skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long story short the book highlights the experience of a short seller (similar to what Hindenburg does) who uncovered a fraudulent company and couldn’t get the SEC or any government agency to do anything despite the evidence being in plain sight. Once you read it, you will definitely see how frauds like the OP can and will continue to occur.
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I think the difference between what you're saying and this article is that you have customers, not patrons (or you're treating your patrons like customers).

The people who shell out $1K a year aren't generally doing it because they are getting a product or service in return that is worth $1K / year to them, they're doing it because they believe in the mission of the creator and want to help support that.

Most of our creators that have a "crazy amount of money" plan generally don't offer anything extra beyond gratitude to the big spenders (public gratitude, but still just gratitude). And oddly enough, the big spenders tend to be the least demanding. So long as you don't overcharge them or something, they don't have many demands, because they were never thinking of it as purchasing something in the first place.
Android 10? Forks of apps? What a disappointment.

GrapheneOS seems to be leading the way here; it's a shame there isn't broader hardware support, although apparently they're working on it.
To be fair I think a little blame can lie with the large slice of the American population (which are extremely well represented on HN) who are not mega wealthy but happily sing the songs and lick the boots of the hyper wealthy because they’re convinced there’s something in it for them.
How so? Universities don't use their endowments like companies use assets either. Assets are returned as dividends or reinvested. University endowments are for income. If anything they under perform the returns that the broader market would use to assign a market cap. A public company with a total revenue /budget of Harvard's would have a market cap rather less than the endowment size.

I'm still not understanding what the problem with these endowments is, except that they represent money in the hands of people you personally dislike.
Yeah. There was a guy who talked about those things some 54 years ago.
"I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
I think aesthetics is sometimes equated to "superficiality", "commerciality" even "girlishness" and the surface impression tends to be the polar opposite for niches that really want to distance themselves from anything such. Which is not commendable but there you go.
Thanks. This seems like an answer to my topmost question in my other thread.
> ... on August 16, 1999 that [Lars Knoll] had checked in what amounted to a complete rewrite of the KHTML library—changing KHTML to use the standard W3C DOM as its internal document representation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML#Re-write_and_improvement

> In March 1998, Netscape released most of the code base for its popular Netscape Communicator suite under an open source license. The name of the application developed from this would be Mozilla, coordinated by the newly created Mozilla Organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite#Hist...

Netscape Communicator (or Netscape 4) was released in 1997, so If we are tracing lineage, I'd say Firefox has a 2 year head start.
> American soldiers die every day for that oil in the Middle East

We could dig it up in the US, we were a net exporter under the Trump administration. We just decided to dig it up a ocean away and use bunker fuel to bring it to us. Apparently for environmentalism, it's still unclear how that is better.
I’d normally consider it to be a valid topic of discussion, but I’m really only in this thread to read about East German doping.
Israel is “74.2% Jewish, 17.8% Muslim, 2.0% Christian, and 1.6% Druze. The remaining 4.4% included faiths such as Samaritanism and Baháʼí as well as "religiously unclassified", the category for all who do not belong to one of the recognized communities.” So, it arguably has more religious diversity than the US.

The US is largely Christian with no other religion making up more than 2% of the population.
Tbh, it'd probably be inherently safer. The ship should be easier to control because the air at the top of a skyscraper is likely to be less turbulent. And if there is an unexpected down draught, then there is a lot more leeway before the ship and its compliment get smashed into the ground.

Ground handling and docking is one of the main, and fairly frequently fatal, causes of airships accidents, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents. Fwiw mitigating is definitely possible. But it requires specialised docking equipment to be available anywhere they are to set down. Which is why I suspect they'll make rather better Bazillionaire play things than humanitarian aid delivery mechanisms. They are very cool though.
Naive but skeptical questions:

- How much of the carrying capacity is eaten up by the batteries necessary to hit the range target?

- Would anyone operationally want to fly a 10,000 mile flight? Is speed a huge barrier for trying to do this in a single round the world flight?

- Is helium scarce enough that there'd be negative externalities for medical helium if they actually produce these in any numbers?

- What's the status quo ex ante here? I would guess you airlift relief supplies to the nearest safe staging zone using a herc or similar and then use chinook or similar to get directly to the disaster zone? Is there actually a problem to be solved here?

(I like dirigibles and electric tech, so I hope there are good answers to all of these that make me look foolish)
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Here's a nice illustration of mechanics vs. graphics. https://twitter.com/robotduck/status/759529875992698880
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Wonder whether the government of India makes any demarcation between corporate VPN or personal VPNs? Or is it just consumer VPN services that need to comply.

Everything from cloud vendors, ZScaler, Cisco AnyConnect are technically offering access to private networks with a mix of public internet &/or intranet
https://archive.ph/Mf1bS
The Boeing C-17 can absolutely carry people. It’s designed for paratrooper operations as well as cargo. As noted, you can cram hundreds of people into one of the goal is fast evac not comfort.
Android's flavor of Linux uses "binder" instead of pipes because of its security model. IMHO filesystem-based IPC mechanisms (notably pipes), can't be used because of a lack of a world-writable directory - i may be wrong here.

Binder comes from Palm actually (OpenBinder)
Individual performance isn’t the critical attribute for a company / hiring manager though. You can be an exceptionally talented developer and still be a complete asshole no one wants to work with.

You can also be someone who just doesn’t have the rest of the skill stack to deliver really outstanding products. Technically intricate and high performance, sure - but how about easy to use, valuable and cherished, insanely great?

Funny enough, Google’s own HR division did a huge longitudinal study of what makes teams great; Project Aristotle. What they found was that the sum of individual performance is nowhere near as important as having psychological safety in the team - high trust, high empathy, high openness and vulnerability and feedback without blame.

https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-lear...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TAateRpOGZ7R8mKp6SYD7m19r4...

> The researchers also discovered which variables were not significantly connected with team effectiveness at Google:

Colocation of teammates (sitting together in the same office)
Consensus-driven decision making
Extroversion of team members
Individual performance of team members
Workload size
Seniority
Team size
Tenure
Game devs would never do this. Its all free marketing for their game and if major streamers play the game, even for a short time, it will boost sales/downloads, etc.
> The purple stuff in The Langoliers.

I dunno, I think the Langoliers are still creepy. Yeah, a little low poly—but they got it where it counts.
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I have a few streamers I occasionally throw money at. But those are ones I actually interact with outside of the streams/very small streamers, without deluding myself to think they are my friends. They owe me NOTHING.

Parasocial relationships are scary though. A few times I almost slipped into one. (Nowadays I intentionally stop watching streamers I feel I am getting too close to.)
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I am one of the "more than 30 searches per day" beta users.

I just saw this looked at the 10$/mo price tag, gulped, then considered just how much better it makes my life compared to the google results, and paid up.

I wish the team best of luck and want to thank you for already having saved me tons of time and nerves!
> Disclaimer: I tried being a vegetarian for 2 years, I didn't feel good mentally and physically so I went back to consuming meat.

No wonder. 2.5 million years of meat eating has evolved the human to what it is today.
I'm on a work trip and can't play until I get back, but I added it to my wishlist as a reminder to get it. I love this kind of game.
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You are correct! The right word would be "distributed"
The biggest change from me is the shift away from dedicated, organic game communities to ones that are cultivated by "community managers" and fed a drip feed of live service seasons and battle passes.

Counter-Strike and Battlefield 1942 are two examples I'll call back to as they were two important games of my youth. At the time, most servers for these games were hosted and/or run by people that weren't affiliated with the developers or publishers of those games; it was just something you did so that your local group of friends or community could have a virtual home to get together and play.

My friends and I would have maybe a dozen servers we would keep favorited and a handful that we played on heavily. Over time, you got to know the other people on the server just by playing against them consistently; for example, when BigCheeseburger logged on and was on the opposing team in CS, you knew you had your work cut out for you. There were rivalries and camaraderies that just formed naturally as a result of this. Some of these servers also had web presences with a site that had their roster, dates and times for regular game nights, etc.

Games would also get occasional patches (patching before Steam is something I don't think was better back then) that would bring a new map or two, but that was generally it until a big expansion dropped, like Battlefield's Secret Weapons of WWII pack. If people wanted new content, they made it themselves - I spent so many hours on custom CS maps like Iceworld or even ones that shoehorned in Half Life's terrible vehicle controls to make facsimiles of Tatooine with landspeeders.

In most multiplayer games nowadays, the developer has one or more employees assigned to "manage" the subreddit or Discord for their game. Custom servers are often not even supported anymore, as matchmaking is used to funnel players into full games and keep them playing even if their friends log off for the night. You can forget about creating your own maps unless it's a special case like Halo's Forge mode; the developer/publisher has a great seasonal rollout plan that might never get realized if enough people don't keep playing the game (Say hi to Battlefield 2042!). Players need to see numbers go up so every game has an experience and leveling system first seen in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare so that people don't realize how banal and limited the available content is. Cosmetics and boosts sprinkled over a battle pass system layer on top of this as another form of retention.

What has changed in the last 25 years? Games, like everything else, became extremely monetized at all levels, and in the process, conditioned a lot of players to feel that they NEED that monetization or else it's "boring". Look at the reaction to Halo Infinite, a game that plays fantastic but has had limited map/content drops since last fall. Instead of praising the fact that you can ignore its battle pass entirely and just have fun playing a few games with friends every few nights, people are demanding to see their game time rewarded with more progression, more unlocks, etc.
https://archive.ph/ZF8xg
I couldn't believe this was rejected when I heard it. Mind-blowing. Of all the possible ways to get water desalination is by far the least ecologically harmful. You are talking about getting a tiny tiny fraction of water from the giant body of water right next to us instead of a significant fraction of small lakes and rivers many miles away.
They did build the Empire state building with a mooring mast and a a lounge / ticket area and a way for the passengers to get on the plane. But it was purely speculative, and though they took publicity photos, they never used it(remember: there were only a handful of commercial airships).

There used to be a commercial heliport on top of the Pan Am Building over Grand Central Station. The first helicopter crash that sent chunks of metal flying 600 feet down to streets with huge amounts of foot traffic permanently closed it. I'm sure something similar would have happened had the Empire State Building 'port' actually been used.
Boy, you've got a lot of problems.
i don’t know. the past decade has been everyone shouting about network effects, yet i can’t count on either hand the number of matching-related apps i’ve both left and joined over that duration. on the other hand, i’m still using basically the same http networking protocol during that same duration. network effects are real (hence http still dominating), but the higher you crawl up the stack the “softer” the effect.
I can think of three possibilities(there easily could be more)

1. There are contracts in place that cannot be broken.

2. Money comes first, then life and limb.

3. Restrictions on agriculture use will lead to higher food prices, and this is considered the lesser evil.
For me personally, art direction is more important than technical limitations/issues with graphics. A game with beautiful stylized art will stand the test of time much longer than a highly polished game lacking any kind of style. That polished game might look "real" today, but not tomorrow when compared to whatever is the latest and greatest tech.
And a game with strong unique art will always look good for what it is. You can have both, but it's usually a rarity.
BBC is easy to hear, likewise Radio New Zealand and others.

Many western stations transmit programs intended for listeners overseas, and of course they speak in Chinese, Arabic, and other languages.

Why wouldn't the BBC transmit Chinese based programs?
During the last big drought year in California (was it 2015 or so?) we turned our lawn into a drought-tolerant one — no more grass, no more watering the lawn. It was a little annoying to see the lush golf courses carry on with business (literally) as usual.
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This post should be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31581158 which is by the original author.
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Isreal may have only 1/4 the population of California (~10M vs 40M), but they have only 1/20th the land (~20k sq/km vs 400k sq/km). That $4B is aid from the US is a drop in the bucket to their ~$500B GDP, and mind you, states get aid packages from the federal government every year too. I don't have any figures about what California received in recent years, but I'm sure it is far more than $4B.

The challenge of the rich owning the land where a desal plant would go is an issue that can be solved in the current legal framework, but they'd rather scream about the problem than solve it. Desal is also not the only solution, there are political solutions too. Lower income folks could even solve the problem too, with their vote. It's not just a problem the wealthy are preventing from being solved. It's a problem the entire population of california is preventing from being solved.
Um, but the water in California is cheap and plentiful. Sustainably sourced, I don't know. But the root of the problem is that farmers do not pay a "fair" price, they get steep steep discounts. All the lawn watering, all the toilet flushes, all the swimming pools, etc. all amount to around 10% of water use in California. And those people already pay, on average, many multiples of what farmers pay per gallon.
Could you explain in non-academeze what an algebraic effect is and how it's the solution here? Genuine question since everything I read about algebraic effects is either impenetrable math notation or some article about how it's a resumable exception.

It's almost analogous to monads apparently being wrapper types (but somehow different/with implications?).
> Now a lot of games just want to be big

There are several games in my library that I have yet to finish, because it just gets so repetitive to do it all. Spider-Man. Borderlands 3. I love AC:O, but how many bandit camps can you clear before you go mad? When you add in all the DLC, you're talking about many hundreds of hours of gameplay, if you do everything, but 75% of it is the just same fight, over and over again. Going back to Borderlands, Wonderlands is WAAAY shorter than 3, and I, for one, really appreciate it. (They'll probably blow that up with DLC tho.)
First US road that charges electric vehicles while on it will be ready next year
Right, sure. Just as there's no ethics in capitalism I don't think there's any room for shame in capitalism either.

Personally, when I was consulting I really wanted to want multiple clients at once but I actually found myself most happy with just one.
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That does seem about right

Though the composition also matters. A small twitch streamer that recognises all their regulars usernames and interacts with them individually is likely to have a much higher concentration of die hard fans. So there the math works easier despite lower absolute numbers.

And that in turn is determined by what type of content it is and what type of parasocial relationship it is
Yeah, it's definitely going to be situational. I grew up in rural southwestern Ontario and it was very, very quiet. I moved to a city to go to university and at that time the extra noise didn't bother me (I definitely was responsible for my fair share of it), but I did miss being able to see the night sky.

If I'm honest, a big factor for me is probably related to my financials. When I was young, I was pretty poor and lived in shitty neighborhoods in low quality but high density buildings. Thirty years later, I live in a pretty great suburb in my own house with my best friend/wife, dog and my kids (who are home from university for the summer). The night sky here is decent, but I know it could be even better.
> Since 2017, the share of new patrons paying more than $100 per month—or $1,200 per year—has grown 21 percent

I think this is worded ingenuously. I originally read it that new patrons paying $100 per month has grown to 21%, but upon second reading I see that the percent has grown 21%. But what's the base line? Why not reference that? Is it relative compared to other subs (e.g. percent paying $100+ went from 1% -> 1.23%) or absolute (e.g. 1k people paying $100+ -> 1,230). I would think a large percent of that is probably friends and family.

Does anyone personally support a stranger creator to the tune of $100+ a month? It seems like a lot. What's the thought process and what do you expect?
Immanuel Kant once formulated the categorical imperative … something is moral if it can work universally and be sustainable.

How about economically? Is it sustainable to have every artist supported by 100 true fans? Maybe. It means enough people have disposable income to spend $1000 a year on something, and that every artist finds a niche. Those artists who already got 100 fans would drop out of the marketplace, leaving the others until everyone found a dance partner (like with dating).

Viewed more broadly, though, this would go heavily against the Pareto principle, where some artists simply achieve escape velocity and get to a different level because they never leave the market, while most artists do not produce anything that people would really pay to consume, even if they discovered it over and over. It is like polygamy starving many young men of mates, and polygamy goes hand in hand with war.

I think a much more sustainable model is a UBI that isn’t truly “unconditional” but a gated community where successful artists and their patrons voluntarily agree to redistribute some wealth to new artists that keep showing progress in their craft. Crypto can be done to redistribute this wealth.

But that would mean there would be quotas on who can join as a new struggling artist and get the UBI subsidy, since it’s free money for any scammer, especially globally it could pay for a lot more where cost of living is small. People would try to make 10 accounts.

It is essentially voluntary socialism online. And one major problem with libertarian socialism and why it can’t solve poverty is that people don’t want to let in too many others into their subsidy program that pays non-market rates for what could be art no one wants. So yes the workers own the factory collectively and work 2 hour days but they do hazing for new people. That’s what countries do with immigration and fraternities do on college campuses.
I've never been interested in indie games because their graphics is not appealing to me. I don't like stylized graphics, comic shaders, pixel art games, etc. The more realistic the graphics, the more likely I will buy it.

I also don't think it's a fatigue, as if it were some kind of disease; it's just lack of time when you get older. ;-)
This is totally off-topic, but I also own this game and really enjoyed it, but I played it through once and then I was done. Was there some kind of replayability in it that I missed?
Obviously there are progressive ways to do it. You make it tiered such that the the typical household never leaves the lowest pricing tier.

Golf courses, cattle ranchers and almond farmers on the other hand....
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