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I took a course on Freud in college, and what struck me at the time was that the framework of psychoanalysis seemed basically cruel, in that the analyst was free to say that either…

The paper does more than that. It measures wet bulb temperatures at different stops with different combinations and varieties of trees and bus stops, provides decent evidence of va…

+1 for Consumer Reports. They're not expensive either, something like $5 per month. If they keep you from buying a bad fridge, it pays for itself! Their recentish coverage of lead …

I chalk that up as lame but kind of inevitable mild corruption that doesn't really go anywhere -- Hunter seems more like an embarrassing addict child that a caring parent has no ch…

Yeah, The Economist regularly writes these articles that spend half the time praising the intense competition in certain sectors of the economy and half the time bemoaning the infl…

At least in moderately urban parks in the USA, one complicating factor is that a lot of the dirt has dog poop scattered on top.

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Blindsight . I don't think it's a spoiler to say that it is a book about the place of human intelligence in a universe with other options, b…

I don't think there's a good discussion to be had about this article. The referenced paper is based on two data sources. One is a longitudinal study (great!) of "hundreds" of child…

Please elaborate?

I'm not sure what word to apply to facing three familial tragedies, any one of which might seem like more than a life's fair share of misfortune, with that kind of perseverance. In…

Yeah, I think this is one of those domains where frictions (or lack thereof) matter. It is much faster, cheaper, and easier to send out a significant volume of material on the Inte…

(To appear at STOC 2025 [1], one of the top CS theory conferences, so it's passed peer review.) [1] https://acm-stoc.org/stoc2025/accepted-papers.html

> they can be applied to many different situations, even business management and interpersonal relationships Disclaimer: most people do not think "Machiavellian" is a flattering de…

> In 4 years of working cases I would estimate 1 in 6 jurors are above the 85-115 IQ range of average intelligence, and maybe half are at or below the 100 line. Maybe I'm missing t…

I think a modern USA 1 year old has about a 99.97% chance of making it to adulthood. That means that if a modern USA adult loses a young child, there's a decent chance they don't k…

I was going to ask about this number, because it seems high enough to be statistically improbable, but back-of-the-envelope arithmetic says otherwise: there are about 10 cases of p…

> If the PhD is losing its lustre, it’s because the Universities took the shine off Also, circulating particularly weird dissertations for the express purpose of angering people ha…

If you want the same kind of thing with no useful information, how about this report on the accuracy of a sign? https://soranews24.com/2024/06/27/is-this-7-eleven-sign-in-j...

Sure, so it seems fair for him to offer advice on how to apply AI or start a company based on it, but doing AI research means generating new knowledge about AI itself, and I don't …

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22101066 IMO the confident Tweets about how to become a good researcher and hire good researchers look pretty weird next t…

> totally independent How do you arrive at this conclusion? Individuals don't have to tell you where their money comes from. They might even be easier to influence/buy than the peo…

The book also has a sex scene featuring (spoiler, I guess) a 15-year-old girl. It's probably possible to write something like that in a way that isn't gross, but Stephenson definit…

Do you want the version without data collection/sharing to still be free?

At least in computer science, postdocs have other benefits: 1) they can be well paid, like high five to very low six figures; 2) they can be an extra year or two to figure out your…