skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google won against Yahoo and Altavista, Facebook won against MySpace, StackOverflow against ExpertsExchange.

One thing that the losers have in common is that their execution was not good enough (or outright bad in the case of ExpertsExchange).

But Altavista was huge when Google started. AOL had network effects that did not help them, so it is absolutely not clear that it is impossible.

People however are more lethargic and programmed by their mobile devices these days, so it may be more difficult now.
Landfills are storage units and will likely turn into vast repositories of useful materials when we have the energy and technology to sort through them. What is wrong with styrofoam piling up?

According to wikipedia, styrofoam doesn't essentially last forever.

Also, what's with the downvotes for asking a question? This place really seems to be going the way of reddit. Too bad... was a nice place to discuss the facts for a while. Apologies for making anyone question dogma.
I've worked with a lot of dickheads.

My only regret in hindsight is not just ignoring them.

Things do move so quickly in the workplace that it won't be long till he or you is gone or some other circumstance comes up.

I don't think it's always in your interests to confront problem people. Just nod, pretend to listen then do whatever you want.

Pragmatism man, that's were it's at.
98.59% of general users may not be 98.59% of users in government agencies which is a problem. A lot of users in government agencies are still using Internet Explorer, which makes this question important depending on the audience.

If you are building websites for users of government services its probably ok, if you are building websites for employees of government sites you might have problems.
That sounds like it's good for less than a year. Really? That's flimsy pre-trash if so.
How is iOS and macOS the same thing? It's not even running on the same architecture.
while that may not have been true I certainly didn't buy another steam game until I was on college broadband 3 or 4 years later
Personal choice is a right but uselessly destroying the environment we share is not your right.
What's Hong Kong, you mean southern part of Greater Shenzhen?

/s
Yacht Rock happened after (and during) Punk. Punk was more of a reaction against Prog Rock.

Incidentally, Generation X didn't create punk, that was the later baby boomers.
There's not very expensive filtration systems rated for 100,000 gallons.

The standard kirkland bottled water you see in the US in the standard 80 unit packs would run you $195,000 for that.

Municipal water would be about $1,500 for that + $150 filter.

It's a 99.2% cheaper option. Oh right and the 1.6 million water bottles you'd not have produced, right.
1.2B ISK seems to be: ~

£7.6M

US$9.8M

€8.8M
Exactly. And you don't have to say this and sound arrogant.

Our lives, especially with that high work-load we still have to cope with, don't allow us to choose many things to do when not working.

If you have family with kids you loose every tiny bit of freedom to "waste your time" on tinkering and get easily annoyed when things just don't work out of the box.

I like the possibility to customize everything on linux but I also hate how the linux world can't provide the standardization and clarity I am used to from OSX.

How on earth is there still no terminal emulator like iTerm2 on linux????!

From linux I miss the possibility to customize everything on OSX. I hate it how Apple allways tries to lock me into it's golden cage and imposes it's way of thinking on me.

In 80% of times I can totally agree with the apple way but there is 20% when I could throw that MBP against the wall with full force.

Ok I didn't want to start some OSX vs. Linux debate here it's just an example to show the love-hate relationship to both.

It's great there is some effort put into connecting these worlds. The way our economy works is the reason we don't have the computers and OSes we really want to have and sadly only the open source world will change this.
I only build things I actually want to use myself. If I, after research, find that my idea has already been done it simply means that there's an untapped market where either their product sucks or they're bad at marketing. Otherwise I would have already have known about them and I shouldn't need to do research to find it.
Way too hard, you should also continue jumping as long as up is pressed.
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In 1990 I also edited a friend's autoexec.bat to launch a quick basic script that would falsely check the disk for viruses and then prompt the user to delete their entire hard disk. Of course pressing "n" would print "y" on the screen and then display a fake progress bar along with a warning to not interrupt the operation in order to avoid disk damage.

I definitely had too much free time at the times. :)
I'm guessing it's because they haven't actually got anything yet. They have 2 images on their front page with the number of cups saved, and they're different amounts. They even use stock images of paper cups in one of the photos instead of their own cup.
To me this thread encapsulates why over engineering is bad. We don't need complex solutions to the problem of re-usable cups. We don't need an external company that will sanitise a returnable mug for you. The solution is right in front of everyone - buy a reusable container/mug/cup, fill it up, clean it when you're done. It isn't hard.
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Not completely.

Given the circumstances -- OP being new to the company and the other person being "friend of manager" -- I would say it would be really difficult for OP to pull off a push back. The advice to put your head down and smile can work wonders when used at right occasion (which I feel like this is one).
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Without downright complaining, you should talk to your manager. Friend or not it is his role to make sure that everything in the team goes smoothly and people get along with one another or at least can work together. If you don't provide him with the tools (i.e, the information) he needs to do that, then he'll just have to find other metrics to explain poor performance. And if that senior member is a hindrance to your work (make you redo stuff multiple time or through convoluted ways), then you will look like the "weak link".
Understand, the goal is not to fire that person, or you for that matter, is to find ways to make you work together. This can be by putting you in different area of the application for instance, so you don't work on each other's toe. Or reminding him than senior does not mean manager and he shouldn't tell you what to do. Or maybe you're actually the problem, and he will have to teach you a few things so that everything run smoothly.
Ultimately, if nothing works, you might have a fundamental difference on how to approach code than the rest of the team. For instance, on party might think performance is the most important thing, and should be seeked, even if it means reusability of the code, while another party think otherwise.
Some might like lean more on the overengineering side of the scale while another might lean more on the hacking quickly side of the scale.
If that's the case, being the new member and more outsider, you will have to either adapt your position or leave.
I've always been curious - having a x86 chip in a this form factor - is this a big deal? Hasn't ARM already saturated this segment of the market?
I agree re Asia but I don't think it's an either or situation. I also don't like carrying a cup which is why I think there needs to be a german style pfand system for cups. Straws I can live without completely if necessary. Shopping bags the same. Often I just stack the goods up and tuck them under my arm. Regarding the disabled aspect I reckon everyone has to adjust according to their circumstances whoever they are. The whole system shouldn't change to accommodate edge cases that can be accommodated in another acceptable way. I.E. of course you need to install elevators and ramps everywhere because there is no other acceptable solution but straws... I think that requires a bit of flexibility and effort on the part of the disabled to work with the constraints of the system for the sake of improving the planet.
How long have you worked with him? Your language suggest that you are making a lot of assumptions that might be false. This might be related to the fact that you are new and as a junior developer it might sometimes feel like people are against you for some reason. Maybe he actually is like you are describing, but somehow my gut feeling says that you are projecting your own insecurities onto him. I'm not dismissing your claim. Actually, he's a great opportunity to learn how to co-exist with people you don't particularly like.

And be careful how you use your language, just some points that got my attention:

- "who thinks he's my manager" -- You don't really know what he thinks.

- "like he knows everything(in reality he doesn't..." -- You don't really know what he knows.

- "He can't understand simple logic" -- I'm sure he can understand "simple" logic.

- "he acts like I don't know anything" -- People act differently, but you are the one who gives meaning to their actions. If you don't like him, everything he does might seem bad to you.

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Sounds like you're stuck up there on your high horse. Come down and chill out dude.
I think the ideal thing would be to find disagreements where you are objectively correct - where even your boss can see you are right, and then take those to your boss. Don't get emotional.

If there are enough of them he should get the point. If not he is not a good boss and your best option is to switch jobs (or move within the company if that is possible).
IMO this is only half of the picture. Yes, maybe a perfect fifth sounds boring if the timbres have perfectly harmonic overtones and no undertones, but that is never the case with actual musical instruments in an acoustic space. The waveforms aren't periodic in the first place.
This is one of those comments that flips between supporting my previous comment or arguing against it every time I blink and reread it.
The Texas economy is already done for in terms of oil extraction. Fracking won't be sustainable for more than a decade or two. The benefits of fusion power would actually cement US power through space exploration and colonization more than any other country.
If you wanna be a hippie like me, get one of those coffee thermos. Most cafés will fill those up in place of their cups if you ask them. Some even give a discount.
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Multiple shops like this can survive because each has limited capacity, i.e. these two go up exponentially after a certain (quite early) point:

1. Time between walking in and paying.

2. Time between paying and receiving your food.

If one of those restaurants could maintain quality, and keep the above two metrics flat whilst a scaling to 4x, then the other 3 restaurants would lose business and eventually go out of business.

Online businesses don't usually have the same limits to scale.
Who are the most well-known boomer characters in the media? John Rambo and the cast of FMJ?
On your own, you can do two things:

1) Leave ASAP

2) Take this as an opportunity to learn something which is really common with (senior) SW developers

I am not gonna tell you that (2) is easy. It's actually extremely hard, it can get even harder than what you think right now. However, time-box your learning experience: how long before you leave? how long before you have a nervous breakdown? In the meantime, try to learn as much as possible about communication with this difficult colleague. Some resources you might want to use are

- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

- Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in

- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

Then you can follow any other advice given here, like talk to your manager, etc. However, be cautious there, especially when talking about someone that has already some sort of power.
Yes, it's very hard :)

You should be able to adjust the jump height by pressing/holding the up key. Didn't that work for you? Which browser/os?
You can only have 100% verifiable container images if the Dockerfiles uploaded by users are reproducible (in the sense of https://reproducible-builds.org/). The vast majority probably aren't, and I'm not sure the Hub could reliably detect those that are.
Not trying to start an argument over words, but that seems a bit unfair to the authors. Their title promised they would analyze 1100 projects, and that is what they did. Being accused of misleading or even linkbaiting their readers by (let's be honest) armchair scientists imho doesn't reflect well on this platform.
I wonder where humanity would be, if people (including me) instead of arguing on forums, actually did something useful :)

Like Darling could be already polished product.
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This is getting closer to a solution but it assumes that damage is totally reversible given money. If you punch me and break my nose, I can sue you for 'damages' (loss of earnings, medical expenses etc) and in the eyes of civil law everything is OK - but really it would be much better if it hadn't happened in the first place! We recognise that by placing a blanket criminal ban on assault, and in the future I think we're going to have to accept that a lot more for negative-externality actions.
That’s also a brick thing. After WW2, bricks were needed in vast quantities for various public works, and the quantities of cheap brick shifted production to the south. That basically put the whole rest of the business out of business.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg builds his wife a glowing 'sleep box'
Java rest services. At the time we had heavy investment in Java talent and there was no reason to retrain a large group of in-house developers when they already had to learn a host of new technologies to adapt to the changing landscape of the web UI and mobile.
" escaped the effects of a global nuclear war through luck and sensible judgement by a large number of people"

-:

And sometime by a surprisingly small number of people too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov#Early_life_an...
Why does everybody insist on living in a huge single city? Why not just build more smaller cities interconnected with highways and public trains (for those of you who haven't been to Europe - trains can be very fast, capacious and comfortable)?
You miss the point I think: money may be a collective illusion, but Watts are very real.
For the majority of use cases a simple rule suffices: Write a parser which generates LLVM IR and feed the IR into LLVM. You only need to research two topics: parser generators and LLVM IR, and both are pretty simple skills to pick up.

There are a lot of cases where that doesn't work (eg. writing a functional language or a JIT or doing programming language research) but those are edge cases. In those cases you probably want to read one of Appel's books ("Modern compiler implementation in ML" for example), or the Dragon Book.
You have earned yourself a virtual high five, and a redeemable beer if we ever met in person :)

Thank you for showing this to me.
"one is not a prime number"

An odd royal and mathematical version of The Prisoner?
‘We Will Come for You’: How Fear of Terrorism Spurs Online Mobs
I've seen the 'private supply' notices but I've never seen them say that water should be treated first (nor have I ever had problems with not.) It's disappointing if they're starting to do this in a blanket fashion.
> One has to identify as victim. It's not up to someone else to decide if I was a victim at some point.

Yes, and there certainly do exist people who identify as victims of others' drug use. Unfortunately they don't come knocking on our doors to inform us of this fact. Instead they settle for the sadly-suboptimal solution of electing representatives to represent their perspectives while they go about their own businesses. If you're genuinely suggesting such people are nonexistent, well, I'm not going to continue entertaining this further.

> So in case of medical insurances for all the public is the victim for every persons action is remotely risky.

I can't parse this sentence.

> See 1. [....]

See response to 1.
Also note that dealing with drug users (medical care or however else) costs people's money which is not exactly a subjective or delusional thing to concern oneself with.
I think this is only fair if the exam takes place under similar circumstances to actual engineering (which is rarely the case).
It's even harder playing it under Remote Desktop over slow connection!
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Coal is terrible in terms of load following. What are you even talking about? If anything, coal plants are economically unsustainable. They don't respond to short term changes in electricity prices and therefore still produce electricity even when they are losing money.
I haven't tested it but https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism looks promising.
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Flexoelectric Fracture-Ratchet Effect in Ferroelectrics
I am going with option (2). I am not good at communication skills and I want to learn how to interact with others.
How to easily track form submissions without hacky code
Marketing that pose as authentic is in fashion (I mean this in a Out of Topic way, no relationship with Instagram). In my segment "technical" arguments that present easy-to-believe falsehoods win customers.
Yeah these boards are a pain to get certain apps working, for example retro games. GPU support also may not exist depending on the board.
Better yet, determine the level of damage caused by a disposable cup and charge a tax large enough to repair the damage. If people still decide to use disposable cups then we won't care since we'll have the money.
> it is highly unlikely that a "senior colleague" can't understand simple logic.

I've met plenty of people like that. To tell you the truth, it was SO BAD that had I not seen it with my own eyes, I would have difficulties believing that people can be so incredibly incompetent.

I've also met "experienced" people, coming from the best "elite" schools in France (I'm french), that were unable to code their way out a paper bag, but were somehow working in programming or technical team roles. It's always stunning when you meet people who come from high studies, that involve quite a lot of programming, but who know NOTHING, how can they pass the exams is a real question, that puts in resious doubt the value of those schools. Two such people (technical managers) were fired for gross incompetence (after having us lose plenty of time & money). Unfortunately, many others (at various levels) managed to stick around and made things HARD for everybody else.

But the worst is when those people are also JERKS (or worse), as in the OP example. I've suffered A LOT because of that, as have my coworkers. And working as a contractor makes it super hard to get rid of them (though I managed it in one case).
Do you mean formal verification? Verifying such a vast web service may be nearly impossible, especially since you'd still have to rely on a database server, os, and kernel, the most popular of which are seemingly fundamentally incompatible with verification.
I don't understand the hash index part. I guess that for every segment on disk, you also have a hash table for it, correct? Also, this part doesn't seem to be very memory-efficient
Is there one that can import Mac photo libraries an remove duplicate pictures by the way?
Very wise choice. This will help you in life, not just with this difficult guy.

Also, beware that even after you have mastered all the great communication skills you want, etc., you might still not get what you want. It takes a lot of effort, trial and error, and patience. At a certain point, if you see it's not worth, in the worst case, you've learnt something.
I just buy a plastic bag.

Wait.

I’m not sure if this whole thing reduces any plastic or pollution...
Classical management failure of solving a social problem with social measures.
That could be for readability or some weird convention to make the code more streamlined? I've also seen it done that way so there could be a reason behind it.
Has anyone switched to/from Uploadcare? ( https://uploadcare.com/ ) - would love to hear how they compare.
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This article feels like an advertisement for Emma Chamberlain.

This whole "influencer" IG culture is like fast food - no content or substance. It does seem like we may be hitting some kind of peak as people realize that devoting one's time to following random strangers' vain photos on the internet doesn't actually increase one's well-being.
Solar doesn't use rare earth elements, although that's a favorite fake talking point of the anti-renewable astroturfers.
Game theory suggests why this is the case:

https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/03/25/game-theory-tu...
This is such a loaded topic, but here's a few points:

- I wonder if you can place bets against this happening. If you truly believe that civlization will collapse by 2030, then money will be of no use to you in 2030. However, if you're skeptical, you could come away with some decent winnings.

- If this is a real concern, e.g. water levels rising, destruction of housing, etc. you'd think "fat cat" insurance companies and banks would be hedging their bets. i.e. mortgage/insurance on the coastal cities (i.e. most of them) would be getting very expensive.

- The massive growth of global green house emissions in the future will not come from already modernised nations (e.g. US, EU, ANZ, etc) it will come from the 3B people in China, India, and Africa that raise themselves out of poverty by industrialising -- more electricity, more cars, more meat. Are you going to try and impose "green" requirements on these places? It seems hypocritical for the first-world nations to impose green solutions onto the 3rd world, when they're already in very comfortable positions.

- It might look like rolling out "green tech" is the answer, but what happens when you stifle the growth of the poorest parts of the world (e.g. Africa, India, Asia) by removing access to cheap and reliable fuel source (i.e. petrol/diesel), that already has a widely deployed supply chain? Are we sure that global warming is worse than 3B people living worse off for another 30 years?
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The US in general is almost an exact copy of the UK.
I'm certainly contemplating it's short of Pet Sounds.