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by willseth 3y ago
Almost literally every company with human customers collects user data because it’s necessary to run a business. Very few of those have a business model where the purpose is to profit from the sale of that data. Every one of our customers i
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by willseth 3y ago
What bar are you talking about? We use the state of the art to treat indirect identifiers without pseudonymization, but we pseudonymize as needed if that’s overkill. The bar is set very high for our service. Sadly, very few companies are ac
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by willseth 3y ago
That's not how the term typically used. Most people will assume you have only protected direct identifiers if you tell them data has been pseudonymized. https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/pseudonymization
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by willseth 3y ago
"Denoising" algorithms can't remove this kind of noise. It doesn't work like that. You're simply mistaken. Generally the state of the art for adding noise to data is differential privacy or microaggregation. In the
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by willseth 3y ago
It's pseudonymization regardless of the replacement data format. It can be a token, a format-consistent value, e.g. "john.smith@example.com", redacted, etc. All of that is considered pseudonymous. Pseudonymized data is not co
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by willseth 3y ago
Another fun one was the Netflix Prize, where Netflix published an anonymized dataset, but some researchers at UT Austin were able to de-identify many/most of the users in the dataset by linking them to IMDB profiles based on preference
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by willseth 3y ago
There are a small handful of us out there, targeting slightly different but overlapping use cases, but this is me https://www.privacydynamics.io . Happy to answer any questions about it.
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by willseth 3y ago
I work for a data privacy startup, and this article unfortunately groups all forms of anonymization together. It is specifically criticizing forms of anonymization that only treat direct identifiers like names, addresses, and phone numbers.
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by willseth 3y ago
It's not because of the money. Most could make money just fine with properly anonymized data. They just don't care and/or don't want to take the effort or spend money to do it because the consequences for leaking private
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by willseth 3y ago
By "people" do you mean all people or just a few here on this forum? I would never use OneDrive, and I can tell you why people would use it: it's easy, and for the most part it just works. Most people don't care or consi
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by willseth 3y ago
Thanks Steve. This strikes me as a reasonable recommendation, though it seems like generally the guiding metric should be whatever leads to fewer bugs and vulnerabilities (incl. tools, processes, etc).
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by willseth 3y ago
I'm not sure there's much to take away from this article. The author spends most of his words arguing against himself and then ends with a very confusing paragraph with a vague call to "understand what security means", a
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by willseth 3y ago
Huh? That's not even the point. If that is upheld, it will still be an significant and overall loss for Epic. Apple's request for a stay on appeal could have been denied too, but it wasn't, so the appeals court at least doesn
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by willseth 3y ago
Yes, as I stated above, the judge ruled against Apple's anti-steering provision. But that is a small win in light of the other rulings. It's also tied up in courts on appeal, so nothing has actually gone into effect. Even if the a
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by willseth 3y ago
They lost on almost all the claims - critically, any claim that would have allowed them to circumvent app store fees - so it's reasonable to simply say that they lost. The anti-steering provision was the one exception.
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by willseth 3y ago
It’s not accurate to call keto well studied wrt cancer or that it doesn’t work. It’s an active area of research and there are many studies showing positive effects, but most/all study designs are limited. It’s also true that without a
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by willseth 3y ago
Hi, in case you forgot, you’re on an HN forum. That’s why 99.999% of people do not care about most things people here care about. Get some perspective.
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by willseth 3y ago
What you describe is only considered by a vanishingly small number of their customers. The vast majority don’t care or even own an external display. You could be right about range confusion, but I doubt it simply because, like everything el
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by willseth 3y ago
It’s a business decision. You don’t think Apple knows the demand for multiple external displays? If they thought it would sell more Macs, they would do it.
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by willseth 3y ago
Magnesium glycinate is typically recommended, but any form that doesn't upset your stomach is probably good.
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by willseth 3y ago
Dreams are an indication of REM sleep, but improvement in REM may be a general indication that you're getting overall better sleep, including deep sleep.
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by willseth 3y ago
Calling it "Open-Source Snowflake" implies you are trying to be a drop-in replacement for Snowflake for at least a subset of features, SQL syntax, etc.
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by willseth 3y ago
I think it depends on how you interpret "rely". If your app can gracefully recover to a reasonable state from a failure to resume the expected session, then you could argue it's not that reliant on it. Many systems use sticky
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by willseth 3y ago
Why not also express the defaults as config, or is that what you meant? I don't think that runs afoul of 12 factor.
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by willseth 3y ago
Give an example. Like most things, it's context dependent and there are grey areas, but I think most devs use 12 factor like a north star. I wouldn't block a release due to some minor deviation, but generally lacking alignment sho
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by willseth 3y ago
I don't know what Pixel replacement batteries cost, but Apple typically charges a flat $89 to replace an out of warranty battery, less than 10% of the cost of a new phone, which is a totally reasonable proposition if you think you can
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by willseth 3y ago
Is anyone else confused by the inclusion of a temperature sensor? Was there a demo that explains why anyone would want this? What?
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by willseth 3y ago
What I would expect is that it will work with any USB-C cable but possibly only work at max speed or watts on MFi cables
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by willseth 3y ago
I wouldn't get excited yet. TMK they are only required to implement the connector and certain charging requirements, not any particular complete USB protocol spec, so it seems likely they'll continue the same MFi program over USB-
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by willseth 3y ago
They indicated in the pitch for the Pro that they added logic to the new CPU to drive USB 3 at 10gbps. The non-Pro is using last year's CPU, so while yes I guess that means they did "cheap out", I imagine the cost to include

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