skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking back at my own high school experience, the girls were way smarter than the boys. The boys at least in highschool were far more concerned with cracking a good joke and goofing off. The girls were actually studying. They had the best outcomes too in terms of professional success generally in my cohort.

I think it is because girls mature emotionally a lot sooner than boys. Most boys didn’t start digging in and grinding like the girls did until maybe junior year of college. I wouldn’t be surprised if mentally they were years apart in highschool.

Now today we have a society that is no longer so biased in terms of opportunities along gender lines. And what do you know, girls are generally eating boys lunch here. They are outnumbering them in college. They have higher GPAs. They are starting to outnumber them in post grad programs. And eventually in the workforce this will happen as well, as this cohort gets jobs and supersedes older male dominated cohorts from before the silent cultural revolution over the last 30 years.

Eventually we should see this effect find an equilibrium where the number of women in high impact jobs vs men reflects the underlying intelligence bias women have over men.
Yeah, we had a few Motos in my immediate family (Razr-i, G4P, G7P, G Power, G Fast), but I became disenchanted with the software updates. We still have a couple of these around for low security use, e.g. as a mini tablet/reader with no significant apps nor primary accounts signed in.

Because of the software policies, we switched to Google Pixel (5a, 6a, 8a so far) for our actual devices used with mobile service and real accounts. The 5a was traded in to get a discount on the 8a right when its 3 year cycle was over. Now with the 6a having 5 years and the 8a having 7 years of updates, we might finally have a device that fails before its software is abandoned.
https://archive.ph/1Moz1
I agree. Despite the the statement's pithiness, the reality is we don't all have the same 24 hours in a day.
> policy to close the wage gap artificially quickly

You jumbled your words, here's what the sentence should have been: policy to close the artificial wage gap quickly.

It's well known that at equivalent position, company and resume, there is no wage gap.
"It would be hypocritical to talk about "executives" in general without owning my own situation first. For brevity, here are four examples:

1) No mortgage
2) A maid service cleans every two weeks
3) Someone else mows the grass
"

Just an anecdote, but all of his examples (except maybe for the personal assistant) could be given by anyone living in a middle-class family from Brazil until the late 90s.
Thanks, I know and agree that loans create deposits. Sadly this underrated fact seems to have thrown you a bit, to the point where a lot of what you say is just nonsense.

What does this mean? "Bonds are just a floating price asset swap for reserves so the reserves must exist (have been spent) before the bond sale can happen."

Are you able to explain what your understanding of liquidity is?

Do you know what it means for loans to be funded by deposits?

Do you know the origin of the equation between investments and savings and how it is justified?

You are giving the exact impression of someone who used to believe a flawed theory of money creation, watched the Netflix documentary about bank money and has lost it a little bit.
“Try and convince them that you’re not an animal”

Depressingly laughable suggestion.

Giving Jared (from Silicon Valley) suggesting “scream your name to your attacker so they are forced to recognize you are human” vibes.
50 years after moon rally serial and back and the power of pocket calculator
They still trying to figure out positioning beside all the AI and radio and Athena advances.
Come on let the Trump declassify moon landing hoax as well
What specific data is being sold?
How does one use an average Rewatchability score to determine whether one should watch a movie?

If I'm trying to pick a movie, I don't care what its score for rewatching is, I care about what its score is for watching it the first time.

And once I've watched a movie, I don't care about whether other people say I should watch it again, I care about whether I want to watch it again.

A movie is different from buying a board game. If I'm shelling out $50 for a game, I'll want to know if it's still fun the twentieth time I play. But that isn't a consideration when picking a new movie to watch, the experience may be worth it even if I never watch it again. And ditto with books. I'm probably not going to read that 800-page book again, but that shouldn't stop me reading it once.
500 pages (excuse me, 501) to document a source control tool.

Something went very wrong here early on. But, lacking a time machine and a handgun, it's clearly unfixable.
About three years ago, when the major state university my wife worked for was starting its "return to office" push, the head of HR gave a Zoom town hall filled with condescending remarks. He said things like, "I don’t know why you all aren’t back in the office already..." and "I love going to the MU and chatting with students about their college experience."

Keep in mind, COVID was still raging at this point.

Right in the middle of his calm rant, a courier—UPS or Amazon, I think—knocked on his door, rang the bell, and then dropped off a package, loud and clear for everyone to hear. It was hilarious and completely undercut his entire message. Funny, but also infuriating.
Not you.
> Something HR is more than willing to exploit to get them to work ridiculous hours.

HR works for management and the board.
Firefox's problem is Mozilla; too much ad money made them evil. copying every chrome feature to boost search ads by breaking usability :(

We need a new browser fork! Linux way of governance could be awesome; a star leader/programmer- with community and enterprise contributors.

/just switched to librewolf for the short term; after years on firefox since early 0.x days
I’ve recently learnt blazor as a non-dotnet person. I definitely think it comes across as complex at first glance. The learning is pretty front loaded (especially with efcore too) but it’s not too bad once you dive in.

In particular, I am a big fan of the Maui blazor hybrid stuff. Worth a look if you fancy making a desktop app.
What a disgrace of a country hahah
Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but Zen (https://zen-browser.app/) seems to me so far like a Firefox fork worth supporting.
I used to struggle with git until I started to use a GUI, now it just works but I get far less hacker cred therefor, which is regrettable.
Whenever I've tried to discuss this in cases of obvious tokenism and what I call "reverse discrimination" (which is when minority groups are particularly favored for their PR value), my language has always seemed to appear charged with privilege or something which causes people to attack me for it. I absolutely do not mean to come off that way though.

Someone once asked something relating to a literal "diversity quota" that they had to specifically hire only minorities in order to meet, and I was removed from that entire community for raising concerns of preferential treatment. I believe my exact words were "isn't that just discrimination in the other direction?"

So I think, this is still very much taboo? Either that, or I just suck at communicating. (Which is fair.)
But the root of that problem is indoctrinating children that they are expected to follow certain paths because of their gender or skin color. Not the absence of role models that match those traits.

My sister and I were educated in a gender-agnostic fashion and neither of us fell into the trap of thinking that we must do this or that because of our gender. As a result, we each carved our own different path. I don't see why my children will be any different, unless their own peers indoctrinate them with arbitrary gender roles.
Falsehoods programmers believe about languages (localization)
Happens to me here all of the time. If it doesn't align with the HN groupthink it gets hammered out of view.
In its heyday, Netscape actually made a great paid browser. And Opera too. Even Trident derivatives like Netcaptor were excellent paid browsers. It was a good business model for users and devs alike, despite being closed source, because it aligned their needs.

It was Microsoft trying to EEE the web with bundled IE and ActiveX that led to free browsers becoming the norm, and with it came the normalization of giving up control and privacy rather than paying $50 for a browser. Google sealed the deal with Chrome.

Maybe browsers shouldn't be free. If it takes giant multinational conglomerates subsidizing them to make them free, at the expense of users and the Web as a whole, maybe that's just not a good business model.

If Kagi can make Orion profitable and sustainable, it might jumpstart other paid browsers again. Maybe even other renderers, eventually.

After Manifestv2 and the Firefox situation, I tried out Orion and was ready to pay for it ($150 for a lifetime license), but it kept crashing on me every few minutes :( If they fix that, I'd be very interested in supporting its continued development. Would rather it be open source, but not for any privacy concerns... their team is just too small to do all the work on their own.
It stinks of hypocrisy and "pulling the ladder up". See also: per capita carbon emissions, exterminating the natives.
...that asylum's name was Planet Earth.

"It could only occur to an Ork to pull the wool over the eyes of the person he was talking to by speaking in a sophisticated and abstruse way – humans simulated simplicity for that. When anyone spoke to them in a complicated manner, they simply stopped listening, just as no one listened to the Orkish countess in the snuff as she shuddered from the jolting blows against her pelvic bone."
ferris: A low profile split keyboard
For the first time in a long time the GOP has control over all branches of gov't.

So if there were policy and organizational changes they wanted to make, they now have the power to do it, through passing laws.

But they're not doing that. Which really draws attention to the fact that it's not the manner in which government is being run that is a problem to them. It's government itself.
I've been saying this since RTO became a thing. Even well-compensated white collar ICs have to deal with many of the same day-to-day realities as blue collar workers. They pay bills, have to wrangle the kids, etc. Yes they live more comfortably, but they still have to personally deal with all this stuff -- they don't have the money for a household staff.

Remote work is just such a massive improvement in every respect for people with families for that reason.

The executives are just on a different planet. These are people who embody Lucille Bluthe's quote "It's one banana Michael. How much can it cost, $10?"
I feel like this is a huge load of crap.

These are highly intelligent people. They got to be very high up in the food chain. They are driven. They are smart.

Yet, the claim is that they can't imagine there exist people not like themselves? Sorry, not buying it.

More plausible to me is that remote work will hurt their bottom lines because they (and their superiors, investors, board members, etc) heavily invested in real estate.

Means, motive and opportunity.
Biden supported our allies while also pressing for a path to peace. Jill Stein had a terrible foreign policy especially with regards to russia. Anyone who thought Trump would do better ...

Inflation had largely been contained, and top including conservative ones economists agreed that Trump's plans were terrible for inflation

Biden was a competent president who brought real positive change.

Harris like Biden actually had a plan for non revolutionary but real gradual change to improve things. Trump promised to destroy stuff(if you actually listed to the meaning of his words) and promised unicorns if you didn't
California here - completely agree that one-sided media clips are a universal occurrence in the modern US media; secondly, completely agree that full speeches, primary sources and thinking for yourself are first-order ingredients in forming real insights and opinions.
It's time to unionize. The top is out of touch and the valuations of these tech titans aren’t just staggering; they’re symptomatic of a system that values profit over people. These tycoons at the helm are not just steering companies—they’re puppeteering democracy, pushing political agendas that many of us find abhorrent and irrelevant to our lives. Unionization isn’t merely about better pay or working conditions; it’s about reclaiming power from this oligarchy that’s grown too powerful, too influential. The tech community needs to wake up and get these clowns in line, we could shut these companies down if we organize.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Strong „I worked so much harder than you“ vibes.
I worked at deviantArt back in the early 2010s, they notably had a user agreement that did not claim any rights more than necessary, and it was revocable by the user without jumping through hoops. So it's not necessary to do things this way, companies do it intentionally because they don't care about the rights of their users.
This is Cuban putting his money where his mouth is. He wasn't willing to do it when it came to applying DEI to his basketball team, but I'm glad he is here.
Google Pixel 4 or 5 was (and still is!!!) peak Android, it seems. It's becoming more and more difficult to get your hands on a refurbished one, though.

The only other brand still producing reasonably sized phones is Samsung - but modern Samsung phones are drowning in bloatware, and rooting them is unnecessarily complicated.
Bookwyrm is built on ActivityPub, you won't have any single server, but a constellation of them

However, its strongest point on it's favor is that anyone creating content on AP automatically has a potential reach of a few million users.
Yeah, I have to say, I heard so much growing up, from adults, always saying stuff about how they want the government “run like a business”. Now that I’m grown, and I’ve seen the various pathologies of businesses first hand, I question whether any of those people really understood their meaning.

Just off the top of my head here’s a list of what that it means to run something like a business: enshitification, make everything a subscription, policies implemented by bots that can not be appealed, dark pattern UI, force people to give up their data by saying it’s necessary and then sell their data, train AI on copyrighted data if it means a snowball’s chance in hell that you can fire your employees, but do this only after spending decades harassing people who think there should essentially be a global library (call it “piracy!”), customer’s don’t own or control their devices, make healthcare about profit, give bailouts to businesses that simply were bad at their core competencies, and I could go on… so could anyone else on HN.

The truth is there is simply more to life than the bottom line, but that no longer stands to be the case when you run the country like a business… because that is the point of the business (the bottom line). Regardless, even if you believe the contrary, that there is nothing else in life beyond the bottom line, then the question remains at how many businesses are simply awful at what they purport to do.

Why anyone would want to exchange the system that has created the most prosperous nation in history for the likes of those who can only compete by not charging for their product is beyond my comprehension. Something tells me though that the issue at hand is not that we, as in the USA, are lacking in prosperity but something deeper and that’s the real reason why everyone’s searching for change.

I won’t be the one to say what it is, as I’d much rather hear what other people think, but I do want to beg the question. Perhaps there is a deeper problem, and perhaps we’re being guided to embrace a solution that will actually make things much worse for most.
For the services, not the browser. That's an important distinction that they're not drawing anymore.
Interesting, I've never used Trakt before but that looks pretty cool. I could see adding support for that. I'll definitely be looking into it.

As for the largest library, I only really know of my own which is around 250 series and 250 movies. Not small but not huge. Passing all of that info is fine enough, but I'm also curious how truly massive libraries or watch histories are handled.

I imagine you would hit the LLM token input limit first if you had thousands of series and movies. Definitely need some further testing in those cases.
Hell, I'd argue for knowledge professions it's required throughout the day. I cannot stay in the zone for 8 hours a day, so I'm going to need to take breaks.

When I'm at home I can at least be productive. I can make lunch, start a load of laundry, something. At work I have to sit there and pretend to work because exec loves watching people work, which is ultimately not as refreshing and doesn't allow me to get back in the zone as quickly.
> a surprising number of boys are exhibiting a lot of sexualized anti-social behaviors and entitled attitudes. If a solid % end up basically toxic and unemployable, I'm not shocked.

As someone totally clueless about this field, I think question is "Can we do something about this?" because writing them off isn't a great option either.
Bill Clinton ended up cutting staff throughout his time in office. Despite the cuts in government staff driven by the narrative that a smaller government is better by years of Reagan and Bush1. Despite these cuts, the sum effect was that costs significantly rose as they had to hire contractors to do the things that internal staff was doing.

Things are more complicated than they appear.

https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2025/02/26/fresh-air-...
Why Next.js and not Liveview?

Little note: It seems the search is only by book title, not by author and not resilient to typos.
I still would hate to be in the office every day by diktat but I honestly do think remote work can be pretty bad for the younger end of a company.

Ignoring that its quite hard to learn from other people remotely (somewhat easier in tech because people are used to it), a lot of people frankly don't realise that they're basically running off like a headless chicken working on stuff that doesn't actually matter - programmers especially. You really do need to see the whites of some peoples eyes to get them to actually do the right thing, some people just aren't the type to instinctively know the macro picture of what they're working on.

If I were running a company and had the cash to facilitate I think I would probably go for something like a cycle of "x weeks off 1 week of intense in-office sprinting" then repeat. Going into the office for no reason is basically pointless, or at least the option on spontaneity may be worth less than the cost of going, there's an arbitrage in recognising that.
This whole comment section is full of weird not-true accusations against Firefox in a way that feels really weird to me. Why would anyone want to lie to attack Firefox? Just use genuine facts to express concern, there’s plenty of legitimate concern without hyperbole.
> There's significant governmental and private assistance to young women not available to young men (educational scholarships, grants, support groups, etc.). Any field in which men continue to do well is considered a problem, whereas the converse is accepted as a natural order (have you seen any pushes to get straight men into HR?).

Or we might no know of the efforts that is made to recruit more men for these female fields because most people on this site work in tech which is male dominated?

In education for example the lack of male teachers has been seen as a problem for years. Teaching here is a well paid job but men here don't want to do it, despite there being active measures to recruit more men for this profession. It's basically the opposite of tech.
Sadly, I agree. There is probably an element of "hard worker" survivorship bias at play, but there's also an undeniable profit motive that overrides a lot of those instincts too.

After a certain number of years, handing your kids off to the babysitters so you can work an extra 10 hours a week becomes outright sociopathic neglect. Using your wealth to separate you from the things that actually matter is arguably the peak of corporate disillusionment.
> Why do people keep bring this up? It's been known for years and years that you can't donate directly to firefox

Maybe it's been known to you, but there are people in these threads over the last 72 hours who have thought that money they give to Mozilla supports Firefox. So it should keep getting repeated until everyone knows.
> No replacement for Pocket so far, but also not sure if I really need one.

I just use a single-member (self) Whatsapp group.
If you think the US healthcare system is a good example of something that isn't driven by pervasive regulation, this is exactly the kind of "what the hell is water" problem I was talking about.
artificially quickly != artificial wage gap

I said what I meant, but I agree, it could've been said more clearly.
The version of Firefox in KaiOS has lagged a long way behind the current desktop one.
weasyprint worked well for me. I'm using it in a service to export resumes.

Keep in mind that you'll need to install custom fonts if you're using languages other than English.
Is this just a copy/paste from another article that was posted recently? This was discussed in the last 1-3 weeks with a very similar article but I can't find it (perhaps it was flag-killed?).

EDIT:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186797

Ok, not a copy/paste but similar content. And I couldn't find it because I'd gone back too far in time, it was only 3 days ago. The title of this article is pretty much just a quote from the earlier one:

> Imagine: the invoice isn’t just a record in your ERP anymore. It’s a machine that wants to get approved. It wants to get paid.
That is true of any complex endeavor. People have to do their jobs properly, and the system should be set up with consideration. There are no shortcuts to success. Policy needs to be bulwarked against the problems you mentioned.
I’ve seen so much content on the Internet dedicated to how hard Git is to understand the moment you get beyond basic functionality. Is Git the problem or is meant to be used only after months of training and practice? Seems silly to have any software take so long to learn and comprehend.
Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet
I have access to it. It is better, but not where most techies would care. It knows more, it writes better, it's more pleasant to talk to. I think they might have studied the traffic their hundreds of millions of users generate and realized where they need to improve, then did exactly that for their _non thinking_ model. They understand that a non-thinking model is not going to blow the doors off on coding no matter what they do, but it can do writing and "associative memory" tasks quite well, and having a lot more weights helps there. I also predict that they will fine tune their future distilled, thinking models for coding, based on the same logic, distilling from 4.5 this time. Those models have to be fast, and therefore they have to be smaller.
> What you need is political action: organization, protests, strikes, infiltration, and targeted exercises of power.

Or maybe instead of focusing on destruction, go speak in favor of good policies?

Lying to people that the only way to win is to destroy anyone they perceive as the other team sounds like an excellent way to make sure that everyone loses.
HN seems to prefer treating this is a failure to empathise with home-life, rather than work-life. The almost rich are, as ever, incensed.
>Ukraine resisted because russia turned donbas into a corrupt mafia state.

In this picture Crimea is conspicuously absent.
Should ivermectin be removed from this list?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Me...