skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus' teachings are best understood in their historical, cultural, and geographical context. The superficial analogies that are drawn in the Zen Teachings of Jesus are an ad hoc theory imposed on rather than derived from the teachings of Jesus. It is similar to how some astrologist writers seek to put an astrological spin on the gospels to siphon off some of the star power of Jesus. It's religious parasitism.

Jesus adhered to the Hebrew religion and comfortably stayed within that tradition. His emphasis on 'silent' prayer, was simply in contradistinction to the hypocritical performative prayer of certain religious leaders that did not come from pure motives. The reason why prayer was silent, was not because it was in any way meant to be a mystical eastern style meditative experience leading to some kind of emotional ecstasy or zen or any other psychological manifestation, but rather because it was meant to emphasise the true goal of prayer i.e. maintaining a personal relationship with God through verbal communication.

Believers were encouraged to approach God like they would a friend or father and speak to him about their lives and not consider their human needs too lowly to concern a deity. Eastern meditation on the other hand is characterised by emptying of the mind, the polar opposite of how Jesus taught his disciples to pray. Jews and Christians throughout history have believed that on the other end of a prayer is a personal God who is responsive to our petitions whereas buddhism has no concept of a personal God but instead concerns itself merely with the human mind. For Jews and Christians the efficacy or power is not in the act of praying, but in the voluntary act of God. For Zen buddhists the efficacy or power is inherent in the act of meditation.

Communal prayer was still considered appropriate and was encouraged, Jesus just didn't want anyone showing off to their religious friends as a means to gain status without truly caring about God, His righteousness, etc.

Prayer by itself was also not considered a method to discover truth. There is a heavy emphasis on seeking truth in the study of the word of God which runs throughout Jesus' teachings, which was already present in Judaism and continues to this day in Christianity. The desert fathers, as well as mystical sects in judaism and islam are outliers, and their religious practices are amalgamations of mystical traditions of other religions with their respective host religion (christianity, islam, judaism). Theirs is a religious phenomenology that draws on the religious verbiage and concepts of a familiar religion, without concerning itself with the authoritative source of said religion, but rather with seeking a mystical experience.

It is not just literalists and evangelicals that consider eastern style meditation and associated religious concepts as foreign to mainstream historical christianity and judaism, it's most reputable scholars in the fields of NT studies, Church History, etc.
Even with binary data we spend our time flipping the bytes to network order.
This seems to be more of "don't paste garbage into a terminal, especially as root." With a sidenote that it might be safer if your custom application command interpreter didn't use > as the prompt character. I note that Bourne shell defaults to the safer % and # characters for the prompt. The # character for root is especially safe.
This hit home for me during the mini-crash a year ago. I was convinced assets like bitcoin or gold or bonds would hold value when the stock market tanked but instead saw everything fall at the same time.

I understand the concept of undiversifiable risk, but seeing it play out in practice was eye opening.
Haha the cherry on top if so: were you paid the same?
No, about that they just enriched the Basic plan to now include a single sign-on (SSO) without changing the current price.
What software do you use to encrypt your phone and computer?
Agreed! I've added a couple screenshoots of the main views within the app. I know more can be done around this, but hopefully this is a good start. Thanks for the feedback!
I don't see how using Reactive makes you incompatible with Project Loom.
No excuse for a keyboard to have internet permissions, but that's how they turn a profit. There are some great opensource keyboards available through f-droid that don't have any internet permissions, like AnySoftKeyboard, OpenBoard, and Simple Keyboard.
> And there are enough places in the world where the "slaveowners" were those who, if I'd named them, I'd be immediately considered here as a "racist" for just mentioning the historical fact.

You're clearly hinting at something specific, though I don't know what it is. Mind explaining?
Once there is money involved, people will be dogged. Nobody is going to take it sitting down if they're making tens of thousands of dollars and you shut them down.
Probably has more to do with the fact that society on the whole tends to build more than it destroys.

More value is created over time than lost.
I'm a black american and I think it's more racist to attribute the word "master" to master/slave dynamic. Especially when I've always thought of something like "master" in the context of GitHub to refer to a "master" copy. This change is ineffective.
Let me introduce you to comp.sources.unix: https://www.krsaborio.net/unix-source-code/research/1987/081...
If your mother ever told you how to do something which required you to make decisions along the way, she’s a coder.
Frankly, personal anecdotes disagree. I don't need managers breathing down my neck because they aren't capable of resolving the issue, and end up overcommunicating with the customers, reinforcing behavior in customers to continuously ask for information instead of realizing the harm they are doing. "Two days" means "two days", no matter how many times you ask for a progress update or try to push it to one day.

Quality managers doing more than shoving boxes, that's a different story. We are definitely lacking high quality management capacity actually capable of preventing these situations from happening in the first place. I'd argue an overcapacity of managers actually actively prevents healthy relationships and usage of developers. People who aren't capable of doing anything useful in the moment, get antsy. It is a lot easier to get antsy as a manager than it is as a developer with an endless backlog.

That's also one of my arguments against full time managers. Management work is actually pretty rare, and full time managers tend to inflate it as to not twiddle their thumbs. As we move towards more "self-managing" practices (actual self-managing), total FTE of managers required drops significantly. It makes more sense to hybridize the role, so they keep an affinity with technology, than to put them on the "people manager" path which makes them rapidly lose their connection with technology and will quickly makes them stub their toe against Dunbar's Number. That's before considering tech will rapidly take away most of management's routine work. Their most important responsibilities don't take the majority of their time.
I sardonically feel like you already know the answer to this ;)

(but yes)
Unfortunately, most of the answers that I have seen come down to saying one and the same thing, namely, that a BSD is better because its userland is "part of the OS." Though could be true, this is not very enlightening.
TBH, I didn't even know they offered this. I'm surprised they don't do more self-promotion on their platform
Coders are not special, or extra smart, or anything like that, and there are too many already who are prone to the sort of idiocy and hubris that creates a superiority complex. How's that for not sugarcoating it?
Doesn't seem to be?

Looking at the title just now, it just says "Tusky has been removed from the Play Store". There's literally no context as to WTF a "Tusky" is. ;)

That being said, people who care could probably do a general online search and find out... :)
I guess that is the question, is it the fault of .NET core or FreeBSD , that it is not availabe for FreeBSD?
For me this type of analysis is always suspicious because it doesn't consider timing. How do I know that when I buy stocks I'm not buying at a peak, or when I need to sell them I'm not going to sell at the bottom. So I ran an analysis [1] where I just used random timing and checked what distribution would be. Turns out if you are long term investor (> 10 years holding period) it is more beneficial to hold stocks than bonds.

"Even if you had to sell your stocks at the bottom of the Great Depression, but held them for more than 20 years before that, you would not suffer a loss in value of your portfolio"

[1] https://www.investingrus.com/blog/safest-bet/
Though real estate has gone up on average for the last several decades, this has not always been true as you can see from historical data. [1] [2] [3]

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwake/2019/03/30/new-study-o... "Old Real Estate Bubbles (1582-1810)"

[2]: https://globalfinancialdata.com/seven-centuries-of-real-esta... "Seven Centuries of Real Estate Prices"

[3]: https://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2011/07/housing-pr... "100 Years of Inflation-Adjusted Housing Price History"

([3] is inflation-adjusted. For [2] see the second chart for inflation-adjusted prices. [1] is not inflation-adjusted but there wasn’t much inflation in Amsterdam back then.)
I use OpenBSD for most of my servers, with FreeBSD mixed in too. It is very simple to administer, easy to upgrade (sysupgrade every six months, syspatch otherwise), reliable, and fits how I like to administer it. Pf on OpenBSD has pf auth which allows unblocking ports for users who have sshed in, which is nice when you are on a dynamic IP. It is generally just a nice system, minimalist, and straight forward. I don't want a million moving parts, just a UNIX platform to build on.
No, it's good! It's free market efficiently re-allocating funds from stupid people to clever people who would have a better use for the money.
It is probably fairly easy to create a fork of Apache with a better configuration language. The fact that no such fork exist (or more precisely, the fact that you don't mention it, which is strong evidence that you know of no such fork) is evidence that most Apache users are OK with or roughly indifferent toward its conf language. (I know nothing of it.)

I, too, believe that usability matters a lot, and I'm curious what you think of bash.
what about finance?
I'll say that the reason I have been considering switching is more of an ideological, not bragging rights, but after years of seeing free software be attacked and assaulted by supposedly "friendly" companies, who are constantly trying to take away my power to control my machine it pushes me to want to take some sort of stand. It may not be much but least I am doing something.

The only other big thing holding me back was the tooling but now that I've switched most of my workflow to Emacs, the option of choosing FreeBSD is becoming more and more appealing.

EDIT: Just be clear, I have been using Ubuntu as my daily driver since 2012; however I don't love all the decisions Canonical has made, I don't like how the entire ecosystem has grown to a level of complexity that makes it hard to understand what the hell is happening under the hood, and I am beyond peeved about the havoc systemd-resolver has wrought on my system.

EDIT 2: If anyone has any other suggestions for a better more free distro that I can use I'd love the advice, the thing keeping me form Hurd is worrying that it won't have full driver support.
I can personally attest to this. I've been in a couple positions where there was simply nobody to ask. If you were stuck, you were stuck. It was awful for obvious reasons but my ability to self-resolve skyrocketed.
And/or maybe the context of each banning matters? :)
(A port of) Visual Studio Code is available for FreeBSD (using it myself); `pkg install vscode`.
If you would like to use docker, you could run a Linux distro in a virtual machine with docker daemon and configure your host docker command to use the daemon inside the VM. That's basically how docker works on macOS.
If Aliens visited earth, they would see us all and exclaim "WTF!??. Let's go back. This place sucks."
It's impossible to overstate how much I agree with the need for a separate project management role. Project management is the biggest distraction I have from the "things only I can do" and the biggest morale and time suck. I don't have advice to give because I haven't solved my lack-of-project-management problem, but I sincerely believe I could be much more effective if this was off my plate.
> ethnic studies are forbidden in France

Yep, crazy. As an offshoot of that, affirmative action is also forbidden. True story.
Many of the items on the checklist are questionable. eg.

>Can the wireless network(s) be scheduled to turn off at night and then back on in the morning?

This seems almost tin-foil hat level security. Nobody is wardriving at 3am and hacking into your wifi.

>Is it limited to one logon at a time? It should be. The router should not allow multiple computers to logon at the same time using the same userid.

How does this improve security? I guess you can use it to catch an attacker on the rare chance that they get access at the same time you're on the admin page, but that's not really worth considering.

>Can the userid for the web interface be changed? Every router lets you change the password, a few let you also change the userid. This is most important when using Remote Administration. An October 2016 study of 12,000 home routers by ESET found that "admin" was the userid "in most cases."

What's wrong with "admin" with a secure password?
> Who are these people?

People on the Pinephone forum. Simple survivorship bias.

Judging from the videos I've seen, the Pinephone is for tinkerers for now.
Nitpicking, but the OCS ("classic") Amiga can also display 64 colors (in half brite mode) or even the full 4096 color palette (in hold and modify/HAM mode). That's what made people's jaws drop back then.
I love these kinds of projects.

My favorite of online noise is
https://mynoise.net/

Infinitely configurable, can save personal settings in a cookie. Good stuff
Hello.

Since I was out and about today, I took these pictures

https://imgur.com/a/F410FAZ

The first picture shows the cable with protector, that a neighbour uses. It's not in use but you get the idea.

The second shows more permanent infrastructure - a charging port built into a lamp post. Picture taken across the road from the first. Note the logo of https://www.ubitricity.com/ and instruction sign. Sometimes I see new model LEVC taxis plugged in there.
Instructing users who want high-performance code in Emacs to write their code in C and rebuild their Emacs binary, or figure out how to make it a dynamic module, is about the most user-hostile way I can imagine to improve Emacs performance.
When investing the same amount every month (dollar-cost averaging), the difference becomes even larger. Using your portfolios, but adding $250/month in addition to the initial investment of $10k, you end up with $128k with gold and $207k with SPY (total investment ~$85k): https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t... (with QQQ, it'd be $380k)

Comparing one-off investments is very dependent on the start date, and dollar-cost averaging more accurately models what people can actually do and which returns one may be able to expect. Who has a large lump sum laying around to invest rather than investing a portion of one's income every month/quarter?
I assume they were belittled for saying the D word.
We're this far into the thread and you've yet to tell me why I'm so wrong, and why you're the guru.
Well, if you're actually not upper middle class and at the top of the bracket then I'm wondering how you came to the conclusion a more regressive tax graduation would help more regular people, rather than a more progressive scheme and closing tax avoidance loop holes like you seem to describe as the problem.

That being said, it sounds like you're the upper "middle class" everyone here is describing since it's really the very rich that have the option to pay themselves in things like dividends in most countries (though this may be a miscommunication).

55% isn't bad most places outside of the US actually, where do you live precisely?
Oh wow did someone say that would happen?
Which would be better? Why? Are you thinking of push notifications, or is it something else?

About push notifications, UnifiedPush is quickly becoming an interesting alternative: https://unifiedpush.org/
You might want to learn about corporate structures some other way since VAG comes from Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft.
For real. When I hear "cows are like a member of the family" I think "oh, like cats and dogs are members of my family."

And if everyone around me had to adjust to a culture where dogs were treated like the dairy and veal and cattle industry? There would be an outcry.
Why FreeBSD and not Linux?
Does steam work on Freebsd?
Which has nothing to do with GitHub, certainly isn't about the t-shirts, and had one bad year due to specific popularity among a non-technical crowd.
Try https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_0wX_SbN2V0/YFBrGdGEasI/AAAAAAAAS... for an image with more annotations.
I agree. That's not a very compelling argument at all, IMO.

I've read some other stuff, too, though, such as praise for the ports system and FreeBSD's "jails" feature.

But I imagine it's a little like Linux distros. If you don't already use Linux, it's kind of hard to understand why anyone cares about the minor differences between distros.
I'm not prepared to write an entire article on the subject and I'm not sure it would be wise for me to publicly criticize my wife's employer. But I can at least elaborate on how I feel the funding is being mismanaged.

The biggest problem I see is a bloated administration. As is the case with most large organizations, power gravitates towards the top. The admin at the top get overwhelmed with responsibility and end up hiring more admin beneath them to handle things, but the power just gravitates back towards the top and the cycle continues until you have a highly-bureaucratic, admin-heavy organization. The salaries for all those admin has to come from somewhere.

Meanwhile, teachers are treated as warm bodies to fill positions. Their performance is evaluated by admin who have little-to-no actual education experience, so grade inflation and brown-nosing are the most effective ways to keep a teaching position. This ensures the school keeps wasting money on bad teachers while the bloated admin retains support from the rest of the organization.

Many teachers get shuffled around from school-to-school, and in some cases subject-to-subject, so they are constantly adjusting instead of refining their craft. Admin's solution to this is to take the burden of course development away from teachers by purchasing bundles of course materials/frameworks from third parties and pushing (sometimes requiring) teachers to teach according to them. So much of the material ends up being useless that teachers end up having to spend just as much time/effort anyways adjusting the material and sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Going into a little more specifics, my wife works with special needs children at a high school level. This is getting especially frustrating because admin and other non-education staff lazily put any kids who misbehave or just don't do their work on special development plans. These plans involve a lot of costly bureaucracy and are very difficult to get rid of once created. Meanwhile, my wife has to put less and less of her attention on kids who legitimately need the extra help as an increasing portion of the student body gets put on these plans.

Naturally, many of the kids don't like getting put on special development plans and separated from their peers. Admin's solution is to abandon self-contained classes for kids with special needs in favor of co-taught classes where two or more teachers manage an oversized class of mixed-needs students. This results in classes which are less effective for both groups of students while costing more as teachers now have to spend extra time and effort on coordination.

These are just examples that are fresh in my mind based on recently discussions with my wife. Unfortunately, a lot of this isn't made evident by budgets.
One thing that pg's essay implies is that these two axes are orthogonal. I don't believe that to be the case, though this probably changes depending on how important conforming to any particular position is to the individual's group identity and self-image.

Anyway, it is an interesting model, but the non-ideological formulation isn't actually supported by existing data. You may find the sort of thing you're looking for by looking into the existing research on Big Five personality traits, authoritarianism, conformity, and perhaps conservative vs. liberal political leaning. The mappings aren't straightforward.

Conformity is associated with higher scores in agreeableness and conscientiousness, and low neuroticism.

Authoritarianism is associated with higher scores in conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, and lower openness.

Conservatism is strongly associated with conscientiousness, liberalism with openness and neuroticism. Agreeableness is weakly associated with social conservatism but economic liberalism. These associations are for the general population, and change considerably based on gender and race.

The most difficult aspect of pg's model to interpret is the active/passive axis, which doesn't map cleanly to any of the Big Five (which is somewhat of a red flag). Instead, we would have to cherry pick individual facets of the Big Five and try to construct a new active/passive composite axis. Candidates, I think, would be the activity and assertiveness facets of extraversion, the self-discipline facet of conscientiousness, and the impulsiveness facet of neuroticism being associated with an 'active' person whether conformist or non, while passivity might be associated with the compliance and modesty facets of agreeableness, the deliberation facet of conscientiousness, and the self-consciousness facet of neuroticism. This is all pretty speculative, though, and I suspect that active/passive is too dependent on context to be considered a personality trait, other than the active facet of extraversion, which has more to do with energy than a decision to act overtly.
Love this!

Small bug: if you adjust the sliders while the sound isn't playing, the next time you click "Play" the adjustments won't take effect. This includes if you Play -> adjust -> Pause -> Play (the levels get reset but the sliders don't)
Not only can you run diversion, you can then run a vpn and always tunnel through your VPN with diversion.

DNS leakage is one other thing to solve.