skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing a lot of nonsense in this thread and I'd just like to point out a few things that seem to be commonly misunderstood and misrepresented by the media:

- Fentanyl is only more dangerous than heroin because it is not properly prepared. This means the dilution is not homogeneous, and users unexpectedly come across a stronger dose or batch.

- If properly prepared, fentanyl is safer than heroin. Its therapeutic index is 400 vs 70 for heroin (this measures the ratio between active dose and toxic dose). Proper preparation means diluting it so that users can take a dose similar to heroin for the same effects. With correctly diluted fentanyl, users have a wider margin of error before an overdose. Dilution is never done as a last step by the user, it's done in labs that prepare large amounts of the drug.

- For addicts, the ritual is the same for both drugs. The feeling is mostly the same, but lasts a little shorter for fentanyl. The addiction potential being higher for one or the other is disputable.

- Once again, it having a lower active dose ("stronger") does not make it inherently more dangerous. It just makes dilution more technical, and this is where the problem comes from.

Edit: Of course, I am in no way defending recreational use of the drug. Like all opioids, it's very addictive and can easily lead to a self-destructive habit. And with recreational users, overdoses will probably happen even with a perfectly diluted batch.
> Any and all opinions listed here are my own and not representative of my employer.

I was concerned until I saw this disclaimer.
Looks good on a 9” iPad, too!
It's accidental - fentanyl is active in the microgram range, so the tiniest mistake can be fatal. Common warning about fentanyl:

> This substance is extraordinarily potent (i.e. active in the microgram range), to the point that the pure powder can result in a fatal overdose if spilled on one's skin. [...] It is strongly encouraged to wear gloves while handling, use volumetric dosing combined with a milligram scale

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Fentanyl (notably heroin doesn't have the same warning)
Copies of a file have different inode numbers.
Why would Apple 'whack-a-mole-UI' its Refurbished store?
Until recently, looking for a refurbished 15" Macbook Pro in the Apple Refurbished Store was simple... you'd click '15" Macbook Pro' and see a list of all available units with the key specs right in the list, so you could simply scan the list for the RAM and drive size you need (as well as the release year and graphics chipset).

No longer.

Today, you see a pretty-but-useless gallery of 29 photos with cpu speed and price... but NOT the two specs you probably care about MOST in the non-upgradable world that is Apple today (eg, RAM and Drive capacity).

You have to click each and every one of those 29 thumbnails to see if it has, say, a 512GB drive and 16GB RAM.

Is there any useful business purpose served by turning a single-click, easy-to-shop list of specs into a 29-click whack-a-mole shopping experience?
While I agree that nobody looks great here, LeCun's response deserves to be read in context. Marcus' comment (and the linked post) isn't primarily about Bengio, it's about how he should be recognized as deep learning's earliest and most important public detractor.

So, LeCun's response isn't about Marcus != Bengio, it's about the fact the Marcus' critique fundamentally hasn't deserved response or recognition this whole time, because there's not a constructive way to engage. That's a totally fair point to make, though a guy in LeCun's position probably should have said, "Gary, none of us have ever thought Deep Learning was (already) an answer for everything. The primary work of this community is to make it better."
Amazon keeps making it harder and harder for me to justify having a prime account and buying things from them.
Outspoken in which direction?
Reading small text is probably where you will see the biggest difference. Higher resolution will also make a bad (but capable) screen look better (eg 4K JPEG upsampled to 8K on a good display vs 8K on a worse display)
My thought too. The 4k streams still don't look as nice as most if not all of the Blu-ray I have.
These ads are probably not compliant with UK regulation, so if you see one in the UK please do contact ASA.
Humans are complicated, but we're also fairly predictable in some respects. Hungry people tend to go get food. The field is about the predictable aspects. We're not impossible to study.

Freud believed all sorts of obviously wrong ideas, so the idea that he was somehow immune to this seems a bit odd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Eckstein#Surgery
I felt that the course was too long to cover just a few topics like spaced repetition and diffuse mode. Besides those key takeaways are pretty intuitive.
It's the Acer Predator G-Sync monitor from a couple of years ago that I picked up during a Costco sale. At the time I paid ~$500, not sure what they're going for now. It's been great. Wish I'd gotten two of them.

[edit] picture of the Costco inventory card, http://i.imgur.com/hNWgFt7.jpg
There's tons; Wikibuy, Honey, etc, etc. I use Honey but I've used a bunch and the results are generally the same. The paranoia inflicted upon me by HN crowd saying I'm overpaying on Amazon by 30% makes me investigate all these claims and I just find them all to be completely false in my case.

I'm not saying people don't have these experiences, but I don't. And even if I did for like 5% or something, the shopping experience on Amazon is 10x better than Walmart.com or Target.com (where it's more like 100x), and that isn't worth nothing. It's like patio11 insisting that basis points fees aren't worth arguing over on Stripe when you are infinitely more productive using Stripe's developer kit vs. Authorize.net or any other terrible gateway, and people everywhere on HN claim how expensive Stripe is and how you can save money and don't factor in even a very conservative estimate on labor hours for a C-level exec or a manager in a company.

It doesn't take much time saved or annoyances avoided for a high-level executive to make a small price difference be completely irrelevant. And that's what Amazon has mostly done.
The biggest question is will companies start migrating to Flutter from Electron.

Plus who will decide to use this in a market dominated by Electron?
Capitalism. Not perfect. But by far has the best results so far.
Blockade on Saudi oil now helps US oil companies boost profits. The golden rule reigns, those with the gold make the rules.
Great read. I have 30 years combined experience in symbolic AI and neural networks and my current day job is managing a deep learning team. I could not agree more with: “”I think it is far more likely that the two — deep learning and symbol-manipulation-will co-exist, with deep learning handling many aspects of perceptual classification, but symbol-manipulation playing a vital role in reasoning about abstract knowledge.””

My personal time projects are mostly combining symbolic AI and deep learning, but I am still trying to find a non-Python solution, including Haskell TensorFlow bindings, Armed Bear Common Lisp with DL4J, and exporting trained Keras models to a Racket environment - all plausible hacking environments but none feel ‘just right.’ If you are working on the same ideas please get in touch with me.
Don't bet on that.

I contracted for $LARGE_UK_RETAILER for a while and I can tell you their ability to effectively develop and deliver solutions with a significant technological component is extremely poor nowadays[1]. It's resource hungry, slow, inefficient, and - perhaps surprisingly - not particularly focussed on the customer.

They moved into online shopping early, but they are in no position to develop that value proposition at anything like the kind of speed Amazon can. They've already substantially failed to compete online beyond their core grocery offering, yet still do not see Amazon as an existential threat to that offering - something which always struck me as complacent.

Anecdotally they're not alone: based on accounts from other contractors $OTHER_LARGE_UK_RETAILERS are just as shoddy when it comes to effective value-adding technology delivery.

[1] I can think of one example where this was not the case, but it was far from the norm.
And you think it's because of the bumpiness of the ride?

No, because of the flimsiness of the car.

You're going to kill someone driving like that on public roads.

Ordinarily, I'm on your side with that. But this was a one-off passing a Winnebago on a downhill in a part of the country where you can see the road is clear for 20 miles ahead through the valley up into the next mountain pass.
Node.js for Embedded Systems
HN, please fight back and prevent this from being called "8D". Non-technical people are getting fooled by this. If the term continues to get used, it will become a standard, perhaps even making its way into dictionaries.
I found 720p quite sufficient for almost everything. I think I once selected 4k on a YouTube video that was showing how to do something technical and didn't zoom in close enough to really see what was going on. The extra pixels were helpful there, but a better detail shot would've been better.
What the article is glossing over was that the documents were turned over to British authorities because of a lawful order issued by the British Parliament. According to the Guardian[1]: "Damian Collins, the chair of the culture, media and sport select committee, invoked a rare parliamentary mechanism to compel the founder of a US software company, Six4Three, to hand over the documents during a business trip to London. In another exceptional move, parliament sent a serjeant at arms to his hotel with a final warning and a two-hour deadline to comply with its order. When the software firm founder failed to do so, it’s understood he was escorted to parliament. He was told he risked fines and even imprisonment if he didn’t hand over the documents."

Kramer was really stuck between a rock and a hard place here.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize...
Τεράστιο ενδιαφέρον σε όλα παιχνίδια της Super League
Yeah, and when they say Wi-Fi shouldn't make my brain tingle
Not liberals of the traditional type. This type of hair is adopted by some females who espouse intersectional views on how society works.

The hair style is both a signal to others and a modest act of rebellion against societal norms. Modest because similar hairstyles have been around for decades in older countercultures.
I've gotten this from ads in their normal search. I've been conditioned for years to trust that the search returns what I expect. Now when I instinctually click the first link, I end up with the wrong brand. My fault for not paying attention, but me being more careful means they've lost my trust.
This comparison is totally misplaced, ropjar's default config is not optimized for scale or speed.
Judging from the units on the graph, looks like the author measured the inverse reactive current used by the unilateral phase detractors. Cache purging wouldn't play a role unless your prefabulated amulite is out of sync.
"Product" is one of the 4-Ps of marketing. With that meaningless jargon out of the way, as someone who attended a non-technical marketing undergrad program, product development was one of the tracks, with a course requirement in the general curriculum and a few related electives.
The #ifndef trick is highly portable and has clear semantics that is under the program's control. Nobody needs a platform-specific, underspecified alternative that saves two lines of code compared to the robust, portable solution. If I am paying with nonportability, I want "bang for the buck": like faster or smaller code on the target, or detailed control of its hardware or host platform features. I don't need unspecified build machine behavior so much. I am not programming the build machine.
The Educated Have failed Rural India
Der Vater oder ein Vater? German has a definite article and an indefinite article just like English.

Now, I don't generally have to worry about gender (per se) in most of my nouns but it is bloody hard remembering whether a table is masculine (DE) or feminine (FR, IT).
He is actually saying same things that were said about China, in the same words, but about US. It's a rhetorical move to force the interlocutors to change their perspective and examine their own prejudices. To me, both comments read like hateful propaganda rooted in prejudice.
wow, which phone is that?
>So, your conspiracy needs to involve the Certificate Authority (Let's Encrypt in this case), the CT logging team at Google...

No, as you alluded to, my conspiracy only needs that the user uses any of the many browsers besides chrome.
I'd say there's very few terrible answers, since terrible answers are the ones that dodge and deflect and most people don't do that. However it's still very easy to for a good answer to reflect poorly on your candidacy.

"I was terminated due to repeated negligence causing millions of dollars of damage" is a wonderful answer, it just torpedoes your chances of getting an offer.
Indeed. Fentanyl is used thousands of times per day in the medical setting because it is a safe drug.

I do agree that the potency makes preparation difficult. Few dealers have the equipment to either accurately weigh it out or dilute it such that the product is homogenous. When you move up to even more potent opioids like carfentanyl or sufentanyl, the risk is even higher. Who has the ability to accurately weigh out 0.030 mg?

That said, dying of a “hot dose” of heroin is not exactly uncommon either.

Interestingly, opioids are toxic at high doses as they depress the breathing response to blood CO2 levels. If someone overdosed and you breath for them (CPR or ventilator), you can just wait for the effects to wear off and they’ll be none the worse for wear. I’ve read case reports where a users friends maintain CPR for an hour plus until they started breathing on their own.
The first 3 points you make are technically correct, but I think the point is that fentanyl is so potent that it's difficult to correctly prepare (dilute) safely. Of course, it can be done in a professional pharmaceutical setting, but that's not necessarily where the fentanyl bound for the darknet is prepared.
This sounds a lot like what people say about computer code. Write it to be understood, not to be "clever" with a minimum lines of code.
It’s a shame you don’t get to read any of the actual maths in the sample pages. Otherwise I might have been able to evaluate whether I want to buy this book. Intros don’t really tell us much
I want 8k, especially for when OLED on plastic comes out and it becomes less expensive for massive screens.

But as a current owner of a 65" 4K LG OLED, while I can see a difference between 1080p and 4K, HDR is a significantly bigger deal to me for picture quality than 4K is.

HDR and going to an 11.2 (from 7.2) Atmos setup have had the biggest impact on my movie viewing at home. The 4K upgrade was nice, but if I had to choose between HDR and 4K, it wouldn't even be something I had to think about.

Another big upgrade for very specific types of movies has been getting a Dreamscreen, which is similar to the Philips Ambilight TV setups. I like it a lot for sci-fi movies with lots of action and scenes with a variety of colors in high contrast situations. I keep it turned off for most other types of movies, so it's pretty niche.
I wish more people used those control characters. Instead of building CSV, TSV, XML and JSON / YAML files with more and stranger methods of escaping characters why didn't we use the already existing and perfectly fine control characters for File, Record, Group and Unit Separators.
It's kind of the same reason people shoot in raw

Am certainly in this camp. State-of-the-art UltraHD 60FPS HDR looks terrific

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6-1u0wfPk

Wish there was a simple way to just turn off everything in mobile cameras and instantly enter raw mode at highest resolution.
The game is good but the controls are so bad it's comical.

Don't try and get on your horse if someone is standing near it because triangle is also "get into a fight with that person". You can back out of the fight, but not with the circle button (which is so often the "go back" button) - this time circle is the punch button!

Basically the core game loop is: move a bit, look in the bottom right to see if you can press some buttons to do a thing, do a thing or move a bit more.
I believe fentanyl is also relatively easy to synthesise.
>>> An intervention to restore correct incentives would impose lower speed limits for heavy personal vehicles, electronically enforced.

That is clever and I like it. Kinetic energy limits!

Just like "allow electrics to use the carpool lane" encourages electrics, this would incentivize making smaller cars.
Apple's product can only watch 1080p Youtube.
How long until someone creates a useful library with the name flopnax or ropjar?
The customer in this case being the company paying to have their ad shown.
I don't know what to trust anymore.
Bullshit... my rilkef implementation has been stable for nearly a decade. Maybe this experimental version makes a mockery of you, but this "new discovery" is only insulting to me because it ignores my prior contributions to the field
Curiosity got the better of me. Google translate, detect language. "Sorry, Charlie. Starkist doesn't want sophisticated tuna, but wants good tuna." Not bad.
Getting a job has not quite reached this Vogon-level dystopia you describe, but it's damn close.
Typical dose of fentanyl in the medical setting for an adult is 100 ug (0.1 mg). For heroin (diamorphine in the UK), it’s 5 mg. A 50x difference.
I’m a YouTube premium subscriber and I never watch any “original content”. I simply enjoy zero advertisements.

Paradoxically the target demographic willing to pay to be ad free is probably worth far more to advertisers than those who don’t— making it difficult to justify the product offering.

Though I’d certainly use YouTube significantly less if I had to sit through the ads.
Tires have a maximum speed rating. For my tires this is only like 120 mph.
That only works for on foot though, not on horseback.
> do many of the researchers and engineers working with deep learning systems actually think this way?

No, this has been a straw-man argument, made repeatedly in popular press for public recognition, for years. Even the NYT article to which Marcus responded in 2012 [1] does not make the claims to which it responds! Here is the sentence in Marcus' New Yorker post where it transitions to attacking a claim nobody made (hint - look at where the quote ends):

> While the Times reports that “advances in an artificial intelligence technology that can recognize patterns offer the possibility of machines that perform human activities like seeing, listening and thinking,” deep learning takes us, at best, only a small step toward the creation of truly intelligent machines.

As a rule, the academic deep learning community avoids discussions and claims about what constitutes a "truly intelligent machine", instead focusing on results in specific applications which can be objectively measured.

I'm sure you can find both academics and public press that claim deep learning is a panacea. But it's disingenuous punching up to continually imply that leaders in the field are slow to acknowledge its limits.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/science/scientists-see-ad...
I run exactly 0 analytics and ads on Wishy.gift, nor do I plan to ever do so. Almost 300 users are using the service so far, and I have no idea who most of them are, where they come from, or how they found the service. There's a huge uptick in the number of registrations now before Christmas, but I'm really hoping that people might find it useful for birthdays, weddings and baby registries as well.

All feedback is very welcome :)
C= 1351 mouse support! That's pretty rare (and awesome). Also great to see both PAL/NTSC supported at launch.
Just because it’s more potent on a weigh basis doesn’t mean it’s easier to get addicted. That’s a property of the drug that is distinct from the dose.
Came here to say the same thing. You also get google play as part of the subscription, which I find to be just as good as spotify.
You need to mash A to run, but also need to keep a finger on the stick and the trigger, meaning you end up with your thumb on the stick, index on the A button, and middle on the trigger, creating an uncomfortable claw shape with your hand.
We may already do so, depending on your definition of the word malicious and your thoughts on USCYBERCOM.
What the Marriott Breach Says About Security
That book is seriously out of date. Don't get me wrong it was great at the time, but a lot has happened since Halloween.
I have been searching for something like this for a while. Just bought the book, I will get back to you. I hope the book will give me exactly what it promises.
PewDiePie fan hacked printers across the globe in an effort to boost subscribers
It's good to have something that lowers the bar for programmers so they could learn themselves some math without much fear. Knowing math is very important if you are a coder - and not just linear algebra: knowing a formula, for example, might let you do certain things in constant rather than linear time or, perhaps, reduce the cost of the iteration. Unfortunately, too many of those who can call themselves programmers by trade know very little math (you'd be lucky if they remember what they learned in high school).
> Vince O’Brien, one of the NCA’s leads on drugs, told the Observer that dark web marketplace operators appeared to have made a commercial decision, because selling a drug that could lead to fatalities was more likely to prompt attention from police.

Way to save face Vince, so the good old police still works to the benefit of society, but in a convoluted fashion where the underworld avoids making the public too angry and force the police to do it's job.

How about the idea that, like high explosives, nukes and child porn, the people involved recolonize them as inherently immoral and refuse to partake? Unlike, say, the ban on recreational drugs itself - which is the whole reason poisons like fentanyl became available.
Satoshi Nakamoto comes alive with first post in 4 years – big news coming?
Yup: http://www.sharp.co.jp/business/8k-camera/download/catalog/p...

Makes sense. You probably won't want to pop out the 2TB SSD every time you need to get data off, and 8K footage takes a ton of bandwidth.

It looks like the newest versions of USB and Thunderbolt support comparable speeds, but SFP+ has been around for a while and is probably much more widely supported.
I can't comment on other articles, but I would be careful with some suggestions about mocking everything in automated tests. I've seen a couple of totally botched projects because of that approach.
What violence did it incite?
Nobody takes those two serious. Neither Guy Verhofstadt nor the Daily Express.
Show HN: Cached Hacker News for when you don't have access to the internet
I made this last weekend over my frustrations at not having access to Hacker News when on the tube (I live in London).

Its a webservice that concatenates the top 25 hacker news links in one page as iframes (the ones that allow it). I usually load the page 1-2 minutes before getting on the underground. It has minimum functionality, but works for my needs. I use it mostly on Chrome mobile browser.

I thought some of you might find it useful.

Repo: https://github.com/christoshadjiaslanis/hacker-cache
Have you tried Freeview HD? It honestly looks a lot better, even on a 720p screen.

Maybe you don’t care about the difference in quality, and if so that’s totally fine, but it is definitely noticeable.