skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but that kind of system has real problems.

The incentive for the IRB is to be as thorough and put up as many obstacles as possible. Both from a blame deflection standpoint and a bureaucratic empire building standpoint.

I'm not aware of any force pushing in the other direction to make the scrutiny proportional to the risk.

If this is true - and I'm just some programmer reading stuff on the web who knows little of real life IRBs - the end result is a system that overproduces IRB red tape and underproduces science.

Of course, complaining about a system is easy. Figuring out a better system is not.
I've noticed how often big projects will allocate something like 5% of their budget for a few things like 'bioethicists' and 'community' grants; you never seem to hear about what they produce or what important findings they make, but the money does get spent...
That's a fool's bet to say "I will pay you X amount of money if it floods" when it is guaranteed to flood sooner or later. That amounts to charity, not insurance.

A statement with profound implications in other areas of insurance, notably health insurance. You're insuring against expensive losses that will almost certainly happen at some point... which suggests that traditional insurance isn't the right framework for solving the problem at hand.
Actually it does!

For example, something I was excited to see is in the updated documentation on source.android.com with regards to how they recommend developing kernel branches alongside devices: https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/modul...

Basically, one of the issues that's plagued OEMs in the past is the fact that each SoC vendor (e.g. Qualcomm, Samsung, ARM) would not only have a kernel for each SoC, but each OEM device using that SoC would be another branch on that SoC-specific repository. This would then be compounded by the OEMs having their own kernel repositories that pull from the device-specific branches of a SoC repository, and bug fixes from OEMs would have to trickle back upstream to the vendor repository before making them back to other device-specific kernels.

The new proposed model would see a single kernel soruce for a given SoC, and device-specific changes would come in the form of kernel modules, config overrides, and device tree overlays. They are also strongly recommending SoC changes to the kernel be upstreamed to mainline Linux, which would greatly ease porting to newer kernels in the future.
>>Massive inefficiencies in bureaucracy are always hidden behind the fig leaf of consistency and accountability, but it's worthwhile to consider what aim they serve and at what cost.

This problem was largely solved by the development and acceptance of private IRBs. Going with private IRBs that meet 2x weekly, turn forms around quickly, and are willing to pre-qualify your work - at cost, of course - is the road many researchers take now.
You typoed, you meant the 8860 :) I actually saw it in a catalogue back in the day, but I hadn't realized it had a differential. It was also already old when I was into Lego technic in my teens, at which time the 8865 was new and shiny.

Edit: It also seems both the 8860 and the 8865 were using the same parts for the differential.
> I might have used the term MLM incorrectly when what I meant was pyramid scheme.

You are now using the term 'pyramid scheme' incorrectly.

Out of curiosity, do you consider other objects of speculation, including stocks, bonds, futures, derivatives, commodities and real estate, to be 'pyramid schemes'?
so what you're saying is, regardless of gas or electric, drag racing is going to ruin your car.
If you like something, upvote it. If you're only saying the equivalent of "+1", please don't post - it's just (well-meaning) clutter.

Also: check the guidelines link at the very bottom of the site (in tiny, nigh-unreadable type!): don't talk about votes, either up or down.
FWIW, US Navy ships don't broadcast on AIS, though they monitor it. That means the other vessels around them have to look out the window to notice them (or get hailed on radio.)
The point reiterated several times is that they were already asking the patients all of those questions as part of their normal procedure, without any of the alleged protections provided by the IRB. Once they wanted to use the data that they were already collecting anyway it suddenly became a huge risk that required all of this bureaucracy to mitigate.
> It's implicit precisely because you don't explicitly maintain a schema separately from your application code.

But that's not completely true. There is plenty of code necessary for managing the schema and just the schema in a document database. Default values, relationships, validation, and managing previous version of the schema. I have plenty of code that just exists to handle documents in the "old" format.

> The second sentence contradicts the first.

Maybe I should have said almost frictionless instead of quite. And honestly, some things are less work with a schema (like creating a new defaulted boolean column) in an RDBMS than in a schemaless design. So the friction is relative.

> The friction may be worth it, but calling it _frictionless_ was my issue with this post and the original

I have a similar issue with calling a document-store _schemaless_. It's not schemaless, it has a schema. In fact, it has as many schemas as there are changes to the structure of the data. And this, in my opinion, is the biggest negative to that kind of design.
>>Do you think this story indicates a success or a failure of the IRB?

Failure of the IRB but mostly failure of the author to explore his options.

>>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?

As I've posted in this thread, this problem is solved. Private IRBs exist that are much more responsive.
I have said that repeatedly on HN. Obamacare is a terrible idea and we need another solution.
What specifically sounds like that? I cannot decipher the context you are using those quotes in regarding my comment.
.50 cents: I think most of the good 20% went to google and facebook and got into comfort zone of corporate politics when they were young in their 20s and they ended up having great compensation which make them stay there forever.
I love to read aloud.

I wish more books came with a readaloud guide. Sometimes, characters are introduced that deserve distinctive vocal styles that aren't obvious right away. So after five lines of dialog, you find out the new character is a woman with a strong eastern-European accent, and you'd been reading her words like a man.

Tolkien is wonderful to read aloud, except for the damn songs. You arrive at a song (some of which are relevant to the plot, so you you can't skip them) and mumble your way through it like one of the obscure psalms. Ugh. But soon the great prose flows again, and all is good.

I read the whole of Harry Potter aloud to my kids, starting about age 5. The early books aren't too scary for a 5-6yo boy, though they get scarier. Those were the first books I read to them that I enjoyed too, a huge improvement over Cat in the Hat.

Although audiobooks make reading aloud obsolete in some sense, I feel it's one of the most enjoyable obsolete activities.
The argument you're leveling is equivalent to: never start a business in any country and never do business in any country. It requires a perfect bureaucracy in terms of government and requires perfect knowledge by all participants and at all times (ie it will never exist).

Even well run nations generally have very large numbers of regulations on the books, frequently outdated or poorly thought-through, requiring you to regularly break the law just to function on a day to day basis typically without knowing that you're doing so.

You might as well argue we should just all commit suicide by starvation or general mass economic deprivation. That's the only thing pursuing your premise to its logical conclusion could lead to. Alternatively, figure out a perfect system of government that never has flaws or malevolent actors and figure out how to get people to behave as strictly programmed robots.
I am aware that the existence of trees tends to promote rain, so, no, it isn't an absolute, black or white thing.

My medical condition is genetic in origin. I have reversed a lot of my symptoms and, yes, maintaining my improved condition is easier than I expected.

I have come to believe that "the normal progression" of my condition is rooted in a nasty positive feedback loop. If you can interrupt it, it is game changing.

But interrupting it isn't for sissies, so to speak.

Even so, my body will never be normal. But it is sort of like being a Kosher Jew: As long as I abide by particular dietary and lifestyle restrictions, I don't have to be sick all the time, even though it means I can't live "normally." I am happy to accept that deal over the alternative.
It does not make it easy to access the mapbox library API directly. It claims there is a way, but it's not documented.
the title of this post is exactly what my father said to me as a child, every day before i went to school.

and do you think i listened? i could kick myself. i really could!
Back-End Dev here (Node).

I do integration between Brazillian mobile carriers and international Apps (content providers in general) who wants to get into Brazilian market, usually to bill users on their mobile plan instead of paypal or inApp Purchase. The funnil gap is much lower when you Bill users in mobile plan.

Brazilian carrier has a tough and slow integration process and, without a local IT support is almost impossible to connect with them.

As I have everything ready for all major carriers, it's easier/faster/cheaper to hire me instead of build the integration by itself.

www.2brazil.rocks
also ethereum
They just sent an email to their customers in Québec and they specify they will not share reservation and owner details to the government, only a summary per region per month.

So the is no extra power to Revenu Québec to find out you don't report all your earnings.

The fact they sent (french) :

Partagerez-vous mes informations personnelles lors du versement de la taxe ?
Non. Nous remplirons une déclaration fiscale par région, qui indiquera le montant total des revenus issus de l'ensemble des réservations Airbnb effectuées dans la zone en question. Autrement dit, tous les hôtes seront représentés par un même montant, et nous ne fournirons pas vos informations personnelles sur la déclaration.
Hey, they still do. And it's 'audiophile.' DSD is 1-bit, but with a very high sampling rate (2.8224 MHz). Though, as far as I know there isn't actually any quality boost vs PCM.
Again, read what I wrote, and read the article.

They can shut off THEIR car, if THEY own it, and if THEY have title.

If he owns the car, Quebec law is clear that it is ILLEGAL for them to shut off the car, NO MATTER WHAT THE CONTRACT SAYS.

And yes, ALL CAPS is necessary here, because the information you're asking for has already been explained repeatedly.
>but in our case, the purchase decision was rarely made by the person who actually had to use the software. And you have to get those people on board. If anything, they're more important, because they're the ones who are going to make the bosses life hell if the software they buy isn't doing the job - or worse - is doing the job too well.

>Over and over again, we saw internal sabotage. People would simply refuse to change processes, and would find any excuse. "Oh, the software didn't work, so I had to go back to doing it manually".

This one resonated with me, from a former workplace. Even when their jobs were nowhere near at risk, people don't want to change habits. The employees did not get paid more for being more productive, so they would find fairly pointless excuses for not using tools that made their lives easier.

Ultimately, it's a problem with management and their incentives (or lack thereof).
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Is social media bad for young people's mental health?
Not for new cars, you'll need to be certified by the manufacturer. In this case, it was an "official" Kia dealer. They are way down the ranks when it comes to keeping their brand "clean". If it was an Audi dealer they wouldn't even have sold the car to a bad credit customer in the first place.
Is Social Media Destroying Your Self-Esteem?
> 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.

That isn't entirely true. e.g. It's common for an audio DSP to use fixed point 24bit coefficients for an FIR filter. If you're trying to implement a filter at low frequency then there can be significant error due to coefficient precision, that error is reduced by increasing the sampling rate.
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That's the funny thing about those tools -- applied properly, it can be a great asset. Applied carelessly, you end up with clipping and brickwalls of audio.
A lot of the pain with renaming files can be mitigated using brace expansion in e.g. Bash:

$ mv path/to/{orig,dest}.foo
# expands into
$ mv path/to/orig.foo path/to/dest.foo
Authenticating yourself that way is fine. How do you propose to prevent other people from authenticating as yourself? How entropic are your memorized passwords?

How entropic are combination locks? And vulnerable to picking - I've had to pick a 3-dial Realtor lock before in an emergency. It's easy with an aluminum-foil shim and Youtube instructions.
Why Social Media Is a Negative Influence
> The article didn't say anything about the rape case.

From TFA: "Reuters in June reported that Uber had hired a law firm to investigate how it obtained the medical records of an Indian woman who was raped by an Uber driver in 2014."

> Getting her info could have cost less than $100, but staying in business in certain countries could run in tens of millions.

I'm honestly not sure what point you're trying to make here. Regardless of the calculus, it was morally bankrupt and probably illegal.
If everyone else is doing it absolutely wrong, there's a great deal of money to be made doing it better.
Normally, yes, but I imagine a brand like Kia is more loose with enforcing standards as opposed to say, Toyota.
Every comments section I've seen for newspaper articles even in supposedly blue urban areas contain an outsize proportion of conservative trolls. It's possibly worse than youtube comments.
The evidence indicates that voucher systems improve test scores, graduation rates, and other aspects of both public and private schools, not just the latter:

http://educationnext.org/rising-tide/
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> What baffles me is why nobody else reports drive failure stats?

My wild-ass guess is that organisations with enough hard drives to make reliable estimates give performance/failure data to whoever installed/designed the arrays (who i imagine get some competitive advantage from knowing which drives fail) and so there's probably a pretty serious culture of secrecy around this stuff.
A lot of prose sucks to read aloud, because the author didn't try it. Philip Roth, to pick one of many, doesn't work well spoken. Tolkien read chapters in development aloud to his kids every night, and it shows in the way it flows. Pick a good author and keep practicing!
> A friend of mine was warned not to go camping in the boonies near their payment date.

Your friend needs to find a new car, I think. That's insane. Why would you pay someone to do that to you?
> There is no reason the DAC or ADC can't internally do the resampling itself.

You are describing alternative (b) i mentioned above: digital filtering plus oversampling. This also isn't without side effects.

Oversampling a 44KHz signal is not the same as having a 192Khz material to start with. Very different.
> better yet, use floating-point

Both your inputs (ADC) and outputs (DAC) are fixed-point. Why would you want to use a floating point in between? Technically, 64-bit floating point format would be enough for precision. But that would inflate both bandwidth and CPU requirements for no value. 32-bit floating point ain’t enough. Many people in the industry already use 32-bit integers for these samples.

> Not 192 kHz; no friggin' way.

I think you’re underestimating the complexity of modern musician-targeted VST effects. Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AGGl5R1vtY
I’m not an expert, i.e. I’ve never programmed that kind of software. But I’m positive such effects are overwhelmingly more complex than just multiply+add these sample values. Therefore, extra temporal resolution helps.

BTW, professionals use 24bit/192kHz audio interfaces for decades already. E.g. ESI Juli@ was released in 2004, and that was very affordable device back then.
> It's easy for us to look at it and moralize with western eyes, but bribery is simply part of the system in some places.

Seeing as how it's illegal in India, it's accurate to say that lots of Indians think it is immoral too! My dad left Bangladesh in part because a phone company tech wanted him to pay a bribe to get a second line installed and he didn't want to raise kids in a country like that.
For the first one:

>"What SSC should have investigated and wrote up is that hospital and medical IRB is fraught with bureaucracy and that a private IRB industry has developed, entities inside that handle wide ranges of studies and turn around informed consent docs and things very fast (within a week).

That is, even though Alexander had a long wait time just to hear responses, there are expensive services you can use that make all that wait time and pushback from hidden rules disappear, so you don't see it as a problem.

For the second one:

>A lot of IRB review is stupid. But messing with human subjects doesn’t have a good track record in this country. Our predecessors earned every bit of bureaucracy and oversight based on their absurd experiments. Such is life.

You don't show a standard for the upper bound on when the absurdity is too much, dismissing any such concerns with appeal to some historical atrocities.
>What specifically? Wanting power and control?

What about the fact that we're the only species to hoard way more resources than we'll ever need, to the point where we're quite literally destroying the environment and life around us in order to maintain our over-consumption of resources?
"Under ideal laboratory conditions, humans can hear sound as low as 12 Hz[8] and as high as 28 kHz..." From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range#Humans

That explains why some people can tell the difference between 44.1 khz and the higher-resolution sampling rates. It also means that the ideal audiophile sampling rate is somewhere between 58khz and 60khz, not 192khz.
Was this a response to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid... ?
This is probably the best reason why people should, at least once, go see a symphony!
MacBook Air hasn't been updated since Early 2015

I get that. My point is that Apple's not going to discontinue a product that continues to sell well enough to make it highly profitable. Likewise, if sales are not tapering off then there is little reason to update it unless they can cut costs by doing so.

This isn't the 90s anymore. A computer that's 6 years old is not 16x slower than a brand new one.
>>All kinds of shady stuff happens to these investments on life support, like kicking back money to the VC, paying for "business" travel for the VC, yadda yadda. The founders have no incentive at all to talk about it, since they need to get money for the next idea and it's all a reputation thing.

Pleased to see someone bring this up. I've seen those things and more happen in my time in the startup community.
This article is thinly veiled PR trash. Every single link is to another article on the same website + a LinkedIn profile for the author.

Create an artificial problem, appoint yourself the guru who can solve it, profit, rinse, repeat.
Every time I've had to deal with troubleshooting weird firmware or hardware (and good luck sometimes knowing which it is), I've been continually amazed at the giant mess that's being pushed as commercial or "enterprise" equipment. It appears every product enters a special phase of a few weeks to a few months right before shipping where time constraints force whoever is responsible for the code to wildly shovel crap fixes into place until the hardware "works".

An alternate explanation is that most this code is written by electrical engineers that while smart, don't quite have enough experience managing larger code projects yet and are still prone to some of the newbie software developer mistakes, and probably without good mentoring on that front because those that have already weathered this storm and learned enough to sail through smoothly have either jumped ship for greener pastures or been promoted enough to be out of the trenches but not enough to have sway to fix the problem.
And there's a great many HN users/readers who've been happy to write the code that is totally f-ing us over.
Is protecting fair competition "pointless"? I'd argue having one or two clicks extra as something that protects us from a monopolistic corporate overlord to be clicks well spent.

But your example is also excessively alarmist and obtuse. A competition-respecting voice search client would be configurable. Aka, that it should perhaps be illegal for Google Assistant to automatically play music from Google Play Music, but that it allow you to choose a provider, including Amazon Prime Music, Groove Music, etc. Once a user has indicated their preference, the regular flow would be automatic. This would likely be for product search as well, you might select that you want to look up products via Amazon or Walmart.

Surely piping data from one application into another is not new territory.
Maximum likelihood ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I created this which is in a slightly similar spirit: https://github.com/cjauvin/little_pger
> I don't think there are flaws in the article as you claim. It already explicitly explains that oversampling at the ADC or DAC is an acceptable engineering solution

Of course it is acceptable. Even 14 bit audio at 36KHz with a great DAC would be fairly nice, acceptable.

What the article claims is that 192KHz is useless, of no benefit. And i contend that it is of benefit when you want more than just good or acceptable performance. Not if you have a run of the mill DAC and OK headphones/speakers, but it is if you are a music lover and critical listener.
What options do you think were inadequately explored to sign the consent forms? Finger paint?
Single-molecule-level data storage may achieve 100 times higher data density
And it's probably double-illegal to pay bribes to officials to get them to do illegal things.

It's not like one of their drivers was facing a long wait at the DMV and...encouraged...a bureaucrat to care about their job for a few minutes.
Does this have anything to do with Django whatsoever? The title is misleading.
Will AI enable the third stage of life?
Gave up on Terminator for Tilix: less crashes, can save panel placements, and other goodies.
Obligatory plug for everyone to read The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. It was published in 1975 and nails the technology of the 90s so accurately that it's quite freaky to read.
This article is thinly veiled PR trash. Every single link is to another article on the same website + a LinkedIn profile for the author.

Create an artificial problem, appoint a guru who can solve it, profit, rinse, repeat.
This is a good article, well worth the read.