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"Unlike the Christian G-d, the Buddha does not judge, does not punish, does not forgive and has not died in tortures for your sins, this way enabling priests demand you feel guilty."

The gods are not the same, but the faith seems very similar to me.

What is the difference between a Pure Land Buddhist believing chanting the nenbutsu[1] ("I take refuge in the Buddha of Inconceivable Light!") in order to get in to ensure rebirth in to Amitabha's pure land and a Christian saying they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior in order to get in to heaven?

Not much, from what I can see.

Even in the more secular forms of Buddhism, Buddhists regularly follow the precepts, take refuge in the dharma, Buddha, and Sangha because they believe it'll get them to enlightenment. And some believe "just sitting" for 20 years or whatever will make them enlightened.

Interestingly, some forms of Buddhism preach that one should not be so goal-oriented and should "just sit" without reason or expectation. That also sounds not very different from blind faith to me, where the believer is encouraged to throw reason out the window and "just believe" or "just do" (whatever the religious authorities tell them to).

"FAIK the Buddha taught you should pursue the Eightfold Path as a tool to attain your ultimate goal, not as a law breaking which is evil and a subject to punishment."

Well, the "punishment" in the case of Buddhism is supposedly just the iron law of karma and rebirth in to the world of suffering. It's not meted out by a god in Buddhism's case, but it still serves as a very effective stick on the Buddhist faithful.

"Some times I contemplate what a blessing it is we have been born in the west and given highest monastic kinds of Buddhism right away instead of being born in a Buddhist country where only (mostly) monks can pursue enlightenment and the laymen only know worship and magick."

Is secular Buddhism the highest kind? Just as in any major religion, there is great disagreement among the various Buddhist traditions as to which is the truer Buddhism. Many of these branches don't accept each other's most sacred texts as being as authentic or as important as their own, which preach radically different understandings of the Buddha's teachings.

One of them really might be more authentic, and everybody's got their own opinion on that, but ultimately who's to say?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nianfo
I really just want my time back. My commute is too long, my workday is too long. There are a limited number of "things I want to do" that I can squeeze into the time I'm left with after the "things I have to do" that aren't work are done. As I said, I've been looking for alternative work so I can have more time and it is dreadful and depressing. If you know something I can make an even remotely livable amount doing for less than 50hrs a week commitment (including commute) and provides some level of healthcare such that I won't starve to death if I break a leg, then let me fucking know.
I love your utopian vision, seconded. In fact, something like this would boost the economy ever so slightly, creating a new source of skilled productivity. Guards with new skills would gain the option of becoming illustrators, likely slightly but perhaps noticeably increasing the supply of illustrators available to lend their services to new projects.
I take it you're not a big fan of Gagarin, the first human in space, then. What was his importance beyond 'being there'?
Problem is you only get rich by taking money for other people's work.

But as long as everyone also pays to clean up the pollution they cause, not terrible.
The natural place for truly undisrupted observation is going to be the far side of the Moon, so let's put an observatory or two there and stop quibbling about LEO.
> Google, Facebook, and similar get a pass because they will shower you in money for their bespoke infra work (and it looks good on your CV to other orgs, typically).

You left out "Their bespoke infra work tends to be the genesis of the commodity infrastructure other people are using."

It's not hard for a Googler familiar with Borg to pick up Kubernetes. It's not hard for a Facebooker with some UI work under their belt to figure out React.
Yep, I'd planned to use something like autocomplete.js but that's something I'll explore after I've cleaned up the core python functionality. Thanks!
What would you recommend for someone in my position? I'm thinking to focus entirely on startups, internships and chem/biotech companies that need software devs.
> If you go to cancel a subscription, there should be a modal that pops up warning that persisted data will be removed if you continue to cancel.

There's no way to know that before choosing a paid plan though, is there?

I'm not a good person to ask - I avoid spending money (I think) much more so than most people. And I wrote my own software for tracking all my finances (with zero graphs.) So I'm hesitant to spend money on other software.

Depending on a person's weakness or uncertainty, this kind of software can fill in a lot of gaps and help them make decisions that can dwarf the cost of your software, so I doubt the pricing is prohibitive.

As always, take me picking apart your software as a token of interest and a compliment. (I really wish I'd start picking up graphs from my back log...!)
>about ways to fulfill the museum’s commitment to be more diverse, more inclusive, and more representative of the community it serves.

A truly innovative and interesting DEI initiative. I hope we see more of this elsewhere.
I find strange that line of thinking. That NASA and other space agencies use highly trained personnel like military pilots for space missions seems largely a historical accident.

In "The Right Stuff", there is discussion on this topic, initially trapeeze artists were thought to be the ideal personnel for the space program due to the high dynamic forces they routinely experience. Another opinion being considered was to use death row prisoners. Finally it was decided to use military pilots from mostly a PR point of view.
Nice, I think Adobe has a lot to learn from software like this. I would like to see similar funding and support for for FreeCAD and OpenSCAD
This is really good news. I love how well Blender and Substance play together. I'm sure we'll see tighter integrations.

I am relieved that Adobe is supporting Blender rather than making a move for their own 3D engine. Maybe that'll come down the line though.
One thing you can do in the short term is to switch to a large television as a monitor. (They're cheaper than monitors, as a bonus.)

I did so for comfort, rather than over need, but, it should help.
This really reminds me of how Simple was actually just a layer on top of BBVA who then ended up closing Simple and now BBVA has merged with another bank and is changing again.
It may have been posted elsewhere, ofc, not just HN.
This sounds about right. I think there's a growing consensus that making criminals of the workers doesn't help (you might lightly criminalize the buy side in some cases, but criminalizing the sell-side makes it harder to help workers who get in trouble), and I appreciate the discussion from any political corner that helps make that point.

On the other hand it's also weird to me to see progressive elements talk of normalizing such a personal commodification -- perhaps like some progressives, I am not sure there is as big a difference as we'd like to believe between selling one's spring days to be a cog in any commercial operation and selling participation in sexual gratification. But nobody talks of normalizing or glorifying the former! On the other hand, no one stigmatizes being a cog in a commercial operation. Maybe what's going on is that it's hard to argue for the dignity of removing personalized stigma without overcorrecting.

So the solution is probably conversations (like this one) elaborating on the dynamics of the ways it can go wrong. No one's freedom to choose or dignity if they choose sex work is hurt by clear-eyed explanations of the hazards.
Amazon/Jeff Bezos are investors in Rivian. They're developing electric delivery vehicles for Amazon.
Rings true. I've seen more "cascading failure" type behavior in the human staffing side of the equation than on the software side, where I am in NYC bank/fund/fintech space..

Less of a "move fast & break things" mentality in systems that touch money, with a bias for inaction over action.
Systems tend to fall over in isolation more than go into epic retry loops of death.
Better to be down than to be up in bad state spamming orders/money/etc.
Knight being an exception that proves the rule maybe?

On the people side though its totally different.
Teams are very lean, most of my teams have been 5ish people, and not unusual to join a team and realize 50% of you have been in the seat less than a year.
You lose a lot of institutional knowledge and momentum.
I joined a team once that was such an attrition disaster they hadn't shipped code to PROD in 6 months.

Been on too many teams where management was so busy trying to whack the 5-10% they want to cut that they don't notice the top 20% making their own way for the exits.

I once had 6 managers in a year. One of those transitions of power involved a Bob being named new department head on Monday night, hosting a pizza lunch on Tuesday, and then us getting an "actually Bob isn't going to be the lead, Jim is" email on Wednesday morning. I was 23 and the new 22 year old college hires arrived with no one to report to so I told them what to do for a few months while I interviewed elsewhere and left.
Is a passenger on a commercial flight a crew member? Would you call every passenger an “airman”?
Just as an FYI.

If you want to obtain ISO standards legally but for a price significantly lower than ISO, the answer is simple. Buy them from EVS, the Estonian Centre for Standardisation and Accreditation[1].

They have a nice English website, and you don't have to have any ties whatsoever to Eestonia, or Europe.

The customer service people speak perfect English too if you have any questions.

[1] https://www.evs.ee/en/
So who is paying for and laying this fiber to remote rural locations?
It would benefit with commas or semi-colons after each number. It took me a bit to parse as well.
A streamer that is considered average - has an average number of followers and subscribers - could be expected to make about $X.

The average income of all streamers (including super popular streamers and streamers with 1 follower) makes is $y. Because the streamers in the top 1% make several orders of magnitude more money, $y is skewed higher than $x.
I had pretty much the same symptoms as this guy with zero meditation, just caffeine overdose. When I stopped drinking coffee and tea all symptoms, including dread and feeling that something is very wrong, muscle twitching and other odd feelings went away.

And I didn't even drink that much by coffee drinkers standards.
Our startup (Cortx) does natural language generation work, is located in Fells Point, and is currently hiring Machine Learning Engineers and Full Stack Engineers :)
Out of all of these space-faring corporations, SpaceX has orders of magnitude more aerospace infrastructure and assets to work with. Their entire ethos since inception was getting humanity to Mars, not sending a handful of wealthy people into suborbital trajectories. Elon/SpaceX have certainly participated in a lot of PR throughout, but it always seemed to be along an engineering axis, not some feel-good emotional axis (although many were moved by witnessing double booster landings regardless).

The construction of a massive space port in one of the more desolate places in America is a pretty damn good starting point. Doesn't take a magician to round that out with an airport, hotels, convention centers, restaurants, etc. I believe there is already an uptick in real estate on South Padre Island and talks about some bridge to better connect the island.
Most billionaires build mansions and buy islands and offshore their money. Bezos and Branson are doing R&D. Bill Gates does philanthropy. There's a spectrum of wastefulness, and I wholeheartedly applaud billionaires doing R&D that our governments seem to have lost interest in.
"A specification that can be implemented using formal methods". That is just source code. If the specification can completely define arbitrary programs it is necessarily Turing complete on its own, and as such prone to the same type of bugs as any other program.
It warns if you add -Wconversion. Unfortunately, that flag generates lots of false positives (at least in gcc), so using it isn't always a good idea.
> Now they can’t build directly between SF and LA, for example.

Geography and geology make building HSR between LA and SF difficult. You'd need to bore through a bunch of mountains to get to the Central Valley and then bore through more mountains to get to the SFBA.
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Interestingly, in banking one gets promoted from Vice President to Director which is the exact opposite as anywhere else...
Yeah; AFAIK you need something like clang-tidy's cppcoreguidelines-narrowing-conversions check (which everyone should definitely be using). (edit: But I'm wrong! That check is apparently similar to the -Wconversion mentioned by someone else.)
Someone else suggested including a disambiguation to highlight synonyms, which should be helpful in cases like codeine/heroin.

Thanks for the helpful advice re unit tests!
> It resulted in a spyware/telemetry free fork. Which is how free software spyware will generally go.

Pretty much exactly my thinking on the topic. It also resulted in them changing and/or clarifying some of the things they thought were the cause of the complaints. Still led to a fork anyhow.
While Square makes (more) sense to get into the banking game, I've noticed a lot of companies only tangentially related to finance doing similar things, and I wonder what it's indicative of:

- T-Mobile offers an exclusive checking account for their customers

- Credit Karma promoting their own debit card

- Robin hood doing "Cash Management"

- Coinbase offering a debit card with crypto rewards

Has something changed with the ecosystem in the past 5 years? I'm half expecting NYTimes to release a banking/checking account these days where you get rewarded with newspapers.
LEO satellites like StarLink are in earths shadow most of the night. Which means you can avoid unlimited satellites, you just need to wait longer to start and end well before dawn.
Anyone knows how to try the PoC (https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/20/1/1) ?

For me it crashes into the fork_userns:177

PS: don't need to downvote. Sometimes managers want you to prove that there's a need to patch. It's dumb but it's what it is
Good for Blender to get Supported from Adobe for it's development. I believe that Blender will become more awesome from this sponsorship.

> ensure the longevity and success of this dynamic open-source community

Nice. But, Can you(Adobe) please also make Photoshop and other Adobe products available on Linux as well ? It would really benefit Open Source community.
I don't disagree however my posts were in context to the OP's assertion of "what would US of A do with a rogue Texas? nothing." And clearly the US did something. Also as disappointing as Reconstruction was it was in fact responsible for creation of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution aka the "the Reconstruction Amendments."[1] The important of which can not be overstated. Surely those should be factored in to any judgement of "failure", no?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Amendments
This looks much better. If I may suggest some improvements:

* The UI could be more consistent, some windows (Elisa, AudioTube) have blurred backgrounds, but most don't

* The icons look dated because of the 3D shapes

I think as it is, this targets an extremely niche audience who might not care for these things. I know this would be much more persuasive for me with a slick UI, being able to run desktop class apps on a mobile sized device would be awesome.
Fiber construction is $6,000/HHP for dense suburban deployment and much much higher for rural. So a meaningful chunk of the world's rural population may not be able to afford the NRE. Getting the world high speed Internet is going to require a battery of solutions. The real competition for LEO satcomms is a 5G cell site a few miles away with fiber backhaul.
I would say C3 is closer to Odin than Zig. Given that C3 isn't done yet, I'd personally recommend using Odin over Zig. So there is a clear philosophical difference between the two. Aside of course from Zig departing from C syntax all over.

Zig is in many ways a more ambitious language. Not just in the language itself but in the tooling. Unlike C3 it has the ambition to "do things right" - often by doing things differently. Sometimes that pans out, but sometimes not. For example Zig adds a lot of UB "to be fast", but there's a particularly worrying intersection of (a) UB in overflow, (b) introduction of unsigned overflow and (c) implicit type widening which adds a lot of hidden UB / runtime aborts.

The simple example here is `a : i32 = b + c + d`. Even knowing that b, c and d fits in a short is not sufficient to guarantee this will not have UB. And even if we know that `b + c + d` does not trigger UB, we cannot guarantee that `b + d + c` does not have UB(!). The usual solution it to require explicit widening casts, but that solution seems hard for Zig due to relying on a lot of non-power-of-two types in the core language.

I guess also it's a matter of how much you think C sucks :D

I like C, and C3 is basically just trying to tweak a few things C can't change due to legacy reasons. It doesn't try to be a new "let's write everything from scratch because C is bad" kind of language, if you hate C then C3 isn't for you.
The hard sell + censorship is a gigantic red flag.
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Hmmm.. the photo seems to indicate otherwise: https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1417251070989029376
The Alps would have a word.
In your post you seem to imply that European Law has precedence over national laws in all cases. As your first link details a couple paragraphs down, it's not so, it only covers those where nations submit to EU sovereignty explicitly:

> It should be noted that the primacy of EU law only applies where EU countries have ceded sovereignty to the EU — fields such as the single market, environment, transport, etc. However, it does not apply in areas such as social policy and taxation.
If it succeeds, there's a pretty serious question about whether it was actually a terrible idea. I'd be doubtful about the premise accordingly. I think the successful outcome is inherently invalidating of the notion it was a terrible idea.

I've been reading about business history for decades, I enjoy it. I can't think of an example that matches that setup. Ideas like the pet rock or chia pet or electronic dancing flower pots jump to mind, however my thinking is immediately that: well, they weren't such terrible ideas then, lots of people wanted to buy those things.

A combination of disposable income and endless desire to be amused/entertained, is a potent consumption formula. The pet rock for example was a relatively inexpensive tchotchke of very temporary curiosity and amusement. People love to be amused, entertained and to have trinkets to talk about or show off. A lot of seemingly bad ideas fall into that space.
Just tried OpenSCAD for the first time a bit ago, really cool technology. But the inbuilt editor is a bit of a pain, and the language design is a bit odd... it feels as if they took a lisp and tried to hammer it into C-style syntax without following any C-style semantics.

I'd absolutely love to see the renderer brought into something like a VS Code webview and maybe even adopting a real Lisp for the code.
Sending people up is a good and solid first step. You can't really be doing or planning seriously ambitious stuff if you can't send people up 100 km. That's what they proved today.
Yeah the category is taken directly from the Drugbank dataset, which can be rather specific and arbitrary. I'll see if there's a summary like you suggest that I could use instead.

Thanks very much for the feedback :)
I respectfully disagree. AlphaFold 2 demonstrated almost perfect performance for a multitude of proteins for which no meaningful templates were available -- hence, it was not doing homology modelling as it is generally understood, but ab initio protein structure prediction.

What I would support is that AlphaFold 2 does not solve the protein folding problem: how, as opposed to what to, a protein folds.
Exactly. Literal monkeys and dogs did the job, before Gagarin or Shepard.
Would you consider Ludovico "Modern CM"?
I wouldn't lump Musk in here. Musk is divisive as hell but his companies are hardly wasteful. Tesla is leading the car industry towards an oil-free future and also has a healthy solar panel division. SpaceX is opening up space exploration. Even things like the Boring Company and Hyperloop are aiming to make human life better.
This is fine for really high budget astronomy, but anyone not having access to billions of funding will be out of luck. Not to speak of possible territorial conflicts on the moon, so billions might even not help you if you happen to be in the wrong country. Stargazers or hobby astronomers might as well just look at a desktop background ...

That's not to say we should not build a observatory there - this is a good idea[0]. But it does not solve most of the issues these satellites pose.

[0] Though a space station might solve a lot of similar issues without the need to land and take off.
Most work in the world is closer to Coal Mining I'm afraid.

Losing your health by working 40+ hours a week is much worse than the baseline.

As far as the extraction of value not being exploitative, this argument simply applies to literally every condition of exploitation, and it is very possible to be employed without having a dominant superior. It would be good for you to arrive to a better definition of exploitation, otherwise plainly most relationships of employment do involve some sort of exploitation.
I have seen StarLink satellites with my naked eye many times and confirmed with the Dark Sky app, past midnight as well.
Will do, thanks a bunch!
Perhaps soon the richest capitalist on the planet will catch up with 1960s communists :)
To me, both statements are true.

Sex work is empowering because it gives opportunities to people that they wouldn't have otherwise.

It's also very exploitative and risky, both for workers and clients.

In an ideal world, we would find a way to make sex work less exploitative and risky. In the real world, prostitution is a complex problem as old as humanity itself...
I sure do hope not, but these days it sometimes seems like too many humans are waiting for any excuse to chop each other to pieces (figuratively and literally).
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Did I miss it or was there no in capsule cameras for this one? I thought the Branson space flight had a little more drama to it because of the scenes from the cockpit and passenger area.
If orbital launches are cheap enough to make these mega constellations economically viable, then we should be having the debate about moving commercial astronomy into space.
For a while, recording a movie was absolutely legal in Canada.
How did we give the hacker news "hug of death" to substack.com ? This is basic text on page, pretty lightweight right?