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Ask HN: What Is a Woman?
This question has been used as a "gotcha" by opponents of gender theory and gender reassignment. It's not an issue I'm particularly passionate about, but this question did stump me and I've spent a lot of time thinking about it.

Most dictionary definitions of woman define it essentially as an adult human female. Female, being a sex, would cause this definition to make it so that trans-women aren't technically women, and many people perceive that as a problem. But I, and my social circle, has been unable to think of a inclusive definition that still made sense.

Here are some of the forms of answers I've seen to this question:

1. Answers that include the word in its own definition. "A woman is someone who identifies as a woman" etc.

2. Answers that define by exclusion "A woman is a gender that is not man or non-binary" etc.

3. Answers that categorize instead of define. "A woman is a social construct."

4. Avoidance. "It's not for me to define what a woman is".

There's a lot of smart, reasonable people here. How do you tackle this problem? What's your answer?
I've worked on consumer hardware projects where this was the weekly output cadence. And there are companies out there doing more than this number of devices daily. At scale hardware production is ruthless; which is why this relative success (for a niche) is great. As I said, I'm already on the fence, and I think it's quite good news for Panic.

I also found the marketing campaign had a quite good execution for something in such a niche.
ok I pick the other side, then.
> regarding ergonomics, the standard keyboard layout is renowned for not being stellar ergonomics-wise

Mostly among people who sell alternative keyboards. What little scientific research has looked into this, has, as far as I've seen, failed to find any measurable ergonomic problems with standard keyboards or the qwerty layout.

Which isn't to say that there can't be any adaptive value for people with specific needs. Years ago, I had to switch to a split tented keyboard after I broke my wrist and temporarily lost the ability to pronate it enough to use a standard keyboard. Now that I'm all healed up, though, I mostly stick with it as a matter of taste. I also use my laptop's built-in keyboard when I'm away from home, and it doesn't give me any problems. If anything, I would guess I'm getting some benefit from regularly switching between a split column staggered keyboard and a standard keyboard, since it exposes my hands to a wider variety of movements.
When we had scorpions, we got barncats. They took care of scorpions, snakes, and a few other critters that are pests when mixed with humans.
Like the unregulated social media that got him elected?
* Apple music opens and transmits your unchangeable device hardware serial, and your IP (coarse location) to Apple

Modern Macs literally have a one-touch "send my supercookie to the manufacturer" button.
Credit cards are not secured by collateral. A good chunk of corporate loans are unsecured. Just take a look at a real balance sheet of a real bank. Wells Fargo has over $50 bill of just credit card loans. No collateral.

A statement isn't a "game" just because it's inconvenient.

Go through the balance sheet of one of the banks. You'll learn a lot. It will become real instead of some theoretical thing. You'll see how the assets are funded by the liabilities (deposits). You'll see that banks really can't make up money out of thin air.

Here is a simple, real, publicly listed bank in Hawaii:

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/36377/000155...

Go to page 100 and check out the balance sheet. They have about 13 bill of loans out. They own a little over 8 bill of mortgage backed securities. Their total deposits are about 21 bill. Is this some strange coincidence? Of course it isn't.
And as always, have a nice day.
Sure. But things like evolution, the big bang theory, and the formation of the solar system is a bit more sound than Rangi and Papa creating the world. Maori culture absolutely should be taught - in social studies classes, just like how we teach about Zeus and Osiris but draw a distinction between that and science.
It makes sense, there are like 100 species of scorpions in the regions where house cats were first domesticated. Cats do hunt scorpions which probably scored them some extra holiness points with the ancient Egyptians.
The ugliest part is induced demand for violence. A lot of political actions are based on making sure their weapon manufacturer constituents are getting their bread buttered - leading to fabricated pretexts for killing humans to make sure the money train keeps rolling.

If hell is real, weapon manufacturer lobbyists are certainly on the guest list.
In-store digital signage: How it works
Clone it, update the consumer go.mod with a "replace" directive to point the dependency at your fork.

I don't understand how this is still a problem for people to understand. It's been the standard for literally years now.

It's actually even better now that go workspaces are a thing.
There's a reason that most of the fines and taxes described in Leviticus are denominated in livestock.
Just because people aren't wearing them consistently doesn't mean more people aren't wearing them more as a result of the mandate. This has a net positive effect. Human nature accounted for.
Interesting so the component library is making that decision due to how well built and composable that is?

Would also love to read about the Rails-Vite marriage.

I am no longer seeking employment, having become an investor now, but thank you for the link.
The article and this discussion are reasonable and interesting, but the whole thing feels as absurd as: Things I can’t do with my luxury sedan that I can do with my old pickup truck.
Do people actually want to maintain a home or is it an idealism of financial security. Homes and handy work are getting very expensive. Are there unfair externalities for people to try and maintain homes far from cities? Especially the ones that sit unused most of the year.
He's correct.

So is regulated social media.

Damned if you do...
Anything new about this?
That's a cure worse than the disease, IMO.

The main reason that Biden isn't fulfilling most of his promises is because the Senate is refusing to pass them. Remove those checks and balances and you'd get a lot more promises fulfilled. But those checks and balances are a feature, not a bug.
Of course. What I meant was, does this site have such dynamic elements?
> billionaire Elon Musk has been mounting a hostile takeover bid of the popular service Twitter

That's some pretty incompetent reporting.

Edit: Can we change the URL to the original source instead of driving traffic to bad journalism? https://barackobama.medium.com/my-remarks-on-disinformation-...
You want some mouse acceleration. Otherwise moving to the other side of the screen requires picking up the mouse several times.

The problem is Mac's acceleration code is pretty awful.
Look at Indian UPI.

It doesn't have to be stuck to visa/MasterCard with their monolith fees incurring infrastructure and eesto go along with it.

UPI has been a great hit because the govt implemented a "ecosystem". Banks and apps and users are ALL part of the same network, everyone talks to everyone, everything is compatible. There is no moat except for having a bank account and a mobile number.

Coming from 2.5-4% fees for MDR in cards to UPI which is literally free,there is a LOT of savings in general when the daily transactions are in billions.

Those 2.5% fees really add up. And there is no stupid argument of " fraud protection" fees and all. Arent banks already paying that insurance and they have an incentive to reduce leakages by improving the tech.
Was your inflation 5%? If you drive and eat meat at average levels then it might be, but if you drive more than average or eat mostly meat then it might be more than that. It seems like you are overreacting to economic metrics and at $100k/year should be able to manage these fluxuations yourself.
The problem is that most of these apps are only available in the App Store which can only be used if you dox yourself to Apple (an Apple ID requires an email and working phone number).

It also transmits your hardware serial to Apple when you use it.
This is not what I'm saying. Most people install Linux on their Windows-certified laptop and complain that suspend/WiFi/sound doesn't work. If you bought preinstalled, everything would be flawless (it is for me).
Not only government run. Large corporations can be similarly inefficient.
They have already installed more renewable generating capacity (even figuring in capacity factor) than the nukes being proposed to restart. The coal plants were there already, and running already. It is disingenuous to pretend that they were started up just to fill in for the nukes.
>"Just because a few countries got bombed for oil doesn't make you imperialistic."

If you bomb country for oil it makes you a fucking bandit and war criminal.
Hm. I could nitpick the specific areas (I don't think they're great on safety with regard to self-driving), but that's a valid way to think about it. I wouldn't buy a Tesla, but I also recognize that Musk pushed the industry forward with regard to EVs. I certainly buy products from some companies which have similar trade-offs.

Returning to the Twitter question: gosh, I hope Elon decides to invest heavily in areas I care about and doesn't ignore aspects which I think are vitally important.
Curious - Why "obstreperously "?

I would've assumed something like "Ostentatiously" would've been the word; but I've seen "obstreperously" couple of times in this thread now, and had to look it up (it's a new word to me:) - seems to be "noisy and difficult to control", and that gives it a whole different, perhaps more negative slant?

P.S. FWIW, in my limited experience, it is typically the most technologically savvy amongst us that go through incredible effort to discover, purchase, setup, own, operate and integrate retro/Luddite devices in their lives :-)
The psychology of art is fascinating because it's a mixture of conflicting drives.

Caring about how others perceive your work helps incentivize you to get better and grind through all of the non-creative work required to get stuff in front of an audience. But it also creates anxiety that you'll be rejected by them.

Believing in yourself and the worth of your art helps overcome that anxiety and allows you to make authentic work that is personal in ways that resonate with others instead of pandering. But it also risks making you oblivious to actual useful critical feedback and can make you inflexible and unpleasant to collaborate with.

There is an interesting feedback loop between artist and audience. I think the best art comes from an artist intensely connecting with their own inner emotions in ways that reveal something meaningful and true to the audience. That level of vulnerability is difficult without external support, so it's incredibly hard to do that without an audience that it resonates with. It's like each artists needs to find their own local microclimate of the right fans in order to blossom.
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It is. I'm doing this because in the "metaverse" space, defined as virtual worlds with user-created content, the existing game engines are not that helpful. They all rely on heavy content preprocessing in some desktop environment. Virtual worlds full of items created by huge numbers of users don't have that step. Which means Unity and Unreal Engine are out, at least in their current versions. (This, by the way, is why you can't sell furniture NFTs in Decentraland; the unit of updating is the land parcel with everything on it, edited offline.) Everybody who has a good, editable virtual world has their own engine.

Roblox is doing some very nice work, but the system is entirely proprietary. Watch this build in Roblox. It's not just blocks any more.[1] That's a very nice 3D editor, using constructive solid geometry.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpiRDk510Wg
Hell, if you want 20 guitars and can afford it, get 20 guitars. Ideally each one brings something new to the table for you. I had a sudden uptick in creativity immediately after buying #6.
Halo 2 was my favorite experience of FPS multiplayer in my life so thank you for sharing!
> The switch type does not control the shape.

Except for Topre.

Not that I'm mad or anything.
In the theme of jq alternatives, there is fx[1] which has an interactive view and supports querying JSON in Javascript, Python and Ruby. It used to be a node CLI but was recently rewritten in golang[2]

[1] https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

[2] https://twitter.com/antonmedv/status/1515429017582809090
isn't Bloomberg's internal database system built on top of SQLite?
When I was an MD/PhD student in 2017-2018, there were only a handful of labs specializing in applied medical ML and computational biology. Since leaving to work as an ML eng/backend eng, I have been surprised by how the relationships between academics, practitioners, and investors in pure software contribute to a positively reinforcing loop. On the medicine side, the academics lean towards software skepticism, the investors make fewer and safer bets to compensate for historically lower margins/growth/return multiples compared to pure software, and the subset of practitioners get payed orders of magnitude less and have correspondingly less engineering development. The differences affect everything from managerial quality, skill and career development, location flexibility, upward mobility, product scope and impact.
I think it does need to be said.

Nobody can engage with your opinions if you don't express them.
> No, they list out exactly what they may censor like porn. Twitter doesn't do that. It's their choice to do less and that's fine. The problem is that they can't do more. That's a positive regulation.

That is not the way that any court I'm aware of has ever interpreted Section 230, and it's not the way the original author of Section 230 has ever interpreted it either.

Section 230 is not a list that describes the only things you are allowed to censor. It's a regulation on the government that prevents them from treating proactive moderation as liability for other unmoderated content.

Section 230 does not require that a site avoid censoring certain kinds of information.
Bunch of people who left twitter came back to see whats going on today, most are conservatives, and are following conservatives.
What core principles have been lost? If you want to argue Twitter is a public space where public figures should be able to say whatever they want, I'm going to argue your front lawn is too.
Because it wasn't unregulated social media. It was regulated by people friendly to him. Now, it will be regulated by someone that he has no influence over. I would imagine that Musk doesn't care if he is invited to the cool kid parties.
I'm not sure how many people will remember this, but macOS 8 came with a program called Hotline, who's main activity was "publishing and distribution of a multi-purpose client/server communication software."

Most people I knew used it to pirate software and MP3s.

The way most of us used it was we'd find a server that had something we wanted (software, a crack, or music), and the login would be password protected. There would be a public readme file with instructions on how to find the password, which was typically behind a banner ad you had to click to generate revenue for the file host.

I was working as a web developer at the time, and the start-up where I worked literally had a dedicated server just for downloading music on Hotline, but Napster came along and we mostly forgot about Hotline.
Ask HN: How do you renew your interest in technology?
Like most of us here, I've absolutely loved programming since I was a kid. And I did programming. A lot.
A couple of years ago I joined a PhD program in AI. I liked the science, but I dropped out after realizing I didn't really like working that way.

Current status: I feel I completely lost any interest in any kind of tech. Programming lost its magic. I can't stand the people considering their tech-related opinions as facts. I can't stand the childish "here's why I don't like tech X" articles (I guess I'm doing the same?). I can't stand self-proclaimed "experts" of the next js framework which will disappear in 2 years. Seems pointless.

So how do you renew your interest in tech?
Hi HN,

BreadBuddy is a recipe scheduler and, more importantly, the reference that I wish I had when I was first learning how to build apps with Swift/SwiftUI.

While CS193p [1], HackingWithSwift [2], and raywenderlich [3] were instrumental in my learning iOS development and the MVVM architecture, I wish there were more open source examples of how to fit everything together... so I built such an example!

Hope you find it useful for your baking or your making (your own apps!)

[1] https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu
[2] https://www.hackingwithswift.com
[3] https://www.raywenderlich.com/
If people lived and thought and partied and slept, had friends, raised family, and weren’t too miserable, I’m not sure how variations in IQ distribution really matter much?

Maybe the metric captures something arbitrary about modernity — and a community’s conformance to it — and not much meaningful about the people in other times and places.
The only reason Indians or Africans aren't getting this job is time zone difference with the US. There are about 200 million people living on less than 1.9 dollar a day in India.
> Your post seems a bit "I couldn't use my phone responsibly so I got rid of it", which is fine...

I was perfectly fine with my smartphone, I had it greyscale, heavily restricted in terms of what was installed, etc. It wasn't a particular problem... but at that point, neither was it a particular benefit. Battery life was "a few days at best," it was large and expensive, and I tend to enjoy playing in the weeds of "What's possible?" vs "What's the default?"

As I didn't know anyone who was carrying a feature phone instead of a smartphone, I set out to figure out what that looks like, with the constraints of "I don't want to annoy other people too badly with my choices" - so the first attempt, a Bananaphone, went out quickly because it couldn't do MMS based group texting. The Flip IV handles that, if not well, then "in a way that doesn't irritate other people, mostly." It doesn't render any emojis, but I'm fine with that.

By "point in my life where I can do this," I mean that people around me simply expect me to have oddly broken or limited computer systems and communications systems, so if I'm off in some weeds or another, it's no particular surprise. I don't need 100% reliably daily comms, people don't expect me to respond instantly, and everyone knows that if something's on fire, use the phone feature of the cell system and I'll pick up. Assuming my phone is nearby.

I've written up more on the experiments here: https://www.sevarg.net/2022/01/22/kaios-bananaphone-flip-iv-...

I hate what modern smartphones have become, and I'm fairly vocal about that. I think that they've turned into expensive, human-toxic bits of ewaste looking for a place to happen, and that they've been the primary enablers of the always-on surveillance capitalism systems we see today, to such great harm to humanity. To then continue using them, despite "Well, yeah, but I turned off notifications...", is a form of hypocrisy I try to avoid in life as much as I can. I can be as right as the day is long about the benefits of a vegetarian, low meat, or vegan diet, but if I'm talking to people about it while chowing down on a bacon double cheeseburger, I can reasonably expect nobody to listen to me. The same goes for tech habits. I can't rail against smartphones and social media, on smartphones and social media, and expect much beyond a well deserved eye roll.

I at least try to live out my convictions regarding technology, which means that things like the blog post I linked above are hosted on a server I own and have colo'd locally.

And I'll entirely admit that there exist a small number of features I've not found ways to replace a smartphone for, so I use my legacy device for those and only carry it with me when I need access to a particular building that has smartphone based locks (I don't like them, but I didn't install them, other people like them, and they don't have an easily usable key backup), or if I'm doing Part 107 drone operations for some reason or another.
I remember when Obama got elected in 2008, all the pundits were gleefully explaining how he was a master of social media and had this expert team of young digital natives who had used big data to target their bring out the vote efforts, blah blah blah, and how the doddering old Republicans were going to be left in the dust and would never win an election again.
If you want to “get rid” of the dock, there’s an unconventional trick for this I use: you can set a much longer hover timer via defaults in terminal.

I set mine to around 40 seconds. I haven’t seen my dock a year or so.

Note I’ve not jumped to Monterey yet so this is untested there.
This book is hugely different from the katas or koans of the early 2000's though. It teaches you with full program structures that you would encounter in the real world. You come out of the book knowing best practices for building real applications.
Maybe, although since the post is from 6 years ago, it might have been hugged to death already years ago.
The promise was to "open source the twitter algo" not have a room with glass walls so you can watch the algorithm run line by line, slowly enough to be checked, for every single person that refreshes their feed.
Is it a rotary phone or a touchscreen app underneath a rotary? I cannot tell from the pictures.

For 400$ I would rather have a dongle/cord/app that would allow me to plug an actual oldschool phone into my cellphone.
Let me guess, the one and only metric for success will be how many of Mr. Obama's friends get and stay elected.
There is some question about how much NK/SK outcome disparity is due to economic penalties vs artificial support. For many decades after the Korean War, China’s economy wasn’t large enough to prop up North Korea.

One wonders, regardless of regime, how much better off North Korea would be if it similar trade opportunities as South Korea. Or how much worse South Korea might be without generous western economic aid.

UAE/Qatar/Saudi/Kuwait for example, are doing well on a per-capita GDP basis despite being absolute monarchies / authoritarian states. Perhaps their ruling families are a bit better than the Kim family, but perhaps the Kim family would have been better if they’d received similar levels of western support and constant access to top advisors instead of isolation.
Hotline didn't come bundled with the OS but was definitely good times.

Edit: oh and Carracho!
Blue checkmarks aren't about verification: they are a marketing tool used by the ad sales team. They give out just enough to famous celebrities to make them prestigious & then use giving them out to get into the room with people who buy ads.
> I personally hate the idea of face ID

I can kind of get why "Windows Hello" camera-based face id isn't exactly great but do you also think the same of Apple's "actually modeling your face" style? Because I was really apprehensive about it compared to a fingerprint reader but I've pretty much flipped 180.
When new information becomes available I am able to change my mind. I'd also argue that any media could aid and abet anti democratic activities. Deliberate misinformation and its amplification, and polarization are are potentially easier to do on social media.