skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And so taking a stand like this is a privilege for those with status - a dude working in a newspaper stand wouldn't get away with this - but Trey Stone & Matt Parker have survived the worst the Scientologists could throw at them... they'll weather this one or, if China decides to throw pressure at ComedyCentral or whoever their corporate overloads are, then they can be ready to greet the Streisand effect.

I applaud them for doing this even though it'll mean nothing but trouble for them, any positive PR they're getting this will be drowned out by pressures coming out of China and the loss of a giant market - still, good on ya mates.
i've been a customer of backblaze for a about a decade now. everyone has their opinion, but for me, it's always just hummed along in the background, doing it's thing. i've had to restore almost a terabyte of data (on more than one occasion, derp) -- and had no issues.

it's up there (again, for me) as one of the annual software subscriptions that's worth every penny, if not more.
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While companies should be held to account for caving to economic pressure, and boycotting them is justified, I think it's important to recognise that this pressure exists, and for all companies, not only those yet to have an infamous PR incident.

It is the responsibility of government to counteract such pressure and protect business from becoming proxy to foreign interference in domestic political discourse, not to mention protecting such discourse in itself.
Do they still have a very slow upload performance with their backup service? That's been the main complaint I've been reading over the years. (I'd probably be happy with something in the range of 50-100 Mbit/s.) (My home connection is 250/100.)
> And the western world has been incredibly naive and uncoordinated when it comes to dealing with China.

Some of us were paying attention in the '90s and we're still paying attention.

Here are some interesting items to review:

1 - McDonnell Douglas (yep the same gang that ruined Boeing):
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/29/business/mcdonnell-dougla...

2 - "Pentagon Blessing"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB832727883654550000

3 - https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/20/us/us-indicts-mcdonnell-d...

4 - https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-amer...

5 - https://www.military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israe...

6 - https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-tech-transfe...

"naive and uncoordinated"

It has always seemed rather coordinated to this observer. No comment regarding "naive".

"We've all accepted the incredibly one-sided deal"

Who is this "We"? Did we take a vote on this? This was decided on high up per some undisclosed calculus like everything else substantial while the corporate media beguiles "Us" with peripheral, low brow, histrionics.
Parent: "substantive objective measurements show that nonwhite people are subject to systemic racism"

You: "yeah but I grew up in so and so and I never saw anything like that, plus I have a friend who is black and bla bla bla"

Come on...
My kid's school uses CodeSpark
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Thanks for pointing these out. Will fix. Firebase must have minimum password requirements
There are serious concerns about Big Data, but they aren't AI concerns. They are enabling people to abuse or suppress other people with great efficiency. An even better digital jackboot to put on the neck of some population.
is it beacause of the company name? I thought it said "automatic development" or something of the sort...
That just waves away the fact that Twitter and other places like it on the internet are THE platforms for conversation and statements. It's seemingly a statement that assumes internet based communication is secondary to real-life communication. And that's just not the case in 2019.
The vast majority of users doing this will be real people who're simply indoctrinated - it's why China's tyrant leadership and censorship/control mechanisms is so effective, albeit powerful - however I don't like wrongly conflating the idea of what true power is with control.
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that this collapse brings computing down to an era which is many people’s personal computing heyday, and not a decade before or after.

I’d hazard a guess that 8-bit machines played a part in the author’s young life - first computer, first job, happiest childhood summer, last computer they felt in control of before they got annoyingly complex - something like that. And therefore a collapse ending right when the author would have useful skills but things wouldn’t be too hard, is the most fun one to imagine.

Computing was around 40 years before the 1980s and electricity for a hundred years, but who wants to try and rebuild room sized punched card machines for ballistic trajectory calculations, get greasy fingers on mechanical parts, or deal with HT electrical power supplies safely, yawn, no fun there. rPi the same - by then everyone can do it and author isn’t special, so whatever. It’s not different enough from right now.
That is way above its assembly costs, you must be including components also right?
It takes a lot of money and effort but it's China is only a decision away from pivoting it's story from external threats to internal ones.
After they've spent two years consuming the various conspiracy theories recycled ad nauseam by Maddow et al., they're primed to believe lots of stuff.
> You seem more like a US hater than a realist

Realism involves an honest discussion of national interest. In the US we have fairytale stories about American Exceptionalism, which serve the same purpose as religious canon.

Part of the US strategy is to frame foreign leaders and governments as horrible/dictator/strongman, etc. So then the post-intervention scenario can be favorably compared to what would have hypothetically happened if the US had not intervened.

But further analysis reveals that the US framing of foreign leaders and governments is never remotely based on reality and is always a propaganda tool to help the public consent to whatever atrocious acts the leaders seek to undertake.
That's assuming Automatic really is a great place to work.

Why would anyone believe that Automatic is such a great place to work if they value the time of their candidates so little? If they think it's fine to throw an extra 10 hours/week of work at candidates for little to no pay, how will they treat you once you're salaried?

They may think that this is the one true hiring system, but it's seriously weird.

Other companies have figured out how to hire people without this nonsense. Imagine if this was the standard in the industry. Some company would have the brilliant idea of hiring people without a 2 month trial period and write a breathless blog post about how they're so cool that they hire people based on interviews alone!

HN would go nuts over this forward thinking company that treats its candidates so much better.
Knowing and teaching are very different things. Did you never have a professor who was a brilliant researcher/scientist but a horrible instructor?
It’s missing “Show HN” in the list, surely this story also counts as a targeted ad?
This sort of flamebait isn't allowed here, and you've taken it to the point of trolling below. We ban accounts that do that on HN, so please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190558 and marked it off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As tptacek mentions Net-30,40,50,...90 are all common terms, you should expect and plan for longer payment windows and more term flexability as invoice amounts increase. An advance from an invoice factoring company is an available option, you could price this into your rate at a default of Net-60 and offer a Net-10 and Net-30 discount based on factoring cost.
That assumes that they are trying to explain something to you, but sometimes you are trying to sit in on a meetup aimed at people with more knowledge than yourself, or just following along a discussion between other people.
That's fair – the process has since been revised, and on https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/ we now say "This work is paid, part-time, and designed to last between two and eight weeks, for a total of around 40 hours of work".

It's still a commitment to be sure, but we try really hard to make it as accessible as we can.
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We need to be a bit more accurate though so that we can concentrate minds on solving the real problem. From what I can see, companies are not "embarrassed", they are "afraid".

They don't care about online mobs, they care about the drop in revenue that will come from lost business. Reputations that take years to recover impact revenues for each of those years. That's the issue.

If we could think of a way to insulate companies from lost revenue, the problem could be solved. To date, there have only been clumsy, amateurish attempts to do this. Actions like, telling everyone, "Hey, go spend your money with this company!" Which for a lot of reasons rarely, if ever, works. We have to come up with something that would provide decision makers at these firms more certainty.
I should point out it's 400 companies across the world, not just in the US.

Still, the national grid of my European country is controlled by a literally state-owned Chinese company, so Tencent seems tame in comparison.
> Thus the best way "oppose a government that is the sworn enemy of values you regard as precious" is to allow it to face its internal discord without giving it the "enemy" it so desperately needs as ammunition to use against you.

If the CCP wants to make the US out as China's enemy, they'll make us out to be their enemy, even if they have to lie and distort to do so. The CCP has near-total control of the PRC's domestic media can easily block foreign media if it doesn't already, so there's little stopping them. For instance, IIRC, they're currently pushing a false theory to domestic audiences that the HK protests are just a CIA orchestrated plot.

> EDIT: There are many comments that I think are misguided attacking this concept, here is rebuttal to them:

Why don't you post your rebuttals in replies to the comments in question?

> Proposition: If China wants to make the west an enemy, it will do so with or without us by the total control it has over its populace.

> Rebuttal: So the best counter plan is to help them in doing so?

You misunderstand: if they're going to do it anyway, it's foolish to try to constrain you actions in an attempt to control them. You gain nothing and only give them more control of the situation.

For instance: the CCP tries to blur the lines between the CCP, the PRC government, and the Chinese nation. An action against the CCP could be presented as an action against the nation in Chinese domestic media, do you think that should stop actions against the CCP? Similarly, the CCP will interpret actions to support Taiwan as hostile to it, does that mean the US should abandon (democratic) Taiwan to avoid some kind of censure in Chinese state-controlled media?
Even as I typed my follow-up, I was thinking, "ya know, I wouldn't put it past Arment to just replicate the Now Playing UI and then season to taste." So, yeah, bad example.

a free podcast app

Arment's attention to little details is one of the reasons I <cough> paid whatever trivial amount he wants for an app I use daily. ;-)
Including Unix System 7, its been ported.

Though I suspect your right, PC DOS is very powerful, and allows you to do a bunch of stuff.
Corporations ARE NOT the government. Corporations have NO obligation to tolerate your hate speech on their platform. Free speech ONLY applies to government.
So if the lady in China went down to the police station, called a lawyer, and got released 6 hours later, everything's ok?

If the folks in UK got released 2 months later, everything's ok?
How is this not debtors prison?
You, uh, you could own people a few generations ago. There are women alive today who remember not being able to vote. To call that “some difficulty expressing their rights” is remarkably tone-deaf. And no, the courts usually sided with the majority (c.f. Plessy v. Ferguson, etc.)
Huh. You have a very different definition of politics than I do. I'd even say that insincerely aligning yourself with a political group is even more of a "doing politics" move than sincerely doing so.
I agree it's a bad idea to crush the will of the people under our feet and force them to bend to our will - which is why I completely disagree with your statement. I dislike China's government but I feel like America, with it's track record, really shouldn't start talking about how nice regime change would be.

For the time being, while the government may be autocratic, it is enforcing it's law and you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere in the world where the rule of law rules harder.
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Not OP but I’d suggest emulating well done open source projects.
Google customizes results per the logged in user, so "site reliability engineer" wouldn't necessarily be the first result for different people. Random list: https://www.abbreviations.com/SRE
Amateur spammers will create new accounts as needed.

Well-run psyops will build and curate accounts over a longer period of time.
If it's like most things in software (and life), there's probably a long tail of niche/useless integrations in that list.
What are your top books on business?
Into Thin Air is another one where I'd highly recommend listening to the audiobook, for more-or-less the same reason.
How do you know? I see literally zero direct evidence for this in the linked post -- only that some people in China responded. Not everybody in China is working for the government.

When analogous statements are found offensive in the US, US citizens, US tech companies, and the US media can act with astonishing speed and coordination to stamp them out. That doesn't mean that the US government is directing all of it.
Yes, watching the news these past few years we can totally see that cops get convicted for "hate crime" every single day.

They shoot innocent, unarmed men to death as a matter of course, and get off with a few months' suspension, but somehow you think you can charge a cop for a "hate crime" for getting pulled over (conveniently concluding then that it's the black folk who are "privileged").
Well, Python2 -> Python3 introduced a dramatic performance increase, even for small JSON documents.
Right, if the region goes to hell, then that would disrupt everything for a decade or so until all the component manufacturers could be replicated elsewhere.
What you're arguing is that, since China was previously a victim, China is incapable of being imperial. That's no comfort to countries which are staring down a gauntlet of Western imperialism being replaced with Chinese imperialism.
This could not be farther from the truth. WTO has been subjugated by the Chinese, hence where we are today.
There's no legitimacy to the argument for using events from 150 years ago as a justification for repeating the same crimes against humanity over again today.

By this logic, should Israel have a moral right to put half of German population into gas chambers today because of Hitler?
I wonder if it's possible to audit AI for discriminatory practices. Of course this would require a completely different set of legal processes (needing access to the algorithm, needing access to enough data to prove a bias) that could take decades to implement in a way that covers even a slim majority of applicable, obvious cases like race, sex, pregnancy status, religion, nation of origin, veteran status, and age.

Decades of the bar being just that much higher for the disadvantaged demographic. Potentially, a generation of disenfranchisement, which we know has generational effects. (The USA arguably still hasn't 'recovered' from segregation's economic effects on the populace)
Seeing how Vietnam is also controlled by a single authoritarian party, couldn't it end up the same as china eventually?
In my brain I usually say re-it-it, but sometimes I think "rye-tit" which makes me laugh and definitely seems wrong.
> 3. Large companies/banks/government which care about their data

As someone who left this space just two years ago and is now selling software into it I've been shocked by my users' appetite (appetites?) for self-hosted solutions. It makes me wonder whether SaaS will be short-lived and we'll see highly-regulated industries like finance and healthcare insisting data doesn't leave their servers unless absolutely necessary.
> Much of what goes into an iPhone isn’t made in china (and what is made in China can easily be made elsewhere), but they are mostly made in east Asia,

For the last years a lot of Apple's supply chain companies were getting visits from their Chinese C-level, with a question if they can think of relocation somewhere else. It's not a secret at all in SZ that Apple is leaving, and not only mainland China, but possibly Foxconn as well. For that reason, it's said that Foxconn now tries to lure them back to Taiwan with "incredible offers."

I know a fair lot of engineers working in both Foxconn plant, as well as Apple itself. It's funny to hear that it would be a company like Apple who would completely ignore the risk of supply chain dependence. From what I heard, for the last 10 years, Apple didn't do anything, but hope for bad things to not to happen.

Their screen glass, a surprisingly high tech product, is made in China by an American company. Their PCB's are locally made. Bodywork and plastics has been outsourced by them since Iphone 4. Some passives are made locally, some come from Taiwan. Most importantly, a point Apple doesn't like to be public about, is that they heavily rely on outsourced and captive engineering in China.
I have many head but "Brisket & Ribeye" go to slaughter in November. I was just outside petting them and making sure they have great quality grass to eat.
There we are was looking for the users saying "it's not censorship"
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We try to provide a “dev-tool" approach to security: free trial, simple install and dev-friendly install, no need to configure the tool for hours before getting any value, etc.
I would recommend just to give it a trial.

I'm biased, but our customers love us. We serve both developers without time to handle security and large security teams. For the latter, we often see collaboration between developers and security teams.

Maybe some of the HN comments on our Launch HN will give a less biased view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20215483
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This happens more often than you might think: by doing basic steps to make your product usable, it suddenly becomes much more useful and in-demand than you anticipated. More examples are:

- Force businesses/streets to add a curb lip for wheelchairs -> Stars above, suddenly it's easier to accept deliveries and bring in luggage!

- Optimize site for slow connections, suddenly you have a torrent of previously-unserved customers. [1]

Edit: Turns out it's called the Curb Cut Effect:

https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/the-curb-cut-...

[1] Summary at this HN discussion, follow through to the story for more details. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13601977
counter-counterpoint: much right-winged content is associated with hate speech and violence. Further, many users of websites such as this are young and tend to skew more left of center, and therefore will gravitate toward that content anyway.
The US is hardly perfect...

1. The US has long operated offshore prisons where human rights are routinely abused (though harvesting organs is never a thing I've heard of happening in them)

2. The US routinely silences comedians when they're reported to say something impolite or against the grain - remember Kathy Griffin?
If you use a language like Rust (which is really easy for these kind of jobs), then 1mb will parse almost instantly.

I've been working with a 90gb JSON file recently. I'd probably start counting a file as large at around 100mb.
You might want to talk to a lawyer about how not having an agreement exposes you to risk. This smells like the kind of thing that works out just fine for years until something hits the fan and it explodes in your face.

I’d love to learn more about how you got to 500k in revenue. Any chance you have some time to chat?
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The subtext here is that experts are never "experts", you are constantly iterating and learning.
Can someone possibly summarize why this doesn't fit the strict definition of open source? What important rights are missing?
One could argue that this moment in history being a moment to pause and reflect. If corporations and their officers are forced to confront the question "What is more important: money or values?" and start picking values, then maybe other values like privacy and human rights will get picked along with freedom of speech as part of movement to protect values.
https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ is a mailing list of people with large numbers of references to these ideas being applied outside the computer context.
You may enjoy Uncleftish Beholding[1] by Poul Anderson. It's a short essay describing atomic physics explained with pure Anglish words instead of Greek or Latin loan words.

> At first it was thought that the uncleft was a hard thing that could be split no further; hence the name. Now we know it is made up of lesser motes.

> Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one, as for a showdeal ymirstuff-235, it bursts into lesser kernels and free neitherbits; the latter can then split more ymirstuff-235. When this happens, weight shifts into work. It is not much of the whole, but nevertheless it is awesome.

> For although light oftenest behaves as a wave, it can be looked on as a mote, the lightbit.

[1]: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/complexity/people/studen...
Yev here -> try it now. We've spent the last few updates honing in the way we handle uploads and have introduce threading to make the process more efficient. We'll always be bottle-necked by the available bandwidth to your machine and latency, but it's worth trying again if you haven't for a while!
Yev here -> Thank you so much! :D
Sure, but I would be pretty annoyed if someone sold me almond milk as "utilitarian milk".
> If you have a couple static IPs at one site though, keep in mind that the USG can only do one static IP (without having to dive into CLI)

It is doable though. I have a JSON file of the extra configuration needed to setup the additional WAN IPs and the needed port forwarding. Someone even made a codepen tool to make that configuration[1]. Is that custom configuration not possible with hostifi?

> As others have mentioned, if the controller goes down, the networks do not go down. All of the device settings are stored locally and don't depend on the controller, the only exception being that the hotspot pages do require the controller to be online in order to work.

So while I'm aware the network does not require the controller to be online in order for the devices to work, the problem is that, if there's an internet problem, one of the first places I look to see what the issue is is ... the controller. So with an external controller, if there isn't some extra step I'm missing to deal with internet outages, I'm essentially stuck if I'm trying to figure out what the problem is and change the configuration.

1. https://community.ui.com/questions/Tool-Map-Multiple-WAN-IP-...