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ubershmekel

612 karma · joined December 10, 2010

Creator of redditp.com and tagsyo.com
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ubershmekel··on The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
I'm building something that isn't necessarily more secure than vercel, but it is self hosted. I think in the future personal vps family clouds are going to be a lot more common because of these cloud-level attacks and costs.
ubershmekel··on New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML
I wrote a bit about this about a year ago: https://blog.usejournal.com/the-next-css-frontier-classless-...

Definitely got me Zen Garden vibes.

ubershmekel··on Show HN: Internet Leaderboard, see what's winning the game of likes
Thank you :) fair point. I'll add filtering by domain, and then maybe by hash tags. Though it might be tricky to identify the category across different sites.
ubershmekel··on Show HN: Query and skim through Reddit, Twitter and YouTube
Any feedback would be most welcome!
ubershmekel··on I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today
> This person is so convinced that they are a good developer that they refuse to take direction or ask questions

While I agree a coding exercise is valuable - this is the actual problem. The way I test for that humility is by asking "tell me about a time you personally did a poor job." I then follow up by asking for a time they identified a failure of a colleague. I look to see if they're empathetical, open to being wrong, and declaring they're always trying to improve.

ubershmekel··on People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge
I learned this lesson from the videos of the Harvard course on justice. The lecturer got explanations that I thought at the time were laughable, but somehow in his response he rephrased them to be reasonable and a great platform to deepen the conversation. It requires a great deal of empathy and intelligence to do that and I try my darndest to read as much sense as possible from any question directed my way. Here's an example:

https://youtu.be/kBdfcR-8hEY?t=2446

ubershmekel··on Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer
That's a good idea. Sort of like the good old css zen garden, but with simple, not ugly, css resets.

Here's my attempt: https://www.cssbed.com/

Feel free to add options at https://github.com/ubershmekel/cssbed

ubershmekel··on FoundationDB Record Layer
I'm sure they're good, but better is better.
ubershmekel··on Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
I felt wrapping added a strategic depth for me to explore and a positive sensation of "outsmarting" the red block.
ubershmekel··on Unprovability comes to machine learning
The undecidability of the halting problem has no practical effect.
ubershmekel··on Pendulum Waves (2010)
I made it with webgl: http://toplessproductions.com/pendulum/
ubershmekel··on First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings
You damn well know you can more easily dab on positive findings.

There should probably be a Nobel Prize for null findings to fix the incentive structure. But how do you grade and compare the different null findings? By effort? The ramifications of a null finding are likely more limited.

ubershmekel··on Show HN: MissingLink – Deep learning automation for engineers
Glad to answer any questions folks might have.
ubershmekel··on The Last of the Universe’s Ordinary Matter Has Been Found
Objects becoming invisible does not infer infinite objects. When you observe shopping carts leaving the store do you assume there are infinite shopping carts outside of the store?
ubershmekel··on Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)
Is this equivalent to each node representing a memory state?

Seems like it would not solve rtkwe's concern. In their example using tuples make a node state equal (S, COUNT_OF_DAYS), (R, COUNT_OF_DAYS)? You would still need an infinite amount of nodes to represent an infinite precision integer state.

ubershmekel··on Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox
I imagine the idea is to have an incognito mode that actually is incognito, and free.
ubershmekel··on How a domain registrar can kill your business
Ceremonies that aren't critical have a higher likelihood of being skipped, forgotten or ignored...
ubershmekel··on Show HN: We did Google Duplex for businesses in 6 months with a team of 3
Got demos in English?
ubershmekel··on The life cycle of HIV in 3D [video]
Here's the video on vimeo https://vimeo.com/260291607
ubershmekel··on A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
I think the reference was to invisible powers controlling your news, search, social, legislative, and economic institutions.
ubershmekel··on Executing gradient descent on the earth
Downward trend doesn't imply trending to zero. Would your intuition suggest a trend to zero?

Even if it does - you can build intuitions to explain unintuitive results. Unituitive is subjective and a similar word would be "surprising". Because you can look at data to explain a surprising result - it doesn't make the initial result less surprising.

ubershmekel··on Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual
I made something similar though not as good.

http://redditile.com/r/food

https://github.com/ubershmekel/redditile

ubershmekel··on How Python does Unicode
> Unicode is a horrible scam, the worst thing to happen to digital language representation.

> They baldly admit that Unicode is not good for drawing Arabic

> Consider the "Base-4 fractions in Telugu" [...] any software that wants to use them properly will require some code to translate to and from numbers in the computer to Telugu sequences of those graphics.

Written language is hard to represent, encode and draw. You admit that Unicode&utf8 got 2 out of 3 right yet you call it a scam.

Your complaint is a scam and a horrible trollism.

ubershmekel··on Why We Chose Typescript
Typescript as a project might be bigger than the rest. E.g. compared to flow the typescript repo has double the stars and quadruple the commits. If those metrics mean anything.
ubershmekel··on Servo nightly builds on Windows now available
I just tried it out. It froze when looking at a reddit comments page, it froze when I tried to use the URL bar. Pretty exciting nonetheless.
ubershmekel··on The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y”
Consider vue js https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/

* I find the template syntax is more sensible than react.

* It's not as total as angular. You can use just the small parts you'd like.

ubershmekel··on KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX
Bruce Scheneier designed Password Safe: https://pwsafe.org/

It's not one multiplatform app, but there's an equivalent format app on every platform.

ubershmekel··on How breakpoints are set
"the following instructions" may be a bit tricky. E.g. if the instruction jumps to itself.
ubershmekel··on WebGL water scene
You guys should more prominently make note of that on your website. I already crossed it off as another proprietary unreal/unity and moved on until I luckily read this comment.
ubershmekel··on Pinterest lets employees exercise options 7 years after leaving
Your comment sounds interesting though I'm not sure I'm following. What can't a founder see or measure? Why would the founder care? For rehire potential?
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