skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From TA:

Historically, vultures were widespread in India. But
between the 1990s and early 2000s their numbers plummeted
by more than 90%, from around 40m. The cause was
diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug that farmers began
using to treat their cattle. Though the drug was harmless
to both cows and humans, birds that consumed animals
treated with diclofenac suffered from kidney failure and
died within weeks.

According to the article, farmers were treating their cows with an anti-inflammatory drug and vultures then consumed the flesh of medicated cows and died and this was occurring on a large-enough scale to slash the populations of multiple vulture species.

The piece doesn't mention why those farmers were frequently administering diclofenac to their cows, how the vultures had been able to access dead cow flesh in large volumes up to that point, or anything about the structure of cow ownership in India. The piece is a monocle-wearing version of a "Banish Chin Wrinkles Forever Using This Weird Trick!" clickbait junk article linked via a photo of a woman holding a bell pepper against one ear and is emblematic of why I personally dislike glorified content mills like The Economist.

From what I can ascertain via a quick look around the Internet, in broad strokes, the people using diclofenac on their cows are/were small-holder (as in owning one or two or a handful of cows) dairy farmers who rely on their cows to produce milk that is consumed or used to produce other dairy products largely for their own households and maybe selling or trading a little surplus. They are/were using it treat mastitis. There are alternative NSAIDs (e.g. meloxicam) that are reportedly effective for the same purposes but less toxic to the vultures. I do not know whether alternative NSAIDs are as readily available as diclofenac, which is still available from pharmacies for human use after veterinary use was banned.

Cattle in the region could be dosed up to the gills with diclofenac or one of the other toxic-to-vultures NSAIDs without crashing the vulture population, however, if vultures didn't have access to large amounts of dead cow flesh. The slaughter of cows and the operation of slaughterhouses in that part of the world is tied up with religious and political issues unique to the region. You can find articles about the problem if you don't care for this one (from 2016): https://www.thedairysite.com/articles/4310/how-does-indias-s...

TLDR: Many sick/dying/knackered cows are abandoned by subsistence/small-scale dairy farmers rather than being slaughtered and processed for meat, leather, etc. and that's how they end up getting consumed by vultures. Larger dairy operations exist and are more able to make arrangements for their animals to be slaughtered, though political opposition and interference was (at least according to thedairysite.com, in 2016) increasing.
Most people on here do not make that much unless they work at a faang but if there job openings where you are please share.
So teaching about monopolies and anti-trust laws is not politically correct anymore?
To be honest, if you are a responsible researcher you are NOT running “experiments” in live environments that have potential to impact multiple regions.

The outrage here is understandable. I would be pissed if I was paged because halfway across the world, some asshole caused this intentionally. Also this mailing list is aimed at the operators, not the vendors. Different communities.

The vendor response here, I do agree is irresponsible. Besides OpenBSD, every one here just sucked.
That's valid, but the thrust of the top-level comment is that the computers are infected because they were windows (sounds plausible) with the implication that if windows were not the dominant desktop OS, malware would not exist (which is improbable).

Malware is only rare for MacOS and Linux because those are niche OSes, not because of inherently higher resistance.
> I think it worked out well for them. One is in her last year of high-school (going to school full time now) and one has already graduated from university, has a job, is doing pretty well.

I don't think these are good markers for if home schooling worked or not. Being able to function in society is kind of the bare minimum positive outcome. I was able to go through my day to day just fine but had terrible social skills. Plenty of people have terrible social skills. But most of those people cant source them directly back to their schooling a decisions that were made for them.

> If I look at myself, I would say I consider myself partly damaged from going to school. I think many of my peers also have damage from the school system. It kills the desire to learn, there are negative social phenomena like bullying and other abusive situations. Many young people under peer pressure get introduced to substance abuse. There's even extremes like suicide. Schools are not a great environment for learning or for socializing. Some people do well, some people do very poorly.

Okay. So you may prevent some bullying and exposure to drugs for some years. But when the child is an adult they will almost certainly come into contact with those things. How are they going to respond? Have they learned how to deal with and handle difficult social situations? Have they been pressured by their peers to do something they know they shouldnt and had the confidence to say no?

It feels like the can is just getting kicked down the road. From my experience, many home school kids will go too far when experimenting as an adult because now they have the resources to do so and no accountability.
Just looking up my local (German) retailer:

- Irons are commonly 2000-3200W (3200W is 14.5A at 220V)

- Portable Induction Stovetops are 3000W

- Deep Fryers are 2000-3000W

- Hair Dryers are 2000-2500W

And of course some things are connected via 3-phase 400V (3 220V phases, because of the 120° phase offset that's 400V between any two phases)

- actual oven + stovetop combinations, about 7000W for the stovetop, plus 1000W for the oven

- many tankless water heaters, 5000W-24000W seems common

The most impactful in day-to-day use are probably kettles and hair dryers, but with stovetops and water heaters there's probably a big difference in the prevalence in gas vs electrical, and tankless vs boiler simply due to wiring.
I'd say it's slowly happening. There was a large drop in 2019[0] by around 25% (~50TWh) from 2018, ignoring the 2020 drop (around 25% ~33TWh compared to 2019) due to the pandemic, 2021 was almost back to 2019 levels (-3.5%) and 2022 was an increase by ~6.5% compared to 2019. Looking at quaterly data[1] it looks like 2023 will be well below 2019 again. And no, it hasn't been replaced by gas[2], although there's no clear trend in gas for electricity, if anything gas consumption is down due to the war.

[0]: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...

[1]: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...

[2]: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...
Oh, for sure. Microsoft's dotnet team deserves massive props for the effort they've put into the runtime. As for why there's no `restrict`, `const`, or `move` semantics, it seems the runtime team is extremely averse to modifying the CIL's capabilities as it would be a breaking change; They'd rather have the library team add classes/attributes that the runtime recognizes and special cases.
195˚ tap water coming from a dedicated tank is not a common American thing, in case someone is wondering.
Given the infected folks in question likely had their machines involved in illegal activity, I'm not sure I'd want to test it. If someone starts running a meth lab out of your unlocked cellar, at what point do you become culpable for not knowing?

And are you really going to try to sue the police for shutting down the lab and locking the door on their way out?
In the realm of political donations, municipal politics is so often forgotten about, but is in control of some of the lowest hanging fruit for carbon reduction in cities.

Almost the entirety of carbon emissions in cities comes from 1) home heating and 2) transportation, both of which could be significantly impacted by city policy from environmentalist municipal politicians.

For example:

* separated bike lanes (incredibly cheap in the grand scheme of things)

* pedestrianization of public spaces

* legalizing relatively denser apartment buildings everywhere.

* public transit improvements

All work to take CO2 emitting cars off the road

Political movement toward bans on gas for home heating (already occurring in many places) a further way to reduce CO2 emissions.
Just had to have my apartment's AC capacitor replaced last week.
My whole life. That's why I'm begging to kill it.
I used to sympathize with this take until I bought a Zojirushi water boiler, which provides instantaneous hot water. Now even a faster kettle is a downgrade in experience.
I did a total of four 3-month sabbaticals - three of them via quitting, one time I got fired and was too burned out to immediately look for a job.

The most common reaction was surprise that I don't have anything lined up mixed with only half-joking displays of envy that I have the means to just do nothing for this long(which was somewhat of a headscratcher considering we all had similar salaries).

Nevertheless my current employer(or actually middleman, since I'm a contractor) is fine with them as long as they're betweeen projects - I need to notify them two months in advance and can pick up where I left. No guarantee that I'll end up in the same organisation though.

I wholeheartedly recommend doing them at least once every three years.

Not only you get to focus on other things in life than just work, you can time your job hunt for the hottest moments of the year - typically last months of each quarter except for Q2.
I don't think NFTs as a whole are breaking any FTC related laws. However, the way that they are marketed or sold could break some laws if the communications are deceptive. For example, a rug pull might be considered illegal under US Law Title 16, Chapter 1, Subchapter B, Part 238.4 "Switch after Sale":

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B...
I'm well aware of how vague and stupid regulatory laws can get. And I know that the government only provides clarity when they deign to do so, I'm not entitled to it.

I can write a letter to the ATF asking if my shoestring with two loops tied in it counts as a machine gun if I also own a certain rifle, or if I only own certain parts of that rifle, or if I sell it to a guy who owns that rifle; they might respond but maybe not. (As a matter of fact they have made public statements concerning such shoestrings, but only because they chose to.)
"Pensions" in the US generally refer to defined-benefit pensions, i.e. you worked here 10 years with a terminal salary of $100K so you get $X/month starting at age 65 (or whatever).

In general, private sector companies have switched to defined-contribution schemes like 401Ks, which are tied to an employer but can be (and generally should be) rolled over to IRAs when you leave the company.

Social Security is something else again that comes from the government but isn't usually called a pension.
They got a warrant to run the uninstaller and gather evidence: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-08/23mj4244_application_reda...
I live in the area. They completely redid I-94, which was probably necessary anyway. What wasn't necessary was the complete rebuild of all the frontage roads and county highways in the area. I feel for the people that lost their house under imminent domain.

There are still some people here who think that either Foxconn is still ramping up, or that it's the current administration's fault, or that they're actually still hiring a bunch of people. I personally don't know a single person that's worked for Foxconn in the area, but I do know a few people in construction that either worked on the plant or on the infrastructure surrounding it.

The deal did have a stipulation with tax credits that Foxconn had to meet certain job numbers by specific dates or it had to pay them back. To my knowledge they have been paid. But yeah, as you pointed out that doesn't factor in the massive change to infrastructure.
inverter technology is always an induction motor. No one runs an inverter to run a universal motor.
But nobody today is going to read let alone promote a blog about pivot tables. Sprinkle in LLM references, and the fad wave riders will sing its praises
I agree with this. I develop my own film and the way I manage water is to boil it, put it into sealed bottles, and store those in the fridge. This avoids bubbles more readily than just using tap water (which is over 20C in the summer anyway, which is why I do the refrigeration thing). No, I don't have an aerator on my tap either. Obviously that introduces a lot of bubbles.
Somehow I've never considered my home kettle too slow in the US, even though I have tea probably 2-3 times a day. And there's an instant hot water machine at our office, so it's not like I've gotten used to slowness.
> (Recently had a tank that shot my friends ship from the sky during an ingame event)

Except this isn't actually impressive if you've been playing games. Supreme Commander lets you block artillery shells with your planes if you are lucky, with zero scripted event, and that game released in 2007, is single threaded, is an RTS, and allows you to play 8 vs 8 games where EACH PLAYER can control 1000 units and play on a 50km by 50km map. Now that is impressive IMO.

Of course, if you attempted those things with a 2007 computer, you get about 2fps, but it works great nowadays. Also, that company was never handed half a billion on a silver platter before releasing anything.

More to your point, here are a bunch of other games that let you shoot a plane out of the sky with a tank, from before star citizen, that show just how mundane of a situation that is: Arma 2, Battlefield (all of them), Planetside 2, Damn Halo!, Various airplane and helicopter wargames from before the millennium, various tank games from before the millennium etc etc etc.

Hell, Atari's Battlezone from 1980s had helicopters as a target for your tank!
It's used in combat and trauma medicine, as it doesn't drop blood pressure or cause respiratory depression.
Nope. My dad worked for a company for most of his life. They dropped pensions during his tenure and he got nothing.
I first encountered Python around 2000. At the time Perl was more popular in the circles I frequented, and TCL probably about as popular as Python (eggdrop[1] notwitstanding), but Python was growing steadily. I encountered Ruby in the late '00s (as others have noted it made its english-language debut almost a decade after Python started) and Lua was another contender during this time.

My memory is that, at least outside of the web/RoR world, Ruby at no point as popular in the US as Python. Lets take, say 2005 as a point that Ruby was really gaining popularity due to Rails: at this point I was already seeing internal tools that previously would have been written in Perl being written in Python.

Python just seems to have maintained a certain momentum, and I'm not sure why, but if I had to guess:

1. The syntax is almost a dead-ringer for pseudo code. The first time I encountered Python, I fixed a bug in an open-source project having never seen Python before. I recall two different CS programs switched to Python from Scheme for exactly this reason.

2. It was designed to glue C together. Other languages were too (TCL and Lua; Perl primarily interfaced with the outside world in the same way shell does, with pipes).

3. A kitchen-sink approach to the standard library helped it a lot for the first 20 years of its existence. CPAN was sui-generis at the time for installing libraries, so the more you could do without relying on 3rd-party libraries, better off you were.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggdrop
> Also remember that in super heavy snow you don't just shovel the sidewalk/driveway but also the roof to prevent collapse.

Where do you have to do this? I've lived in several areas with snow (midwest, east coast, and Colorado), and never seen anyone shovel snow off of their roof. This sounds like an outlier case, not the norm for "leaving California."

In the midwest and east, snow shoveling has just never been a big deal in my experience, other than the occasional big storm that drops a foot or more (maybe once every 2 years).
Python lets people who would not otherwise program write programs. Back in the day the same people used excel with macros.
> The syntax and semantics of the language change in non-reverse-compatible ways between every minor release.

Even accepting this and assuming the average project was bit by every single one, the release cadence for minor versions is aboit once per year (recently, almost exactly that, in October), and minor versions are supported for 5 years, so this would justify updates every year if you were a maximally eager adopter, or every five years with a maximally conservative while only using in-support versions approach, or somewhere in between for less extreme cases, not every three months.

> As an example, between 2.3 and 2.5, the syntax for package variables was changed (and then the semantics were changed between 2.5 and 2.7).

2.7 was released 13 years ago. Why would you reach that far back for a relevant example?
There is a possible way to offset this, an energy consumer of last resort, someone who's paying you more than nothing but doesn't compete with other demands. Bitcoin mining is ideal because it can be deployed anywhere at any scale, it can ramp up to soak up excess power off peak, and ramp down to provide it back to the grid. Since mining is a globally decentralized competition for cheap energy, its unlikely it would ever price out other uses of energy, which could be limited by contract anyways.
The browser could use a different rendering convention for autopopulated passwords. For instance, it could render a solid black bar (no characters for the user to count) or maybe the phrase "autofilled", perhaps with a strange background color / rendering convention.
Grafana Pyroscope 1.0: continuous profiling for a modern OSS observability stack
One of the features I wish Postgres had is "column matchers" from ClickHouse: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/sele...

SELECT COLUMNS('_id$') FROM table;
SELECT * EXCEPT(id) FROM table;
SELECT * REPLACE(i + 1 AS i) FROM table;
SELECT * APPLY(toString) FROM table;
> This synchronized zigzag makes me think that

If the waging fixing scandal was not enough of the giveaway about their collusion. Post Covid, they laid-off people purposefully to get back control in their hands
https://observer.com/2014/04/wage-fixing-scandal-google-appl...
DRY should be an option.

Results may vary and depend on the code in question as well as the language you are using.

We - a former team a couple of years ago using Java - started to duplicate code in Java, because we were totally tired of interface'ing and class'ing everything away that was not DRY. It became to tedious to bloat code with them as well as understanding whole classes when all you got was references to other interfaces etc.

If there is a small service architecture like in Angular with TypeScript, abstracting away becomes fun and useful.

It all depends. But what I really do not miss is the pile of interfaces in Java and C#. These became so tough to grasp and entangled, that we DRY'ed this cesspool. DRY on DRY so to say.
I wouldn't make a big deal out of this, unlike worms, "bots" like this will come back after weeks/months because of the number of people involved and the spread of the malware "kit" (including server side stuff). They are constantly adapting anyways, there isn't a fixed set if domains and IPs you can block to stop it permanently.

They took down emotet as well but it's had a resurgence.

Qakbot in recent years has shifted to a initial access broker monetization scheme where it sells access (cobaltrsike,etc...) to more serious actors who will pay the access fee instead of hiring talent themselves to do the hacking. So they have a strong community of customers. They will need to arrest a lot of people at once and hope they got all the people needed to revive it.
Regional banks face another hit as regulators force them to raise debt levels
Maybe they should make an Android version and open to the rest of the world.
>So they have an excuse for the sluggish development pace.

Except it shouldn't take almost 1000 people more than ten years to make a single player space game.
What's the alternative method for credibly neutral decision making on a public internet site anyone can participate in?
Here’s one entry that should fascinate young hackers, who think tech company extravagance was a invented by Google in the dotcom era, and exclusive to Silicon Valley:

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/MA/Airfields_MA_NE.htm#dec

> As the 1960s progressed, Digital's success found it expanding rapidly, but unable to find office space near its Maynard headquarters. They began purchasing additional campuses all around Boston & initiated their own dedicated helicopter service to ferry people between locations.

> …

> Jack Falvey reported, “The helicopters were not executive perks at DEC; they were used by any & all employees who wanted to avoid traffic in going from place to place.

> This egalitarian policy further emphasized just how different DEC was & how indifferent they appeared to be to the cost of anything.

> In doing [my] case study, we were told that DEC had state-of-the-art video-conferencing facilities that no one used because it was sexier to take the helicopters.”
I live near the site of the old Lowry AFB in suburban Denver. I remember when the base was shut down, but not much beyond that because I was pretty young. Those photos of when it was in operation are incredible. Thank you for sharing!
Developer productivity is fundamentally unoperationalizable for all meaningful ways. The desire for which is a foolish consistency ie: the hobgoblin of little minds.

Every one of the listed decisions can be made effectively without an operationalization[1][2] of developer productivity and the sooner a playbook of methods takes over, the better.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operationalization

2. Campbell,Norman Robert. Physics The Elements 1920 https://archive.org/details/physicstheelemen029733mbp
I wonder if the FBI could legally brick the machines involved (particular if some were devices that had never been patched.)
Any. Eg of what's happening next to me: a tunnel has to be closed for repairs, so it's becoming way harder for customers to access your location. As a consequence you are loosing a lot of customer for whom it's really inconvenient to come now. You have roughly 50% less customers for now. Repairs will last 2 years, and insurance helps you pay for the rent until the end of the repairs.
The software on big routers that run the Internet is far more reliable than it was 20 years ago. It's not perfect and each vendor has cycles of good and bad code releases but it's so much better than it used to be.