skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Now, more than six years after signing the agreement, the EPC team does not appear to have published anything else, despite having provided WPATH with the material for six systematic reviews, according to the documents.

>(Where are those other 6 systematic reviews if it is purely 'speculative' that WPATH has not been approving them?)

Does "material for six systematic reviews" actually mean they were planning to publish six distinct reviews? The author doesn't say, leaving us to speculate.

When in the six years since was the material provided? The author doesn't say. They could've only intended to publish the single review that in fact did get published. We can only speculate.

Did WPATH provide any feedback on the material submitted? The author doesn't say, leaving us to speculate.

>> Another document recently unsealed shows that Rachel Levine, a trans woman who is assistant secretary for health, succeeded in pressing WPATH to remove minimum ages for the treatment of children from its 2022 standards of care.

This is irrelevant to the question of whether Johns Hopkins' research was manipulated, which is the contention of the article. Even then, it only makes an unsubstantiated a claim an unspecified court document supports the idea that WPATH was pressured to change their standard of care, which even if true doesn't support the claim that research anywhere has been manipulated.

>> Among the recently released court documents is a WPATH checklist confirming that an individual from WPATH was involved “in the design, drafting of the article and final approval of [that] article”. (The article itself explicitly claims the opposite.)

>(Which at the least implies that a correction needs to be issued by the journal which published that article if the disclosures are false...)

The existence of a WPATH checklist does not mean that any changes were made at their request, which is the evidence you have to have to support the claim that research was manipulated.

>>> but also notes that the request was refused by Johns Hopkins.

>No, it didn't? The article specifically says, repeatedly, that that policy was implemented...

Yes, it does, in the very section you quote:

Ms Robinson protested that the new policy did not reflect the contract she had signed and violated basic principles of unfettered scientific inquiry she had emphasised repeatedly in her dealings with WPATH.

WPATH tried to change their policy, and Johns Hopkins refused to go along with it. Which might go a long way towards explaining why they stopped publishing work sponsored by WPATH. With regard to whether the one paper they did publish was manipulated, as noted above, there is no evidence that WPATH made any changes---only that they reviewed it. Maybe they did request changes and Johns Hopkins refused and published anyway. If you want to prove manipulation of research (a very strong claim), you'd need to show that they requested changes, that those changes constituted academic fraud, and that Johns Hopkins made the changes. Handwaving about reviews doesn't cut it.
It's a culture that has grown up around a dominant platform that had little or no security built in. Where I work, Windows is heavily locked down with all sorts of security junk on it, but iOS gets by with minimal MDM.
Well you'd have to ask a lawyer but I think that if they were following regulations and otherwise using "reasonable and customary" safety precautions then yes. Or at least changes who is liable. E.g. if the trench box was properly maintained, properly placed, and failed, then you'd be looking at the trench box manufacturer, not so much the contractor who was using it.
In the early days, MOOC's were provided synchronously and there was a cohort. When MOOC's scaled, that mostly fell by the wayside. So I can see why someone would want this to exist.

They hard part will be building critical mass. Good luck.
All the minimized inefficiencies that are found by my script are already optimizations. They just happen to be rather specific patterns, so they need to be suitably generalized. There's another Regehr etal paper about how to do that automatically:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649837

(llm's aren't involved, it's all based on z3)

I don't plan on implementing something like this for now, I'd rather take the inefficiencies and manually extract optimizations out of them and implement them in PyPy's jit.
Yes, I use rr all day every day (to record Firefox executions) on a rather recent Threaripper Pro 7950, and also with Pernosco. The rr wiki on GitHub explains how to make it work. Once the small workaround is in place it works very reliably.
'Almost' Everyone in Crypto's a Winner in a Second Trump Administration
Tests can't ensure the correctness of an algorithm, only that it gives the correct output on a specific input.
And BTW is not the 10% only, is around the 20%, close to 2 million cuban's has left in this last 2 years. Everyone is escaping that sinking ship.
The government is fully militarized and even complaining about your kid's food can land you in jail for 10 years.
I'd love to see an in-depth post mortem by the devs but from what I've read in the past couple of days, they won't be with the company and the company will probably use all legal means to prevent that from happening.
I‘m using WP2Static, a Wordpress plugin. But you can script up something yourself with wget/curl, too.

Comments won’t work. You need a backend and database for that.
No, that would be more like sleeping at the office (purely because of employee preferences, not because the employer forces you to or anything like that) and complaining about security cameras.
Nice! I used TipTap on top of ProseMirror(and ProseMirror.Net) with stepwisehq.com .

Most React prosemirror-based editors were making the same mistake a couple years ago; re-rendering everything on each keystroke. Particularly the tool bars, and then the node views of course.

I created an observable(MobX) "fact cache" that I populate with extra state information necessary to drive the toolbars and other complex editor UI after each keystroke. Active node types, active marks, nodes fully in selection, and etc. Super fast to update, can even prune search space based on doc diffs, and minimizes React work.
> Compared to pre-internet society or the can't cope with change part of society who doesn't use TikTok or know how to shore a trench.

"Word of mouth" has existed for as long as language has. TikTok is just the newest medium to convey this absolutely ancient human process.

> And yes, I'll jump in a deep un-shored trench to save time for a quick fix

So.. you know how to use TikTok, you've seen the danger, yet you remain intentionally oblivious to it? Your pride is worthless. Your life is priceless. Please be smarter.
Whoa there - by your logic illegal immigrants should also keep their head down so they don’t get deported.

Also, how are legal immigrants “selected for positive traits”?
Yeah one of the major problems seems to be CrowdStrike's assumptions that channel files are benign. Which isn't true if there's a bug in your code that only gets triggered by the right virus definition.

I don't know how you could assert that this is impossible, hence channel files should be treated as code.
I've wished for a complete version like this for so long. Great work. Thank you!
I don't see what this comment adds to the discussion. If you disagree with the numbers, what source would you use instead? China is building more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined, and it's verifiable by satellite imagery.
I know quite a few offensive security pros that are way better than I will ever be at breaking into systems and evading detections that can only barely program anything beyond simple python scripts.

It’s a great goal to eventually learn everything, but knowing the correct tools and techniques and how and when to use them most effectively are very different skillsets from discovering new vulnerabilities or writing new exploit code and you can start at any of them.

Compare for instance a physiologist, a gymnastics coach, and an Olympic gymnast. They all “know how the human body works” but in very different ways and who you’d go to for expertise depends on the context.

Similarly just start with whatever part you are most interested in. If you want to know the techniques and tools you can web search and find lots of details.

If you want to know how best to use them you should set up vulnerable machines (or find a relevant CTF) and practice. If you want to understand how they were discovered and how people find new ones you should read writeups from places like Project Zero that do that kind of research. If you’re interested in writing your own then yes you probably need to learn some system programming. If you enjoy the field you can expand your knowledge base.
Some historic articles on software rendering (the original Bill Atkinson stuff)
https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html
http://wg20.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/...

A modern 3D accelerated article (using SDF as another commenter suspected)
https://mortoray.com/quickly-drawing-a-rounded-rectangle-wit...
hey, I don't make the rules :-P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monophthongization
Fair point on that its vastness allows quick recycling. They do this in Germany a lot, where even in deep winter they'll open windows to recycle the air.

I think there are a few challenges to this:

1) It's mostly manual, compared to an automatic ventilation system. Perhaps if it were more automated, I'd agree with you.

2) If it's very hot or cold or humid outside, I think doing this can impact indoor conditions and I'm not sure how much that energy cost compares to other forms of ventilation.

3) Not every part of an indoor space is very close to a window. Large indoor spaces, underground indoor spaces, small ebclosed areas such as bathrooms in the middle of homes, etc., may make it hard to just open a window and flush out the "bad" air.
This may be one of the more useless articles ever written.

"Apparently the large number of drops of water coming from the clouds were a result of rainfall"
That's weird because it completely freezes m2 ipad
You get to make that argument in court.
I'm totally down for some good old fashioned impractical hacking. But just remember, we already have canvas, which can do all this easier, faster, and better.
The majority of sass products auto-renew. Everyone of us likely forgot to cancel a subscription at some point.

It doesn’t give you a right to shit on a startup because you forgot to cancel
What's the item of interest here?

I don't follow funny car (?) drag racing, but this seems like a pedantic argument that a video thumbnail claiming "parachute failure" is misleading because the "parachutes" didn't fail, but the "parachute system" did fail.

And they author doesn't know why,

> we may never have an answer to [why the parachutes didn't deploy]

but they want you to click and monetize a 5 minute "talk radio" bit to learn more?

No thanks.
iPadOS 18 is in public beta right now. Will be out in September.
Because latency.
What a great idea.

I literally had this idea in the last week.

I have an abundance of helpers (friends, local meetup, IRC, Discord) for what I’m learning, but I’m driving them tired. LLMs help but hallucinate.
I guess since most people aren’t bothered by the quality of video on streaming services (Netflix, etc…) it probably wouldn’t need to be lossless, just good enough that the majority of people won’t notice the difference.

I was thinking that there might be a chance it’s better, because the way it “stores” data, is very different from how movies are stored and thus perhaps the ML could notice patterns across many movies, which would then allow it to store the movies more efficiently.
It’s for the best. The man is not in his best form and he has repeatedly shown that he isn’t. He attempted to rectify the situation since the debate but even those attempts fell short.

Let’s see who is going to take the mantle now.

/edit: he is endorsing Kamala,

https://nitter.poast.org/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933
My pedantry and your pedantry are totally orthogonal. You are, of course, correct in the pedantic points you’re making; the pedantic point I was making, however, was not intended to dispute or even discuss these points.

I could bring the points closer together, say by pointing out that fretted notes also exhibit harmonics; or that picking technique and position can significantly enhance or mask that fact. In so doing, there would certainly be much to dispute if I suggested without any qualification that any pronounced harmonic intonation is “the same” as any other intonation lacking the same pronounced harmonics.

But all of that is moot. I didn’t suggest any of those things. And I did include a qualification that invites you or anyone else to count or not count harmonics as you see fit!

You could just say “I don’t count harmonics”, and I would have no quarrel with that. But I do object to repeatedly conflating my point with points I both did not make and already clarified I did not make, to dispute something I am clearly not saying or even discussing.
China is using more energy and resources that rest of the world combined, so not really a difference. The question is, do we have any breakthru in energy storage technology there?
>If your bio is up to date, I wish you the best in whatever your life situation.

Thankfully it isn't. And I escaped from writing software.
Here's a video of trench collapse with a trench box (0/10 made of bamboo- thanks for playing).

https://youtube.com/shorts/T4jfbUqMwAk
Revolut also offers a similar service, for the non Americans among us.
Not installing a trench box is on the company. Full stop.
That does sounds invasive, but on the other hand, math teachers do tell the kids to “show their work” for good reasons. And the consent issues don’t apply for LLM training.

I wonder if the trend towards using synthetic, AI-generated training data will make it easier to train models that use <aloud> effectively? AI’s could be trained to use reasoning and show their work more than people normally do when posting on the Internet. It’s not going to create information out of nothing, but it will better model the distribution that the researchers want the LLM to have, rather than taking distributions found on the Internet as given.

It’s not a natural distribution anyway. For example, I believe it’s already the case that people train AI with weighted distributions - training more on Wikipedia, for example.

My guess is that the quest for the best training data has only just begun.
Which is arguably even worse, because now if it fails you don't even see it! You wanted to make the code more robust and ultimately made it less.
The thing is, you read regulations, and they pretty much always tell you to do something, but it’s always heavily principle based. Companies are left with extraordinary leeway as to how these regulations are actually implemented.
Hello, I'm really sorry you had this unexpected exposure using ApostropheCMS. As you've mentioned, this data sharing was noted in the documentation but can still prove surprising.

A note for future researchers: the currently supported major version of Apostrophe no longer behaves in this way. Any data injection to the logged-out front-end would be a choice made at the developer level, specifically to avoid this sort of surprise.

That said, there are still use cases for including API keys as part of the configuration and 'content' of certain types of widgets.

For context, I am the head of design at Apostrophe and also play an engineering role.
CrowdStrike installs as an operating system driver. It becomes essentially a part of the operating system and can do literally anything it wants, and Microsoft can not do much anything about it.

Going forward, I could foresee Microsoft requiring endpoint protection solution providers certify their QA processes to get signing. But staged rollouts and canary builds have already been an industry standard process long before CrowdStrike. There was no way Microsoft could have known that they were dealing with a company so incompetent as CrowdStrike to cause this to happen.
It wasn't the independence debt. Haiti was a poor country in the 40s and 50s but not exceptionally poor compared to other peer countries. What set Haiti up to be the basket case it is today was the decades of corruption and malgovernment that occurred under the dictatorial rule of the Duvalier family.
Signing is meant only to verify the identity of the organization producing the signed artifact.

It’s not meant to signify that it’s bug-free.
My god. I really didn‘t think he would actually do it.
yeah while reading the book he would keep saying things that are factually wrong or just state that things are impossible, basically he builds the conclusion into the premises and then discovers the conclusions like he just defended them.
My experience with internet outages affecting retail is the ability to rapidly and accurately calculate bill totals and change is not practiced much anymore. Not helped by things like 9.075 % tax rates to be sure.
First mover + ecosystem wins over interface. And also, I really don’t have so many issues with the interface as others seem to and we had to implement it from scratch for R2. There’s features we extended on top of S3 so it’s not really the interface so much but rather that Amazon doesn’t really invest in adding features so much. I suspect it’s really hard for them to do so. We also exposed a native JS API that was more ergonomic but the S3 endpoint saw more traffic which again points to the ecosystem advantage - people have an S3 codebase and want to do as a drop in replacement as possible.
That the OS needs a product like Crowdstrike in order to be safely used is also their fault.
> China, the most populous nation in the world

India is likely the most populous nation though there’s some uncertainty. China reached zero population growth first so it’s just a question of timing at this point.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...
"human programmers forget to account for edge cases"

Which is precisely the rationale which led to Standard Operating Procedures and Best Practices (much like any other Sector of business has developed).

I submit to you, respectfully, that a corporation shall never rise to a $75 Billion Market Cap without a bullet-proof adherence to such, and thus, this "event" should be properly characterized and viewed as a very suspicious anomaly, at the least

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41023539 fleshes out the proper context.
If I can avoid dealing with the ruinous consequences of governments that existed before I was born, I absolutely will.
You're speculating here. Let me speculate as well: if I were a research institution working with an advocacy group, and the group decided it wanted review and veto authority over my research, I would go ahead and publish my research to that point and stop working with the advocacy group. Which speculation is right? There's no way to tell from the evidence in the article.

Which is my point. Research manipulation is a strong claim, and requires strong evidence. There is none in this article.
From the outside this incident appears to have highlighted a number of internal and external Crowdstrike skipped checks.
Again, laying low is what illegal immigrants do. What “free cake” do illegal immigrants get? Shelter and food?

Just look at Georgia’s law a few years ago where they enforced strict paperwork with the threat of arresting the employer - probably the worst productive year for agriculture because they didn’t have cheap labor to rely on.

Enforce deportation to the greatest extent possible but be prepared to pay for it.
(No intend for this to be a controversial statement)

I only want to express my opinion that he (and the Democratic party) took a while to make this decision, to their detriment.

Interesting to see who their new candidate is going to be.
That’s because decades of neoliberal economics have moved a huge amount of manufacturing to China. The U.S. used to be very dirty in manufacturing towns, but we moved factories to China which has the double benefit of cleaning up our environment and allowing us to blame them!
He writes that he wants to focus on completing the term.
Thankfully, many of the infringements upon rights committed during that period are being undone.
A view from Canada: thanks, Mr Biden. You honour your record and your nation.
Dannnnnng. I think it's definitely for the best (probably never should've come to this, reminds me of RBG). And that said I really, really liked his presidency, but, he is undeniably really old.
Shouldn't he resign and let Kamala step in?
Can their legal means beat a senate inquiry?
I actually do have a right, very specifically my statutory right under the UK's "Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation, and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013" which requires that vendors provide clear and timely information about automatic renewals, which I assert educative.io failed to do in this case.

Startup or not, I expect vendors to be compliant with regulations.
Is roof damage similar to solar panel damage? My instinct is that solar panels are more fragile
On Friday, no less. (Israel's weekend is Friday / Saturday instead of the usual Saturday / Sunday.)
Mostly great, but I had an intermittent key remapping bug on the Mac not fixed for years. The default home/end document on Mac is not useful. Annoying enough to consider options.
There should have been a test catching the error before rollout, however this doesn’t require a staged rollout as suggested by the GP comment, testing the update at some customers (which would still be hosed in that case), it only requires executing the test before the rollout.
You are free to post anything you want on YOUR OWN website (assuming you live someplace that has freedom of speech). You aren't free to post anything you want on SOMEONE ELSE's website.
That depends if you believe natural language alone is sufficient to fully model reality. Probably not, it can approximate to a high degree, but there is a reason we resort to formal, constructed languages in math or CS to express our ideas.
He can do president duties, while the candidate they choose go around collecting votes.
The gamble paid off in 2020. His steering committee (including the DNC) was vested in him continuing until he imploded at the debate.
interesting use case....
At least they worry about what runs in their butt, which is responsible!
That's not my experience working for CMS like TYPO3 for many years. Although actually using that power without proper training for the editors often results in chaos.
It's interesting Microsoft is dealing with this. I wonder how they feel about CS? Can't imagine they are happy with them. So I would guess it's less of "let's work with our friends at CS" and more like "Those $#%!, they made a mess and we're left to clean it up".

I've already heard from multiple non-technical people presenting this as a "Microsoft problem". "Omg, did you hear what Microsoft just did to their customers?". I don't know if CS subtly pulling strings to look less guilty, but probably just happens by simple association "blue screen of death = Windows problem". Can't image Microsoft is too happy to take this kind of a reputational hit.
The rules allow the DNC to have an open convention. They just haven’t had one for more than half a century. the interesting thing is apparently if they do that its available to all candidates. So it’s possible that somebody that is well liked by the public, but not by the DNC becomes the leader ie Bernie sanders.

The tough thing though is that money donated to Biden doesn’t transfer to other candidates.

The daily wire did an Extensive breakdown of each scenario a few days ago:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vmeGPmDP0nopAlOwDZIV6

This particular scenario is covered at 0:30
I've been using Azure Data Studio with the Postgres plugin.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/data-studio