Hacker News: emmab

New comment by emmab in "Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management"

emmab — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 21:21:15 +0000

Oh, nevermind on #2 then. Sounds like they've been doing a lot of feature development.

New comment by emmab in "Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management"

emmab — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 21:17:51 +0000

I had two main problems with LogSeq when I used it:

1. Not designed from the ground-up to prevent data loss. Has had data-loss issues in the past.

2. An electron app that doesn't let you open multiple documents at once. (edit: nevermind, seems like they did lots of feature development here)

That said, I don't know of any other good local-first outliners (i.e. like Workflowy).

New comment by emmab in "Holes"

emmab — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:05:27 +0000

Uh, you can treat holes as being defined as entities by their cause and telos, just like any other object/entity.

e.g. A hole made by a hole punch (cause), for fitting into a 3-ring binder (telos). Done.

New comment by emmab in "Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting"

emmab — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 23:42:22 +0000

So? I didn't say there were any good countries on earth.

New comment by emmab in "GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account"

emmab — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 20:29:39 +0000

There's no disobedience like civil disobedience. All the best things in life are illegal. Long live anarchy! Fire to the prisons!

Information wants to be free! ACAB! Eat the police!

New comment by emmab in "Netflix tells employees they may need to work on titles they perceive as harmful"

emmab — Sat, 14 May 2022 00:20:10 +0000

Or you can fight for absolute good and justice on a war to unweave entropy itself across the entire multiverse. Your choice.

New comment by emmab in "Printf(“%s %s”, dependency, injection)"

emmab — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:23:21 +0000

Haskell has implicit parameters[1].

[1]: https://www.haskell.org/hugs/pages/users_guide/implicit-para...

New comment by emmab in "Beware of Applications Misusing Root Stores"

emmab — Mon, 10 May 2021 21:32:30 +0000

> Additionally, some application developers directly parse a file in Mozilla’s source code management system called certdata.txt, in which Mozilla’s root store is maintained in a form that is convenient for NSS to build from. The problem with the scripts that directly parse this file is that some of the certificates in this file are not trusted but rather explicitly distrusted

Could the file be split to retroactively fix everyone doing this?

New comment by emmab in "No ID, no vaccines for Indonesia’s invisible people"

emmab — Tue, 04 May 2021 16:51:42 +0000

It's not strange. Many religions contain an absolute prohibition against denying your faith. It prevents any true believers in those religions from having government documents.

It's fully intentional.

New comment by emmab in "All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk"

emmab — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:02:08 +0000

What?!? How does that work? Does he just draw up a blueprint and write "solid gold block goes here" and them some contractor says "yes that gold block will be $NNNNN" and includes it in the budget??

New comment by emmab in "All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk"

emmab — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:58:43 +0000

If it would be detected by profiling that does make the technique asymmetric in that it would only stick around if nobody profiled to find it.

New comment by emmab in "Obedience Training"

emmab — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 06:53:38 +0000

Slavery is wrong.

New comment by emmab in "Ask HN: Is there a book that teaches you dark patterns of office politics?"

emmab — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 05:47:19 +0000

The only winning move is not to play. Fight for liberation.

New comment by emmab in "Ask HN: Is there a book that teaches you dark patterns of office politics?"

emmab — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 05:46:32 +0000

Moral Mazes: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/45mNHCMaZgsvfDXbw/quotes-fro...

New comment by emmab in "Vendor by Default"

emmab — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:27:24 +0000

Adding a content integrity hash in the lockfile seems like a more flexible solution.

New comment by emmab in "Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS"

emmab — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:23:33 +0000

> but it’s way too much of a hassle to be used in the wild.

No it's not, it's just rare that you'd have the ability to inject CSS but not JS.

A core skill of hacking is being able to see through the things people would normally see as "hassle" or "friction" to the reductionist "what keys do I have to press on the machine in what order to make this happen".

New comment by emmab in "What’s the most asinine technical requirement you’ve had to work into a design?"

emmab — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 05:52:31 +0000

Solution: Reserve cool user ids and sell them yourself later if your service becomes popular?

New comment by emmab in "AI competitions don’t produce useful models"

emmab — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 05:00:53 +0000

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5gQLrJr2yhPzMCcni/the-optimi...

The competition and test set will still have hidden biases due to the ontology you use.

Sufficient optimization pressure always eventually overcomes your bias control metrics, in the context of actual utility rather than other metrics.

It's well known in cryptography and security that all abstractions are leaky.

New comment by emmab in "tmux Privilege Escalation"

emmab — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:05:23 +0000

Which is normal if you want to maintain only a single ssh session to a remote machine.

New comment by emmab in "The Fall of Ethereum"

emmab — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:37:59 +0000

omg could ya'll get back to researching decentralized technologies instead of speculating on them?

who cares how much it costs? who cares if ethereum itself wins or it gets replaced by something new? the value to humanity is in the research