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@nuempe@fosstodon.org I'm not sure how that changes the incentives here.

Jerry Jones 'hated' to move on from Tyron Smith, says star LT hitting on incentives would wreck Cowboys cap

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

Jerry Jones 'hated' to move on from Tyron Smith, says star LT hitting on incentives would wreck Cowboys cap
Jones felt the Cowboys couldn't afford to match the Jets' offer for the eight-time Pro Bowler

"Clearly, #copyright reform is needed.
Protections must better balance incentives for individual creators while preventing corporations from gaining excessive control over #publicculture. Term lengths should be shortened to reasonable limits, and the

Copyright is both vital and obsolete. — Joan Westenberg
The New Yorker: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? For you (probably) and me (definitely), the rights to our creations are not worth much money to anyone but ourselves. But, if you are the guy who wrote “Born to Run,” it is prudent to assign your rights to an entity that can pay you while you are alive s

UK Solar PV Incentives for Rented Commercial Properties (2022) - How do we urgently get more solar panels up on commercial rented property? What incentives are there in the UK? - https://www.earth.org.uk/commercial-rent-UK-solar-incentives-2022.html

UK Solar PV Incentives for Rented Commercial Properties (2022)
How do we urgently get more solar panels up on commercial rented property? What incentives are there in the UK?

Evaluating Pedagogical Incentives in Undergraduate Computing: A Mixed Methods Approach Using Learning Analytics
Laura J. Johnston, Takoua Jendoubi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14686

Evaluating Pedagogical Incentives in Undergraduate Computing: A Mixed Methods Approach Using Learning Analytics
In the context of higher education's evolving dynamics post-COVID-19, this paper assesses the impact of new pedagogical incentives implemented in a first-year undergraduate computing module at University College London. We employ a mixed methods approach, combining learning analytics with qualitative data, to evaluate the effectiveness of these incentives on increasing student engagement. A longitudinal overview of resource interactions is mapped through Bayesian network analysis of Moodle ac…

The CHIPS Act has been surprisingly successful so far, giving the US greater scope to meet critical infrastructure needs in the event of a crisis in East Asia (Chris Miller/Financial Times)
https://t.co/BCb5fBfRa9

A survey finds US states have distributed over $25B to film incentive programs since 2002, but independent experts find the programs are break-even at best (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/arts/states-hollywood-film-tax-incentiv…

States Have Spent $25 Billion to Woo Hollywood. Is It Worth It?
Dozens of states have lured film and TV production with financial incentives. Years after gutting its program during a budget crisis, Michigan wants to rejoin the arms race.

Jerry Jones: Jets' incentives for Tyron Smith would have 'really wrecked' Cowboys financially https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/2024/03/25/jerry-jones-tyron-smith-jets-contract/

Jerry Jones: Jets' incentives for Tyron Smith would have 'really wrecked' Cowboys financially
From @ToddBrock24f7: The Cowboys owner claims that the $20M Smith could earn in New York was just too much and compared his departure to another Cowboys legend.

There are zero incentives and zero pain in making companies value your privacy.
The cost of violating your privacy is so low that it doesn't really show up.
See some data in "You are worth $47" https://om.co/2024/04/25/ftc-settles-with-ring/

You are worth $47. 
Almost a year ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued subsidiary Ring, the camera security company that started off selling a video doorbell, for allowing employees and con…

Arizona; lots of redacted names in that indictment...
Experts: Trump associates "in a world of hurt" — may cooperate after they're "left holding the bag" | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/25/experts-a…

Experts: Trump associates "in a world of hurt" — may cooperate after they're "left holding the bag"
Arizona prosecutions will "proceed whether or not Trump wins," prof says, which may create incentives to flip.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13816 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Rationalizing risk aversion in science
Scientific research requires taking risks, as the most cautious approaches are unlikely to lead to the most rapid progress. Yet much funded scientific research plays it safe and funding agencies bemoan the difficulty of attracting high-risk, high-return research projects. Why don't the incentives for scientific discovery adequately impel researchers toward such projects? Here we adapt an economic contracting model to explore how the unobservability of risk and effort discourages risky research.…

The CHIPS Act has been surprisingly successful so far, giving the US greater scope to meet critical infrastructure needs in the event of a crisis in East Asia (Chris Miller/Financial Times)
https://t.co/BCb5fBfRa9

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13961 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Online Action Learning in High Dimensions: A Conservative Perspective
Sequential learning problems are common in several fields of research and practical applications. Examples include dynamic pricing and assortment, design of auctions and incentives and permeate a large number of sequential treatment experiments. In this paper, we extend one of the most popular learning solutions, the $ε_t$-greedy heuristics, to high-dimensional contexts considering a conservative directive. We do this by allocating part of the time the original rule uses to adopt completely ne…

In about an hour (15:00 BST), it's time for the Karaoke stream, where incentives and goals will be negotiable!
Join me for #EzraMutualAid
https://twitch.tv/djnrrd

Political Pandering and Bureaucratic Influence
Simon Lodato, Christos Mavridis, Federico Vaccari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17526 https://

Political Pandering and Bureaucratic Influence
This paper examines the impact of bureaucracy on policy implementation in environments where electoral incentives generate pandering. A two-period model is developed to analyze the interactions between politicians and bureaucrats, who are categorized as either aligned -- sharing the voters' preferences over policies -- or intent on enacting policies that favor elite groups. The findings reveal equilibria in which aligned politicians resort to pandering, whereas aligned bureaucrats either suppor…

https://historians.social/@NorCallover/112141304328272507

Steve Campbell (@NorCallover@historians.social)
Attached: 1 image Sometimes I'm struck by photographs that are intensely revealing of so many ills. This is Marjorie Taylor Greene. She's a raving lunatic. The fact that all these obsequious reporters are crowding around her as if she has anything substantive to say is deeply depressing. The perverse incentives of American politics are such that comments that are outrageous, immature, and hateful, rather than destroying one's career, instead yield power and influence. This is the age of Tru…

There are zero incentives and zero pain in making companies value your privacy.
The cost of violating your privacy is so low that it doesn't really show up.
See some data in "You are worth $47" https://om.co/2024/04/25/ftc-settles-with-ring/

You are worth $47. 
Almost a year ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued subsidiary Ring, the camera security company that started off selling a video doorbell, for allowing employees and con…

@… ahh, yeah for sure. I wouldn’t say that either. Capitalism is doing its thing with incentives here though 🫠

Sources: the Biden administration is in talks to confer more than $10B in subsidies to Intel, in what would be the largest award yet under the CHIPS Act (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-1…

Intel in Talks for More Than $10 Billion in Chips-Act Incentives
The Biden administration is in talks to confer more than $10 billion in subsidies to Intel Corp., people familiar with the matter said, in what would be the largest award yet under a plan to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to US soil.

Optimal Contract Design for End-of-Life Care Payments
Muyan Jiang, Ying Chen, Xin Chen, Javad Lavaei, Anil Aswani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15099 https://…

Optimal Contract Design for End-of-Life Care Payments
A large fraction of total healthcare expenditure occurs due to end-of-life (EOL) care, which means it is important to study the problem of more carefully incentivizing necessary versus unnecessary EOL care because this has the potential to reduce overall healthcare spending. This paper introduces a principal-agent model that integrates a mixed payment system of fee-for-service and pay-for-performance in order to analyze whether it is possible to better align healthcare provider incentives with …

The United States has experienced a surge in clean energy projects, representing more than $200 billion in new investments since President Biden signed an expansive climate bill into law more than a year ago.
But the election and the potential for a Republican takeover is prompting concern that key parts of the law could be upended.
Former President Donald J. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, has repeatedly attacked central elements of the Inflation Reductio…

Republican Attacks on Biden’s Climate Law Raise Concerns Ahead of Election
Executives of companies with clean energy projects are facing questions about the potential for a rollback of the law and its incentives if a Republican wins.

Jackie Fielder is the only candidate to mention bicycling here.
"To cut emissions from private passenger vehicles including rideshares, I would provide incentives for biking, walking, and rolling, invest in public transit and make streets safer for bikers, pedestrians, and wheelchair users."

Sources: the Biden administration is in talks to confer more than $10B in subsidies to Intel, in what would be the largest award yet under the CHIPS Act (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-1…

Intel in Talks for More Than $10 Billion in Chips-Act Incentives
The Biden administration is in talks to confer more than $10 billion in subsidies to Intel Corp., people familiar with the matter said, in what would be the largest award yet under a plan to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to US soil.

Optimal Planning of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: Integrating Public Charging Networks and Transportation Congestion
Jingbo Wang, Harshal D. Kaushik, Jie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14452

Optimal Planning of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: Integrating Public Charging Networks and Transportation Congestion
The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) marks a pivotal shift in personal mobility, driven by policy incentives and automotive innovations. However, the expansion of EVs for long-distance travel is hindered by charging time concerns, the sparse distribution of charging stations, and the worsening waiting times due to congestion. The main objective of this work is two-fold: 1) first, to comprehensively analyze the existing public charging station robustness and effectively strategize for the n…

...that do not give sufficient incentives to ***consumers to shift consumption*** when negative prices occur.
(fixed it for you)
ALT text for the image in the quoted post: map of Europe showing negative wholesale energy prices for the 14-15 hour block
https://main.elk.zone/mastod…

Martien Visser (@BM_Visser@mastodon.energy)
Attached: 1 image Tomorrow afternoon, April 6th 2024, we will have seven consecutive hours of negative electricity prices in NW-Europe. This 'anomaly', valuable electricity is priced like waste, is caused by a combination of the market model and subsidies & regulations in the various NW-European countries, that do not give sufficient incentives to producers to stop production when negative prices occur.

How competition between states like Oklahoma and Texas to attract Hollywood productions is driving their subsidies higher, even with a poor return on investment (Matt Stevens/New York Times)
https://www.

Oklahoma’s Booming Film Industry Has Texas’ Attention
To attract movie and television production, states must try to offer the best incentives. The competition drives spending on Hollywood subsidies ever higher.

The Year of Open Science, Culminating Conference recordings are out!
You can hear me, and fantastic other panelists!, speak in the session on: The Turing Way: Aligning Professional Roles and Incentives with Open Research session: #OpenScience
#YearOfOpenScience
#TIR @…
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03045 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Designing Equilibria in Concurrent Games with Social Welfare and Temporal Logic Constraints
In game theory, mechanism design is concerned with the design of incentives so that a desired outcome of the game can be achieved. In this paper, we explore the concept of equilibrium design, where incentives are designed to obtain a desirable equilibrium that satisfies a specific temporal logic property. Our study is based on a framework where system specifications are represented as temporal logic formulae, games as quantitative concurrent game structures, and players' goals as mean-payoff ob…

Maximizing NFT Incentives: References Make You Rich
Guangsheng Yu, Qin Wang, Caijun Sun, Lam Duc Nguyen, H. M. N. Dilum Bandara, Shiping Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06459

Maximizing NFT Incentives: References Make You Rich
In this paper, we study how to optimize existing Non-Fungible Token (NFT) incentives. Upon exploring a large number of NFT-related standards and real-world projects, we come across an unexpected finding. That is, the current NFT incentive mechanisms, often organized in an isolated and one-time-use fashion, tend to overlook their potential for scalable organizational structures. We propose, analyze, and implement a novel reference incentive model, which is inherently structured as a Directed A…

Proposed a tweak to an oncall rotation. Chaos ensues.
... grumbly devs complain about holiday oncall shifts (which were _already_ a problem)
Managers make it worse by
(1) throwing the decision open to entire 50-person team, &
(2) theoretical discussion of what would be "properly incentivized" and "not require altruism"
... management not actually offering any of the "incentives" that they're actually capable of offering …

@… ahh, yeah for sure. I wouldn’t say that either. Capitalism is doing its thing with incentives here though 🫠

Embedding Economic Incentives in Social Networks Shape the Diffusion of Digital Technological Innovation
Zhe Li, Tianfang Zhao, Hongjun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06973

Embedding Economic Incentives in Social Networks Shape the Diffusion of Digital Technological Innovation
The digital innovation accompanied by explicit economic incentives have fundamentally changed the process of innovation diffusion. As a representative of digital innovation, NFTs provide a decentralized and secure way to authenticate and trade digital assets, offering the potential for new revenue streams in the digital space. However, current researches about NFTs mainly focus on their transaction networks and community culture, leaving the interplay among diffusion dynamics, economic dynamics…

The increase in car sizes over the past 50 years seems to be mostly justified by measures to increase *passenger* safety. Everyone else, however, becomes less safe. A more collective approach to improving transport safety - while also focusing on sustainability - would focus on making vehicles *smaller and lighter* (or have them carry more, i.e. public transportation). The perverse incentives of individualistic capitalism need to be counteracted. (post inspired by

Report I co-wrote was released this week:
FAIR Facilities and Instruments Workshop #1 Report: Exploring Persistent Identifier Needs, Barriers and Incentives
http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/zgsx-2d06

This a good story about how mass layoffs happened across the Tech industry the past year, and specifically at Microsoft:
tl;dr: Pandemic started, work from home productivity went up, demand for remote work products shot up, projections were revised upwards, mass hiring happened to meet expected demand. Demand suddenly flatlined, but companies were still on the hook for massive payroll and hiring incentives. Major shareholders demanded downward pressure on wages. Mass layoffs happened.<…

"...commercial incentives to “catastrophise” menopause in the minds of women to drive them to purchase often useless products to treat it."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news

„Birth rates in liberal, developed countries look exceptionally unlikely to return to replacement level any time soon. If they miraculously do so, it will most likely be due to broad social and cultural shifts, not policy. There’s nothing wrong with governments pursuing family-friendly packages for other reasons but if they’re fretting about ageing and shrinking populations, then they need to find other solutions.“

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10469 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Formal Contracts Mitigate Social Dilemmas in Multi-Agent RL
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a powerful tool for training autonomous agents acting independently in a common environment. However, it can lead to sub-optimal behavior when individual incentives and group incentives diverge. Humans are remarkably capable at solving these social dilemmas. It is an open problem in MARL to replicate such cooperative behaviors in selfish agents. In this work, we draw upon the idea of formal contracting from economics to overcome diverging incentives …

So we just don't know how bad this intrusion was and how bad it's going to be...good to remember that a lot of government systems rely on Microsoft. Also Russia has enough incentives to do terrible things to western countries ...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/tech/micros

Internal memo: Alibaba plans to roll out a new staff incentive plan on April 1 that combines equity with cash, a significant change to attract and retain talent (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Overhauls Incentives to Entice Staff as Stock Languishes
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will roll out a new employee incentive plan starting April that combines equity with cash, a significant adjustment designed to help the e-commerce giant attract and retain talent despite fierce competition.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02465 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Ex-Ante Design of Persuasion Games
How does receiver commitment affect incentives for information revelation in Bayesian persuasion? We study many-sender persuasion games where a single receiver commits to a posterior-dependent action profile, or allocation, before senders design the informational environment. We develop a novel revelation-like principle for ex-ante mechanism design settings where sender reports are Blackwell experiments and use it to characterize the set of implementable allocations in our model. We show global…

IRS direct pay framework opens doors for tax-exempt entities to access clean energy credits
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses − draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students
Meanwhile, schools make up the largest cost item in these communities, meaning they suffer most when companies are granted breaks in property taxes.
A three-month investigation by The Conversation and three scholars with expertise in economic development, tax laws and education policy shows that the cash drain from these pr…

Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses − draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students
An estimated 95% of US cities provide economic development tax incentives to woo corporate investors, taking billions away from schools.

Ireland attracts film producers by offering experienced crews, versatile locations, and tax incentives letting producers claim back 32% of spending up to $134M (Becky Lucas/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

Why Ireland Is Thriving as a Shooting Destination
Whether it’s last year’s Oscar champ ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ the Apple TV+ hit ‘Bad Sisters’ or this year’s Berlinale opener ‘Small Things Like These,’ the Emerald Isle continues to lure producers thanks to experienced crews, generous tax incentives, and a wealth of versatile locations: "There's still so much of Ireland that hasn't been on screen yet."

BFT-PoLoc: A Byzantine Fortified Trigonometric Proof of Location Protocol using Internet Delays
Peiyao Sheng, Vishal Sevani, Himanshu Tyagi, Pramod Viswanath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13230

BFT-PoLoc: A Byzantine Fortified Trigonometric Proof of Location Protocol using Internet Delays
Internet platforms depend on accurately determining the geographical locations of online users to deliver targeted services (e.g., advertising). The advent of decentralized platforms (blockchains) emphasizes the importance of geographically distributed nodes, making the validation of locations more crucial. In these decentralized settings, mutually non-trusting participants need to {\em prove} their locations to each other. The incentives for claiming desired location include decentralization p…

I've always been bothered by the phrase 'digital transformation'. I've finally realised it's because you could swap in 'magical transformation' for the same effect. It says nothing about where you want to go.
(And obviously societies and organisations are transformed by people learning how to adapt or resist new technologies, and the financial incentives they sometimes mask)

The Year of Open Science, Culminating Conference recordings are out!
You can hear me, and fantastic other panelists!, speak in the session on: The Turing Way: Aligning Professional Roles and Incentives with Open Research session: #OpenScience
#YearOfOpenScience
#TIR @…
1/n

#Georgia #Republicans are issuing a bill to punish companies in the state that voluntarily recognized staff #unions without a formal secret ballot election and simply acknowledged

Georgia Senate passes bill that threatens incentives for companies whose workers seek to unionize
A bill that would further erode protections for unions in Georgia passed in the state Senate Thursday with a 31-23 vote, following hours of debate.

Jets' marquee free-agent signing implies opportunity to win Super Bowl led him to Gang Green https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jets_marquee_free_agent_signing_implies_opportun…

Jets' marquee free-agent signing implies opportunity to win Super Bowl led him to Gang Green
As he was contemplating which team he wanted to play for in 2024, the chance to win a Super Bowl championship was presumably at the top of offensive tackle Tyron Smith’s wish list. After 13 years of disappointing playoff experiences with the Dallas Cowboys, Smith, an eight-time Pro Bowler, likely believed the New York Jets offered him the best shot at finally getting a ring, which is why he signed a one-year, $6.5 million deal that could be worth up to $20M with incentives to play for them. �…

Demand-side incentives increased supply-side innovation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988324001348 @…

Admirable.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/education/university-of-zurich-quits-international-university-ranking/73693006

University of Zurich withdraws from international university ranking  
The University of Zurich is withdrawing from the university ranking published by the Times Higher Education magazine stating it creates "false incentives."

The problem is not that Facebook is full of right wing conspiracy theorists, it's that the incentives all align for Facebook to actively turn its users into right wing conspiracy theorists.
#Meta #Facebook #bloodonyourhands

A workshop on **Evolving Technological, Legal and Social Solutions to Counter Disinformation in Social Media**, sponsored by the National Academies of Science, etc., will be held on April 10-11, from 12-5pm ET on each day,
Sessions will include:
- Content Moderation
- Educational Interventions
- Technical Interventions
- Regulatory and Other Incentives and Disincentives for behavior change
Use link below to find out more or register:

In about an hour (17:00 BST) I'll be going live with a pile of trash PS2 games for #EzraMutualAid!
https://twitch.tv/djnrrd

Report: Raiders sign OL Cody Whitehair to 1-year deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_raiders_sign_ol_cody_whitehair_to_1_year_deal/s1_17049_40238789

Report: Raiders sign OL Cody Whitehair to 1-year deal
The Las Vegas Raiders have signed free-agent guard/center Cody Whitehair to a one-year, $2.5 million contract, Pro Football Network reported Monday. The deal includes $1.4 million guaranteed and is worth up to $3 million with incentives, per the report. The Chicago Bears released Whitehair, 31, on Feb. 15 after eight seasons and 124 games (118 starts). He played all 17 games last season, with 11 starts. Chicago drafted the 6-foot-3, 316-pound lineman out of Kansas State in the second round in 2…

Foreign-owned oil companies in Canada hold key to climate change
:mastodon:
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/august-2023/foreign-oil-companies/

Foreign-owned oil companies in Canada hold key to climate change
The federal government should use financial regulation to create incentives for oil companies to embrace climate change goals.

This is why #regulation matters. Capital incentives, unchecked, do*not* produce suitable outcomes - no matter how clear the need
#environment #plastics
"The amount of plastic packagi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10985 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Registered Report: A Laboratory Experiment on Using Different Financial-Incentivization Schemes in Software-Engineering Experimentation
Empirical studies in software engineering are often conducted with open-source developers or in industrial collaborations. Seemingly, this resulted in few experiments using financial incentives (e.g., money, vouchers) as a strategy to motivate the participants' behavior; which is typically done in other research communities, such as economics or psychology. Even the current version of the SIGSOFT Empirical Standards does mention payouts for completing surveys only, but not for mimicking the rea…

'Perhaps the most significant climate legislation in history, the Inflation Reduction Act promised an est. $369 billion in tax breaks/grants for clean energy technology over the next decade. Its incentives for battery production within the US were so generous that they eventually helped prod Freyr to pause its Norway facility and focus on setting up shop in Georgia.'
This Arctic Circle Town Expected a Green Energy Boom. Then Came Bidenomics. - The New York Times

This Arctic Circle Town Expected a Green Energy Boom. Then Came Bidenomics.
Generous subsidies are helping the United States steal green industries from Europe, as countries race to secure the energy supplies of the future.

The rooftop solar industry had a chaotic 2023, including an especially bad December. What's next?
https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/after-a-tumultuous-2023-whats-next-for-rooftop-solar/

After a Tumultuous 2023, What's Next for Rooftop Solar?
A policy change crushed the biggest solar market in the US, but nationwide incentives showed up to the party. What comes next?

Report I co-wrote was released this week:
FAIR Facilities and Instruments Workshop #1 Report: Exploring Persistent Identifier Needs, Barriers and Incentives
http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/zgsx-2d06

OK, I'm late, but I've just watched this CNBC documentary on Norway's success with EVs (cars, but also ferries charging 3.5MW!). It's really worth watching, and also discusses the challenges, eg car vs bus, reducing incentives, charging issues.
Note how the European Union (Norway is not a member, but complies with the legislation) is mentioned several times as a key driver, e.g. easy payment systems for EV charging, battery recycling.

Filings: Reddit cancelled Steve Huffman's pay awards in December 2023 that were tied to hitting a $25B valuation, signalling reduced hopes of a blockbuster IPO (Financial Times)
https://t.co/Jq7xQMM4jO

TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, amid growth struggles in Europe (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-launches-new-rewards-…

TikTok Launches New Rewards App to Boost Growth
TikTok’s growth in Europe has slowed down so much that it’s rolling out a new app that gives people financial incentives to watch its videos. The Chinese-owned company is introducing a new app in Spain, France and other countries that will encourage users to watch videos, invite friends to sign ...

Trustless Audits without Revealing Data or Models
Suppakit Waiwitlikhit, Ion Stoica, Yi Sun, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Daniel Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04500

Trustless Audits without Revealing Data or Models
There is an increasing conflict between business incentives to hide models and data as trade secrets, and the societal need for algorithmic transparency. For example, a rightsholder wishing to know whether their copyrighted works have been used during training must convince the model provider to allow a third party to audit the model and data. Finding a mutually agreeable third party is difficult, and the associated costs often make this approach impractical. In this work, we show that it is …

More algorithmic results for problems of spread of influence in edge-weighted graphs with and without incentives
Siavash Askari, Manouchehr Zaker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19257 …

More algorithmic results for problems of spread of influence in edge-weighted graphs with and without incentives
Many phenomena in real world social networks are interpreted as spread of influence between activated and non-activated network elements. These phenomena are formulated by combinatorial graphs, where vertices represent the elements and edges represent social ties between elements. A main problem is to study important subsets of elements (target sets or dynamic monopolies) such that their activation spreads to the entire network. In edge-weighted networks the influence between two adjacent verti…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07793 has been replaced.
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Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners
Decentralized cryptocurrencies are payment systems that rely on aligning the incentives of users and miners to operate correctly and offer a high quality of service to users. Recent literature studies the mechanism design problem of the auction serving as a cryptocurrency's transaction fee mechanism (TFM). We present a general framework that captures both myopic and non-myopic settings, as well as different possible strategic models for users. Within this general framework, when restricted to t…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02465 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Ex-Ante Design of Persuasion Games
How does receiver commitment affect incentives for information revelation in Bayesian persuasion? We study many-sender persuasion games where a single receiver commits to a posterior-dependent action profile, or allocation, before senders design the informational environment. We develop a novel revelation-like principle for ex-ante mechanism design settings where sender reports are Blackwell experiments and use it to characterize the set of implementable allocations in our model. We show global…

Come check out the fantastic #ttrpg show Perception Check over on Twitch at twitch.tv/perceptionstudio happening right now (7:45 pm PT/10:45 pm ET)- super-funny w/ puppets, and chat incentives.

TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, amid growth struggles in Europe (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-launches-new-rewards-…

TikTok Launches New Rewards App to Boost Growth
TikTok’s growth in Europe has slowed down so much that it’s rolling out a new app that gives people financial incentives to watch its videos. The Chinese-owned company is introducing a new app in Spain, France and other countries that will encourage users to watch videos, invite friends to sign ...

BFT-PoLoc: A Byzantine Fortified Trigonometric Proof of Location Protocol using Internet Delays
Peiyao Sheng, Vishal Sevani, Himanshu Tyagi, Pramod Viswanath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13230

BFT-PoLoc: A Byzantine Fortified Trigonometric Proof of Location Protocol using Internet Delays
Internet platforms depend on accurately determining the geographical locations of online users to deliver targeted services (e.g., advertising). The advent of decentralized platforms (blockchains) emphasizes the importance of geographically distributed nodes, making the validation of locations more crucial. In these decentralized settings, mutually non-trusting participants need to {\em prove} their locations to each other. The incentives for claiming desired location include decentralization p…

Analyzing Reward Dynamics and Decentralization in Ethereum 2.0: An Advanced Data Engineering Workflow and Comprehensive Datasets for Proof-of-Stake Incentives
Tao Yan, Shengnan Li, Benjamin Kraner, Luyao Zhang, Claudio J. Tessone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11170

Analyzing Reward Dynamics and Decentralization in Ethereum 2.0: An Advanced Data Engineering Workflow and Comprehensive Datasets for Proof-of-Stake Incentives
Ethereum 2.0, as the preeminent smart contract blockchain platform, guarantees the precise execution of applications without third-party intervention. At its core, this system leverages the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, which utilizes a stochastic process to select validators for block proposal and validation, consequently rewarding them for their contributions. However, the implementation of blockchain technology often diverges from its central tenet of decentralized consensus, pre…

TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, amid growth struggles in Europe (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-launches-new-rewards-…

TikTok Launches New Rewards App to Boost Growth
TikTok’s growth in Europe has slowed down so much that it’s rolling out a new app that gives people financial incentives to watch its videos. The Chinese-owned company is introducing a new app in Spain, France and other countries that will encourage users to watch videos, invite friends to sign ...

Tyron Smith's Jets contract has Cowboys fans mad all over again https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/2024/03/19/tyron-smith-jets-contract/

Tyron Smith's Jets contract has Cowboys fans mad all over again
From @ToddBrock24f7: The 8x-Pro Bowler could earn up to $20M, but only through a lot of incentives he likely won’t reach. The Cowboys could have done that deal.

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Scaling Opponent Shaping to High Dimensional Games
In multi-agent settings with mixed incentives, methods developed for zero-sum games have been shown to lead to detrimental outcomes. To address this issue, opponent shaping (OS) methods explicitly learn to influence the learning dynamics of co-players and empirically lead to improved individual and collective outcomes. However, OS methods have only been evaluated in low-dimensional environments due to the challenges associated with estimating higher-order derivatives or scaling model-free meta-…

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Achieving Social Optimum and Budget Balance via a Joint Electricity-Carbon Pricing Mechanism
Decarbonizing electric grids is a crucial global endeavor in the pursuit of carbon neutrality. Taking carbon emissions from generation into account when pricing electricity usage is an essential way to achieve this goal. However, such pricing is not trivial due to the requirements of an effective electricity market, such as maintaining budget balance, providing incentives to motivate participants to follow the dispatch schedule, and minimizing the impact on affected parties compared to when the…

Source: Lockett restructures deal with Seahawks https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39697126/source-tyler-lockett-restructures-deal-seahawks

Source -- Tyler Lockett restructures deal with Seahawks - ESPN
Tyler Lockett's new deal is for two years and a base value of $30 million, with another $4 million available in incentives and nearly $13 million guaranteed for this coming season.

Learning and Optimization for Price-based Demand Response of Electric Vehicle Charging
Chengyang Gu, Yuxin Pan, Ruohong Liu, Yize Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10311

Learning and Optimization for Price-based Demand Response of Electric Vehicle Charging
In the context of charging electric vehicles (EVs), the price-based demand response (PBDR) is becoming increasingly significant for charging load management. Such response usually encourages cost-sensitive customers to adjust their energy demand in response to changes in price for financial incentives. Thus, to model and optimize EV charging, it is important for charging station operator to model the PBDR patterns of EV customers by precisely predicting charging demands given price signals. The…

Fair Artificial Currency Incentives in Repeated Weighted Congestion Games: Equity vs. Equality
Leonardo Pedroso, Andrea Agazzi, W. P. M. H. Heemels, Mauro Salazar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03999

Fair Artificial Currency Incentives in Repeated Weighted Congestion Games: Equity vs. Equality
When users access shared resources in a selfish manner, the resulting societal cost and perceived users' cost is often higher than what would result from a centrally coordinated optimal allocation. While several contributions in mechanism design manage to steer the aggregate users choices to the desired optimum by using monetary tolls, such approaches bear the inherent drawback of discriminating against users with a lower income. More recently, incentive schemes based on artificial currencies h…

Trump’s opponents are rushing to endorse him and show they’re on the right side.
It’s not because they love Trump; it’s because they know that loving Trump is a prerequisite for any future career in Republican politics.
Partisan incentives are powerful, and Trump has commandeered them on his own behalf.
Now and for the foreseeable future, the GOP is Trump’s to do with as he will.
Which means that no matter what horrible things Trump does to the country and the Constit…

Trump plans to abuse power. Who will stop him?
Steve Vladeck on why the answer might be no one.

Cardinals adding DT Bilal Nichols, CB Sean Murphy-Bunting to defense https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cardinals_adding_dt_bilal_nichols_cb_sean_murphy_bunting_to_defense/s1_17049_40092711

Cardinals adding DT Bilal Nichols, CB Sean Murphy-Bunting to defense
The Arizona Cardinals are boosting their pass rush with the signing of free-agent defensive tackle Bilal Nichols to a three-year, $21 million contract that includes $14.4 guaranteed, ESPN reported Monday. The Cardinals also are re-signing offensive lineman Trystan Colon to a one-year, $1.7 million deal with $450,000 guaranteed and worth up to $2 million with incentives, NFL Network reported. Arizona and former Tennessee Titans cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting have agreed to terms which were not i…

Buccaneers, Baker Mayfield agree to three-year contract with max value of $115 million https://www.nfl.com/news/buccaneers-baker-mayfield-agree-to-three-year-contract-with-max-value-of-115-million

Buccaneers, QB Baker Mayfield agree to three-year contract worth up to $115 million
The Buccaneers and quarterback Baker Mayfield have agreed to terms on a three-year contract worth a max value of $115 million in incentives, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Sunday, per sources.

Come check out the fantastic #ttrpg show Perception Check over on Twitch at twitch.tv/perceptionstudio happening right now (7:45 pm PT/10:45 pm ET)- super-funny w/ puppets, and chat incentives.

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Dynamic Information Manipulation Game
We propose a dynamic information manipulation game (DIMG) to investigate the incentives of an information manipulator (IM) to influence the observation rules of a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). DIMG is a hierarchical game where the upper-level IM stealthily designs the POMDP's joint state distributions to influence the lower-level controller's actions. DIMP's fundamental feature is characterized by a stage-wise constraint that ensures the consistency between the unobserva…

Jets to sign All-Pro lineman to protect Aaron Rodgers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jets_to_sign_all_pro_lineman_to_protect_aaron_rodgers/s1_127_40116960

Jets to sign All-Pro lineman to protect Aaron Rodgers
The New York Jets are hoping to keep Aaron Rodgers as clean as possible next season. Their latest signing will help the team do just that. The Jets on Friday signed All-Pro left tackle Tyron Smith to a one-year contract, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Smith could reportedly make up to $20M based on performance incentives. Reports came out earlier this month that the Cowboys were unlikely to bring back Smith. Smith was drafted by the Cowboys in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft. The Mi…

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A Laboratory Experiment on Using Different Financial-Incentivization Schemes in Software-Engineering Experimentation
In software-engineering research, many empirical studies are conducted with open-source or industry developers. However, in contrast to other research communities like economics or psychology, only few experiments use financial incentives (i.e., paying money) as a strategy to motivate participants' behavior and reward their performance. The most recent version of the SIGSOFT Empirical Standards mentions payouts only for increasing participation in surveys, but not for mimicking real-world motiv…

Feedback Optimization of Incentives for Distribution Grid Services
Guido Cavraro, Joshua Comden, Andrey Bernstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19616 https://…

Feedback Optimization of Incentives for Distribution Grid Services
Energy prices and net power injection limitations regulate the operations in distribution grids and typically ensure that operational constraints are met. Nevertheless, unexpected or prolonged abnormal events could undermine the grid's functioning. During contingencies, customers could contribute effectively to sustaining the network by providing services. This paper proposes an incentive mechanism that promotes users' active participation by essentially altering the energy pricing rule. The in…

Incentivized Learning in Principal-Agent Bandit Games
Antoine Scheid, Daniil Tiapkin, Etienne Boursier, Aymeric Capitaine, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Eric Moulines, Michael I. Jordan, Alain Durmus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03811

Incentivized Learning in Principal-Agent Bandit Games
This work considers a repeated principal-agent bandit game, where the principal can only interact with her environment through the agent. The principal and the agent have misaligned objectives and the choice of action is only left to the agent. However, the principal can influence the agent's decisions by offering incentives which add up to his rewards. The principal aims to iteratively learn an incentive policy to maximize her own total utility. This framework extends usual bandit problems and…

Model N, a public company focusing on helping health companies automate pricing and compliance decisions, is being acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.25B (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/08/vist

Vista Equity Partners to take revenue optimization platform Model N private in $1.25B deal | TechCrunch
Model N, a platform used by companies to automate decisions related to pricing, incentives, and compliance, is going private in a $1.25B deal.

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Learning Payment-Free Resource Allocation Mechanisms
We consider the design of mechanisms that allocate limited resources among self-interested agents using neural networks. Unlike the recent works that leverage machine learning for revenue maximization in auctions, we consider welfare maximization as the key objective in the payment-free setting. Without payment exchange, it is unclear how we can align agents' incentives to achieve the desired objectives of truthfulness and social welfare simultaneously, without resorting to approximations. Our …

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Dynamic Information Manipulation Game
We propose a dynamic information manipulation game (DIMG) to investigate the incentives of an information manipulator (IM) to influence the observation rules of a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). DIMG is a hierarchical game where the upper-level IM stealthily designs the POMDP's joint state distributions to influence the lower-level controller's actions. DIMP's fundamental feature is characterized by a stage-wise constraint that ensures the consistency between the unobserva…

Bills, Von Miller agree to renegotiated deal worth $8.855 million in 2024: Source https://theathletic.com/5322057/2024/03/06/bills-von-miller-contract/

Bills, Von Miller agree to renegotiated deal worth $8.855 million in 2024: Source
Miller has a chance to make up to $20 million with incentives in the deal.

Artificial Bugs for Crowdsearch
Hans Gersbach, Fikri Pitsuwan, Pio Blieske
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/240…

Artificial Bugs for Crowdsearch
Bug bounty programs, where external agents are invited to search and report vulnerabilities (bugs) in exchange for rewards (bounty), have become a major tool for companies to improve their systems. We suggest augmenting such programs by inserting artificial bugs to increase the incentives to search for real (organic) bugs. Using a model of crowdsearch, we identify the efficiency gains by artificial bugs, and we show that for this, it is sufficient to insert only one artificial bug. Artificial b…

Bills, Von Miller agree to renegotiated deal worth $8.855 million in 2024: Source https://theathletic.com/5322057/2024/03/06/bills-von-miller-contract/

Bills, Von Miller agree to renegotiated deal worth $8.855 million in 2024: Source
Miller has a chance to make up to $20 million with incentives in the deal.

Incentivized Learning in Principal-Agent Bandit Games
Antoine Scheid, Daniil Tiapkin, Etienne Boursier, Aymeric Capitaine, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Eric Moulines, Michael I. Jordan, Alain Durmus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03811

Incentivized Learning in Principal-Agent Bandit Games
This work considers a repeated principal-agent bandit game, where the principal can only interact with her environment through the agent. The principal and the agent have misaligned objectives and the choice of action is only left to the agent. However, the principal can influence the agent's decisions by offering incentives which add up to his rewards. The principal aims to iteratively learn an incentive policy to maximize her own total utility. This framework extends usual bandit problems and…

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Real-Time Bidding Strategy of Energy Storage in an Energy Market with Carbon Emission Allocation Based on Aumann-Shapley Prices
Energy storage (ES) can help decarbonize power systems by transferring green renewable energy across time. How to unlock the potential of ES in cutting carbon emissions by appropriate market incentives has become a crucial, albeit challenging, problem. This paper fills the research gap by proposing a novel electricity market with carbon emission allocation and then investigating the real-time bidding strategy of ES in the proposed market. First, a carbon emission allocation mechanism based on A…

Mechanism for Decision-aware Collaborative Federated Learning: A Pitfall of Shapley Values
Meng Qi, Mingxi Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04753 https://

Mechanism for Decision-aware Collaborative Federated Learning: A Pitfall of Shapley Values
This paper investigates mechanism design for decision-aware collaboration via federated learning (FL) platforms. Our framework consists of a digital platform and multiple decision-aware agents, each endowed with proprietary data sets. The platform offers an infrastructure that enables access to the data, creates incentives for collaborative learning aimed at operational decision-making, and conducts FL to avoid direct raw data sharing. The computation and communication efficiency of the FL proc…

Chris Jones rumors: Chiefs hoping to retain star DT on new contract before free agency

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chris-jones…

Chris Jones rumors: Chiefs hoping to retain star DT on new contract before free agency
Jones gets paid $4.25M in incentives