skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on whether the asymmetric information problem is fixable. The usual reason why fixing it is hard is credibility. For example, in the used car market, a seller who happens to have a car that is not a lemon has no way of credibly conveying that information to prospective buyers, since sellers of lemons can say all of the same things he can say. So the seller of a non-lemon will get no buyers unless he is lucky enough to come across a buyer who actually can tell that his car is not a lemon--i.e., for whom the information is already not asymmetric, without the seller having to say anything.

Note that branding is not necessarily a solution to this problem, except possibly in the short term. That is, a seller can work to establish a brand reputation--which, btw, will generally (by standard game theory arguments) include costly signaling, such as expensive advertising, that sellers of lemons cannot duplicate. But as soon as the brand reputation is established, the seller has an incentive to take advantage of it by gradually reducing quality. Buyers know that this incentive exists, which limits the degree to which they are willing to believe even costly signaling; and therefore establishing a brand reputation is not a long-term stable solution to asymmetric information.

The other potential solution is for credible third parties to exist who give unbiased and accurate quality ratings to the various sellers. But this, of course, is vulnerable to being gamed: sellers have an incentive to offer rewards to the third parties in exchange for more favorable ratings. This then becomes just another version of the brand reputation situation above: buyers know that the third parties will be tempted to sell better ratings to sellers, which limits the degree to which those ratings will be believed.
Why is this even controversial? Vaping removes almost all of the known dangers from smoking. We know smoke inhalation itself is incredibly bad for health. It was never about the nicotine. Wood smoke and general pollution is highly associated with cancer and bad health and no better than tobacco smoke. There's some evidence humans have been evolving resistance to it since the invention of fire. Suggesting it's actually been a significant source of death in our species. Smokers houses are covered in foul smelling yellow residue, of course it's hurting their lungs. Smokers are actually exposed to more radiation from tobacco than the legal limit for radiation workers.
I'm glad I kept reading to the end of the article. That part made me laugh hysterically.
Okay I tried to mimic the URLs in post to see if my own data is there. Whole Panera website is down. Is it just me or everyone else? :)

If everyone - wonder if this is "effect of hackers news" :)

EDIT: down for everyone: http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/panerabread.com.html

I guess the DO eventually take security seriously :)))
The first times you do it, it feels pretty good. Really good, in fact. However, like any drug, you develop a tolerance and a dependence. Before long, you require it to feel normal, not to feel good.
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I stopped reading halfway through the shop example. When you move the machine out of the shop and give it a completely new role, rename it. I call my webserver webserver.

I never get why there's such a huge gap between admins and programmers on this. Programmers have sane, intelligent naming conventions beaten into them, and yet when I ask a sysadmin what server the Wiki is running on, half the time the answer is something like "legolas". That name would never make it through my code review.
Most researchers in my field make all their publications freely available online after they have been submitted.

In machine learning and computer vision, the default is to put your work on ArXiv immediately upon completion. There is a lot of openly available research depending on the field. I find most fields in computer science are good for this.

In the case of the Mario example, I very much doubt that the author was not able to find other work because of closed journals.

Research can seem non-transparent to non-researchers because when problems are new, they are often poorly understood. Academic papers discuss novel problems and contextualize them based on other cutting edge work. Reading and understanding these papers requires a lot of context and takes time. Research is a skill that takes years to learn.

After some time has passed and we collectively gain a better understanding of a problem, academic papers may seem abstruse and overly complicated, but when these works were first published, this was the best way to understand them. For somebody looking for a recipe solution to a problem, an academic paper is likely not an the ideal place to look, which is why we write books, blog posts, etc... as we come to better understand a problem and its solutions.
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How is package management via apt any different than using homebrew? They're both equally "bolted on".
I could swear 1080p was the default on my X270 that I bought a few months ago, but it looks like its a $150 upgrade now -- on an already expensive nearly $1200 base model. I paid just over $800 for my X270, including the 1080P screen and upgraded memory.
The tree described in the second tweet is visible in Telegram right now. There are channels that are overloaded with content. I can see Telegram inventing news feed soon.
I suspect they did check the human for inebriation, but I saw no indication the driver was drunk, so I expect that didn't matter. I honestly don't think they would have cited a human driver in this circumstance unless they left the scene of the accident or were drunk.

I think the problem people have here is that this was treated exactly like a normal accident and maybe they shouldn't have. But we have the NTSB to examine the engineering of the car, that's not something the cops are equipped to do.

The police did their check and released their report once it was done, which is a very standard practice. It can't have taken them that long--the police station where you get accident reports is on the other side of the Mill Ave. bridge from the accident.
For the FarmShare cluster, systems in version 1 of the cluster were named corn/barley/rye plus some number, for login/compute/GPU systems.

The current version of the cluster is named rice/wheat/oat plus a number. It lets us combine some originality in with automatic naming.

We’re already thinking about what to do for the next generation. And when we move all of the administrative systems (like the job schedulers) into VMs, we’re thinking of calling the underlying physical hardware quadrotriticale.
How is 16GB bare minimum when it's the max you can get on most laptops?
Then the paradigm is wrong. Serving websites is the most important thing a webserver does, call it that. If that changes, rename it. If renaming it is impossible, you failed.
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Really, I did: http://abc7news.com/automotive/exclusive-i-team-investigates...
I ended up with a scheme by accident that is hard both to spell and speak for most people. I don't have many problems with names like mictlantecuhtli, xolotl, or macuilxochitl (well, except for the fact that I can't pronounce consonant final tl and end up with /təl/ instead), but I totally see why others have problems with it.

On the plus side, if I ever get one of those "you have a virus" scam calls, I can probably string the caller out for a while trying to get them to spell out the name of the computer that supposedly has the virus...
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That's an interesting approach. I also don't mind the idea of a take-home project if it's not, say 6+ hours. The performance anxiety that can set in when someone is peering over your shoulder or going to review your recording later could be a bit of a handicap for some. Still, it's a fresh, and more realistic take.

My problem has been getting past the gatekeepers to get to that point—any face-to-face.

Though in my current role, I'll say they were happy after speaking to me and discovering I had heard and was familiar enough with their solution to have fiddled around with the platform outside of a professional context. In spite of my amateur knowledge of it, it seemed to be the distinguishing factor in my interview... just not until I actually got past the gatekeepers— in what increasingly seems like a game of chance! :P
I want to build a solution to solve this problem.
Back to classic RSS feed , but along with evolution algorithm / strategy (https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/) which means 80% of the information you usually click + 20% of information you never click before. It's a good way to acquire news and knowledge out of your comfort zone.
Here's an incomplete list with dozens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_b...
The best case scenario is that Apple has cooked up some sort of awesome translation layer between the Cocoa Touch APIs and Cocoa, letting iOS apps function almost like native macOS apps. Hopefully this will happen. But I won't let it go past hope.
Are you suggesting that security should be regulated like payment cards and food safety? Because I'm on board.
This is a pathetic amount of money to bankroll an operation with such large scale effects

What effects though? The idea that CA’s strategies were effective has been disproven [1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-facebook-...
But they do take bread seriously, and their name isn't Panera security.
I think the problem here is a lack of tools. PG often says that the smarter people must build tools for the dumber ones. I have never met a smart RDN. They have no tools to do the research into our diet and its impact that is really needed to create a meaningful impact.

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"I never understood why anyone young would start smoking"

To look cool.

No, seriously, that's one of the main reasons. To look cool in front of one's peers. You might not have cared about such things, or feel pressure to engage in them. If so, I'm happy for you. But that doesn't mean others don't.
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Some dude makes fun of Hacker news posts and comment sections.
I don't have time to clean up my inbox. Who thought it's a good idea to require manual work to "setup" a social network? Of course it failed! It was designed by engineers who spend time indenting their code to the exact right format!
Tesla was working with their supplier (Bosch?) to get the radar to work as a six-field array, providing more resolution than “the nearest return is 100m away”. The discussion at the time was tht higher resolution radar would remove the last advantages that lidar supposedly has over cameras.
Any lawyers in here who know if I can pass my free credit monitoring down to my kids / grandkids? I'm 35 now, so I won't live long enough to use it all myself.
What if the CSO ignored bug reports about this for a full 8 months? Would that make it negligent?
This is one of those things that makes me deeply skeptical of the most zealous folks within the open science / open access movements. The emphasis seems to be much more on just throwing your data / paper up on the web sans context and much less on properly adding metadata and documentation for how to perform an experiment or how data can be reused. I've probably said this before elsewhere, but Josh Carp's "The Secret Lives of fMRI Experiments" really underscores this point. There are two equally catastrophic issues in the social (and to an extent) natural sciences and solving one (openness) is only part of the puzzle when the other involves blatant sloppiness in bookkeeping, pure and simple. If science is to overcome its current setbacks and lots of confidence, it needs to emphasize rigor alongside transparency.
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Even if stores do this, it's not the same as trying to get customers to buy a lemon. It's basically upselling, which is a common technique, yes, but the products are still competing on features and price--more precisely, on the balance of features vs. price.
I think you just solved a huge grievance I've been having with Google search. I get absolute trash results that are hardly even tangential to what I searched. I'm going to try out this verbatim thing.
> You think people are going to stop buying Panera Bread because of this?

Well, I am, yeah.
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> I call my webserver webserver.

Agreed. Nothing confuses me more than finding a network with a bunch of machines named for roles that they don't fulfill.

Even more infuriating is when you have a network like that, but the new machines have names that refer to the old ones -- so for example, the webserver may be "webserver," but the new replacement may be "real-webserver" and then the replacement of that may be "real-webserver-replacement."
I think it's fair to say humans are better at reasoning about uncertainty and risk. If the food isn't in the database, or we aren't sure if it's a match, what does the algorithm say?

ML algorithms work on statistical performance against loss functions or error rates. They aren't (yet) good at understanding the difference between a mistake that causes a missed dessert and a mistake that might kill you. Maybe they can guess correctly a higher percent of the time if shown flashcards, but that's small consolation from the hospital bed. They also aren't that good at the limits of their own knowledge, i.e. saying "I don't know".
A good point about sugar. Sugar’s interesting, though, in that it produces a kind of euphoria before it results in the feeling of crashing (usually moderately long afterward). For that reason it can be difficult to correlate the feeling of crashing with the consumption of sugar, but relatively easy to correlate sugar with the good feeling.

Off-hand I can’t think of any food that produces an immediate and significant bad feeling unless it’s rotten, spoiled or otherwise intolerable.
Which one? They looked rhetorical to me.
The second you want to branch out and try something different, you are going to be stuck as hell on the iPad. No way to run Fusion 360 for example. Try to work on dropbox documents locally? Just simple stuff like downloading MP3 files and playing them can be a pain.

Unless you are laser focused on one task (like you seem to be)... sure it looks like you have made the necessary adjustments to make it work. For the general computer where your hobbies, desires and programs vary... there are just too many tradeoffs. I mean... running another OS on my macOS device is stupidly easy. I can manipulate any file in almost any manner. I don't have to paw at my screen for text selection... and so on and on.

That all said, I would love an iPad pro with macOS.
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Freeman Dyson is actually quite vocal about his opposition to the current structure of academia, so I'm not surprised that you'd be able to find other academics who were equally self-critical.
It is an irrelevant fact. Not useful at all, other than to asnwer the question that was not asked: “how common is this poor maintenance on US roads?”
The second hard problem, naming things
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> I expect Google is slurping all of my connections to help build an ad profile on me.

Google says they don't - from https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy:

> We don't correlate or combine information from our temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that you have provided Google for other services.

Honestly, Google DNS policy seems largely similar to Cloudflare, with the exception of 3rd party audit.

Cloudfare apparently doesn't do GeoIP mapping, so, till they implement that, it's not going to be useful for me.
I encountered an otherwise ordinary pizza place yesterday that had all its pizzas renamed after stellar objects (stars, star signs, galaxies).

Quite amusing except my internal dictionary of well-known pizza names had to be replaced by a linear lookup.
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Bitcoin has intrinsic value: trustless transfer of digital quantity.

Speculative bubbles can happen around anything, whether it has value or not. Beanie babies and AI are examples of things that were/are the subject of speculative bubbles.

It's really hard to imagine the Bitcoin tech will just poof go away when the market tanks. No way.
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Winner winner, chicken dinner. As someone who is still managing pets, I even still prefer a standardized naming scheme. I use:

${project}-${dev/staging/web}-${web/db}

(which so far has covered my bases, I'm sure you can come up with any logical extensions if you are running load-balancers or other types of servers, add a number if you are running multiple frontends or clustered DBs, etc)

Even as someone who manages pets, I can't tell you how much time this has saved me from having to look up server names. I have done the generic "assign everything to a single machine## sequence" and it sucks ass. Was your production web server for this app machine32 or machine 54? What about the staging server? Can't even imagine the hassle of uuids as server names.

(of course so far I have done the pets thing in my internal network... but I can tell you that my father with a 40y career in managing servers for major corporations uses names like vmhost01/fsrv01/tvpc at home... which tells you what he thinks of that.)
The biggest crime is that AT&T uses these on their FTTH to turn ethernet from the GPON transceiver into ethernet for the home. Thankfully, in that application, you can bypass it, but it's still a tragedy. My equipment is perfectly capable of handling Ethernet, thanks (it's also perfectly capable of bridging 802.1x packets to the gateway, and keeping all the rest of the packets :)
I've got about 5 computers at home. Most of them have "pet" names. I've got about 500 computers at work. Have fun treating them as anything but cattle.
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Before cloud was a thing, I used to run an OpenBSD web server in my bedroom on my old desktop. I set it up after my commercial web host was hacked for running outdated Apache.

I stopped using OpenBSD when I tried installing it on my newer Core 2 Duo desktop in ~2008, but the OS would not boot, and I was told on IRC by OpenBSD developers that the hardware was too new for OpenBSD.

FWIW, now I use Arch Linux. I guess I'm in the target demographic.
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From the comments:

"I can’t believe that was the same guy from the 1965 Dylan press conference! I remember watching that guy ask that question, and how intently he stared at Bob, and thinking about the demands and burdens some of his fans put on him…. Amazing story behind it all!"

Small, small world.
Downloading and playing MP3 file: GoodReader

Dropbox docs can be opened in local apps.
The author seems to be SSHing most of the time, so it’s more accurate to say that he’s using an iPad Pro as his primary terminal rather than as his primary computer.
You can come hear my band for free. ;-)

The odd thing to me is that there doesn't seem to be a demand curve. Stratospheric prices for major acts have not created demand for lesser acts, and in fact, the overall market for live music is dwindling.
If you're not going the "cattle" route (see other comments), I think the best strategy is to have a unique name "olympus" or whatever, and then use role aliases. That means if you take olympus and repurpose it from webserving, you still know which computer it actually is, but you swap the roles around so that when you just want to connect to the mail server, you can do that via the alias.
I've tried a Surface with NixOS, and a minimalistic setup: XMonad, Emacs, Firefox and URxvt. It's great, except for the fact that most Surfaces are second-class citizens in Linux. I'd like to see an iPad with something closer to macOS.
From the description, this wasn't one line of code, this was a major design oversight. Either nobody is security conscious on the dev team handling their mobile/web services, or it's just one guy with no code review on major components, or people who complained were tuned out, ignored, placed in low priority, or some other totally irresponsible managerial action.

You have to have a lot of bad process in place for something like this to get in.
People are praising CloudFlare for not bothering to log requests. Yes, well ... you get the same results by using your own DNS resolver, and you don't have to be shocked when five years later a different governing team running CloudFlare decide to reverse their stance and log everything ...

But what do I know? Apparently I'm in the minority for running my own infrastructure (DNS, web, mail).
There's nothing in this leak that can be used to damage your credit.