skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick back of the envelope calculation shows that an income of $1 million gets you an effective tax rate in the mid 40s in California.

AGI: $1000k
Federal Income Tax: $322k
California State Income Tax: $102k
FICA Taxes: $32k
Total tax: $456k

Compared to say Germany, where for the same income you would be paying over 50% in taxes. So I think you're doing very well.
He’s too erratic to take any past behavior as evidence of the future. If he breaks promises to a bunch of allies, no other ally should feel safe because he hasn’t broken theirs yet.

All it would take for a pro-China pivot is the right leverage. Cash, blackmail, who knows. But it’s just a matter of whether the price is met, not whether the deal is available.
> Free healthcare, free university education, good public transport, low inequality

And I think these are all difficult things to do well and make money, as in doing a good job in healthcare, education, etc. is not really profitable. So, they are areas for government involvement.
The NATO Expansion line has been disproven to death.

Putin sees the fall of the USSR as a historical wrong that must be righted. He uses NATO Expansion as an easy excuse to sell to the rubes, but it's just that, an excuse.

He was going to go after Ukraine and Georgia NATO or not.
Ask HN: Why do Nintendo and AAA games take so long to load?
Why don't they use lazy loading, and if they do then why does it take so long to load something like Minecraft legends on Nintendo Switch?
You are proposing Chrome+ Everything Else. DOJ doesn't want the Chrome+Search entanglement. So the company getting rid of search would be an alternative idea. Search would still have the adwords revenue model. But it would be separated from the google ad network which is adsense and doubleclick. All your data on Chrome/Android would still be accessible to Doubleclick and Google for personalized ad revenue.
> The air forces on both sides are shit with zero (or effectively zero)

I wouldn't call Russian AF "shit". The УМПК (JDAM) bombs crushed formidable defense of Avdeevka and now hit AFU hard in Sudja. Ka-52 helicopters stopped counteroffensive a year ago. Surely, sky is contested, but it's still important component that hurts Ukraine very hard.

> have had to rely so heavily on drones is that they had no better alternative

What would be an alternative to wing reconnaissance drones? What can hyper-equipped US armed forces offer as a replacement FPV and fiber-optics FPV attack drones? Yeah they have Reapers and other fancy expensive gear for the first 3-4 weeks of active war, then what?
>I don't have the confidence to make something that won't suck later.

Well that's just development right there! Sucking for a long period of time is 'The Way', the path to greatness, which devs (IMHO) over-rely on LLM to shortcut.

However I get your point. lol
Right, but that obviously isn't how it should be translated in context.
You shouldn't process the news, at least not the big ones anyway.

Most news nowadays is mostly slop with clickbait headlines of breaking news, designed to get you to pay for "premium" and have to jump through hoops of paywalls.

It is best if mega news organizations just ultimately shut down at this point, we don't need more news.

The closest one I read is Tortoise (1), which is part of slow journalism(2) which I support at the very least, as soon as I see clickbait, I jump off.

(1) https://www.tortoisemedia.com/

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_journalism
Calling Republicans jealous and afraid is a good way to make yourself feel better but very much misses the character of what's happening. The "I'm a superior son of a bitch" attitude of leftists is gross. Saying "they're just jealous" is something you tell children.

What you're saying here is "we're better than everyone else and everyone else disagrees with my positions because they envy how awesome we are".
This is just a baffling attitude. Sanders is the only name that regularly gets respect from every corner of the political spectrum. His most vociferous critics by a long shot are centrist democratic loyalists.
Sure. But how does a government, or even governments, compel bitcoiners all around the world to stop running a version of bitcoin core on their nodes (likely running over TOR)?
I wonder when European founders start switching from Azure/AWS/Google to domestic alternatives. I feel the risk of being thrown out all of the sudden increases every day.
You haven't demonstrated the capability of Generics though (which C doesn't really have, only a minimal version). For this particular example, C++ does function overloading on parameters which C cannot hence you need this silly Generic macro hack, it is not clear how much of a win it is. Reminds of the saying that C is the most dynamic programming language since it has void*

It is much cleaner in C++ where you don't need to declare two separate functions names like you did.

#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>

struct Rectangle {
double width;
double height;
};

struct Circle {
double radius;
};

double area(const Rectangle& rect) {
return rect.width * rect.height;
}

double area(const Circle& circle) {
return M_PI * circle.radius * circle.radius;
}

int main() {
Rectangle rect{5.0, 3.0};
Circle circle{2.5};

std::cout << "Rectangle area: " << area(rect) << std::endl;
std::cout << "Circle area: " << area(circle) << std::endl;
return 0;
}
Layoffs are not about cost, they are about power. The economic result is just confirmation.

A large company in actual financial distress will sell off a division.
I'm still waiting for a more general way to replace ads with micropayments. YouTube premium works well but only for video. Subscribing to a dozen small websites/teams is not it; too much money per payment and 98% of sites get nothing from me.
Pinochet is an example, albeit not a particularly hopeful one.
If there are strongly interacting superfluids in black holes and accretion attractor systems, and none of the models describe superfluids, and we observe different thermal behavior in superfluids, can any existing description of black holes be sufficient?
And the masses are so stupid to do just as they told.

I don’t know what he “meant”, that’s what he said. There was a very clear external event that triggered Maidan, there was another event that made it massive.

The payment of influencers is just as a massive contribution into protests is just a speculation
It doesn’t negate my point; the technology can’t self reason any API specification, and if it could this wouldn’t be needed because while humans benefit from this simplification why would a machine that can think 10000x faster than a human can?
Developed a C language application to replace the default Windows clock
America is turning into Russia in real time right now, it’s nuts and a lot of people is saying Trump is playing 6D chess
This story is changing. There is now an oversaturation of us ex-BigCo people in the market. I quit Google before the layoffs, after being there for 10 years and sick of it. The first year was serious ego boost, having Google on the resume opened doors all over the place. Then my ex-coworkers started getting laid off and things began to shift.

Now I know people I used to work with who have been without work for many months and having a hard time getting interviews.

Granted, I'm not in the Bay Area, so. But the market is saturated.
Sounds like the statement that if an online service is free, you are the product, when in reality the same applies to paying customers as well. You are only exempt if you have full control over it.

It doesn’t matter who owns these planes, the US have shown that they have the power to make them useless and that they cannot be trusted, and that is a dealbreaker when it comes to expensive & important equipment.
People forget how close we got last time with The Business Plot. Now the Business Plot actually went off.
If Ukraine stops the fight they cease to be a sovereign nation. If Russia stops they loose face. The former is existential, the latter is not. Why is this so hard to understand?

Any ceasefire or peace without security guarantees will be used by Russia to rearm and try again in a few years time. It will be a continuation of the conflict that started in 2014. That, too, isn't hard to understand.
People believe what they want to believe. When reality turns out to not match their expectation, they quietly drop out of the conversation, without admitting they misjudged things.

Best example of that is to take a look at HN in 2022 when Musk announced the Twitter takeover. A good half of the comments were quoting Voltaire and Snowden and applauding Musk for 'protecting free speech'. The other half saw it for what it was. When Musk stories come up now, there is no one still pushing the free speech angle.
easy to deploy, latest versions of the language are ok, has some of the best web frameworks to work with, absurd amount of experienced programmers can be found on the market
Claude code doesn’t need magic prompts. It’s not perfect but holy moly is it good, when it’s working it just one shots things for you. It’s just EXPENSIVE. I’ve spent 30$ in tokens on it this week.

Cursor’s “chat with your codebase” is a funny joke compared to Claude Code. Ask it questions, have it figure things out.

I had it analyze the openAPI schema and the backend that is serving the schema for the API I’m writing and write end to end tests for the API. Then I did my normal meetings and it was done with huge chunks of it, it had run the code locally and tested against the actual endpoints to understand if the end to end tests were working or it had found a bug. Then it fixed the bugs it found in the backend codebase. My prompt: “write me end to end tests against my openAPI schema”

That was it. 30$ in tokens later, pressing enter a bunch of times to approve its use of curl, sed, etc…
I have visited. My long-haired male traveling companion got homophonic slurs yelled at him in the street twice in four days. I’m sure those yelling were trying to make a good life for their families by chasing undesirables out, and I suppose it worked.
As an app developer, I ship an appimage and a flatpak based on Qt and things generally work as expected. Supporting macOS which drops compatibility with random things every other version all while providing a super old Clang is in practice much more painful.
The Ukraine Today article seems to be a copy of this Forbes article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/07/france-to-t...

For additional context, here's an article from August about how the USAF helped to upgrade the F-16 electronic warfare capabilities:
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/ukraine-f-16-electronic-wa...

The words "lose support" is carrying a lot of weight in this reporting.
Yes, but not in the US, as OP was saying.

I assume he was trying to allude to Obama, which at least in the recent decades came the closest to that in terms of media image, but the claim that there has been an anti-imperialist president of the US (on any relevant timescale) doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.
Russia can just ask US at this point.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
Europe has given more aid to Ukraine in total numbers than America if I'm not mistaken? So I'm not really sure if I see what you mean.
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Even accepting that as true (it’s not — it’s the cost of having soft-power in Europe.) it means that no European, and probably Turkish, Korean, Japanese and Canadian cash will be flowing to the USA defence industry.
Yes, the question is what end are they devoting their sociopathic skills toward? And isn’t it the most “patronizing” thing of all to believe that people are too stupid to see that when they vote?
As I always point out, all of the anecdotes claiming microdosing works are usually using street blotters as well, including the research papers which draw on crowdsourcing to circumvent the obvious problems with using schedule I psychedelics; and the research papers which do use better-validated dosages... don't usually turn up anything more than I did. Plus, it's 2025. If LSD microdosing really worked, after all this interest over the past 15+ years, why is there still so little good evidence?
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> I'm unclear what employers are deriving from this exercise at this point

It filters out the complete frauds.

Yes, there are people who know all the right things to say in a job interview, but cannot code at all. If you hire one of them, it takes a bit to find out they cannot code, and a bit longer to fire them, so you're out $$$$ paying their salaries for nothing.

For example, a recruiter I know will ask a tech candidate "what is 20% of 20,000?" A significant percentage cannot answer the question. Some even cry. It's shocking.

A friend of mine was looking at getting a FAANG job. He was worried about the leetcode tests. I suggested he spend a month going through the leetcode books studying them - that the return on his time investment doing that will be one of the best ROIs he's ever done. He did, and got the job. (Although the LC was just a first gate one had to go through to get to the real job interview.)

Personally, I have no idea how I'd do on an LC test without prep. But I don't have a problem with studying it to get a top job.
> The most appropriate null hypothesis in this lovely study is “does theanine REDUCE anxiety”, not “does theanine change anxiety either up or down”.

Neither of those is a hypothesis, which require a prediction not just a question.

The null hypothesis for this experiment would be "Theanine has no effect on stress".
Doubts? Maybe officially in PR statements, otherwise you would have to be mad to think this is temporary. Its as temporary as his lifespan. People with actual power are not that stupid anywhere.

I am not holding my breath that he will just walk away in 4 years, why would anybody be so naive? He thinks US constitution is an old toilet paper, its mememe. Look at what happened last time he was supposed to go out.
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I believe a big crux is in definition of "war ended".

You (and Donald Trump) seem to be using "Ukraine and Russia stop shooting at each other right now", while Ukraine operates more under "Russia stops shooting at us for the foreseeable future, 20 years at least." Russia has previously broken a number of ceasefires and written agreements (including the infamous Budapest memorandum) and so Ukraine is not super trusting to agreements not backed by anything.
Obama is responsible for advancing the power of the presidency pushing further the limits with executive orders to make law. When met with the uselessness and obstructionism of Congress, both parties elected officials choose authoritarianism. When faced with disagreement, both party's voters advocate for authoritarianism. If the opposition doesn't agree, we'll use the government to force them.
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It always ends up happening how you least expect it, though maybe that expectation is evidence that it was bound to happen via a different road anyway.

At the end of the day, the problem isn't really Trump. The American Empire isn't going to end because its only exporting $300B of military might to the world instead of $600B, when no one else on the planet is scratching $50B (I made these numbers up as an illustration).

It might end because it seems like the media landscape has entirely striated the US population into two groups: One group who genuinely and deeply believes that these actions are necessary for the continuity of the US way of life, and another group who genuinely and deeply believes that these actions will destroy the US way of life. No one makes any good faith effort to understand the other side; even my suggestion that this division is the real threat will get downvoted by HackerNews' overwhelmingly leftist bubble. American political discourse is now dominated by people who cannot allow even a single imperfection in their coat of armor, Trump cannot possibly be wrong about anything, his supporters cannot admit they might not have known the implications of what they voted for, the left cannot possibly be wrong about any of their criticism of him, we're screaming past each other.

Interrogate your inner thought process right now; were you thinking "What side is this person on?"

Its so difficult to get the full picture of understanding of the other side. Trump is rich, egotistical, and doesn't listen to the counsel of others; but Russia is controlling him? Trump wants to reduce the federal debt levels of the United States; but is hellbent on spending anything to deport economically productive illegal immigrants? Trump is silencing the media and kicking them out of the white house; while streaming more than Pokimane, direct from the Oval Office, just rambling for hours a day? Trump supporters were hoodwinked and lied to; yet more than any President america has had for decades, Trump is doing exactly, to the letter, what he said he'd do on the campaign trail; its just that the left didn't believe him back then, because we're so used to Presidents that do nothing. America's children have the worst test scores in the G20, and cost the most to educate; we should continue what we're currently doing? America's healthcare outcomes are among the worst in the G20, and most expensive; we should continue the path we're currently walking?

We're in a crisis of understanding right now. We need more moderates. We need people who understand both sides of the coin, and can have a reasonable conversation about why the past 20 years hasn't worked for most Americans, and also why Trump's policies also won't fix things. My fear, however, is that we won't get that in 2028; instead we're just going to move into our camps further, with a leftist version of Trump v JD Vance, and we'll dig further down the hole of two sides that need each other to solve the problems we face, but refuse to work with one-another.
> and "Israeli" nationality does not exist, only "Jewish" exists

This is facially untrue: there are over two million non-Jewish Israeli nationals[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
Indeed. .NET's SIMD primitives and platform intrinsics are more like the building blocks on top of which ISPC-like framework could've been built in .NET (more likely in F# since it's more flexible for libraries that want DSL-like customization).
Social security is 6.2% and is capped (you only pay social security taxes on a max income of $168,600). So if your income is 168,600 you pay $10,453 in social security taxes.

And if your income is $1,000,000 you still only pay $10,453 in social security tax.
This is actually true, no need for political downvoting.

It's just the way it's done, quite childish and not ally-like. Pulling out from EU and UA could've been done in much less 'rug-pulling' style.
Identity politics is on the right in Israel. In a general sense I think it might not belong on the same spectrum as redistributive policies or militarism.
There’s certainly no shortage of MAGA folk whose primary motivations are “owning the libs”. But I think there’s plenty of people who just truly believed in the nonsense Trump was selling.
I haven’t met a left or right wing European who has more than the slightest clue what America’s abortion laws actually are.
If Russia is powerful enough to take over Europe, how can Ukraine possibly win?
In US, employer pays their share of social security + medicare taxes, which is about 7.6%. If you are self-employed, you need to pay both the employee and the employer side (about 15.2% taxes, mandatory).
And how has that been working out for those communities? Democrats have been in office for 5 of the last 9 administrations. Wealth inequality is as high as ever during that time period. Whether it’s because their platform isn’t actually meant to benefit them, or because of incompetence by the party in implementing it, Democrats haven’t proven to be any better to them than Republicans.
Everyone using numpy.
Trump's actions towards the EU has resulted in a massive increase in military spending by those nations. This is exactly what Trump has demanded of them. This is consequential to Russia and in no way good for them. To think Trump is "controlled by Russia" is such a tired, worn out farce.
Iran is still flying F14s.
>The US is very liberal, but liberal doesn't mean left.

At no point was "liberal" mentioned in this comment chain prior to your comment.

>Left to me means workers movements, and there's very little of that in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics#Social_prog...
Trump has been here clearly signaling that a large portion of the US population does not support international military subsidies and Europe has done nearly nothing to prepare. Pushing forward a head-in-the-sand narrative is hugely detrimental to Europe’s independent future and requires a degree of blindness that is absurd
Seems like a clear case of correlation != causation.

Of course layoffs are correlated with bad company performance. I dont know if they help, but i would expect the pattern either way.
There are only three ways to beat a populist:

* Abolish democracy (only works preemptively, abolishing democracy while they're in charge would obviously not work).

* Wait for them to die and hope they don't teach what they know to a successor.

* Learn from them and speak to some fraction of their core even more persuasively than they do.

You don't defeat a populist by simple virtue of being right.
So, to conclude, foreigners shouldn't buy F35s.
Nuclear retaliation.
> LLMs version of whatever it is you ask for, then you can have a great and productive time

Sure, but man are there bugs.
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> Somebody who is universally hated by their co-workers

How many times have we seen a company fire whoever they consider "dead weight" but keep the universally hated guy because he's a 10x rockstar whatever?
Mako is also a Python templating library. I have used Mako primarily since it was what reddit used to use back in 2016. Not sure if reddit still uses it.
A substantially sized loud minority in the US is fully committed to a death cult of personality. The rest of us are suffering and unprepared for this.
Halfway to WALL·E
I watched up close a multinational try to create a shunkworks and the ugly result was a lot more shunk than works...
And this will inflate away the debts tokenized in CCP-held US Treasuries. 4D chess! Russia did something similar in 1998 that sank the US hedge fund Long Term Capital Management.
As an European with seizable(for me) position in SP500 etf, which I never inteneded to liquidate, am actually thinking to completely deinvest from US. Purely because of what Trump did and will do to Ukraine and because of his dismantling of postwar Atlantic security architecture
A 7-year continuous downtrend with only signs of weakness, even now, is certainly quite a disparity.
This has been my experience of successful usage as well. It's not writing code for me, but pulling together the equivalent of a Stack Overflow example and some explaining sentences that I can follow up on. Not perfect and I don't blindly copy paste it, same as Stack Overflow ever was, but faster and more interactive. It's helpful for wayfinding, but not producing the end result.
I think declining an exit interview is bad advice for the exact same reason that venting during an exit interview is bad advice. Declining makes you look obstinate and can be used against you as well. You can just give neutral feedback ("grey-rocking") like the post mentions.
The reality is most people are stuck with their lot, and that’s the point. These people understand the reality a lot better than the people making promises of retraining.