gejose
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Comment · 1 day ago
Probably because fiat, unlike crypto, is not decentralized and fraudulent transactions can be reversed. A North Korean hacker zeroing out an account balance and incrementing another, can be reversed.
Comment · 8 days ago
It might not be a magic security wand, but so many critical vulnerabilities in software trace their origins to memory unsafe code and things like "use after free".
"~70% of the vulnerabilities Microsoft assigns a CVE each year continue to be memory safety issues" - Microsoft [1]
"We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code." - Google on Android [2]
This is also worth looking: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
References: 1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/blog/2019/07/a-proactiv... 2. https://blog.google/security/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-t...
Comment · 17 days ago
AI being a tool, especially one that you need skill to use, is just a temporary phase in its development
Comment · 26 days ago
Can someone explain what the use case for this is?
Comment · 1 month ago
The author literally spells out why this isn't always the case:
> Yes to start out it’s 95% booleans. But then you want a rollout. And then you want some targeting rules. And then you want non booleans… maybe some json. Oo wouldn’t it be nice if the json could conform to a schema… and then eventually you are like damn I really want to change these without deploying. Or you want to read the same flag from multiple services.
Comment · 1 month ago
> They're packing lots of signal into fewer words
This has not been my experience. I see it generating walls of text with very little SNR.
Comment · 3 months ago
Just noticed that the foreign language shown in that screenshot is malayalam[1], a language spoken in a southern state of India.
Comment · 3 months ago
Will definitely consider this after I clean things up. Note that it's completely vibe coded though.
Comment · 3 months ago
Came to the same conclusion too – I appreciate that it exists, but the UI felt really complicated and disorganized.
Comment · 3 months ago
I really like that this exists, but I found the menus and UI to be rather non-intuitive. My main use case was to sync reading progress between my Kobo and my iPhone. I was able to do this using KOReader on the Kobo & the Readest app[1] on iPhone (also open source).
Ultimately I decided to get rid of KOReader because it felt a bit laggy. The gestures (eg: swiping up on the left side to increase frontlight brightness) didn't work well either.
I eneded up writing my own software to sync progress from Kobo to a KOReader Sync server[2] which my Readest app also connects to (love that unlike the Kindle, the Kobo is quite an open system). You can even set it up so you can SSH into it[3].
[1] https://github.com/readest/readest [2] https://github.com/koreader/koreader-sync-server [3] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=254214
Comment · 4 months ago
ATS = Applicant Tracking System. It's software to help you manage your hiring pipeline as a whole.
Comment · 5 months ago
100%
Comment · 5 months ago
Hey kepano, really love the work you're doing!
Here are some feature I wish existed in Obsidian without any plugins:
* Dataview [1] (this is now solved with Bases, so I really appreciate that)
* Folder Note [2] (I, and I assume many others come from Notion, and I wish this were a thing)
* Recent files [3]
* A built in calendar [4]
* Link embeds [5] (or something to store previews for pasted links)
* Waypoint [6], or something to create a table of contents
These are just things I wish existed, but whether or not these are 'basic' can be debated. Ultimately I do wish there were a robust permission system for plugins so that personal functionality gaps can be plugged, but without compromising safety.
References: [1] https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/ [2] https://github.com/xpgo/obsidian-folder-note-plugin [3] https://github.com/tgrosinger/recent-files-obsidian [4] https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin [5] https://github.com/Seraphli/obsidian-link-embed [6] https://github.com/IdreesInc/Waypoint
Comment · 5 months ago
Love Obsidian but I've previously commented about the security model for plugins here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308131. TLDR: your entire vault (and possibly filesystem) is exposed to every single plugin you install.
I really do think Obsidian needs 2 things to have any reasonable security:
1. It needs to be a lot more batteries-included. A user shouldn't need a plugin for basic functionality.
2. It needs a granular permission system, where each plugin should have to declare and prompt you to allow or reject specific permissions, just like on iOS and Android. The system should enforce that a plugin cannot bypass this.