skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite follow the logic of either of these proposals. If (a big if) AGI displaces human labor, then most people will not have any income from employment. If that happens, who has the income to purchase the output of the AGI? If the addressable market served by the AGI declines drastically, then where do the profits come from? If the AGI has low/no profits, where does the tax or dividend come from?

The only solution I can come up with to this conundrum is if the output of the AGI is provided for free to people so the value is captured directly without the intermediating commercial steps. However, there will still be friction in this process (in the form of physical inputs) so I don't see how this is a long term sustainable approach.

Good thing I don't believe in AGI so this is, at best, a philosophical debate.
I mean, personally, I would also hang up on a human who called trying to sell me shit. I don't need to know the difference.
Reminds me of that old George Carlin bit. "The planet is fine. The people are fucked"
It would be great if all NeurIPS talks were accessible for free like this one. I understand they generate some revenue from online ticket sales, but it would be a great resource. Maybe some big org could sponsor it.
Figure 4 plots the entropy of each byte in "Daenerys Targeryen is in Game of Thrones, a fantasy epic
by George R.R. Martin."
Yes, agreed. Distribution by side loading or third party app stores enabled by recent anti trust rulings are outside of the centralized App Store control you mention. Hosting and storage at an org without a US entity within reach of the jurisdiction.

Bad for Oracle, troublesome for Bytedance, but the band plays on.
>But I'm curious as to why such as "super-app" hasn't taken root in the US like it has elsewhere.

because there's a lot more traditional banking and business infrastructure in the US or Europe than there is in China or India, so the latter just leapfrogged over it and the experience of using Alipay or running your business of Whatsapp is just much better than any legacy institution in those countries. People in countries with more established ways of doing things are both too used to and don't have that much of an incentive to switch because most stuff works sort of okay.

Same reason why WhatsApp adoption itself is lower in the US and sms based messaging held out so long. The US had cheap sms plans earlier so people were less eager to switch while everyone else just jumped to internet based messaging.
I'm suddenly feeling very naive for assuming all this time that Y-Combinator/Hacker News was, in some sense, the good guys.
What this tool is all about?could you please elaborate more
Do you think it could be that general purpose computers tend to exist as household items here moreso than in other parts of the world? I see my phone as a small extension of a much larger and more capable computing base. Is that view even possible in other parts of the world?
Does it? I’m a regular WhatsApp user and haven’t touched any other Meta app in a long time. Easy to forget that they’re connected.
Keep in mind that very commonly accepted safe substances such as carrots or water also become lethal at high enough doses, for all humans. It's often stated, and it can be tiring to hear, but the dose really does make the poison.
A distinction that belongs in a dictionary perhaps. To a programmer the ecosystem and the language are one and the same. One cannot rewrite every piece of code out there to suit their fancy.
All the publicly accessible sources you mentioned have already been scraped or licensed to avoid legal issues. This is why it’s often said, “there’s no public data left to train on.”

For evidence of this, consider observing non-English-speaking young children (ages 2–6) using ChatGPT’s voice mode. The multimodal model frequently interprets a significant portion of their speech as “thank you for watching my video,” reflecting child-like patterns learned from YouTube videos.
What if it encourages people to write parallel and functional code on CPUs? That'd be a good thing. Influence works both ways.

The bigger problem is that GPUs have various platform features (shared memory, explicit cache residency and invalidation management) that CPUs sadly don't yet. Sure, you could expose these facilities via compiler intrinsics, but then you end up code that might be syntactically valid C but is alien both to CPUs and human minds
Boring repetition is a bad fit for the human brain. Working memory is very small. Mistakes per line are frequent. It wants to see patterns that are not quite there. Even when it works out, it's millions of times slower than having the computer fill in grunt work from a more concise and readable spec of the problem.
I'm reasonably confident WhatsApp never caught on in the USA because most American phone plans had unlimited SMS in the early 2010s when WhatsApp's popularity was growing elsewhere. International messaging was probably also a big driver in Europe, but less relevant in other markets.
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/simplifying-gpu-applicatio...
This isn't really what an "everything app" is. WhatsApp is a chat app (+ some barebones community stuff, which Telegram and Discord also have).

To be an everything app, it needs to have, at the very least, a built-in payment system, fully featured social media content (ie. proper feeds and comments, at least on the level of Twitter), and non-trivial integration with other apps, businesses, and/or government entities. (This isn't even getting into eg. paying rent, ordering takeout, playing games, etc.)

Calling WhatsApp is just kind of missing the point of the definition.
Sure but the mammoth wasn't being delivered via DoorDash.
Uuh, where do you live? I haven't met a single person (technical or non technical) with such an attachment to a single app in my life.
One obstacle is momentum conservation: You can't just turn a single massless particle (a photon, say) into a massive one or vice versa because that would violate conservation of 4-momentum. The way out is to involve more than one massless particle in that interaction, e.g. convert two massless particles into one or more massive ones, or vice versa. (If a single massive particle is produced, the 3-momentum of the two massless particles cancels out in the center-of-mass frame, while their energy / p_0 adds up to the rest mass of the particle that's produced.)

Which interactions exactly are possible depends on the particles & forces involved, and further conservation laws for quantum numbers (e.g. charge) that the force obeys.

TL;DR Turning a single massless particle into a single massive one is not possible, you always need at least two.
Yeah, I don't think you can choose what obsesses you. If you want to make use of obsession, you have to notice things you can be obsessed by and pick among them.

For me at least, feedback from other people really helps there. So I look to incorporate things like user tests, releasing early and often, beta testers, and the like. Those provide new problems and new opportunities, which always helps keep things fresh for me.

I also like having people to not disappoint. That can carry me through low points in projects when I might otherwise quit. That can include both collaborators and users.
The title of the graph says it is for accelerating half way, then decelerating the other half
Cursed Belt Weaving [video]
I've read that he had cronies in the military. My only guess is that he was hoping they'd back him hard enough to suppress the opposition. (Either by ignoring the vote, or by preventing them from voting in the first place--which it seems came close to happening.)
FTA:

> The White House and the U.S. Department of Justice did not provide explanations for individual commutations. But those whose sentences Biden commuted on Thursday had been placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and "have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities," according to a fact sheet from the White House.

> The federal Bureau of Prisons website shows Burkhart, 60, was assigned to the residential reentry management field office in Detroit, which primarily manages federal offenders in halfway houses or on home confinement. His release date was listed as Sept. 22, 2025.

> In all, Biden commuted the sentences of 1,499 people who have been serving their sentences at home for at least one year. He also pardoned 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes, including one Indianapolis woman.
> who'd routinely play chicken with cars

I've never seen this, but can only imagine the stupidity of these spectators. To solve that, I'd have been in favor of awarding bonus points to drivers not avoid these "chickens"
Rubbish - there's no data that shows accuracy has improved by that much.
Apple is sitting on a massive pile of cash but won't dedicate a team to develop their own Unix userland tools. That's how much they care about the underpinnings of MacOS and power users.
You sure about that class strata?

I'm a software developer but I work in a factory making minimum wage now.

I can barely afford rent. I certainly don't feel like bourgeois.
WhatsApp dominates in all Western Europe, India, most of South America, most of Africa and more... 3 billion users and counting.
The question is where you live where this is not the case. You're the outlier here.
I found it surprising at the time that instant messaging apps that originated on PCs (ICQ, AIM, Skype, etc...) did not get widely adopted for this role despite most of the well-known ones releasing iOS and Android versions at the time.
they are - on a 1 month delay. https://slideslive.com/neurips-2023 last year.

so if you have the patience, wait, if no patience, pay. fair?

we did this for ai.engineer too except we believe in youtube a bit more for accessibility/discoverability. https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer/videos
> The enthalpy changes measured by a calorimeter are dependent on the design of the calorimeter, which could have been a different piece of equipment.

Right, but that is true of anything. Measuring devices need to be calibrated and maintained properly. It does not make something like a distance subjective, just because someone is measuring it in cm and someone else in km.

> If you introduced a new bit of macro information to the definition of an ensemble, you'd divide the number of microstates by some factor. That's the micro level equivalent of macroscopic entropy being undefined up to an additive constant.

It would change the entropy of your model. An ensemble in statistical Physics is not a physical object. It is a mental construct and a tool to calculate properties. An actual material would have whatever entropy it wants to have regardless of any assumptions we make. You would just find that the entropy of the material would match the entropy of one of the models better than the other one. If you change your mind and re-run the experiment, you’d still find the same entropy. This happens e.g. if we assume that the experiment is at a constant volume while it is actually under constant pressure, or the other way around.

> In a sense, that makes it dependent on the definition of enthalpy.

Not really. A joule is a joule, a kelvin is a kelvin, and the basic laws of thermodynamics are some of the most well tested in all of science. The entropy of a bunch of atoms is not more dependent on arbitrary definitions than the energy levels of the atoms.

> The measurables don't tell you S, they only tell you dS.

That’s true in itself, the laws of Thermodynamics are invariant if we add a constant term to the entropy. But it does not mean that entropy is subjective: two observers agreeing that the thing they are observing has an entropy of 0 at 0 K will always measure the same entropy in the same conditions. And it does not mean that actual entropy is dependent on specific assumptions about the state of the thing.

This is also true of energy, and electromagnetic potentials (and potentials in general). This is unrelated to entropy being something special or subjective.
> It's a matter of perspective. If you think of the GPU as a separate computer, you're right.

this perspective is a function of exactly one thing: do you care about the performance of your program? if not then sure indulge in whatever abstract perspective you want ("it's magic, i just press buttons and the lights blink"). but if you don't care about perf then why are you using a GPU at all...? so for people that aren't just randomly running code on a GPU (for shits and giggles), the distinction is very significant between "syscall" and syscall.

people who say these things don't program GPUs for a living. there are no abstractions unless you don't care about your program's performance (in which case why are you using a GPU at all).
There are many examples all over the world. Plenty of countries have people that have attachments to apps like whatsapp, telegram, etc.

All of my friends in brazil, for instance, are entirely attached to whatsapp.

I agree with the other reply. Where do you live? I'm surprised that you haven't encountered any. Every city in the US that I visited and every city that I visited internationally has people that attach themselves to one of either whatsapp, telegram, imessage, etc.

(I'm kind of excluding wechat here because wechat seems to be forced, but there are plenty of people who have this attachment to wechat as well because of its status as an omni app)
I'd give at least even odds the next century won't be american-centric, despite all this effort. China has a good chance of replacing the USA as the global hegemony, with the EU as a lesser alternative but one with enough strengths to be at least plausible if not the most likely.
It doesn't remove sampling, and forcing grammar by specifying allowed/prohibited bytes doesn't require running the decoder over and over, you just compute the softmax at the output layer over allowed bytes only and sample from those accordingly, same as with BPE-based models.
Nope, but by that definition almost no countries have an “everything app”. There’s like, one example in a very unique market?

It’s the “everything app” for messaging, friends and groups.
A feel for reasonable values, and rough-quantitative understanding, is widely thought important for expertise. Despite the limited attention it usually gets in education. But even when instruction is relatively well resourced, as with college seminars devoted entirely to estimation, the content available seems less than inspiring. "Estimate turkey cooking time from first principles, without recourse to wrapper or google"... um, yay? Either we're profoundly confused about utility, or there seems an under-addressed opportunity to gather content which revels in that utility.

If beyond call-and-response, memorize-and-regurgitate, plug-and-chug, problem-based-reasoning, and the-equation-is-the-phenomena, there is something more to aspire to, where quantitative understanding in content is pervasive and foundational, something which illuminates, simplifies, scaffolds, integrates and exercises understanding... then maybe we've a whole lot of content-creation work for the collective todo list?
Seems like a stretch to extrapolate from one word in the title (ie. "quietly") to "shady as fuck to not only make no announcement about the change, but make it difficult to even figure out what's happened". The article even mentions that the author was not involved in discussions between the publisher and youtube[1]. This is like some engineer complaining about how AWS "silently" changed their enterprise terms, when he's not even in meetings between his company and the AWS account rep.

[1] >(I didn’t even really know about it until this links kerfuffle — if you listen to The Vergecast this week, you know our newsroom is firewalled from the business side of our company.)
I think it's not as prominent as this in the US - probably because the equivalent is Apple messaging systems, if your family / friend group is all in that?
WhatsApp was there before Apple. There was even Symbian versions of it.

The reason it got so popular in other counties is the extortionate pricing of SMSes. WhatsApp used (and still uses) very little data and with the lowest level data tariff you would still get more messaging quota. Moreover it costed nothing when WiFi on phones became a thing. Then sending pictures for free became a thing too.

They were also a smaller company and it didn't bother people to pay a small amount for all of the benefits they got.
International messaging is still relevant in many parts of the world that don't necessarily need to message neighboring countries, but have a big diaspora.
For one, in other countries, people are perfectly okay with doing real business over a messaging app. I saw a doctor in Indonesia once and everything from appointment scheduling to follow up with the doctor was done on WhatsApp. They were okay sending medical tests, records, and bills on WhatsApp as well.

In China, same thing, on WeChat.

In the US, they want you to register some stupid MyHealth thing, sign some paper documents, and mail follow up shit to your residential address. They won't give you medical records on anything other than a fucking CD-ROM, even in 2024. Somehow in the US, a messaging app isn't "official" enough, and there's going to be the one first amendment brat* that doesn't want to install WhatsApp for privacy reasons.

* I say this jokingly, and do think we need to be harsher on corporations. However, my point is that in collectivist countries like Indonesia/China, if you don't install WhatsApp/WeChat or whatever is the chosen national app, you'll be the outcast and nobody will help you. The collectivist societies tend to embrace these apps for their convenience, rather than question their terms and conditions.
> The Turing test is well and truly beaten, regardless of how you define it

Unless the question the human asks is 'How many l's in llama'
I see one problem here: caffeine is soluble in water and a diuretic, meaning anyone attempting suicide by coffee would have a bad time doing it.

Healthy kidneys work through around a litre of blood a minute, so my guess is that, ahem, "breaking the seal" would keep caffeine levels in check.
... and one ring to bind them.

Even if it were an open source app with open governance, the shaping of culture happens at a different layer. And that shaping sometimes is guided and not in the best interest of the users.
A patent lawsuit kept them from opening it up at the time. I think it's only recently been resolved.
Which is to say nothing of the mass of whatever containment equipment would be necessary.

For stop and go; we'd be looking at something that could deploy a dyson swarm, generate and contain its own antimatter and then go again right?

I should play universal paperclips again.
You totally ignored "on these issues" and are essentially saying there is no need to work on that as they worked on something else, which is extremely strange for a thing which feels like a really trivial win, and should be shocking.

Whether you like it or not, it is entirely fair to look at an entire ecosystem and ask why some trivial thing that everyone talks about all the time hasn't seen any attention even if the entire ecosystem is getting widespread advancement.

Like, I think it would also be fair to complain about how bad the hinge on AirPods are, causing the case to explode when dropped and your earbuds to fly everywhere (potentially getting very dirty) as well as wear out and cause spurious activation (leading to audio routing issues and rapid battery drain).

To then point out that this is one of the most successful consumer devices in recent years and was a remarkable improvement to what came before as well as a continuing achievement of engineering as they do in fact get better in amazing ways every couple years is more than just a non sequitur: it is frankly just annoying.
The cars are still worse than humans.
I've never seen a single commercial device do that. I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't allowed.

That's not a reason to keep HDMI. Obviously the real reason is that HDMI makes money for the people selling it.
I didn’t even know it could do things other than send messages. How do they do all that other stuff? Bots? Plain text chats?
The US was one of the few countries in the world where there were unlimited SMS plans. So by the time Whatsapp came around instant free messaging was already ubiquitous. This wasn't the case for most other regions, where Whatsapp actually brought free unlimited mobile messaging.
> That would not be an externality. Which type of restaurant succeeds is internal to the economic activity of people paying for food at restaurants.

The externality is not "which type of restaurant succeeds" but the "impoverishment of the local culture". Call it a side effect if you prefer, one of the many caused by heavy tourism (rise of housing prices, replacement of local commerce by souvenir shops, etc.) that end up pushing locals out of those areas and turning them into theme parks with no soul. Of course you are free to think that's not something worth caring about as a society.

> What type of cuisine is crap and not is extremely subjective.

There's some subjectivity involved, but in the same sense there are books that are bad by any account, there's food that is crap by any account.

> If a local populace is not sufficiently motivated to make and eat a specific cuisine such that it dies out, that is sad, but just one of many compromises society makes while constantly evolving due to new parameters.

At least here in Spain and the Mediterranean Europe in general, they do. You just have to go outside of the heavily touristic areas into the ones where actual locals live. It's true that home cooking has changed a bit in a similar fashion as you describe, but it resists in family and friend gatherings during weekends and holidays.
And by “America” you mostly mean “USA”. In Mexico, everyone including the government, my bank, lawyers, and even telco would WhatsApp me.
That’s not what I was implying at all I have no clue how you arrived at that. I’m saying an LD1 does exist – it’s the dose that would be fatal to 1% of a population (and further a LD0.1 and 0.0001 exist). These doses are lower than the LD50, fatal to millions, and approach what some would consider normal. For instance: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna759716
It’s the first time I hear that Whatsapp is already an everything app. Ive used Whatsapp for about 14 years or so on a daily basis as my main app. But it’s just chat for me, and about 30% of my non-professional calls. And I use the share location feature a lot when meeting friends. But that’s about it.

But banking, social media, ID/login, maps, albums, browsing etc I all do outside of whatsapp.
It wouldn't have worked anyway. The ROK has a history of right wing patries abusing power and violent student protests clashing with riot control police. That is hard earned democracy. If he thought the people wouldn't be out in the streets backing up the Assembly, he was so wrong. They're out in the streets protesting peacefully with k-pop light sticks as we speak.
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

This isn't Twitter.
It has long been known that if you want the highest possible achievement, split up students along ability lines (even if that means starting to ignore age).

That will produce the highest highs. This has been known for centuries. Everyone in education will have been taught this.

The point of the administrators effort was not to improve students' outcomes ... and that means that, despite failure, it's probably not over. This saves money.