skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peer review is not effective.

A peer reviewer is not going to go through complex calculations line-by-line or find bugs in the software. The person who does find that is a person following in the footsteps of the researcher who wants to build on that result.

Software bugs are common in commercial software too but if they are put in front of customers most get fixed.

What boggles my mind are the poor standards in biomedical work. Math-heavy papers are often written by one or two people and a computer but clinical studies involve a lot of people, paper and you'd think formalized process.

I remember one paper where they tested COVID-19 patients and could not detect Vitamin C in their blood but didn't test anyone who didn't have COVID-19. Vitamin C levels vary greatly in different populations and the test is tricky and requires careful sample handling... It could be they were unable to detect Vitamin C at all, but they only way they could disprove that would be to use proper controls.

Most clinical trials are rejected when it comes time for a meta-analysis, I think that journals shouldn't be accepting studies that wouldn't be accepted for meta-analysis and work that isn't to that standard shouldn't be funded.
Personally, my "holy grail" is a website that lets AUTHORS monetize their product using the site's ad network. If I upload a video, I shouldn't HAVE to pick the ads that run as pre, mid, or post-roll, but I should be ABLE to. I should be able to make my own deals, on the platform, with advertisers participating in that network. Essentially, the site should act as a facilitator between advertisers and content creators, rather than the programming scheduler. For providing this facilitation, the site should be entitled to a small percentage of whatever deals are struck.

Once the network is established as a good place for creators to be able to actually make money, you attract the good creators. They aren't getting pennies on an ad (or, if they are, that's what they were happy with; we all start somewhere/traffic volume is important); they're getting the full ad buy minus some percentage for the site (more like 10% -20%, less like 50%-90%).

As the site, acting as a publisher, you get to dictate the ad network, and set boundaries for keeping things profitable (neo-hayes-code "cost of doing business" gatekeeping). As content creators, they get freedom of association and deal-making (which includes refusing to serve ads that they disagree with).

Then, when you have a solid network of solid content, you layer in a subscription model which could allow you to sensibly bundle content. While each content creator could set their own subscription tiers (including free ones, for the purposes of advertising their own content or giving things away for free because they are such absolute champions), they would be able to opt-in certain tiers to be "bundled", which would allow users to pick and choose content creators that they want their subscription bundles to apply to.
This is where you get to the first rumblings of reasonable payment for journalism work. Because, as far as I know, it's almost impossible to get people to pay for journalism, no matter how good it is. But if you can add it in to a bundle, while still letting people choose their outlets/sources, you can subsidize the journalism with the media profit (like how we do it on TV).

Of course, to facilitate that, the site would need some robust utilities for writing new articles, such that it might be indistinguishable from a WYSIWYG website creator, but that's not something that's insurmountable. Especially if the site is profitable.

Anyway, that's my swing. I've been working on it, myself, but it's not like I ever intended to run a social media app. I certainly don't have the funds to run it, myself, and it's an untested model so investment would be very surprising. So just POC stuff and collecting feedback from content creators. It all seems very promising, but I still haven't answered the question of 'will it make money?'
Meanwhile, I can't create an account without giving a phone number.

I tried to create a Twitter account, but was either instantly banned the moment I completed the sign-up form (using an incognito window) or was blocked from completing the form due to mandatory phone number. It's even worse if you try to use a VPN, TOR or any other privacy-protecting browser plugins to block tracking.

Somehow we've gotten the worst of both worlds, where real users are blocked but spammers can get in.
Really really smart. Had the accomplishment list on my CV at a clear spot, triggered the most questions during any interview.
I'm an Ex-Engineering Manager at GameSpot & Giantbomb at CBS (2013-2016). All the stuff Dave mentioned was very much the same when I was there. The unit was always in trouble losing money quarter after quarter and focus was always on the ad sales. E3 was the biggest time for revenue and it was stressful in the lead up to it hoping we'd sign enough to keep things going. It got progressively worse each year. Towards the end of my tenure they were inflating video views given to ad buyers by including video views on other platforms like Facebook where we received no revenue at all and could place no ads. Also at the time Facebook considered a view when the video was visible on the feed for a second. The numbers were wildly inflated. And we were running ads from sketchy networks all the time, some of which were malicious.

A good part of the revenue eventually was generated by cheaply generated meme content while longer form, crafted content was suffering. I'm honestly surprised they're still going. I assumed Jeff would peel off with most of the Giant Bomb guys and start something new by now. All that's left there is the Giant Bomb personalities and even that's not enough to float GameSpot and the others. GameFaqs should probably go back to its original owner.

These days when I tell actual gamers I used to work on GameSpot, they always think I mean GameStop and then don't even know what GameSpot is. It is a pretty pointless thing now given you can watch any number of Twitch streams to see what any game is like and is worth playing.

...anyway I'm sure this was a fire sale of an asset CBS forced Red Ventures to take in order to get CNET. I'm also surprised it took this long for Red Ventures to dump it.

*Edit* Ok wow I did not realize the Giant Bomb as I knew it completely fell apart. So Jeff did leave as did Vinny and Brad and they are doing their own things now. I don't know anything about the new crew but I don't see how any can complete with even the most mediocre Twitch streamer.
You can switch to the Ubuntu old release archive in your /etc/apt/sources.d/[system, or something like that] and then do and apt update

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/cant-update-old-ubuntu-versio...
This video is DOS drivers in a nutshell. They never just worked, and it was always a driver problem and not a hardware problem. It could take days of troubleshooting to get a new device working.
I'm not saying that it's impossible. At some point we will reach the "good enough" threshold, that's quite obvious.

However your comment completely missed my point.

The first mobile phone was made in 1973, 34 years before the iPhone. The first commercially available mobile phone came out in 1983, 24 years before the iPhone.

If Zuckerberg bets Meta on the Metaverse, he better be prepared to keep investing with possibly low or no returns for 20+ years.

And VR is a much harder problem.
Well, the game plan seems to be :
1- Increase fiscal spending
2- Increase wages
3- Give out very cheap credits from governemnt controlled banks at negative rates.

and you will get increase in consumer spending(happy people) and employment which will cause increase trade deficit to explode[1] unless you have some money of unknown origins(the net errors omissions) to pay the bill[2].

If they have a stash of approx. $60 B parked somewhere, which seems they do, they may succeed in 'buying' the elections coming up. Need to take a closer look at the polls in the coming months to gauge voter sentiment, which has started turning in favor recently. This is a crystal clear example of why non-independent central banks and monetary policy is dangerous for democracies, you can basically try to buy the elections...

1:https://twitter.com/ali_hakan_kara/status/157575953305331302...
2:https://twitter.com/ali_hakan_kara/status/156922749746769920...
had to google it - wow they sell for thousands?!

I know I have an adlib card in there somewhere but not sure if "gold" model

I knew to save the name brand ones vs cheap clones

Some massive scsi controllers that were hundreds of dollars, just can't put them into a landfill.
I didn't say the left aren't allowed to have aggression. However, I do think it needs to be directed at the right people. My point was that the right are much more likely to look past things they might disagree with rather than excluding that person entirely. The most obvious example of this being evangelical support for Trump (and other Republicans) despite his numerous affairs.

I'm in no way saying that going that far is desirable. However, I do think less ideological purity and more flexibility would be beneficial in bringing in people who agree on the core values.
In the current status quo, there is a data détente that keeps either solution from happening: advertisers don't want to give third-party websites intimate knowledge of ads vended because they don't want to compromise user privacy (or more cynically: they don't want to give third-party sites so much info about what ads are run to what users that those sites cut out the middle-man and just broker adds to run for users directly). But third-party sites don't want to give intimate details of users of their site to ad companies for symmetrical reasons (Google has dipped its toe into social media before).

If the industry moves to a place where only server-injected ads are profitable, something will surely give here. The end result will be more large conglomerates knowing more about us than ever before, unfortunately.
there is a total lack of community in most western cities i've lived in so it makes sense to make your home your kingdom since you spend most of your personal time in it.
The only thing that hasn't been cloned is the trademark name "Bitcoin".
The Switch has a port of Burnout Paradise from the Xbox 360/PS3 era. The remake is fairly impressive, and may speak to the convergence of mobile and console gaming.
The Anthropology of Farming Simulator
Sony are already selling every unit they can manufacture, and many places still have waiting lists, lotteries or one-unit-per-customer limits on the PS5) even after raising the MSRP (which actually lowered the effective price to consumers by pricing less-efficient scalpers out of the business of scalping). Sales can't increase because they have no more PS5s to sell.
>>In June, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), a US industry group, published a blog post that estimated that ad fraud is costing US advertisers $120 billion each year. Hours after it was published, those statements were removed. John Wolfe, the ANA’s director of communications, tells WIRED that the figures were removed because they were out of date, but declines to provide any new figures.

Right, because the up-to-date fraud numbers are higher.

>>But the industry is letting ad dollars flow into the pockets of cybercriminals, he adds, who can then use it to fund other illicit activities. It’s a major problem, he argues. “One that no one talks about, no one writes about, everyone thinks it’s someone else’s problem.”

Exactly, everyone is incentivized to accept the inflated numbers, and disincentivized to look at reality, so the result is unsurprising.

>>Fou believes the industry was corrupted around a decade ago, when a series of opaque middlemen entered the scene. “Prior to that, advertisers would buy ads from publishers like The New York Times,”

It's said in software that 'Everything can be solved by another layer of indirection'. Everything evidently includes inserting a fraud layer.

Solution? De-scaling and going back to advertising directly with specific platforms instead of ad "networks". What about paying for conversion instead of clicks? That concept seems to have completely disappeared. Anyone inside know why or what could be done to get back to that?

As a small biz owner developing physical products, I'd be interested in advertising, but I sure don't want to blow $$thousands out the door in hours for a mere illusion...
Ask people in the EU what is currently happening to their forests with the energy crisis looming. Everyone now wants wood, or potentially freeze to death.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/europe-...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/07/world/europe/...
True, to a degree. I won't ever pay 10-15€ for a 10 year old pc game but paying 1-3€ to have it in my steam library and not have to deal with wine/proton by hand is often worth it.
Certain others can elaborate further but back during the tenure of the PS3 Sony did attempt to prosecute individuals for publishing research into exploiting it. So not entirely a joke/meme.
That would make sense, except the investigation revealed that they are not using just the waste, the timber goes directly from the forest to the pellet manufacturer.
>At one time, hotels didn't offer free (or any) Wi-Fi, and now it's basically standard even at the bargain basement cheapo motels.

Somewhat off-topic but WiFi tended to be free initially at chains most frequented by individual travelers and families, rather than business travelers--who could just expense a WiFi change. Free WiFi then tended to become a carrot for signing up with a hotel chain's loyalty plan before becoming mostly free in general.
At my local grocery store, the price per pound of bananas has risen from 59 to 69 cents in the last year, a 17% increase.
Love the project! Looking forward to acquiring a dead project.
Supabase developer here. I worked on this project with the guys over at Snaplet.

One thing we are working on is putting postgres on an alternative filesystem using 9p. There's some really cool work by humphd that creates a filesystem inside IndexedDB[0]. We'd also like to maybe use the browser filesystem component to let you store the database on the host device in a path of your choosing. Not sure if these are possible yet, though.

[0] https://humphd.github.io/browser-shell/
On the contrary, dietary iron, the kind you need, is just iron. There's a fairly common science demonstration where you blend up fortified breakfast cereal (I saw it done with corn flakes) and pass a magnet over it. The magnet will pick up a bit of iron dust.

The amount of steel flaking off a knife into any given meal is likely much smaller than how much iron is in the food on its own merits.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due

Usually one doesn't have to go very deep into secret societies and political ties before landing on the actual and often-memed-about Freemasons. This variant of the story ties nicely with Gladio, Italian intelligence and secret services, politics, far right groups and mysterious deaths in the 70s and 80s. Oh, and of course Silvio Berlusconi.

P2 is the Italian version of the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Not saying it's bollocks, just wanting to point out how widespread it is in Italy, but I don't think it's very well known outside of it.
I won’t even get there. They’re in their late 60s. But I live on the other side of the globe. Time difference + cost of travel make it really hard.

It’s sad, because I’ve come to realize the asshole I was to my parents and I cannot help them now to make up for it.
Hah. Yes. I still remember thinking I was being sophisticated music critic when I talked about "Evanescence" as an example of conversation that is not completely unlike an opera. I also remember the stares I got from older students. I still chuckle at the memory sometimes. To be young again.

I think I kinda disagree about the impact on younger people though. If anything, they are more likely to develop appropriate filters than we are.
A multifamily building should have one meter per unit, plus one for common areas needs like garage and pathway lighting, etc. Rooftop solar would be best put on the common area meter, but that's not ideal under most net metering regimes because the common areas won't have much draw. If you add charging stations and those charging stations are actually used, then that may give you enough usage to offset your generation or at least a meaningful portion.

I'd put in something like a chargepoint charger and set the kWh price to about the local average electricity prices, and maybe help your tenants get chargepoint rfid tags. If you can put a publicly accessible charger at the street as well as tenant only chargers, that would again help you make economic work of your solar panels.

You could also run the whole building on one utility meter, and include electricity in the rent... But that's asking for cryptocoin miners or grow operations as tenants.
Hi, Dave. I just wanted to say thanks for building Whiskey Media and carrying forward some of that old Internet spirit. I was a big Giant Bomb and Tested fan when I was younger, and the platform you guys built was part of what inspired me to become a programmer. It’s sad to hear that the bandwidth economics were so unfavorable given everything that you did right, from my perspective.
You might be referring to me/Dud[0]. If you are, first off, thanks! I'd love to know more about what development progress you are hoping for. Is there a specific set of features that bar you from using Dud? As far as testing, Dud has a large and growing set of unit and integration tests[1] that are run in Github CI. I'll never have the same resources as Iterative/DVC, but my hope is that being open source will attract collaborators. PRs are always welcome ;)

[0]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud

[1]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud/tree/main/integration...
Generally, only train the dense network.
I meant the former (easy, fast, works well very often) but you could do either. If you decide to tune the whole thing, the training cost, time and complexity grow by a lot, and of course you're destroying a lot of information that exists in the model.
The Schizoid Difference
Kim's whole business is doing paid promotions to her Instagram followers-- typically $250k-$500k per promotion. Turns out that's illegal for securities, unless you disclose how much you got paid. If she'd added a footnote to her post, she would have been fine-- maybe something like "The brilliant folks at EthereumMax paid me $250k to bring you this message."

Such a footnote wouldn't have hurt the ad's effectiveness. There were news articles at the time warning people not to take investment advice from Kim Kardashian[1], but that didn't seem to deter people.

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-kim-kardashian-hawking-...
Well it depends on the individual. A person might waste their entire life because all those blog posts convinced them that they should work on their "legacy" or some app. Or they might spend years stressing about their productivity while applying that effort on the wrong things, all because the material they read looks serious and fruitful because it's not gossipy.

Granted, it will generally be better than gossip because there is some meat to these topics, but the true cost has to be seen per person.
I believe the content on Fandom's wikis is all permissively licensed. I've often thought about making a read-only mirror of their wikis that just scrapes updates and serves the content without all the BS. Once it scales to the point where hosting is expensive, put up a donation jar. If it pays for itself, consider opening up editing and creating a fork with the end goal of killing Fandom's godawful wiki sites.
That would be disrupted by ToolHub, a big warehouse that's open 24/7, where you can walk in and pick up a toolbox of 3-star tools for free.
I can understand some level of space. I have a lot of equipment from my hobbies and basically nowhere to put it. An extra room would be nice.

At some point it doesn’t make sense. I knew two people, a couple, that owned a three story lake home with I couldn’t even count how many rooms. This was great once every few years when they had a big gathering, but would just feel eerily empty otherwise.
You might be surprised. In my experience many people have no idea what a stock actually is or how the market works and prices are "determined". I have run into so many folks that even have a 401(k) and don't even know they can invest it in things other than the default allocation. Even if they did know they would have no idea what to do, which is even worse because a 401(k) heavily limits your investment options so it makes it simple.
> How can good content be monetized in a way that allows it to remain independent and not succumb to warping its content to feed that monetization? How can it be audience driven instead? Is such a thing even possible?

Unfortunately I don't think this is possible. As soon as you bring in ads you open the door to the AdTech bullshit parade. The incentive goes from making good content to clickbait because that drives hits. Subscriptions can pay hosting bills but it's not going to let anyone get paid a meaningful amount of money for co tributing let alone write full time for a site.

I think the best content is going to continue to be entirely community run Wikis. Stuff like NIWA. They aren't going to replace journalism but then game journalism has been barely journalism for decades. Most has just been/is warmed over press releases or reporting on someone else's reporting.
It doesn't have a hood panel, from what I can tell, so probably double just from that. Then it's a pretty beefy car so lighter and more aerodynamic ones would get more range. Lastly we will get some more battery & panel improvements. So probably pretty easy to end up in the range I gave.

Maybe 20-40 is too optimistic. But even at 10-20 a day that's going to cover a significant amount of usage. It will cut down the fast charging needed from once a week to once a month or so. That's a significant convenience improvement.
Would be even more ironic if it were the federal[1]

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/8346968/cop26-pledge-deforestatio...
I need structure in my life
One other thing to consider is installation costs. The office complex at which I work spent roughly $45,000 in order to install two electric charging stations. There was a lot of debate about justifying the expense at a management level. That expense was only for a mere two stations, and that was also before the supply chain issues and inflation we're seeing now. I can easily see how most apartment complexes would avoid installing charging stations - unless they were forced to install them because of a city ordinance. Maybe it wouldn't be as much of an expense for new construction where the charging stations were planned from the beginning, but that is just speculation on my part.
What data do you want that is difficult/time consuming to aggregate?
Is there any data related to your industry that is publicly available in some way, but it takes to long to aggregate it?

For my industry (mortgage) it could be interest rate movements of different banks.

For ecommerce, it could be sales of competitors.

For VC, it might be who is raising money.

What is it for your industry?
MTG?

Edit: Ah, Marjorie Taylor Greene. I kept wondering what Magic the gathering had to do with anything. lol
There's nothing inherently unsafe about buck-boost converters, they are used on millions of every day products, including the highest end of high tech stuff like motherboards and gpus.

If a circuit is in itself safe (it might not be if it's executed poorly), then safety of the whole device depends on how you're using that circuit.

100W is just as fine as 1W. It just depends on whether you're being scammed. If you don't have the knowledge to find out whether what you're doing is safe... don't do it.