skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Eurostat Portugal "recorded an excess mortality rate of 23.9 %" in June 2022. "Other countries with rates over 15 % were Spain (16.7 %) and Estonia (16.2 %)." Overall: "Following a peak of 26.5 % in November 2021, in June 2022 excess mortality in the EU decreased slightly compared to the previous month, to 6.2 %." Bulgaria, Czechia, Italy, Hungary, and Slovakia recorded little or no excess deaths.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
You could also put it the other way around: Modern computing increasingly relies on virtualization and it is disappointing to see that GUI tools increasingly require GPU acceleration making them inaccessible inside virtualized environments.
I don’t know if this is true, but the xbox naming definitely never made sense to me.

Nintendo tried that with the wii U and look at how successful it was.
Superb article. Perhaps covid has let people learn that they could survive without doing something they didn’t like just to get some money. There’s many ways to make or get money, and the hassle level is quite variable. But when people choose, say, an Amazon warehouse over their former position ya gotta wonder about what they gave up.

If they know stem at all, why teach? If they can handle foreign languages or wield words, why teach? If they can work with their hands, there are trades and the like dying for people…. The buzz from a success has to be balanced against all of the issues discussed here in, and now the risk of physical harm is quite high.
Hasura plus fastapi perhaps?
> when accounting for benefits and pension

That many teacher’s pensions require one to give up social security benefits makes the decision to teach more difficult, I would think, especially for those who are later in their working lives.
More money will encourage more of “those who can” to switch to teaching, which will help to undermine the stereotype.
There are already many “who can” who already teach, but they’re almost exclusively the ones who also intrinsically value teaching highly. A higher pay will help bring the ones who would be good teachers but are in a situation where they need to prioritize money.
Here in Germany the health care system is severely stressed particular nurses are hard to come by. Nurses and young doctors were often coming from other EU countries but Covid slowed this migration. I could imagine the situation in Britain much worse due to Brexit and quite possibly and even higher reliance on foreign skilled health care labour.
You can! There’s 3 examples on the home page. Now that so many people joined I might see if there’s a way to highlight users with similar taste.
Here's my thoughts as someone who's trying to get a paper published that shows that _potentially_ the vaccine is implicated in injuries and we'd like to do more research.

We can't say that! It's getting thrown back at us. We're not saying that it's causal, we're not even trying to propose mechanisms. All we're saying is that using government reported data, we see a signal that suggests that certain adverse events are time and location correlated with vaccine roll outs. Could there be other explanations, sure!

Our successful tack has been to take all mention of the vaccine out of it and just report our organized data (organizing government data is always fun) and just publish a paper of data without even suggesting hypotheses to follow up on (doesn't feel like real science to us).

Once that paper gets in the literature, then we can write a second paper referencing that, and go on from there. It's all a political game...that's delaying good science that can save people's lives!

So my guess with this paper is that they have data, they've thought of the vaccine as an issue. But they have to go with a more politically correct reason to get the data out in the open and then they can follow up later once their data is in the literature.

Edit: why the down votes! I'm not saying that it IS the vaccine, I'm saying that it might be and we should study it. But this does show that once you bring up that idea, the censors come out of the woodwork. So frustrating! When politics stop the questions you can ask, we have serious problems.
You have no choice but to spend all your 24 hours in the day. You can't just skip over 7--9 AM and then have two hours in your back pocket for when you are short on time.

So no, you never just have time you're not using anyway. You're always using all of your time. On what is a matter of priorities.

However, if you would spend 19--21 watching a TV series, or twiddling your thumbs, you can choose to take that time to do something else.
Welfare Queens
Do you feel that the private system is taking all of the good educators and administrators? America isn't the only country with a private/public school ecosystem, yet other countries are able to maintain quality public schooling while it seems America struggles.
yeah, chatbox is shitshow. Truly a wild west there.
Ask HN: What's a low-friction video editor?
I'd like to start making little video tutorials and I'm for the lookout for a simple video editor. Is there something along the lines of Canva, but for longer videos (Canvas video editor seems to aim for sub-minute videos)
An aging obese population is the elephant in the room. This problem is not only happening in UK.

About 15 years ago the NHS tried to add easy to read labeling to foods with a semaphore: red, yellow, green. And it was blocked during a Labour government with majority.

Giving it more and more funds while not fixing the underlying problems is going to cause a massive budget crisis. We need to fix the causes not the symptoms.
> a culture-bound syndrome in which people who expect whiplash to exist use its symptom profile as a way of expressing their psychological tension.

Surely a more likely explanation is insurance fraud? Plenty of people see being in a car accident as a ticket to a lifetime of disability comp paid by somebody else's soulless insurance company. If you can qualify for disability with some suitable diagnosis like "late whiplash", yet still enjoy a normal quality of life, that's pretty much winning a jackpot.
I think that complexity is the #1 problem here. This is a clever way to confirm user emails, but it's also inviting additional universes of bugs and confusion to the party.

For me the answer is a simple question:

Would the author (or anyone here) be happy to support the proposed reverse email verification process in a production environment which interfaces with the general public? For the sake of forcing the argument, assume the service being accessed is Really Important and failure is generally unacceptable.
> As long as we have tenure and the seniority system we aren’t going to see significantly higher pay.

There is no logic in this affirmation. There are no such direct links between tenure and pay.

Saying that only confirms what the article says on the American public feeling about teachers' pay.
Reporting the images to law enforcement is good. There should be a human in the loop to separate medical images from exploitative ones.

Perma-deleting his account on an automated accusation is bad. That should hinge on, at minimum, law enforcement's decision to charge a crime. [Edit: unless the criminality of the images is obvious - again, a human needs to be in the loop.]
Not necessarily, many life saving operations for things like cancer were postponed during that time, we could be seeing the result of that now.
Unfortunately not mentioned in the article, how do these numbers compare to other countries?
The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
Interesting. I used to commute between Reading and London, and had been wondering if the Elizabeth line might have made things easier then; after all, not having to change at Paddington would be nice. But I see that it's 50 minutes vs 25-30 for the fast trains, and even the worst interchange is faster than the 20m loss. Maybe more worthwhile for people further down the route? Even Twyford or Maidenhead to Liverpool Street, for example, sound like they might be quicker.
Comparing teacher pay to the median wage isn’t an apples to apples comparison because the average teacher has between a bachelor’s degree and a master’s, a state certification with regular training and renewal requirements, and a good amount of professional experience. I was a high school teacher and when I left my salary went up by 50% on day one, passed 100% increase within 2 years, and tripled within 5 years. The median wage earner in a large city is probably paid hourly for service work.

I do agree that the single pay scale across all public school teachers is an issue. You will never get someone to teach high school math, science, or tech if salary is a significant consideration.
It seems to me that most people are able to think in terms of probabilities (or degrees, more generally) most of the time. Those people need to split the world into safe/dangerous, good/bad, likely/impossible. Also, they tend to not gradually update beliefs based on data the way Bayes' Theorem would dictate, but will often go directly from one extreme to the other.

Some will tend to add an additional level of "unknown", but even in that case, they tend to go for "as likely as not" 50/50 odds, not 80/20, 90/10 or 99.9/0.1, based on evidence.

Maybe doubt/uncertainty is too much of a cognitive and emotional load?

For topics that are also seen as essential symbols of some social group (religion, culture war side, nation), the number who will admit shades of gray fall even further, of course.
In my opinion, the voucher system is correct - keep funding public school through tax dollars, but give the parents a voucher for the amount to spend where they wish. If every parent in Boston received a $25,000 voucher to spend at the school they wished, competition would force public schools to improve or shut down as every school vied for the vouchers.

Unlike many on the left, who despise monopolies in business and ruthlessly hunt them down, yet worship monopolies the government has (like in public education), I think public dollars should be allocated to the parents to make decisions they feel are best for their children. Saying “just move if you don’t like your public school” betrays the reality of how difficult it is to relocate for the non-tech elite who can’t just work from anywhere.
If the (UK) left is the party of the political managerial class, what is the (UK) right? When I'm feeling particularly sarcastic I might call them the party of dilettantes, but is that apt?
This is the best reply so far. In the US, things (good and bad) vary dramatically between school districts, but everyone talks about “teachers” as this monolithic group.

In the Boston area it’s absolutely possible to exceed $100,000 salary. The pay scales are public, look it up yourself. I’m willing to believe many teachers are underpaid, and that those in Boston have legitimate gripes too, but we need to be clear about which context we’re discussing.
Oh wow, I had totally missed that C has such functions as `ldexp` and `scalb*`.
It's still not worth the money. Ive spent time in the classroom in a large urban district and the job was twice as hard as my current software engineering job (for me) for literally half the pay
No, ive never heard of film :|

Briefly glimpsing a negative, and being forced to make an enlargment and checking the print quality, are two different things.

And obviously you can't prohibit viewing a negative you haven't seen yet...thus prohibiting the printing.
The very same problem exists in other countries. We have been having an outrageously similar situation in France for years already, so much that this article does a really good job at depainting the situation here in France too.
The link is public opinion.
What about 1 week or month, 1 project, 1 week or month another?

50+50% but each week it's clear what the priority is? And fewer task switches

(But I guess most of the time it s better to focus on one & finish it first)
I think we need to admit managerialism fails at knowledge fields — perhaps Taylorism entirely.

I’m not sure what’s better, though.
Seems like US spending is slightly higher than European countries. We're not getting our money's worth here.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
> This would mean that elderly people are also excluded from these services.

Having helped my 92 years old grandmother sorting out her tax returns on the government’s website, I can confirm that this is exactly what it means. And it’s the only practical way of communicating with the administration. Most local branches have been closed to the public, and the phone lines are congested all day (and cut you off after one hour waiting, which is always fun).
You say that as if there is no other reason to ban alcohol than religious belief, and not like alcohol being one of the most negative societal influences in the areas of human health, crime, public safety, and poverty. Just because humans are so cripplingly addicted to alcohol that banning was untenable doesn’t mean it was a bad idea.
And teachers here in San Francisco refused to teach for one full year. I do not blame them: it is really a crappy job.

And as result of that only very bad are still teaching: the ones that hate the job, hate the kids and, in general, not nice people.

I think the only way we can sole this is the following:

- clamp down on union: it should easier to fire bad teachers

- class size should be less than 10. Expensive yeah…
It's not about money. Avg salaries are plenty above the OECD average. The U.S. has a strong tendency to just throw money at a problem. There are many urban school districts that have trouble getting 50% attendance rates ON THE FIRST DAY. And that's with going door to door to remind parents the day before. How can you even address it when the people don't even believe in the institution anymore?

Let parents have some real choice of different school to attend. This will allow some experimentation from the ground up to happen organically. Parents who are the most invested in their child's success can have real agency in their future. This will also give teachers more flexibility in the kind of environment they want to work in. They could even start their own homeschooling pods and take in a set number of students from the area.

Once again, the teachers union stands in the way of real progress.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cmd.pdf
That's because each of the several hundred billions of pounds of greenfield government software programmes is a slapdash crud forms exercise bugger the millions of man years of development by the original experts despite there's little to change in the vast majority of diagnostic pathways. In fact the Reed Codes which resulted from a immense pan European study of two decades length and became canon in ca 1988 remain canonical the only programming work involved in new processes being parsing these together with inserting a myriad of OR impedence where new forms of graft are inserted. We've just switched off national critical systems of civic function across the board over the past few years. Probate about the most egregious example the replacement system containing a mere handful out of the estimated twenty thousand expert legal assessment rules at inception. Manual operations the only alternative for at least two years that I was paying attention.
It's clear everything is falling and people are trying to jack up the wages to compensate. Yet nobody mentions how to fix the horrific management that allowed this to happen in the first place and won't solve the crisis.

My last job wanted me to replace the existing management. They tried to sell this to me by complaining about all the different bosses they had to report to, how difficult the job was and how they want to retire and stop doing the job. Combined with all the other structural issues and tribalism within the workplace, having a management team that is happy to spell out their own doom is criminally incompetent.

You can pretty up the teacher or management role with money and pride, but it's still going to fall apart if you're hellbent on overworking your staff and killing the golden goose. Everyday the terrible management continues, the more and more relatable Anakin looks. Disappointment is a weekly reality.
A graph of the evolution of TCP by codenames and functionalities.

I worked with Sally (of ISC) on TCP Westwood.

We used OpNet Simulator (~1.0) to exercise massive pseudo-traffic when testing.

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/tcp-evolution.html

https://opnetprojects.com/opnet-projects/opnet2-1/
This would cause so many issues in a time when most users use webmail. The magic link in email works, why change it for 0.001% of you users who happen to use a command based email program.
I have *@kayode.co forwarded to kayode@kayode.co.

I can only send from kayode@kayode.co and only if I configured my mail client properly because my account is actually a fastmail.com address. Unconfigured, the mail client will send as the fastmail account.
> Salaries in large urban districts are often well above area median

Is the median the correct benchmark? The median household income in NYC was $67k in 2021 [0]. Why would someone choose to be a teacher making around the median [1] when you could be a software engineer and make 3x as much?

It's not just a matter of trinkets and baubles. That difference allows you to comfortably afford a nice family sized apartment [2] in a safe area with a convenient commute.

[0] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...

[1] https://teachnyc.net/about-our-schools/salary-and-benefits

[2] https://streeteasy.com/building/15-gates-avenue-brooklyn/h
London Tube train noise map [pdf] (2019)
In Canada each province has a fairly strong teacher union. In Manitoba for example a teacher with 10 years experience will earn approximately $95K CAD (more than most software developers here). This with strong pension benefits that can be collected at 55. I know teachers that retired in their late 50s, and will continuing making 70% of their inflation adjust salaries until they die.

Relatively speaking this salary/benefits has higher expected lifetime earnings than a software developer.

One negative is that the unions are also strong enough that teachers can't be fired/replaced for performance (this is similar to Police...etc). As with any profession the worst of the bunch is very bad, and unfortunately they keep doing it until their fifties at the cost of the children.
Are you claiming seniority isn't a thing in many workplaces? That's just wrong.
> most qualified high school physics teachers have way differently valued skillsets in the labor force by alternate employers than most kindergarten teachers.

Do they? I read that as implying that physics teachers could potentially get some stem jobs. But is that actually true? If you can do math, you can teach yourself enough physics to teach in high school. But that gets you nowhere near the knowledge necessary for applying non-trivial physics at work.
Where does most manage-the-intern time "disappear"?
Found in the comments to an article:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/london-underground-test...
One of my favourite places on the internet too. The thing is, you just search for what you want and spend 10 seconds finding the right book and link. While I'd love to mirror whole archive locally, it would really be superfluous because I can only read a couple of quality books at a time anyway, so building my own small archive of annotated PDFs (philosophy is my drug of choice) is better than having the whole. I think it's actually remarkably free of bloat and cruft considering, but maybe I'm not trawling the same corners as you are. Do kind of wish they'd clear out the mobi and djvu versions and make it unified however.
iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for years, researcher claims
How do you know how often it happens?
Let’s just go with crap wages == whatever isn’t sufficient to keep enough people in the profession, such that you need to start recruiting wildly unqualified people just to fill the spot.
Little Chatroom on the Prairie, MMXXII

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"Don't you try to josh me, Willy Oleson, I know durn well there ain't ever been no idiots on the Internet, you sh*tposting, edgelord jasper!" @LauraIngallsIV

"Now you two, I was on Usenet before either of you was kneehigh to a grasshopper. Couple of half-pints is what you are. 'Don't feed the trolls' we used to say, then ignore our own advice and throw 'em a handful of ASCII quotations." @CharlesIngallsVIII

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-- Stooge, er Stew-J

P.S. I'm going to do what the founders of this site are probably doing now, enjoy a good book with cup of coffee.
> reliance on foreign skilled health care labour.

I think it is more accurate to say cheap labor.
I wholeheartedly agree. I think a critical examination of the MBA degree, and the values it embodies, is long overdue.
A lot of Western non-US countries honestly don’t have a lot of attractive private sector businesses. Small nations with strong public education are very unique. For example Norway only has 5 million citizens, extremely low immigration, a mono-culture and mono-ethnicity, and earns a huge amount of money from selling fossil fuels which are then funneled to public use. Yet the left in America pretends the Nordic model can apply here.

America is unique. A lot of our public services are quite expensive and quite low quality. Our system is organized around the private sector and the more we embrace the private sector the better things are.
Are any of them under 40 and completely self-supporting? Most of the coworkers I had when teaching who weren’t bothered by the money had an external source of financial support. It took me a long time to realize it because those who are supported by others don’t like to admit it. I referred to them as hobbyist teachers, and they were much much more likely to stay longer than 5 years compared to those who were doing it as a career.
During COVID I had a digital gp appointment. It was specifically about some skin issues which is obviously difficult to communicate over a phone call.

They required me to send them photos to the receptionist over plain email - I complied because they weren't particularly sensitive parts of my body however it did make me mad that this was their system for dealing with sensitive health data
That jello-looking blood isn't too convincing. Real blood is opaque.
I think it's a shame that Boxes doesn't show the VMs and connections I have setup with virt-manager on the same machine.
Parasitoid Wasps are an interesting animal. My favorite are Tarantula Hawks. We have a species in Florida despite not having Tarantulas.
And turn back the inflation and hedonistic clock to when a single labourers salary could support the family. Freeing up the other person to teach.
> 1TB storage box

hah, we're a hetzner costumer for .. years now, but I had no idea they have this :D

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

so you can connect the NextCloud to the storage account? which protocol do you use for this?
Can you point to an area where a teacher with 10 years of experience, working full-time, earns less than an entry-level position? Teacher contracts are mostly public and you can use $15/hr for entry level, shouldn’t be hard to find and example if it exists.
Yup. $13k/year works out to about $10 per pupil-hour, and even less once you include costs like the building and work done out-of-hours (grading, lesson planning). I’m pretty sure I made something like that babysitting in junior high!