Hacker News: anf

New comment by anf in "Daniel Ellsberg has died"

anf — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:36:49 +0000

It's not binary: bosses and investors want to know who will obey the rules as you see them for a variety of reasons. They'll fund / promote based on the needs of the projects you will likely face.

New comment by anf in "ChatGPT Plus"

anf — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 05:53:37 +0000

With tillerhq.com, you can set up a pretty nice workflow to review your spending daily, weekly, or whatever cadence makes sense to you across all of your accounts, and it's only $79/year! :)

New comment by anf in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

anf — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:12:22 +0000

I like Elon, too, but "no qualifications to run a rocket company" is simply delusional. He majored in physics at Penn and econ at Wharton and went to grad school at Stanford studying material science (for two days, just enough to get to signal being smart). I have a harder time imagining what kind of background would be better being CEO of a rocket company.

If he runs Twitter like 4chan, it will surely fail, but I think he has more to his plan than he is willing to share publicly at this time.

New comment by anf in "Removing Trending From Facebook"

anf — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:02:33 +0000

I don't think likes are meaningless — they tap into a very primal need for social status and peer approval. It's a stupid game, but like many other stupid games, it's effective!

New comment by anf in "Removing Trending From Facebook"

anf — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:52:57 +0000

As someone who left Facebook awhile ago mostly because life got busy, those ads seem to solidify an (alternative?) narrative of why I left rather than urge me to come back.

New comment by anf in "FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices"

anf — Sat, 26 May 2018 17:45:04 +0000

Is there no laws w.r.t. negligence that can be used to punish negligent actors? If a door manufacturer is negligent in their construction of the door and someone gets robbed as a result, in violation of how they expected their door to work, is there nothing currently in the law that could help them?

New comment by anf in "GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers"

anf — Fri, 25 May 2018 21:41:34 +0000

Do you send user data anywhere in a way users may not expect? If not there's probably nothing to comply with. It's really the opposite of bureaucratic law — the entire thing is quite readable and reasonable.

New comment by anf in "GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers"

anf — Fri, 25 May 2018 20:27:38 +0000

Because he's lazy and thinks he'll get away with it. He'll come into compliance after penalties outweigh the costs of changing the way he does business. This is probably the reaction of the vast majority of folks dealing with customer data, and not at all unexpected — they have a business to run, and costs to customer privacy are an externality being rolled into their costs via regulation.

New comment by anf in "Amazon Aurora Backtrack"

anf — Thu, 10 May 2018 16:22:03 +0000

Seems like you can both be right in different circumstances. Humble Bundle got to a nice acquisition married to GCP. Snapchat has successfully unwound. I haven't looked into it in depth but it seems examples on both sides abound.

New comment by anf in "NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report"

anf — Sat, 05 May 2018 20:01:46 +0000

nvm, the article mentions it. cell phones check in with the tower while they are on, which is a way to track where someone has taken their cell phone. afaik, there's very limited privacy protections around this in the US because they are considered the business records of the cell company.

New comment by anf in "Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'"

anf — Sat, 05 May 2018 01:31:49 +0000

Yeah, totally with you — don't trust devices you (or your employer) doesn't own. I'm borderline still where I trust my employer's devices with my personal passwords sometimes, but even that seems a bit iffy.

New comment by anf in "NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report"

anf — Sat, 05 May 2018 01:28:33 +0000

What's a call record? Like a single phone call or an SMS? Pinging the tower doesn't count, does it?

New comment by anf in "Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'"

anf — Fri, 04 May 2018 07:53:37 +0000

If you can prevent a company from acting unethically and you have the capacity to do so, are you not ethically obligated to try?

(switching sides of argument, I know)

New comment by anf in "Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'"

anf — Fri, 04 May 2018 07:52:37 +0000

fair point. my thoughts were that spending your time building $10 widgets and getting paid $5 by someone who is negligent with their use of people's passwords is akin to working for a company that pollutes public waters: some of your paycheck is "tainted" by the dangers you put others into, and you are smart enough to understand it. in that sense, quitting seems like a non-act, because you stop acting unethically.

I'm guessing you're referring to someone's ability to actually fix it -- in the case of logs, you can make a pretty simple regex to strip out all kinds of PII, and there really are a lot of arguments (e.g. proactively reducing cost of security audits -- if someone is reviewing your logs to figure out what happened, they might not want to see customer data).

New comment by anf in "Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'"

anf — Fri, 04 May 2018 06:11:27 +0000

Key logger + making a cron job that copies everything off your drive = 5 minutes of work? I hope you trust the folks you use this setup on...

New comment by anf in "Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'"

anf — Fri, 04 May 2018 06:07:30 +0000

You should quit. I know you have reasons, but continuing to work at a place like this is not ethical.

New comment by anf in "Facebook announces Clear History feature"

anf — Thu, 03 May 2018 16:16:49 +0000

Definitely doesn't have to be on purpose.

Try building a scalable database to billions of users on ad revenue and make it retrieve all data from years ago within the time constraints that users want to see newsfeed items in, you'll see ;)

New comment by anf in "Facebook announces Clear History feature"

anf — Tue, 01 May 2018 22:01:52 +0000

Did they re-appear after you had remembered deleting them, or were they just not fetched when you looked the first time? I think Cassandra might be to blame where it returned a bunch of wall posts but not all of them when you looked back in history the first time.

New comment by anf in "Facebook announces Clear History feature"

anf — Tue, 01 May 2018 21:07:06 +0000

Is there a way to get them to delete everything? Under GDPR, Europeans certainly can, but then they also lose all of their Facebook friends?

New comment by anf in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)"

anf — Tue, 01 May 2018 18:31:13 +0000

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