skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Donated blood is stored as packed red blood cells, with the plasma removed. The plasma is where most of the hormones reside while being transported, so in packed RBC transfusions, there will almost no transfer of hormones. This makes it so that blood type is pretty much the only important factor when determining whether somebody can receive blood.

Sometimes doctors do perform whole blood transfusion which does not have the blood plasma removed. This has the chance of increasing hormonal levels temporarily in the recipient. However, the body will quickly compensate and bring levels back to normal. Even if not, the hormones will still degrade and lose their effectiveness over time.

Side note: everybody has both male and female hormones in their body, at different levels. These levels can change a lot depending on your age, genetics, menstrual cycle, or even the time of day. As long as there is no prolonged increase in the levels of a particular hormone, there won't be any abnormal effects.
> how do you argue that these models are not able to reason?

I don't make this argument. Benchmarks like CLUTRR[1] show how poorly LLMs do in reasoning.

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/clutrr
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Really cool stuff, congratulations.
I think that's cool.

I built my first time tracking / invoicing site in 2004, that even had punch in/out links you could use from your flip phone. I charged $5/mo. unlimited or $0.10 per custom PDF invoice sent to clients. I think it peaked at around 40 subscribers. Not terrible. I closed it in 2012 but kept using it to bill my own clients until 2017 or so.
Why do they even need that in the classroom?
> So many battles have been fought around Linux and GPL that this seemed a bit hypocrtical.

Throwing all in one bucket necessarily leads to confusion. Sure, there were and are FOSS zealots and Linux zealots and there is an overlap. Linus Torvalds himself however is a very practically minded guy who clearly expressed that he would use proprietary software if it would suit his needs better. He got a lot of heat for that stance, as some Linux kernel developers happen to be more ideologically pure. No need to warm that battle up.

(oh, BTW, BitKeeper is FOSS since about 2016)
Isn't it more that they don't have ready access to the much-more-fundamental concept of decimal numbers?

My understanding was that they tokenized them into chunks and tried to learn associations between the chunks, the same as if one was breaking apart English words.

So "2+2=4" isn't being treated that differently from "all's well that ends well." This might lead to a kind of Benny's Rules [0] situation, where sufficient brute-force can make a collection of overfitted non-arithmetic rules appear to work.

[0] https://blog.mathed.net/2011/07/rysk-erlwangers-bennys-conce...
> Isn’t session token theft as much of an issue as JWT token theft? Why is there a difference in security just because in one case it’s a JSON blob that says user_id:4,is_admin:false and in the other it’s an opaque string? Surely session tokens are equally vulnerable to XSS as JWT tokens?

The difference is that if your session cookie uses HttpOnly (which should _always_ be the case) then it can’t be read by JS, which makes it less vulnerable to XSS than a JWT (or worse, a refresh token) stored in a cookie by the client or localstorage and therefore accessible to JS. Basically, you have to be more careful with how you handle JWTs, which makes it more likely for an inexperienced or careless dev to do something insecure like store a JWT in localstorage.

> How does it affect things? Does it affect request latency, or server time decoding the JSON?… Where is the latency introduced?

I think their point is that it’s faster not to hit the DB, assuming you aren’t hitting the DB for any other reason. Any performance optimisation should be justified and profiled. There aren’t many applications operating at a scale where the difference in performance between JWTs and session tokens is going to make a significant difference, and even fewer who can genuinely use JWTs without hitting the DB (eg, to ensure the JWT hasn’t been revoked)
I'm not sure what you're saying, but if it's that if the author installed his BSD/Linux (or whatever variant) he would instead have to handle missing drivers and tons of other small problems.. that's really not true. Only if the hardware is kind of non-mainstream.

Take this Fujitsu laptop, provided by my employer.. it's just Intel inside for everything, and a Linux distro was installed without a hitch and has been working problem-free for years. And it's always like that unless the hw is unusual. After all I've been trying this since 1992, back then there was a bit of manual tinkering involved.

Or this NEC-branded super-light laptop I bought in Japan.. same story. Install and forget. Zero issues. Heck, every developer at work doing their job stuff and development on various Linux computers, except for a couple of guys using Linux under Windows.
Regardless of hierarchy, responding to a request by ignoring it is pretty rude.
The author of that rule explains that (well-crafted) microservices don't disobey that rule: https://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-micros...
WordPress is not the blogging solution humanity deserves, but the one that was needed. Customising a base and installing plugins as opposed to devving a blogging platform allows a huge portion of people to create internet businesses who otherwise wouldn't. I get that there are supposed better solutions now, but this was not the case a few years ago. And there is a lot of WordPress content out there for novices to learn web dev.

My sister co-owns a very basic architecting firm, and they have figured out WordPress based on online materials to design a website that suits them pretty well. Maybe that is not the long term solution for them, but it is a very productive place to start for a small business.
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For that to work you need to have location enabled, so you're now leaking your location anyway. Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose?
21! At this point WP is “boring technology” which makes it a great choice for many sites. It still does much that's hard to get anywhere else:

- The core update process. It's long been one-click. Almost no other CMS or self-hosted framework offers as smooth an update process. (With Laravel, for example, I end up paying for Laravel Shift and even then it requires manual intervention that would be hard for a non-dev to handle.) For WP, services now exist to do automated updates with health checks and rollbacks to counter potential plugin incompatibility[1].

- The plugin ecosystem. WP went from "democratizing publishing" to "democratizing user-owned sites and businesses". From learning management systems to stores to paid newsletters, it's pretty cool what people with no programming experience can spin up.

Things I'd love to see for WP in the next 21 years (that we'll probably get sooner if enough people contribute):

- Built-in multilingual support. The web is global but WP isn't really, yet, except via third-party plugins. It's on the roadmap[2] but it's been a long time coming.

- Improved education around Full Site Editing (FSE) and the new editor. The tools are getting good now, but there's still an education gap. Lots of people are helping to close this, though. Jamie Marsland's YouTube videos do a great job of showing what's possible with FSE, for example. [3]

- Background batch processing/queues. These are only available via third-party solutions (and bundled with things like WooCommerce), but should probably be built into core.

- SQLite support. Already pretty good but not officially supported in core yet.

- Built-in site migrations. Also on the roadmap.[4]

- Enhanced Playground tech. Distributing WP as a single binary for dependency-free local development (i.e. without Node.js) feels achievable and worthwhile.

- Version control. It's too hard to store a WP site's state in a git repo and keep that synced with production and staging environments, especially when those with admin access can install and upgrade plugins independently of the repo.

[1] Like Automattic's own scheduled updater on WP.com (https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/05/20/scheduled-plugin-updat...) and WP Engine's Smart Plugin Manager (https://wpengine.com/smart-plugin-manager/).

[2] Current state of multilingual sites in WP: https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/word...

[3] I like Jamie's videos showing how to recreate famous layouts with FSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrdXCSIP578

[4] Site Transfer Protocol: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60375
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At least superficially, doing is not normally distributed either since a task cannot take negative time, but could take an infinite time to complete.
You're saying Clojure is a lisp here, but every other comment of yours says the opposite. That's what I'm responding to.

>> This paragraph is something you wrote

> Yes?

I don't know why you're chopping my sentences in half to have fake points to respond to. I was saying the paragraph was written by you and for you. It is not helpful for beginners trying to get into a language to read random names and other languages thrown at them, and be told "It's like this other language you don't know about, but not quite." That's how you get people clicking away from your site.

It's just a weird hill to die on to say there's a problem with calling Clojure a LISP because it will "confuse" people. It doesn't confuse people that know what LISP is. Beginners are always going to be confused, that's par for the course.
Actually market effects these days make it so that clients themselves demand WordPress, and are unwilling to try any alternative platforms at all. So either I decline the client and make no money or have to use WP.
I don’t think it is either-or type of choice. A lot, if not all arguments against that use of JWT disappear if you’re ok with compromise solution: user management actions will take time to propagate. If JWT lifetime is 5 mins, it means that all actions like logout, deactivating account etc will take 5 mins to finalize - and you’d be hitting the database exactly once per 5 mins for the purpose of checking if user is still active, refresh token is not barred by log out etc.
Most laptops are bad intentionally. Less effort, more profit, and replaced sooner.

But that's not to say good non-mac laptops dont exist, nor that mac laptops are the best.
I currently have an m1 mbp and an asus zephyrus g14
They're the same size and weight, but

+ the macbook has longer battery life, though this varies. sometimes they are equal at 5 hours, and they both can go to 10, but it is easier for the mac.

+ the macbook has a webcam, but also a minus, because i prefer to unplug an external one when not in use, and there are really great portable external ones that have gyros to follow you around.

- the macbook's display is worse, because of apple's insistence on these terrible glossy finishes

- needlessly sharp edges. this could be user error, but if they didnt design it that way it wouldnt be.

- I/O? the thing does not have usb A ports. now I need adapters and hubs.

- no nvidia graphics card. part of the worse battery life of the g14 is controlling when that graphics card is in use, but at least it has it, so that i can do certain creative & ai workloads.

- keyboard is just worse. and that's before getting into that macos has forced the keyboard to be worse by having 'option' and 'command' keys to be an obstacle for anyone who uses every other OS that isn't macos. With enough key interception and remapping I got it to act like linux but the keys are still named wrong
Your gas station has electric pumps. Doesn't take hours to fast charge.
I made this - it's not free, but it's FSE and Tailwind: https://sinukoduleheabi.ee/blocks/
A tos announcement is not an explicit consent. I doubt that this will help in court, even pre-GDPR.
Trying to avoid tattoos doesn't cause any issues. Radiation is normal in nature. Injecting lead into your epidermis isn't. Any amount will do harm just like 1 cigarette is worse than 0.
Selling organs for a reasonable markup over direct costs seems perfectly fine to me.

Hospitals don’t build and staff themselves any more than grocery stores or utilities do. Organs don’t harvest and fly themselves to the point of need unaided…

If people can make a living (pun was accidental) doing this, it’s more likely to exist in a vibrant way when I or someone I love is in need of it.
Sometimes you can bypass this with private navigation, or using another browser
There are two sides to this that jump out

One is that research into what the limits of the architecture are is useful. Maths has a nice property of being very easy to verify and you can construct logical processes with it. It's a useful testbed.

Second is there are a lot more places that understanding how to do arithmetic help, outside of just doing sums on their own.
Why so? Zero-order effects are not unheard of in biology. Example: the elimination rate of ethyl alcohol is dose-independent because any practically noticeable concentration of ethyl alcohol will saturate available alcohol dehydrogenases.
It's also the case that there exist non-systemd based linuxes.

I mean sure, the self-start is important feature, but I'd rather have a dbus with which I need to start services manually, then have no dbus at all :(

Also, why the fuck can't systemd run in chroot.
If you're going to take the moral stand against the way border states handle their illegal migrants publicly and derisively while simultaneously declaring yourself as a safe haven for those migrants, you probably shouldn't be surprised when those states call your bluff.
> 1 368 000 gigatons of TNT

that sounds a helluva lot worse than 1 degree
She's a crooner.
sounds like lots of regulations. Stuff gets worse to get better.

rohs solder. Leaded paints, enamel paints, water based paints. cars with smog pumps and catalytic converters.
The very concept is abusable. Tax benefits, funding, etc. attract abuse.
Whether latency is a concern or not depends entirely on the end user controlling the feed reader and their expectations. For all you know, the developer of the reader may be facing complaints from a disgruntled user upset that the feed isn't updating, even though they can see a new blog post on the website. A lecture on HTTP 429 status codes, Retry-After headers and "being a good citizen" is unlikely to make them any happier.

You are free to not serve such requests, but as a blogger you might want to consider that such bot traffic serves your legitimate readers. It appears to me that the author is also rate limiting well behaved clients that are already trying to be respectful of resources using conditional requests.
It's a privacy violation regardless of the ToS.
Three cheers for the date format.
> better solutions now

What better solution for self-hosted websites that can be jump started by anyone and provide the kind of flexibility that WP provides?
It would be nice to see a touch of perspective in the article. Say, whether NVIDIA's AI's have any tendency to produce outputs which plausibly infringe on an actual copyright.
Nice! I want to try and get something like that going as well.
The device is attached to a fabric wristband. The device is reusable, but the wristband is disposable, and can be branded for different events.
> Essentially, apps that are something between bookmarklets and Electron apps.

You're talking about progressive web apps. MacOS / iOS / Android have them, and I started using them more recently. Essentially, they're just webviews wrapped in a native app.
> Surely producing more gpus will lower the price, or reduce the profit per gpu at least?

But that is what happens. The issue with GPUs is that a) there are only a small number of companies that make them b) fab capacity has to be booked in advance, and c) they know it's a bubble, so they're not going to commit to buying a large amount of future fab capacity when it could pop at any time. So then they don't actually increase supply, and prices don't go down.

> Maybe increasing the supply only increases the supply of luxury condos, which if they are all consumed by wealthy individuals might push housing prices upwards etc.

Only in the sense that the average cost might increase because the average unit is now larger, not in the sense that the existing smaller units would cost more rather than less. After all, their occupants no longer have to outbid the wealthy individuals who have put their money into the new luxury units instead.

> Such activity could, similar to bitcoin, actually stimulate enough economic activity in an area itself to sustain upwards trajectory on pricing

The premise here is that if you make an area more attractive then more people may want to live there. But that's fine. Suppose building 10 units increases demand by 5 units. So if you need 10 more units, build 20 more units.

In some kind of hypothetical edge case or rare circumstance, building 10 units might increase demand by 11 units, but that is obviously not sustainable -- if you built 50 million units, there aren't 50 million people in the region to live in the city, so at some point it stops being true, if it even ever was.

> Markets are weird and inefficient in all kinds of exciting ways!

This isn't markets being weird. If prices are high then construction companies want that money, which they get by building new housing. Weirdness only occurs when regulations interfere with their natural market incentive.
Where does 96 DPI come from in Windows? (2005)
It’s not about arithmetic but about embeddings. The positional embeddings used in transformers are rather simplistic. If they can add this one new capability to transformers by using different embeddings then maybe there are other capabilities that are within reach.
> Secondly, considering Cloudflare would MITM all traffic, it would make a data good source for the NSA, thereby violating all user privacy.

This seems like a weak argument. Should we just take down anything widely accessed because it might be used by the NSA? What about AWS?
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Same thing happened here recently, connection limit on the shared hosting's mysql.

If I hadn't named the exact issue for her in her communications I'm sure a consultant would have happily shaken her down for the same.

To be fair though, we get the same at work with Salesforce consultants
I started working on a personal project a few years ago, after being insanely frustrated with the resource hog that is elasticsearch. That is coming from someone who's personal computer has more resources than what a number of generous startups allocate for their product. I opted for Tantivy for two reasons: one was my desire to do the whole thing in rust and second was Tantivy itself: performance is 10/10, documentation is second to none and the library is as ergonomic as they get. Sadly the project was a bite that was way too big for a single guy to handle in his spare time, so I abandoned it. Regardless, Tantivy is absolutely awesome.
It's like pissing in the street. No one gets hurt and the street isn't going to break, but there will be a smell and it's perceived as a rather rude behavior except in the case of animals and small children.
Newer PHP versions are certainly supported (and required by many hosts due to the significant performance improvements of PHP 8.0): https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/php-comp...
People who are super into software estimation can never explain how estimations would go for Ron Jeffries implementing Sudoku in TDD vs Norvig.

When you understand that difference you mellow out about estimation.
So is Amazon.
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I saw a nice exhibition of Emigre at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam just last month. Worth a look if you're into typography.
What's wrong with having a normal distribution of only non-negative values? Or is somebody specifically talking about a _standard_ normal distribution?
You can get rid of AI Overviews in Google Search
Whether viciously written or no, isn't the salient question: why give tax payer dollars to non profits if either (a) no net low cost housing built (b) the customers of non profit are displeased.
Actually, the Cyrillic alphabet was invented in the First Bulgarian Empire by the disciples of St. Cyril and Methodius who created the Glagolic alphabet before that. The Cyrillic alphabet is the greatest civilizational achievement of Bulgaria for its entire history.
1) work less
2) check if you really have the right profession, if you do what you love you probably don't have this problem
3) check for autism/aspberger... I had/have the same concerns and I found out that it's connected to my "neurodiversity"
You don't need the time to actually be synced.

I'm thinking more some sort of system with a sync point registered per device and using that as a time reference.

It's not inconceivable that they could easily detect multiple devices in a room and find a sync point based on microphone input from a speaker.

Once you have a sync point found you can then set a delay on all devices to try to match that sync point. Nobody said this is easy or everyone would be doing it but it's simple enough.

The phased array microphones is more a pipe dream but you wpuld absolutely be able to do something approaching that with multiple devices on a single room depending on how accurately you can predict microphone location within the room. Im reasonably sure you could start by just using the closest mic and then over timr as you improve sync you can try to use multiple.

As I said they get every single audio stream in and out into their servers and they have full control of the audio the tab is playing and the timing of that.

I don't see this being any different to what the likes of Sonos/Google Home/ Apple Home etc are doing with synced appliances for stereo/ multichannel devices, it's likely significantly harder because it's heterogeneous devices as you said.

All that doesn't answer my question of how you would do this at the OS level? You don't have any of the required information per device, only the central server has even the hope of having all the relevant information and control.
Yeah I mean, I have lived here my entire life, so 39 years. Honestly it's not like this area is uniquely terrible, though living here does give you lots to point out as problematic, but we simply should not have any single group controlling our information, whether that is silicon valley people, west coast people, Americans, etc etc.
To make it worse, he made clear when the call had happened, and you have:
1) Who was in the call
2) When the call happened
3) A blur instead of a complete black out

I'm not sure I would feel safe reporting stuff to journalists nowadays.
> You can get upset about the game or play it.

You've got to think outside the box.

Do we want a society that rewards gambling behavior, or do we want to reward honest hard working? Apparently we cannot have both, because we are now observing that increasingly money (and bricks) makes more money than honest work. You can keep playing the game until there are only survivors and losers but ultimately we need people who do real work.

Unless of course you want to turn those hardworking people into the slaves of the surviving gamblers.
I’m not particularly knowledgeable about early child development but I believe the science we have today says that spanking is in fact harmful and spanking your children does not „toughen them up“.
> I feel like doing it now looks like a midlife crisis type thing.

It sounds like you care a lot about what others think. It is never too late to stop doing that.

> I always wanted one of those Thai tattoos where they manually tap tap tap the design into your skin with a mallet.

Sounds absolute torture to me. But if you want that, hey, go for it. Never too late to decide for yourself what you want or don’t want.