skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a typical knee-jerk reaction to a perfectly reasonable law that gets taken out of context and twisted to become ragebait.

The law applies to all LGBTQ+ identities, the most common being lesbian/gay, but trans is also part of it - and the trans part was singled out on twitter for some reason.

The law does not even prevent schools from outing kids. It prevents schools from FORCING employees to do it (with threat of losing their job if they don't).

School employees CAN STILL out kids to their parents in California. They just don't have to as a policy anymore. Which is perfectly reasonable, because sometimes the school employees see kids with extremely homophobic and abusive parents.

Nobody wants to out a kid to parents like that, and without this law, school employees get put in a position of asking themselves "Do I out the kid to their parents, who will likely beat them? Or do I refuse and lose my job?"
> What was the crime being prosecuted?

Stealing a flashlight and a radio from a cop car, basically. The funny part is, that's the bit that I'm "fairly sure" the guy was really guilty of. But they also threw in some hinky claim about him stealing a chainsaw and a shotgun and some other stuff from a truck that was parked nearby (this was all at the officer's house). And for the most part, none of us on the jury believed he stole the chainsaw and the shotgun... in fact, we mostly think there never was a chainsaw or a shotgun. Because this guy was on foot, drunk, in the middle of winter, and was somehow able to carry a flashlight, a radio, a shotgun, and a chainsaw off to some safe hiding spot? From which they were never recovered? But he was found wandering on the side of the road later that morning with the radio and the flashlight? Hmm... so yeah, where did the gun and the chainsaw go???

Anyway, basically we thought they tried to "pile on" this guy with some made up bullshit, and that also probably helped us make the decision to acquit him, even if he was guilty of the radio and flashlight bit. And that played in with the prosecutor acting like such an ass to the guy and made the defendant seem like the victim.

Funny thing: after the case was over, they asked the jurors to hang around for a while (voluntarily) and talk to both the defense attorney and the prosecutor about how we reached our decision. And I actually told the prosecutor "dude, you were a total dick to that guy and made yourself look really bad by doing so". He said it was kind of personal with him and that guy, because the guy is a repeat offender and he's tried him like a dozen times. Now whether or not that supports a belief that they tried to set him up on some extra bogus charges I'm not sure, and I didn't ask about that. But man, oh man, did I learn that weird shit goes on that most people never see or hear about.

And of course there was the mysteriously malfunctioning dash-cam that didn't record any audio when the first officer approached the guy when he saw him on the side of the road, and the mysteriously missing 911 audio recordings of the guy supposedly keying up the radio and talking into it, etc., etc. And the fact that the cop car that the stuff was stolen from was left unlocked, and was un-monitored for like 11 hours from the time the officer got home from work until he got up to leave for work the next morning and found the radio and flashlight missing. And the absolute lack of physical evidence (fingerprints, footprints, eyewitnesses, anything) outside of him being seen carrying the missing radio and flashlight (he claimed he found both lying on the side of the road).

Like I said, there were serious holes in their case to leave room for "reasonable doubt" even though the guy was "probably" guilty.
If the author is reading this, I highly recommend you look into the history of text adventures and MUDs (multi-user dungeons), as the post completely omits them despite the fact that they are almost literally "RPGs with command-line interfaces". While old-school text adventures remained fairly primitive in the RPG aspect (and new-school text adventures have trended away from the RPG genre and into interactive fiction), MUDs represent the logical conclusion of the thought process here. For reference, check out DiscworldMUD (http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/), which is still actively developed and can be played in your browser: discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/decafmud/web_client.html
How the CIA Used Network Science to Win Wars
Another approach converts into python:

An CLI assistant that responds by generating and auto-executing a Python script.
https://github.com/AbanteAI/rawdog
Oh how far we've come that now anyone can DIY a wearable for almost no money that's designed for outdoor use.

Can anyone suggest their favorite dongles and software for this use case? LoRa, GPS, etc.?

The performance of power sipping single board computers is approaching laptop replacement with days worth of battery life.
Maybe seen as an individual app being replaced it doesn't seem to make a positive return, but if it improves the overall iPhone experience enough to keep making iPhone sales that is a large source of revenue.

As one random example, I have a pixel phone and I used to use the included Google podcast app, until they pulled the plug on it recently. Then I had to test a bunch of alternatives to see which was free or ad supported or paid, which had rough feature parity with my old one, which one I liked or disliked. After trying a few that I ended up not liking because they had intrusive ads or subpar interface I eventually found an open source one that was good enough (although it lacks some discovery features to find new things I might be interested in). And then I had to go down the rabbit hole of finding a random battery saver option and white listing the app so it wouldn't get randomly shut off when I was listening to something in the background.

Contrast all that to the experience of an iPhone which has a podcast app out of the box that works great, free, no fuss or research and is supported by Apple. I'm still on my pixel but that type of friction can add up to a competitive advantage.
Complete indifference to food and water that led to fainting and probable heat stroke. Extreme nausea. All mitigated now with medication and forced hydration. Not fun.
I am more worried about the potential for draconian anti-fraud measures, like the childcare benefits scandal in Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...
Hawkins' proposal is missing the key innovation that Calvin proposes,
which is that learning take place by evolutionary means. But Hawkins'
proposal does fit squarely within current popular ideas around
predictive coding.

The key structures in Hawkins' architecture are cortical columns (CC).
What his VP of Eng (Dileep George) did is to analyze Hawkins' account of
the functionality of a CC, and then say that a CC is a module which must
conform to a certain API, and meet a certain contract. As long as a
module obeys the API and contract, we don't actually care how the CC
module is implemented. In particular, it's actually not important that
the module contain neurons. (Though the connections between the CCs may
still have to look like axons or whatever, I don't know.)

Then Dileep George further figured out that there is an off the shelf
algorithm than works perfectly for the CC module. He selected an
algorithm which is based on statistical learning theory (STL).

STL based algorithms are an excellent choice for the CCs, IMNSHO. They
are fast, theoretically sound, etc. They are also understood in great
mathematical detail, so we can characterize _exactly_ what they can and
can't do. So there is zero mystery about the capabilities of his system
at the CC level. Note that in Hawkins' case, the STL based algorithms
are used for pattern recognition.

Now Hawkin's proposal isn't just a single CC, it's a network of CC's all
connected together in a certain way. My memory is a little hazy at this
point, but as best I recall, his architecture should have no problem
identifying sequences of patterns (as for sound), or spatial patterns
across time (as for vision). And I bought his argument that these could
be combined hierarchically, and that the same structure could also be
used for playing back (outputting) a learned pattern, and for
recognizing cross modal patterns (that is, across sensory modalities).

But is all this enough?

I say no. My reading of evolutionary epistemology suggests to me that
pattern identification is insufficient for making and refuting
conjectures in the most general sense. And ultimately, a system must be
able to create and refute conjectures to create knowledge. Hawkins has a
very weak story about creativity and claims that it can all be done with
pattern recognition and analogy, but I am not convinced. It was the
weakest part of the book. (pp 183-193)

I don't know if it's clear to you or not why pattern recognition is
insufficient for doing general conjectures and refutations. If it's not
clear, I should attempt to expand on that ...

The idea is, that it is not always possible to arrive at a theory by
just abstracting a pattern from a data set. For example:

What set of data could Newton have looked at to conclude that an object
in motion stays in motion? I suppose he knew of 7 planets that stayed in
motion, but then he had millions of counter examples all around him. For
a pattern recognition algorithm, if you feed it a million + 7 data
points, it will conclude that objects in motion always come to a stop
except for a few weird exceptions which are probably noise.
Yep. As I've mentioned when this came up previously [1] - if all it takes to "Sherlock" an app like AllTrails is importing topo layers from USGS and trails from OSM, they didn't have much of a product.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40721711 - literally the same link, too
I struggled with the length but couldn’t find a good way to shorten it more unfortunately. That’s the main reason I included a TLDR.

Thanks for giving it your time though.
I also think the premise here is a bit weird.

There's lots of talk about downloads for some app categories, but the $ amounts all seem to be estimated ... not sure what it is based on.

And as other's have noted Apple isn't going to 'sherlock' these apps and then charge for them.
I couldn't have said it better myself.

The actual product could be much better, but I actually think AWS is perfectly placed to run network and host intrusion detection; they can hook into the hardware when needed, they can instrument all the routers and switches, they can correlate patterns across many clients, all while not opening up the monitored systems to a third party over the internet.

> they introduce their own attack surface on hosts

I think this is a hugely underrated problem. Installing a kernel module with an internet-connected control plane is not a great way to improve security (especially when that control plane is run by a third party who might — hypothetically — push code updates through a server which accepts the password "solarwinds123").
> They are structural problems related to the three main types of buyers, which are: 1. Schools, (K-12, Univ), 2. Companies (employee training, compliance, etc), 3. Individuals (self-learners). There are other types of buyers but they don't represent nearly as much aggregated potential revenue as these three.

What about parents? That would seem like a natural market for a product that could replace expensive private school tuition (or paying high property taxes in order to be in a good public school district). I recently saw a literacy product aimed at parents, and which costs $50/month. They justify their pricing based on its substitutes being a tutor or private school tuition. While this is a bit of a stretch for a literacy tool, it would be a very fair comparison for a very good AI tutor that teaches the child and has a dashboard/summary for parents.
> Some political groups go murder crazy as soon as they gain power, while others don't. Obviously not everybody is equally bad as everybody else.

This is just lazy rhetoric and ignores what I said.

Both sides of the aisle in the US right now want to be in charge. The right is popularly portrayed as crazy, but the left has a strong authoritarian streak as well -- and they justify the restriction of rights because they will get it right -- this time, of course. I'm not even going to start a discussion of which one is worse, they are both authoritarian and bad.

Both sides view their version of playing god as correct. Neither side seems to take a view of stepping back and letting people be on their own -- refusing to use force of government to impose their plans on the people.
Eh I think it's important to realize the distinction of JRPGs compared to the "regular" RPG or the Western CRPG like Baldurs Gate.

Going back to the original tabletop RPG, the mechanics that would form the foundation of modern RPGs were just formalized abstractions to capture the fantasy adventure that players were roleplaying. Later on early CRPGs would continue with this due to technical limitations, but as tech improved, these limitations should have gone away. In that sense if you are still looking for the original goal of realizing a fantasy world, BOTW or Bethesda's games would be the "successors". The ImSim is also quite close, albeit they exist in more restricted sense than a fully realized world.

JRPGs took a different direction in largely throwing away the original goals and instead idolizing the abstractions themselves. Turns out there is a big market and appeal for this, as author himself points out. So when it come to newcomers moving in to the RPG genre, there might be alot of confusion because theres different crowds playing for different reasons.
Hey, you joke, but I literally learned about liquidity traps through the parable of the babysitting co-op.
>I read about it on hn, actually.

you know, like here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=salt+fat+acid+heat
I totally agree. I initially had a fair amount of goodwill towards 1Password, but their application has become worse and worse as they have turned the monetization screws. Meanwhile a number of highly upvoted feature requests have simply languished for years. At this point I'm happy to see them thoroughly Sherklocked.
Maybe part of it is seeing education as a massive untapped wallet? There's a reason Teachers Pay Teachers exists and frankly, given the greed of Silicon Valley and existing ED companies, isn't it an environmentally created immune system?
I don't think pensioners are a particularly strong voting bloc in Sweden. Youth election participation is among 80-90% (vs 50% in the US which you may be thinking about) and due to immigration the population pyramid is quite healthy.
Right, the Selfish Gene is one of the best books I ever read.

There's also a paper I recently came across (https://warpcast.com/breck/0xea2e1a35) which talks about how causation is a two way street: low level nodes cause things in higher level nodes, but higher level nodes in turn cause things in lower level nodes.

In other words, just because genes have really been the drivers and our bodies just the vehicles, doesn't mean that's not cyclical (sometimes it could cycle to be the higher level ideas driving the evolution in lower level agents).

> I suspect that Minsky's agents are the individual firing patterns.

I like this idea. The biggest open question in my mind in regards to Minsky still is exactly on this: what physically is an agent? How many are there? My margin of error here is wild -- like 10 orders of magnitude.
"Security is our top priority" is meaningless
The assumption is that it's already unreasonable to expect developers to estimate how many hours something will take, and then due to meetings and such it's effectively impossible for them to then those already bad numbers into calendar days. So instead, the proper answer is to bypass all that by having developers estimate in made-up units that can be added up and trivially converted into calendar days.
I am aware people use it, but its only a partial solution that introduces new issues. For certain users it may be sufficient but even if you ignore the latency and compression issues, being unable to have multiple headsets adjacent makes it an incomplete solution if the goal is spreading the technology to new users. Even multiple WAPs won't get around the bandwidth congestion.
Yet even Microsoft tried to shove something like that into the PC world, whether it was the OFS effort during Cairo development, up to WinFS that actually appeared in a developer's release of Longhorn.

And even more recently, there've been efforts to expose a native key:value interface on SSDs, to let the drive controller handle the abstraction of the underlying flash cells.

I'm not well-enough versed in this stuff to understand how similar these things are to what you're talking about, however. Very much appreciate any clue you feel like offering.
Coursera seems to have made a (reasonably) successful business out of it. $1B market cap and almost $200M revenue. Now of course it is not the scale of other SaaS/Enterprise/Social Media outcomes but there is a market here, I think it's all about product vision and creation of new credentialing systems / disrupting the way skills are assessed at a fundamental level. There is clearly a problem with the cost/value ratio with traditional 4 year universities. I also agree selling into the same system is hard.
It appears from the screenshots that this tool shows you the command it will run, with some explanation of what it does, and the command options used, and then confirms you want to run the command. That is very different than the curl command you suggested is equivalent.
> If you look at the 74 TTL series dies, they look almost primitive. But perhaps these were one of the first attempts at ICs...

TTL wasn't the first attempt at ICs. Before TTL, there was RTL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor%E2%80%93transistor_lo...
This assumes such a database is necessary in this first place, which in my mind would require serious justification to prove, given that it creates a situation where the customer’s security is degraded by default.
I may have just misread it, but how would that work? When would an advertiser not be paying anyone else?
Go to a hearing aid provider or ENT/audiologist and have your hearing and speech processing evaluated. You may have auditory processing disorder or APD, which often correlates with ADHD and similar disorders.

It can get worse with age, annd the coping mechanisms you’ve developed over the years become a you’ve developed over the years become less effective. It doesn’t often get evaluated.

If you weren’t hyperactive as a kid, you may not have been evaluated for ADHD. Your story sound like friends and loved ones who ended up with adult diagnoses. Explore it - worst case you get it ruled out.
> Part of the magic of communication is deliberate double meaning. It is not a well defined API.

In order to appreciate a double meaning, I'd have to have enough basis of understanding to even be able to recognize it.

> As someone with a disability who teaches computer science to students with disabilities (and without), your problems reading Shakespeare do not sound like those of people that come to mind when I read the term “regular person”.

I don't have any particular diagnosis, but I wouldn't be surprised if I could get one. In any case, I'm just out here operating in regular society. I don't seem to have any particular problems communicating in English anyway, as far as I can tell.

> If one is going to attempt to parse every word in the play and believes that it is the only way to follow the plot then one is going to have a bad time.

I don't believe it is the only way. Most written material, like your post here, I'm able to digest chunks at a time. I just don't understand any of the chunks in Shakespeare.

> If you could get to the Queen Mab speech reading that way then you’d probably melt at that point.

I can read words, but at no point do I ever achieve comprehension in this type of material. If Queen Mab's speech consists of words, I wouldn't even notice a difference.

> When you arrive at a word like mutiny think that Shakespeare isn’t talking about a literal mutiny (though he might be) but something that is like a mutiny.

I don't think I can tell the difference between over-thinking it, and under-thinking it.

My dictionary didn't have that definition in it. My best guess about what was meant was that the two houses each had internal struggles, which is more consistent with the only definitions of "mutiny" I've ever known. Also, it seems to be more consistent with taking a break from the feud.

But now "I'm parsing every word again". When I encounter difficult material, I just don't know any other way to approach it.
This looks extremely basic. I would instead recommend reading https://bash.academy or TLDP Advance Bash Scripting Guide
It’s sad that people are waiting so long to have kids to the point that their parents can’t participate anymore in being active grandparents.
He had reviewed some of the restaurants that I previously opened/ran. He was generally a nice enough, but standoffish guy. I’ll never forget the feeling of realizing he was seated. One of those moments that you train for, and now it was game time . There are all sorts of tricks that people employ, cheat sheets with reviewers photos (there is one unfortunate photo of him that everyone has, it must be on every restaurant office wall in NYC), serving extra dishes to the tables around him (so that he got a look at things he didn’t order but should have), and calling friends to fill an empty dining room when he sat down for example. It was always an awkward interaction, he knew I knew, I knew he knew I knew. I generally think Sifton was a better writer, I appreciate that he reviewed restaurants that weren’t your typical white male chef joints, and I’m happy to see Tejal still doing well out west. I’m particularly excited to read some Mellissa Clark reviews in the meantime.
Ok. Thanks for the contribution.
This is great! I really wish Apple allowed your device to query a model you host instead of skipping to their cloud (or OpenAI). I'd love to have a Studio Pro running at home, and have my iPhone, iPad, Mac, and HomePod be able to access it instead of going to the cloud. That way I could have even more assured privacy, and I could choose what model I want to run.
How Tally Reached 11K Users in One Year
I don't really agree with the first paragraph based on my personal experience with AllTrails. I think people pay for these apps for a variety of reasons.

If all you want to do is look at a trail, I'm sure you can do that for free. But if you want to:

- Find trails by distance from current location

- Save maps offline (the app is worthless without this unless you're hiking in areas with cell coverage)

- Go hiking without being bothered by ads

- Gain access to a variety of map types (e.g. topo maps)

Then you're going to be paying for the app.

I personally never used the features you're describing with the exception of the overall star rating for a trail, which is already free.

I can easily imagine a scenario where I no longer need to consider AllTrails+ if Apple built up a decent enough library of routes.

I'm not an avid/serious hiker, but hike enough that I need the features that are currently behind the paywall. While ride logs and reviews sound useful, I frankly have never used them. I aspire to hike more, and to be getting on trails where that kind of data would be worth paying for, presumably for safety reasons. But that's not where I'm at right now, and I'd forego that data if it means I can save on subscription costs and limit my realtime location sharing to Apple.

I'm the type of user Apple will be attracting, and I don't think my experience/usage is that atypical.
Just out of curiosity, what was your motivation to make this?