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The idea that a software engineer being bitter about his still probably high compensation being an injustice is laughable bordering on insane.

We live in an age where you don’t even have to get out of your house in order to make a very good living and we have the audacity to call it an injustice when somebody else receives something that we didn’t instead of just being happy for them. As if the key to modern happiness is found in personal financial gain.
Nice Blog. Creating Face Detection Web App with React
> Does your company really have enough people with the knowledge of how to securely run Jira/CI/GitHub/etc. tools, with minimal downtime, and with proper backups?

Years ago, many companies ran similar services in house and having downtime wasn't a common scenario.
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Any sort of intense exercise makes it impossible for me to actually think or concentrate on listening. It's a heightened state in many ways biochemically and is very different from the calm that walking gives.

Running would just make what I'm listening to background noise, but that's not the correct level of engagement I want. I want 'exercise' to be the side effect and not the main activity I'm engaging in. Running is the other way around.
If you can’t do your job because it’s unreasonable and or the organization is dysfunctional it’s still nice to have time off to depend on.
As a relatively new dad, you just gave me heart palpitations.
It's not, that's nonsense or a gross misunderstanding.

In any case making gun barrels has been doable with fairly simple metal working tools long before 3d printing - particularly if you're not hung up on reproducible quality. But even that would still take a few hours. 3d printing is a bad fit for that task.
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If you want to learn about its no/low cost architecture & development,
here is twitter thread for same https://twitter.com/raevilman/status/1383762276381958148
You live here? So do I.
Wait time is not propaganda.It's real.
I can get any type of healthcare service in SK without even thinking about it.

>Private healthcare is simply immoral and barbaric, a constant, externally determined demand for something should not be exploited.

Except you are talking worst case scenario "The US".SK's healthcare is not completely private owned.Quite the opposite actually.

And yet...it's both cheaper and much more efficient than anything in Europe.
These seem to be mostly accounts of bonuses for software developers or other, typically salary positions.

(As an aside - I wonder whether this more correctly reflects companies making people "salary" as a means to pay them less overall for working long hours. I've seen "salary" be given to people making less than 33k usd/year, pre-minimum wage increases. Might be a rarity on HN.)

My takeaway has been that these incentive schedules aren't properly implemented. Also, people get very toxic if they see others making more or less pay than themselves. Yearly bonuses based on global factors are nice, but probably are too far from what an individual adds to the business to properly impact their work effort. You want the worker doing marginal thinking with marginal incentives - i.e. the classic paying car salespeople a commission on each sale. This is clearly a more difficult calculation for the IT field.

One idea - pay the bonus per pay period. This addresses people sticking around for a once per year bonus and then quitting. It could be based on the last year's (or quarter's - depending on the business) figures, for instance. Maybe have it be known the full, remaining bonus will be paid out if the person leaves on great terms during the year. i.e. Absolutely no one in your department - not even the custodian staff - has a negative thing to say about your performance.

Another - rethink paying people salary. Salaried employees can be pushed to work OT. But if people can make 1.5x pay for doing demonstrably important work (say, presenting it during the next team meeting) then they'll naturally work those additional hours. It's up to the business to figure out the hourly pay rate correctly, of course. Also, pushing people to work OT as a standard practice generates lots of toxic behavior - another reason to not use that as a standard practice.

Another - pick a metric that definitively impacts your business and is easily measured and high visibility. Use that to determine the next pay period's bonus. i.e. "Everyone in the IT department gets a $300 bonus if system uptime is greater than 98% for the previous two weeks. The bonus decreases by 1% for every percent decrease in uptime from 98% over the preceding two weeks. i.e. you're getting (100%-18%) of the 300$ if the uptime was more like 80% the last two weeks.
What a horrible UX on Safari.
Are long compile times just a product of Rust’ design? Or is there an issue with the compiler. Based on my experience with rust I would say it’s the former. It’s doing so many more checks for you then other compilers to prevent lots of problems that it’s bound to be slow.

I appreciate that they continue to speed up compilation/add flags. If the compiler gets slower every release it will eventually become unusable. I think the long compilation times will continue to get worse in the future as the rust compiler gets better at checking for errors, and I’m not sure what can really be done about that.

One thing that irks me is that they throw around the phrase zero cost abstraction a lot. And I just don’t buy it. Sure I get it, lots of things can be monomorphized so we don’t pay a runtime cost, but there is still a large compilation hit to do that, and it’s not zero cost to the programmer. One need only to look at Chandler Carruth’s cppcon talk “there are no zero cost abstractions” to understand that.
Yep, Red Beads [0].

The system determines performance. Measuring variation within statistical process control and attributing it to individual effort is a mistake that keeps being made.

Many have made the effort to translate these ideas to knowledge work, so it's not like the manufacturing context is holding this concept back from being understood.

[0] https://deming.org/lessons-from-the-red-bead-experiment-with...
I would not say so. Whether the guy cheats depends on whether he is willing to cheat.

After all, anyone can pay for prostitute if he really wants to. Plus, if he can't find anyone to cheat with, you probably don't want him for exactly same reasons.
Chuck was one of the kindest and thoughtful people I ever met in SV in the 70's and 80's.

I had taken his CMU PhD thesis on compiler optimization and applied it (in a small way) to Harvard's ECL language for my undergrad thesis project. So he flew me out to PARC the summer of my junior year ('75), and we had some good talks about it. (Which was pretty eye-opening, as I hadn't seen all the PARC goodies in person yet.)

Chuck was actually a Jesuit candidate for the (Catholic) priesthood undergrad (U Cincinnati), but decided to drop out and pursue a technical career.

He brought me in for an interview while in his last days at PARC, which I realized later was for Adobe, but I just had started at a laser printer startup (spinoff from Knuth's TeX project--Imagen), so I missed that one...

People complaining about Adobe in these threads are really complaining about the post-Geschke/Warnock Adobe. While they were leading the company, it was completely engineering-driven with a laser focus on product excellence (I know, because I used their products from the start). After they left day-to-day leadership, Adobe devolved to the usual sales-driven organization.

I kept in touch with Chuck and would sometimes chat at Seybold shows, and via email. He was always helpful and kind, and, in the old days when he was running Adobe, would reach behind the scenes to get things done for me.

Apparently, the '92 kidnapping really broke his spirit.

Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine...
>Maybe I'm being naive, but this seems a tad obvious, and not all that useful.

IMO I've often seen extreeme scenarios and then a reactionary 180 swing to the other extreeme, it's usefull to recognise that both approaches are extreemes.

It might be obvious to you but I constantly see devs that fail to recognise sales focus has value - like we need to ship feature X by Y to get client Z otherwise the opportunity is gone. I'd say 2/3 devs I've worked with will immediatly push back with concerns such as long term maintainability, scalability, etc. None of those would be a blocker for the sale or the initial customer, and once you land the customer you'll have the budget to go back and fix it - but yeah still a deathmatch to get those through sprint planning.

And queue jaded devs here claming "they do it because they know once it's commited it will never get fixed", honestly whenever I come up with actual problems and solutions I can't remember being turned down (deffered a couple of times, still got to do it eventually) - I've worked for 2 startups, and 4 enterprise teams.

So if you're not getting space to do this kind of improvements and care about code quality - maybe consider changing your workplace.
How about option D:

Balance. Sales, marketing, product (and the g&a team) are all crucial to success. The market, sales, and product all can be signals... But without balance the biggest opportunities and dangers will be missed.
https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs is in progress, but I believe it works enough to be worth playing with. Note that it doesn't implement the borrow checker - the plan is to reuse rustc's borrow checker as a compiler plugin. For now, as I understand it, gccrs itself assumes that the code is valid (i.e., would be accepted by rustc).

https://thephilbert.io/ is the primary developer's blog and has status updates.
The tutorial/cookbook ("the blue book") from 1985, with a preface by Geschke:

https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF
I understand that is "2 minutes to mount a weapon with previously printed spare parts". I could be wrong. Maybe a 'lost in translation' case.

My bet would be a lonesome survivalist trying to increase its fine "that for sure will impress lotta chicks" weapon collection. Could be a furtive also or a wannabee seller.

The most interesting part would be to know how the police discovered him. Probably the old 'bragging in front of friends'.

Could be technically possible for one of those 3D files to call home somehow? Maybe they made a report when downloaded in some dark place of the web?
The wording may be unfortunate and/or mangled through the Chinese whispers that press releases are, but you can most certainly 3d print jigs to ECM barrels. And yes, the ECM process takes 20 minutes not 2, but still.

3d printed weapons are here. Crude, maybe, and you still need quite a bit technical expertise; but give it another 5 years and everything will be much easier still.

That said, there have always been 'home manufactured' of course. Arguably even Khyber pass guns could be designated 'home manufactured'. But I still think that the ease with which one can make guns with 3d printers today is unparalled with anything we've seen before. Also, ironically, I think Biden's ghost gun ban is only going to accellerate research into 3d printed gun manufacturing.
I still wish Windows had a Windows 2000 UI mode. I think the technicolor XP is where Windows UI designers decided usability isn't the main criteria.
I think the better metric is the size of Microsoft's moat. How many applications are left that people depend on that only run on Windows? I could switch to Mac today and not miss anything. Linux, not so much, but a lot of normal, non-techie people find it's enough.
“Your income tax is paid by your employer” is untrue if you have 2 jobs at the same time. If they where on the hook based on what they pay you then it wouldn’t matter that you have a second job. However, because you’re on the hook for the total amount, having a second job does matter and the IRS goes after you if you mess up the calculation.

This is similar because a bank could be providing the money, but the buyer is ultimately on the hook for it.
IIRC that included the LaserPrinter deal with Apple which kind of made the company. And I don’t think Jobs bought the shares personally but rather Apple did.
Thanks, according to that the only thing that had been printed were some “handgun frames”.

I don’t know why this of interest to HN other than it has the words “3D-printed” in it. Maybe we can talk about how somehow 3D printers make illegal manufacturing scarier?

I mean underground illegal weapon manufacturing has been a thing for hundreds of years, so there’s nothing new here.

It’s just gone from a blacksmith pounding on metal to a machine shop operator with a lathe to a programmer with a 3D printer. Also you still need the lathe to turn a gun barrel so maybe it hasn’t even come that far...
> you can't make gun barrels at all

I agree with you that the two minutes statement is ludicrous.

However, you can print barrels (they're crappy and will fail after very few shots, but still):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5fhBBipU3w
So even Reuters makes mistakes? I consider them to be the most unbiased news source.
Making memories: Neural plasticity depends on noncoding RNA journey
Have you looked at or heard of the Humans of simulated New York project?

It reminds me of what you're looking at [0][1](github[2]).

The project broadly covers what you're doing with agents also starting businesses and going out of business with simple supply chains. There's even some stuff to do with health.

-[0]: https://www.trytobegood.com/projects/hosny

-[1]: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/apr/03/humans-of-simulate...

-[2]: https://github.com/frnsys/hosny
You can certainly drill out a very short, non-rifled barrel on a drill lathe in single-digit minutes. Everything in this story is an exaggeration or misunderstanding, so it wouldn’t surprise me to find the “2 minute” figure to be a wild-ass guess too.
If you are trying to capture life as faithfully as possible, maybe the player represents breakthroughs, inspiration and the social networks outside the simulated community pushing in ideas, fads, trends and technologies?

I can imagine it being a fun game for spreadsheet players to try and tease apart how to recover a death-spiralling community by applying new ideas in the right order at the right time to the right people. Ideas can be unleashed into key parts of the sim and only live for so long before they become 'proven discredited' and ignored, or whatever.

Good luck! Simulations are fun.
Why is this not the default? What’s the downside?
Thanks. Edited the post to link to archive: https://archive.is/267gb
I have a Peloton Tread so I'm talking about something I own? I even mention shopping for one in another comment

What kind of garbage comment is this anyways? I have one "top level" comment on this thread, and every other comment is replying to someone who replied to me. As if I'm the first person on HN to reply to people who replied to them.

So much for "assume positive intent" right?

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If you think guards mean you can leave your kids near a piece of exercise equipment capable of injuring a person 100 different ways be my guest.

If I seem passionate about it's because of the utter absurdity! If someone left kids playing with a chainsaw and they got hurt you'd lock up the parents....

But somehow sticking a just as powerful motor on a abrasive belt driven device you literally stand on doesn't ring any alarm bells? Chainsaws and treadmills cause the same order of magnitude of injuries a year.

It's a piece of dangerous power equipment. You're being negligent to let kids play near it. End of story.
I've run into some pretty big issues with selenium in the past, if python playwright works for you I'd recommend it. Seems a lot easier to work with these days.

It's generally cleaner than selenium, has a few more features and is missing a few others.
SV is disrupting the market. Opendoor, Zillow offers etc.. will buy your home and give you 90 days to close on a new one. So they are assuming the risk. You can even work within their system. A lot of new home manufacturers are employing the same model.

If you have a higher risk tolerance you can list your home at a higher price and wait it out.
Yes.

Are RCDs not required in your area?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device
On top of the tragic circumstances outside of anyone's control, it's mind-boggling how much unnecessary pain and suffering was caused by the medical system.

Given that the UK is one of the better countries in medical care quality, why are things still so bad? I understand the disease is rare, but even if it's not diagnosed, surely there's a way to realize that they are just torturing the patient?

Also:

> On average it takes 10 to 14 years for people to be diagnosed

Why so long? The global databases of medical information should contain the relevant symptoms, right?
I suspect this post was promoted via a voting ring.
If X is formally verifiable and conducive to writing testable, contractual code then yes.
Never knew about the VISA thing most people mention here. That is some wildly impressive tech. I wonder how much google is paying them.
I think the biggest issue with the “product-led” mindset is the one dimensionality of it.

You need the right balance of everything in reality, including sales, and the mix is different for different companies.
> I want to give them to someone I'd care about and who would value them, but that is easier said than done. Any ideas?

You could always sell them to a bricks and mortar stamp collecting shop. You won't get full market value (the guys have to pay their overheads), but you know they will end up with people who appreciate them.

Alternatively, donate them to a local stamp collecting club for distribution to the young members.
The fundamental issue is that firearms are not very complicated, and so they're very difficult to regulate. I particularly see this in trying to regulate magazines...literally boxes with springs in them. You have no chance! Anyone who wants a bigger magazine can slap two smaller ones together with duct tape. An amateur working alone will probably be able to make better weapons given modern technology, but that's true of making anything at all.
Write a traffic sim and you have got the core of a SimCity clone.
"Also you still need the lathe to turn a gun barrel"

No you don't, you can ECM rifling and a chamber, using 3d printed jigs.
this is textbook law enforcement FUD.
How do you expect an automated process to work over SSH if it has to ask for a password?
Agree broadly with what you're saying; having a common mission is a good way to align on goals within a company and also with customers and community.

It's debatable, but the phrase "target population" seems potentially non-ideal from a cultural perspective. To me that has some negative connotations, implying that the recipients might not be aware/participating/accepting. It feels like companies should want to support and encourage their audience, as opposed to pushing things onto them.

Perhaps a minor point, but I think that if you develop a large organizational culture which begins to repeat various phrases or terms, then those words and the way they are perceived become significant (in proportion to the company's influence).
Did the 3d view match your expectations.. Oddly, I find them hard to physically visualize.
You can also turn off debuginfo completely. Personally, someone who does printf debugging, I mainly need it to debug segfaults, which are really rare in Rust. Sometimes the call stack of a panic is useful as well, but if I need debuginfo I can just re-enable it.

https://github.com/est31/cargo-udeps/commit/e550d93c7a6d756e...
There's a real mischaracterization / straw man mentioned in some of the comments here about set bonuses, which is different from the special bonus structure in the OP.

A set bonus is part of your employment compensation. It's not a "nice to have". If the company hits its goals and you perform well, you are supposed to get it. When this is broken, that's a problem, and it indicates a deception by the company.

Yes, if you want you could just increase all salaries by that much and not worry about the bonuses. The reason they come in a bonus structure is two-fold: so the company can not pay it out if they don't hit goals; because management has the idea that it will make people work harder. Both of these reasons serve the company alone, don't act like this is a case of employees feeling entitled.
OK I get what you are saying, but if a manager is not able to communicate clearly enough that employee understands the directions given, then it is the fault of the manager.

If the employee understand the task given but does not have the skill to carry it out satisfactory, then it may be a question of the competency of the employee.
Time is more valuable than gold. Crypto saves time. Some experiments to test for yourself and measure the time elapsed:

pay someone in a foreign country. Do it again except at 2am on a Sunday.

Wire someone some money. Now do the same outside bankings hours. Now do the same but try and do a test transaction first.

Try setting up a new company. Add a vesting clause. Now handle actual distribution of dividends. Measure the time and legal fees in the non crypto version.
I've worked in the hospitality trade for about a decade before i got in IT.

The hospitality industry is a shadowy, drug and crime filled industry.
Its truly disturbing know what shit goes on in our food production area's.
The company can buy its own stock and benefit if it rises in value. There is nothing to gain from using a smart contract to achieve the same result except in a more convoluted, less transparent fashion.
On the frontend, buy a HTML theme on ThemeForest or similar. Your goal is very quick prototyping and visual design decisions will slow you down. These themes aren't the best code, but they look good and come with tons of layouts and components you can mix and match.
Yeah, you can make things with bullet-sized holes in them. Calling them "gun barrels" is I think a bit of a stretch ;-)

The problem is that calling them "gun barrels" trades on readers' expectations of what a barrel is, so they end up thinking one can make "regular" or "pretty good" gun barrels on a 3D printer, which is false.
You are describing customer-led IMO.

Product led is about building the best product, with the “best” taking into account customer wants.

But product is just one dimension of customer needs, and customer needs are fulfilled across all other departments either directly or indirectly. A sales-led company can still be driven by customer needs, so the definition is way too broad.

Also the statement that “product led” means “making the correct trade off between sales/engineering” is too broad. You could just as easily say “sales/engineering led” means “having the correct mix of product”.
The author is using random online radios so they don't get to choose the server end - as a client, VLC is powerful but I prefer Audacious for the user interface. (random user survey :) ) - I have the same problem with VLC on my Android, it works but I much prefer other streaming clients for the better (subjective) UI.
I think thats a good summary.

On number 2 - I wouldn't call it "cryptocurrency" first but rather (and forgive my lack of articulation here) crypto/defi/blockchain first.

Think of crypto like the new internet protocol - rather than equating it to gold. But unlike the internet protocol, this extends much beyond e.g. crypto is wealth, an application, a service, a medium.

This means a whole new set of services and revenue streams / protocols on revenue (from selling products) and expenses (guessing these get built on a host of defi applications). All these integrations - will XERO focus today? Nope. Is the potential market for this massive - yes, well if you are bullish crypto.

Early examples of companies that would use this - https://upland.me/, https://nbatopshot.com/