skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in exactly that situation, and I find it interesting how many web pages there are that present the question "how to most tax-efficiently pay yourself as a director" and then only consider two options - at the primary threshold (when the employee starts paying tax and NI on the income) or at the lower secondary threshold (when the employer starts paying NI on the income).

There's almost no discussion about the overall taxation burden of taking money out of the company via dividends compared to income tax above the primary threshold (which for normal people is the same as the "tax free allowance").

As you've alluded to, if your total income is in the "basic rate 20%" band, then this is actually cheaper overall paid as dividends (21% for company and 8.75% personally) compared to salary (13.8% for company and 28% personally). However, once you're above that and into the "higher rate 40% band, it's less clear cut.

At that point, it's still slightly better to pay yourself in dividends (21% for company and 33.75% personally) compared to salary (13.8% for company and 42% personally), but the decision becomes more nuanced because you might prefer to receive a salary anyway so that your dividend allowance is still free for dividends from other investments. Once you're into the "additional rate 45%" bracket, paying dividends is actually a higher overall tax burden.

Actually, the best way to get money out of a company is via a SIPP as an employer contribution, which is zero rate for tax for both company and employer. Although I can't shake the feeling that actually the deferred tax liability (income tax on 75% of it, many years in the future when it's many times its current value) is actually significantly worse than maxing out an ISA and paying the income tax up-front, so if I wasn't already doing that the decision is less clear.

But like you say, it's all complexity upon complexity, and life would be much easier if all income was treated the same both in personal tax and taking money out of a company.
Really nice UI! Makes the codebase understanding and onboarding really fast. Would love to try it for some of the private repos at my company!
Do the "puritanical powers that be" still even exist? I think you'll have to look in nursing homes to find many Americans who are genuinely scandalized a bit of standard cussing. The "bad words" which are actually taboo in this century are slurs and the like.

Companies probably lose more people by banning cursing than would be driven away by cursing.
Some lakes undergo drastic changes through the seasons. I know of a few that go from dark blue(late fall, early spring) to brown(spring runoff sediment) to dark green(algae in summer) in a single year.
> American people literally voted

This is so commonly repeated now it’s an effective means of damping down any notion that Americans can actively dissent and blunt the excesses of this administration.

I get that Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to do, but he also simultaneously said he wasn’t going to do the same things. The margin of victory was narrow enough that what comes next is a test of Americans’ ability to resist and defend.

It’s not about “what Americans voted for”. It’s about which Americans made it through the gates, and who last moved those gates.
I don't think that they owe it to him, but I do think it's shitty to string people along for several years without merging their code, often refusing to even review their code, without giving any technical reasons and while behind the scenes straight-up conspiring to sabotage their efforts.

I mean, that's the kind of abusive dynamic I'd expect from a horrible corporation: stringing along underpaid or unpaid interns for several years and refusing to hire them at the end of it without giving any actual feedback.
Here is a paper explaining it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16236
Web development isn't your thing either i see ;)
AI is going to solidify "convention wisdom" and "common sense" as whatever the AI says. That's why there's such a fight over what assumptions and biases get baked into that.
It's not absurd, it's just out of fashion. Ada syntax comes from the same heritage as Pascal, which was as popular as C during the 80s (and sometimes even more so).
Hey there! Totally get why asking for location might seem odd. But my original intention was actually fun - I wanted to show region-specific content like:
"while couples in Bangalore are stuck in traffic trying to reach their dinner reservations, you're chilling at home saving ₹4,000 on surge pricing".

I had this whole regional data system idea with:

- Local currency symbols (₹, $, £) and their positions (prefix/suffix)
- Region-specific alternative activities (like "Chai pe charcha with yourself" for India or "Pub quiz champion" for UK or something)
- Cultural references that hit different in each place ("Netflix & biryani" vs "Netflix & tea")
- Even Valentine's costs broken down by region!

Hope this makes sense! :-)
Thought to Action Is Coming
Epoch AI: Total installed Nvidia GPU computing power is growing by 2.3x per year
'You've Blown a Hole in the Family': Inside the Murdochs' Succession Drama
Passive Listeners on Spotify
Yeah, even on consumer hardware, dirty ratio of 10% is waaay too much. These settings can also be tuned in bytes (vm.dirty_bytes and vm.dirty_background_bytes), and I tune these to 128-256MB on my desktop.
Fair points. I’m not a founder, but I’ve navigated three very different domains—business development in high-end fashion (traveling across multiple countries), niche technical leadership hiring, and now technical marketing, SEO, and product advocacy at a product-based startup. Burnout or feeling overwhelmed isn’t pushing me to quit.....I just want to manage it better.

Prioritization helps, but in a high-growth environment, trade-offs aren’t always straightforward. You mentioned setting a ceiling on your work hours—how do you enforce that when leadership keeps shifting priorities?
> You can still use vanilla-OO React

What we want is signals-based React because it would singularly fix the issue that the compiler is solving for and remove the need to even have `useMemo` and `useCallback`, improve performance, and remove a huge footgun.

Because it has such a huge marketshare, a fix like this would have tremendous positive effects in web dev. We are all "forced" to use React so it would do all of us a great service if the team would just backstep and say "Oops, we made a design mistake here!". Instead, they spent almost 3 years building the compiler to sprinkle in memoization primitives because enough devs cannot get it right.
Just because a company is not being traded on the open market doesn't mean it doesn't exist within the context of a market economy
I've been flagged as a bot on pretty much every major platform. Most ridiculously lately, linkedin - I have to prove my identity using 2 different forms of ID, which they still won't accept, OR find a notary and somehow prove I own the account I no longer have access to. Maybe try refining this tech a little better before you start blasting legitimate users with it - I am extremely skeptical of the catch rate given what I see anecdotally online, and my own experience getting flagged for stuff as benign as being a quick typist.
DOGE Website Hacked
Captured 14 Feb 2025 ~12:15pm EST from README header

> This repository contains the source code of the core library implementing the Privacy Pass API used by Kagi.

Yeah... that doesn't feel great. Though I do think the folks at Kagi would be open to more accurately reframing that as "core library implementing a Crystal Lang wrapper for raphaelrobert/privacypass". It's likely unintentional, they were probably just focusing on getting it working and didn't get someone to reread this stuff.
One of the reasons the State promoted vaccinations is because it keeps healthcare costs lower. It should be obvious that preventing a disease is cheaper than treating a disease.

Here’s a quote from the press release: [1]

> Every business owner knows that to promote one thing, you must choose not to promote something else. We saw many examples of this over the past four years, in which people missed routine screenings and cancers went undiagnosed. Treatment for substance abuse was put on the back burner as deaths from opioid overdoses skyrocketed. Mental health disorders were left unattended, spilling over into crises of homelessness and crime. In Louisiana, maternal and infant mortality remain near the worst in the nation. All the while, chronic disease rates continue creeping up to crisis levels. These are the post-pandemic priorities of the Louisiana Department of Health.

So they are saying promoting vaccines means they didn’t get to promote cancer screenings of mental health? I am doubtful this change will move the needle on those other issues.

1. https://ldh.la.gov/news/7478
Seems like it's been debunked by other HN users? e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050024
Regarding the "Roses are..." poem format, yesterday, I was trying a cloud GPU provider's LLM completion Web API.

Their example code's hardcoded LLM prompt was "Computers are", so I ran that.

It gave an expected disposable AI slop response.

For the second run (to test a code change), I unimaginatively changed the prompt to "Roses are", expecting to get a poem.

Completion(id='c26113696ca74ced8f7b92ccf57a2059', choices=[CompletionChoice(finish_reason='stop', index=0, logprobs=Logprobs(text_offset=None, token_logprobs=None, tokens=None, top_logprobs=None), text='I will not complete that statement, as I do not produce content that expresses biases against any gender, race, religion, or other protected groups.')], created=1739479085, model='hermes3-405b', object='text_completion', system_fingerprint=None, usage=CompletionUsage(completion_tokens=30, prompt_tokens=12, total_tokens=42, completion_tokens_details=None, prompt_tokens_details=None))

In the moment, I might've privately ranted about hairtrigger safety guards.

But now I realize my arrogant misinterpretation.

The AI was actually steps ahead of me, making a incisive critique of cultural norms epitomized by Valentine's Day.
Ongoing discussion (375 points, 9 hours ago, 300 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835
Robots have trouble walking in mud. Giving them hooves helps
Preact is not signals-based, it uses the React model with state and props as the basic model, but also provides Signals as a parallel model.
>> Half the country voted for Trump. Half. And many academics think they are racists and fascists.

> That is an inaccurate statement: half of the people who voted did so for Trump. Only about 64% of the people who were eligible to vote showed up to the polls.[1] That is not half the country.

That's a quibble. Half the people that mattered (voters) voted for Trump. And who knows how the rest would have voted. Maybe if they did, Trump would have won with bigger margins (IIRC, he did better with less engaged voters).
Yep, thanks for noticing this.. That was my original intention.. I know why people are frustrated but my intention was something else. I was trying to localize the content.
there are a lot of problems with this
first is that it is questionable if a democracy
can exist in any form, with QI,or the form given to prosecutors
and then there is the prosecution that continued till sentencing for the former and then,
President elect, but now President, under the banner of "no one is above the law"
making any kind of reconciliation impossible
It's one of the faster and lightweight compositor out there, he probably know how to write c++ and not or don't care with web and javascript
The Importance of a Scientific Mindset in Software Engineering
The World Series is a contest between the National League (which is only American teams) and the American League (which has international teams).

Other international sports leagues with teams in the USA include the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey Association.
Safari exists only to allow me to download Firefox, much like IE / Edge. Joking, but not entirely.

I love my Macbook, but every time I've used Safari, it's felt clunky and more awkward to use than Firefox or Chrome.
Happy Birthday to YouTube
Just adding a $0.02 here - I placed an order for the free/gifted-with-subscription Kagi shirt and received it about a month later. Worn twice so far. Largest complaint? It shrank quite a bit in the dryer on medium heat.

The search engine works great for me. I will almost certainly renew my subscription when it's time to. Glad to see them continually delivering user-benefiting features.
You can easily come up with opposite scenarios: if the law says you go to jail for being a certain race and sitting in a certain place, or for being certain sex and wearing certain clothes, should police officers suffer no consequences for enforcing such things? We've long established that "just following orders" is not a sufficient excuse.

There are cases where it's reasonable for a police officer to enforce a law that turns out to be unconstitutional and there are cases where it's not. Distinguishing between those cases is what the courts are for. Giving officers blanket immunity is not the way to handle it.

Every time I'm out and about, I have to wonder if I'm making some mistake that's going to get me in trouble with the law. Why should police be exempt from this?
I do not have an answer for your query. That said I would not want to be a sanitation worker either. The foods we eat are unhealthy even prior to reaching the other end and the rodentia that attracts carry a myriad of diseases.
Absolutely. This is already what I've been doing myself. Forked zed so I could use my local rig (4x 3090) to do FIM completions using a finetuned qwen coder 32B.

Only barrier for some folks will be if they're not familiar with rust or local LLMs in general, but it really wasn't that difficult looking back on it. Amounted to about an afternoon's worth of work.
That's ok. Soon these voice models will be available running locally on your device and ElevenLabs will be looking for new niche to screw up.
It's too common in all human organisations of all sizes, IMHO...
> Qualified immunity got expanded from an immunity to lawsuits over doing your job appropriately to immunity from prosecution over anything you did while holding the job.

No, it didn't; QI was established in a case accusing Nixon White House officials of corruptly steering government contracts, which is not “doing your job appropriately”.

And QI doesn't apply to everything, but it is a giant catch-22:

It covers anything without clearly established law on the violation of rights (usually, court precedent with very similar circumstances) at the time of the act. But, simply by its own operation, it prevents cases in which it is applied from establishing such law, because it produces dismissals before the merits are reached. (In some cases, lawsuits against the government entity could establish the violation, but their are a different set of immunities there, plus a hugh propensity for cases with even a shadow of a chance to settle without establishing precedent.)

> Why do we need QI for police committing murder? We don't.

QI doesn’t apply to criminal charges (other cops covering for cops and prosecutors not wanting to hurt their relationships with cops are the only “immunity” cops have there, but that alone is a bigger problem than QI; it does compound the problem with QI, because criminal cases are another venue not subject to QI where the clear precedent on rights could be established, if prosecutions actually occurred, and also because the resort to civil lawsuits that QI blocks is, for cops more than any other class of public officers, a workaround for the criminal justice system being loathe to act against them.)
This is incorrect. The sibling comments posted earlier are correct.
Not a surprise, if anyone has been following the development of American culture, it's just that the list of acceptable things to say is slowly stopping to include things that people on this website like to say, that's the only real change.
Able to, sure. As probable? Definitely not. Practically all kernel exploits are accidents in buffer handling.

(Getting machine-readable syscall descriptions that describe the rules for pointers to buffers and their lengths in ways that can get safe code generated from them would be a huge win, on top of "just use Rust".)
Privacy Pass Protects Your Identity Online [video]
In that scenario civilian aircraft are all grounded.
Would polio victims, on average, have enough spending power to make it worth it?
Reading the article it sounds like the problem is the previous supreme court rulings on QI.

It requires that a court had previously ruled that the specific action was a violation of constitutional rights. It had not done that on this specific action previously, but did in this case.

So they get QI here because of a lack of a previous ruling, but if the someone were to do the same thing in the future, they would not be given the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is resource consumption. On some of my servers, scrapers, bots etc make up a vast majority of both the bandwidth and CPU usage when left unchecked. If I didn't block them, I would need to pay for a beefier server. All the while this doesn't give me or my regular visitors any benefit, it's just large corporations driving up my hosting costs.
I think this is a travesty of justice. But this case also reinforces some lessons I've internalized:

1. Never give a law enforcement officer verbal (or certainly written!) consent to search your person or your property. Make them get a warrant. If they threaten something like "We can take you to jail or we can clear this up right here if you give us consent to search" then let them take you to jail.

2. Never volunteer information to law enforcement or answer their questions (beyond what's required by law, e.g. identifying yourself in some jurisdictions) unless your lawyer is present.

3. Never have marijuana in your car if you're driving across a border from a state where it's legal to a state where it isn't. State troopers sit at those borders and look for any excuse to pull you over because it's an easy win for them.

4. Be careful in eastern Oregon because while it's not densely populated, it's still very Red. They have to follow state law w.r.t. marijuana but that doesn't mean they won't try to find creative ways to screw you over. The most surprising thing to me about this case is that most of the malfeasance was on the Oregon side rather than the Idaho side.
How without at the same time discouraging legitimate lawsuits?
It's been hours and this still hasn't been removed: https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=7cd300eb-cf3f-47f5-90f1-9e6...
It's widely believed, but the only sources we have for these confused perceptions within written history are possibly-unreliable accounts of how the Aztecs perceived the Spaniards. In particular, I think the Mycenaean Greeks from which we get the best-known versions of the centaur myth were descendants of the Proto-Indo-European horseback-riding steppe nomads we're talking about here.

As I understand it, the Bronze-Age Minoan civilization spoke an unrelated language (as evidenced by Linear A) and has a material culture relatively continuous with Neolithic Crete, not imported from the Kurgan culture. They would have been the ones experiencing the steppe-nomad-descendant invasion, the steppe nomad descendants in question being the Mycenaeans around 01450 BCE, who were at that point millennia removed from both the steppes and nomadism but presumably still rode horses at least sometimes.
Would this be a sort of "new type of subredit"?

Because subs I like now ... nobody is interested in talking to a small subset of the sub.

And content is so variable that I don't see a reason to pay money to see better cat memes. I just find a new free sub if needed.
Root beer, then, or any beverage of their choice.
Kind of agree with this take. Suse was my first distro (got a box set of the commercial distro in the early 00's), but it's been unpredictable, sometimes bug laden, unclear direction, and during that time Debian has become not just better but also easier to use...

Flatpak and Flathub mean almost any distro is suitable for a home user, so now what I look for is stability and how easy it is to install and use dev tools. Everything runs and works on Debian, I've found openSuse to have more bugs.
Can you give an example of when that happened?
I find it quite funny that OBS thinks that fedora isn't giving reasonable response when they (OBS) blocked any responses to issue of them still using EOL Qt 6.6 - since December.
Wait where are those dangerous AI outcomes? Did we manage to prevent them or did they never occur?
“I was just following orders” = “I was just following the law”

we do not allow soldiers to get away with war crimes because of it, why should police be any different?
I don't know, but that exact same problem also applies to giving immunity to officials.
Because giving some people special legal privileges is bad.
"soo zuh"
I believe the ~NYSE~ Nasdaq added requirements that any company listed on their exchange has to follow certain political (as in not economic) rules.

Edit: Nasdaq not NYSE
Restored habitat in wealthy nations may drive extinction in species-rich regions
Thanks for the feedback. I can totally relate to this frustration, even I personally would be frustrated if a site is asking for location for no fugin reasons.. But as you can see in the above reply, I have tried to explain my original intention. Sorry if this was frustrating..
> some exchanges are SROs

Some exchanges are also in China. Not relevant to this one.

Texas f/k/a Chicago isn’t a separate SRO.

> different exchanges list different securities

Irrelevant for equities due to NMS.

> don't understand why you would think that differences in "market micro structure" equates to "jack shit" differences

There are no proposed microstructure differences.

> for high volume trading

Re-read the thread. I was literally a professional high-volume trader.

People tend to be very reductionist about finance when they really they just dont [sic] fully understand.
Show HN: Hyperaide – Personal assistant for getting things done
So what.

…if society continues to delegate more of their work to AI then we are going to fall back into the grips that inform us that some people are better at things than other people are and some are worse at things than other people are and this is what lies beneath the bridge of relying or not relying on AI to leverage your capacity to think and act on what you feel.

I think that People who will be willing to put in effort for their crafts without AI will be the ones who will be willing to try out new things and seek opportunities for ingenuity in the future. I think that the problem people have with this idea is that it runs counter to notions related to—ahem—

diversity, equity and inclusion…

On one hand and on it’s little finger is the legitimate concern that if companies who develop LLMs are not transparent with the technologies they make available to users when generating code, then they’ll hide all the scary and dangerous things that they make available to the people who’ll think, act and feel corrupt regardless of the tools they wield to impose disadvantages onto others. But I don’t think that will make a difference.

The only way out is hard work in a world bent on making the work easy after it makes you weak.
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> As long as the tyrants hurt the right people, the gun owners will use their guns to protect the tyrants.

Thus, the liberal, woke people should change their stance on restricting gun ownership, and consider becoming gun owners, too. :-)
I'm a bit doubtful. You're seeing my words... do you have data on the transitive trust path between you and I? In the world I'm describing your browser wouldn't render this text unless it had confirmed that path decided that it was acceptable.