skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article it appears that some of the reluctance to vaccinate arises from the potential for loss of income due to temporarily decreased milk production. This lasts for a period of weeks. The other sticking point may be the potential for income loss due to vaccine-caused late-term abortions.

Perhaps it would be useful for the Indian government to educate the farmers about the benefits of vaccination via a mobile phone ad-based campaign. Emphasize that vaccination only needs to be done once for each animal and they are protected for life.

In addition, to manage the reluctance of individual farmers to vaccinate based on potential income loss, offer a temporary financial subsidy based on the local price of milk that would be sold. This might require some knowledge about how milk production is typically affected so that adequate payment schedules can be calculated based on strong data about production declines and their usual durations.

Since the vaccine can cause late-term abortions which also affect the financial viability of the farmer's operations a subsidy can be created to compensate for that loss and could take the form of a one-time payment of the projected value of a calf that would be made to a farmer who can demonstrate a loss post-vaccination. This would encourage farmers to maintain a relationship with local veterinarians at the same time since the veterinarian would verify the loss. As a result, herd health in the country could improve significantly in a few years.

All of this should end up being a temporary program since you will eventually run out of cattle to subsidize when you reach the point where all calves are vaccinated at birth. Preventing this from birth eliminates the need for the milk subsidy and for the abortion subsidy so if you can get strong buy-in from the cattle owners it may be possible to eliminate this problem quickly.

Vaccination efforts should focus first on heifers since they are the ones suffering the abortions and the decrease in milk production. The secondary focus should be on new-born calves of both sexes. The tertiary focus should be on bulls.

By focusing on heifers up front, your program costs should scale back to regular vaccination administration and animal tracking to insure that most cattle are protected.

I own no cattle myself, I am a geophysicist, but I grew up in rural Texas and have worked a lot of cows, docked and castrated sheep, raised chickens for eggs, and some family members currently raise cattle. I don't see the inability to cull as a huge hurdle since this looks like a solvable problem. Obviously if you could just cull the sick cattle from the herd then the problem is eliminated more quickly but in the absence of that option go with the tools you have available. It may take longer but with appropriate buy-in from the cattle raisers after a comprehensive education campaign you can end this in a few years. Their target date is 2025 and that looks reasonable. Maybe they are already doing this. The article doesn't say with certainty but it is obvious they are committing significant money to the effort. hopefully they can direct it to the right part of the problem.
Love the idea!

Where do I make a bug report? I think turning down the old man doesn't work; if you turn off all sliders, you still get the voice telling the story.
>I don't mind being on a network without people who don't want to pay for it.

OK. Either this is a missed opportunity to satisfy a market need, or there is no market for that kind of social network.
Buffalo Public Schools was victim of ransomware attack
It's not an indirect reference. Word "master" in BitKeeper was used for context where word "origin" is used in Git.
It's a good counterpoint. Every developed country will end up as Japan eventually [1], and timing won't help you; where else would you put your investment assets to get exposure to similar risk adjusted returns (developing country returns expose you to greater risk)? Waiting for values to decline will be ineffective, as central banks will acquire assets to prop them up (Bank of Japan is the largest owner of the Nikkei [2]). Returns will decline, and the cost to obtain those declining returns will rapidly increase as trillions of fiat worth of capital chases it.

Over a long enough period, stonks only go up because that is what we've collectively agreed on, and government will backstop at all costs [2] while population and productivity extracted from that population declines over time [3].

I recommend "Shrinking-population Economics: Lessons From Japan" [3] on this topic.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2014/02/World-population-...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-06/boj-becom...

[3] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/4924971189/
Preservation of the status quo?
As another black SWE, I'll add that I disagree with your perspective. I think the name change does more harm than good because it trivializes the movement. If the goal is to change minds and open hearts then where appropriate, we should endeavor to communicate in ways that will be well received by those who need to hear the message. Stuff like this is just preaching to the choir and alienating the rest, but also not actually changing anything that matters in the lives of black people.
Banks? Seems like an obvious choice, given they have vaults and guards, etc.
Well, if you're Sony, the BSD license lets you take the code, make hundreds of millions of dollars off it, and give absolutely nothing back. The PlayStation 3, 4, and (I believe) 5 operating systems are built on FreeBSD.

I've seen some of the BSD folk present that as a good thing. To each his own, I guess.

Concerning desktop/server usage, I like this quote:

> “If it ain't broke, don't fix it”: If you already use an open source operating system, and you are happy with it, there is probably no good reason to change.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/explaining-bsd/comparin...
I really don't get it either because I hate all of those things, but that probably is why you and I don't want to be managers.
I agree with you on some parts. Don't rely on Google, be available via other methods as well. But that does not take away from the fact, that if you lose access to Play Store and Apple Store as a means of distributing your application, at that moment you will have permanently lost access to 98% of potential users. The few that bother to install a .apk manually or use F-Droid aren't significant. How many people do _ever_ even search for an app outside of these stores? I'm guilty most of the time myself. One more factor: Especially with social apps the network effect is everything. Even the few hardcore lovers of your app stop using it, if not enough 'non-technical' users do. Having 100 contacts, 98 of them on WhatsApp, 4 of them on some social media app you have to tell your contacts to download the .apk from somewhere in order to use it? More often than not you can't even get people to install Signal, and it's one click.

You don't survive something like this and you won't regain your user count outside of these curated app stores.

It's pretty much as simple as that. The dream of "if it happens enough times F-Droid and alternatives will become more prominent" is just naive, it doesn't work like that. There is no level playing field to compete.

"The solution has always been to have a self-hosted backup [...]" - the solution to what? The solution to compete from outside of these curated stores where companies dictate course? No, it's not a solution for that, because it won't do much for you.
This got me thinking about treating a surface with Black 3.0 paint and printing astrophotography images on top of that, but I wouldn't know how to get a large format printer to safely print on top of the treated material.
Say you confidently bought the roaring Eurostox 600 in March 2000.
You saw it coming back to its value in July 2007.
Then reach 1% gain in March 2015. And a 7% gain in Feb 2020.

Buying S&P, or the Apple, Amazon and Tesla ones is another story.
Looking at the average can be misleading.
The problem with this is it assumes the macroeconomic conditions stay constant. But the macroeconomic conditions since 2008/2009 have been wildly different than ever before.
But X has happened many times, and Y has never yet become like Z. Automation has replaced workers on massive, ginormous, gigantuan scales. Factories have replaced manual workers, then more efficient factories have replaced those factories, and then that's happened again several times over. Yet still we have near full employment and many, many more open positions than we have unemployed.

How long are we supposed to wait for this prediction to come true, and how many times does this have to be disproved across how many economies?
It's not my job to read or reread my comments for you. If you have trouble asking questions, that's on you.
A bit more info here:

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/education/q-a-what-you-ne...
How much more difficult is it to navigate a FreeBSD install vs. Linux?

I currently use xfce4 with Ubuntu but have been considering putting FreeBSD on an old laptop
87% of voting African Americans voted for Biden

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/...
Imagine that your great-great grandparents were enslaved. Your grandparents weren't allowed to go to white schools. Your dad was harrassed by the cops as a young man in the deep south. You worry that your colleagues may think you wouldn't have been seriously considered for this job if you weren't an underrepresented minority.

During onboarding you learn "git checkout master". You type those words everyday for six months, never thinking twice. Your confidence has grown over those months and you begin to feel like you belong here. But there's one coworker, Brad, who just doesn't seem to like you. Or maybe that's just his personality. But Brad just never seems to have anything nice to say. His code reviews are abrasive, though they don't rise to the level of bullying. Maybe that's just how he is.

This morning Brad picked apart a commit you were particularly proud of. Code you thought was rather clever, he tore into as overcomplicated and premature optimization. Okay, fine maybe he was right, but he didn't have to be rude about it. You feel like maybe Brad just doesn't like you. What did you ever do to him? Is it because you're black? No, you don't have any real evidence for that. "But...maybe?" a small voice whispers in the back of your mind. Unfortunately you can't look to how other black developers are treated by Brad. There aren't any.

You get some fresh air to clear your mind before sitting at your desk to make those changes Brad suggested. "git checkout master". Typing those words, you notice for the first time that "master" is a word with other connotations. Really, they had to choose that word? I mean, it would be a silly thing to complain about aloud.

Nevertheless, for months, every time you type that word part of you thinks "Really?" It doesn't upset you, exactly, but it reinforces a sense that this workplace is--hostile is too strong of a word--but not welcoming to black people. Maliciously indifferent. The kind of indifference that sees an enormous racial disparity and shrugs.

It's called a micro-aggression for a reason. It's a small thing. But small things add up. And it's an easy fix, so why not?
>> PostmarketOS

> Not usable in touch mode

Are you thinking of a specific user interface? Phosh is quite usable, among others. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/User-Interfaces
It's DARTH VADER! Of course he is committing a micro-macro-mega-aggression! Maybe Darth Vader isn't your best choice for standards of real-world social discourse?
Based on the subtext of GP's comment, I'm guessing they're either offended by RedHat, Canonical, and/or Microsoft's various involvements, things like systemd or snapd, and think it taints the whole linux ecosystem.
Probably going to get downvoted for this, but looking at the headline I thought this might be a discussion about q-anon people.
Changing the default branch name in git is technically disruptive, therefore annoying to people who have to deal with it.
> "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's pretty straight forward. Users buying phones that cost $250 on average [1] will also spend less money on apps that users buying phones that cost on average closer to $700.

That being said, worldwide Apple only has 20% of the market now so while the average user is cheaper, there are quite a bit more users. That's probably why ad-based monetization also works a lot better on Android (more users).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/951537/worldwide-average...
I agree here to that this is the exact issue.

I will also add though that I think there is another dimension as well. I think much perceived middle manager "incompetence" stems from middle management juggling direction/pressure/expectations from senior management, and the realities of the program and the engineers. The best managers are capable of managing expectations from above while keeping their team shielded from all that overhead and just keeping the team chugging along and being productive. Other managers seem to have the ability to weigh their team down by allowing too much of the "managment overhead tasks" to leak down to individual engineers. I've seen this vary across programs and managers, and can't say I know all the answers, but I do know I much prefer the role of the IC....
And this is the perfect example of why so many companies are doing it wrong. Managers that truly believe they are the ones pulling the weight and making projects possible (without any mention to technology and eng. knowledge) and if not, it is because the engineers are over their minds and you have to micromanage them.

And because managers tend to be the ones proposing promotions or career upgrades, they reproduce this mindset by selection bias.

The point mentioned in some comment above about changing company if you feel forced to move to management has been proved by this comment. If you see this behaviour in management, no matter if you want to continue your IC career or move to management, run. Find a better place.
Perhaps your question is too generic? It all boils down to "right tool for the job". If you need support for latest hardware (as a Desktop OS) you will have better luck with Linux than the BSDs. On the other hand if you want a free, rock solid UNIX OS to run a network/file server, look no further. Also, ZFS & Jails (before Docker was cool).
I built SheetUI, a webapp that generates beautiful webpages from google sheets.

https://sheetUI.com
Well yes and no. Sometimes you can bring the industry back, but with a newer generation of technology. High capital investment industries like manufacturing I think are particularly amenable to generational leapfrogging because the original capital investors are very tempted to keep operating old methods for the margin. This gives an opening for any entity willing to make a new capital investment.

This is essentially what China did to a lot of US manufacturing, as well as SpaceX to old line aerospace giants.
I am reminded of the quote from Malcolm X:
"The only way the problem can be solved -- first, the white man and the black man have to be able to sit down at the same table. The white man has to feel free to speak his mind without hurting the feelings of that Negro, and the so-called Negro has to feel free to speak his mind without hurting the feelings of the white man. Then they can bring the issues that are under the rug out on top of the table and take an intelligent approach to get the problem solved."

This quote, in a more complete context, starts at 1:06 in this clip:
https://www.facebook.com/Malcolmxvideos/videos/4725356262694...
Prisma needs to make the Hasura-style automatic API generation easier. Currently it requires too much setup and moving parts.
I like how often the top comment is negative when talking about a free and open repository of knowledge.
When I was a kid in high school and considering a career in art, Mark Ferrari was kind enough to invite me to hang out in his home studio and chat about making art for games.

Apparently he had to fight with the engineers over switching to a dithered art style because at the time they were using run length encoding for compression. But, he re-painted a few scenes to be dithered and the improvement was so obvious that the engineers gave in and “made it work” (switched to LZW compression).
even if I had that use-case, I'd still be annoyed having the typing home position off-center.
This. First of all, I don’t think there is a “critical” period for learning programming like there is for languages, or motor skills (try learning to skateboard as an adult). My school curriculum, a foreign language and, yes, skateboarding have all been a lot more challenging than programming. I’d say that learning network administration is probably a lot harder too b/c stuff like that isn’t as logical as a programming language.
Now we're just quibbling. No it doesn't improve the speed at which the Elisp interpreter can churn through Elisp bytecode. We can however dynamically improve the speed at which some Elisp functions return, which would have the net effect of speeding up consuming Elisp code.
Thank you.

I tried hopping onto the Zettelkasten/self-markdown-wiki bandwagon with Obsidian but its non-commercial clause was really discouraging... so I said "F it" and returned to OneNote (which BTW does have pretty permissive links!).
Whar do you mean by that?
Interactive fluid simulation running in the browser. The domain is filled by a mixture of two liquids with different densities and viscosities, effects of gravity and surface tension. Many parameters can be changed dynamically. Various boundary conditions can be set on the edges of the domain or a solid body. The plain text configuration described in the documentation is encoded in the URL for easy sharing.
Whenever you criticize "progressive excess," some progressive says "well you would have said the same thing about slavery/women's sufferage/integration/etc".

This highlights the disagreement perfectly. Progressives view history as "the long march of progress". To progressives, ceasing to publish certain Dr. Seuss books, saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Chistmas," using terms like "latinx" and "BIPOC," announcing your pronouns, denouncing "whiteness," etc are part of the same historical process that ended slavery and passed the Civil Rights Act.

I just don't view history that way. I view historical causation and direction as fundamentally mysterious. There are a very large number of plausible interpretations of history and they all seem pretty convincing while being completely contradictory. We should argue over these interpretations, because some of them are better than others, but we shouldn't take any of them as gospel.
Ask HN: What skill has benefitted you the most?
Interview with the Creator of Orca
I used to spend hours on getting things like window managers, X11, etc. set up just the way I wanted them to be.

However, the older I get the less enthused I am about having to play around with config files to get basic features like suspend/resume to work on my daily work notebook.
Why is privacy intromission so trendy and tempting?
I understand this in hard-to-reach areas or for wildlife preservation, but you're effectively adding a real-time aerial Big Brother on everyone's head.

Is technology too widespread? Do we need moral courses, in addition to tech ones?
trickle down economics!
Yup it’s a slow steady stream, landing page has been up for a year collecting emails even though it only launched last month.
He's right though. Most public-facing statements from big banks and trading firms can be taken with a heavy serving of salt. Many times they are either doing the opposite or telling their actual big whales to do the opposite. Bill Ackermann going on CNBC crying and causing people to panic sell stocks near the March 2020 lows comes to mind.
The exact same thing can be said about what people refer to as "cancelling". It's not whether they're banned from Twitter, losing their contract or are voted out of office that constitutes the cancelling, but why they were.

Mitt Romney was not attacked for not representing conservative/republican values, but for going against a mob/cult (of personality). That is as "cancelling" as it gets, regardless if it leads to him being voted out in Utah or not.
All markets stop eventually. There's no natural law saying they need to go up forever.

Maybe you think they should keep going up, for whatever reason, and you might be right. But that's different than the fact that they increased on average in the past.
I imagine Cold War 2 as a bit more contrived, self-aware, and tongue in cheek. It would need its own Geneva Convention, Oversight Committee.

I'm talking about the Space Race. There might have been some fear of space lasers and spy satellites and whatnot, but for the most part, landing on the moon was purely about pride and bragging rights, and who gets to swing a bigger stick. We need more of that, to get people excited, and to push what we can acomplish, and maybe to make us a tiny bit more reckless. Exploration can be dangerous.

I also believe, from a marketing perspective, branding it as a War and not a competition would engage people more. Football level fanaticism. People arent going to wear jerseys and cheer for a Science Fair the way they would for a Science War. I can imagine selling War Bonds to promote the Science War, with nice prizes, to engage and reward people.
Yes great points. Another factor that I hadn't considered until recently (can't remember who pointed this out) is that most C-suite employees / executive editors at media co's / deans at universities are probably in their 50's and are in what is arguably the most financially critical parts of their life ... as in, they have a big mortgage (or two), need to be contributing significantly to their retirement, are likely staring at at least a few VERY expensive college tuitions, etc. They're levered up both literally and figuratively. The cost of losing a job in this situation is a serious threat that likely has many taking what they feel is the safest path to keeping their job, and many times that is whatever that really loud crowd is demanding.
Advice to clouds: Please simplify your costing structure for the small guys. It should be easy to understand and calculate. Per hour units are infuriating as well, it’s meaningless to people. If my lawyer charged me by seconds, I would have no intuitive understanding of costs until I pull out lawyercalculator.com. Billing can still happen in microunits.

I’m sure they know though and this is a deliberate obfuscation technique, a dark pattern by marketing people.

Edit: I want to clarify, Billing can still happen in microunits.
You were like 25 during the dotcom crash and 35 during the housing crash. It’s possible these events were timed in a way that inflicted maximum psychological damage for you. I know at 25 I had just started my first “good” job and my first child was born at 35.

Quite possibly you’re being too pessimistic.
Yeah. About the only relevant bit is that root prompts tend to use # as part of their prompt precisely to inject a comment character in case of mis-quotes/pastes.
No, because root has already an established, clear meaning in Unix world.