skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man I hate bonuses so much. At my last job we had a monthly bonus that made up to 33% of our total income.
These were based on certain KPIs we had to achieve. The thing is, everyone can cheat the KPIs. Even more so if such a big part of your income relies on it.

I also felt they killed creativity and intellectual freedom completely. You were not able anymore to work on something else that you'd consider more important because the targets for the bonus were set. I found some fraudulent users who were using our product but instead of doing something about it I decided to just keep in line with what was expected from me after talking about it and having discussions about it with my manager.

So instead of acting on the values and mission of the company, the culture was to chase the money, and you could see it and feel it everywhere.

Worth noticing, at the beginning there were no bonuses but management wanted us to have some 'skin on the game'. I think they blew it by making it such a big percentage.
> I remember being in shouting matches with our signal integrity team about among other things, how many capacitors we needed.

I think the place where big companies go wrong is by having teams that are too specialized. If you're the Signal Integrity team, the only thing you care about is signal integrity. You should just say no to anything but the most conservative arrangement possible; you're responsible for Signal Integrity, not profit or time to market! Block the project until the signal integrity is as good as it can be, that's your one and only job.

The even bigger problem is that the existence of the signal integrity team means that signal integrity experts aren't embedded on the product team. The product team can happily say "they're handling that", and cut whatever corners are necessary to get their $25,000 bonus, not caring at all about the tickets the Customer Service Team will have to handle as a result of poor signal integrity, the weird bugs the Software Engineering Team will have to work around, and the terrible reviews caused by a computer that randomly flips bits in memory.

Engineering is a discipline about balance, and I think the balance has to be done inside the team. You need to make a conscious decision to trade off a lower BOM cost for more customer service tickets, and the team needs to own that decision and plan for the future under the constraints of that decision. (Instead of sending out an order for capacitors, send out a req for more customer service.) If there is someone in the "out group" that you can pass your concerns off to (i.e. that makes the cost of your balance decision cost 0 for you), then you'll never make the right balance for the product and company as a whole. You'll just maximize for your own gain. From there, you ship your org chart, the company becomes entirely about politics, and you're out of business... just like DEC apparently.

(I guess I also want to comment on the article as a whole -- being bitter about too small a bonus. Something similar happened to me and I sure was bitter about it. I actually quit over it. It all sounds very rational to me, knowing how humans work, and I can't believe management would do something so stupid. It's the kind of thing that kills your company, and yup! it killed them! If there is one constant in the field of engineering, it's that we forget the mistakes of the past much too quickly. Except Therac-25, everyone remembers that one, but integer overflows are still killing people to this day. Sigh!)
I just watched the video.

Every treadmill I’m familiar with has a safety key attached to a lanyard that the runner is supposed to attach to their waist band that immediacy pulls the key and deactivates the treadmill if the runner falls.

I don’t know how this treadmill is still operating after the older child gets off. Maybe the key was left in place and the treadmill left turned on but that’s really f’ing dangerous. A modern treadmill should reset itself after a period of non-use and require the key to be removed and re-inserted. That’s in addition to a physical safety guard under the belt this treadmill clearly should have (see my post elsewhere in this thread comparing the size of the Peloton to another premium residential brand).

This Peloton is a death machine. I didn’t realize the CSPC doesn’t have the regulatory authority to force a recall.

ETA: just learned yet another thing. It’s really hard to physically reach the switch to turn it off. The switch is located under the treadmill. Wtf. See the 8 minute mark of this video:

https://youtu.be/McgwmLkYJPc
> And the one quarter, we didn't get the max bonus. In fact, I don't think we got it all.

Was there a clear reason for this? Given how it’s framed, it sounds like there wasn’t.
Just like with income taxes - it doesn't change the tax wedge at equalibrium but it feels better and that's what's important. It's like going to a store where everything is eternally 40% off.
The point is there isn't any extra cost nor difficulty in circumventing the checks you describe. You just run a library.
But doesn’t this make a vertical line right in front of you, making content outside of your central vision? I like my main windows to be right in front, and less important things to both sides of it - that way, I don’t have to constantly turn my head.

Having a split under your nose feels like reading a book but putting the page you’re currently reading past your ears
Didn't you just say

"Apple apparently started it."

and then

"Accenture, started in 2009[94]"

right below it? I wonder if Accenture was doing Apple's audits, but I don't have any idea.
Sure but the whole thing of "being able to transfer large files over wifi" is a very niche thing.

If that is something that you need, then you obviously are going to select hardware for it, just like you would for gaming.
You could save some overhead and run git pull in a cron job.
Spotify has a free tier. Netflix and Disney+ are far cheaper than their cable equivalents, and while they don't have free trials, they can be shared with enough people as to be effectively free at scale. Cheaper than a coffee per user per month, say.

I do agree though, the digital divide these days is not whether you have Internet but rather how many services you have and how expensive your monthly bills are compared to food and rent, etc.
Requires a fair bit of detergent to clear up all the crumbs anyway: might varying grain sizes help any?
Free unlimited puzzles? Oh ok... that’s why I pay the highest subscription level on chess.com. Wow, that’s cool
I happened to have this floating around from when I was digging into tech salaries over time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010203125200/http://www.techwe...

Those are for the Bay Area, not New England (probably important) and for software (less important). He said he'd been at Digital for 10+ years by then, so for a Bay Area salary, I'd guess he made $100k. In New England, I wouldn't be shocked if it was more like $60-$80, so the bonus was up to a third of his salary.
It’s actually not that expensive for a high end treadmill. Go check prices on True and Landice brands.

None of this excuses Peloton. This is a uniquely dangerous treadmill due to its large diameter rollers and deck height.

All it needs is a guard under the deck and a better safety key mechanism.
Next libertarian candidate should run on this message:

"Billionaires such as Bezos already pay 0% tax! Companies such as Amazon and Google already pay a 0% tax! Let's have a 0% flat tax for everybody to even the playing field!!!"

You'd get a sizable part of the BernieBros, as well as the Yang Gang if you also concede some form of UBI financed via selling/renting Federal Land (which you'd have to do anyway to pay down the debt given that you won't be collecting taxes anymore).

Libertarians should really get on it and start taking advantage of the class warfare, which can be really powerful.

So maybe Adam Kokesh can think about it...or Vermin Supreme or JoJo whoever will run as Libertarian
We need more “good” conflict
A great deal for Ireland, a terrible deal for Europe.

Ultimately I think there will need to be some kind of international agreements on taxation to prevent these kinds of tax dodges. They'll just find the next loophole now that this is closed.
If i recall the same happened when google replaced their holiday gift phone with donation to some charities they picked.
I think this is clearly negligence, I immediately saw the danger at a glance of the image in the article but had to look twice to confirm that they left off the guard for the bottom. They should be sued and the designer should find other work preferably not involving anything that could pose a danger to human life, maybe floral arrangement as long as they don’t find purple, yellow and red an appealing combination.
Half of the mobile 5000 APUs are Zen 2 and half are Zen 3. The Zen 2 chips may or may not be the same as the 4000 series chips with a new code name (it seems likely, but isn't totally clear yet). So far it seems like desktop 5000 series APUs will all be Zen 3, but there's still plenty of time for AMD to make model numbers more confusing before those become available.

The 4650G I got from aliexpress last year is pretty nice though; wish I could have bought it domestically.
I feel this is one of those ideas which is hard to appreciate unless we have a working prototype to play with.
It's a feature called "lawful interception". It's not a secret backdoor.
As someone who suffers from the same neuroses, I would push back on some of this a bit.

If you haven't built trust with every person on your team, that doesn't make you a shitty manager. The more people you can work with and trust, the more effective you may be as a manager, but don't let a counterexample serve as proof positive that you suck. Trust is a two way street.

Sometimes people underperform for other reasons that have nothing to do with you. They may have a different perspective, or they may just be having a bad day. Or they may have family or health problems affecting them. Or, they may actually just no longer care or not be good at their job.
I worked at a company in the US where HR would not let us fire an employee who was viciously attacking other employees in public. The employee in question had a medical condition covered under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). Perhaps OP's case was similar.
Even seems like a switch where if the feet come off the ground it would turn off. Granted injury would still be possible but maybe more road rash than actually getting sucked under.

Seems like if a cheap space heater can have switched like this I don’t see why a 34 billion company can’t focus on this to come up with something truest innovative and safe.

Regarding the photo switch. My first thought was that dyson is now counting dust particles 15,000 times a second in a consumer grade battery powered vacuum these guys could do something equally innovative.
On the other hand a poorly designed or executed comp system will cause unhappiness and distraction even when everyone is paid well. It’s an unforced error of the business world.
Any forks that make the same very minor changes that ytdl made -- not to provide specific instructions for copyright infringement -- will be reinstated. Or they can complete the DMCA counter-notice process, and if that is unchallenged or successful, be reinstated that way.

(Also, the person who wrote this article said that they contacted me, but I never received anything from them.)
The gogs maintainer currently seems to not be doing much with it and seems to be ignoring security reports. I would probably recommend the gitea fork instead.

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
For many users having an easy to browse/navigate interface is a good selling point.

This reminds me of this post about Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
(throwaway)

I'm a developer at a fairly small company. I never really wanted to be managing people but after some internal drama a bunch of stuff was moved around and I found myself in charge of the team I had been on while we looked for a permanent manager.

One of the devs who now reported to me decided that this was the best time to demand a raise- not just a cost-of-living increase, which are scheduled, but an amount of money that would have made him the highest-paid person on the team by a lot. (He was on the lower end of both seniority and performance.) He was threatening to leave, and after talking to my superiors I basically just said "sorry, you aren't getting that, I don't want you to leave but if you do I will be happy to give you a good reference."

That didn't go over great and he emailed the whole C-suite trashing me and telling them essentially what a mistake it was that I got tapped to lead the team over him. The CEO just forwarded the email to me and said "deal with this." We'd had a pretty good relationship before, (or at least I thought we did) but all attempts to sit down with him and figure out how we could work together ended with him just making it clear that he was not going to play ball.

He stopped showing up to work for awhile and sent his notice not too long after, and eventually we hired a real manager (which was always the plan) and I went back to writing code. Even though I don't know what I could have done differently I still feel bad and think about it a lot.
I’m in this forks and I have a hard time disagreeing.

Everything is jupyter notebooks, to the point where example documentation is delivered as notebooks and services run notebooks as it’s apparently easier to do that than to get people to write their code properly. “Oh but data exploration” they say, which is fine, but you shouldn’t be doing data exploration in your prod ML pipeline anyway, and you’re writing code, it’s really not that hard to follow some even rudimentary practices.
Even a $200 R700 from wal-mart is perfectly safe and reliable. It’s very hard to find unsafely shoddy guns in the US.
It’ll have to be a highly concentrated effort, as (to my understanding) taxation policy is pretty much prisoners dilemma. One state has incentive to have slightly lower taxes than all the others to get companies to incorporate there, and then it’s a race to bottom.
If it bleeds, it leads. That was invented long before social media and ML social manipulation algorithms.
Windows XP and perhaps newer versions of Windows included a setting to only redraw a window after the user has finished moving/resizing. You would instead see an outline of the new window position/size. The same applied to (un)minimizing. I don’t know about such a setting in MacOS.
The language is quite weak. It doesn't even have enums.

I blame the industry who fell for golang's marketing and started shoving golang into places where it doesn't belong.
Sorry but F that, this is a job for a physical barrier. It can still be up on legs but cover the meat grinder ffs.
Warren Buffet says he spends 80% of his time reading and what he gets from it is going to bed every day a little smarter than the day before.
20+ donuts, for how long?

If daily and at $1/nut, that comes out to $100 per week.

Was it just on some occasions or every morning?
Yeah it was clear, it was because the total company profit didn't meet the internal target, but that hadn't happened ever in the history of the company, so people were surprised.
The problem would be estimating the budget and schedule in the first place. If you are too aggressive it will seem unfair, too lax and you could actually slow the project down.

Pay your bonuses to those people who show up for work on time, work well with others, make smart decisions, and who you would like to work with again in future.
Love how the CEO of GitHub reads and comments on HN!
That is pretty obviously not what the parent is talking about. The context here is tax avoidance, i.e., avoidance by those financially able to pay. This has nothing to do with those whom the government has exempted due to limited financial means. Policy debates aside, I don't think many people will seriously argue such people have an individual ethical responsibility to pay taxes.
Would you have any further reading on this? Sounds fascinating.
To be clear, what's not mentioned in that Federalist article is that the child does have the mother's parental consent, from whom the father is currently separated.

> mitigate regret, remorse.

There are any number of studies [0] of trans "Desistance" all of which overwhelmingly show the number one reason people regret transitioning is societal, familial, or workplace treatment. The remorse comes from things like, for instance, a father refusing to use the correct pronouns or refer to his child by their chosen name. This remorse rarely comes from an actual rejection of the gender identity the individual transitioned to.

0: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/dispelling-myths-...
It's always a good idea to think about "most likely scenario" and optimize for that. Everyone’s requirements and workflow is different. It's not worth it to go for the "mobility option" if you are sitting behind you desk 95% of your time and vice versa.

For example I can't have all the dependencies I need for work on an "offline laptop" and I work from the same place most of the time. Which means it's much more beneficial for me to have a beefy workstation setup with 3 displays and an old MacBook that works as a "remote desktop" when I need it. On the other hand someone who is on the go all the time might prefer to have beefy laptop with some docking solution on his desk.

I'm always wondering why some people think that their solution is the best for everyone ...
> The teacher learned: never give out free donuts again.

Or do it either predictably infrequently (major holidays or whatever) or truly randomly.
GitHub's fork functionality is shockingly limited. Started off by forking the organisational repository from your private fork? Well, it's stuck like that forever now. Forked from a colleague's private fork instead of the main repo? Guess all your PRs go to them now.
This was a joy to read. My aunt, Carli, worked at DEC for a number of years and I recall fondly how proud she was to have a job there. Thank you for sharing this small bit of New England high technology history.
Working on the prototype. Just wanted to get thoughts on whether this is something people want or not.
I think the equity thing might be real in a very small company, but I don't think it works the same at a mega-corp where your contribution is generally a drop in the ocean. For example, I currently work for a Fortune 500 financial company and the default company match option is in company stock. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone talk about doing their job better in the context of the stock price.
Was it because the target was set unrealistically high or because the company underperformed?
And then the accountants probably tabulated them as corporate donations. So were they gifts from the employee or not?
The taxes are there so that they don't have to contend with roving bandits ransacking their property. It's paying back for the benefit of a stable, regulated society.
Double-click on the icons on the left side of the title bar closes the windows. Like in the real thing. Nice touch.
> What can an engineer do about that?

Lots!

- Name the companies in question

- Stop working for them, and start working for companies that favor engineering expertise

- As a consumer, advertise the good companies and call bullshit on the bad ones

- Raise awareness about these practices among your elected political representatives and their constituencies

If all of their skilled engineers leave, the bad company cannot run only on the basis of MBAs juggling balance sheets. Unfortunately most of my fellow engineers are far more likely to sit around blaming “the MBAs” over drinks than take any of the above actions.
Containers at the Edge, new from Cloudflare
Same. My wife and I actually live within the lowest salary between the two of us so we have no stress even if one of us loses our job. We have an emergency fund and invest the hell out of the rest of the money. That means the second salary is like a year round bonus, which lets us take nice vacations, buy our kids nice stuff, buy nice cars, pay for our kid's college when that time comes, etc. Our actual bonuses go into the year round bonus fund.
Check out WikiMapper https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimapper/feiheeb...

I would love something like this for my other web browsing as well. It would be very cool to be able to trace the path of links clicked from webpages.
One of the reasons I like Hugo: it's a single executable that will basically work forever. There's no need to update to a newer version if the one you have meets your needs.
The most stupid part is that if they exist the company must use them.
I don't know why it's shocking. The quality of the work in press has been going downhill for years, and journalists routinely misunderstand and misinterpret things they report about - sometimes innocently through ignorance and incuriosity, sometimes maliciously to push an agenda. It is, of course, not limited to tech - but tech is also not excluded from this global trend. Is it reasonable to expect from tech circles to ignore it?

And "the journalist is relaying" is a poor excuse - the journalist has a choice of what to relay and how to frame it, and this choice is routinely used to frame things in a specific way. There's no "just reporting" anymore, if there ever was. There's always a reason why something is reported (or not reported, as it happens) and there's always a reason why something is reported in a specific way. The choice and control is always on the press's side.
Sorry. No. Your argument was well-constructed. I have acquired two other working languages and it took about 15 years of regular work. I appreciate your point. Still, speaking more than one language seems to have benefits for general intelligence. So perhaps it is both a blessing and a curse.
Was this comment generated by a markov chain?
Thanks! That helped me finally see the mother-in-law.

I showed my wife the picture and she couldn't see either woman until I pointed out features. Interesting!
I was a child once. I have distinct memories of playing with treadmills. Turning them on while sitting on them. Running Hot Wheels Cars on them while they’re running. The design of these treadmills is pure negligence regardless of safety keys or kill switches.
Santiago Theory of Cognition
I have a saltwater tank and nobody else really understands it either. Same deal really
Sounds like you did the right thing and they needed to go.
Requirement for a clear research protocol statement from the outset, including clear timetable and detailed procedures.

Protection of clinical trial subjects

Clinical trials on minors

Clinical trials on incapacitated adults not able to give informed legal

Establishment of mandatory Ethics Committees
Yep, my first year out of college (1998) I was making 50K at a local public tech company. Anyone in tech would laugh at that nowadays, but that was considered a "good" starting salary.
What is particularly weird about this is that the "fork" (god I hate that word in the general case) mechanism should really be inferred, not explicit: the entire point of a distributed revision control system is that you are able to willy-nilly push and pull from random compatible commit graphs, a feature people who really "work with git" use constantly (like, that isn't somehow esoteric: this is how it is used by the Linux kernel people) in order to quickly merge work from various parties... what does it even mean to claim you are a fork of one, specific other prior repository?
The company underperformed.
Does it matter? Children will play in living rooms. If you make gear intended for living rooms you need to make it child safe and pet safe. That's just common sense.