skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because the math is simple does not mean Prelec shouldn't be credited with having introduced it to economics and mechanism design.

No one is saying that simple mathematics cannot have profound applications to the real world. One need look no further than Claude Shannon's fundamental work in information theory for an universally acknowledged example of this phenomenon.

Also the core BTS papers were published in Science and AAAI, so they are pretty mainstream.

That really doesn't prove anything either. Academia is full of brown-nosing "I'll cite your paper if you cite mine" types. After all, Prelec claims that one of his motivations for introducing a "truth serum" is that consensus opinion can't be trusted, because sometimes the experts have a reason to lie. Has he ever run his own research through the serum to see what comes out? And more importantly, would anyone else really care?

I hadn't heard of the deal/fraud you're describing and am curious to learn more ...

Don't really have that much more to add except that from what I understand, Prelec knowingly lent his name (and by extension, MIT's name) to a grant proposal that to a grant proposal that deliberately misled taxpayers.

The interesting question of course is why would Prelec do something this foolish after securing tenure at the MIT Sloan School of Management?

It is true that there is a lot of pressure on academics to raise money to help support their bloated university administrations, even after receiving tenure. Perhaps this was part of the reason why he allowed himself to become a willing tool for his partners in the defense contracting industry.

It is also possible, however, that Prelec was eager to move beyond the world of art critics and sexual promiscuity surveys into something with more prestige by associating his name, for example, with this country's national intelligence counter-terrorism program ... perhaps motivated in part by professional narcissism and/or delusions of grandeur.

Paper from Science, worth reading ...

Thanks for sharing the link, but including a list of the most significant applications of Prelec's theory over the past 15 years would be even better!
When I've seen a U.S. company "hire" an engineer outside of the country, they tend to end up having to do it as a contractor instead of as a FT Employee. When I see "Remote: Only US," there's a high chance they're not looking to hire on a contractor.

Reason being taxes and labor relations laws (PTO requirements, health insurance isn't going to extend to your country -- or really any of the benefits package).

I've been with remote employers who will go a step further and also restrict individual states (e.g. no California) or only hire in states where they have existing employees to reduce the load on HR.

They'll need to register in each State they've got employees. If they're taking on employees internationally, they might need to set up some kind of legal entity in that country. Which if it's a country like China, oh boy, that's a lot of paperwork.
"Forced how"? Because otherwise a web user might buy something "better than Basecamp" and that's unfair?
If Basecamp can't sell to a prospect who knows their name unless basecamp is top search result, why does Basecamp deserve the sale?

Basecamp seems to generate more free advertising from playing the victim in the media than they lose from whatever they complain about.
Modern British dentists perform orthodontic and teeth whitening treatments just as American dentists to, responding to customer demand. It’s worth noting that elective cosmetic dentistry is paid for in the UK, it’s not free — and the demand comes for straight white teeth comes from people watching films and TV. Although the NHS does provide orthodontic treatment if there is real medical need (as opposed to cosmetic).

Some background: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32883893
Are you complaining that the EU was representative of the wishes of its member states by not forbidding national governments from offering favourable tax policies to attract investment, or are you complaining that the EU is somehow making tax avoidance in its member state easier and more common, despite it passing an anti-tax avoidance directive[1]?

The EU enables member states to agree policies which are beneficial when widely adopted despite being detrimental if unilaterally adopted, thus avoiding a "race to the bottom". This sort of dynamic should be expected, given results from game theory like the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Public Goods Game[2].

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/anti-tax-avoidan...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_goods_game
I actually enjoy these "retweeted by xxx", "xxx liked this" and other suggestions options. That's how I discover other people (mainly artists) on Twitter.

Also I don't stay on Twitter all the time, so a curated timeline is more useful than a chronological one (yes, I'm going to miss some tweets, but I will miss some anyway even if I use the reverse chronological order because I won't scroll down that far.)
Focus-follows-mouse, even sloppy, is problematic on macOS due to the menu bar. Moving the mouse up to the menu bar means covering space which can belong to a different window, which would change the meaning of the menu item when you got there.
>Is it just performance that puts you off Python? If so, did you try writing a native extension to accelerate it?

This is what I did originally, but it was way slower to have to write and maintain C++ and a Python interface for it than to just write Julia. Particularly because the some of the business/trading logic basically has to be in the native layer (can't backtest a HFT algo without running it on HFT data, and that volume of high frequency tick data is too slow to process in pure Python).
Not really. Airlines can’t make the layovers tighter because the issue is variance in delays, not problems deplaning.

Also, the US airlines will not hold a flight due to a delayed inbound unless it’s got a shitload of the passengers. I’ve seen Delta depart on time and cause 10 passengers on a delayed flight to miss by only 15 minutes.
The person you're replying to is quoting another comment above and I am guessing they might not agree with the legal connotation the word carriers.
Great read. It reminded me of that time some 15 years ago when I did a 12 day Vipassana silent retreat.

I completely lost track of the days. I remember one day waking up assuming it was the last day. I started packing up until someone told me there were still 2 days left. We both started counting the days and we had this really strong mind fog. Somehow the mind had slowed down so much that even very basic addition was a difficult thing to do.

To be honest, it wasn't a particularly enlightening experience like other stuff I've done. I vividly remember the strange feeling of joy and wonder of coming back to the real world. As if we were entering into an awesome simulation.
Watch out, this is coming from PIA, the company now owned by malware producer Kape, with a CTO who participated in the Mt Gox Bitcoin fraud. Not a company to be trusted.
Dartmoor national park has its own bylaws regarding camping. It’s fine for up to 48hours. I’m guessing other bylaws for private property- and of course the MOD land.
Names are hard, I was pretty bummed when I stopped being able to use swiley in #bitcoin-otc (I think because I lost a key or messed up with the nickname server)
Those pro union messages were informing employees of their rights, and part of the dev's responsibilities were informing employees of their rights. Wasn't the message also only shown on relevant pages?
The matter worth worrying is not the virus itself, it doesn't seem to be an extremely lethal virus, but the fact that much is still unknown about the virus, overwhelmed medical infrastructure, and the spectacular early mismanagement of the government.

The fact that you have a state-of-the-art lab that is supposed to be the first-line of Research and Development of the most dangerous virus. And that the lab wasn't even working on it due to government mismanagement, is disturbing.
By switching to DuckDuckGo?
Sure, exercise some judgement, but there's wheat amongst the chaff.
Those CSS classes they're overriding look _awfully_ fragile.
I love it when I have some weird 'lucid dream'. I've never had an experience of the duration you've had, but I hope I will someday. Sounds awesome.
It depends on how far out you want to get.

It's possible life could exist on neutron stars, or in stellar photospheres, or in the atmospheres of gas giants. And life might not be obvious. Life as we know it is not an obvious prediction given carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen as a starting point. So maybe it turns out that certain combinations of minerals do something interesting when you immerse them in an ocean of liquid chlorine. We wouldn't know.

But so far as we know for sure, life has to start with liquid water, which narrows the range of admissible temperatures to 0-100 C and pressures around 1 atmosphere. Hyperthermophile bacteria can live in boiling water (up to 120C). We use some of their enzymes to do genetic engineering on normal cells. The temperature change isn't enough stop the hyperthermophile proteins from functioning (and they're pretty sensitive). Likewise there are psychrotolerant (cold-dwelling) cells that can live near 0C, using mostly normal proteins.

So I think life as we know it is locked into one regime of "normal" chemical behavior.
What Is the Cost of “Get Big or Get Out?”(Ag Post)
it may be possible that it is more infectious than ordinary pneumonia but it doesn't appear more deadly, in fact it appears to be less severe in the majority of patients. The mortality rate for hospitalized pneumonia patients, in general, is about 5%, for the coronavirus it appears to be about 3% right now but that number is likely too high because a lot of the less severe cases might not be diagnosed as such.
A curated list of websites for learning college math, higher math and beyond
I also like the algo-curated feed of Twitter.

My only complaint is the autorefresh. Sometimes I'm reading something and boom the feed is refreshed and I have to scroll down to find the thing I was interested in. This has also happened when I was about to click on something. so annoying.
Interesting. How do/did/will they solve the "space problem"?

https://medium.com/swlh/the-space-problem-of-time-travel-93b...
That seems higher than the odds of it being a lab outbreak.

Doesn't every major city the world have some lab testing some kind of virus nearby?
Brilliant. I can’t think of a better logo.
I feel like the documentation is great if you already know how it works. Having learned Pandas recently, I'll confess there are parts that are a bit tricky to get past the basics. I know R dataframes which was helpful.

Pandas is well worth it to learn however if your using python.
Both to those making claims or asking about the severity of the Wuhan coronavirus The Guardian offers a sober perspective of the current situation.

We don’t yet know how dangerous the new coronavirus is – and we won’t know until more data comes in. Twenty-six deaths out of 800 reported cases would mean a 3% mortality rate. However, this is likely to be a overestimate since there may be a far larger pool of people who have been infected by the virus but who have not suffered severe enough symptoms to attend hospital and so have not been counted in the data. For comparison, seasonal flu typically has a mortality rate below 1% and is thought to cause about 400,000 deaths each year globally. Another key unknown, of which scientists should get a clearer idea in the coming weeks, is how contagious the coronavirus is. A crucial difference is that unlike flu, there is no vaccine for the new coronavirus, which means it is more difficult for vulnerable members of the population – elderly people or those with existing respiratory or immune problems – to protect themselves. One sensible step to get the flu vaccine, which will reduce the burden on health services if the outbreak turns into a wider epidemic.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/24/what-is-the-...
Coronavirus Outbreak: Hoaxes and Conspiracy Theories Spreading Wildly
How is Google supposed to know which location you want if you don't tell it and you don't want it to guess? It can't customize results just for you and serve bad results to the other 99% of users.
As a summer student at Kitt Peak Observatory in 1974, I had the honor of working with Art Hoag. Not just a brilliant astronomer and a super efficient observer. Art was a true gentleman of the old school: kind to students and quite progressive. Forty five years ago, over night-lunch at the observatory, he told us of the importance of bringing into astrophysics more women, minorities, gays, and foreign students.
You can use "Int64" for nullable integer data type.

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/inte...
Perfect. Clear, concise and to the point.

Landing pages should preferably be hosted on its own path. Search engines index paths not the query string.

Also, think this way: if you have multiple features, you can have a landing page per feature explaining that one feature in depth. Then you can have your Ads target that one feature page that everyone wants. This helps when you introduce new features tomorrow. Instead of cramming everything into a single landing page (your homepage).
When I was a young boy, nothing made me feel faster than new tennis shoes. (In reality, I was never a fast runner or really much of an athlete at all.) But man, when I had new shoes I just felt faster, and I'm sure I put forth a better effort.
Do you order online for home delivery? Do you see value in that part of the service via Amazon Prime after they bought out WF
Yeah, it’s as if they don’t understand modernism: it’s about deep understanding of your materials, and letting the forms be driven by the demands of those materials. A truly modern web site feels unmistakably “webby”. Anything with a petina of beauty is more Romantic than Modern.
The bigger problem with aviation is there's no known way to decarbonize it within the foreseeable future. Hopefully most people will be driving electric cars within the next few decades, but with airplanes that won't be possible absent a miraculous breakthrough.
Is it because burning far away from the periapsis, it would change the altitude of the periapsis?
Security and usability is always a compromise. Otherwise we'd all use one-time pads for everything on the internet.
I had a similar circular issue with Google. I solved it by shoulder tapping my GCP sales rep who pulled some strings. Luckily my company spends quite a bit so I had a back door. Without that or a twitter following I think you’re fucked.
earth itself deserves a higher moral status than proto organs ... these humanists need to recalibrate their assumptions ... humans are an instance of a process which will continue far after humanity is superceded ... don't confuse the product for the process
So Aliexpress is the right place to look then?
> this is a pneumonia infection, which usually infects three million Americans per year and kills sixty thousand. And if that is scary to you don't look up the damage influenza causes every year

A lot more infected, but still fewer killed by influenza in most years (since 2010, the range is 9 million to 45 million infected and 12,000-61,000 killed by influenza in the US, per CDC.)

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
That plus it seems >90% of answers are guerilla advertising
Quora layoffs just before peak election season?

I did not see that one coming.
Part of the justification for firing was that they did an emergency push so that they could push without a code review.
> Why do we always seem give transportation (or public housing, etc.) a heavy initial investment then immediately start neglecting it but tightening the purse strings.

We don’t. New York’s operating budget per passenger is double London’s. (And also much more heavily subsidized. Tickets cover half of operating costs in New York, but all of operating costs in London.)

Public transit advocates need to acknowledge the reality that one of the things killing public transit in the US is spending multiples of what other countries spend to get the same service. For what the second avenue subway is going to cost, France or London would have been able to build three more lines in Manhattan. American governments are selling Kias for the price of Bentley’s and transit advocates are stumped why the public isn’t interesting in buying.
I know NYC subway runs 24x7, while many other systems do not. I was curious on the actual number of trains.

I made a bunch of assumptions, picked a city to compare NYC to (Berlin), and did some math.

NYC Subway may run ~960 trains per week per line. Berlin s-bahn & u-bahn may run ~1270 trains per week per line.

I am curious how other cities compare

Assumptions:

- u-bahn day peak = 5 hours @ 4min/train

- u-bahn day = 8 hours @ 10min/train

- u-bahn night = 8 hours @ 15min/train

- u-bahn weekend = 24 hours @ 15min/train

- s-bahn day peak = 5 hours @ 10min/train

- s-bahn day = 9 hours @ 15min/train

- s-bahn night = 7 hours @ 30min/train

- s-bahn weekend = 24 hours @ 20min/train

- nyc peak = 5 hours @ 10 min/train

- nyc off-peak = 19 hours @ 10min/train

- nyc weekend = 24 hours @ 12min/train
Measuring the Business Value of a Hotel Ranking Model
Both in-process, inter-process, and inter-machine. The event sourcing technique really helps decouple components, reduce the need for higher order state.

I work with TypeScript on daily basis and I'm in the middle of building this library to help with event sourcing and other stuffs.
https://github.com/Kelerchian/florcky

I'll be working with rust, C++, and C# in a few weeks due to professional demand and I might get somewhere with event-sourcing using those language.

In the long run we might be utilizing wasm and ffi to introduce universal protocol for event sourcing.
You should check out his more recent work. Your reply is pretty ironic given that his focus has been studying the prevalence of "questionable research practices" and how to detect and avoid them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22508865/

Here are some interesting papers in that direction at least partly inspired or building on Prelec's work.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1958824.1958865

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002251931...

https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI12/paper/viewPap...
Woo dressed up in technical language and p-values is still woo.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
I've managed to keep a data connection pretty far into the initial ascent. It was surprising!
Is there something similar for Linux? I was just reviewing Guile and thought it would be something like that, but it isn't, and is Lisp. I would love something similar on Linux.
Official numbers yes, but sometimes behavior leaks. What are wealthy/well-connected Chinese businesspeople and officials doing? Maybe there's some insider trading or money moving that could shed light on the real situation?
I'm pretty sure every time I've Googled something and got a Quora link and clicked it, it's just been an ad.

I just don't click Quora links anymore.
> Occurs in pandas 0.25.1 (and the release notes for 0.25.2 and 0.25.3 don't mention such a change), so that would likely be still the case in the latest stable release.

It was released in 0.24.0: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/inte...

For example:

pd.DataFrame({"foo": [1,2,3,4,None]}, dtype=pd.Int64Dtype())

foo
0 1
1 2
2 3
3 4
4 <NA>

pd.DataFrame({"foo": [1,2,3,4,None,9223372036854775807,9223372036854775806]}, dtype=pd.Int64Dtype())

foo
0 1
1 2
2 3
3 4
4 <NA>
5 9223372036854775807
6 9223372036854775806
I think wild animals in nature have pretty much perfect teeth - they don't eat sugar. Same with people in remote parts of Africa (whenever I see a photograph from national geographic, everyone seems to have perfect teeth).
The presumption of innocence has to be social and cultural, not just legal, for it to have any meaning at all. And I suggest that if it’s not social and cultural, it’s unlikely to be legal for long. The idea that we should abandon it out of hand because some people do bad things is mob mentality. It’s not like mobs are always wrong about their targets. It’s their decision processes that define them.

The evidence you found is not compelling. The evidence I found is not compelling. The ASU statement is not evidence. It’s hearsay. (It’s hearsay even if it’s all true.) No one has even bothered to address the fact that ASU is a party to the accusations and also has potential liabilities to manage.

If I’m missing something from your point of view it’s not because I haven’t seen what you’ve shown me. It’s because you’re “reading between the lines” which, while often useful in deciding whether to let someone in our home or business, is wholly inappropriate when deciding whether to vilify someone. “I don’t want to leave this guy alone with my daughter” is much different than “We shouldn’t listen to this guy about anything.”

And, again, the issue here is @iron0013’s original post, in which he not only doesn’t cite any of the things you and I cited, but goes a step farther and tries to use the fact of Krauss’ resignation as evidence of his motivations without even bothering to make an argument. Then people piled on the idea that we shouldn’t listen to Krauss at all. I’m willing to stipulate that you don’t have a mob mentality. Although we disagree, I think you’re reasonable. But surely you can see that it exists.
I mean, there's barely been 2k layoffs that I've heard of in a year. Google's hired more than that in The Bay alone. I'm sure Facebook and Apple have hired just as many.

I really doubt we're at a net negative.
The productive programmers I've met, and they are pretty up there, tend to blame it on the documented specs.
Jair Bolsonaro's racist comment sparks outrage from indigenous groups
So far what I have seen is Google search giving snippets or Google AMP optimizing for mobile. Still the content is physically from some page verbatim. The AI/NLP comes in only in top 0.1% kind of queries like “what is the weather” or “what is my IP address”. Saying Google’s AI is learning everything is like blaming Chinese for stealing all tech. Yes, it happens at some cases, but not likely. I am surprised to see so much Google hatred here.
> The content is simply extracted and stolen. How can we have a thriving internet when such monopolistic and profit driven practices stifle innovation and creation on the web?

TripAdvisor, Quora, and Yelp are just as rent-seeking and profit-driven as Google.

If I write a review on TripAdvisor or Yelp or answer a question on Quora, I, the author, certainly don't get compensated for it. If Quora fails and another company takes their place, it's no loss to me - I'm no less (and no more) willing to write for the new company for free. If I write the review on Google itself, I lose nothing. Perhaps something is structurally lost for the internet by allowing Google to be a monopoly, but there aren't any incentives for me to care.

If you want a thriving internet, fix that. Ideally, make it the case that when I write a good answer to a technical question on my blog, it's as likely to be seen as when I write a good answer to a technical question on StackOverflow - the idea of companies relying on SEO content is a structural failing in the first place. Then figure out how to motivate me to keep posting to my blog (which might be letting me, the actual author, monetize my blog somehow, but might just be me writing for the pleasure of writing and knowing other people are seeing it - or perhaps the quantified pleasure of seeing trustworthy upvotes in some way).
I learned Python by using pandas so for awhile I was one of the devs you speak of. I can't imagine I'm alone.