skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what the parent comment was aiming at is that you need a Windows account to follow that. I don't think you can use the store without an account, therefore not able to escape the S mode, therefore not able to install Firefox.
Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
This is the 2nd edition of learning from failures.[1st edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20960384]

Let's celebrate failures & grow.

If you ask about me then my biggest failure is not launching projects I made. I always want to make them perfect and feature-loaded.

So just take an idea, make the first version of it in <= 24hours and launch.
how so? as far as i am aware, this is actual meat, compared to a substitute.
Unfortunately it will change nothing, at least nothing significant enough to prevent destruction. Those who profit monetarily or politically from global warming will continue to ignore it, or ridicule those who do not.
I don't have a problem with "dumb" advertising. It's when a profile is kept on me that a line is crossed.
I didn't notice on any of them, but I notice the struggle of being constantly under attack, that's right. I mean, I do notice myself, being a kind of materialist and utilitarian social-democrat in country with a leftist social majority.

Well, maybe a bit of depression for those who have a softer personality.
If you login with a Microsoft account, what is your home directory name? Does it have an @ symbol in it? Do you then have to type that in every time you want to access a file at the command line?

> dir C:\Users\giantsfan123@yahoo.com\Downloads

Seems ridiculous to me.
Eponymous Laws Part I: Laws of the Internet
It sounds like you can afford therapy, you should strongly consider it. They can probably help you deal with your problems in a way that doesn't externalize your negative experiences onto others. If everything is someone else's fault, then there is so cause for self improvement and you will remain stuck where you are.
You can, but it doesn't. If I know I want to start it I can just connect with the client.

Sounds like you're arguing something like "yes, it's broken. But you can just reimplement everything and it won't be broken anymore".

Yes, I can also turn off "kill user processes on logout", but that doesn't make that not-broken.
It's common sense that many American institutions are a reactions to old European institutions, and you don't need to know that history if you don't care, but if you want to have a discussion about speech in Canada (which is still part of the Commonwealth and the topic of this thread), you better have an actual idea of the way those countries function rather than applying your standards to them.

If you want to claim you have an idea whether the American reaction and discarding of old norms was actually a good idea nor not, you need to have an actual understanding about what the ideas you were discarding were actually for. Otherwise you're actually ignorant, and arrogant and that is a bad long term combination.
> The only issue is convincing all those miners to go against their economic interest.

The minute someone comes up with a 51% attack that actually is in the financial interests of the miners, this becomes easy.

This is likely why it will be so difficult to ever move Bitcoin to a more economically friendly system: The miners will see any attempts coming and use their power to manipulate the system in the direction that benefits continued mining instead of more eco-friendly forks.

Bitcoin mining is a cash cow for a relatively small number of big players who have heavily invested in mining gear. They have no interest in letting this golden goose slip away.
I watched a video recently of a YouTube channel with 3 million subscribers doing a breakdown of how they make money, and they make $700 a month off the advertising.

What's the channel? This doesn't sound right. At all.
Thats what made ECS click for me: its an in-memory, natively typed database with a feedback loop.
Yes, the value of USD value is proportional to the power of the US government (and its judiciary/police/army)... The power to let the private sector flourish, mainly.

The value of Crypto comes from the decentralization (no need for trusted third parties), and is proportional to the hashing power of the network. Upstarts can easily be 51%ed by an incumbent with a large mining infrastructure of the same kind... But this holds as long as people with destructive power let them run.
Just to correct this point for anyone who doesn't follow the sport like the author:

> This F1 fansite claims that cars can get to around 110 km/h (~70 mph) climbing this thing, which we very much did not achieve.

The fansite link is stating that cars will brake to approach the sharp left-hander of turn 1 at 110km/h (~70mph) (site claims 85km/h on the apex), they'll do well in excess of that on the run up (300km/h+ on a flying lap or still comfortably beyond 200km/h from a standing start).

With that out of the way it looks a great way of using a racetrack when cars aren't going around it, and I'll have to see if there's anything similar in the UK as a lot of racetracks will often have very pleasant surrounds and similarly undulating elevations for a bit of a challenge. (Brands Hatch strikes me as having a lot of potential for a particularly pleasant ride)
> There is no formal method in OO that tells you what is a sound design choice and what is not.

System architecture is hard. OO design is a set of principles that helps you design a system better by making it easier to maintain and modify. It does not tell you how you should model your objects. To come up with a good model is usually not straightforward.

In fact your example is not an issue specific to OO design. This is a general issue of relationships ('many to many') and there are a number of design principles to help (see database design principles as that's a typical scenario in databases).

> Where do you place this method? You need to add it to PartsSuppliers, because no one else is allowed to have private references to Partts

That's not true, but as you say, this is too vast a discussion.
Really cool they made it happen. I looked at the topic years ago, and was pushed away from serum (e.g. FBS) costs, and potential PR backlash coming from using genetic modification or cell line immortalizion to decrease unit costs.
Alas, they seem to have done it w/o these modifications. I need to crawl into their patents.

There are clear advantages to produce animal protein via biotechnology, although I wonder if the formulation of more complex end product's (e.g. a bio identical steak) will be doable within the
cost frame.

I love how they made the PR in the whole industry: very ideologic, almost like Apple. I wonder how the acceptance rate will be. Interesting times for pharmers.

At the end, it is just another technology leap like the Haber Bosch Process. Sustainable management of resources and human population control is what really counts.
The greenest protein factory is the one that we don't have to build - even if it's 99% less land or 80% fewer greenhouse emissions than the traditional farming of cows, sheep and poultry. It's actually this: https://interestingengineering.com/the-explosion-of-insect-p...
There are better date/time data types in Oracle, and the implicit nullability of empty strings is great in practice, but these goddamn booleans annoy me to no end. You can use them in sprocs just fine, but a boolean column? No, that's too hard for Oracle to implement.
Our local "CDC"-equivalent has posted a warning (mostly to media) to avoid reporting about suicides during "the plague"... so yeah...

For young people, the school closings, dorm closings, curfews, movement restrictions and other "only for 14 days" decrees will cause greater psychological harm (and number of dead in that age group), than just letting them all get the virus.

Older people have a higher chance of dying due to corona, so the number might be different, and their social circles are usually a lot smaller, but suicide numbers are going up there too.
MacOS is the uncontested king of spying. It literally logs every single executable you run, when you run it, and where you run it from. And it shares this data with no court order as part of PRISM.

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
Better, dont use passwords at all.
> “An extraordinary claim should have unambiguous, clear, unassailable proof.”

This level of requirement is beyond what’s required to convict someone of murder in a court of law. It’ll basically never be met under any conditions.

It’s also almost certainly selectively applied to cases where they don’t want to accept a conclusion.

It’s admirable to lay out details, but I’m skeptical you’ll make any progress here. If their responses are in good faith maybe it’ll have some affect, maybe they think they’re responding in good faith? It feels strongly driven by motivated reasoning rather than a genuine interest in what’s likely to be true.
Honestly, programming without language aware tools in this day and age is very inefficient. Sure, in a pinch you can use a text editing program to edit stuff, but it wouldn't be so hard to install the standard editor in that case.
> Yet China and India continue to build new coal-fired power stations. And the G7 - Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US - won't give a date to phase them out.

The rich don't want to give up coal because they have gotten too comfortable with their overconsumption lifestyle, and the poor can't afford to not use coal because life in poverty is worse than life with climate change consequences.

Now is the time to invest big in renewable energy research and encourage our children to participate in it, otherwise we are screwed.
Many Linux games are only tested on Ubuntu. I personally haven't had more issues running Linux native games on Ubuntu than Windows native games on Windows.

Playing games on Windows often requires fiddling as well. Either having to lock the mouse to one monitor, fiddling with V-sync and FPS limits (often only possible through graphics card drivers, launch arguments or text config files), disabling Windows malware scanning, fiddling with Windows compatibility settings for older games, ...

Admittedly I now dual-boot to Windows to play videogames, but that's not because of faults in native Linux games, just the reduced selection.
I have to second this. The questions one has to answer:

What price do I set on my privacy and control?
vs
What price do I want to pay for inconveniences?

Privacy is a value (abstract) and inconvenience is a concrete experience (concrete). Many people find it easier to reason about concrete experiences then about abstract notions.
One thing I’d love to do is a Smalltalk implementation where every message is processed in a separate thread. Could be a nice educational tool, as well as a great excuse to push workstations with hundreds of cores.
Overproduction is based on assumptions around how variable farm output is. Climate change increases variability.
Last I checked DCMA did not require proactive removal like contintID, but to be responsive to claims. Did that change?
If you're interested in this sort of thing, but lack the time for a hobby project, Chamberlain makes a somewhat-smart device that will do this for you (AND allow you to remotely open and close the door).

We had a terrible problem leaving ours open, and I got one of these to help solve the problem. It's been pretty great, though it does require a phone app, network connectivity, and an account with Chamberlain. OTOH, it's HELLA cheap -- like $25.

I don't know if Amazon links are okay here, but that's where I got mine. The item name there is "Chamberlain MyQ Smart Garage Hub - Wi-Fi enabled Garage Hub with Smartphone Control, Model MYQ-G0301".
Politécnicas are regular universities with a different name.
“I’m not accusing Microsoft of having spied on users or abused its data-gathering capabilities.”

I am. The changes to Windows over the last year are designed to do this. For starters, if you install Windows without a Microsoft account (which is only possible if you lie to Cortana during setup and click “I don’t have internet access”), the modals and update flows that pop up after you complete installation represent a dark UX pattern designed to make you create an account anyway. Windows has also been updated several times over the last year to default Edge over your preferred browser (going so far as to actually force the Edge icon onto your task bar AND desktop AND force you to go through a “set default browser as edge” flow). Most recently I was auto signed up for a news ans weather widget (with ads) on my taskbar. MacOS isn’t much better these days because even a brand new Mac is loaded with Apple
Bloatware (do you want to pay for iCloud? Apple News? Apple TV+? Fitness? All music? All together in one package? Also here’s a new Finder format which defaults you to save to iCloud and hides your OneDrive).
I did a quick, back of envelop and the average cargo ship would need more than 30 hectares of solar panels ... I can would like to see a video of that going through a typical ocean storm.
Climate change is only going to make weather more erratic and our political systems won't be able to cope with the necessity of changing national borders as climate change shifts what areas are arable and inhabitable. I'm not very optimistic about the future.
The Scaling Hypothesis
I doubt you'll be able to know the differences in energy usage between the large teleconferencing platforms without a lot of internal knowledge of how the platforms work, how the networking protocols work, what hardware they use, etc.

However some of these companies publicly communicate that they're using only renewable energy sources -- if that's the case, the whole operation (except for the client side of course) is CO2 neutral.
Don't base you view on the opinion of others on the content of Twitter or you will end up a supervillain that wants to destroy humanity. At least anyone with a heart would, ironically.
Very well said. Fully agree with you. Both the personal desktops in my home, including the one used by my Sr Citizen non-techie Dad : are Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Thanks for sharing this constructive and helpful info.
Because it wasn't urgent at the time if the report, but the report is from 2018, more than 3 years ago.
The industry expects programming skills, yes. But a lot of the missing semester skills (how to use git, how to write unit tests, how to write a design doc) are very easily taught on the job. Topics like data structures and operating systems are more difficult to teach on the job because they do not come up every day and therefore do not get repeated practice.

I don't think it is unreasonable to have alternatives to the university education model. But I also think that employers would be very foolish to demand that junior engineers have prior experience with git.
> We need desktops to boot up fast, because you said it yourself, sometimes they just need to

I didn't say that. Because they don't.

> And no one likes waiting around for their machines to boot.

Nobody cares, if it's once for every month or two. Which it is.

> we need servers to boot up fast

But it's not actually booted until the service is up, so it's moot.
I've eaten Greek feta in Greece and identical cheeses elsewhere in the Balkans. I obviously can't prove that to you over the internet, but I'm okay with that.

I simply think it's a bit absurd to try to claw back a generic food name, simply because it originated in one country. I can at least sympathize with Champagne as a geographic indication, since there is a region with that name, but "feta" is just a Greek word (borrowed from Italian) that's become international thanks to the Greek diaspora.
Let's consider that cultured meats are okay as future historically-correct delicacies. We are religiously-attached to meat agriculture now, but we must kick the habit because it's killing us and going to kill us: resource utilization, climate change, antibiotics resistance, and pandemics.

How about we design a specific protein product that is healthiest first? And then second: how to produce it as efficiently as possible?
Depending on your climate, once you get sufficiently cold, many of your buildings will accumulate their own layer of white stuff (snow) anyways in the winter. This study was conducted in Chongqing which basically doesn't have snow.

I suspect that the effect of this is highly location specific, both in terms of climate, as well as average insulation.
Lockdowns are pretty bad, I think this cannot be emphasized enough. Still I think nobody wants to experience full-fledged pandemics like in the past that not just wreck social lives but whole economies. Right now some economies are quite well off again.

I think society is fading during lockdown, it really goes by the distance, let's hope that's changing back to normal soon.

> Everyone likes feminism! Men commit suicide at 5x the rate? Not a problem! Men work themselves till death

So do women, even in the G8 nations. Not sure if everyone likes feminism but also men have to suffer from the fallout of toxic masculinity. Like over-competitiveness, and yes this can also result in overworking. Even unrelated movements bring something anyone can benefit from. It's like with software, you think you fix a bug but at the same time you improve a structural problem.
How far are we from real meat texture as opposed to this minced meat for burgers?
Oh that is delightful. The clocks on the dutch railways use the same sort of clock. It's a shame the watch ticks rather than sweeps though, it would have completed the effect.
The most obvious benefit of usingOkinawa Flat Belly Tonic is weight loss
Fired by Bot: Amazon Turns to Machine Managers and Workers Are Losing Out
This is one of the reasons it's such a big problem that the US government is a gerontocracy. Old people don't care about climate change because it won't affect them.
This shows neatly how some things are completely straight-forward in theory but turning them into a good, polished experience is the really hard and creative part (in this example: how to apply the effect in a split-screen game).
This is a democratic model you are assuming, I don't think CCP needs the Chinese people to "support" anything they do, it really just boils down to whether the CCP leaders support it.
If you want to get real fancy you can have your F1 server generate a self-signed GCS url and have it returned as a 307 redirect. Even less load!
"Non-inflationary" in supply terms only, of course, but that's just half the picture. You can easily have inflation in an economy with a fixed monetary supply if velocity increases disproportionately. [1]

Worse, without a central monetary authority to adjust the supply boom and bust cycles are greatly exaggerated just as they used to be with the gold standard. There's no mechanism to address a deflationary spiral or runaway inflation (again that can happen with fixed supply). That makes it less reliable and less dependable.

There's no such thing as neutral and apolitical money, certainly not at the point of use.

This is broadly speaking wishful thinking and voodoo economics.

Currencies need to be fungible, predictable, cheap to transact and hold their value as long as required to invest or spend on basic needs. Bitcoin is absolutely none of these things, making it crap money.

Worse, it's the grey goo of energy usage.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2014/september/wha...
As a relatively inexperienced undergrad with some basic knowledge in C and python, can anyone recommend how I should go about to start getting involved in any project? I dunno how to work alongside anyone on anything useful or "real" and all I have done is making line drawing algorithms, sorting algorithms, avl trees and some basic games and simulations in python. I am kind of interested in lisp and functional programming but no experience with it..
> Old people don't care about climate change because it won't affect them.

Old people discovered climate change and tried to warn us.
No, I don't get it. When a large corp steals music from a small musician, they already get all this, and copyright doesn't help with the situation. Disney has been ripping off independent artists and musicians for decades with no consequences. Ffs even Robin Williams struggled to get paid by them.

I'm not sure what situation you're describing?
> The only issue is convincing all those miners to go against their economic interest.

this is almost verbatim from bitcoin whitepaper. more news a 11?
Minecraft for kids is arguably safer on Bedrock servers and clients with the parental controls managed through the Microsoft account.

While Mojang made efforts, the premise of the Java version was unrestricted server community and that remains the dominant paradigm.

Not everything should be for kids, not saying “think of the children” and use Win10 or iOS, just commenting on a less known value-add of a Microsoft Account for Minecraft parents:

How does Minecraft keep my child safe?

With the Better Together update now out on Windows 10, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, and recently Playstation 4, any parent or guardian can rest comfortably knowing that there are a few systems in place to keep their child safe. [And able to cross play with friends on any of those.]

If your child is playing the Java Edition of Minecraft then they're still being protected by all the great features Mojang has baked into the legendary game. However, the Java Edition of Minecraft does not require Xbox Live integration since it does not support crossplay with other devices, and therefore loses out on many of the parental control features parents enjoy elsewhere.

If your child is playing Minecraft on PC, it might be worth getting them the Windows 10 version instead. It's always on-par with every other platform for new features and updates, supports crossplay between platforms so your child can play with more of their friends, and can be moderated by Xbox Live and Microsoft Account parental controls. That's a win-win-win.

https://www.windowscentral.com/minecraft-guide-how-keep-your...

// Note that summer camps tend to require the Bedrock version and Microsoft account for this reason. It’s possible to get interop, unofficially, e.g.:

BedrockConnect: https://github.com/Pugmatt/BedrockConnect

Geyser: https://github.com/GeyserMC/Geyser/wiki/Supported-Hosting-Pr...
Most jobs that aren't manual labour won't be automated for a while, I feel like AI is going nowhere
This is why I haven't taken the dive either. Though, is this why Microsoft crested Hello?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sign-in-to-your-...
The article only really touches on weird language caveats, but where JS really gets weird is it's ecosystem. If you are working with JS in a commercial capacity you will eventually find dependency hell, arbitrary toolchain complexity, asynchronous and callback mind bending, transpiling and compilation, and all just to render some HTML. Quick, get your compsci degree bobby, we need to make this button go to another page!
Pragmatism of an runtime/ecosystem that highly favors backwards compatibility above all else.
Advertising is essential, you need people to know about your product somehow. People will not buy something they do not know, especially when there is competition.

The methods that are in use in current times on the other hand...
A slope of the slippery disposition, apply Norwegian sensibilities to it and whatever makes someone feel bad is punishable by fine.
for me Linux Mint was the first (and therefore last) linux that worked so well that there was no point experimenting with other linuxes anymore.

it's supposed to be "ubuntu-based", but the usability difference between the two is night and day.
could you tell me which games so i can avoid them