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How difficult is it for small groups to create cyber weapons?

I guess it's in the interest of countries to make cybersecurity a difficult job to learn and master, and to hire any security researcher doing freelance so that cybersecurity expertise doesn't spread outside of the hand of big countries.

It reminds me of cryptography. Except cybersecurity seems a little more complex that cryptography, since finding holes in software is much more hairy than proving math theorems involving cryptography.
The company wants the union organizers to vote. It has said as much.

The union organizers don't want a vote, they want Kickstarter to voluntarily recognize them.

This is in the articles, man...
It seems that you have a desire to hyperbolically label things as "pedophilia" or "sexual assault", and simply don't like it being called out. And so you're engaging in social bullying based on stereotypes ("akshually") rather than keeping to the truth of the matter.
FWIW I was confused by this title because I know of Bendersky’s pycparser project.
100% agree.

The problem of course is that most people paint themselves into a corner from which it becomes incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to actually act as a free agent (and therefore a moral being).

I don't really know how they can live with themselves - I guess I'm just not wired that way - but they do.

As far as software devs go specifically.. If you're 21 or whatever, fair enough. If you're 30, in good health, and you're still using this excuse that you just can't survive without always taking the maximally profitable job and sucking up to whatever bossman says, sorry, that's just not right.
The economic policy at the heart of Europe is creaking
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Form what I read on HN, that doesn't help. You can hire someone to do the interview for you, and then get the remote job.

Similarly, some people will interview well, know all the right answers, and then sell or outsource the job to someone who will do it for less.
I'd suggest going with Toptal.

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I'm sure you'll appreciate that since you have a full time job and don't want to waste your time going through action races to the bottom, competing against armies of coders.

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This is pretty much exactly what I said the response would be:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252375

Currency and sovereignty are inseparable, have been for all of human civilization.
Citizens United was the an extremely beneficial ruling IMO. Your opinion on it being a “disaster” is not a fact, it is an opinion. Citizens United allows everyone who wants to, whether its corporations or unions or groups of people, to make their case directly to citizens. This is a Good Thing. It also isn’t the case that spending hundreds of millions of dollars guarantees you a victory, as the recent example of billionaire Tom Steyer entering the presidential race and being unable to qualify for the debates despite millions of dollars spent on advertising.
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Yup. There are plenty of other species of mosquito to eat. Eradicating one or a dozen species of mosquito will not lower the number of mosquitoes.
You could always email the webmasters (see the contact link at the bottom of the page) and ask them if your vouching usage fits the intended use of the feature.
Yes, it's awfully fun that they're using the term "Modern" applications to describe applications which I wouldn't touch with a bargepole. Guess I'm just not "Modern".

Then again, I was chuckling in the a similar way a few years ago when not using mongodb et al made me not "web scale".
Mozilla jumped the gun on this, all they really needed to do was announce their DoH application program _before_ they started turning it on by default.

As it stands, Mozilla has a Trusted Recursive Resolver Policy[0], which CloudFlare abides by, but lots of other resolvers (such as Quad9) are not allowed to be added to the FF config.

I'd reached out to Mozilla months back asking for the application process (when they announced the TRR policy). I've been running a DoH resolver from within Indian jurisdiction (for legal research) - but without Mozilla having a process - it is just me using it.

[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy
[1]: https://captnemo.in/doh/
SC Remastered has a LAN mode, we used it earlier this week. So there’s some hope, at least.
I have a request for opinions!

I’ve noticed that software quality never seems to enter into conversations about scaling. Do code hygenie, writing clean code, and good documentation not matter when you’re moving fast and growing like crazy? I’ve noticed the approach seems to be to focus on operations rather than the way the code is written. Use CI, monitoring, organize teams around services, etc. From my friends in the bay however, I hear the code itself is mostly written and band aided over and over again with refactoring and rewriting seen as “wasting time” when you could be writing more band aids or improving operations.

Does the band aid and if it’s not broke don’t fix it and do exactly what you need to fix it approaches really yield the same or better results as approaching software as a craftsmen? How do you convince an AWS engineer that these things are important when what’s in prod is working and a rewrite just seems like pot stirring? Or a refactor isn’t critical work to add more features?
Citizens United was a travesty, beloved only by the naive and the fascist, and I do not believe you are naive.
Not the OP, but I guess that most of those protesters work for said Hong Kong companies and when your new politically-appointed boss tells you that you either fall in line or you can go and look for another job I think most of those protesters will choose to fall in line.
Saudi Arabia oil and gas production reduced by drone strikes
Installing Dexter to Postgres App Mac
The saliva paper: https://www.gwern.net/docs/biology/1995-watanabe.pdf
I don't doubt that's true, but experimentally, detectible harm has only been demonstrated at 2 ug/dl.

In 2014, 4.2% of kids in the U.S. (over 500,000) had levels above 5 ug/dl. I don't mean to say that lead isn't an important thing to reduce, but a few kids with relatively low lead levels in a very small part of one city isn't the story, it's the millions of kids with much higher levels right here in the U.S. The only thing that drives this story is the sensationalism of Notre Dame burning and releasing toxic fumes, not the actual impact on kids.
It would be nice if Hong Kong citizens had a choice of where to emigrate outside of China but Hong Kong should be integrated into the Greater Bay Area.

Hong Kong’s economic relevance to the story of China has fallen to almost negligible levels, it doesn't make sense to identify it as separate from the 8 megacities that surround it which are economic marvels and productivity houses.

Our news should be populated by the numerous things occurring in the 8 larger, more populated, higher GDP outputting cities in the Guangzhou region. Shenzhen alone, bordering Hong Kong, is likely more interesting this decade and into the future.

Hong Kong functions as a mere administrative convenience for circumventing customs duties to the rest if the world.

Any nation in a similar situation would look at all avenues of integration, no matter how skeptical people were. Is that inaccurate?

I think this perspective isn't presented.
That's nonsense. People don't lose their rights when they control a company. They continue having the ability to contribute to whomever they want as an individual.

> there is so much money being spent by the federal government that it makes sense to try and and get it.

The money spent by the federal government is people's money. Trying to get it is called stealing.
Silicone wipers naturally leave behind a thin silicone film on the glass. Once this film is in place, the water serves as a pretty decent lubricant so long as it's raining.
Thanks for the a-ha fact.
What’s the reference re: “ice rocket”? Google search turned up Losers in Space.
Thanks for the link, it is indeed very good.
That was the one that I thought deserved some praise.
> Kickstarter also tweeted, and of course denies this

Of course denies this. I stand with the workers.
No, but we do, so not reason to disincentivize them across the board, not just for the unwashed masses...
> If you're 30, in good health, and you're still using this excuse that you just can't survive without always taking the maximally profitable job, sorry, that's just not right.

After 30 you're probably looking to settle down, get a house and have kids and unless a generous inheritance is waiting for you, there is no way you can afford kids and a mortgage in any major city without constantly taking the highest salary because other people will, pricing you out.
This was an illuminating analysis of someone I found mysterious.

There’s quite a bit of truth to his position: What I think he wants to build up is a black elite that is on equal footing, and many of the liberal policies sabotage that.

But there is a bootstrap required, as the US robbed and pillaged much of the black culture (and still do, to this day!).
As someone who also hasn’t worked for a union and not an owner of a company, my views are also negative in my experience.

In my opinion, unionizing teachers has created a perverse incentive to fuck around and do nothing once tenured and to screw over the newest members of the union when forced to downsize, regardless of performance for teachers.

For police officers, it’s incentivized understaffing to reward members with overtime as well as an unreasonable amount of legal protection for cops who do horrible things like kill innocent people due to “feeling threatened.”

For public transportation, we also have workers who somehow accrue all of the OT as it’s offered in tenure order. This ensures that remunerative benefits is only a function of time and not skill, and also somehow prevents the most reasonable solution such as hiring another worker.
What are they blocking exactly? Does Libra even exist yet or is it vaporware still? Are they also blocking other crypto currencies?
The problem here is dirty isn't well-defined. You are playing the moral superiority card without knowing what your particular moral/ethical line is.

Seems HN is primarily comprised of people without families that can just quit their job and it's not big deal, all in the name of their particular set of moral standards. You can tell when they say things like "it's not hard" when deciding to quit their job.

For the fast majority of people, it is hard. Most peoples ethical guidelines shift rapidly when the alternative means harming their loved ones.

It's definitely not hard to proclaim things aren't hard. Reality is often different.
Meh. I used terraform for a few years and every time
it didn’t work the way I wanted I found a ignored github issue. Vaporware as far as I am concerned.
Click bait title - not in anyway is this a game changer
Unison: A programming language where code is immutable
>> macho white nerds

> two out of three a'int bad.

It's one out of three, Stallman ain't macho or white.
At the moment, if you set Windows 10 to not send every keystroke to Bing when you're searching for a start menu shortcut, the search process locks up and consumes an entire CPU core. Microsoft isn't serious about the privacy options they pretend to offer.
"Work" in this context is not about spending effort or not, it's about the object of work and the motivation for it...
My Current Verdict on Nootropics
Journey of a Hackathon Project to a Summer of Code Project
It's presented from a biased point of view. It doesn't discuss the problems with DoH.
This is exactly how witch hunts work - if you don't just follow the mob 100%, but rather point out some nuance or call for some restraint, even while generally agreeing with the purported goal of the mob, then you are the next target to be attacked. The true driving force is not justice, but rather power.
I've written a couple parsers in D using https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged and they seem pretty fast and easy to verify. Of course since it generates a lot of code at compile time, you can end up with somewhat slow builds.
> The problem of course is that most people paint themselves into a corner from which it becomes incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to actually act as a free agent (and therefore a moral being).

Indeed.

I think your example is a bad one because to be honest most people are priced out of that anyway. I don't know anyone who has or expects that life any more. The economy broke.

Amongst my "old friends", I'm the only one that could even theoretically afford it, and I've noped out of major metropolitan areas entirely, at least for the time being, because it precisely means either living in a microscopic shoebox or conforming to an economic system that is deeply flawed.

Ultimately, you own the consequences of what you're doing. If you don't care about the ethics of what you do because it feeds your family and that's what you want, great. I don't have to respect that; and in fact I reject the premise.
The difference is that billions of dollars tends to make a "better case" than those ideas without billions of dollars. Why do you think that money accumulated by the greedy should be given an advantage in the marketplace of ideas?
Fair enough. My comment above used obvious overstated sarcasm, but I agree that these things are different. Substitute "statutory rape of a minor" or something like that above. I don't think this means that we should judge RMS any differently.

> having sex with a 17 year old girl who is being abused and manipulated by a billionaire pedophile [...] makes you a sleezeball

Not the greatest way to put this, I think.
Elon Musk's Neuralink implant will “merge” humans with AI
What of it though? That's like saying only 5 out of 100 employees at a company are in the C-Suite and they've gone straight to negotiating with a bunch of VCs instead of involving all the employees in the financial decision-making.
> ...structure, routine, and especially physical presence.

I agree, but structure and routine can certainly exist remotely, and while physical presence is great, remote video calls aren't a bad 2nd place. You just need a team culture where poking someone on Slack and asking if they have a few minutes to chat is a normal thing. I'm on and off calls with various members of my team all the time.
You can test this by putting your wipers on high when the windshield is dry, then spraying washer fluid. The speed will increase dramatically.
So you must not forget to call destroy every time you eat it or how is this supposed to work? (No Dominos in this country, so I cannot test)
Luckily you're not the only consumer of Terraform...
I'd say there's nothing wrong with working under TopTal, but it's not without risk. If you piss off TopTal, you'll get the axe and your income will go to zero overnight. Don't forget to consider that. If you take the path of building a freelance business from scratch, you'll be able to spread your risk among many clients.
Yeah, and there’s the Lesser Of clause in their insurance contracts - they’ll be reimbursed at the lesser of their retail rate and their negotiated rate. So they make their retail rate ridiculously high to make sure it’s never the limiter for insurance payments.
Was going to say something similar - but thinking about it, games from that time just didn't have many glitches. I don't know if games are just so much more complex now, or there was extra love and attention back then?
MongoDB 4.2 vs. 4.0, 3.6, 3.4, and 3.2 Benchmarks
> But we’ve found that a key element of the battle between truth and propaganda has nothing to do with technology. It has to do with how people are much more likely to accept something if it confirms their beliefs.

So true (and not just because I believed this before I read it).
I don't think that analogy is better. The Minsky allegation is said to have happened in March of 2001. That was years before Epstein was investigated, let alone charged or convicted of anything.
This is terrible, I hope it doesn't catch on.

There is absolutely no reason for a text format here, especially one as naive and inefficient as this. Binary messages that include size and version _at the beginning_ would be the expected solution.
Understandable, I hadn't looked into them as much or the subject matter. I'm curious if airless tires with similar design but different material could be made.
Not critiquing you in particular, but it's not strategically unusual to fire one group of people, buy another off, and tell the rest that it's proof unions are nothing but trouble and if they play nice they might get a raise at the right time.

This is how power operates, you can see exactly the same dynamics at work in countries that have been through a military coup.
The joke is considering it an economics paper.
That's really the opposite of those cases. If you're using group policy then Mozilla's default doesn't matter very much because you can set it to whatever you want using group policy anyway. Where the default really matters is on the devices where it has to be changed via high friction individualized action, e.g. BYOD.

I completely understand why they want to support DoH. And then Firefox users with untrustworthy DNS providers would have a solution to it which is no more complicated than a single checkbox to enable it. But what is really being gained over that, which is worth all the trouble of making it the default even for all the people whose existing DNS providers are no less trustworthy than Cloudflare and far less centralized?
I guess that makes sense but aren't the protestors already risking their jobs by continuing to protest? I've heard of people having "sick" days and "working from home" in order to plausibly skip work in order to protest. If the goal is to fire protestors from their jobs, I don't think China buying controlling shares in a few companies makes much sense. The other comment in this thread about buying votes in the government seems to be more plausible.
Unions exist to improve the lives of workers and provide more work opportunities for their members, not necessarily improve the organizations said workers are employed by.

Unions are responsible for some of the benefits we tend to take for granted - weekends, 8 hours workdays, corporate healthcare, retirement plans, etc. At the same time, any organization with power can become corrupt, or at least have its interests diverge.

Some examples that come to mind are the myriad of stories my mom tells me about working as a teacher.

One thing that annoyed her to no end was the IT labor union at her school. Teachers, even ones with technical skills, were forbid from touching any of the computers (even so much as plugging keyboards back in if students unplugged them). When computer Labs were being set up, one worker would put in all the computers, but a separate worker would come in the plug them in. Seriously, they'd come in for two hours to attach power cables.

However, when the school started 'not renewing contracts' after 3 years of continuous employment but then 'rehiring' after a month, so that teachers wouldn't get tenure, the union got the school to stop.

The union's power base came mainly from holding the school hostage - you 'couldn't' work there without joining the teachers union, else the union would have the teachers strike...
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FWIW, MSVC has had this ability for a few years now. It helps with both normal compilation unit compiles and with link-time code generation. See for instance Bruce Dawson's notes: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/make-vc-compile... .
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Show HN: Publish a Blog from Google Sheet
Show HN: Publish a blog from Google Sheet

Hello HN!

I previously created Sheet2Site.com, it lets you generate a website from a Google Sheet.
A lot of users asked me how they can create a simple blog in the same way.

So I made a super simple blog in a single spreadsheet. It support Markdown for posts,
and has support for a image header, nav bar, logo. Everything can be changed inside the
sheet.

It also has Markdown live preview, to see how what you're writing will look like. And basic features like social media cards with images and custom CSS/JS.

I decided to move my personal blog from Medium. I used it for 2 years, but not it's just annoying.

Here's a blog demo: https://blog.andreyazimov.com/

And here's the source spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_T1V_WIg4AYK7QmugFo...

Let me know what you think, I'd love feedback.
You must be a philanthropist.
I utterly agree to your opinion.
> It's like penalizing doctors if their patient dies

Doctors should be punished if their patient dies for reasons caused by doctor's own fault or by some unintentional action or inaction. That's why malpractice insurance is a thriving industry.

> In that case who's fault is it if they both built half a bridge that doesn't line up?

The chief engineer or the architect, the ones who signed off on the project. And again, that's why those industries have professional liability insurance.
I think we’ve seen this with films as well; everything’s a remake, a sequel, or at best based on an already successful property from another medium. I’ve always assumed it’s a risk thing; as the budgets and visual expectations for games and films have skyrocketed, risk aversion has increased (if you’re spending a few hundred million, it MUST sell) and the victim is design for games, and storytelling for both.
Unions are present in just about every capitalist society, in fact I'd wager they are far more effective there than they would be on the opposite side of that particular fence, simply because most capitalist societies have somewhat functional legal systems as well as democratic institutions.

In other countries union bosses are found dead with alarming regularity.
How does that question apply to Minsky?
French citizen (even with French addresses) are not prohibited to do things which would be illegal in France but legal where they currently reside. So KYC is utterly useless in this case.
That still does not give the company the right to fire them, which is the law man... And the company could recognize the union if it wanted. So a vote is not mandatory.

Note the subject of the post: "Kickstarter employees fired for trying to unionize". That's either true or it is not and so far you have not brought anything to the table that suggests it isn't retaliation for exactly that, and in fact substantiated numerically that the chances that it is not retaliation are vanishingly small.
JP Morgan: "Millionaires don’t use astrology, billionaires do."

Donald Reagan, formerly Ronald Reagan’s Chief of Staff: "It’s common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology."

Albert Einstein said : "Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it."

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/astrologicalmusings/201...
There way I see it, no genius would grow a body like Stallman's. I have no strong association between the label genius and the man called Stallman.

Mess and Stallman? Yes.