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> to be gender inclusive in Spanish?

Just look for a different term that is already gender inclusive. Maybe one day us Spanish speakers will agree on gender-inclusive inflections, but currently -e is not really having any traction outside dedicated LGBT circles, and -x or -ex even less. I admit I hesitate to speak to the odd person expecting -e and I'm supposed to benefit from it catching on!

Grammatical gender just sits in a similar position to closed class words: you can't just add new gendered inflections to a language and expect speakers to still be able to speak it without effort, specially when it propagates to adjectives through linguistic agreement. Imagine if someone asked you to use tay instead of singular the or something similar.

I can't comment on pendejo/a as it isn't part of my dialect, so I'm not sure what would be equivalent with similar nuance, but I doubt anyone cares about being inclusive when insulting.
It was just an overnight fever dream. Musk wakes up and does the "who did I send dumb texts to last night" routine.
Fanfare: Promotional clips for creators who don't enjoy promoting their content
> A day's driving the EV6 GT left me more convinced than ever that the most expensive, most powerful version of an EV is often not really any better than the cheaper version.

> Partly that's down to cars having too much performance for the public road, and it's always more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slowly. And more powerful versions of EVs always suffer in terms of range efficiency.
But why does it take a couple of seconds? I can send a ping thousands of kilometers away and get the ICMP reply in 100 ms or something. I can ping my router in less than a millisecond and my router is further away than my computer.

Why does this whole negociation take seconds and not milliseconds?

Or my car: it's full of electronics. Chips and code everywhere. Even my pedals, which used to be cables decades ago, are now fly-by-wire. It's chips and code everywhere.

Yet feedback is instant.

Now I understand a monitor is not the same as ethernet and is not the same as a car but... Seconds?
We don’t call the ball itself fútbol in Argentina, only the game. The ball is la pelota.
Heard of https://replika.com/? We are already there.
Argentina, for example, has a huge population of those from Italy. Brazil from Portugal, Mexico and central America from Spain. This is why you generally don't want to call an Argentine or Brazilian "Hispanic".

My guess as to why we call the continent "Latin America" is because for a long time Argentina dominated, being one of the richest and most advanced countries in the world, even giving birth to the expression "As rich as an Argentine". It is is still very important even today, but I don't want to get my Brazilian friends upset with me.
The study of chimpanzees and non-human hominids (neanderthals, homo erectus, etc) falls under the banner of anthropology. I'd hardly call Jane Goodall a colonialist.
I self-host e-mail. It's not always easy, but it's doable. It got easier over time with tools like docker-mailserver [1] and Mail-in-a-Box [2].

[1] https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

[2] https://mailinabox.email/
My guess it that archeology does not attempt to link DNA to behavior, and so gets a pass.
Ultimately what directs anthropology is fickle, there is no real push for correctness or profitability; its all prestige and arbitrary funding directors.
In Argentina “terminar” is OK but “acabar” (almost same meaning) is the dangerous one.
A car's 0-60mph time has been used to advertise how quickly a car accelerates long before Tesla was even founded.
You don't think having a cheap way to power artificial light sources might be relavent to the food crisis in places not suitable to growing food the natural way?
Ask HN: How do you stay on top of your habits?
I'm trying to improve my daily habits, especially my exercise habits, and I was wondering what methods or tools you guys use to stay on top of your healthy habits. Do you have any recommendations for habit-forming apps or tools that have worked well for you, especially for motivation, tracking exercise, or breaking unhealthy habits?
But aren't you afraid that whenever you veer discussion from Wikipedia/stackoverflow type explanations it's likely lying to you? This was my general experience -- it's great at querying for stuff which already exists and is popular on the internet and for conversing on a surface level or broad level but as soon you delve into details it starts confidently lying and/or hallucinating things, which undermines my trust in it, which in turn means I need to verify what it says, which means it did not increase my productivity that much after all.

It routinely invents arguments, functions or concepts which don't exist in reality or don't apply to the current context, but look like they could, so you are even more likely to get caught by this.
> It's very "weird" how lately these proxy sites pushing socially conservative agendas that turn out to be run by conservative think tanks have been landing and languishing on the front page here

Culture war material is explicitly against the HN rules, so you can flag it with a clear conscience.

I don't think many hackers know much about anthropology to start with, which is a shame.
Mastodon links are still blocked.

Also removing a page is not a solution, they need to come up with an explicit policy at this point.

I signed up to Mastodon yesterday just in case.
I'm a fan of monorepos personally.

That said, I cannot pretend I don't see the problems with suboptimal tooling working in a medium size codebase. "big" and "medium" and "small" are quite subjective things.

At $work we have a monorepo whose git repo grew to 1GB in size and where the CI turn-around is so high, and the glitches so often, that it often takes hours or even days to land some code to prod. Developers instinctively react by making bigger and bigger changes because the very thought of going through PR/review/CI/merge cycle once again terrifies them. It's all compounded by a security policy that forces a code review approval every time the source code changed, including when you have to apply fixes to build failures induced by a component you don't own.

All of these things can and should be be fixed. But this is work, and is not urgent work so it's not often done at the same pace other stuff is done. This induces fatigue in the team and, as usually things go, people tend to blame the most easiest thing to blame: the monorepo.

That's why I try to phrase the problem to be a tooling problem and not a monorepo problem.
Clearly if you don't have a problem with your monorepo, you either already have good tooling, or you don't need good tooling.
You could be right, but it's not like a large software project instantly falls apart if people leave. It'll keep running for a while but cracks will start to develop and nobody will be around to patch them up.
There's typically a "real[1]" 8042, but with an optional chipset configuration register that diverts accesses to it to SMM instead, even on modern chipsets

[1] Obviously not actually an 8042, but some hardware that would decode those addresses if they weren't trapped beforehand
> every time I read something like this

Your mistake as a historian is reading a primary source without considering what biases or social context it might have.
Most diagnoses for schizophrenia are in the early twenties for men and late twenties for women, so not really in puberty/teenage years. I don't believe anyone can be diagnosed before adulthood if they're not exhibiting exceptionally extreme symptoms either.
Institutional Performance (Art) Can Save the BioöKonomie
I love the reference to a hairdryer. Science communication at its best that helped me put this all in context.
Of course, more focus on food security tho. Using the rising tide of promotion of fusion to draw attention to this more important goal is a good.
A similar passage in Freakonomics showed how fining parents for picking up their kids late made the problem worse. Paying the fine "excused" the behaviour.
On that note, perhaps banks should be the middlemen between companies seeking recurring revenue and people seeking one-off purchases? Have the company charge $X, the bank turns that into $X/24 + interest - this already exists, but it's too tied into the credit system. Perhaps there's a space for innovation there, to make a product specialized for mediating between subscriptions and one-off purchases.
The special rel just-so story I had got was night people and day people, and the night people had set true N to the north star, while the day people used the midpoint of sunrise and sunset for true N, so all their cardinal directions were rotated relative to each other.

They were then confused why their measurements of distances always agreed but of position always differed, until someone came up with the rotation equations that allowed one to map day to night and night to day.

Change normal trigonometric rotation to hyperbolic, and you've got most of special rel.
It's good to be curious on Hacker News, but I have to ask if you have experience in this area or are just saying things that sound reasonable to you? Despite not being an expert, I happened to hear the opposite a while back, and doing a little bit of research seems to agree that predators do not actually do this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67340-8. I understand the concern of "why could this possibly take $90 million, the animals don't care anyways" but I am sure that more thought has been put into this than just sticking corrugated metal culverts every so often.
Is it really fun to lose the race to someone driving an "appliance"?
This is one of the things on my TODO-list for when I stumble upon a way to have infinite amounts of time:

Learn "FPGA 'n stuff" and build my own display controller. Like many people here, I don't understand why this takes so much bloody time. Not just the input switching, but also switching resolution or refresh rate on the same input. So either I'd have an a-ha moment and see why it's not possible (more likely outcome), or well, it'll just work and I can write a cool hackaday post.

The EDID explanation given in the comment currently at the top doesn't make too much sense: Even if the display is off and not in some super hardcore energy saving mode, EDID works, i.e. your computer can query the EDID data from the screen and know what its preferred resolution is, etc. Likewise, even if your display is switched to HDMI-1, a machine connected to HDMI-2 can already be outputting 1080p60 to it, so why does switching inputs take more than a few milliseconds?

Afaik (and I only have very rough knowledge here), there is no side-channel in HDMI/DVI that tells the display what mode it's actually receiving, so the display has to look at the signal and make sense of it. So you have to put some brains in it. But that can hardly take several seconds, i.e. hundreds of frames? Maybe two or three frames! I could see this being a cost cutting measure, maybe doing the dumb implementation that takes seconds instead of milliseconds saves you a cent or two per device.
Still unconvinced why this is such a major breakthrough - it may be the first net-positive controlled fusion, but the distinction between controlled and uncontrolled fusion is a bit academic in this case. In uncontrolled fusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon), you are using a nuclear fission primary stage to generate enough energy to start the fusion reaction in the secondary stage. In the NIF, you are using lasers (that have to be aligned to trillionths of a meter and damage their own guiding optics everytime they fire) to start the fusion reaction in a smaller pellet (that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars). So the only real difference between the first and the second case is that the H-bomb is smaller, much more expensive per amount of energy released, and explodes inside a chamber. And it's obvious to pretty much everyone who is paying attention that transforming this setup into a working and cost-effective fusion power plant is a very tall order. Also, what somehow always gets left out of these articles is that the NIF is a military facility financed from the "(Nuclear) Stockpile Stewardship" budget. So its primary objective is studying fusion in a controlled way, but for building better bombs (and retaining the expertise necessary to build them), not for energy production.
Some HNers believe the site is superior to Reddit, if you compare it to the smaller and high quality subs, there isn't any difference.
Is it safe to live?
In order to interpret this stuff correctly you have to understand that we’re talking about ethnic/cultural groups in the US, not in Latin America.

There are not many Argentines in the US, so the distinction rarely comes up.
Thomas Watson's quote is misrepresented and it is more prescient than it appears. There are indeed maybe five computers on the world market: the BlackRock computer [1], the Google computer, the Tencent computer, and maybe a few others. A computer can be implemented in one CPU, or in millions of CPUs: if the control and the data ownership behind the CPUs is the same, it is still one computer. Watson's quote is more about psychology rather than technology, just look at the hullabaloo of crypto: a theoretically decentralized technology and the people still use centralized exchanges.

In the extreme you could say that today we have only one computer, the ASML computer [2], since they are the only ones making the machine that makes the machine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(BlackRock)

[2] ASML: TSMC's Critical Supplier, Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsn1CUyXWs
Think about it. I don't think "those places" are going to be getting first dibs on fusion anyway, not de point. It's not that it ain't relevant. Of course interacts, but focus on food first.
They ruined office with … removing Excel’s 64k row limit, better file format, collaborative editing and better data analysis functions?
https://archive.vn/isn0r
Except it isn't the HN readership who choose to constantly frame these stories in terms of engineering. From the article:

"These and other scientific, technological and engineering hurdles will need to be overcome before fusion will produce electricity for your home. Work will also need to be done to bring the cost of a fusion power plant well down from the US$3.5 billion of the National Ignition Facility. These steps will require significant investment from both the federal government and private industry."

If fusion research scientists continue to insist that their research has any viable path to use in commercial power generation, and to demand large amounts on funding on that basis, then they should expect to be critiqued on that same basis.
Discipline.
I’ve never understood this desire to keep having sortware get updated over and over. Ideally, I want to buy a working version of a software once and never update it again. I want that software to work the same way as it did when I bought it, forever.

I don’t want to worry about waking up one day and finding that, because the company’s chief designer needed to do something to justify his salary, the whole UI of my software was redone and everything was moved around. I don’t want to find that it now runs 2x slower because an update brought unwanted features. It’s like buying a hammer and a week later the handle is shorter and it turned into a hatchet.
The US Military Just Sent Its First Biological Experiment to Space
Dancing with Scala and ZIO
We used to watch this in primary school (in mid-Wales c. 1995/96) as part of the school curriculum, I remember nostalgically searching for it on YouTube not so long back and noticed Samuel L. Jackson was a part of it.
Alas, as utilitarian mass-individual transportation, I suppose there's no doubt EVs make sense. I don't drive much, but when I do, I enjoy having a fully-engaged experience. Soon enough, people won't even be aware driving once required four limbs operating on four different tasks simultaneously, or how that could be pleasurable. Sad for them. More old cars for me.
Java Applet, wasn't that deprecated in '17?
Humans usually do the cheap thing. Historically making the right thing the cheap option has been much much more effective than trying to nag the invisible hand, which basically never works.
Look everyone this is fun and all but I’m not going to waste my time going back and forth on this. Sort it out amongst yourselves. You can pretend you’ve won and everything, I’m cool with that.
Given the fast rise in mountain lion population, what are your thoughts on allowing them to be hunted?
Surely, rarely invaders (successful ones) have not been violent, historically.

But I don't think that the Goths, the Gauls and the Romans were that much less violent in fights.

And if the cause is the draught, then it should have raised the violence in all the populations affected in the area, not only the Huns.
We probably don't have enough evidence to say something about my point, even less for culling. Let me restate "love for animals and knowledge don't intersect" as "love for animals and skepticism don't intersect"
Running? Swinging on vines. Hoot!
I’m not going to continue a conversation with someone being intentionally dense.
> The OP said „it is worth keeping in mind“

But nothing of substance, only innuendo. What does that particular phrase even mean? It stops before actually saying anything.

> Don‘t get drawn into thinking there are always just two sides.

Exactly what I mean. What is your point, when you actually apply it to the current blog post and discussion?

Also, "always two sides" does not mean two sides worth spending equal amounts of time on. We've also had "two sides" for climate change and vaccines since forever, basically, for any topic you can find people with a different opinion. But knowing that alone is kind of useless.

No, pointing to somebody's origin or affiliations alone does not provide any value. It can be - if you start from there and become more concrete with respect to the specific text we are looking at. Strangely enough, this kind of statement also is the exact opposite of what is the purported goals, e.g. being against "racism": Mere affiliation is seen as sufficient as an argument against somebody and all their work, without even the tiniest bit of effort at actually looking at what they have.

I sure don't mind somebody pointing out such affiliations - but I would at the very least want to see at least a token effort of them looking at the evidence in front of them in form of the text being discussed.
With that much torque things will break faster...

Think like: It is not the speed that kills, it is the sudden stop.

Like the VW automatic transmissions. Here in Europe, no one will trim VW with diesel and automatic transmission because the torque will kill the transmission.
Certainly they do, ie if you don't compensate with exercise your spine will be in pretty bad shape and I would expect damage to be distinguishable from diseases like scoliosis. I mean pro tennis players get their swinging arm elongated by up to 1cm, so I would expect frequent horse riding leaves marks on pelvis, joints and maybe spine that no other activity does due to specific position and pressures applied.
Aha. And what if someone is there, from the remaining 20%, to patch them up?
Questionable title: if you consider the impact of economic growth/specialization on human freedom - from exceedingly unfree agricultural and domestic work towards much freer (but still, of course, not wholly free) forms of symbolic labor, then the world is still getting more and more free every day, but on an level unseen by existing media, which tends to focus on state/politics as this generates agitation that leads to revenue.
It kinda seems like most software has arrived in the area of diminishing returns, right? Sometimes, the next version even gets worse. So there either aren't so many new useful features to put into the next version and / or the implementation complexity gets overwhelming, so it's only possible to add new useful features with disproportionate effort...

It's disappointing - is what we have really all that is possible...? I actually don't think so, but what will improve the situation? Some kind of AI thing? With my FOSS desktop software background, I think the disappearance of "applications" in favor of a more integrated system also holds some promise. Without companies, there is no need to have marketable distinct pieces of software.
Hello, I'm Kurt I. Gronbech, developer of Tunll. Inspired by ngrok.

The tunll binary includes both the agent and the server for those who have a need to run their own self-hosted server.

Tunll has been created with C# and .NET 7 and works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

I'm also working on Codemander, an online development platform, and tunll sprung out from that.
Well, possibly polluters are to blame? Amongst developed countries, seems like USA stands out as having had a pretty cavalier attitude for decades about polluting land and water with carcinogens, allowing all sorts of cr*p in food etc. The reactive attitude "we'll permit this chemical until we run into any problems with it". vs the EU's "this chemical is suspect , so banned until we find clear evidence that it isn't dangerous". Of course EU not perfect either, plenty of scare stories in other places too. But the attitude in the USA baffles me, why isn't there more public pressure to reduce exposure to dangerous chemicals. is it just people are uniformed, or they think lets just dump it in a poor area or something.... ?
Just checked, left/right is possible, with two settings (one for the display designated primary, the other for all other displays).

Taking another look at StartIsBack I'm somewhat surprised that I preferred donating to ExplorerPatched over buying StartIsBack, I guess I didn't want to get used to something that I could not install on any new computer encounter without money getting involved. That, and the massive Google results dominance StartIsBack enjoyed while I was desperately looking for an 11-fix: at a certain level of SEO success the trust heuristics in my brain start screaming "scam" no matter what. In an objective level I really don't believe that StartIsBack is anything close to malware (doesn't even require admin, apparently (1)), but the SEO success and intense layman appeal of the site triggers all my fight or flight reflexes. Far too reminiscent of those old system cleaner tool traps.

((1) not that "no admin" would be a panacea: that might have been a difference back in the day when "taking over the system" was the only thing to really be concerned about, but these days on a typical personal computer there's plenty of valuable identity stuff that a piece of malware could harvest without ever escalating beyond user)
Or 1 goal and 1 penalty, the penalty executed like carbon copy three times. It was almost like kicker and goalie were working on this one execution together.
Making any transcriptions, translations, interpretations, etc completely unfalsifiable. If anyone is actually doing this they are either a con artist or just devoid of any idea of how science works.
Yup, before the accountants took control.
Fun analogy: horses have about four distinct "gears" (gaits), and there's a certain amount of skill in achieving smooth transitions between them.