skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having to deal with chargebacks and the upkeep of such a website to receive donations is enough for creators to pay the 5/8/12% [0]. It also helps that Patreon has been around for a while, so users see them as safe both in terms of security for their CC info, and for being easy to cancel a subscription whenever they want.

0: https://www.patreon.com/product/pricing
Which is to say Disney stopped the theatre from showing the movie. The reason the theatre couldn't show the movie is because Disney wouldn't allow it to do so.

No, theaters can't just use any copy of a film to show a movie; those copies are jealously guarded by the distributors and are subject to strict controls, especially by Disney (and Fox too, before the acquisition). Generally, each copy of a film reel must be acquired from the distribution company and returned to it after the theater's second-run showings have ended. (For digital projectors, they use an online check-in/check-out system.)

Disney never gave the theater the film (or file, depending on the theater's projection setup) in the first place. The theater could not have shown the movie without affirmative action on Disney's part.

Disney could have simply done nothing at all, and the theater would not have been able to show the film.
> BUT, as of a month ago, a filing was made to drop the charges (?!):

And I guess the reason for this might be very related with the last paragraph of the Wired's article...
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Yeah the dorm situation is a bit unfair.

My freshmen year I paid $8,400 to have access to a bed, desk, 4 drawers, and a third of a closet (two other roommates) for a total of 8 months (no access during winter).

Living off campus costs just about $450/mo for a private room with utilities and AC. If you could find a landlord that lets you cram 3 people in 1 room I can't imagine how cheap the rent would be

(except you won't find it because city regulations forbid more than 4 persons per lease, and you can only have 1 lease per obvious division of a house/building. To go above the limit you need a boarding house license, which is how the school gets away with charging $67k/yr for 8 people to share a 3 bedroom apartment).
True. But I do have one anecdotal story. My brother was beat up in custody by local police but they forgot they were on camera or something so my brother got a hold of the footage through a lawyer and they paid my brother enough money he was able to put it to a down payment of a house. The finding of the investigation; the officer involved was guilty of assaulting him among other things such as not telling the truth as to what happened but since he was about to retire in a month they decided they would not be taking action towards the officer. My brother is a loser who probably mouthed him off and had it coming but this officer is also a loser for losing his cool in a professional setting costing me as a tax payer money. Was he actually punished? No. So the next officer as long as he is close to retirement thinks he can get off free. In a just society you get punished. I would be royally screwed if one week before my retirement I hit an elderly patient who got out of hand. So we don't have equal laws for people and police.
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Title IX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#Equity_in_athletics) has pretty broadly been interpreted as meaning equal funding. So scholarships you allocate to men's football needs to be equally funded in women's scholarships. IDK what the OP is talking about, beacuse there's no way the status quo changes until Title IX is repealed.
It's also still too early in the google ADHD cycle to kill it. Probably just reaching mid life at this point.
And they force the students living in them to purchase meal plans which cost 3x what a restaurant meal would cost for defrosted food from Aramark/Sodexo. Obviously someone is getting paid.
Would love if someone could answer this or knows of a video that explains jetpacks well
Probably the convenience of paying multiple creators with one credit card transaction, and one login. I guess you could call this a network effect. YT had/has various direct payment options, but they are confusing and never made as much sense as Patreon's model, which allows per-month or per-creation pledges. Strange since YT's existing infra would seem a big advantage in doing exactly what Pareon has.
Will they then also not be updated?
My 5 year old uses our first iPad which is over 10 years old now. The keyboard UI from then is still faster than my iPad pro keyboard UI because Steve Jobs valued the priority of that in the stack :)
This may be what you are looking for:

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How have you found MacOS' font rendering on the 1440p display? I've been having all sorts of trouble in some applications having terrible font rendering while others are perfectly fine running at the monitor's native resolution.
I got my information not from Fox News or something, but from mainstream media news sites going on and on about how progressive it was that their cast and crew was almost completely black(or at least that's how I remember it). I made the post I did because I wanted to push back against racism.

Citations required. I read the mainstream media sources too, and I don't know of any that characterized the Black Panther crew as almost all black. The majority of the cast was black, simply because the majority of the characters of the underlying comic are black.

What's next? Are you going to complain if David Copperfield is played by an Indian guy?
Except that we DIDN'T shut down the world. That was the whole damn problem in the US.

The Northeastern states actually shut down. They're now under 50 new cases per day per 1 million people. Their deaths are mostly flat (just slightly increasing) at this point. And I suspect a lot of that is now being imported.

The Southeastern states didn't do crap. They're mostly all above 200 new cases per day per million.

Then you have states like California that kinda/sorta shutdown. They're scattered about 100 new cases per day per million.

We could have stopped this. We could have been flat in number of deaths as of June 1 like most of the European countries.

But we didn't.

Instead, we're on the same trajectory as "shithole" (to borrow the MAGA terminology) countries like Brazil, India, and Mexico.

And, now states like Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arizona are on a trajectory to cross over states like Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts in terms of number of deaths per million.

And the economy is in a shambles anyway. So, lots of people died, and we got nothing for it.
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> But is paid attention worth it, wouldn't it end up making you feel hollow once that interaction is over and you realize how made up the whole thing was.

We pay for lots of (social/emotional) illusions in entertainment. People tend to suggest that this is a risk of the kind of illusions they don't indulge in, and you certainly can see examples of it with lots of those illusions, but I don't think it's exclusive to any of them.

Though in the illusion of personal connection, it's probably more dangerous to the seller when the buyer gets lost and expects reality instead of illusion.
Nah it’s well proven that social programs work. I was pointing out that most people in prison aren’t violent offenders, let alone rapists, and that we shouldn’t let those kinds of arguments sway us.

It’s worth saying that people don’t stop being rapists or raping people once incarcerated; further there are hundreds of thousands of rapes each year in the US. If incarceration is supposed to stop rape, it’s not working.
> It's not showing up in huge increases in faculty salaries, or administrative costs.

Not in faculty salaries, but often in faculty headcount. Lots of colleges and universities have added a lot of faculty while keeping student headcount constant. Mostly because they can't fire their tenured humanities faculty but need to hire people who can prepare students for something other than the Barista life.

IMO: tenure should be used very sparingly and should be viewed as part of a competitive compensation package. E.g., if the CS PhDs you want to recruit all have $300K offers in industry and the best you can do is $70K-$80K even with salary inversion, then you absolutely do need to offer tenure. It's part of the comp package and you simply will not recruit good people without offsetting such significant pay gaps.

But tenure for humanities borders on fiduciary irresponsibility. The job market for humanities PhDs is such that you can hire truly top-tier candidates without committing to having another head in the Philosophy or English department 40+ years. The $50K three-year contract is a competitive offer in the humanities. No need for tenure.

> Colleges are charging more to the median student, but are using a lot of it to subsidize less well-off students.

Certainly some of that too. I expect this will be the leading cause through 2030.
While the Wonderlic published, is it even used as a factor? Does a coach say "no linebackers who scored less than 18?"
> Universities in Europe are generally high quality and low cost.

And not universal. You do not go to a German university from a Realschule or a Hauptschule -- you go to Gymnasium, and if you succeed there, you can go to University.

Otherwise, there are professional and vocational tracks available.

University slots are limited as well -- you may have to hunt around for a university that has open space for you in your program of choice, or choose a different course of study.

Changing study programs is much more difficult than in the US.

I would be abundantly happy if we did this in the US, but the "everybody must go to college" crowd would have none of it.
Crikey's Bernard Keane has a great take on the issue & sovereign risk[0]:

Now the government is pursuing a policy that, in its rejection of the rule of law and its arbitrary market intervention at the expense of investors and corporations, is the perfect embodiment of the idea of sovereign risk. And exactly no one is pointing it out — because Australia’s media companies are the beneficiaries of it, and the targets of it are two of the most hated companies in the world.

The government’s proposed News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code would be a draconian regulation to force two explicitly identified companies, Google and Facebook, to hand an unlimited amount of revenue over to Australian media companies, justified by a fiction that those companies steal news content.[...]

The code is justified by a News Corp lie, that Google steals news content and makes billions of dollars from it. The ACCC forensically compiled evidence that this was false. Knowing that the News Corp claim was wrong didn’t prevent Treasurer Josh Frydenberg from spreading it himself. But the only theft here is what is proposed for Google and Facebook.

Apologies to HN/YC for introducing risk by quoting from and linking to an Australian news article :)

[0] https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/08/28/google-facebook-accc-ch...
Don’t forget NITS. With a high NITS display, we could read outside in the bright sunlight during a pandemic.
across multiple VMs, physical machines, whatever. Host/server mode, data collection, etc, etc
Equal funding, yes, but not necessarily to the same sports. They're allowed to take into account interest and participation. Otherwise, wouldn't we see million-dollar coaches for women's college football teams too? (I actually don't know of any women's college football teams, for that matter)
Until a humanoid balloon inflated with helium is definitely ruled out, that's my default assumption.
> Think about Java -- that basically mandates OO.

You would think, but in my experience most people write mostly procedural code in Java: data-only types that expose all their properties with getters and setters, and all methods (and most data) declared static. Most Java developers write as if they were working in COBOL.
Many colleges have old buildings on campus that are cash cows. There's little incentive to cut margins by building new.

But recent buildings look better, and the off-campus "communities" in Texas look better than ... most apartments in New York. [0]

[0] https://www.theblockwestcampus.com/features.aspx
A large company would simply have a policy to not even interview, resumes can be discarded for 'lack of qualification' or any other reason. You can't sue a company for discarding applications.
You didn't include perhaps the most interesting part. You currently have 662k subscribers on Youtube while 1,221 subscribers on Patreon. Those numbers obviously aren't constant throughout the entire time frame of that graph, but it would generally indicate that less than 0.2% of people becoming patrons was enough to surpass the revenue from Youtube. I still have my doubts of how this scales for both consumers and Patreon as a company, but there is no question that this model is great for established content creators.
What Amazon needs is competition.
... because nothing can be mocked out.
That really depends on the person and situation. Some people get really emotional, but it’s also common for people in highly stressful life or death situations to emotionally shut down and end up going through rote responses. This is dangerous because you effectively lose creativity and can easily get stuck in a loop repeatedly doing the same things.

One example is WWII commanders would sometimes continue to bring ammunition to machine gun nests even when just adding it to large piles. It may have been the best option when they start, but they never revisit that choice. The same thing happens to pilots where people investigate a crash and find pilots keep doing the exact same thing that’s not working for several minutes without considering that perhaps some assumption they have is wrong.

Finally, some people don’t seem to react much at all to such personal risks.
What does homogeneity have to do with anything?
Looks like the demand for software engineers is growing. Plus I have seen a lot industries are moving to cloud and amazon is hiring a lot of people at the moment
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The problem with C according to a C++ developer
Does the term "substraction" mean anything in particular? It's kind of funny to have the same typo four times on the main page... I guess it compiles either way. b^)

It looks like a great package. I have loved parser combinators forever.
Well, archive has 2 snapshots today... but they’re both of the resource limit exceeded page.

Anyone can add it to the archive. Archive.is makes it easy. Many posters snapshot a page in order to share it... for exactly this hug-of-death reason
Just doesn't make sense to me that we dont ban cigarettes, we don't ban fast food restaurants... Yet we shut down the entire economy and all of human life as we know it for something with less of the death rate than both of those illnesses.

And there's mountains of scientific evidence supporting those directly lead to their respective ailments.
I don't think that UoP is being disparaged -- it just sounds a bit odd to tie a virtual university to a physical place.

On the other hand, "University of 4Chan" doesn't have the same ring to it.
This is true. There are a lot of pointless liberal arts classes for a STEM degree in the US. For example, my engineering degree required 3 English classes, psychology, fine arts, and sociology. These were all incredibly easy and I found the course material was what I was used to as a freshman in highschool (no I'm not exaggerating). So those classes weren't even remedial, but felt like a joke. Please note that I'm not saying all liberal arts classes are a waste, but I think all the 101 classes are pretty bad. The fact that people were complaining and struggling to make a C was mind boggling. The university says they're there to make you well rounded, but we all know it's an excuse to charge more money. The human brain can only take so many technical courses at the same time as well, so it's not like I could cram in another mathematics or engineering course and stay sane. Instead of giving you a break and getting to use that time to study, you have to take the useless other classes which costs more money.
I think it is more of a problem of inflation.

If you get 50 application is easy just to automatically remove the X that don't have a college degree.

Similarly to the way you might have a GPA cut off of some amount but they don't actually care what your degree was in.

In Ireland there are a lot of people who go on to do a Masters because when a large number of people have degrees it makes you more competitive. Anecdotal most my friends will tell you they use neither their undergrad nor masters in work life
It's a typo I have, Spanish being my native language, I always get confused with that one :) Just pushed a new version with a fix
no, not really i think. It's not perfect with some glaring incidents, but overall I'd say much better. There is an order of magnitude less forces, less guns to go around, less focus on drug use and some of the forces (RCMP OPP) are very large. We had some protests basically shut down large sections of the country earlier in the year and it never got violent like in america.
I'd be curious to see how FB implements this; I assume something pretty basic like a blocklist of domains. That would be an interesting list to read. It's obviously still yet to be implemented as I was just now able to share a link to an ABC website news story.
Wasn't it shown by aol researchers 20 years ago that search histories are uniquely identifying? If so, this seems hardly surprising, as browser history should be a superset of search history.
But they do have video hosting, and podcast hosting?
Do a lot of random pages return etags? I've only ever seen them in the AWS docs for boto3
This is what I needed when I was writing my undergrad thesis. Would have saved me hours of time. Alas.
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(1) Subsection (2) applies if the registered news business corporation for the registered news business makes a request, in writing, to the responsible digital platform corporation for the digital platform service to do any of the following:

(a) ensure that the registered news business corporation is provided with flexible content moderation tools that allow the registered news business corporation to remove or filter comments on the registered news business’ covered news content that:

(i) are made using the digital platform service; and

(ii) are made on a part of the digital platform service that is set up and able to be edited by the registered news business;

(b) ensure that the registered news business corporation can disable the making of such comments;

(c) ensure that the registered news business corporation can block the making of such comments:

(i) by particular persons; or

(ii) in particular circumstances.

(2) The responsible digital platform corporation for the digital platform service must comply with the request.
> They go for the feeling of elitism

it's not a feeling - it's real. Connections with other highly connected (and rich) people will give you more opportunities that merit alone won't give you.
I'm not sure if it's intentional or what but most of the sections are duplicated 3 times with some overlap of the tools. Pretty hard to consume.
How does an average joe take advantage of this situation?
Yeah, the usual thing being noted was that it was a predominantly black cast in a major Hollywood film being marketed as a general blockbuster and not as a “black film”.
That's not true, classic Mac OS used a cooperative multitasking model, where processes had to be friendly enough to yield control back to the system / other processes to allow them to do work. A poorly programmed or greedy process could easily hog the CPU.
The question is, do you do different things for YouTube vs. Patreon. Potentially, YouTube is more akin to a short lived annuity vs. a Patreon job.

Maybe not, depends on the accretion of your content.
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This thread is in the context of compensating creators, not just skipping ads. Using Newpipe does nothing for creators.
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Go with React and a charting library like Nivo. Write wrappers around Nivo so you can switch out Nivo with something else that might handle particular charts better. Don’t marry a charting library. Pick a small Redux alternative for global state management (haven’t tried Recoil, but maybe Recoil?). That will hopefully keep your frontend light and away from an industrial (too big to ever refactor, too intertwined to ever pull things out or change paradigms) codebase.

Your backend can be anything that serves up a rest api. Otherwise go graphql.
As a former (very casual) spoofer…it’s far, far harder than it used to be.

When the game was new-ish, and I was on Android, it was trivial. Just install a GPS spoofer, move the on-screen control, and you start walking. Nice when it was winter.

It was also terrible for the gameplay, and they cracked down hard. You can still spoof, but it requires a relatively high degree of technical ability. On iOS, you have to, generally, install a shady enterprise certificate and use a hacked third-party binary of Pokémon Go. On Android, you have to have root, and then jump through many other hoops that are specific to your phone and OS version.

All of that boils down to…yeah, you can always find a hack, but past some level, it becomes extremely fragile, and you would not want to rely on a hack for your livelihood. (And if you are capable of staying ahead of the app and OS developers, well, I suspect there may be a different job opportunity out there for you.)
Will Patreon become the real YT killer? They already have the best content creators on their platform, what’s to stop them building out a similar video hosting setup with search and discovery?

Google might want to nip this in the bud now with a cheeky 2bn $ acquisition...
Is there any open source firmware for these cameras that doesn't have the same issue?