skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile, the median kindergarten and elementary school teacher—a famously non-lucrative career among those requiring university education—earns 60k according to the same resource.

It's only famously "non-lucrative" because it is to the benefit of those in that profession to say so.

When it costs >$15K a year to send a kid to public school, which is more than the average private school, and this cost has tripled since the 1960s [1], public school teachers have to lean on something. That "something" clearly is not competence, so martyrdom and lies about "budget cuts" will have to do.

Median household income in the U.S. is $67K, so jobs that pay 56K are very good.

[1] https://www.cato.org/commentary/no-we-havent-defunded-educat...
I don't know how these stats are made, but I know in later years I've had consistent problem booking good tradesmen, and several of the good ones I knew basically told me they are booked months in advance and refuse all but the most lucrative jobs. And basically getting anything - even the smallest of jobs - done at below $200-300 is out of the question. Larger jobs get into four and five figures really fast. So I think these numbers may not reflect the real picture.

OTOH, I see a lot of (relatively) young people on these jobs, so I think the newer generations get the idea, or at least some of them do.
Depends if they are in a boom bust area. If they are, then they can be really lucrative during a boom and disappear during a bust. Construction is one area where lots of people wash out during housing busts, creating shortages when the next boom comes (and the cycle repeats). Natural resource extraction is similar. Kindergarten teachers have fairly stable careers in comparison.
First world countries make efforts to stop thieves.

Meanwhile, countries in America's league do not.
Why? Because there's a human decision involved?
The difference is meaningless, it's just gRPC and it's a MS blog... so nothing to call home about.

And I'm saying this as a C# dev that never wrote anything in Go.
You still haven’t provided any evidence that suggests Tesla’s have (1) more impactful safety features than other cars in the same class (2) that Tesla’s are safer in general.

Also, if your saying FSD is going finally, finally be properly released this year — I doubt it.

Your strong pro-Tesla bias and your sweeping, unfocused and unsubstantiated allegations against other car makers undermine your argument completely.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220204061326/https://ycmusings...
Yeah, vibes with my experience working there. Toxicity beyond pale. Good riddens, they contact me every week to try to get me back. Fuck off Amazon, you have no integrity, you abuse your employees from white collar to blue collar. You literally fired people who emailed Jeff Bezos to report abuses, after you told them to, when the NY Times "crying at desk" expose came out. Bezos instilled this shite culture into Amazon. And his midlet pawns carried out his half-baked decrees like those fucking wet noodle "Leadership Principles" which make no actual sense and aren't principles at all in any sense of the word. Brian Cantrill (of 0x1de computers) gives a great breakdown of how sacrosanct Amazon's leadership principles are: https://youtu.be/9QMGAtxUlAc

Principles are things like Integrity, Honesty, Respect -- not Amazon's fuckwit bulletpoints like "Be right a lot" or "Frugality."

Technologically, AWS is built like a fucking house of cards with spit, tape, and glue. There is no real cohesion or organization, just a bunch of teams doing their own practices and gluing their rando codebase into the Yellow Console. Sorry, but just making the frontend look unified doesn't undo what the backend spaghetti is... That's why the outages of late will continue. It's all bubbling up from the absolute toxicity in lack of basic humanism at the core.
by this logic, why is there an airtag on your bike? Shouldn't law enforcement keep people from stealing it?
Switched to ZFS recently for my home server, 6x8TB SATA Raidz2 (data) and 4x 500GB SSD SATA Raid1 Mirror (VMs). Above everything, resilience, predictability and piece of mind were the primary motivations. The performance is totally fine - many argue against slow SATA disks with ZFS, especially SSDs, due to ZFS impact on Total Bytes Written (TBW), but if you're not hosting an enterprise with many Database writes, SATA disks are perfectly acceptable with ZFS (my observation). After one month, I have accumulated 2 1/2 TBW on the SSD-Mirror - the disks would still last about 7 years given this rate (this is running with 25 Docker Services and 5 VMs, including bigger ones such as Gitlab).

I have compression and encryption on and the fio benchmarks were all good, similar to what I saw with the Hardware Raid 1.

Regarding monitoring: It is not that difficult. (1) Have ZFS Mail status updates to you (e.g. this is the default in Proxmox), (2) Monthly Scrubs (cron) (3) Monitor TBW with (e.g.) InfluxDB. Wrote a blog post about the last part [1] "Disk Wear (SSD) - extracted from extended Smart Attributes (Single Stat)".

All of the issues with degrading disks apply equally to other disk setups (e.g. Raid1). However, ZFS gives you better tools to predict and prevent, before disaster happens.

[1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2021-05-05_proxmox_influxdb/#config...
Of course every crime isn't investigated thoroughly in tiny towns, the unit economics don't magically work just cuz the town is smaller.

There are different dynamics in small communities on account of everyone knowing each other, etc. But it's not because there are expert detectives looking through all the clues to recover your stolen Macbook or some smashed window.

Hell, loads of times small town dynamics mean people "know" who it is, and still nothing happens! Because crime and punishment isn't some sort of kanban board with a list of crimes and tickets not going closed until a perpetrator is in front of a judge.
This is my opinion as well, only you presented it a lot more clearly and simply. Hustling is now not only socially acceptable, it is an ideal. Children grow up dreaming of this.
When you say website backend dev. What can be improved?
I disagree strongly that types have nothing to do with correctness. Primitive types will only give you a limited utility, more complex type systems give you a lot more.

Obviously, bugs which exist at a highér level than whatever automated correctness system you employ can't be handled by it and need something else.

I'm upvoting you, because while I don't agree with you, downvotes shouldn't be used to express disagreement.
I’m not an economist but afaik if minimum wage would have kept pace with productivity it would be at USD ~50k at this point.

So if we talk about skilled labour of any sort USD 200k would be somewhat normal across industries.
> every periodical does. I’m not sure what the point of complaining about that is.

That is broadly correct, though not all of them are equally biased. However, journalistic objectivity [1] is something we could demand them to strive for. I'm not sure if the press have always been like this.

> Likewise, it’s not particularly noteworthy that WSJ and Fox News have a conservative bias.

Most of the US mainstream outlets are biased in a particular direction. I've said the before here, but you can see that by taking any reasonable list of major outlets [1], and checking their biases [2][3].

> If we are to get up in arms about something, it should be because they are being deceptive (or worse, publishing false information), not because they are merely biased.

Paltering is also a form of deception, and you could argue that it is quite pervasive and pernicious. I think Mother Jones, and many other outlets, are guilty of that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity

[2]: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_media_in_the_United_State...

[3]: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

[4]: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings
The important thing to remember about current timber prices is that our punitive lumber tariffs are the only thing protecting us from the red threat from the North.

Canadians sure are a crafty lot.
It’s somehow perverse with all these trades in Germany (Munich area). They charge 100€ per hour!!!! Just got my gas burner inspected. 150€ for parts, 150€ for work. The guy was here for a bit more than 1 hour and company’s office is few hundred meters away. Same 100€ per hour as freelancer software developer colleagues. While their employees work for peanuts, earning very close to a rent of 3 room apartment plus food, the owners print money and complain about not finding people who want to work for poor salary. With this salary you are really slave, no income to save, not much other options either. Single option to open your own shop and find somebody to exploit.
I'm not entirely convinced by his arguments, "oh, if you want the features of zfs you just this bunch of other stuff and it will come in more performant, stable and less buggy than zfs".. Even if that was the case, I don't feel convinced that I would be as capable of recovering from a disaster with that many moving parts.

"Unless you have ECC", of course I have ECC, it's for my file storage.

That said, there are valid points and something to be considered, especially the licensing stuff is a bit scary.
Wages are high. Infrastructure costs more to build in this country than it ever has before because of labor shortages in the trades. There are literally only a handful of companies in the country who can do things like construct a light rail line, something that used to be routine a century ago.
Or it could be that the article is… wrong.
Tax preparation software
Or eat in cafeterias that used labor more efficiently like in some expensive European countries. I can bus my own table.
Previously posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30194136
True to its claim of dishonour, that isn't even a legal function identifier in standard C, on account of the leading double underscores.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/228797/
Yeah, about such benchmarks:

https://studygolang.com/resources/12288

https://hacker-news.news/post/28293057
Rotterdam mayor on bridge dismantling: “No permission asked nor given.” (Dutch)
> After four years of school and 100k debt what are you supposed to do, borrow another 30k and go back to school to get a plumbing certificate?

No point going to extremes. It's not unhinged, and plumber wasn't the only job listed.

Imagine instead of being told you should go to uni, and feel like a failure if you didn't get in/couldn't afford it, you were also told that at 16 becoming a plumber is a great career and you started an apprenticeship at 16 and were fully qualified with no debt by 25.

That's the idea behind the article (although with various jobs). Not exactly unhinged.
> young people trying to hustle money through odd job sales, youtube channels, online ecommerce. Whatever they can do to not get started on a career. And its completely rational, money printing has destroyed the value of the dollar, real estate is too expensive, and corporations extract too much value from their workers.

But how are the two fundamentally different? It's not clear to me that it's comparatively "easier to make a good living" (by whatever metric) doing YT videos or odd jobs than working a corporate job or similar.

I may be wrong since I've never actually tried it nor do I personally know people who do it, but it seems to me there still is a grind in producing content. Sure, you don't do it sitting on a chair in someone else's office, but you still have to "work" at it. And there's also value extraction done by the "platforms", just as there's value extracted by corporate employers.

> There is absolutely no shame, and its even cheered on to not be working a serious job. Making 200k at 24 is impressive to no one, and is instead met with disdain, "why spend your life working"

I'd say this may be more related to "success porn", where people talk about the long hours they work for their money. But I think there's a huge difference between making 200k and having trouble making ends meet.

There's also the fact that the various content that works never shows people hanging around complaining about being poor and having a hard time making rent for a shoebox. Instead, they're having a good time, filming in picturesque locations, etc. So the perception may be skewed as to what's actually possible for the majority of the people.
I can think of a lot of people that use racist words like every sentence, but they are the color that it is racist to say those words about so I guess not really racism if Google is just repeating what it was taught how certain people talk. If Google identified as a black man or woman it would just be considered normal for Google to say those words, unless it said them to the wrong group or misidentified itself. They could get away with it though if they changed their name to Eminem.
I think reasonable people can disagree about the extent to which removing a book from the required reading list would have such a chilling effect.

In any event, can we agree that it's misleading to describe what happened simply as "banning" without further qualification? As an example of a more accurate description, I would point to Reason's article on the subject [1]:

> Tennessee School Board Pulls Maus From Eighth-Grade Curriculum

> A grim sign of the bureaucratic mentality controlling public education

[1] https://reason.com/2022/01/27/tennessee-school-board-pulls-m...
I switched to ZFS a decade ago. Before that I used mdadm and LVM. Before that I used hardware RAID. I also dabbled in BTRFS but didn't like it. I usually play with any new filesystem that has 5 years maturity and a big userbase, but nowadays my go-to filesystems are ext4 and ZFS.

I use ext4 mainly because it's the "blessed" filesystem of linux. It's simple, does what I want, and I have yet to be bitten by it. That's good enough for general use in situations where I don't care about file integrity.

ZFS marks the first time I've been able to breathe easy, knowing that my backups aren't storing corrupt files because of a raid write hole or hardware silent corruption that I won't discover for months or even years (likely long past any restore point on my backups).

Don't trust the hardware. At all. Hardware fails all the time, often silently, and can't be audited because the code and silicon are closed source so you have absolutely NO indication as to its quality (other than Backblaze reports [1]). You'll never know what demons lurk in those depths, but with paranoid software like ZFS, you don't have to care.

The only time I use non-ZFS filesystems is when I don't care about data integrity on that drive, such as pushbutton rebuildable server boot disks with backed up configurations (NixOS is great here), or cache/scratch drives. If it ever becomes easier to make ZFS boot disks, I'll probably start using them for server boot disks as well, just so that I can be alerted whenever a drive starts to fail.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
It does bring a few questions. Was the previous economy vaporous and thus this hustling as valuable or is the new economy just a temporary parasite leaving on top of "real-er" work. I'm asking semi honestly. I see a lot of fake work in traditional jobs, but I fail to see what value a lot of internet activities are bringing. Reactto videos, influencing..
NB: TrueSound requires an iPhone, it doesn't work in the Android app.

I had to have a friend run the setup for me.

I didn't read/notice this when I researched soundbar options. Had I known this in advance I probably wouldn't have selected it.
I think your'e mistaken, In my mind its unlikely that Elite will ever get a new expansion again? The last one was not.. lets say enthusiastically received.

Also Elite is built in a way where they have a lot of parallell systems that _do not interact_. This makes the game very shallow with a few gameplay loops, but they are really more akin to mini-games with the universe as background, than real proper games. And I don't see how they could ever make the universe more realistic without having interactions that was never foreseen, and prboably cant be fixed. For example the economy is all fake, its not based (much at all) on what users do. "Powerplay" is a totally separate game system that I at first thought was connected in some way to the rest of the game, but no. You can rank up inside separate factions, and sure it does affect some things such as which ships you can buy, but its all still very shallow. A lot of things is not interchangeable using money, which in reality almost everything is. You can't transfer wealth between players etc.

The sad thing about Elite Dangerous is that its still a totally fun game with other players providing some content, but the netcode is just not made for "massive" multiplayer but instead sort of randomly caps out at a few players interacting at the same time, with no fix likely ever coming.
There's also elasticity of prices. There's a limit of how much people would pay for a job. I.e. if you have a washing machine repair technician, you can't charge as much as a new washing machine costs for repair, because then people would just go and buy a new one instead. There's some point for many jobs where it's better to not do the job or find some alternative way of achieving the same. Of course, if your roof is collapsing, you don't have a choice, but in many cases you do. So you would either not do it, or postpone it as long as you can - thus reducing the income of the job supplier.
It’s not my job to prove masks don’t work.

Not my job, either. I'm not a doctor or public health authority. That's where I go for advice; do you have better sources in mind?
> > After enough filtering, all grants are essentially indistinguishable in quality.

> I don't believe this. You can always soften incentives (and thereby prevent wasteful gaming) by adding random noise/dithering to your scoring function, but a threshold-only approach seems quite blunt to me.

These assessments come from statistically investigating grant scoring and success. What you find that 90%of grants are essentially scored the same, within the noise. In these situations what typically happens is that previous grant success will determine current success, i.e. the person previously got a grant so what they are doing must be good (the "safe" bet). The problem that creates that you create empires of people who get a lot of grants based essentially on one luck of the draw.

The biggest issue is though not even that you miss some good people with good ideas, but the incentive structure you create. Because there is an expiry time on the benefit from previous success and it is research area specific, what happens is academics have to write grants constantly and you can't really change fields.

Academics spend 30% of their time applying for and reviewing grants. None (hardly any) of the people who are very successful with getting grants are doing research themselves any more. I suspect this is also the reason why most Nobel winning research is done in people's 30s.more senior academics don't have time to do the research (and can't take the necessary risks).
These numbers were estimates made from before the pandemic. If anything, the pandemic cut a few years of waiting as unused family slots rolled over into employment based slots.

EB-2 is definitely not a 10 year wait.
I'm just going to point out that this is the world's second period of globalisation and we are maybe seeing the second collapse. The first period was roughly from 1870 to 1914 and was brought to its end by the shock of the first world war and the following flu pandemic which, as well as directly killing lots of people, also led to mass restrictions on travel and the breakdown of the supply chain in large portions of the world. I think there are some fairly obvious similarities to what is happening today. The decades following the collapse of the first age of globalisation were not good for a lot of people, to put it mildly.

It's worth quoting John Maynard Keynes about what the world was like prior to 1914 (if you were a rich westerner) and considering the parallels.

“The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole Earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep.

He could at the same moment and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprises of any quarter of the world, and share — without exertion or even trouble — in their prospective fruits and advantages.

Or he could decide to couple the security of his fortunes with the good faith of the townspeople of any substantial municipality in any continent that fancy or information might recommend.

He could secure forthwith, if he wished it, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.

He could dispatch his servant to the neighboring office of a bank for such supply of the precious metals as might seem convenient — and could then proceed abroad to foreign quarters, without knowledge of their religion, language or customs, bearing coined wealth upon his person.

He would consider himself greatly aggrieved and much surprised at the least interference.

But most important of all, he regarded this state of affairs as normal, certain and permanent — except in the direction of further improvement."

The question becomes, how can we avoid a 21st century equivalent to the inter war years and their culminating horrors if we are seeing a collapse of the second age of globalisation?
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Gonna need a citation on that one. My sources say driving (ice) is 13x as bad as cycling. Electric cars are much better but still worse than cycling and create far greater impact that's not captured by ghg metrics.

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long-reads/cycling-enviro....
> I see this kind of alleged puzzlement a lot here and on the internet in general.

Same. Easiest way to fish for upvotes.
Comments like this are just so far outside the realm of what I am fairly sure is reality.

In the nation called the United States, on the planet Earth, in the prime material plane, the average office worker makes about $40K a year.

And the average rent is about $1100/mo. About a third of the office worker's income. Federal taxes are another 11% or so.

That leaves more than half of an average office worker's income for essentials like food, clothing and utilities. Entertainment is cheap these days. If you budget there's still enough left over for your 401k/IRA/etc. which goes mainly into the stock market and if you stick with that for 40 years you will do pretty well.

Always been the formula, still is.

What is this dimension where 24 year olds are running around earning almost a quarter mil and it's not good enough? Is this Valley talk again? I get that this is HN and rent in the Valley and taxes in Cali are high, but so high that this 24 year old on a quarter mil can't make ends meet? If he can't achieve what the office worker on $40K can, why is he in that job and that city?

It's more likely in my opinion that these people are worth less than they think they are, or don't know how to manage their finances, or both.
It’s likely $1m minimum. Assessed value was $1.8m.

I can’t imagine that home being less than $1m just for construction costs. $250/sqft for custom is a reasonable floor - and that’s for a pretty basic house. This is quite upscale with some weird ass options and a finicky customer - so the design and construction firm are going to take them for a ride.

This guy has a lot of tech money. He speaks of financial prudence but it’s more that he was eyeballing 8 figure when he could only afford 7 figure. That’s the level he’s playing at.
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