skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company has massive debt. They have to make some serious bank somehow... with so many advertisers pulling out.
For all those saying parents, take the phones away. Any idea how hard that is? That could in itself push them over the edge.
Worth calling out here: that "nearly double" rate is specifically for the 10-14 age range; the next group up is up 30–50%.

I say that not to minimize at all... if anything I'm more shocked by this steep rise in younger children.
What causes the phase shifts?
Are there examples of a langchain agent that uses chat API w/ gpt 3.5 or 4 and works well? I keep trying the library every once in a while, and I like it in theory, but the more impressive-seeming parts just don’t seem to actually work well.

Eg

- the Agent tool to retrieve webpage content just immediately fills up the context window. You can say “only use it for small pages”, but the agent picks the page!

- “as an AI language model I can’t use any fancy tools”

- I couldn’t mix and match ConversationalAgent with keeping intermediate steps and memory - gave me an error about only allowing certain chain output keys. This one could’ve been fixed by now, but to me it points to how the library’s features don’t necessarily work together just because they’re in the library together

I do find the library to be useful as a survey of prompting techniques though.

For my own chatbot that can use tools, I found I had to lean in to how ChatGPT _wants_ to respond, by getting it to reply in “code mode” (intro text, bullet list of steps, followed by code blocks and outtro). From there the trick is to get it to just write a single line of python (or another lang) where it just calls a function. Then the non-code reply is it’s “scratch pad”, followed by a code block of action invocation. So the only parsing I’m doing is just pulling out the code block and (don’t boo me, it’s just for fun) eval-ing it. But the response format is pretty consistent so I could make a little mini-parser for python func calls.

Before that, I tried and failed to do what langchain does- prompt engineer in the System Prompt in order to get chatgpt to respond in the correct format (thought, action, observation, answer)
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It is amusing.

What is that next to the cookie? To the right? Is that a cookie monster with eyes?
What's 28542 Represent?
Yup. Uni chem major is ticket to grad school which was ticket to biotech/pharma. Had to move a few times but it’s a comfortable career with some overall usefulness.
This is a really interesting period of interaction.

A few things people might think is fun:

Remember the scene in True Romance where Christopher Walken talks about Sicily, this is what he is referring to.

A lot of people know a little bit of the crusades and the the Byzantine were not super happy with some of the armies that arrived there, no wonder the Normans were literally invading them and trying to take over not that long before.

The Kingdom of Sicily was way more powerful in the Medieval time then people realize. IT was easily one of the most powerful medieval states, far less divided then France or HRE. The fielded a large force of nights with pretty central control and had a navy. They successfully repelled the Holy Roman Empire many times, funny enough often without fighting a single battle.

Playing this period in Crusder Kings 3 is really fun.
TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning
They did generate some bad press, but I dunno how much of that translates to actual brand damage.

Maybe Nintendo didn't like the trajectory, or the potential for brand damage to their treasured IP, even if the mobile games weren't even denting the reputation yet.
That’s like saying seat belts wouldn’t be needed if the car didn’t move, no?
Yeah, I have been very surprised by the fact that e-bikes require you to think less about clothing than regular bikes.

In the hot summer you sweat buckets on a regular bike, but an e-bike is cooler than just walking because not only are you not exerting yourself, but the speed generates a breeze.

And in the winter you can choose to pedal a little harder to compensate for the cold wind and again stay the same temperature just as walking.

E-bikes are much closer to walking than traditional cycling when dealing with temperatures.

Obviously rain is gonna suck though.
Anti-smoking hysteria is bad? Let's be real here. I can agree on drinking, but not smoking.
There are ebikes with three or four wheels and enclosed to protect from the elements. Examples are the Organic Transit ELF and the BetterBikes PEBL.
Prolonged use of amphetamines can lead to addiction, psychosis, cardiovascular problems, and other serious health issues.

This is the bottom line. It’s a drug, it’s not good for you. That euphoria is not treatment, your being drugged. Only addicts defend long term use
An alternative with simpler networking is to to rig up a little Web server on your home OpenWrt router, listening on the WAN interface. When the URL is requested (with authentication of some kind), it runs `etherwake` with the hardcoded MAC address and the hardcoded interface (e.g., `eth1.1`).

Then your UI to wake up your machine, from anywhere in the world, would be to access that URL via a Web browser or `curl` script.

For accessing the machine once it's awakened, probably you have a single TCP port forward configured on the router, forwarded to the port on the machine for SSH or whatever service is exposed. No other networking config.

(You could alternatively code a small "wake-on-demand" program that runs on the router, and initially listens on the port that will be forwarded to the service of the machine, but is resilient against port-scanning (maybe in a service-specific way to validate requests before waking machine), and reliable in setting and unsetting the port forward in the router when the machine is up and down.)
Makes me wonder how many other lurking type confusion bugs there are. KASAN only found this one because it happened to produce an out-of-bounds access (I guess pci_dev is larger than whatever struct the pointer really pointed to); it can’t detect the type confusion itself.
> Legal professionals that work on boilerplate could see simple contract generation being taken away from them for instance, and even run-of-the-mill developers could see themselves competing against much cheaper app/website generators.

I don’t think people will use AI in its current (hallucinating) state if there is money or lives on the line.
Eh, honestly, just go all the way and ban advertising altogether (I would be so happy if this happened, even though it obviously never will). Pretty willing to tank my karma to say this, I don't care, I think advertising is one of the biggest psychological pollutants in modern society and any possible benefit (??) is vastly outweighed by the cognitive waste incurred by all who are subjected to it.
It's "einstein" ("one tile") not "Einstein".

Dup of heavily discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273707

Also covered at https://www.quantamagazine.org/hobbyist-finds-maths-elusive-...

Not sure why it got a new round of webspam this week.
Alternate hypothesis: AI is more general purpose than existing software. GPT4 is capable of developing and executing plans in multiple domains. GPT-5 will undoubtedly improve upon this.

Why would we need an AI for X tool? Why not just pay for an AI tool? Perhaps the AI tool needs some integrations to work well, but when the ai can build arbitrary programs to achieve its goal… durable value of tools becomes dubious.

My suspicion is that many startups are trying to surf a wave of rising AI capability. Many will be swamped by the AI simply getting better and eliminating their differentiators. See GPT-4/Plug-ins… whatever is next.
A start would be ban ads that target children, base the rules off the banning of cigarette ads targeted at children. Much easier to implement, I would think.
It's not so much a wind turbine, as when you have dozens or hundreds of them in view at the same time.
All the best. I am staying out of direct AI for a while because I don't want to be dependent on a few APIs. And I am also looking at far more baser human needs to go viral. But if you have 5 people and LOIs you can get angel funding right now.
> What are you basing this conclusion on?

That is the natural balance. People need to be paid enough to be incentivized to work. Work sucks. Especially low income work. But society needs these jobs to be done.

> If what you say is true, minimum wage increases would be worthless as they would just be swallowed by inflation. However, studies on the topic show this isn't true. Minimum wage increases have a negligible impact on inflation. This should be obvious because minimum wage positions do not make up the entirety of the labor market and the labor costs do not make up the entirety of business costs. So why would all prices increase in pace with the minimum wage?

That’s mostly true. But this is not a minimum wage increase. This is taking away the most valuable part of the paycheck: the part you need to survive. People aren’t going to work hard for $8 an hour if they’re taken care of by the government. It’s simply not worth it.

> I didn't say there would be no inflation. I said inflation would be progressive in that it wouldn't have much of an impact on stables in which demand is inelastic and working class people spend a relatively higher percentage of their income

It’s a supply side effect. Not a demand one.

Also, basically any non trivial inflation is enough to make UBI not UBI because it’s supposed to be just enough to be liveable.
The case for banning children from social media is stable diffusion and the prospect of perverts taking otherwise normal photos and videos that your children post of themselves (or that you post of them) and making pornography out of it. No parent in 2023 should allow their minor child to use any of these platforms.
This is ancient memory for me, but it definitely didn't feel this way. Some plausible options are:

(1) Win2k Home was much cheaper than Win2k Pro. Possibly an upgrade version was cheaper still.

(2) I had a bootleg version

(3) I started working for real money in 1999 so didn't care that much

(4) An OEM CD came with the computer hardware kit.
What? This entire thread is about exactly that confusion.
Yup. E-bike bike share is the way to go here. I'd never purchase an e-bike myself for that exact reason, but I still use them several times a week.

I actually wonder how many American city bike share programs have e-bikes by now, if it's most, or only a few.
A bill just passed in the state of Utah where I live banning children from social media unless they have their parents permission under 18 years of age.

In addition, the parents must be provided with access to all of the children's messages and posts.

This now means that Facebook has to implement some sort of "are you 18" thing. Don't know how they'll implement that, reminds me of a recent law around porn in Alabama. Requiring a driver's license or some such.

It also means Facebook has to implement a back door of sorts for parents to watch their children. As of the parent of a girl who will soon reach social media age, this seems a bit much to me.

But the technical side of my brain screams, how on Earth are they going to implement this and keep spammers from abusing it.

It changes so many things. Child predators pretending to be 14. Indeed, any kind of anonymity has been largely banned because I have to know how old you are to let you on my site.

And it's not just Facebook it's any sort of social media, including our host.
Maybe you don't know him and you're just making up shit about him because you've got a beef with what other people, not him, said.
Every time I read the langchain docs, I get confused, and realize that implementing these things myself won’t take much time and offer me transparency… maybe I’m not the target audience?
Are you saying you'd use something else in production?

> For example, it's still a pain to distinguish between using a Chat oriented LLM vs a regular completion one.

Totally agree. After using it for a few weeks, this is one of the most visible weaknesses in the design.
gpt4 won't know anything about gpt5, you would have to make a sophisticated prompt for gpt4 that converts its quirks into gpt5's quirks, but if you know so much about both LLMs, why not to use gpt5 directly?
I don't think the government should ban social media, but doing it on an individual level won't work. You either turn your kid into a social pariah for being the only one not on social media, or they will just figure out a way to get into it anyway.
If you don't want your children to become addicted to something, be a good parent and monitor them. It is not the government's or the society's responsibility to babysit your kids.

I don't want my freedoms taken away from me (in this case, freedom to anonymously use social media) just because some people don't have the capability or the motivation to parent their kids properly.

Also, this "what about the children" thing is a very dangerous slippery slope. The same argument is being used by backwards governments around the world to ban anything LGBT related in public.
The BetterBikes PEBL can be used in the winter.
It's "einstein" ("one tile") not "Einstein".

Dup of heavily discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273707

Not sure why it got a new round of webspam this week.
I am able to disable "Auto-join" on those, but I don't have these WiFi hotspots near me so I can't test if that Auto-join toggle actually works.
> but whether AGI can ever have agency.

if you assume that at some point, the AGI would be given the ability to control something (such as sending IP packets through the internet), then yes, they will have agency!

> Can something that cannot die have agency?

If the AI could be deleted, or stopped from operating, then it can die. Therefore, if the AI has agency, it would take steps to prevent itself from dying, by whatever means available to it.
Have young kids, they won’t get a phone, tablet or whatever till well into their teens. Tablets are the new pacifier and it’s hard sometimes not to give in for a break.. we allow some limited tv sometimes but only select classic cartoons or documentaries. I cannot see any value at all in social media for kids and I personally cannot believe parents let their kids on TikTok or whatever. It’s wild.
> If you do that, social media companies will figure out how to keep kids from accessing their site.

Absolutely not. Where do you think 18 year old users will come from? They will come from 17 year old users who turn 18. Therefore, social media sites will still have an incentive to corral kids onto the platform. Because they will one day turn 18 (or 16, or whatever the legislated age cutoff is) and become a source of revenue. Moreover, social media sites want network effects and want to be trendy among young people, even if these things don't directly lead to revenue.
I read this as cellular providers offloading traffic from their networks by making it so phones will piggyback on Wi-Fi networks. Maybe a symptom of increasing demand for more data but unwillingness to eat the cost or too many users. With Wi-Fi calling they’ve got that covered.
I noticed this type of thing a LONG time ago (years) when my browser session was hijacked by some starbucks terms of service popup. my phone had auto joined an at&t wireless hotspot at a nearby starbucks.

I could disable auto-join at that time and it didn't happen again.

Also as a general precaution I turned off wifi except at home.

However, if it cannot be disabled, I find it troubling.
How do i explain the gap ? Obviously emergence. It's everywhere in nature. a single ant does not display the complexity/intelligence of its colony.

The argument is supposed/or often used to disqualify machines from consciousness but it's stupid because biological neurons don't understand the bigger picture anymore than an artificial neuron sampled from a model.
Ah yes, the economic trick of buying the "average" house thousands of kilometers away from where I live. The average house where I live starts at four hundred thousand. Much more if you want detached.

Thanks the advice. I'll start purchasing property impractically far from my work. Good idea
> Why would we need an AI for X tool?

Because (1) GPT-4 is giant and resource intensive, and (2) has several areas where it is not particularly strong without additional, external tools. Focussed AI in particular domains can be stronger and lighter in the domain.

Also, because even where GPT-4 or its successor is the ultimate backend model, actual AI tools are more than the backend model, and the specialization of that piece for the target domain can make a big difference.
Keeping pipes from freezing is rarely a concern in most parts of the world, and you certainly don't need to turn up the furnace to "comfort levels" to do it. 10 C / 50 F is more than sufficient with adequate safety margins, but many people will complain about being uncomfortable at those temperatures. That's where directional space heaters come in.
From my experience it took very active moderation to even poorly enforce COPA style rules and that was with a small user base, not the mega-userbases of today's social media. Kids just sign up anyway and then the moderators wait for them to slip up and still are just making an educated guess.

The only way to make it more effective I feel is ID verification but then you are looking at collecting IDs from kids and that is a total non-starter in my opinion, not to mention they don't usually have a verifiable ID yet.

I don't have the solution, but if we look at other age prohibited activities they are usually restricted up until the age that you are considered an adult and as such ID is more reasonable to ask for.
I don't know whether this book is good or not, but I am a bit disappointed that its very first mathematical definition (that appears on p.6) is already wrong:

> Definition 2.1. A single variable polynomial with real coefficients is a function f that takes a real number as input, produces a real number as output, and has the form f(x) = a_0 + a_1x + a_2x^2 + ... + a_nx^n, ...

It is fine not to distinguish between “polynomial” and “polynomial function” in a high school textbook, but for a book at college level, I think we should expect a higher standard.
> There will be a market for those who can afford to pay millions of dollars for a very special kind of chip made with special transistors. And there will be market for normal people.

It is already like that, but it's not a binary choice. You pay $$$ to be on the "bleeding edge", or $$ for "previous gen", and if that's still too expensive, you can pay $ for "2 gens ago or older".
I didn't think about a solution too deeply, but I was thinking of something like "shadow" prefix registers: when the chip takes an interrupt, copy the prefix latches to the shadow register, and then when you return from the interrupt, restore the prefixes from the shadow register. This would handle string operations in the interrupt handler but wouldn't handle nested interrupts. Your FLAGS solution would handle both since the state goes on the stack.

It would be interesting to find out what the real solution was in later x86 processors. I'm sure someone has looked into this.
I can't reply to you because you've posted such nonsense that all your comments are dead. Being born into nobility has nothing to do with anything as people who dine with nobility will use the same utensils. I'm not sure how you don't understand something so simple. Almost like it's deliberately disingenuous. Not to mention you haven't posted a shred of evidence that any of your assertions are even accurate
Did the bullying stop or slow down when you got home? Did you have to check online every 5 minutes to see what pictures of you were posted? Was embarrassing content being spread around to people you had never even interacted with on a regular basis.

Did Photoshopped images of you hanging from a ceiling fan with a Nike Swoosh and a caption saying "Just Do it" get 10,000 likes?

IMO bullying today is orders of magnitude worse than it was ~15 years ago.
ML isn't about trendy tools, its a fundamentally different paradigm from deterministic programming that has a different skillset
> boost in computing

Maybe another Winter was staved off by the heat of a million GPU suns (energy consumption notwithstanding).

In the future, we'll spray our GPUs with little spritzes from a water bottle, because something-something harvesting of photosynthetic electron leakage.
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They literally can't keep phones out of maximum security prisons. I don't think many parents are up for the challenge.
Each job, including Google, has thorough documentation for onramping of their eng tools.

Also, following your logic, recruiters wouldn't poach from Google.
> Just VPN back to your home network if you're not confident in their security.

I’m sorry but wtf?

You’re saying that, in my own home, I should just accept that my devices connect to an external wifi against my will and VPN back into my own home… while in my home?

Seriously?
> The mobile gaming landscape is not a place for quality

I’d rephrase that as the mobile gaming landscape is not a place for traditional monetization models. Genshin Impact is primarily a mobile game and although the anime aesthetic may not be for everyone it is easily a AAA quality open world game that has been a resounding financial success, making over $3.6B in just two years. However, it uses the gacha monetization model to fund its live service development instead of the traditional “buy the main game once and then pay for any expansions you want” model.
Good point, updated my comment to make age/gender brackets clearer