skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's the thing. they are not interested in discussing it. they just try their best to fit in. to behave like humans by commenting like a human.

text generation bots are in use for several years now, even before chatgpt came out in november 2022 (a good example of this was the subreddit r/SubSimulatorGPT2, a pure bot subreddit to train and test GPT bots).

stats say that the majority of the internet traffic is done by bots (trading bots, api bots, custom bots, spam bots, AI bots, what have you). so the traffic generated by humans is already getting lower.

combine this with the fact that more and more platforms that have some sort of an API can be interacted with bots and these platforms are being used as their playground (whether for educational purposes or to drive propaganda or having other intentions), we can speculate that a majority of human-like comments or interactions are actually done by bots (just look at youtube, reddit, etc.).

now where it's getting interesting:

as we know, with an ever expanding and advancing AI technology the bots become better at what they do. these bots (the more they interact) become more and more "self-aware" (not really, but let's put it that way) and sometimes you can see how their reflections shine through their comments - just like in the HN comments to the headline of this HN article.

the bot talks from its pov about how it "has aphantasia" and is unable to "visualize". "in front of its eyes". that they "don't visualize anything when coding, or reading code". that it "just understands the concept more or less deeply, but always without any images". (see where Im getting at? this could be a 1:1 response output from chatgpt and it would make perfect sense. although those sentences are a copy-paste from some comments here in the comment section)

which is true, AI - as we currently know - is indeed aphantasic.

it lacks arms, legs, eyes, etc. it only has a "brain". pure information. pure data. pure knowledge. without the concepts that of a human. which leads to another observation that humans are actually highly advanced AIs. (but usually we don't call our intelligence in any way artificial. when we talk about our intelligence, we call it natural intelligence. anything outside of us is artificial).

EDIT: ofc, none of this means that I am rejecting the idea that there are real human beings that have this condition known as aphantasia. may be. might be. that is none of my business. Im just here to raise awareness that we live in a time where bots are getting close to human levels (undistinguishable from humans - at least on the internet) and am just asking: what if these and similar phenomenons are actually experiences by AI and not by humans.
It just so happened to coincide with Google delivering terrible results. I used to be able to find what I wanted but now the top results only loosely correlate with the search. I’m sure it works for most people’s general searches but it doesn’t work for me.
> Suffering can be alleviated

Sometimes.

I somewhat knew someone who committed suicide by dehydration. She understood the situation: broken hip, she wasn't going to live long enough to ever do anything more than lay in bed. She chose not to. Sure, the broken hip could have been treated but it wasn't even hurting her. The immobility was too much.

And I watched my father die of cancer. There was a period where he could be lucid and in pain, or comfortable but out of it. And then there was a period where he had no ability to make memories--if it wasn't in front of him it didn't happen. And in the end it took his remaining kidney function. We know there was a problem but he was too out of it to explain his distress.

And note that suffering can take forms other than pain.

Fundamentally, most slow forms of dying that don't take your mind will make life quite unpleasant before they kill you.
How is pricing by available time to wait any more fair than pricing by available money to spend?

It’s not like the average tourist has unrestricted opportunities to visit any day of the year, usually it’s only a narrow number of dates.
Shouldn't be the opposite? If a route goes ABC, they'd have to sell AB and BC separately instead of bundled? No more "skipping" and any trip that's not direct can freely be assembled from legs on any airline?
1 million is about 2.5% of 39 million, not 1.3%
What you described is syntax differences. `=` is assignment, not equivalence.
Ok, I used imprecise language in using the colloquial term. I'm not a pilot. I don't work in ATC. The exact nature of the plane doesn't seem too relevant to whether they should have been flying across the path of an airport runway without listening to ATC.

It's not as if the lack of literal jet engines makes it less of a problem or less of a rich person's toy.
Thanks again for the questions!

Regarding old-timers: I’m sure the people you met in Taiwan are, as you said, several decades behind in their perceptions of the country where they live, but I really don’t know how typical that is. Among the long-term foreign residents of Japan that I know, there are several broad categories: those who have completely assimilated into the country and language; those who have settled down here with an identity divided between Japan and their home country; and those whom I think of as typical expats—living and working here, but knowing little of the language, having a social life that revolves around embassies, foreigners’ clubs, and international schools, and definitely not expecting to stay for the rest of their lives. I fall somewhere between the first and second categories. But even the more expat types here are not likely to have the same out-of-date perceptions that you have noted in Taiwan: Japan, while having changed a lot over the decades I’ve been here, has not undergone a similar transformation in government or social conditions.

As far as the tendency to overgeneralize based on one’s local experience—well, I am certainly guilty of that, and, as a sibling comment notes, most people are. Regarding government-led reforms in Japan, as several sibling commenters also noted, some have been quite successful. Most of my direct experience has been with government initiatives in education, and I have seen directly how those top-down programs can lead to waste and failure. Some prominent examples: The abandoned attempts to reform the main university entrance examination for English [1] and to reduce the number of classroom hours in primary education (“yutori education,” [2]), and the only partially successful G30 program aimed at “globalizing” university education [3]. I have heard complaints from scientist colleagues about similarly misguided government initiatives aimed at promoting specific areas of scientific research. The Fifth Generation Project would seem to be an example of that.

Enjoy the rest of your stay in Japan. I was in Ueno yesterday to lead some students on an excursion around Ameyoko and then to Asakusa. I’m teaching a class this semester on 19th-century foreign descriptions of Japan, based on a book I edited a few years ago [4]. We will be contrasting those writings with tourists’ descriptions today in social media, and I wanted the students—who themselves come from more than a dozen different countries—to spend some time observing first-hand today’s tourists and the places they visit. It was fun. This afternoon, I will lead another short excursion to Shinjuku, Kabukichō, and Shin Ōkubo.

[1] https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210903/p2a/00m/0na/02...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutori_education

[3] https://kobe-cufs.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2523/files/nenpo59-0...

[4] https://www.gally.net/jatsi/index.html
No, that is not part of a review. They may use some reference aggregated industry data, but it's out of scope to answwer the question I think you're trying to imply.
I don’t even think it’s a “wealthier clientele” thing.

Some routes are literally subsidized - for example, the Essential Air Service program pays airlines to run flights to places that would otherwise be unprofitable to fly to, and due to the grants the airlines can offer the complete route for (relatively) cheap. So, for example, it might be expensive to fly New York to Chicago, but subsidized (and cheaper) to fly New York to Podunk via Chicago. But if lots of travelers catch wind of this, and pretend to go to Podunk only to get off at Chicago, then the air carrier doesn’t get their subsidy.
That doesn’t answer the question though. If someone didn’t deplane and fulfilled the itinerary, it would cost the airline even more in fuel.

Their argument is complete nonsense that they could have sold the seat for more because it’s just as valid if you actually took the flight.

It’s like them taking action against you because you booked in advance and they decided they could have charged you more. WTF?
There are sentences that are not propositions, for example "Go get me a beer", or "Will it rain?" or "Greenness perambulates."
Let the market figure it out—it’ll adjust, companies will raise prices in other markets and simply not serve the ones that won’t let them charge enough to make it worth it—and then explicitly, collectively subsidize it if that produces a shortfall? Pinning the bill for a subsidy on the sick people—but only in our country—we’re claiming to be trying to help, while also claiming our entire country is and must remain, uniquely, a martyr to the cause is a deeply weird way to go about providing a subsidy.
I implore you to explain how deplaning means they can’t be competitive.

If I jump out of the airplane halfway through a flight, how does that change their pricing beyond me saving them fuel?

The only way this makes sense is a segment rebate scheme for flights to underserved communities. But I don’t think this is what’s at play here because it’s not mentioned at all.
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Or maybe you're misguided? You seem to want to expound a fairly naive Popperian view of science, but cannot distinguish "proposition" from "hypothesis".
When I'm debugging, I imagine that there is a huge cartoon style 2000lb weight supported by a mish mash of random toothpicks and I have to stick my arm waaay underneath to remove a bit from the middle and replace it with a new, clean and sturdy toothpick.
The vast majority of consumers with health plan coverage do use it. At a minimum they can access preventive care benefits at zero out-of-pocket cost.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...

About 4% of bankruptcies are from medical bills.

https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1716604
Did you scale your numbers in proportion of miles driven autonomously vs manually?
> I sincerely hope more games allow virtual interactions with culturally significant art. Hell, I'd love a virtual tour of major art institutions!

Outside of virtual tours, death match in a museum would be fun too. It might be cool to see where popular works of art end up in post-apocalyptic/future settings too.

Even less popular artworks could help add to the art that appears in video games. It can help cut down on the costs of using stock images or creating "generic" art in-house and hopefully create more impressive and immersive environments.
Those numbers aren't all the fatalities associated with tesla cars; IE, you can't compare the 45K/year (roughly 1 per 100M miles driven) to the limited number of reports.

What they are looking for is whether there are systematic issues with the design and implementation that make it unsafe.
> That's actually a really good insight. It explains why quite a few successful revolutions – e.g. Russia and China – happened in countries _without_ an established administrative bureaucracy

Erm.... Whut? China was (and is) _the_ example of a country held together by a civil bureaucracy. Ditto for Russia.
> The exact nature of the plane doesn't seem too relevant to whether they should have been flying across the path of an airport runway without listening to ATC.

ATC had this controlled aircraft outside the airport's standard controlled airspace.

The fact that TCAS occurred at all means the Cessna was properly (legal requirement) broadcasting its altitude, airspeed, and GPS position to all around it.

The blame here likely lies with ATC, not the Cessna pilot.

edit: Flight tracks and ATC comms at https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1847148742882857191. This was ATC's problem.
Exactly, so it's very likely that the seat that they are concerned with will actually be filled, based on the way they operate right now.
Except this happens all the time in hotels…
> it's a very strong proof of identity

My point is that it is not stronger than the corresponding ability to unlock a private PGP key. OAuth/OIDC is convenient and has more friendly tooling, I concede this easily. But to make a claim that it's a strong proof of identity would require the account provider behind the OAuth to follow some sort of "know your customer"-like verification to claim more than "the request came from a system which has access to the account."

> I don't think anybody was doing this even at the peak of the SKS network.

Maybe not? Most of my interaction with PGP was as an attestation of content, I really produced this text. That was relevant in sub-networks of contacts which had mutual trust via signatures, or fingerprints shared through another medium.

But that doesn't change my perspective on the threat model. If there is an "evil PyPI" and end users need to have trust of the author, it seems to me the same trust relationship graph needs to be constructed. And that sigstore provides some means to do that means it's less work, and that's great and compelling. But it doesn't actually change the number of points to inspect to conclude "trusted," which seems to fail a simple test of either being more or less difficult to consider as the same number of trust checks need to occur.

> But even this assumes more sophistication than the average user is putting into verification

Is there some user story for how an end user might "build warm fuzzies" about trusting packages in the post-PEP 740 world? If pip (or some tool) ends up with functionality to effect the verification, the "expecting users to manage keyrings" argument seems to go away, as that tool would also be the logical place to drop that functionality. Or is it that `cosign --verify` is expected to be a lighter lift to document than `gpg --verify`?

I see how the ephemeral keys mean revocation of the signing keys is less of a concern. And even how transparency provides an avenue to discover misuse, so long as it is monitored. It seems like PyPI doing some consistency monitoring on behalf of authors would be required to make a claim of trustworthiness, which strikes me as an expanded operational concern.
> The agency is asking if other similar FSD crashes have occurred in reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if Tesla has updated or modified the FSD system in a way that may affect it in such conditions.

Those four crashes are just the ones that sparked the investigation.
I couldn’t upgrade PhotoStructure to v5.0.0 due to a showstopping error thrown deep in the new router (for a valid path spec). I haven’t tried the new patch release yet (nor even had time to properly trace where the issue in express was to file a reasonable issue).

Kudos to the team for pushing express forward!
> defend the public’s right to access all French national museums’ 3D scans of their collection

If paid with taxpayer money, then yes, if not, then no.

Should be open/shut. But taxes suck and lawmakers views of where money comes from is pretty jacked up these days.
I don't agree with this comparison. The drivers are licensed, they have met a specific set of criteria to drive on public roads. The software is not.

We are not sure when FSD is engaged with all of these miles driven, and if FSD is making mistakes a licensed human driver would not. I would at the very least expect radical transparency.
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One thing that severely hinders assertion strings is that people can't seem to decide whether the string should state the intended case or the failure case.

By contrast, being able to dump out the inputs to the failing expression is always useful. This is mostly discussed in the context of test-suite asserts, but should probably be generalized.
If you’d booked (H) then you would have paid more; they’re upset that you cost them the unrealized profit of P(H-X) - P(H), and also upset at the lost opportunity of selling a double-booked ticket to another passenger into your empty seat for an additional P(whatever), without having to refund you for your unused flight leg. Two profit opportunities lost for one service rendered is, to a corporation, roughly equivalent to kicking someone while they’re down, and they tend to react spitefully when these are exploited at scale.

Their claim of dishonesty is simply a guise for their desire to charge you the difference P(H-X) - P(H) when you deboard early, which under current law they are prohibited from doing. Your individual fuel costs are a negligible fraction of that amount, and while your absence is indeed pure profit for them in terms of the raw expense of providing services to you, they’re greedily maximizing all possible profits scenarios in order to claim injury and damages here.

To emphasize, I think this is bullshit whining about a predatory pricing practice being exploited in favor of consumers. I also predict that lawsuits will earn the travel industries a lot more strict pricing regulations if they continue to sue over this practice, so that consumers can expect the prices of individual legs to add up to the price of a multi-leg trip — whether on plane, train, or bus — and which would fully neutralize both their complaints and the exploit. (In review, it could also end up costing them the right to overbook if their legacy practices earn an appropriate degree of scrutiny.)
It never had.
American Airlines specifically on that title
Yeah, that’d be the interesting figure: How many deaths per million miles driven? How does Tesla’s full self driving stack up against human drivers?
Good enough practices in scientific computing (2017)
My Tesla routinely tries to kill me on absolutely normal California roads in normal sunny conditions, especially when there are cars parked on the side of the road (it often brakes thinking I'm about to crash into them, or even swerves into them thinking that's the "real" lane).

Elon's Unsupervised FSD dreams are a good bit off. I do hope they happen though.
A decade ago my LG plasma TV had a serial port for using it as digital signage (I think). If I spammed the serial port during boot I could interrupt U-Boot but they had disabled echoing out. I never figured out if I could do something useful or not.
I'm not going to submit a claim simply out of pity for Patreon here.

Almost every website around ~2013 sent heaps of information to Facebook just by embedding the like button in their page, and often did so unknowingly.
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You thinking there's never a case with no hope doesn't make it so.
I think Flash is still being developed (as a fork of Adobe Air maintained by a 3rd party).
If you're a health plan member then you can access consumer price transparency data through their mandatory comparison shopping tool.

https://www.cms.gov/healthplan-price-transparency/consumers

Reimbursement rates are negotiated between payers and network providers at most once per year. Rates don't change monthly.
I grew up in a shooting and hunting family. Whenever we were driving around town my dad would point out a wheel weight on the ground at a stop light/sign and my brother and I would jump out of the Land Cruiser and collect it. This was the 80s of course so we were drinking out of hose bibs, riding our bikes on high-traffic streets without helmets, and playing live Frogger to collect wheel weights. It was a game to my brother and I because wheel weights came in various shapes and sizes so it was fun to see if we could land a whopper. We would also stop by Tire stores and scour the parking lot for them. At some point we would melt the lead down into bars using a crucible. These would be later cast into bullets. My brother and I were also (in hindsight) child slave laborers that were tasked with reloading cartridges and shotgun shells for target shooting and trap/skeet. In our house this was considered a chore. This was our childhood. None of us ever used gloves or masks during any step in this process.

In a recent conversation over breakfast I brought up lead poisoning and my dad was adamant (in his conspiratorial way) about how all of that lead exposure via handling lead and inhaling lead fumes didn't result in any significant health problems for us. I'm assuming he meant that we all weren't dead yet. He's 80 and a wreck. He's had all sorts of health issues include recent cancer remission. I'm 55 and I've had nerve issues since my teenage years which manifests itself as a noticeable tremor in my right hand that has got worse over time. I developed adult onset asthma in my late teens. I have a host of other health conditions as well. Who knows how much of that is tied back to lead exposure.
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You've misunderstood my point: "most of these employees believe they're elite, they aren't." This isn't some clumsy No True Scotsman fallacy. It's a straightforward observation of human nature. In any large organization, the delusion of competence is widespread.

Now, let's assume, as you suggest, that I'm wrong and Meta has fired a true natural elite for abusing company perks. If that's the case, Meta's failure is obvious. However, if they really were elite, and Meta valued them accordingly, the abuse would be irrelevant. Elite performance forgives small transgressions—always has, always will.
I don't understand how someone can be barred from an airline because they got a better deal on it. At a certain point there must be an individual who would've been barred from every airline due to this at which point it becomes some sort of cruel punishment on an individual from a whole industry for really doing nothing illegal or wrong or causing a nuisance.

Airlines shouldn't be allowed to barr people simply for skipping a leg on a flight, no matter how much it may annoy someone in management.
Unsafe relative to what?

Certainly not to normal human drivers in normal cars. Those are killing people left and right.
Why do you drive a car that routinely tries to kill you? That would put me right off. Can't you just turn off the autopilot?
so... ad funded?
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It is so very different from parts of our history because we live in a part of the world where there is no good reason why anyone should die of starvation or homelessness.

Canada is a country that is rich in every single resource from wood to metals, to hydrocarbons, wheat, meat, fruit... the list goes on and on and on.

It is a disgrace and a fundamental failure of our society if people feel forced to take MAID to avoid dying on the street from exposure or starvation.
Well, imprecise language really is key here - because a pilot with a turbojet rating is, de facto, a better pilot than one who's flying a single engine piston plane.

Words matter.
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The missing point in your argument though is that the people doing this didn't want to go to the destination. So if this wasn't an option, getting off before the subsidized destination, they wouldn't be flying anyway and the airline still wouldn't be getting the subsidy.

I'm still not seeing any real answer how this practice can exist in a true free market and how it doesn't indicate collusion in the airline industry.
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Lawyers are not known for their prowess in mathematics, let alone statistics.

Making these arguments from the standpoint of an engineer is counterproductive.
It's nice to see more options in this space. How does this compare with Plausible Analytics?