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I'm not comparing their content. I am comparing their business models. I don't see many differences between the business model of NPR and many Twitch streamers. They give their content away for free knowing most people will never pay for it, they ask for donations knowing only a small percentage would be willing to donate, and they give donators a few token gifts as a thank you.

You admit yourself there are "amazing content creators out there... that don't exploit parasocial relationships" so why are you judging everyone by the standards of the worst examples you can find? That is why you were also accused of being reductive.
A good list, though I think human faces and general animation are okay when you compare with foliage, which is downright awful. A lot of the improvement in human features has to do with motion capture and 3D scanning, but getting transitions between movements is where progress needs to be made.

Foliage seems like something that will be difficult to get realistic for any close inspect, at least from a layperson's point of view.
I don't think Facebook even distributes it, they advertise it. Much like HN is doing for Reuters' content in this very thread.
> (Cal State is kind of halfway in between, still much more state-funded than the UCs, but not anywhere near the per-student levels of 1990, which is why in-state tuition there is creeping towards $10k.)

This is an interesting observation, as the Cal States are more focused on instruction than UC, which I think helps justify their (and the CCs) better state funding. UC looks like its flush from all the federal research dollars it pulls in, and from running the hospitals, so the Assembly feels it's easier to cut there, than at CalState/CCs, where they don't have the research or hospital money.
CRT is not always emitting light but LCD always emitting, maybe is it the difference for cat?. CRT SlowMo videos on Youtube helps understanding.
Essentially, "If a major problem had a simple solution with no drawbacks, it wouldn't be a problem to begin with"
How uni are these unis?
In that scenario those 100 IPv6 addresses in the subnet would be practically equivalent to an IPv4 address today and would provide no extra benefit.
I was an enormous supporter of 18f when it first came out. But the results have been horrible / awful in bizarre ways. We aren't talking in money terms, lots of disciplinary and security issues.

What happened? Is USDS somehow different from 18f?

[1] - https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2016/10/ig-f...
ROM found in popular chinese USB to Serial chip (CH340)
Starred. Will I ever return? Who knows.
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Notes on VImage in iOS
Even the SATs and ACTs (and most definitely the ASVAB) have significant overlap with IQ tests.
This is HN, where everyone knows better than everyone else, especially in areas where they have no experience whatsoever.
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> Keep in mind that it’s not your place or your job to “police” family members and it serves no purpose. Don’t get caught up in this family game. It’s dysfunctional. Instead, just try being nice.

I don't agree. This is how you get families where grandma can spout the nastiest garbage on the planet to some other family member with no consequence.

I'm not going to initiate a bad exchange for no reason, but stepping in when someone is unfairly being targeted is absolutely required. I assure you, the targeted person will NOT consider everybody staying silent as being "nice".
"2. It has been argued that Sweden has a very odd definition of covid deaths: if you had it when you died, you died of covid. Two recent studies showed that only 15% of those who "died of covid" actually died because of covid."

You are wrong. You are making the same lie that those in the usa are making when they try to claim that of 180,000 dead only 6% actually died of covid and the rest died with covid.

You die of covid when you die with fluid in your lungs of pneumonia. You die of covid when you get in a wreck and they have to take you to the next county over skipping the two hospitals that are overcrowded with covid patients. You die of covid when your heart gives out or you have respiratory failure. One thing causes the others and leads to the death.

Quit being ignorant or blatantly lying.

A source would help to make me fill like an idiot. Please make me feel like an idiot and have a source.
>People don't attend basketball games, operas, or go eat at Michelin star restaurants because they're lonely.

I think it's reductive to consider that people are only on OnlyFans because they're lonely. People frequented strip clubs forever but I don't think everyone at a Vegas strip club is there because they are lonely.
Conversely - if you're going to Facebook or NewsCorp to seek factual (or at least sensibly balanced) information, you've effectively given up in either case.

It was only about 3 years ago that I found out lots of people rely on Facebook for their 'news', which puts me in a bubble of some sort, but it's still a bewildering state of affairs.
I think the point is that the headline makes it sound like a theater showing any random movie it wants is a normal, accepted practice, and that Disney was somehow doing something nefarious by stopping them from showing it. In essence, a clickbaity headline.

I know when I clicked on the headline, that's what I expected, and the article didn't actually say why Disney did what they did, but my impression continued to be that Disney was doing something shady. The top comment in the HN comments points out that this is just normal Disney policy, and is entirely a non-newsworthy, non-event.

If you had a different expectation, cool, but I think many people probably expected there to be shenanigans going on, when it's really just long-standing Disney policy.

(A policy I personally think is lame, but that's neither here nor there.)

(Seems like this post is now flagged, so I guess the HN hive mind agrees this is a weak article.)
That's the same in America. You need to purchase a license for the music to use in a business or buy it from a service that licenses it for use in a business.
This is such an awful and tone deaf comment. Reproduction is a fundamental biological need.

We should not be denying people who are exploited by our economy this biological right. What we should be doing is lifting up the worker to a baseline of dignified living.

I sincerely hope you will take a few minutes and reflect on your statement that poor people should not have kids, and that society should somehow punish them for doing so.
Why is this surprising? In bulk, ROM is cheaper than EEPROM and I’m sure there’s a good amount of USB-related functionality or logic that can be stored there. It’s not a passive device by any means, so I’m not sure why there’s the implied “where it shouldn’t be” in the thread/title?
I had the same thought. My hunch is that the difference is friction. In both cases, there's money going from the Feds to the University (100% probability) and money going from the student to the Feds (<100% prob).

<1993: there's a bank in the middle. If the student cannot pay, the bank has to do the paperwork to get paid by the Feds. Note that the profit for the bank is limited.

>1993: no bank in the middle. University gets paid right away. Zero risk for them
> It's an open question if Twitch gets anything out of non-pro-gaming streamers.

> Ultimately those dollars come at the expense of others, there is limited attention and money,

What? There are huge untapped markets for live streams of "things" outside pro-gaming. I have zero interest in gaming but watch streams of people doing various projects (mostly on Youtube, but this is just showing there is a market).

> people also spend a lot of money on virtual slot machine games... it sucks the air out of the room for other developers making creative or useful stuff.

This seems an incredibly zero-sum way of looking at it. Maybe there is some cross-over between some zero-effort casual gaming and gambling, but that is a long way from "useful stuff".
Long article but a good read
That depends on how long you want to fly for.
Maybe I'm in the minority... but I use OnlyFans for the same reason I enjoy Bandcamp. I can send money directly to the people whose content I enjoy.

Most porn is circulated and pirated non-stop and the original participants often end up not seeing nearly as much money as they should for it.

I will always choose the platform that empowers the creators and reduces their overhead as much as possible.
But, the PS3 doesn’t play PS1 discs. Only digital repurchased PS1 games from the PS store. Seems misleading to call it backwards compatible, no?
What a story. It's hard to believe that actually happened. It's also sad to see the changes in the world since that awful time.
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Interesting you got YT Red on there too. I heavily rely on YouTube Red to avoid ads on mobile, I hope they never get rid of it. I'm guessing the revenue is so low for it on your chart because most people don't have YT Red, not because it's not pulling its weight as compared to ads. I would probably just stop using YouTube on mobile if they ever removed YT Red, I don't know how people can stand the ads. There are so many ads.
Do you have a link to the text of the law? Curious to read what it requires and not the scaremongering of FB or Murdoch PR orgs.
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Can anyone at AWS comment on how this fits into the Fargate roadmap and Compute pricing? Presumably, a slimmer OS for things like EKS nodes could translate into some sort of Compute discount.
While I don't know why Projekt Melody got banned, on the YouTube side, VTubers are already a thing, the largest one I know of is kizuna ai with 2.8M subscribers
This should give dockerhub a run for their money. I recently received an email from Docker saying my free access to their repository is now rate limited, which would include public open source images
The law makes no distinction between URLs, thumbnails, titles etc., just mentions news content as a whole. In fact, if a news site posted an article on Facebook themselves, Facebook would still need to pay them for it.
The two questions to me are (a) what content will they ban and (b) how badly do they want to increase their cut of pledges?

For (a), they've already banned a lot of adult content (thus the rise of OnlyFans, until they follow suit), and they'll probably ban more if they get enough attention from either media, angry card processors, or both.

For (b), they've already narrowly avoided fucking this up once back in 2017 (https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure). They increased fees in 2019 (https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024952552-P...) but at least grandfathered in past users, preventing their existing userbase from being too much of a flight risk.
Although it's sad to see backward compatibility getting axed in newer consoles, it does come at a heavy cost [1]. It may make sense for OS like Windows/OSX, but personally I think I would rather have an all-new console without all the baggage, which may or may not add value during the lifetime of the console.

In fact, with most consoles having a lifespan of about 6 years on average [2], I would even say that there is a diminishing return in keeping that baggage around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_compatibility#Costs

[2] https://za.ign.com/ps4/64636/feature/the-5-longest-console-l...
That's probably similar to a lot of people. It seems like a lot of the people I've watched for years on YouTube have started significantly cutting down on the length of their videos, usually sub 10 minutes, and making the full video available on patreon. It's like YouTube is just a way to get a foot in the door because it's the biggest platform, and they ditch it as soon as they can.
Sounds like a race to the bottom.
At least we all agree the US is broken.
Not if the "reputable media" are pressured/threatened by CCP
On Android there is an app called NewPipe to avoid mobile adds. I'm having to pinch pennies, though.
That's coercion, literally.
Seems they are growing well. They already have pretty good name recognition. It doesn’t seem like a high resource business, unlike video hosting, and they already have a good monetization strategy (they basically take 2.9% of donations). Given that they are pretty close to a billion dollars a year, that would be close to $29 million/year.

Given all this, what is the purpose of raising more money at this time. They already have good name recognition, and should be turning a profit by now.

Sometimes, too much funding can end up being a curse, where the business loses focus on their core competency and tries to branch out too much.

EDIT:

Thanks to the commenters below, It looks like they take somewhere between 5 - 12% of donations. That is on top of the 2.9% processing fee. So it looks like they they could easily bring in between $50-100 million/year with the $1 Billion/year in donations that they are pretty close to bringing in(depending on the mix of plans people sign up for). This further reinforces the point that they have a pretty good monetization strategy.
If you haven't, you should check out the book Fall, or Dodge In Hell by Neal Stephenson. It explores this concept very deeply. (Sometimes far too deeply.)
It's sad to see the lack of intellectual curiosity throughout the comments here. Some folks are bashing their strawman interpretations of the headline, others are complaining about scientists using precise language, while others frame scientists as money-grubbing. I guess this is what programmers do to make themselves feel better.

I've lost 6 family members to cancer, and have two cancer survivors in my family. The survivors are still around because they were young when they got sick, and because there were many possible treatments. Hopefully, this will end up in the arsenal of potential treatments to fight cancer.
So you’re saying the presence of police cars makes someone more likely to steal my bike? Someone is more likely to commit an armed robbery in front of the cops?

Unless you are talking about speeding tickets, these are really bad arguments. Which is to be expected from anyone who thinks “abolish the police” will improve anybody’s life who isn’t named El Chapo.
There are options like GitHub pages (mentioned here) where you write in markdown. But I agree that this is not a priority of the market.
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YouTube without YouTube Red is not worth the trouble.

The YouTube Red / Google Play Music decoupling has me worried for the future of the product. I'm both upset Google Play Music is going away and that it might risk YouTube Red.
I'm in the process of switching a lot of my work onto iPad.

I don't see a conflict here - I'm still using a "compiler" api, its just somewhere else (i.e. not on my local device), its just in somebodies cloud. I can't see why that would go away in the future and I don't really care where the compiler actually is (if I did, I could self host).
>It's not just a question of there being a huge pool of money, you can buy a car with loans and car prices haven't skyrocketed.

The obvious difference is that car loans are not Federally issued and defaults are possible. Hence creditors have to issue loans in a prudent manner or else they will incur a loss. Not everyone is able to acquire a car loan, and interest rates can be very high.

These incentives do not exist in the student loan market and thereby subsidizing demand. Students become price inelastic.
Website path is incorrect. Probably should be https://admithub.com/about/jobs
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Maybe not everyone, but the “going to a strip club out of loneliness” thing is an age-old meme, whereas I’m unaware of any such memes about going to an NBA game out of loneliness.
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Serious question, what are you talking about?
The schools don't have shareholders to whom dividends might be paid. The extra programs and the employees to support them will expand to use up all extra income.
Yep, very much agree. Container Linux was still very young and growing, but had some great promise. Incorporating the tech into RHEL and Fedora was a great idea IMHO. I think CoreOS was acquired for that specific purpose personally.
Very interesting.. You have a successful channel, sorry to see that COVID has set you back so.
They link to Jack's video in the post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4PnSJDIJMg

But since COVID he's been posting on his channel a lot more frequently and – knowing his dayjob – the production value and time he spends on these things is really impressive

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbd-QOxzNKQifQfSuaH5I0A

Now, he's been making videos for a long time, and obviously knows his way around producing great content, but still highly recommended.
1. Nope, I still need to make some more example grammars :)

2. Yup: https://github.com/gosukiwi/Pasukon/blob/master/lib/grammar....
I did weird and crazy things with a Synclavier in 1986. My friend bought it from John Tesh. I remember going to a conference at New England Digital. Pat Metheny played. Vote.
My money is on black.
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Thanks for the extensive response. I've bookmarked your site. There's a lot more I can say about some of this, but I think I'll just email you when the time is right.

At the moment I don't really know about funding sources. It's really tragic -- there are many people with interesting ideas who are never going to get the funding they need. And it's not even a lot of money, just enough to pay for their living, some equipment, and the time and space to screw around. One guy on this site, who goes by "linguae," is someone else you might want to get in touch with if you can, for example.

I preordered the rM2 and will get one in October unless they delay it again. You'll have my support for sure.
so they pay out $1B and charge 8% for middle plan which is $80M revenue a year?

i don’t see how that works in public markets...though to give them credit they should probably try to go public sooner rather than later to take advantage of the froth...

also 8% on top of payment processing fees seems like a lot, though I guess creators just account for that in deciding what fees to charge...
Great point. I'll ellaborate on it in the readme and/or website :D Thanks for the feedback!
Indeed... Ryan Ringo (@ringoware) is an experienced reverse engineer. I assume other USB2Serial ICs have been reversed in the past, so I am curious to why he regards this as "something unexpected". I guess we'll find out once the bit extraction is completed.
Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy
You get a range from your ISP (e.g. a /64). Everything within that range would be tied to "you" (rather, your connection, but something like user agent would tell its your wife's iPhone or your MacBook Pro).
The internet and social media as a whole, and technology as a whole, has made our society less social. The screens are more compelling than what's off screen. People are holed up with their screens.

We are unhealthy and have unhealthy views of each other, what happiness is, what beauty is, what success looks like.
The time is past, when one could disparage online learning merely for being online.