alt Hacker NewsHe is also linked to ycombinator which owns hacker news. If we are that reductionist, would you say that hacker news sends data to Palantir.
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Why would you think it doesn't?
I would say that HN's data is public so if Palantir wants it they already have it, unlike identifying documents collected by discord that connect discord identities to real identities.
Well it doesn't have to send much since 99% of information is already public. But I still would not doubt it for a second, there is no reason to think otherwise. There is no benefit to not sending them data and no downside to sending it.
This sites ties to Thiel and people like him are problematic yes.
However, HN isn’t asking for our ids yet.
Probably does
I'm not a LLM, but you're absolutely right. That conclusion is sound.
One big difference is that Discord literally told people they were going to be using their data for a Theil backed experiment. That's a lot different than the possibility that a company might send your data.
That being said, no, it wouldn't particularly surprise me if Y Combinator sends data to Palantir.
Well, the privacy darling Flock was from the YC 2017 summer batch, so I think it's already known what VCs think about ethics if it can make good money.
Hint, it's optional.
(And while I'm not saying for eg PG is personally an anti privacy guy, it's impossible not to hold YC leadership accountable for aiding these cos, or at least looking away.)