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Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire
SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
Tell HN: Triplebyte is, yet again, making user profiles public without consent?
Triplebyte (YC S15) is a tech recruiting company that operates by getting developers to take skill tests, and then using the results to match them with employers. Back in 2020, they got in a lot of hot water by suddenly announcing that user profiles -- which had been collected with assurances that the data wouldn't be shared without consent -- would be made public, unless you opted out within a week[1]. This provoked a lot of backlash, especially since the CEO seemed totally oblivious to the privacy concerns[2]. After a lot of angry comments, he publicly apologized and reversed course[3].<p>Then in 2021, some users started once again being notified that their profiles were automatically being made public[4]. This time, it was explained away as an "oversight" related to the fact that previously, opt-outs weren't permanent but had a hidden expiration time. Triplebyte once again apologized and promised that it wouldn't happen again, and many people seemed satisfied with the "transparency and candidness" of their response.<p>Now it's 2022, and yesterday I got a recruiting email from a company that found me via the Triplebyte account I created back in 2019. When I logged in to check, sure enough, my profile was set to "publicly visible" and "open to new opportunities". I was pretty sure I had never made those changes, but just in case I was misremembering, I contacted Triplebyte support to find out what was going on. Today I got this response:<p>"I was able to do some digging on to why this must have happened, It looks like before we did our last update to the platform you did not have the profile visibility set to indefinitely so the profile was turned on. Since then we have made a privacy chance once you set the profile to off there is not reset time frame it will remain off until you turn it on."<p>(Unlike the user in [4], I never got any kind of notification that this automatic change was being made.)<p>So despite their explicit promises, Triplebyte did not actually go back and fix the privacy settings for users who had them silently changed by the previous "dark pattern". This is a heads-up to anyone else who has a Triplebyte account and might be affected by the same issue.<p>[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837<p>[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280120<p>[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037<p>[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255742
A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
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macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
It made the news recently that Wickr (Amazon owned E2EE chat app) is full of illegal imagery.<p>I read about this on my LinkedIn feed then decided to search for "Wickr" there to see who else was talking about this. The search returned dozens of spam messages offering drugs in Asia and the US with information to contact on Wickr for price.<p>I reported these drug spam posts to LinkedIn - which is supposedly an anonymous report.<p>Next day I got a flood of reports on my own comments (nothing to do with that topic), so many I didn't bother to appeal as I had other things to do. Few hours later my account was down.<p>Seems that for retaliation the drug network decided to find me out and use their accounts to subvert LinkedIn's policy and ensure I can't stop their spam. They have new spam up now while my account is gone.<p>No good deed goes unpunished I guess.
Cool desktops don’t change
Cool desktops don’t change
Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project
Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project
Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
The computers are fast, but you don't know it
The computers are fast, but you don't know it
Does the Tank Have a Future?