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lukeschwartz··on My Youtube earnings
Is nobody else surprised the amount is so low? If you look at his video catalogue, basically every video is a "hit" even if upload frequency is relatively low. Youtubers making 20 videos a month with <1M views/video make considerably more money, i.e., is better to upload less quality videos and have "moderate" views that to make high quality infrequent videos with a lot of views. You'd think advertisers should pay more per ad on a high quality video than on a trash one. The extreme example of this is Mr. Beast, who makes "high" quality videos (at least in the sense of production) but uploads pretty frequently (specially considering he has multiple channels).
lukeschwartz··on Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]
Tim's great. Why is his face on the slide though?

:)

lukeschwartz··on Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3rd Ed
Never heard of Pyret[0] before. Looks good. This data-centric introduction to computing is also rather interesting [1].

[0](https://www.pyret.org/) [1](https://www.dcic-world.org/)

lukeschwartz··on Create Your Own Compiler: A step-by-step interactive tutorial
propaganda.
lukeschwartz··on Most books don't sell only a dozen copies
You're guaranteed to make little money, yes. The big publishers make most of their revenue from a small number of titles that make publishing any other title viable.
lukeschwartz··on Most books don't sell only a dozen copies
The comment should have been the post.

And this is the unsurprising TLDR:

"The long and short of it is publishing is very much a gambler's game, and I think that has been clear from the testimony in the DOJ case. It is true that most people in publishing up to and including the CEOs cannot tell you for sure what books are going to make their year."

lukeschwartz··on The High‐Speed Rail Money Sink (2021)
Perhaps, https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/HSIPR-v1-Guide-June2...
lukeschwartz··on The High‐Speed Rail Money Sink (2021)
There's some counterarguments in the references. A quick Google search for the opposite side does little help. This is the "best" I could find https://www.greenbiz.com/article/why-us-needs-get-track-high...
lukeschwartz··on John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
It brings millions of dollars.
lukeschwartz··on Constructive and obsessive criticism in science
The title should be "Scientific harassment"; obsessively criticizing science is how we do science.
lukeschwartz··on Lichess: The free and open source chess server
wow, $409,644.10/year; now I really wonder how much money they make from donations.
lukeschwartz··on The world needs a non-profit search engine
https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl#frequently-asked-question
lukeschwartz··on The world needs a non-profit search engine
Never thought real-time searching will be so cool https://mwmbl.org
lukeschwartz··on Ask HN: Is online privacy possible without legislation?
> We need a way to make the entire privacy invasion business not profitable.

i.e., How to pay for the Web (and all other related privacy-invasive platforms) without ads?

lukeschwartz··on Ask HN: Is online privacy possible without legislation?
Isn't it an issue of the entire model though. The Web is free, as in you pay with your data. The Web can be completely free for you and a number of others as long as enough people are actually paying with their data (to offset you et al.,).

Can your online identity (data) be completely decoupled from your physical identity?

Meaning you will be willing to sell some of your data as long as it didn't tie you to the "real" world. But isn't the entire world being turned into a computer anyways? Comes to mind "as software eats the world" [0].

If computers "eat" the physical world, there can't be no you online and you offline.

[0] https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world...

lukeschwartz··on Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed
Shouldn't this be considered a news aggregator (e.g., Google News), instead of a news website?

Regardless, I do believe an even simpler aggregator fetching only AP/Reuters could be maintained with something like Brave rewards in the future.

lukeschwartz··on Why America can’t build
Construction should never stop; build, modify, tear, repeat.