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by brooke2k | 2025-06-19 22:26:19+00:00
I don't think it's an insensitive question at all. To answer - As a trans woman, interests/hobbies are not really a marker of gender that I feel is important to me. I would say the same is true of all my trans friends, although ofc that is not a representative sample, so take it with a grain of salt.

For me, in no particular order, these are the elements of sex/gender that I find important (and which were crucial for me to align during my transition):

* My body. This was perhaps the single most important one. Hormones worked wonders here, as well as growing out my hair, shaving, learning to take care of my skin, etc.

* Clothing/makeup went a long way towards making me feel better about myself. It takes a very long time and a lot of practice and skill-building to be "good" at fashion/makeup/etc, but it was worth it.

* My personality. This one is the hardest to describe. I can only say that when my body ran on testosterone, I was miserable, antisocial, arrogant, and annoying, and after switching over to estrogen, I am much happier, better at conversation, more empathetic, and by all reports much more likeable.

* My relationship to other women. It's hard to describe, but as I transitioned I became a lot closer to the women in my life, and grew apart slightly from the men in my life.

I think in part this emerges from the negative side of being a woman in society (being leered at/catcalled/harassed/stalked/patronized/discriminated against/etc). It leads women to stick together and trust each other more implicitly than men. So as a trans woman, gradually being welcomed into this "club" was very gender-affirming (although the negative stuff still sucks :/)

* Name and pronouns. At this point (~4 years) I pass enough in public that I am essentially never misgendered, but on the rare occasion I am, it certainly ruins my day. Pronouns matter more than cis people might think.

* Relationship to my family. Being called "daughter" by my parents, doing mom/daughter stuff with my mom, etc.

There are probably other factors that I'm not thinking of right now, but this is what comes to mind as I write this. And notably, my interests/hobbies aren't really included there. I do software development, I'm into skateboarding and punk music and videogames, I play dungeons and dragons. All "male-coded" hobbies for the most part, but I really just attribute that to the fact that I developed my hobbies as a kid, and as a kid I was a boy with friends who were boys and who did boyish stuff.

I personally don't find that that affects my perception of my gender at all. Hopefully this helps clear up your confusion! Let me know if there's anything I can clarify further.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-06-19 22:26:24+00:00
> They've been around since 2008 and appear to have beaten SPX yearly since then

=====> Where did you learn that? <=====

====> How do you know it is true? <====

I appreciate that you built a cool thing, and appreciate even more that you're sharing it (even if you're selling too, I respect hustle).

That said, struggling with the concept of hypothesis/claims testing isn't a reassuring look for someone selling an investment product.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-06-19 22:26:48+00:00
And do what the the few devices with perfectly fine 1080 or 1440p displays? Just throw them away?

My laptop display is fine. My desktop's 1440p is blurry, any external display at the office is blurry. So what? use Zed on my laptop when I'm using the built-in display, then switch editors if I'm switching monitors?
by chfritz | 2025-06-19 22:26:51+00:00
I'm with blinkbat: show me a task these robots can actually do! Humanoids are just not useful yet. Dishes? nah, these robots are not water proof. Vacuum? nah, wrong form factor. Dusting? definitely not worth $1,000 a month. Cooking? again, not water-proof and they can't do it either. Tidying up? again not worth the money. Folding laundry? maybe! but still very difficult for them and again, price would need to come down a lot.
by simonw | 2025-06-19 22:27:20+00:00
I'm not convinced by that argument. The data is clearly already in a spreadsheet of some sort already. I don't think "click export as CSV" v.s. "print out as paper and scan as PDF" is a cost decision.

This isn't meant as shade! I have full respect for people working in those roles. Knowing the difference between a CSV file and a PDF file - and understanding why there are people out there who curse the existence of PDFs and celebrate CSVs - is pretty arcane knowledge.

Also note that I blamed people in "a decision making role" - changing procedures requires buy-in from management. People in management roles are less likely to be thinking about CSVs v.s. PDFs than the people actually executing on the work.

As Derek pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320001#44322987 this may often be a vendor limitation - in which case there is a cost factor to consider, and the blame can also be shared between the vendor and the person who made the purchasing decision without understanding the difference between PDF and CSV export.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-19 22:27:24+00:00
What is the difference between a junior and an agent. Can't you give them smart permissions on a need to know basis?

I guess you also need per user contexts, such that you depend on the user auth to access user data, and the agent can only access that data.

But this same concern exists for employees in big corps. If I work at google, I probably am not able to access arbitrary data, so I can't leak it.
by jwarden | 2025-06-19 22:27:27+00:00
I didn't realize "Juneteenth" was considered "Black-sounding" by some people. Juneteenth is a pretty culturally mainstream term (being a national holiday). And forming new words using contractions doesn't seem like a typically Black-person thing to do.

I associate the term with Black people, not because of how it sounds, but because I know what it means and know about it's origin among formerly-enslaved Black communities.
by qball | 2025-06-19 22:27:32+00:00
>by the time when Y has been added to the Latin alphabet

Note also that the letter 'Y' is explicitly named 'Greek I' [literal translation] in Latin-descended languages; and then other languages borrowed that name (from the French).

It's not called that in English, of course, but English isn't a Latin-descended language.

Interestingly, the same is not true for 'Z', which is a more direct 'zed' (or 'zet', not like 'd' and 't' are that different) in most (all?) European languages, including the Germanic ones.
by antonfire | 2025-06-19 22:28:18+00:00
> Some women are tetrachromats with an extra colour sense, while men are more likely to have red/green colour blindness.

If I'm not mistaken, red/green color blindness is more common in men because it's caused my a mutation on the X chromosome (which men tend to have fewer of). I would guess a similar thing about tetrachromacy.

So those are probably unrelated to color-perception changes due to exogenous estrogen.
by tomluyer | 2025-06-19 22:29:03+00:00
Theres no straw man arugement here. The fact is everything is on the internet. Telling someone their ignorant because its on the internet is a half truth. Its like saying I graduated from Harvard and therefore I had the best education money could buy and theres no way i'm ignorant. The straw was the ignorant comment and not providing what it is why it should be celebrated by Americans.
by RebeccaTheDev | 2025-06-19 22:29:15+00:00
I can't speak for other trans women, but is kind of how I describe my experience with this. And this is from someone who is a later-transitioner, talking about this specific type of social dysphoria [0].

It took me enormous effort to relate to other men, and I was never sure if I was doing it correctly. I would go out of my way to try to learn "how to man," including having typically male-coded interests (like sports, or home repair) that I really didn't actually care about but knew I had to because it was socially expected of me. I knew I had to, because I had to operate in that world, but I was never comfortable, none of it ever came naturally and all of it just felt wrong.

I was desperate to relate to women. It would hurt that I wouldn't be able to participate in that world even though I longed to be a part of it. Often my wife and I would have grill out parties, and I would be at my expected place outside with the guys, talking stuff I hated, but I longed to be chatting with the other women inside. I feel comfortable as a woman, and much more comfortable relating to other women in my life.

Do I still have male friends? Of course. I have men I worked with for decades and that I'm still friends with. Our relationships definitely changed a bit, but we still have shared experiences that bind us together. At the same time, with my female friends, our relationships definitely changed as well. Things felt different. Our conversations got deeper and more meaningful, and I feel like I "know" some of them better than I ever knew any of my male friends.

I also kept some of my male interests because I'm interested in them.. I still love aviation and trains. Definitely male-coded interests (though there are quite a few more women than one might expect.) I also picked up, or in some cases learned to stop repressing, typically feminine-coded interests. I have far more fun with dress than I ever cared about doing as a guy. Or, now I proudly own that I read romance novels instead of sheepishly hiding my kindle.

[0] https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/social-dysphoria
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-19 22:29:39+00:00
>Writing high-quality code

Who defines what "high quality code" is and who enforces it in a team? Because what's high quality to you might not scan to other members of the team, and if you want to your standards across the team then you have to spend time and effort educating the people and enforcing the standards. And now you're wasting time obsessing over standards and guidelines while your efficiency doesn't increase.

> you can just be better

Better how?

>The best places get a ton done with very few people.

Is it because the quality of their code, or because those people are better at what they do and better at working as a team?

>And they're not doing this by slinging crap code at the wall as fast as they can!

Because they're a highly specialized company making a highly niche product who's features must include high tolerance and availability ahead of new features. You can't in good faith compare trading firms to your average web dev shop. different projects, different customers, different budgets and profit margins.

That's like comparing an F1 car to a road car and telling the engineers working on the road cars to "just be better", that the reason their work is not matching the F1 car is the quality of their drafting and not the 100x difference in budget and requirements.

Edit to reply here to your child comment below:

>If you have a strong team, you don't have to "enforce" quality.

Obviously you can do a lot with fewer people when you have crazy money and therefore can afford very high hiring bar. That's not most companies and not most SW projects though.

Hence my original comment: "I think people focusing on SW engineering being art have been spoiled by only working at companies with infinite money, like Google"

Your point only works if you cherry-pick well funded big-tech like XTX, but once you step out of that bubble to non-tech companies who need SW products on smaller budgets things are way different. Those places don't have the hiring bar of XTS, so the quality will be different.
by adamcharnock | 2025-06-19 22:30:40+00:00
I've been living in Munich since Feb, I've visited Hamburg several times, and previously lived in London and (rural) Portugal. (I'm British)

I'm really very surprised by some of the observations being made here, just because they are very contrary to my experience. Thoughts in no particular order:

- Hamburg's road systems took some inspiration from those of LA. To me Hamburg seemed exceptionally road/car heavy. Munich in comparison seems much more sane and European.

- The startup scene is great. I'm a member of the Werk1 co-working space there, and it is a huge and friendly community.

- Munich drivers are really great with cyclists. I eBike everywhere, and never have a had any problems with a car endangering me. They are exceptionally good at giving way to anyone in the cycle lines (bike, eBike, or scooter)

- For me it is a really very clean city.

- The English Garden (bigger the Manhattan’s Central Park) is a place of absolute magic in the summer. Floating down the river through a forest in the middle of the city?! Amazing.

- People are indeed super friendly when you talk to them. They don't do much needless smiling, but they are warm and friendly. (I'm white and look fairly presentable, and I cannot rule out that being a factor)

- You drive to the Alps in 1h ish. True, you cannot see them from them from the city. But it not much time you can be at the top of a ski resort.

- I think the comparison to Austin TX is very fair. Bavaria is conservative, Munich is not.

- The U-Bahn is pretty reliable, the S-Bahn less so. I cycle or e-scooter everywhere, so don't really notice (and even when it rains it really isn't that bad, said as a Londoner).

- I think there is more of a culture of having a stable job at large companies, perhaps in Germany in general (vs the UK). And I can see Munich feeling like 'a place people come to work' if you hang out in those groups. But I think there is is more available than just that.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-19 22:31:20+00:00
From the point of view of a conservative and non us citizen, you have a good life there compared to the rest of the world.

Technically, most countries don’t allow people to be openly gay. In some countries, being gay even privately means you get beaten to death or your head chopped off.

Needless to say that transgender people are not even taken into consideration.

If I was gay or transgender, god knows I would rather be in the USA or maybe north Europe than any other country and especially not Africa, Arabia, South America.
by Bjartr | 2025-06-19 22:32:39+00:00
> success is supposed to look exactly like actually being right more often.

I agree with this, and I don't think it's at odds with what I said. The point is to never stop sincerely believing you could be wrong. That you are right more often is exactly why it's such an easy trap to fall into. The tools of rationality only help as long as you are actively applying them, which requires a certain amount of humility, even in the face of success.
by lisper | 2025-06-19 22:34:15+00:00
That doesn't seem to be on point to me. I'm not talking about being "caught in bad equilibria". My assertion is that rationalism itself is not stable, that the (apparent) triumph of rationalism since the Enlightenment was a transient, not an equilibrium. And one of the reasons it was a transient is that self-styled rationalists believed (and apparently still believe) that rationalism will inevitably triumph because it is rational, because it is in more intimate contact with reality than religion and superstition. But this is wrong because it overlooks the fact that what triumphs in the long run is simply reproductive fitness. Being in contact with reality can be actively harmful to reproductive fitness if it leads you to, say, decide not to have kids because you are pessimistic about the future.
by bsoles | 2025-06-19 22:35:20+00:00
> ... you get paid to get the job done, not have pretty code.

Artistic side of the discipline doesn't mean pretty code. It means good design, no rushed spaghetti code, expandable architecture, etc.

"Getting the job done", in manager speak, often means shipping features with awful code behind them, just to give the manager enough time to move up the ladder without suffering the consequences of their awful decisions. With engineers left behind to fix the mess.
by heterodoxlib | 2025-06-19 22:36:14+00:00
A slightly different but closely related question for those who are answering: what do you attribute the difference to? Is it biological in basis, spiritual/metaphysical, or cultural?

I keep hearing people say "gender is a social construct" and those same people then go on to emphatically support transgender as a concept. This leads me to wonder: if gender is a social construct, is identifying as transgender the result of feeling pressure to conform to a cookie-cutter definition of what someone with male/female parts is meant to be like? If so, is being transgender also just a social construct that can and maybe should be addressed by loosening up our tight expectations for gender roles? Or is being transgender more biological than cultural for you?
by ahmedtd | 2025-06-19 22:36:16+00:00
Various pieces support pieces for pod to pod mTLS are slowly being brought into the main Kubernetes project.

Take a look at https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/..., which is hopefully landing as alpha in Kubernetes 1.34. It lets you run a controller that issues certificates, and the certificates get automatically plumbed down into pod filesystems, and refresh is handled automatically.

Together with ClusterTrustBundles (KEP 3257), these are all the pieces that are needed for someone to put together a controller that distributes certificates and trust anchors to every pod in the cluster.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-06-19 22:36:28+00:00
Almost every enterprise use case is a clear workflow use case EXCEPT coding/debugging and research (e.g., iterative web search and report compilation). I saw a YT video the other day of someone building an AI Agent to take online orders for guitars - query the catalog and present options to the user, take the configured order from the user, check the inventory system to make sure it's available, and then place the order in the order system. There was absolutely no reason to build this as an Agent burning an ungodly number of tokens with verbose prompts running in a loop only to have it generate a JSON using the exact format specified to place the final order when the same thing could have been done with a few dozen lines of code making a few API calls. If you wanted to do it with a conversational/chat interface, that could easily be done with an intent classifier, slot filling, and orchestration.
by lisper | 2025-06-19 22:37:12+00:00
If you get down to the quantum level there is no such thing as objective reality. Our perception that the world is made of classical objects that actually exist at particular places at particular times and have continuity of identity is an illusion. But it's a really compelling illusion, and you won't go far wrong treating it as if it were the truth in 99% of real-world situations. Likewise, free will is an illusion, nothing more than a reflection of our ignorance of how our brains work. But it is a really compelling illusion, and you won't go far wrong treating it as if it were the truth, at least some of the time.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-19 22:37:31+00:00
Can’t you just be a man that loves spending time with women instead of a woman ‘trapped’ in the body of a man ?

I have known several men, non gay, that just behaved more like women than men. that was fine, and as far as I know they didn’t swapped gender.

Like you can be a duck, happy when around dogs but still be a duck.
by looneysquash | 2025-06-19 22:38:11+00:00
> when prompted to state my gender identity or preferred pronouns, I fold my hands into the dhyana mudra and state that I practice emptiness on the concept of gender.

That's fine, but when I tell people "Cube Flipper wrote this great blog post!", what pronouns do you want me to use actually use?

I guess I'll refer to you as "they" since you didn't otherwise specify. But the "unknown/unspecified" version of "they" and not the "prefers they" version of "they".

Looks like a great article. I didn't quite make it to the end. The science is interesting, but that isn't a trip I am considering, so I skimmed a little.
by assimpleaspossi | 2025-06-19 22:38:25+00:00
By people in a small community in Texas and nowhere else. No one elsewhere heard of this thing till now. Now everyone pretends it's a big deal but it was strictly a local event there. You never heard of it till Biden's group brought it up. I bet I'm older than you (the reader). I never heard of this till Biden brought it up.

This holiday is beyond stupid when you consider that the guy who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln, doesn't have a Federal holiday where one gets the day off.

EDIT: Now that I've had my time for my "shower thoughts": Why is there no national holiday for the American Indian? They were here first. Mistreated and kicked out of the areas they occuplied. A wonderful culture with a wonderful history but no mention anywhere on the calendar?
by busymom0 | 2025-06-19 22:38:39+00:00
I think you are missing the point. I am saying that a smart glass or AI will be unable to tell the amount of calories with any reasonable level of accuracy because fats (oil for example) are the most calorie dense while also the most invisible in pictures. And even a tiny bit of inaccuracy in this measurement is enough to put one from a calorie deficit (losing weight) to calorie surplus (gaining weight).
by cosmojg | 2025-06-19 22:38:51+00:00
Both the Rationalist community and the Rust community are very active in pursuing their goals, and unfortunately, it's far easier to criticize others for doing things than it is to actually do things yourself. Worse yet, if you are not yourself actively doing things, you are far more likely to experience fear when other people are actively doing things as there is always some nonzero chance that they will do things counter to your own goals, forcing you to actively do something lest you fall behind. Alas, people often respond to fear with hatred, especially given the benefit of physical isolation and dissociation from humanity offered by the Internet, and I think that's what you're seeing here on Hacker News.
by ghushn3 | 2025-06-19 22:39:00+00:00
> What does this mean?

My understanding was like... you know those spring diagrams, where edges of a graph are all attached by a spring, and physics sorta causes nodes to cluster naturally? I think this is saying, "I wish all the space around me could order itself into a more natural and pleasing shape."

> Same here

Dyads are like... imagine you had two vectors, represented by lego bricks. After attaching them, rather than having a red brick and a blue brick, you have a particular Red-Blue brick. So, one can imagine these unique shapes move and vibrate in ways that are unique to that pair.

The author is saying, I think, "Individual preferences aren't composed of atomic units, but rather subtle adjustments in all the combinations of those individual pieces. Evolution probably looks for places where those combinations line up nicely (and avoids places they don't line up nicely), and tunes the organism to seek those combinations."
by Aurornis | 2025-06-19 22:39:46+00:00
> Lockstep like this? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7iAABhWpcGeP5e6SB/it-s-proba... (a post on Less Wrong, karma score currently +442, versus +102 and +230 for the two posts it cites as earlier favourable LW coverage of the lithium claim -- the comments on both of which, by the way, don't look to me any more positive than "skeptical but interested")

That post came out a year later, in response to the absurdity of the situation. The very introduction of that post has multiple links showing how much the SMTM post was spreading through the rationalist community with little question.

One of the links is a Eliezer Yudkowsky blog praising the work, which now includes an edited-in disclaimer at the top about how he was mistaken: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kjmpq33kHg7YpeRYW/briefly-ra...

Pretending that this theory didn't grip the rationalist community all the way to top bloggers like Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander is revisionist history.