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Thrift seems to have a really nice solution of providing only types that eventually break down into scalars. And only for exchanging data - it doesn't dare prescribe the rest of th…

> Anybody else experiencing an attitude change? I had serious anxiety a few years ago about this, and ended up in Acceptance. I'm not happy ending up here, but I figure I got about…

It doesn't change that this is basic logic. One yields less information than the other, and you didn't grasp that. Sorry if I came off as condescending. I don't really see a point …

Secret societies have an air of mystique around them, but often they're just social clubs with extra steps. People are social creatures, and having something to belong to is health…

I uninstalled most apps from my phone, and turned notifications off on the rest. If it's not a DM, I don't want to see it. My quality of life has improved.

I worked with the fraud team implementing the security for a real time data ingestion pipeline at a major bank partner. I am a bit more informed on this than the average hn poster …

A bland, useless message is less information than cussing someone out and calling them a fraudster.

Credit Karma has a platform for running models against their dataset, and appears to buy everyone's daily data from Equifax. Also, Intuit is much more than a tax company now.

I read it more as "using uncertainty" is a dark pattern and to stop it even if it's accurate. 10% of users a company with that many is a pretty significant impact to people. I rere…

>The FTC alleges that the company used claims that consumers were pre-approved and had ’90 per cent odds’ to entice them to apply for offers that, in many instances, they ultimatel…

They have something like 2000 employees now.

> they posted a Ruby on Rails directory structure as proof of hacking them but the company does not have Ruby code I think it's extremely suspicious, but often times breaches like …

> There might be fewer use cases for it now There are massive use cases for it, but not at the people level. Low latency tasks such as edge AI classification, IOT interaction, and …

It's not in the general, constant sense that you have to worry about, but rather in specific applications. When you're out in public, "they" will have 3-meter-accuracy, more than e…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity Basically, it only takes a few pointed datapoints to deanonymize a person. They are weaponizing this concept.

The root of this investigation was the EFF. If you make tech money, you can toss $50 their way without any hesitation. https://supporters.eff.org/donate You'll get some cool swag a…

>This isn't a discussion about housing availability Down-talking dense, quickly built housing because you don't like how it looks IS making it about housing availability. Those bui…

This is such a short-sighed headline, because it's baiting people into snarkily answering "last week". The reality is that the vast majority of people don't drive more than 150 mil…

I suppose it took a bunch of innovations to make it more usable over that past thirty years, though. - vastly improved software - much better accuracy and integration with "custom"…

Just because facebook (a soulless ghoul amalgamation trapped in the vortex of a billionaire p-zombie) took shots at tiktok (also a shit company), doesn't absolve tiktok of real, ac…

>I can see how a court Wild and unbased speculation. In fact, there have been lawsuits around de-platforming that haven't gone well for the plaintiff - I can't imagine a more cut a…

>Im not sure you read or understand the links correctly so let me clarify. I did in fact. >Sure we could split hairs That is literally, LITERALLY the whole point of if they are "fl…

You seem to be using "cancels" in a very loose sense. When you're talking about actions of these providers, and their duties/responsibilities, some precision is required. These com…