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Ask HN: Anyone used Gusto? Product and support seem buggy/disorganized
We're about 35 employees and just switched to Gusto for 2022.

I'm having trouble with just about everything.

I've talked to support 15-20 times so far and they seems to not know answers to much. Everything is upgraded to a "specialist".

When I do get answers, every support person has a different answer.

For example:

Sick hours didn't show up on Jan 1st (like the policy stated). First support person had me experiment with creating multiple policies to triage the issue, eventually telling me I had to enter hours manually.

Second time I called in, the person told me they accrue hours only after the first payroll.

After the first payroll, only SOME of the employees accrued sick time off.
Now the issue has been upgraded to a "specialist".

This is only one of a handful of such issues I'm facing.

Curious to see if this experience is common with others?
I did trials with BambooHR and Gusto, and now regretting my decision.
Tried it, but I'm giving up serious credit card points that way.
There is no such thing as a static website
Its still true as a generality. I would say the majority leave because they are unhappy.

Its very rare to get 2x to 4x TC unless you switch to faang, which is not the majority at all.
This was published in 2018 it seems; has there been any change, additional information, or improvement since then?
If you need to forget a bad HS English class, and most of us do, you might watch some of the excellent movies made from the Austen novels. Pride and Prejudice has been made at least 17 times including an excellent Bollywood version and a less excellent zombie movie. Emma has Clueless. These movies are seriously a lot of fun. Then if you really like the movie, you can go back to the books with the movie in mind rather than high school.
> the Constitution doesn't even support a centralized military

Yes, it does. It just says that military appropriations for the Army have to be approved by Congress every two years. Congress controls the purse strings, the President has command.

Article I, Section 8:

"The Congress shall have power...To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy..."

Note that the Navy is not even subject to the two year limit on funding.
"Bentham's panopticon reified" is more characteristic of Foucault's concept of disciplinary societies, which defined the 20th century. Deleuze's project here is to extend it into the 21st century, where the disciplinary society changes into "societies of control". While both disciplinary and control societies rely on surveillance, disciplinary societies create compliance through the threat (if not the execution) of punishment, while control societies create compliance through nudges and dark patterns. Disciplinary societies have centralized locations of power (the factory, the school, and the barracks), while in control societies, power is decentralized -- both everywhere and nowhere at once (algorithms, workplace encouraged education and health initiatives, etc).

Furthermore, while disciplinary power creates classes of individuals to control and marginalize (based on race, class, etc.), under neoliberal control societies, all individuals are prima facie accepted. This is not because the control society is less coercive, but because control is exerted at the sub-individual level -- think how advertising algorithms assign each person a constellation of tags which are used to structure their online experience.
It's not as good as grammarly, but it will definitely help and isn't that hard to run. My tricks to run it on a cheap digital ocean server

0. Use the docker version

1. use maxsize memory flag to keep the memory under control

2. set up a cron job to kill/restart it in the middle of the night, every night.

3. use a reverse proxy to hide the address at least a little bit
> But this won't last forever.

I feel like this quote is relevant, if slightly off topic:

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

i.e. You may run out of good candidates long before your competitors stop offering 20% more than you.
I didn't hate my old job or find the pay inadequate, but I had always thought about seeking out something else since I was losing interest and wanted to learn something new. Working from home just made it far easier for me to take the initial steps to start looking. I also had more time to look for openings and my schedule was much more flexible for interviews thanks to WFH.
I imagine that you can guide multiple people at the same time.
This Jan6 committee doesn't look legit, to be honest. Issuing subpoenas and jail time for ignoring those subpoenas is the courts' territory. I dont understand how a bunch of legislators, who were elected to write laws, created an "emergency committee" with judical and executive powers.
I've left jobs I was happy at for more 20% more money. And ended up just as happy.
I've been playing with it, but I keep running into errors. E.g.:

in woob-weather, with weather.com backend, I've been getting "Error(weather): 401 Client Error: Unauthorized";

in woob-gallery, with imgur backend, when I attempt to download an image the module crashes with "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ''"

I like the idea though and I'll keep trying further.

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Update: I resolved the image-gallery problem by specifying the foldername (so: using "download ID 1 foldername" instead of "download ID"). BUT: it looks like I'm unable to download text descriptions that sometimes accompany the images.
The Facebook Text Prompt Zombie Land
Not in those type of engines. I meant the type of engine that creates a layer of fuel on the outside walls that gets pushed out with the exhaust gases.
(Per the article): Is it correct to describe superposition as the probability of, e.g., an electron being in one of two places? In such an example, is it instead correct to say that superposition is a probability distribution of infinitely many possible locations?
> Maybe there was once a time when there were higher ratios, but I’m not aware of them.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
For real. Traveling there and having 4 bars of fast 4g almost anywhere you stand in cities and on the road is remarkable for such a large country
I'm quite happy with the work environment of my current job. But I bet I can earn more money, so I'm interviewing. I'm specifically only applying to companies I'd really like to work for, though - I'm not trying to keep myself afloat.

After all, why not? It's not like you have to take a day or two off to potentially fly out for the on-site these days. It's been years since I played the interview game, so I need to keep my skills sharp. And if I get a better offer at a company I'd like to work for, why not take it? If the offer's not better, I can politely decline.
Is that true anymore? Everyone I know is always on the job market, even folks who haven't jumped employers in 10+ years are regularly in idle conversation with the job market.

But, the honest answer to your boss's question: what bothers me is trading my time for money. My comp doubled. I can now afford to stop working in 3-5 years instead of 10+ years. I think this attitude has become much more common in the last 5-10 years.
Well that's bleak. Life can be pretty good, too! Talk to someone if you need to, it helps.
> I never knew this was a thing. I'm not on board with promoting the use of "we" as a replacement for first person singular

Thou art fighting a losing battle; the grammatical first person singular will soon be as passé as the second.
Doesn't that collide with age of consent? I am having a hard time believing this
> it does seem that there are a large number of people switching jobs.

Some of the attrition was deferred because they would have left in 2020, but decided to wait.
It is a one-sided rant. I even call that out toward the bottom. AC is very beneficial, and has been for 150 years, but that has caused DC power generation and distribution to be neglected. DC transmission is much more efficient over long distances, making continent scale grids more viable, and with more and more of our house running on DC, it only makes sense to start transitioning to DC inside the house with AC used where it makes sense (induction motors and large appliances and heating), but even those we need to focus on replacing with more efficient DC motors and greener heat pump technology that uses geothermal or similar.

I thought I was being cute with the post, but it seems people took it way too seriously. DC generation, transmission, storage, and use are becoming a lot more common, especially in "micro-grids"/off-grid use. I'm not saying that this is common place yet, but maybe it will be soon.
REvil ransomware gang arrested in Russia
You can still track users without accounts. It's called finger printing. It's still probably associated with the main Google account too. There's tons of articles on Facebook and "dark" accounts.
I would leave any job if the competition offers a significant raise. I don't think this attitude is very prevalent nowadays.
You can go to fast food places and see there are people who will use the touch screens even when there is no line, and similar for self checkout at grocery stores. There is an assumption people enjoy chatting to a friendly customer service person, but that's at least not universally true.
Newer studies consider autism's sex ratio to be 3:1 m:f, which still doesn't explain why even a field that is specifically appealing to autistic people has such low numbers of women.
> clearly communicate intent

Again, this is not how a license work. You can express your intents, ideas and desires in a README file and in many other ways.

The license is nothing more than a contract that provides rights to the recipient under certain conditions. Standing up in court is its real power and only purpose.

That's why we should prefer licenses that stood up in court and have been written by lawyers rather than developers or scientists.
At one point in college, I was using an old Thinkpad x41 tablet and wanted to mess around with gnuradio. I wanted it on my tablet laptop since I had that on me most hours of the day. Compiling gnuradio took several hours. I was running arch so I want unfamiliar with compile times for things I grabbed from the AUR but it was atrocious. I started it in my first class of the day and would just throw my laptop in my bag while it was still compiling and walk quickly to my next class so I could grab a power outlet before Pentium M sucked up all the battery.
How much longer are they expecting it to take? I was there several months ago and it looked like they had a ton of elevated track bridges ready
This makes me curious about where you turn to when you have hard questions about design stuff. Do you primarily Google your questions, ask colleagues, ask the internet? Is there engineering/type of documentation for design? I know AOSP, but wonder if there's a UX-focused version of that.
I changed jobs last year because I was unhappy that I wasn't making enough money. These two things aren't completely unrelated.
The crux of this post seems to be that energy conversion = inefficient = bad.

I am still trying to figure out what this has to do with AC - energy conversion losses would be present regardless of whether or not mains is AC or DC.
BTW, that I-D is now RFC 6025 [0].

There's also RFC 5912 [1], which adds x.681/x.682/x.683 constraints to PKIX modules. I use this to great effect in Heimdal[2]. One function call can decode everything in a certificate, and a second can pretty print it in JSON; one command can pretty-print a certificate in all its glory in JSON.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6025
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5912
[2] https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/tree/master/lib/asn1
Plenty of people develop on macOS and deploy on Linux (this isn't completely reliable but people consider it good enough for Ruby/Python/Node.js) so I could imagine a portable Dockerfile that generates either a macOS image or a Linux image depending where it is built. This would speed development dramatically.
Voter ID is another one of those issues many don't want you to know that most Americans agree on:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/06/21/80-of-a...
"AFAIU" stands for "as far as I understand".

(So those who have never seen this acronym do not have to google for it.)
I changed mainly because my manager was an asshole
I'll be departing my job at the end of the month. I had too many roles, affecting too many pieces of engineering, and my title didn't reflect my work. I needed to go down to a 4 day work week and have my title reflect my roles, but my manager attempted to call my bluff and essentially said it's not going to happen. I hinted about what my decision would have to be if these accomodations couldn't be made, but he didn't budge. When I gave my verbal notice, suddenly there was immediate backpedaling and said maybe something could be worked out. I declined because I don't negotiate like that. If you mismanage a negotiation, there is no do-overs just because you overplayed your hand. The trust is broken.
I wonder if they even measured the height in 1569. I'm sure that they could, but I don't know whether they cared about whether one building was a meter or two taller than some other building. I think they cared more about grandeur and the perceived awe rather than guinness-style records. Certainly many would have advertised themselves as being the tallest. To my knowledge there was no central book of such records. I wonder in which year was it determined that this cathedral held the record. Was it only centuries later when some architect student did a thesis?
Not sure if these count as company culture but: Frequent hiring freezes, blown out projects that never make progress, IT support outsourced to SEA where tickets that took hours before take days instead, upper management more focused on making new acquisitions rather than integrating existing business units, and so on.
Wow! I actually love the idea of being able to interact with websites via a standard API rather being forced to use web-based UI they provide. It opens up a whole lot of possibles for things like alternate clients, standard UIs for interacting across multiple sites, etc. Also eliminates the possibility of sites engaging in annoying or abusive behavior by putting users in full control of the client rather than the site operator. Obviously it can't work for every site, but it's quite the interesting concept.
They've deleted it, been working for years that link. Someone there is reading this post.
interesting. I'm a solid 'mixed' on these, although, I'm p/t contractor, not fte.

not respected, not growing, not strong trust.

learning - some, but I don't like some of what i'm having to learn (not terribly useful outside this project).

fulfilling... occasionally, but more often not.

It's not 'that bad' for me yet, but have been trying to watch out for these signs. I've been in your shoes - where it has gotten 'that bad', and often you don't realize until you're already there.

Good luck to you!
It says it compiles to Lua, so I guess because you'd rather write this than Lua?

I don't see why not.
There are no exemptions to enter the country without vaccination? He followed the wrong protocol? Is there a different path he should have followed?
They made it work by not doing picture rendering on the CPU. Same as GPUs today. Still impressive though
The second.

Lots of people want to "go back," but that can never happen. It does not mean that "the old ways" are bad, or that they could not be applied to today or the future, but there is a very good chance they would not be applicable to today's world, without modification.

I don't like "Old bad; New Shiny." Something is advantageous to the current situation, or it is not. Its provenance should have nothing to do with it.

As an engineer, who has been developing (and shipping) software for my entire life, I can tell you that some (not all, just some) things that I learned "in the good old days" are quite applicable to today's world, and I always find it amusing, when someone goes "Wow! That is so cool!" when I have shown them some old pattern that was created before they were born.

In the company that I worked at for a long time, a bunch of ultra-conservative folks had a war with future-facing folks, and won (that's one reason I was let go). I totally understand where they come from, but I also think that it was a disaster, and may kill a 100-year-old company.

But no one asked me. They just handed me my pink slip.

Best thing that ever happened to me.

Funny "In Soviet Russia..." story. A friend of mine, who is married to a Russian, and lived in Perm for many years, said that the soviets always built two of everything, because one inevitably failed, and was used for parts, for the second. I have no idea how true it was. He is prone to flights of hyperbole.
I can find myself saying yes to all of these with my most recent move. I think Compensation in many cases is a canary for other issues. If I don't like the company culture, life balance, product I am working on, etc. I may do that for enough compensation. If the compensation stops being worth it you move.
Received Pronunciation English does emphasize the /t/ in these cases, but other British dialects use glottal stops for /t/ in many cases.
More is certainly better, but at a certain point, you kind of know where the industry is, and that you're probably not going to get a radical bump (although maybe right now you are?), so while it still counts, you start looking at the other factors more.
This is exactly right and I think a good example of why we shouldn't generalize.

I grew up poor - and judge me however you'd like - but I'd put up with less ideal conditions if the pay was worth it.

Reminds me of in college when I was a waiter - I typically didn't mind a table's behavior if I knew they were going to tip well.
I would argue that the best world for employees is one in which their shields are always down.
The poll is messing with your way of thinking.

Look at the poll and think on this statement:

"The majority of people leave a company because they are unsatisfied, not because of compensation."

The poll statistically verifies the above statement as true. Its just divided in a way that makes you think compensation is the main reason.

Still what the poll does show is that compensation is a significant factor, more than ever before.
There's a group of people that like to pretend heroin is less harmful despite all the evidence to the contrary. I'm not sure if they're users rationalizing their own use or what, but it's an odd thing I've noticed.
Honest question: did he say how often the answer was "I need more money"? Most of the times I changed jobs, it was for reasons not related to money, but there was this one time that I actually needed more and ended up leaving because of that.

Ironically, it was one of the best jobs I ever had, but you can't actually pay for your newborn's healthcare with job satisfaction.
> Is this a reasonable example of the Azores Portuguese?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeVHjELjR9s

Yes, but every island has a different accent. That was filmed in S. Jorge and the accent there is quite mild. Some islands have stronger accents. Most notably S. Miguel, which in it's thickest form can be very hard to understand for mainland speakers.
This is so cool. A custom client for websites. Essentially a web scraper with a GUI on top. You can define your own user experience instead of accepting what they designed for you.
> "the industry has self-selected for men: first, antisocial nerds, then, decades later, self-confident and risk-taking bros"

I'm sorry, this is a silly broadside at the nature of male software engineers. In my experience, software engineers tend to be smart, often but not always introverted, and in Silicon Valley, very ambitious. I think the quote captures an inherent contradiction in its own thesis: Are software engineers typically reclusive and antisocial, or outgoing and confident? The answer is... it depends, you'll find plenty of examples of both. We shouldn't blame the software engineers for _both_ their introversion and extroversion here, at the very least. :-)
> They are probably not gonna serve jail time. Their brains are too valuable. They will likely get a desk at the FSB headquarters.

A raid like this would be a really stupid way to "acqui-hire" some hackers. My understanding is a lot of these hackers already work with the FSB, etc. Using outside people helps the FSB by giving them a level of deniability.
Mismanagement would be good option.

I decided to open my own company just because there is a horrendous management culture in the North America.

Last company I had worked about three years ago had a really bad management culture where managers were total talentless pricks. Now, that might be okay if compensation was crazy high but company also had below average industry wages.

I also figured out that you can pay people really low wages so long as you act decent towards them. I don’t have real employees at the moment but I got some contractors. I pay them insanely low wages, but I frequently praise them and thank for their work. So far I got really good results with this arrangement.
> Doesn't that collide with age of consent?

Typically (though you can probably find exceptions to either or both), modern low or no limits for child marriage systems feature:

1. Parental consent laws for marriage below a certain age, and

2. Marital exceptions to age of consent laws for sex.
Oh I guess we haven't, that's good. Looks to have more or less steadied out over the past decade or two. [0]

[0] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/ann...
33 and heading south:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/589450-quinnipia...
I think this may only be technically true in a way that is unhelpful as a model for either employers or employees, and I'm not sure it's still true in the current day.

The immediate thing that caused me to start looking for a new job, most recently, was that I had a performance review / bonus conversation that went poorly (for me). It's a little hard to distinguish whether the thing that made me unhappy was getting the feedback of "We don't value the things you want to do with your career" or getting the feedback of "and, therefore, we will dock your pay." (In fairness to them, it's not clear the things I wanted to do with my career were in fact valuable to them.)

However, once I started looking, I discovered I was being seriously underpaid, and I really should have already been looking for new jobs. There's just a bootstrapping problem here - you don't know your market value until you start getting offers, and you have to start looking in order to start getting offers.

With new norms about talking about pay (this very website is a good spot, for software engineers) and sites like levels.fyi, I suspect I would have come to this conclusion a little earlier, on the basis of money. It's hard to estimate your market value but you now have a better idea of what the ballpark is.

(I suppose the other option is to continually be "looking," whether or not you have an active desire to leave. I know some people do that. But I personally find that exhausting.)
I wonder how the wide-scale move to work-from-home will change this. Having more flexible work environments while also making caregiving more possible (because, let's be honest, women still do the vast majority of caregiving, even if they work full-time) AND not spending as much time in a physical office reduces the exposure to these "traditionally male cultures" might make software development more attractive to women.

Just some random thoughts, it will be a long time before we know the effect.