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hylianwarrior··on Photographer spends years on street corner capturing same commuters daily (2017)
"From 2007 to 2016 Funch carried out his project 42nd and Vanderbilt in which he captures the same person twice, mid-commute, leaving the viewer to wonder if they were photographed days, months, or even years apart."
hylianwarrior··on World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
They actually just recently released a sequel to Human Resource Machine called "7 Billion Humans". Builds on the gameplay but adds parallelism
hylianwarrior··on Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%
> I honestly can't understand why Google hasn't been able to replicate the success of iMessage

It's not because Google is doing a bad job, it's because Apple is doing a _great_ job.

Apple's framing of iOS as a luxury brand is why the "blue vs. green bubbles" type of sentiment has real impact within younger social circles.

hylianwarrior··on Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%
There is absolutely a market impact
hylianwarrior··on Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men
None of this analysis accounts for leveling.

If women are disproportionately hired at lower levels, pay equity will still be _very_ off, even if the data says otherwise on the surface-level.

Ex: Woman w/ 4 years experience hired at T3. Man w/ 4 years experience hired at T4. Both are "in range" of their median comp per level, but the man is being paid more for his expertise.

hylianwarrior··on Google reveals “high severity” flaw in MacOS kernel
Literally the second sentence: "Its members locate flaws in software, privately report them to the manufacturers, and give them 90 days to resolve the problem before publicly disclosing it."

Privately disclosed to Apple, 90 days later they published. Simple as that.

hylianwarrior··on Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
I use PIA. No problems so far.
hylianwarrior··on Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs
It's not _just_ JS though...
hylianwarrior··on Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs
Yep, ARM is affected. See this: https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/specu...
hylianwarrior··on Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs
> My naive reading of this is that Google is saying we need to rethink processors themselves if we want to fix this (and we really do want to fix it). Am I reading it correctly?

That's the gist of it, yeah.

hylianwarrior··on Abolish Billionaires
Literally, yes.
hylianwarrior··on Abolish Billionaires
No, but you shouldn't even be able to become a billionaire in the first place. That capital should be reinvested into society, not held by an individual.
hylianwarrior··on Is ARM Hungry Enough to Eat Intel's Favorite Pie?
> because most companies don't care about ARM in the server space at all

It's starting. Cloudflare just announced this, and AWS is adding ARM-based server options. https://blog.cloudflare.com/porting-our-software-to-arm64/

hylianwarrior··on I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier
IIRC this is pretty much the mission of glitch.com - democratizing web presence and giving the power to create back to regular people.
hylianwarrior··on But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow? [video]
This makes it no less impressive, IMO
hylianwarrior··on Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014)
I like to imagine that someday, somehow this HN thread will be referenced in an article somewhere. The irony would be satisfying.
hylianwarrior··on Tracing a Meme from the Internet’s Fringe to a Republican Slogan
Sure, but that's not the point. What the piece actually presents is a (quite interesting) illustration of how the far-right online community kicked off a specific talking point and spread it widely within just a few days.
hylianwarrior··on Rules for Dining Out – How a frugal economist finds the perfect lunch (2012)
Seems pretty clear to me:

"When I’m out looking for food, and I come across a restaurant where the patrons are laughing and smiling and appear very sociable, I become wary. Don’t get me wrong. Having fun is a fine ambition, but it’s not the same thing as eating good food."

But really, it's an opinion. If you don't agree, move on.

hylianwarrior··on Rules for Dining Out – How a frugal economist finds the perfect lunch (2012)
To be fair, this is pretty clearly an opinion piece filled with anecdotes. I'm not sure how much the data would help.
hylianwarrior··on Micro.blog
FYI: After you set up a profile it lets you customize your footer with arbitrary HTML/CSS/JS. It's definitely not secure.

See: http://xss.micro.blog

hylianwarrior··on Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf]
Yeah, I think more than anything this highlights the extent that media outlets seized on and amplified the outrage.
hylianwarrior··on Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail
Nano as well.
hylianwarrior··on Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
Why on earth would you think Google would sell its most valuable asset? Google does not sell user data, it builds on it. The more data they get, the better and better their AI will develop.

Looking back, when they announced they were going to become an AI-first company these sort of drastic data-grabs and privacy issues should have been apparent. But hindsight is 20/20...

hylianwarrior··on Design Thinking for Blockchains
+1, this is the _only_ correct answer to the crypto- UX dilemma.
hylianwarrior··on What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?
Only works if you have an account.
hylianwarrior··on Ask HN: Any cool ARKit or ARCore apps out there right now gaining popularity?
I would if you had an Android version.
hylianwarrior··on Silicon Valley VCs tour the Midwest
> The vast majority of "talent" in the midwest is below even the mediocre requirements of most SV/VC companies.

The poor education systems out there are to blame, IMO.

hylianwarrior··on Twitter Is Great. An Asshole Filter Would Make It Even Better
Yeah, you're the only one.
hylianwarrior··on Coinbase booked $1B in revenue last year, has told hovering VCs to back off
RaiBlocks is looking pretty good with its zero fees and sub-minute transaction times
hylianwarrior··on Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2
Cost of living / housing prices, available space for new buildings, tax incentives, etc, etc.
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