skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is because we are a socialist state: everything used to live or death by selling it to a government monopoly or was made by the state itself. In your examples: Minitel was developed by the Post ministry, TGV by the SNCF. In this context you have very few incentives to sell it abroad since these national companies are satisfied once the French people got the innovation.

We still have issues with this mentality: startups are created to surf on public money, often lacking a real technological advantage (e.g, "the sovereign cloud"). Some services such as Uber could not even have emerged since there conflict with an existing monopolies.

And finally there is the fiscal pressure which is killing the smart and medium companies while the biggest ones have very advantageous rates or even no tax to pay when foreign.
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We are a small, engineering-focused team. Forestry.io is a content management system (CMS) for static websites that are built with tools like Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc. Developers around the world are leaving WordPress and Drupal for more secure, performant, static sites and Forestry allows their non-technical teams to manage content. Forestry takes a Git-centric approach to content management. When content is edited in Forestry, all updates committed back to the Git repo for that site.

We are currently hiring for the following positions:

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Ingenuity gets you from 0% to 90%. Millions of dollars and little experiments gets you from 90% to 99%. All of the money in the world won't get you from 99% to 100%.
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I think we need tighter gun control in the US, but I really wish people would stop acting like literally anyone who owns a gun is a dangerous maniac. It's childish and not constructive.
My seats?? Noone owns a self driving car, you rent one when you need it. As for the fleet owner, I bet they will solve this in any number of ways somehow including the risk in the cargo fee
It was garbage collection. They were deleting data that couldn't be accessed (because no key existed in the system to decrypt it), but the DNS failure fooled the detection into thinking that a failed lookup meant "no key exists". Yikes.

To be clear: it was ultimately only a 5 minute loss (and the fact that the DNS outage was simultaneous probably meant there wasn't much data being stored anyway) because they had a regular snapshot facility. So defense in depth saved them.

Still, yikes. That's a pretty disastrous bug.
I don't think anybody is saying there is an easy way to be objective. Objectivity being difficult to achieve is still a far cry from impossible, not an excuse, and nothing new. Since ancient Greece, philosophers have been devoted to building logical processes and ethics in order to make it more possible to get close to the objective truth, such as the Aristotelian processes of observation, abstraction, definition, induction, syllogism, the definition of archai (first principles), etc.. Objective truth has always been elusive, but its pursuit is something that historically has allowed civilization to advance (especially true for western civilization).

Now we are hearing excuses (including in this thread) which are nothing more than cheap cop-outs, they are rationalizing their own acquiescence or surrender to intellectual laziness, logical fallacy, ignorance, and social irresponsibility. The fact is this lowering of standards is very useful for some people, and provides wiggle room to dishonest liars and frauds who would otherwise not be trusted, should be obvious.

Yes, one's senses are limited, one's knowledge is limited, and while investigating a story you are likely going to hear different versions from every witness to whom you speak. But what do you say to those who refuse to listen to contradicting yet valid information and/or viewpoints?

There is a large gap between those who are engaged in the pursuit of objective truth who nonetheless fail, and those who have their excuses loaded up while they tirelessly work to build consensus around what has become a narrative for a completely false reality. We are starting to see a bias against objective truth, a prevalence of defense mechanisms against logic and reason, and more and more demands for "allegiance" or "belief" in a given agenda-based narrative.

With more differing points of view intermingling than ever before, giving in to bias has never been more dangerous.

tldr: Just because its hard doesn't mean its not an important pursuit, much less take it as an excuse to accept the defeat of lowered standards or actual fraud for our perception of reality.
Another perhaps more relevant way to think about this is that security and availability are at odds with each other, and in this case a system designed for security made a secure choice.

The more secure a system is designed to be, the more likely it is to treat unusual conditions as an attack and possibly perform some destructive action to thwart the assumed attacker. Think of phones configured to delete all data after X incorrect password attempts, HSMs with anti-tamper switches, etc.
If you already have a rack available with spare capacity, and your business is not expected to blow up overnight, and can tolerate failures(and the turnaround time for your or your employees to fix stuff, order spare parts, etc), sure, why not?

The capacity is there, might as well use it.

That said, if you didn't have said rack, I'm not so sure it would be worth it to even make a purchase order. Sure things outside of your control may break when you are using a cloud. But guess what, things outside your control will also break, on-prem. Particularly hardware, and network connectivity. There is no way your networking can be better than, say, GCP's own networking, or that you can deploy redundant workloads across availability zones (or even regions!) yourself.

By the time a purchase order for a new server can arrive, we can have a production-ready system running, with redundancy across availability zones, automatic failover, CDNs, backups, the works.

Basically, I don't care if someone knocks out power in my block, if someone cuts a network cable, or even if a machine goes up in flames.

One thing I would say is: even if you are very happy with your current setup, if you have some time to automate a similar setup on the cloud (keyword: automate), then I would suggest doing just that, and offload backups to the cloud too. Even if only as a business continuity thing.
The last time I was on Facebook (2015) I accidentally logged on without an ad-blocker. The best it could come up with was a package discount on gay scuba diving. I admit I was intrigued, but I did not click, simply because I could not discern what the product actually was.
I'd rather boycott the leafs because I'm tired of losing.
Nasa Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought
Nobody Knows How to Learn a Language
If Snopes is doing more conservative fact-checks than liberal fact-checks, it's probably because the modern Republican party seems to have made "lying" into one of its core principles (this is most certainly true for the President, and is at the very least a common pastime for other Republican bigwigs).

> At the time of last checking, Snopes had a single political fact-checker, she was a staunch Democrat.

What's your source on this? Snopes's own documentation for their team doesn't indicate that any particular person is "the single political fact-checker", and Snopes itself is run by 2 passionately apolitical people.

I just did a random sampling of several of the "latest fact checks" that appear to relate to politics (e.g. about Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, or Trump) and in the first 5 facts I checked, I found 4 different writers. So as far as I can tell, it's not remotely true that they have "a single political fact-checker".
On my iPhone, the voice keyboard works pretty well in airplane mode. Not quite as well as when it has signal, but the difference is small… with the sole exception that it recognises everything as if it is English in Airplane mode, and only uses the language of the keyboard (if different) when I have signal.
I'm very curious if the Facebook Project Atlas conduct here violates its 2011 consent decree: https://www.epic.org/privacy/facebook/2011-consent-order/
Interesting, Facebook ads are the only ones I’ve ever clicked through and then purchased the advertised item.
There's been a demonstration of evolution in real-time that's been around for over 60 years. And it affects every one of us.

Every modern strain of bacteria shows antibiotic-resistance. That has evolved due to natural-selection of just a few individual bacteria who happened to have a natural resistance. They bred and generated trillions of successors, while their non-antibiotic-resistant companions died out.
Served cold like learn to cook dude
It is rather intuitive for someone knowing Make. Even then, which version of Make are you talking about? GNUmake? WHICH VERSION again? 3.82? 4.0? Some features in 4.0 aren't backward compatible of course, so you have to be precise about what you are exactly targeting.

If you are using anything advanced, then it will become unreadable for beginners too. Try to explain delayed and immediate variable interpolation to beginners, that their "VAR = foo" doesn't always work the way they think it does.

On the other hand, yes, the CMake sample above is self explanatory, works on all platforms (more than Make itself), all compilers without having you to write low level compiler invocations, supports IDE for easier debugging (sure, you can also tell your users they have to learn how to use GDB by hand, just... good luck). It will automatically rebuild the right files when their dependencies or command line changes, you don't have to code that by hand for each compiler (and probably have many subtle bugs in your implementation too).

Make has a place for simple things, not for build systems, we have way better ways to do them now, even if you refuse to use them.
How Much Fact-Checking Is Worth to Facebook
> Is there anything quite as shared as DNA?

Music for example. The same poool of musical notes in 100% of compositions. Just arranged in different ways, like DNA
Now I've heard everything
I predict plenty of people will own self-driving cars, at least at first. Habits don't die easily, and car ownership is seen as a key part of independence and self sufficiently in America. Some people will want to own them, whether or not it makes sense.
At some stage my company charged exactly that for me and I was getting paid $17. It's up to you to accept or not this price, but bear in mind the company might have other expenses like office space, sales people, administrative staff, etc. So the company needs to factor in some of these into your hourly rate. I'd say the real rates though depend much more on market: how much employees are being paid and how much is it possible to charge customers
Interested in the QA engineer position.
Hiring decisions made by the team are short sighted. They tend to hire people like themselves with similiar ideas. If you are looking for a balanced diverse team group think will not replace a hiring authority.

It is probably the best way to find someone likable by all. But bad for someone who might challenge ideas. Unless they find someone that has traits that everyone is in awe of but usually that only happens when there is a single person role with no other developers working in that layer or silo of the stack.
> This is the browser's fault for violating the HTML spec. As per the specification, the default font color is complete black and the default background color is complete white.

Your claim surprised me so much I went and re-read the latest HTML spec ( https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/rendering.html#rendering ) and it does indeed say:

> The initial value for the color property is expected to be black. The initial value for the background-color property is expected to be transparent. The canvas' background is expected to be white.

The CSS specs ( https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-css-color-3-20180619/ and https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-CSS2-20110607/colors.html#q14... ) say that the initial values depend on the user agent (hence deferring to the above quote):

> Name: color

> Initial: depends on user agent

> 'background-color'

> Initial: transparent

However, is this also the case for form fields? Scanning through the various CSS specs I can't find any mention of form fields (e.g. buttons, text inputs, etc.). The HTML specs don't seem to specify anything w.r.t. styling form fields either.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm talking about having server history turned on and then turning it off. What's the synchronization problem you see with that? I have no idea why you're talking about contact syncing, and if you mean that you need to sync locations like you sync contacts, then how is that a problem Google doesn't already have?
Please add to this list "If you use GNU Make specific syntax, use the name GNUmakefile".

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Makefile-...
I'm Indian, I think the BBC has an anti-India bias, and is heavily politically conservative, but socially liberal. The one thing I do give the BBC credit for, is that they did not resort to overt mud-slinging against Jeremy Corbyn, as opposed to the Guardian.
I've never heard this before, it's an interesting anecdote, do you have a source?
Congress, make privacy the rule – not the exception
Thank you! We've got version 2 coming out at the end of the month which aims to make it a bit quicker with more functionality :)
PWAs along with Web Payments and WebAssembly seems like it will make big changes to the way the web works. It's blurring the line with web and native even further.
Reading the comments on this thread, I was getting exactly the opposite impression. So many people don't trust the government at all, and don't want them to be able to enforce laws. I suppose they'd prefer that the police force and justice system be disbanded.
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The OP was describing Snopes Pre-Trump era and much of the 2016 election cycle, I think he was ball park right.
Isn't that how business works?
Probably what hunter gatherers teach us is not to skip breakfast but not to rely on heavily processed carbs and sugars for our nutrition, i take a protein shake and ezekiel bread with PB every morning and have no weight problems at all.
Do you have any information on their implementation? I only noticed that something was amiss once I connected a load balancer and my instances suddenly lost internet access. And also due to the limitation on how many load balancers you can have.

It seems that once you add a load balancer, all traffic gets funneled through it, doesn't matter if it was addressed to it or not. Which is unlike any other load balancer I have ever seen.

Coming from other clouds, this was a shock.

The only thing comparable is AWS's NLB. Because that load balancer is so transparent, clients appear to be connecting directly, with the original source ip. Which caused issues when I wanted to deploy my own Elasticsearch and use an internal NLB for master discovery (whenever a request got routed to the same machine packets got discarded by the kernel). But you can just switch to another load balancer then.
One thing I don't see mentioned in this article is the effect of the unique seasons the Scandinavian countries have; specifically the extreme variations in day length from being so close to the arctic circle. Seasonal affective disorder is a real problem for the people living in that region, and can exasperate otherwise benign mental issues.
But with the ad-blocker installed, you get a bonus speed boost that doesn't apply to the other browsers...
It sounds more like a desire for more granular control as a way to access the things in which they are interested without wasting resources or time on things in which they are not.

Or you can just call everything "bias" to make a condescending assumption about someone you don't know.
So I agreed with you until I talked to Gayle Lackman. There's a thread on quora somewhere where I asked her the question whether or not there exists engineers with a lot of experience who are not smart enough to ever work at google no matter how much they study?

Her answer was yes. She went on to elaborate that google hires and targets CS knowledge along with Innate General Intelligence.

Straight from the horses mouth as she was part of the hiring committee. I would source this thread unfortunately I can't find it anymore.

If you don't believe me you can always direct a question towards Gayle on Quora as she's an active user.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. I think in the higher echelons of google, they are actually trying to hire for higher IQ. What actually happens is different. The filters actually allow people who study to slip through the cracks despite how much they try. In general though, the overall group that gets hired at google is still generally smarter than a typical programmer working for a much less famous company.

Also as with every job, performance on the interview is highly uncorrelated from performance on the job, unless google has the big data numbers to prove otherwise.
Definitely looking for very capable software engineers, but we're actually very open to different backgrounds and domains.

Feel free to reach out -- we try to respond to everyone :)
Without the fake news of 2016 Facebook has become very boring. Facebook was much more exciting when people were promoting crazy almost Onion like stories and you couldn't tell if the person sharing it believed it or not... or they believed it I could feel high and mighty that they couldn't tell the difference of it being fake.

Now my news feed today shows a video of a woman wrapping her dog in Christmas paper and another video of what life is with a cat vs not having a cat. Ok so I watched half of those two videos but Facebook is back to being a boring vehicle of an occasional post by a family member and random cat/dog/cooking/making something videos.
How Diderot’s Encyclopedia Challenged the King
You cant use wear OS, or really any wearable on Android anymore without enabling location tracking. They bundle "low power bluetooth" settings in the same permission set as GPS in order to force you to leave it on at all times.
> But Snopes controls the narrative and decides which issues to fact-check.

There's definitely truth to that and worth some concern.

> They seem to publish a lot more material that validates left-leaning opinions than right-leaning ones

Probably because while media on both sides has their bias and will twist the facts a bit to fit their narrative, right-wing media just invents complete lies and falsehoods.

Nobody on the left has even come close to something as dumb as Pizzagate.
the left is just better at producing propaganda. do not forget most of our universities have become extreme left and the papers they write reflect this. It is not an accident the way money has corrupted research.
Have a look at this article from Forbes. The assertions (if true) are pretty harsh against Snopes.

Please give it a fair read, offer your perspective.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...
What kind of work within devops realm do you usually contract for if you don't mind sharing
"Terrible" in comparison to what?
Honestly, Instagram is pretty spot on with their ads for me.

I've always taken pride, like I think most tech nerds of being "ad resistant."

However I've probably bought more stuff as a direct result of ad exposure on Instagram (3 things in three years) than in the entirety of the 25 years I've been on the internet.
> Sites are styled by default browser stylings

Which users choose according to their preferences (e.g. Firefox offers a preferences dialogue for this, and a bunch of about:config options). Whilst most users leave these as the OS/browser vendor's defaults, (in the words of Rush) "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".

> When font changes are inherited from user's settings however, it basically just breaks everything.

> For accessibility reasons, using the zoom feature is much more stable than increasing the default font size.

So you're agreeing that all these sites are broken?