skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first one isn't really math-heavy, but it is symbol heavy (and there seem to have been some typos in the LaTeX or errors in generation, some subscripts are borked). The actual translation of the first image to Python-esque code is:

def r(some_params):
if predicate_11(some_params): return s(f1(some_params))
else: return s(f2(some_params))
def s(some_params):
if predicate_21(some_params): return r(some_params)
else: return t(f3(some_params))
def t(some_params):
if predicate_31(some_params): return f4(some_params)
elseif predicate_23(some_params): return r(some_params)
else: return t(f3(some_params))

I've replaced pi with `predicate` and xi with `some_params`.

The second one, structurally, can also be understood without knowing math but what's actually executed does require some familiarity with math. It's, like above, using a conditional expression described earlier and the lambda notation for defining anonymous functions (to be clear, he also uses it as an example of something that's not quite valid since the name `sqrt` will not be bound inside the lambda, but we can approximate it, invalid multi-line Python lambda incoming):

sqrt = lambda a, x, epsilon: if abs(x*x - a) < epsilon: return x # that is, we've found a close-enough approximation
else: return sqrt(a, (x+a/x)/2, epsilon) # get a closer approximation to the square root

The previous line of code in that section (no lambda) is equivalent to a Python def:

def sqrt(a,x,epsilon):
if abs(x*x-a) < epsilon: return x
else: return sqrt(a, (x+a/x)/2, epsilon)

(NB: All the extra `return`s have to be added because Python is not an expression-oriented language. The language McCarthy is describing is so each expression produces a new value without the need for explicit returns.)

Both of those are there to motivate the introduction of the label form at the bottom of that section.
Really impressive! World-spanning infrastructure. Beautiful map, also.
I think that this is an early canary of what ubiquitous A(G?)I would mean. Human chess is basically like riding a horse now - a quaint nod to older times.
Wow, that was cool, never found that one when I went on a deep dive after discovering their quine relay. The other amazing ASCII program of theirs that I love is the Qlobe: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/09/qlobe.html?m=1
That's not what they're going to do. They're going to lay thousands of smart mines. The US military ships will have to either spend weeks demining, shoot down Chinese mine-layers and fire the first shot, commit suicide, or give up.
There is one more point I would like to add to the "less friction to start." This is the killer feature for education.

No more do students have to set up their own envs. Figure out PYTHONPATH. No more do educators need to debug installation issues on 3 different OSes.

Teachers distribute a pre setup env which they know works for what they are trying to teach. Students go straight into writing code and building things with minimum friction.

Learning to set up your env can be punted to a problem for later.
We aren't throwing a hissy fit lol. We're just stating the facts and are working with our lawyers to resolve this.
Same for me (and plenty of coworkers who took part in the same studies) -- hardest part of taking part in the fMRI experiments was staying awake through it.
"according to estimates we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars"
I'm modestly surprised that those few angles give us enough data to build out a full 3D render, but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, as that's tech that has had high demand and been understood for years (those kind of front-cut / side-cut images are what 3D artists use to do their initial prototypes of objects if they're working from real-life models).
What Availability Zone? What AWS Service?

For what it's worth, just successfully launched an EC2 instance and created a Bucket...
I think you're likely closer to what's happening. The examples look pretty trivial and inconsequential; implanting a false memory of getting lost in a mall or having some ear infection when they were a very young child. Most likely the participants weighed arguing against these false memories versus not being confrontational and going along with the study.

Try implanting a false memory of something of consequence, like a false memory that someone owes you 10 dollars or heck even 5 dollars, and then let's see just how easy it is to implant false memories into college aged students.

Anyways, the actual study can be found here for free, and after reading it over it's quite underwhelming. For example, the study only says about 25% of participants ended up having false memories implanted after three interviews.

https://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/files/2015/05/Loftus...
Is it this? https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-weight
And, indeed, when homosexuality and transness were considered mental illnesses, people were, in fact, abused using those laws. Some minors in the US are still involuntarily sent to "mental health" or "adolescent behavior" programs that are just conversion therapy centers.
Speaking of C the canonical way to do it was to create a struct with function pointers and initialize the struct as you would a class.
Taiwan can't, but didn't I hear about one of their neighbours doing such a thing? Oh yeah... Australia. Funnily enough, the contract for the next-gen fleet they were building with France got cancelled and re-made with the US + UK, which is an interesting coincidence considering who the largest non-Chinese force in that region is.
> I've owned many of the nexus and pixel phones, never had a problem.

I've had 2 Nexus 5x and a Pixel 3a before switching to an iPhone. I can't believe the amount of bullshit I coped up with because I didn't know better.

Both Nexus died because of a well known boot loop issue that was never truly acknowledged by Google (support ghosted me twice). The Pixel died because the socket kinda broke and I couldn't charge it anymore.

All 3 phones became awfully slow after roughly one year of use.

In comparison I switched to an iPhone 2 years ago and it really is good as new: it doesn't feel slower, every single hardware or software feature works great, it's still a first class citizen when it comes to OS updates. As it goes I easily plan to keep it at least 2 to 3 more years. I've never kept an Android phone more than 2 years.

To be fair though the Nexus and Pixel were low end devices. Maybe my experience would have been better with higher end Androids.
Yeah the T1 easily had enough bandwidth to smoothly send the 800x600 16 bit color desktop you were probably running at the time (guessing the timeframe based on usage of a T1). Frame to frame diff was probably much easier as well with less shadows and graphical effects that modern Windows or Linux DEs have.

I don’t doubt Citrix has gotten worse as well but the job it had to do back then was much easier.
I’d be hesitant to call this an investment mistake. It was a gamble that covid would permanently change tech consumption habits and that would create new opportunities for big tech. So they hired people for those new unforeseen opportunities. maybe some of them didn’t pan out. Maybe others did but no longer need as many employees. Either way, hiring a bunch of people just to lay them off was clearly at least an option if not the main plan.
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> You and I might see that as a laughable claim

Being disbarred is a very real threat to any lawyer putting a roof over their heads. Which is most lawyers.
i have never had a site hacked and i dont even know or care if its being attacked - just dont litter it with rce vulns. if its being ddosed on the other hand, then use an anti ddos solution but your post is such corpo bullshit that i cant even tell if its talking about defending against ddos or defending against hacks (which you cant defend against, they will get around your filters within 5 minutes of playing around).
Yep. It's easily going to be in the 5 digits.
why was he arrested ?
I'm waiting for word on if the modem has been updated over the pixel 6 pro.

The 6 pro is great on wifi or 4g. 5g kills the battery life and the modem heats up quickly which impacts the usability of the phone.

I like my 6pro. I do miss macro i had on a different phone, but if the modem is fixed then i would update right away.
expand on communal health, sounds interesting
It is anyplace in the US with some combination of:

-Temperate weather

-Dense environment where travel by personal vehicle is not necessary

-society does not imprison people for drug use/sleeping outside (trespassing)/other activities of people with severe mental illness

NYC qualifies for the dense environment, western US cities contend with temperate weather and Martin v Boise ruling, plus other politics that prevent imprisoning mentally ill people.

Hence suburbs that require personal cars are the best solution for those looking to minimize interactions, since the personal car serves as a credit check of sorts. And/or living in areas where weather does not permit living outdoors.
Submitted to HN 30 times since 2011. I wonder if that's a record.
I will say this, I grew up in a time of asylums and I lived thru their gutting of them with the Reagan administration and back then law enforcement was very different it did not become militarized until the LA bank shootout and some other events in the same timeframe. To say it was a different world would be an understatement. In that world false positives where rare, usually there was a history of issue as well as close family that agreed that it was for their good.

Nowadays law enforcement does not know your name, they suspect you from first contact and family is not as tight knit as it was. I would be very leery of asylums in present society, due to the many ways in which society has changed.
I didn't flag or downvote you so I'm only speculating, but I suspect it was killed/flagged for being misinformation. Many people just skim, and don't verify info before spreading it, so a comment like yours could cause it to spread and in this case may cause friction/drama. Again, just speculating.
I didn't always have aphantasia, but I believe I ended up with it because when I was very young I had intrusive visual thoughts and developed a habit of blocking them out. By the time I was 30 I could barely remember being able to visualize things in my head.

I was 33 the first time so tried cannabis and I had vivid, colorful visualizations. It was intensely satisfying. I've since regained some ability to visualize in an un-altered state.
If you’re PIP’d then fired, are ineligible for unemployment?

Is this to save money on unemployment payments?
That contradicts fairly long-held understanding:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-...
Doubtful. It’s not comfortable, you can’t move, and it’s extremely noisy to the point that no headphones would be able to drown out the mechanical sounds that would ruin a psychedelic experience
I didn't mean to insult those cities per se, I just meant their specific location isn't special. Near-ocean land in California can't really be built forever, nor elsewhere. Whereas, many cities like those I listed (and Austin you listed) don't really have anything inherently special about them, landwise.
That's only technically correct. I'd say given the words I said around "Linux," your response is pedantic at best.

Android is in no way what I want. And is it Open and Free? Can I do whatever I want with it? Can I install NixOS Mobile? Jailbreaking doesn't count since we are talking about official product offerings.

If I can't run my own software from source + make my device completely decoupled from Meta, it isn't a competitor of Simula to me.
Most moderation ends that way but yeah, it’s a hollowed out shell of itself now.
Can it be self-hosted without relying on shuttle.rs? If yes, could you please update the readme with instructions?
Then how come GeoCities, Heroku, Vercel, GH Pages and others survived?
I feel like the Cthulhu head is extra-successful, given the subject matter.

Non-Euclidean back-polygon imaging? Good work, algorithm. ;)
Can you clarify? I'm confused as well.
When SNL was good, they had a sketch about the "All-Drug Olympics," where drugging was not just ignored, but actively encouraged.

When will chess become a competition where players are wired into conspicuous super computers? Imagine: electrodes rapidly shocking the players, and it won't be uncommon to see players dying from cardiac arrest right in the middle of the game.

Niemann just needs to start a new league.

Stephen King probably wrote a book about that, I suppose.
There was an episode on New York Times - The Daily, I believe it was "(6/24/22) One Elite High School's Struggle Over Admissions", in which one side of the debate argued that the over-representation of Asian's was actually an instance of white supremacy.
Can you give an example of syntactic sugar in a modern language that makes order of operations a non-issue?
The Sony line of phones are great options. Latest gen processors, oled, microsd slot, fantastic (if not best) camera front and back, headphone jack, 5000 mah battery. Current issues are thermal throttling, especially for long runtime 4k hdr video recording, and expensive. A previous year model is still a great choice though for 90% of the population. All previous generation models also have a headphone jack and most have microsd card.
Is there anything in the article indicating that this is some sort of conservative viewpoint or did you just decide to label it such because it seemed like an easy way for you to score a point?

I consider myself to be more right-leaning and "conservative" but neither I nor any other conservatives I know would support this. Typically, though not always, people on the right want to take away power from the government - not enhance it as this would do.
he has to make it clear he's not actually gay because that's core to his point, which is anybody can claim it. obviously irl he's not gonna fill out the diversity section with "i'm gay (not actually lmaoo)".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_classification_of_India...

lots of anecdata there -- the division in the US politically between former slave-owning states and those opposed to slavery, and their vacillating political power, definitely adds to the extreme cases listed here. Plenty of classification and census work counts the majority of people with Indian Sub-continent history as "caucasian" . Those with the reverse axe to grind, spying racists everywhere, will emphasize the unjust and archaic examples. In the demography work I saw with my own eyes, people from the Indian Sub-continent were counted as "caucasian" without question.

not interested in partial arguments that can be misquoted by extremists on either side of this.
That was my exact experience as well. I think the first time I studied anything with diligence was during a trip, and I've taken that ability with me to current day.

I also feel immensely thankful for it. I nearly dropped out of high school and I bounced around manual labor jobs for a few years. I'm so far away from that fate now it's sometimes hard to reconcile internally.
You. Work. With. The. Attorneys.

Why is this so hard to grasp. This subpoena is to get certain market information. SimulaVR can negotiate with Meta to provide the information in a way that's not super burdensome for them. I did this all the time when I was a lawyer.

SimulaVR is a FRIENDLY WITNESS for Meta, since they can presumably provide evidence that Meta operates in a competitive VR market. This means Meta's lawyers will be very accommodating to get the info they need.

And yeah guess what, you need to hire lawyers from time to time when you run a business. Just like you need to hire accountants. It sucks but that's how things are.
I wonder if something similar could be used to keep my TV from ratcheting up the overall brightness/backlighting whenever a subtitle is on screen.

The constant ramping of brightness is rather distracting.
Yea, it's been interesting to watch how RCV has filtered into the public consciousness over the past 5-10 years and slowly increased in terms of how many people parrot it as the answer to all our voting ills.

There was a site posted to HN years back that mathematically analyzed a ton of these voting schemes, I cannot seem to find it on Google but it was some sort of hybrid scheme that apparently has the best overall outcomes.

Edit: Given some of the comments below, some good material on these voting systems...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13161396

https://ncase.me/ballot/

https://rangevoting.org/rangeVirv.html

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
I mean there are always going to be niche uses for this.

My point is about corporations adopting this sort of a thing because executives got sold on a fancy feature "Accessible from anywhere" but no one really materializes it for 99.99% of the time they are not coding from anywhere but have to suffer latency the entire time.

It sounds so damn good on paper vs. reality.
We should be looking at models for how this system has worked elsewhere. If in fact the cause here is strictly biological (its likely a mix of biological and societal) factors, then there should be an even distributions in other populations.

We should look to the Netherlands or similar to find models for effectively dealing with potentially violent mental illness.
I disagree.

We don’t ride horses the way we did before because we now have transport and cars and trucks.

We still run and bike and gym. Sometimes to commute, and sometimes for fitness. Not everyone can be Usain Bolt, but the trails and tracks are full all week long.
After reading the top comment in the OP; boy, I do not envy Asian high school students trying to get into a college these days! You already work your ass off getting top grades and crafting the most stellar of resumes, and it doesn't matter that your peers worked half as hard with half the achievements: you're going to get rejected by many top universities simply because of your race, a factor that was completely out of your control.

That has to be so frustrating.

If society has normalized folks with 1/8 Native American heritage claiming the legal benefits of that status, then as an Asian I'd be doing my geneology to see if I can justify claiming any other race on my own college admissions.
My point was that they're already deploying counter measures. They also tend to use a two tier system where the first person you talk to is an idiot who reads lines. If you bite, they second you to a second tier to close. If you're not a real person, they hang quickly at the first tier. I've gotten to the second tier and really pissed someone off (mission accomplished) insisting that I was the old lady they were calling, when I clearly had a man's voice.

I use to use Google's call screening, and was foiled by this when I wanted to screw around with them by pressing buttons to speak canned messages. Google really needs to update that with a DTMF keypad.
A rational decision is weighing the pros and cons. If you are blind to your illness (and the ramifications, for example having killed a family member you care about because you believed them to be a demon), then how can you weigh the pros of having those delusions resolve vs the cons of weight gain and potential diabetes?

It's not always irrational to refuse, but a total absence of insight into illness precludes a rational decision.
> "Do whatever you want, just make sure you conceal the results and impede progress and understanding."

This is not a fair characterization of what's going on here. Google spent a ton of money on researchers & training infra (it's wildly expensive even just hardware-wise) to train these models. It's not different from other proprietary technologies -- they don't owe the public anything here. Providing the research findings + methodology in a paper without the implementation & data is a _tradeoff_ as a participant in the field. If someone else implements the model with their money and uses it for nefarious purposes, that's more acceptable than if they directly use Google's _already known to be flawed_ models.

> I'm curious what ethical reasons you think require that new technology only be used in secret and without oversight by trillion dollar companies. This is supposed to be AI safety?

If I make a chair and I know it's not always safe to sit on, maybe I should not sell that chair. We can talk about this proof-of-concept chair as a research subject, but if you go to build one and use it to prank someone, that's on you.

That's all that's going on here. If the model could be used to generate CSAI, maybe Google doesn't want to be part of that.

> Google is developing image and video generation models and equivalent versions will be open source by the year's end I expect. These models aren't especially dangerous.

Maybe that's the disconnect -- you don't think generative models are dangerous, but they can be, and Google would know because they have entire teams dedicated to AI fairness & safety researching this topic.

It's also not trivial to reproduce these models. Given the cost to simply train even if you had the source data, any organization releasing these models has to have a bit of money and skill. The onus will always be on the team building these models to think about what their ethics are and how they want to proceed knowing there may be negative externalities.

> Yes, people will use them to be racist or mean, same as they use their phones or computers or books or whatever to be those things.

Tools empowering large-scale inauthenticity & disinformation are not comparable to individuals making comments.
> Blood clots, myocarditis etc. is only ever attributed to

This class of statements, or rhetoric generalizations which cannot be read as a logical statement (where 'only ever' is strict), should be avoided. False universal statements add nothing to the style - they may easily detract -, they are gratuitous, they are offensive, and technically they clash with the requirement of respect which seems to be implicit in the guidelines.

I can reassure you: yes, some of us wondered of what could have been the chance that blood circulation affecting diseases may have impacted, and also of the chances of other factors, and also of the weakness of such estimations, and finally of the limited time these vague thoughts deserve.
Time, yes. For space you just need a desk. And if you have an internet connection, it doesn't require any money beyond what you've already paid your ISP.
Are you suggesting there hasn't been any involuntary psychiatric in-patient treatment since the 1980s?
Hiring a lawyer was the first thing we did. For the rest, I'd gladly do this if we had the funds to do so. We don't.

Plus, we as a company are (maybe excessively) open. Of course we're going to get involved in legal proceedings, that's a fact of life. Doesn't mean we won't talk about it.
It's Bari Weiss's publication, and she describes it, and herself, as conservative.
well, there are plenty of dumb shits who would say that plenty of his drawings are the mark of the devil...
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You are so right about the consequences of memory recovery.

Shared contexts like yours have helped me over the years come to terms with the fact that my memories are in fact not recovered (by which I mean 'recovered' in the problematic use of the word you're describing). I've been torn about whether or not "I made it up" for my entire life. The weird popular trend of "recovered memory therapy" is/was real, and indeed muddies the waters.

Your litmus test resonates with me. I hope you read this and know you've helped at least one person. I'm sorry you went through what you did.