are better than aloneness. But bad relationships are not better than aloneness. It sounds a lot like he's trying to say that women owe it to themselves to date him, because their reasons are bad and they'll all be better off if they were less devoted to their ideology.

But... tough. They'll work through their issues at their own pace. Meantime, date other people. Or don't date at all if you can't find somebody. Because it sounds a bit as if he's spending his free time proving that they should date him, and that's not a good look. Ironically, you'll be more attractive if you're comfortable being alone.
I wonder if access to better transportation options plays a role in their higher population density. I don’t know enough about Japan to really make any calls towards that though.
> Virgin Galactic is at least taking a novel approach with the spaceplane though.

Sticking rocket-propelled spaceplane under big aircraft and landing horizontally was also done in 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15
Will do that, thank you!
Also may prove that earth was covered with water sometime ago, like Bible and many other legends around the world say.
> the “mindfulness industry” is full of charlatans and poor advice

Thank you for saying this.

There is an endless, dangerous trend of dismissing monastic traditions like Zen and trying to extract meditation from its context, under the assumption that teachings and formal practice are unnecessary.

It happens in scientific research on meditation as well as on popular McMindfullness.
Wow, that’s big information. Thank you for sharing.
To finish you wiki quote:

"Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the terms are sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists and tourists."
If people put as much effort into learning Kubernetes as they did into writing blog posts about “how complex” it is...... we’d all be better off.
Sometimes you get newer management with NIH syndrome.
So existing "legacy" project teams (the ones that are actually in production) can get squeezed on both ends.

First they get a lot of BAU pressure to not have outages / ship features faster / etc.
Second they also get Change pressure to completely re-architect while doing the BAU and not increasing staffing.
For some who play chess in the department head seat, it is win win.

If the legacy team has more outages / doesn't speed up on features, he has his remit to build his new pet project replacement and 2-3 years before theres any accountability for the outcome.

If the legacy team succeeds in re-architecting then he also gets a win.
Programming Language Design
Trains aren't that great of an idea for long-haul intercity transit in the US. The distances in the US are pretty big outside of a few pockets of European or Japanese style population density. Airplanes are just better at a certain distance.
Consider if "space tourism" ends up having no product market fit. There is no data currently that it is a viable business. Sure, there are a bunch of pre-orders, and owners of companies now making maiden voyages, but that's it.

A couple vaporized high profile customers will have a massive chilling effect on the industry.

I think Musk's "we are going to Mars, people will die" is the most sober/realistic take. This messaging will do a much better job eliciting a customer base that understands the product and that will lead to sustainable industry someday.
Alternative Hedonism
> The far left has really hijacked the discourse around sex work and used language of empowerment to encourage young girls to get in and get what's theirs.

No, it hasn't. The far left is anti-capitalist, and includes both pro-and-anti-sex-work factions; the attitude you describe is more that of the pro-sex-work portion of the pro-(possibly somewhat tamed)-capitalism center-to-center-left.

The pro-sex-work portion of the anti-capitalist (including far) left sees sex work largely as just work, and agrees with many of the (not explicitly gender-based) popular arguments about harms associated with sex work as accurate of sex work within a capitalist system, but not as particular too sex work, but rather as endemic to labor within capitalism.
There is a race, but the competitors are China and SpaceX.
Among the bioinformatics folks I know, bash is already a core competency. If you’re using your average biologist as your mental model, you’re thinking of the wrong people.
Does this page enforce the scroll positions that a scroll container’s scrollport may end at after a scrolling operation has completed, in practice?
Best timing to consume proteins for muscles health
Starship is going to launch the equivalent of 1000 Hubble’s with 10 years.

You’re thinking too small, this constellation is part of what enables you to someday go to space yourself and have your own observatory on the dark side of the moon etc.
A comment from the article's author:

"You have to understand that the it wasn't "open", they were only permitted to do several big events a year. So yeah, it was pricey, but it was an event kind of thing, not a casual go anytime deal."

Ah, that would explain it then. My first thought was "I guess there just weren't enough people interested in pinball to keep it going," but all the accounts claim attendance was maxed out. Only having it open for given "events" seems dumb, and clearly it didn't work out. Wonder what the thinking was there.

Anecdotally, I've seen a number of "retro" arcades come and go locally in my small city. It sounds neat on paper, and I enjoyed going to them a couple times, but unlike this place's (supposed) huge turnout, they were never packed. Nostalgia just wasn't strong enough to keep them going.
After a Panic Attack at Work I Found Meditation
I always tell people the hardest part of tech is the people, not the tech.
Commercial use is going to be prioritized over hobbyists in any domain. Think about what the reaction would be if drone pilots wanted to add restrictions to airline routes so that they could use the airspace. I don't really see how this is any different.
There is a SpaceX private Crew Dragon mission scheduled:
https://spacenews.com/inspiration4-announces-crew-for-privat...

"Launch is scheduled for no earlier than Sept. 15, slightly earlier than the original announcement of the fourth quarter of this year. The spacecraft will remain in orbit for three days, flying in an orbit at the same inclination as the International Space Station — 51.6 degrees — but in an orbit as high as 540 kilometers, more than 100 kilometers above the station."
This is a curious take on the state of calculus before Cauchy: mathematicians were interested in infinite series, but aware of paradoxes around convergence: for example, the set {1,-1/2,1/3,-1/4,1/5,...} doesn't have a particular sum, but instead you can arrange the elements into series to converge to numbers of any size or even not converge at all. Fourier's work didn't threaten an established notion of calculus, rather mathematicians were having difficulty sorting sense from nonsense in the fertile but chaotic subfield.

It wasn't until half a century later, after Cauchy, that mathematicians had a powerful and coherent foundation for calculus. It's true that then interesting ideas such as inginitesimals were rejected because they lacked comparable rigour: was Bressoud conflating these two time periods?
Your description of pre-WWII Germany is overly idyllic. We would not had WWII if pre-WWII Germans were that happy. The Germany was pretty violent, unstable place with serious economical problems including homelessness. The whole phenomenon of young men fighting on the streets with political opponents had a lot to do with them being unhappy about their place and options in society.

Some people and marriages were happy, but definitely not all of them were happy.

The society was changing on all directions leading to conflicts. Young women in particular tended to move away from villages to cities for greater freedom and economic options, followed by backslash over proper female place.
Not sure what you mean about ambient spectrum, but Starlink has better theoretical latency than fibre over large distances once they have inter-satellite laser links.

There are also huge areas of the Earth's surface that are hard to or not worth running fibre to. E.g. very remote areas or moving bodies like ships, motor homes and aircraft.

Those members of society wanting to live a more rural life will benefit directly. Those in countries without expensive infrastructure will also benefit.
> The effectiveness of mathematics then is more about its conciseness

Indeed! Ultimately, this is expressed in mathematical notation - which is necessary if you want math to "just work" for you (almost automagically).

> If math and language were built from only relations our brain and body could sense

Which they, of course, are; hence the whole mystery of the "unreasonable effectiveness" of our "everyday" mathematics (such as linear algebra or complex analysis) in areas unreachable to our senses or to our ability even to imagine things (e.g., the quantum world).
Lot of people in this thread are arguing that wealthy people can spend money on what ever they want. I think it’s important to distinguish whether the money they spend on personal joy rides has been taxed as private income or written off as business expense. Does anyone have information on whether Bezos‘ investments into Blue Origin has been taxed previously as personal income when he presumably liquidated Amazon stock?
The world is consuming the entire vaccine production supply already. The economic disparity is causing very difficult problems in allocation, but it's beyond ridiculous to suggest that the fight against COVID has a capital problem. "Everyone" is most certainly not thinking this.
Do we know why the blood glucose gets too high? From what I understand our cells reduce the number of insulin receptors which leads them to absorb less glucose and hence lead to increased blood glucose. But the reason for this insulin resistance is still sort of up for debate. Atleast this is what I understood.
CVE-2021-3438: 16 Years in Hiding – Millions of Printers Worldwide Vulnerable
> Most public company data is unstructured and textual.

This is surprising to me.

Wouldn't it be possible to make a very short list of, say, 12 blunt questions that would help flag fraud?

Of course the company could be lying in the answers. (If it was found to be lying in any one answer then it would automatically be flagged as "high risk".)

But this may not even be needed, since what you seem to be saying is that the information about fraud is there in plain sight, yet hard to see, because it is drowned in fluff and periphrases.

Is there an opportunity for a private company, say a rating company, to make and distribute such a questionnaire? Or does it already exist in some form?
Good place to watch the decay of the human species because of climate change. Space tourism will accelerate it.
I don't know what "FM" and other initializations are. Please when writing an article, expand them in parenthesis the first time they are mentioned.
How many amateurs pay a lot of money to be able to say they went to the top of mount Everest, which is probably a lot more risky?
I assume it's because being a bank allows you to invest the deposits and turn a profit.
It's a line from the movie "Night Shift" with Michael Keaton and Tom Hanks.

Michael Keaton's character says it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U5UH1kQeUA
They screen for a variety of things, but people aren't always honest. Psychosis and bipolar are two criteria. There may be more. They will also reject people if they are just clearly off their rocker -- Vipassana at these centers is specifically NOT for people with serious mental illness.

Reiki is a problem, I speculate, because it puts you in the habit of imagining sensation beyond your body, and this may lead to some problems. There may also be a spiritual aspect to it. One counter-point is that there is one meditation practice that goes beyond the body: metta. So maybe its a specific issue with Reiki (like how you'll never see a teacher wearing black and/or red at a retreat).
Tourist flights to the moon will be $1-2 mil/person in 2035 ($1000 or so in today’s money). College students will get to visit and set up their own experiments as part of their billion dollar tuition.
Blender has too much steam now. Proprietary modeling software is going to have a hard time competing with free. Adobe realizes this, and they're going to tool their products such as Substance to be as Blender-compatible as they can.

It'll be interesting if Blender starts encroaching on Adobe's moat. Not sure what Adobe will be able to do if/when that happens.

I'm curious if this can happen with the game engine world too, but Godot is too far removed from Unity and Unreal to even be comparable. It's a shame CRYENGINE isn't open source, though it's a bit dated at this point. Maybe Lumberyard?