skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, it's not exactly ideal to have to start with a bunch of boilerplate. If something changes in the template, you have to manually port that to every project using that template.

This is really the sort of thing that gems are designed to accomplish. The only boilerplate should be the Gemfile and maybe some configuration files; all the other shared functionality should be packaged up and distributed as versioned gems listed in that Gemfile.

If Rails in this day and age is somehow an obstacle to that (e.g. because it insists upon an excess of setup tasks that can't be encapsulated as a gem that provides a rake task), then it might be high time to consider an alternative.
That's a neat feature, but as you may already know, ORMs come with their own baggage in the form of object-relational impedance mismatch. There's an entire rather-substantial Wikipedia article on it, so I won't go into it any further myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_impedance_mi...

The sibling thread also brings up similar issues with ORMs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127058
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> human experimentation is serious business.

Sometimes. When you just ask a few simple questions, it clearly isn't.

Your list of the benefits of IRBs looks valid. But without a corresponding set of costs to weigh them against, it's meaningless.
(A) They were arbitrarily imposed in this case. Just because a rule is a good idea doesn't mean it is a good idea all the time.

(B) We're not talking about injecting the patients with some experimental drug here. We're talking about asking them questions that they were already being asked anyways. The lack of risk is self evident to anyone who considers the question.
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I'm sorry to say that the curation of those lists tends to need work.

I know this because I have at least one project on the "awesome Elixir" list that is absolute rubbish :)
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This is similar to hg histedit, where the "ui" is simply a text editor.
Humans also predict un-rare events badly.

ie The time it takes to complete a work project.

Tabeb states the obvious, almost tautologies, without solutions, behind the wall of philosophy. Pointless stuff.
This is utterly wrong. Taxing property encourages efficient use and keeps speculative hoarding down which reduces prices.

Prices are set by credit, credit is set by the ability to service debt. Property taxes inhibit the ability to pay interest to banks on larger loans.

AirBnB is popular because they are illegally avoiding taxes which makes right now for an easy win for rentiers. People doing airBnB don't have a higher calling to supply temporary accommodation to the masses. They are doing it for the money. If they could make more juggling fruit they would. And they push up prices for families looking to live near schools.

edit: can't post below b/c HN hates people criticizing rentiers.

Terrible example. Texas in which Dallas resides has the highest property taxes. Texas taxes land not labour more than most states.
In my own experience, the vast majority of consumer audio gear doesn't even take full advantage of 16/44.1. I've made live recordings of my classical chorus, and if I want it to be listenable on typical consumer gear, I have to apply a significant amount of dynamic range compression - otherwise, it will be either too quiet, or it won't handle the peaks when played at concert volume.

That being said, I'm using quite a bit less compression than the loudness-war-type mastering that is all too typical with pop music.
Credit sets prices. Ask Ireland. Spain. Greece. Supply rocketed as did prices.
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That's correct - and it definitely affects the math involved. It would be way more expensive in many ways to be involved in bribery in a larger country like Canada, to the point that the illegal activity likely wouldn't be worth the potential cost. But in India, the cost of such illegal activity is very different, thus is more likely to be worth it.
This page has a write up about folate & mental health:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-integrationist/2014...
I mean, is this so bad? It also implies novel communities are forming elsewhere; perhaps you're viewing this from a perspective on the past when the one on the future may be more relevant.

I say this as someone who hates AirBnB and high rent prices in cities.
I don't know about the US, but in Australia, our foreign bribery laws explicitly exempt "facilitation payments", i.e. bribes that are customarily paid to grease the wheels of bureaucracy and get routine government actions done.

However, that certainly wouldn't cover anything like this alleged rape doxxing, and it also wouldn't cover bribes intended to secure new business, which are presumably extremely common in countries like India.
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A screen cap of a discussion forum is a poor reference indeed...
"This really isn't a victory for anybody but Airbnb and existing property managers."

And the millions of people who use the service.
Pencil/pen, paper, flow charts, and in some cases one of those TI scientific calculators can come in real handy.

This being said, I've never gone much away from C/C++/Pascal/Assembly/COBOL/FORTRAN and various forms of BASIC where what I mentioned helps immensely (I work on legacy systems in my spare time, CS isn't my primary field), although Python, Haskell, Rust and GO have piqued my curiosity.
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The author was trying to test whether a simple common test for bipolar was accurate. Presumably, the suggestion is to make the test a form filled out by each doctor for each patient. Then months or years later the author could do a chart review and see whether the test results were accurate.
Except in this case (if this is what happened??) they're paying a bribe to do something you shouldn't be able to do anyway. This isn't paying a bribe to conduct standard business, they're paying a bribe to access someone's medical records. I don't see how that is anymore acceptable if you're doing it in India than in any Western country.
Chroma subsampling is optional in AVC and HEVC and IMO we should stop using it for 480p or smaller video. Not because the information is important - color is usually bandlimited - but because all the decoders use the worst resampling algorithm to display it.
Man. This sounds just like my workplace.
I did the same thing for a lady that I was madly in love with. Could not be with her physically, but reading to her was keeping me close.
This actually might be a brilliant (and by "brilliant" I mean "absolutely abominable") way to monetize a website without "ads" per se. Just use visitors' broswers to mine some altcoin while they're reading your article or what have you. The more visitors you get, the more money you get.
I can barely see you up on that high horse. There are so many ways of making money that people don't report. Do you report the interest on your savings account? The idea that a person should feel a some sort of duty to report the money they made renting out their house for a few weekends a year is absurd -- and a government that goes after their citizens for such a pittance has missed the forest for the trees.
The best run companies transform top-down decisions into bottom-up ones, helpfully protecting executives from consequences. How it works is through setting high expectations in a "get it done" culture, and then carefully cultivating strategic ignorance about illegal activity that's positive value.
You think the solution to high rent prices is to reduce the number of renters and restrict the supply of properties available for rent?

Someone wasn't paying attention in econ class.
Actually, Germany limits both of these rights, heavily.

The right of assembly is only given in indoor spaces, which you own, as long as zero aggression happens.

For outdoor assemblies, you'll need approval of the municipal government (and the police can dissolve your assembly, as happened in Hamburg during the G20 protests).

In the same way, as I mentioned, the right to property is frequently limited by nations. In the US, commonly for public projects the state seizes land without repaying the owners, and Germany does similar stuff.
It's impractical to opt out, yes. But one can compartmentalize. So I have a rich online life using my real name. But it's not in English. Everything that Mirimir does online is interlinked. But it's not at all linked to my real name. Or to my other online personas.

For sure, I'm a zealot about this. I use nested VPN chains and Tor, and multiple VMs on multiple hosts. But anyone can use a VPN service that respects privacy. Such as AirVPN, IVPN or PIA. Not HideMyAss, however ;)
web.whatsapp.com requires you to scan some silly QR code with your phone instead of just inputting a username and password. The point is, I would like to not have to carry my phone.

My basic tenet of computing is that every device I own should be able to do ALL tasks that it is computationally capable of, without relying on other devices. When I'm sitting in front of a 4K screen with a massive multi-core CPU and GPU desktop, that I own, there is NO reason I should be be required to also have on my person a 6" dinky piece of junk just to operate the desktop. Every device should independently handle everything it is capable of.

So in my case the virtual machine can just run WhatsApp and I can completely leave my phone behind when I choose to carry my computer with me. Same thing for WeChat. I want my most powerful computers to be able to handle 100% of my personal tasks, not 99%.
see also.

https://www.hugsql.org/

binds Clojure functions to SQL

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clojars stats:

GitHublayerware/hugsql
76,170 Downloads

GitHubjkk/honeysql
168,981 Downloads

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these two libraries could in principle work together
(e.g. using hugsql's `_-dbvec` variants):
foundations go in plain sql, more complicated stuffs
generated out of Clojure.

for the simple sort of databasing that i've done so far
in Clojure, hugsql alone has sufficed: i tried honeysql.
it boiled down to wanting to write some plain SQL b/c
i found it to be a more unique (good/bad, i dunno)
approach than writing SQL-in-language-_.

FOOTNOTE

how to escape the asterisk in the YC formatting language
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How did you come to your conclusion about computers so firmly?
Also in what way is this worth taking your life over? Does it really make it impossible to enjoy it?
I wouldn't be so optimistic. There are often credentials to other systems (like databases, etc) on such servers, plus they now have access to the private network(s) the compromised server resides on. It gives the attacker the opportunity to serve exploits to users, to forward incoming requests from users to external servers (maybe there's an auth token or something they can use), and tons of other stuff.
I'm in the process of getting two IRBs approved. I am somewhere in the first quarter of that author's story. I agree that it's a big hurdle to get past, and writing a good consent form is hard.

All of this being said, though, it was/is a great experience to have under my belt. And, next time, I'll be able to tackle the regulatory hurdles with far less confusion.
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"Self-reliance is a myth made by conservatives to justify cutbacks to the poor" is a myth made by liberals to justify government overreach.

No one's arguing that anyone has been entirely self-reliant, let alone that preppers today are. That's just a straw man you're bringing into the conversation. The prepper mindset is simply to be as self-reliant as they can be, even if they can't be entirely self reliant.
You can expose your business logic as an API endpoint and have your single-page app make a request to it. For example, say you have a bunch of invoices that you can access by making a GET request to /invoices/

```
{
"count": 1,
"results": {...}
}
```

Then if you want to perform an action on a particular invoice, you can access it using the /invoices/:invoice_id/action endpoint. For example, let's say you want to pay the invoice with id=1, then all you have to do is make a POST request to /invoices/1/pay/

and if you want to pass variables to your action, you can do it through the body of the request. For example, if you want to pay your invoice with a card on the account with id=4, all you have to do would be to make a POST request to /invoices/1/pay/ with the following body:

```
{
"card_id": 4
}
```
An additional on flooding:

When Rainfall * Area >= SoilAbsorption(See note) + WetlandAbsorption + ArtificialDrainage the end result is flooding.

Essentially the left hand side of the inequality has been slightly increasing because of climate change, but we're chipping away constantly at the right side of the equation in three ways.

(1) More and more soils in American metro areas have been covered by impervious surfaces for development.
(2) More wetlands are being destroyed for development.
(3) Artificial drainage is being under-built.
Drainage is generally built for 1 in 100 year events but the rate of urbanization is increasing the magnitude of flooding. (Drainage is only a problem for the developer that hasn't sold what they're building.)

Note: Soil has a finite capacity for water infiltration.
> something unavoidable and self-destructive about human nature.

What specifically? Wanting power and control?
I was on mobile and these sites are awful to read on it so I didn't see that detail. I was going off of the bill that Arnold signed for Cannabis decriminalization that made it still an infraction to have it/use it/sell it but not lead up to a year in jail like the current system will do to a mushroom user.

I am not sure I agree with this proposal unless they make it as an infraction to buy and sell it. (not a misdemeanor and certainly not a felony)
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As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment is one of the most important parts of the history of IRBs.
Not a freelancer. That's how I do it.

I don't think you're asking the right question, though. 100k+ USD/yr in some parts of the country is a lot different than 100k+ USD/yr in other parts. The really smart ones have found jobs in metro areas that pay lots, but work remotely from areas with low cost of living expenses, and put all the extra away into college funds for their kids and Roth 401k's invested in high risk, low-load index funds, with a significant amount invested.

And most of all, they ask for it. Once they get it, they don't piss people off, they do great work, and they get references.
That's interesting Dale, but I do not understand why you think the Enlightenment ideals are an exception to this:

" Every civilization believes it is “the end of history,” the last and best political idea. In this sense, the notion of human beings as inherently selfish competitors is no more true than a medieval serf’s belief in the divine right of kings, or an 1840s American’s belief in the inherent slavishness of those he keeps as slaves. These are delusional beliefs that support a political structure — not inherent truths that demand politics be structured as they are."

A mere detail! Scott Alexander made the same point. The crux for me though is this:

You appear to think that technological progress is continuing, except that it is not. Thiel and Cowen have made the same point countless times and by now it is self evident to me. The ball as it were, is in the other court.

Eric Schmidt and Peter Diamandis's rebuttals are unconvincing. They do not appear to be grounded in the data we have available on energy prices, worker wages, commodity prices.

Without that the entire line of reasoning falls apart.

I would, in case you suspect my motivations, actually like to see Utopian visions from the Left but am unaware of anything interesting. If I am wrong, tell me. UBI can't be one, even uncle Milton supported the concept.
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It ended at two, but these were later follow-ups that seemed inspired by the early experience. The first one below especially felt like a coda to the first two:

http://mcfunley.com/why-mongodb-never-worked-out-at-etsy

http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
So, in other words: bite the bandwidth bullet and get the 192 material, but for Pete's sake, do yourself a favor and downsample to 44.1.
I'm not sure: check out https://ballotpedia.org/Residency_requirements_for_petition_..., which gives some idea but not a clear answer.
Very good idea. Thinking of doing the same.
when Arnold signed the bill decriminalizing cannabis use there were still penalties in place... this is just moving how you punish someone for low-level drug use from jail to a monetary penalty I think.
The kvm support hasn't had much is any maintenance. It's very behind and lacking in a number of ways . Illumos should adopt bhyve and pester the shit out of plubirus to free the code for this .
I had to look it up to confirm: "death is certain, its hour is uncertain" (latin)
I'm blanking on his name but this sounds like the teachings of The Foundation (thefoundation.com)

I have no affiliation, but I recall podcasts where he repeats over and over that you just need to interview small biz and find real pains they'd pay for.
My elementary school actually did this during the 1994 annular eclipse. They literally taped all the windows shut.

They wouldn't even set up a pinhole viewer.
Before we get the pitchforks out, what was on your repo? Is there a copy of your repo somewhere else?
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I do not believe it. 24 bits is definitely needed for processing (better yet, use floating-point).

Not 192 kHz; no friggin' way.

Repeated processing through multiple blocks at a given sample rate does not produce cumulative discretization problems in the time domain; it's just not how the math works.
> Physically perhaps.. Psychologically I'm not so sure..

I mean, they can both give pretty unpleasant experiences when taken in too high a dose. Here's a journalist writing about their experience after eating a cannabis candy bar in Colorado[1]:

> I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. I was thirsty but couldn't move to get water. Or even turn off the lights. I was panting and paranoid, sure that when the room-service waiter knocked and I didn't answer, he'd call the police and have me arrested for being unable to handle my candy.

> I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.

I don't think this justifies making psilocybin or marijuana illegal, however. I do think it justifies regulating what products get sold to people (for instance, we'd never allow something that is called hard cider and tastes like hard cider but is 80% alcohol).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-o...
>as engineers we will never solve this problem [reproduce a live acoustic music performance] as long as the "44.1kHz is good enough" dogma is perpetuated

It's the opposite. We are never going to solve this problem if we are going to focus on things that have nothing to do with the problem. Compare and contrast:

>as engineers we will never solve this problem as long as the "copper wires are good enough" dogma is perpetuated

Also, please read the article. The author specifically lists advances in audio tech they think are worthwhile to consider, such as surround sound. This actually addresses the problem you mentioned (reproducing the live performance) and the question you asked, i.e.

>here's a question. why are frequency and bit depth the only two variables under discussion here?

They are not, at least not in the article. Here it's because that's what's in the title, and not everyone gets to the end of the article.

Some comments do talk about the importance of having a good DAC for a good sound.
There's a great irony in calling renters "leeches" while trying to forcibly interfere between them and their customers to get a bigger cut of the transaction.
> We seem to follow a policy of progress by all means until we've developed our way into a future in which the continued subsistence of humanity (at least on earth) is untenable.

I just don't see how you got to this conclusion. In what way could technological progress make it untenable for humanity to continue?
Can you recommend any one in particular? Tobii EyeX Gaming vs Tobii Eye Tracker 4C
The FCPA similarly differentiates. However the practical problem is that running a defense based on whether a certain activity was a facilitation payment (to secure the performance of a "routine government action") means you essentially have to admit that the potentially unlawful activity actually took place, and you move onto generally very treacherous ground. For that reason most companies don't go that route.

In any case as others have noted it's not relevant here because getting someone's medical records isn't a service that you're entitled to.
Econ 101 sucks. But you contradict yourself as econ 101 always states supply and demand.

AirBnb is for short-term rentals only. It does not target people in Montreal looking for 12 month rolling tenancies. But it does reduce supply as landlords move from supplying 12 month places to airbnb.

If we made life harder for airbnb supply would go up of rentals for families. Or landlords would sell up reducing prices and allowing families who presently rent to buy.

Yes there are some people on hacker news who just want to get their 200k and not have to worry about commitment. I don't care about them, they can sort themselves out. I want access for families to local schools.

The people offering this "service" just want to make a quick buck for very little work. They bring nothing to the community and make life harder for many families.
For those who think the author is in the wrong

1 - Do you think this story indicates a success or a failure of the IRB?

2 - Would you rather a better expedited review process AND more studies (remember the personal effort cost killed this study), neither, or do you see some 3rd option?
>One thing that I rarely hear about crypto-currencies is the environmental impact

That's funny, it seems to be raised in every single hn cryptocurrency thread.

One thing I rarely see is a proper attempt to quantify co2 output. Electricity consumption is fairly well estimated, but environmental impact is not.

Would be interested to find one large industrial scale miner who actually has a negative impact on the scale that some talk about.

All the biggest I know of are located next to hydro dams and are 100% renewable.

It's rather naive to simply talk about electrity usage, nor all electricity is created equal.
Oh wow. FCPA violations. One of the key rules of American business is that you do not dance around with the FCPA [0]. (I suspect many new startup managers are not familiar with the FCPA but you can bet their investors are.) Violations of the FCPA do not just result in fines, they result in actual jail time for whomever did the bribing, whether they be individual low-level employees, contractors, or CEOs.

That said, the FCPA explicitly allows small "greasing" bribes that encourage low-level bureaucrats to expedite some action they would have taken anyway -- when such greasing payments are legal in the country in question. Obtaining the medical records of a rape victim certainly does not fall within this exception.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act