uzakov

> If you're smart enough to realize that there might be something to worry about, you should be smart enough to be able to figure out how to

This is gatekeeping 101. Some people are just starting out in security/software engineering and things like this might not be obvious to them. It's good that you have suggested what to do but there are different ways to "suggest" things.

I am really sorry to hear about your personal loss, by no means my goal was to create negative reaction.

No dispute there, please see my comment below to "glenngillen"

Yeah, I think another field(though I could be wrong on this one) that pays much better in the USA VS other countries is finance. Outside of these field the situation is very different

Absolutely, no dispute there. I thought it might be worth pointing that out, since Ycombinator has a lot of IT visitors.

> Also, to any non-Americans its always important to put this in the context that "waiving" here means you're still paying thousands per month

Also important to remember the "take home" pay in the USA vs other countries. For many software engineers from the USA it would be significantly more than in other countries, for example due to the fact that there are a number of opportunities to earn good 6 figure salaries

Does anyone know how someone not from the USA or other developed nations can get access to more advanced cancer treatments? Paying for advanced treatment isn't an issue.

This is honestly great! Could you please add a license? I would love to translate this and deploy in other languages.

Also used to have XPS 15 in the past

I specifically did not name XPS 13 2-in-1 for many reasons: issues, concerns. Also XPS 13 is NOT hardware wise simular to XPS 15, which I was referring to above

MacBook pro 16 size: Height: 1.62 cm (0.64 inches) Width: 35.79 cm (14.09 inches) Depth: 24.59 cm (9.68 inches) Weight: 2.0 kg (4.3 pounds) Dell XPS 15 Height: 0.71" (1.8 cm) | 2. Width: 13.57" (344.72 mm) | 3. Depth: 9.06" (230.14 mm) | 4. Starting Weight*: 4 lbs. (1.83 kg) for non-touch with 56Whr battery

Size and weight wise they are in a similar category.

“make barely no noise when compiling hundred of thousand LoCs” - I haven’t got XPS15 but got MacBook Pro 16 with Intel Chip(2020 model) but whenever my browser is open and I do code compilation my MacBook absolutely makes noise. I don’t have thousand tabs open, use adblocker, privacy DNS to make it easier for my machine to browse internet.

Performance: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/dxf0qp/a_comparison_ma...

Would you say this is a fair comparison?

Dell XPS 15 or Dell XPS 17 - quality build, good specs, has a dedicated GPU, decent price(at least in the USA) good size. Whenever I hear "Windows PC industry has a lot of catching up to do" I always ask what particulars are you missing or not there?

In many ways this reminds me of OWASP SAMM, which is a framework to help organizations formulate and implement a strategy for software security that is tailored to the specific risks facing the organization. For anyone interested in having data driven, defined way to measure and scale security I am strongly advising to have a look at this project https://owasp.org/www-project-samm/

HN: be careful with doing things like this, technically speaking this could be considered illegal.

A fairly old guide I wrote but the core ideas remain the same: https://uzakov.io/2017/05/08/pretty-good-setup-pgs/ Mentions many things mentioned in the comments as well as other good security measures

So that we are on a same page, you are stating that any company is de-factor to be considered belonging to country X if: 1) Founder has a double citizenship 2) Has some of the staff in a foreign country 3) Has a sales office in their home country

Is above what you are trying to say?

> not only that

By this logic does it not mean that Google is a Russian/Soviet company? Sergey Brin was born and spent some years in Russia, also Google has staff in Russia(and China in this regard)

If anyone is interested to read more about Software Bill of Materials and how you can implement it check out OWASP Dependency Track project - https://owasp.org/www-project-dependency-track/

Any links on that? Only notable incident was when they apparently sold intentionally mislabeled Chinese-made equipment to U.S. government end users. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortinet#cite_note-37

One of the reasons people might spend time on keyboards is health ie to combat the carpal tunner syndrom.

I am not sure what you are implying. I am not an expert in this field but based upon the article and comments here it seems that this is something you have to do unless you want to be banned, even nowadays?

You are dodging questions though, it doesn't help our discussion.

> every bomb dropped and person executed

So if you pay taxes in Switzerland you only get good karma points

> oh they think differently must mean were wrong

At no point I said that someone was wrong because they think differently, no need to fight windmills

> But this is a false sense of neutrality and objectivity.

False according to what/who? For the sake of a good discussion it would be good if you gave some sources. Ie my question to you from a comment above

> and it's non-trivial for them to share files.

My approach is to have a separate dropbox and GitHub account for sharing, that both machines have access to.

I dont believe I spoke about nor said anything about Teamspeak. What are you referring to?

> There are many laws which are unjust, what is right and what is legal does not always align

What is considered right highly varies by country and culture, when you say "right" to what country/culture do you refer to?

> To me what this person did looked about as illegal as someone breaking an entry into a burning house to aid the people inside.

I am not commenting on the moral side of this persons actions, only the legal side.

> luxury clothing is for dumb people with money.

Follow HN guidelines please

I am very sorry to hear about your experience I hope all is better now. My comments are by no means an attack on you.

> Whether it is legal or not, isn’t the question.

I think it's perfectly normal to discuss whether things are legal or not. IANAL but what that person did seems illegal to me.

> Very few people have the balls to even try anything to help, even just giving money.

Would you not agree anyone who pays taxes is technically speaking helping?

> Why the government isn’t working with him rather than against him is the real question.

Many organisations follow very top-down approach and it might be extremely difficult for staff "on the ground" to make big decisions.