josefritz
Re:Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are gettin...
on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:17PM (#39032854)
That's correct. Even under CCPA analysis of anonymous aggregate data is consisted a legitimate use and not really a risk to PII.
Re:
on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:14AM (#39029679)
Yes, a total horror. Infrastructure destroyed, little to no shelter, no food, no water. An unspeakable abomination obscured only by by naked propaganda. I don't even know what to say anymore.
Re:
on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:04AM (#39029545)
I would imagine that being carpet bombed is not helping. The UNOCHA estimate is 23k dead. That's about 4% of the population. Asa a percentage that's higher that WWII in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#:~:tex....
Re:Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam i...
on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:15PM (#39017587)
Comically, when I google hackernews or even "Hacker News" I often get the other Hacker news first.
Finding my preferred UI https://hckrnews.com/ that's not even in the first page of results. Rajat's version https://hckrnws.com/... nowhere to be seen.
Google is becoming a mediocre phone book.
Re:Ask HN: OCR for 100 year old (German) handwritten cursive script?
on Monday January 15, 2024 @03:34PM (#39005736)
I've paid for manual transcription before. It's not that expensive. Technical solutions are cool, but that option is available today.
Re:Verizon to keep charging controversial fee despite $100M settlement
on Monday January 15, 2024 @03:28PM (#39005639)
They paid a 100M settlement. Pretty sure that's not a charitable donation.
Re:The planet's got 99 problems, but exponential growth isn't one
on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:47AM (#38967853)
"both are right" is the softest, most useless takeaway they could have.
Re:In 2024, please switch to Firefox
on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:59PM (#38808858)
I've been using Firefox since about 2008. I've never had a problem that switching to Chrome fixed, and only encountered a few old clunky sites and apps that were IE specific. Those sites are so old they're looking for the wrong user agent and don't work correctly in Edge either.
Re:Strawberry Case Study: What If Farmers Had to Pay for Water?
on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:36PM (#38808530)
Paying for water when you are poor is a threat to life and livelihood that's dystopian. This is the nature of dystopia, it mostly affects the impoverished.
Re:Substack on Nazi Views
on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:53PM (#38747508)
That's an interesting but highly distressing paradigm.
Re:FTC suggests new rules to shift parents' burden of protecting kids ...
on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:09AM (#38735468)
Storing minors biometric data forever is pretty clearly evil. There really shouldn't be a debate here. Yet some businesses are out there monetizing evil.
Re:Tesla Drivers Have the Highest Crash Rate of Any Brand: Study
on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @04:15PM (#38701689)
the fact that the problem is resolvable OTA is a feature of Tesla, a positive. Another make with the same issue might require a visit to the dealership. The problem is the same. Debating semantics beyond that is without merit.
Re:US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:03AM (#38629349)
This is consistent with the original decision. LTD Broadband, another big 2020 recipient is no longer eligible. https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-rejects-ltd-broadband-starl...
Re:America First Legal pushes for inquiry into 'systemic discriminatio...
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @08:55AM (#38627371)
I think IBM still uses stacked ranking for employee reviews. Goodyear and Microsoft have settled lawsuits because it's been shown to be discriminate against minorities. https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/pages/0603bat...
Re:Hasbro lays off nearly 20% of its workers two weeks before Christmas
on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @04:03PM (#38618484)
My former employer does a layoff pretty reliably in early December every year. The optics are always poor even if their rationale is sound.
Re:The evolution of the On/Off power switch symbol
on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:05PM (#38616778)
There are challenges inherent in creating a set of visual symbols to communicate. We have crossed that bridge before and we call them "words".
I wish designers might fall back on that more for ease of use instead of creating generation after generation of arcane, fleetingly extant symbols.
Re:23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent custome...
on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:26AM (#38614319)
There is no retcon possible from a TOS update. They're a soft target for a class action lawsuit right now and they know it.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
on Monday December 11, 2023 @07:07PM (#38607286)
This is well documented and even acknowledged by the US government. https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2-5-million-uncounted-unemplo...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2020/05/08/the-un...
Re:Attacking Journalists as Terrorists
on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:33AM (#38601483)
I think from a data privacy perspective it's totally appropriate content.
Re:DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked
on Friday December 08, 2023 @03:37PM (#38573978)
True. However, their abdication of responsibility is indicative of a lack of a security culture. It's hard to say that they were more or less negligent than Equifax, but both data sets should have been Highly secure.
It's also interesting that outside of the US their lack of security would open them to criminal liabilities under GDPR.
Re:Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer editors on Wik...
on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:26AM (#38532075)
I gave up contributing to Wikipedia when I looked back and found how much had been deleted. The deletionists have won the war.
Re:Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return de...
on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @02:27PM (#38464024)
I think their carbon calculations also assume that nobody closes those now nearly empty offices. If they do... then there is no way for it to be carbon neutral. RTO is the clear winner.
Re:Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return de...
on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @02:21PM (#38463925)
People forget how much it's changed but I think that's spot on.
Re:'It gets scary': Neighbors say these Bay Area ghost kitchens are ou...
on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:53PM (#38438110)
Bog standard? That is a hilarious typo.
Re:Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday an...
on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:44AM (#38363487)
I live in a rural area. Most of what they grow here is soybeans, corn and tobacco. You cant' eat any of it. It's a common misconception that rural areas are food producing. The U.S. imports something like 40% of it's produce.
Re:It's true – your devices are listening to you
on Friday November 17, 2023 @04:38PM (#38310796)
I worked for a company that used a pattern matching algorithm and further licensed a fingerprint algorithm to do ID Ads and songs. (all pre-shazam) I can confirm we had a footprint in the wild with broadcast radio before 2002 doing the above.
Re:Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits
on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:32PM (#28011452)
I would argue it's the C-suite execs that are overpaid. Their decisions are high-level, impesonal and focused on the finaincial well-being of the corporation. Ironically that would make their work very easy to automate with AI. In other words... a robot could do his job.
Re:Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits
on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:32PM (#28011447)
I would argue it's the C-suite execs that are overpaid. Their decisions are meant to be at a high-level, impesonal and focused on the finaincial well-being of the corporation. ironically that would make their work very easy to automate with AI. In other words... a robot could do his job.