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>dang: I'm sorry it feels arbitrary. I think we're looking at this from different perspectives and continuing to argue about it will likely only be repetitive.

One thing's for sure: if antitrust action against Facebook or other big tech cos does go ahead, it will get thoroughly and repeatedly discussed on HN. So our positions will converge in the long run.

I just don't think "candidate says X" is substantive enough to meet the bar—keep in mind that front page space is the scarcest resource on HN, so every important story gets insufficient attention, and whatever story you care most about, it's always going to feel like it's starved for coverage. (I'm sure even Rust hackers feel the same way.) I appreciate your passion on the topic and the fact that you care enough about HN to take time to make a case about it.

Daniel

>rollingdeep: The only way this has been repetitive is that I have repeated my simple request for you to directly address the specific concerns instead of a general dismissal on your part. If you cared to directly engage the content, this would not be repetitive. Alas, I don’t believe you care about such news even if it is legitimately significant which you have failed demonstrate otherwise. Per my reasonable requests, you haven’t even attempted to directly engage the content and substance, but you have generally dismissed it.

I’m afraid because you have no interest in the significance of this kind of news, that the spread of such information is hampered. Do you realize that you are effectively influencing the spread of information, and this news is highly relevant to that and you? Just as Facebook has the power to influence the spread of information, so does HN. I see no reason to hamper/suppress this discussion as you are allowing, except perhaps the suppression of this information/discussion is preferable to you and Y Combinator.

On some level there is no guarantee of actual regulatory action without public education and public support of those issues and regulatory actions. Your decisions seem to support obstructing the spread of that information and letting the facts bubble to the surface of public consciousness.

Thus I completely disagree with your decisions on a factual basis.
soulshine decatur. Not sure it made the news.
Go Nurx!
If this falls through (which I hope it does not!), trying a similar network for men wouldn't be a bad pivot. My dad has had a hell of a time making friends in his retirement.
The "article" was produced by a neocon think tank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute

It's a "study" in the sense that a blog by the American Tobacco Association (fictional entity invented for the purpose of this argument) produces "studies" about the "harmlessness of tobacco smoking".
For the whole year? If you work 60 hours/week, 36 weeks/year, then you only work ~41 hours/week on average. School years are 180 days, for about 36 weeks. I know that teachers do work during the vacations somewhat, but, they also get substantially more time off than most other professional jobs in the US.
Detecting wireless network clients for the first time in a WiFi scanner
It's "88.5 meters, or over 290 feet", for those just looking for the number.
Sail – Reproducible and consistent vs. code dev environments
> "But politics is where you have the most leverage"

And look where that got us. There was so much leveraging going on (read: lack there of) that just under 50% of the voters went for Trump. A guy with zero experience and more baggage than a 747.

> "Bernie Sanders was able to shame Amazon"

True. And that's my point about Yang. Bernie didn't do this with law / legislation. He did it via his fame. Being a politican might have helped but I don't think it was Bern's political power Bezos feared.
I'm so glad this important article shot up to #1 in the HN frontpage.
I'm comparing the TCO of a good value gasoline car to the best value electric car available (including used models). If you have a ton of disposable income, buying a Tesla could be a good decision, but very few people are in that position. Since we are taking about TCO, I assume we are talking about a financially literate purchaser.

I fully expect that electric cars will have a reasonable TCO in the future.
That's actually very interesting, do you know if/how they described the differences in perception?
Oh I’ve got no doubt it’s possible to get good at zen mode — just a brutal learning curve for me that I wasn’t going to make it past without the helpful tip from another poster. :)
All of my software that is not brief and trivial and so benefiting from it is licensed under the AGPLv3, although I don't use the or any later versions clause, as I don't trust licenses that have yet to be written, and the recent events make me feel all the superior for not having done so. I'm glad to see more AGPLv3 software. My opinion on a batch compiler is different from my opinion on an interactive environment and I'll share a method on how to make money with the AGPLv3:

For a batch compiler, that is a language that doesn't need the compiler to run, write an AGPLv3 compiler without a linking exception and then demand sufficient funds be raised to release a version with the linking exception. This is then a way to write a Free Software compiler and still demand money for it, for many to actually want to use it. I wouldn't license something such as a Lisp compiler with the exception, however, as the implementation generally exists with the program and that removes some advantages of it being AGPLv3. Fortunately, it seems the author has used the AGPLv3 and any desired exception uses vague language not in the license, so it's legally irrelevant. I'd find it best if there were no exception for this program, but it's not my decision.

In closing, this has made me want again to write my own Scheme implementation, so perhaps I'll do that at some point soon.
VPNs are easily detected and can be throttled. Also they're slow af. This would allow you to use your full internet speed and bypass filters.
I mean cars have the same problems right? Or have traffic jams, road closures, and parking restrictions by time of day gone away?
> The three month break is a myth.

My girlfriend of the last 5.5 years is a teacher. I can only speak on her experience, and what I've got to know from her colleagues. That said, the three month break is hardly a myth.

> Teachers are generally required to spend weeks doing prep before the year starts and weeks closing out after the year ends.

They stay a few *days after schools out, not weeks. And, most of them recycle lesson plans from the previous year. No one is spending weeks on lesson plans. If they are, it's passively, not 40 hours a week. From what I've been told, most of them download/purchase full plans off the internet.

> There are also recommended to required activities during the summer.

They get paid extra for this stuff too. My girlfriend runs a club, does detention, and works the ticket booth at football games. She gets paid for all of them. Her contract states one extra curricular activity per year. It's all during the school year in her case.

> $40-50k is not enough money to live on, in most places.

$40-50k is the average salary in the US. Outside of major metros, $50k will afford you a nice life (I live in one, most people here would kill to make $50k).
Odd - when I submitted this, it turned "VS Code" into "vs. code"
does she work summers too? winter break, spring break?
> From quit rates, to pay, to conditions, and beyond, but ignores the obvious which is that private pay and private conditions are largely pinned to be just above public salaries and conditions

Most of the private schools around here pay a lot worse than the public schools, especially if you factor in total comp w/ benefits. We have a tiny number with high enough tuition that they might pay well (but I wouldn't count on it), but almost none of the rest do, the bulk of which are Catholic or protestant religious schools.
Beef sandwich?
Just wrote something similar. I agree.
You words reminded me that 10-15 years ago ORMs were all the hype, and one of the advertised benefits to use them was that you are abstracted from an underlying database engine, and can flawlessly switch between them.

A bit later, as usually the hype went down and there were a lot of critical articles about ORMs, where they said that well, it is not actually that easy to switch database engines in a real project even with ORMs, and more - ORMs hide great specific powerful features of databases. And finally - how often do you actually jump between database engines, what a strange benefit after all?

I am in no way criticizing your approach, and I clearly understand the rationale and benefits. It was funny, your words reminded me that our industry progresses in an infinite spiral trajectory, and repeats itself on a next level. :)
> In the private sector, salaries are based on how much one's involvement in some endeavor causes that endeavor to generate more revenue

That's never been my experience. I've seen people add tons of quantifiable value to a business, including dock loaders, customer facing staff, and even cleaners but in spite of their value being quantifiable they weren't rewarded. Clients and customers would literally say that staff is why they came back, but nothing.

Your post seems to be largely a THEORY of why salaries are set the way they are. In my experience social "value" seems to be a far bigger indicator of future salary rather than actual historical value. Meaning people are paying for perception, not measurements.

You can see that just by looking at affluence typically white kids flowing from private schools, to named colleges, straight into the financial sector. When did they generate historical value for the business when they were hired at double the natural average salary?
I can believe that, IIRC research shows that placebos work better if they taste bad (also if they're red?).
The relevant definition from the original research paper:

> One important element of social cognition is ‘cognitive empathy’, which constitutes the capacity to infer from observation the emotions, beliefs and goals of others.
There's something missing from this. Teachers often buy classroom supplies themselves, instead of the district providing them. Yeah, they only spend about $479 on average [1], but it's still a pretty unique situation.

That, I think, is where the sense (among teachers) of being underpaid comes from: teachers aren't getting institutional support. That's something that the National Affairs article mentions with regards to discipline, but it's true in other ways as well. When you toss in the fact that a great deal of educational achievement happens outside of the classroom-- as the article mentions-- but teachers are expected to make up for that gap, often without the community support they would need.

Saying that "I'm not paid enough to deal with this shit" doesn't seem that out of line to me.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/teachers-school-suppli...
> First of all, this isn't an "article." It's a story about...

I hate to be pedantic, but "article" and "story" are synonyms.

> The reason why the story resonates is because it's a reminder that money does not buy purpose more than anything else.

I think it resonates purely because it's a "human" story but, again, I really don't think anyone seriously thinks money brings happiness or purpose. Essentially, the story argues against a manufactured strawman. What the story does, imo, is minimize the hard work that went into his million-dollar venture while at the same time hinting that his small fortune might actually be a detriment, not a boon.
Why should we be using plastic straws at all?
Training any new staff in any industry is a hidden cost; difficult to quantify. We know it in the programming industry as the spin up time to get comfortable in a given code-base - at least 6 months to be properly comfortable, possibly as long as a year to be fully comfortable. The owner of Books Are Magic in Brooklyn † worked to transform his little corner of the industry, reforming as an alcoholic and his restaurant to boot. His reformation lead to a healthier staff that went to bed early and treating themselves better as well. The owner paid for his staff to go to therapy and live better lives themselves. I don't know if its replicatable, or if lower staff turnover and happier staff makes all the different there, but restaurant/bar work is, well, horrible for the soul. It doesn't have to be.

† https://www.bonappetit.com/story/david-mcmillan-sober
Seconding this. Arcadia is a breeze to get running.
I did not get much out of frog dissection. There were lot of squishy bits in there, but I could have just taken someone's word for that.
>In the largest study of its kind, results challenge the notion of autism as reflecting an “extreme male brain.”

I don't see how this is related, unless you think the only 'maleness' that can exist in a brain is testosterone levels.
There are so many things that could be tested and analyzed here besides testosterone levels.
Abstract of the original paper:

> The capacity to infer others' mental states (known as ‘mind reading’ and ‘cognitive empathy’) is essential for social interactions across species, and its impairment characterizes psychopathological conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. Previous studies reported that testosterone administration impaired cognitive empathy in healthy humans, and that a putative biomarker of prenatal testosterone exposure (finger digit ratios) moderated the effect. However, empirical support for the relationship has relied on small sample studies with mixed evidence. We investigate the reliability and generalizability of the relationship in two large-scale double-blind placebo-controlled experiments in young men (n = 243 and n = 400), using two different testosterone administration protocols. We find no evidence that cognitive empathy is impaired by testosterone administration or associated with digit ratios. With an unprecedented combined sample size, these results counter current theories and previous high-profile reports, and demonstrate that previous investigations of this topic have been statistically underpowered.

From: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.106...
The Binaural Beat Generator
Bigslice – Go-based, serverless cluster computing
David Chaum's Random Sample Elections [pdf]
Everything that makes Windows worth using.
OpenADK – Open-Source Appliance Development Kit
AI-driven stock-trading venue eyes U.S. exchange status, adds new pricing
Yeah, perhaps it is a bit too hard for a mass appeal. I'll have a think about what I can tweak. :)
> Teaching doesn't require patience or ability?

Working as a teacher certainly doesn't.

Source: had teachers (not in the US, just for the record).
GoodbyeDPI was working until April this year. After that Turkish Telekоm must have updated its evil softwares because this tool is not useful anymore.
How I Use Bitbucket in My Regular Routine
Not sure we need the "LOOOOL"
Strongly disagree with this. As someone who does own a number of Google Home devices at home and uses Siri on my phone... voice is a terrible interface.

For one, there is zero discoverability. I can ask Google today's weather. I can ask tomorrow's weather. I cannot ask yesterday's weather. Leaving aside why that would be (I would find it useful to know that it's X degrees hotter/cooler than yesterday) there's no way for me to know that without asking. It's the audio equivalent of fumbling around on a keyboard in a pitch black room. Just imagine placing a food order. It's going to have to read a menu to you and you're going to have to remember it all. No amount of tech improvement is going to change that fundamental fact.

Secondly, you can't multi-task. Or have more than one person using it simultaneously. Right now my wife and I might be looking at our phones at the same time, perhaps looking stuff up, maybe tapping out an e-mail. We'd have to go to separate rooms to do that.

But if I want to know today's weather or play a song, it works fine. As long as it recognises my voice correctly and there isn't too much background noise.
You can make $42k teaching computer science at a private school in silicon valley.
Synthetic rubber was, in fact, invented after Bakelite.
The entire opening of the article seems to be designed to take advantage of confirmation bias - the initial "there is no pay gap" is just an assertion, and then a bunch of therefores are built on top of it.

Their entire argument seems to be based on "the pay gap calculation is dumb", but the problem is, even if that is true, that doesn't disprove that teachers are underpaid.

The point about teachers having above average pensions is a good point.

Salary correlating with required skill level also misses some of the point, I believe, because qualitatively speaking, skill level isn't the most driving factor behind choosing to become a teacher.

The "if teachers aren't paid well, why aren't we seeing more of them quit?" is a lousy point. Some jobs are simply more important than others, and its jobs practitioners know that. They are less likely to quit.

I wonder if there's a way to calculate replacement cost. Like, what the long term damage to society would be if 20% of a particular work force disappeared. That might be a better way to estimate how much teachers should actually be paid.
You're muddying several issues here. I'm simply stating that the value of a healthcare system in terms of outcomes must be compared to how much it costs. What you're talking about is how the system is financed, which is a different issue.

For example, as a French citizen, I would expect that if we're in the top 5 in terms of spending (regardless of whether it's done privately or publicly), we should have a system that's in the top 5 in terms of outcomes.

I wasn't in any way trying to suggest the US healthcare system is the "best" or whatever, just pointing out that pure cost comparisons are meaningless.
Amazing a tree that tall can get things from the root that high. Unless the tops work differently?
Ceylon?[1]

Crystal?[2]

Church?[3]

Coq?[4]

[1]: https://ceylon-lang.org/

[2]: https://crystal-lang.org/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_(programming_language)

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq
Why it’s worth targeting keywords with no-to-low monthly search volume
It used to be this way back with thick clients(Winforms) and then for a short time Silverlight.

It was a very productive time, not sure if I have have ever been as productive as I was with C# and Winforms. Run code on the client, run it on the server, whatever.
I've not come across a single protein bar that tastes good - I'd rather make a smoothie ( not convenient I know!), or why not just eat jerky ( not vegan/vegetarian-friendly, but for the meat-eaters there are some awesome flavors out there!).
My thoughts too - it works in the home and at a push I can see it working for certain jobs, but it absolutely seems unworkable in public places.

But then I think again and wonder if maybe this is one of these things that seems unthinkable now but in 10-20 years, everyone everywhere will be doing it completely naturally, it's become part of the background noise of life, and nobody will care enough to really listen to what you're telling your computer to search for / do.

Yes on a silent train it might be awkward - but on the street I can honestly see it being fine, especially if attitudes and culture changes a bit as it's wont to do with new technology usage (see bluetooth headsets for a past example of this).
Well you could cover the ground around the storage area with highly radioactive material. Anyone who approaches dies. Skeletons tend to be an obvious clue. People tend to avoid areas with lots of skeletons.

Also note that rather than "storing" the nuclear material you could use it as a perpetual power source, driving a heat engine, making the area physically too hot (over 100C) to approach. People tend to avoid volcanos without any signs.

Or, with careful design, it could be stored in a matrix such that moving any member would make it immediately go critical. People tend to avoid things that blow up.

In summary, change from the idea of "store it safely", to "store it danerously". Make it painfully obvious that, like a cliff edge, this is something to avoid.

You don't need s aign if the thing itself is obviously dangerous.

Not the most popular solution, I will admit.
Isn't it also implied that the question was wrong because humans weren't supposed to land on the earth in the first place and serve as a bug in the calculations?
This article is a political screed, cherry-picking data to discredit a single source of data. There's no new useful data, or ideas about addressing problems in education. Its only purpose is to provide political cover for cutting education spending. Key detail: "Andrew G. Biggs is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute". Please remove.
For soda/beer cans, wipe a damp cloth on them and try to get into that little moat around the top. It's almost always filthy.
For whoever down-voted this: Finding a spouse is not specifically challenging due to having achieved your goals... it is, however, coloured by money. "Is she only dating me for my wealth?" is not something that occurs to someone who does not have wealth but has achieved their goals.
Nearly half of U.S. broadband homes have multiple streaming subscriptions
"what's OBS?" {moves gaze to next product}
> retain the ability to obtain money

Still not the same as having no money.
> Yeah, if government regulations loosened to allow easier access to riskier investments by inexperienced investors or predatory VCs, there would be a lot more stock-based renumeration.

No, if government regulations were loosened even more there would be exactly one thing and that is even more people ripped off by unscrupulous or outright criminal bankers. There's a reason why such terms as "accredited investor" exist.

> EU banks have massive IT organisations and budgets so can afford to pay through the nose for contractor day rates.

The only reason their budgets are so massive is that they are historically locked in mainframes and code untouched since the 70s, and people who (still) do COBOL etc. can command these high rates. Fixing up the cruft would require investments so high that the day rates for contractors pale and many banks attempting to do IT overhauls have paid billions to inevitably fail.

Banking IT is one hell of a shitfest, which I wouldn't dare to touch with a ten feet pole alone from a technological POV - the fact that IT and their needs are generally laughed at over the industry only confirms my position. Fintechs are different, but have their own issues - funding, data protection, questionable ethical decisions, reactions to security issues...
These days especially, get ready to get to know kids then have them not show up one day because they killed themselves. Or have one you taught a while back do the same when they're moved up a couple grades. A couple not show up because they're in the hospital because they took a bunch of pills. That kind of thing. Pretty often. It's really bad. And that's at a pretty tame suburban school—the ones with gang violence and such going on are even worse. Plus the kids at those sometimes threaten or even attack teachers, too, and verbal abuse from the kids (talking like 4th graders and up) is a daily occurrence. So that's fun.
Awesome news! Really excited to try out the new CLI features for training.
Great posts in this thread, thanks.
The whole "article" is propaganda by a neocon think tank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute
The article isn't really talking about protective headgear in general, it seems to be specific to the origin of the modern day "hard hat", whose make and style can be directly attributed to the helmets worn in WW1.