skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ultimately teaching salaries are fine. The median teacher makes about the median salary. But it comes with great job security, benefits, and significantly more time off than the median job.

I know 3 public school teachers, in CA/NYC/NJ. Their 6 to 8 weeks off in the summer (if that, due to ongoing training), is nowhere near enough to offset the low pay per hour and most importantly, having to deal with garbage parents and their misbehaving kids.

They also work many extra hours at home during the school year doing grading or prepping exercises or whatever. If we have a get together, the teachers will pretty much guaranteed to be working all or some portion of the evening.

> The benefits are high enough to attract enough teachers

Only if you think 30+ kids per class is acceptable. I would want no more than 20 kids per class.
> Disruptive children are caused by parents who frankly just don’t give a shit. Throwing more money into schools won’t ever fix this problem.

I was a disruptive child and my parents were the opposite of people who didn’t give a shit. Both of them highly valued education and spent plenty of time with me. they just had to contend with a child who wasn’t well behaved at school and it was genetics more than anything they did. They spent thousands of dollars on therapists and medicines and it didn’t help that much. Luckily for me, puberty seemed to turn things around and I ended up doing well in high school and very well in college (at a good school). Now I’ve got two little trouble makers of my own and it’s pretty obvious to me where they got those genes from.

I agree that dealing with problematic kids is a pain in the ass for teachers and I do try to thank them when I see them, and I even agree that parenting is often the issue, but a lot of it is genetics and luck.
Here is the raw data if you are interested: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/77876d00/
This article does not support its clickbait headline with much in the way of facts. "Analysts estimate" that Apple's ad revenue could drastically increase. Insiders talk of a reorganization. There might be ads included in more apps. The headline makes a major assertion the body does not support.
Most teachers are incredibly incompetent at their job. I am all up in rising the wages of teachers if they can keep up with their task. Wages and seniority should be based on data on teacher performance not in years.
Wind _and_ high humidity _and_ rain _and_ low temperature is worst, say 2°C and horizontal rain. Typically goes with gray skies, so no sun.
People might want to be teachers rather than software engineers because teachers get enormous amounts of time off, have extremely high levels of job security, plus all the usual reasons that not everyone is in the very highest paying profession.

Why aren't you a hedge fund manager?
Layer 2s that retain Ethereum security are huge for swaps, planned stock exchange replacement.

See: Loopring
This goes back to the parents who aren't taking their child to doctors for health checkups for any myriad of reasons. Early and often checkups should catch these issues. In your example I wouldn't say parents don't give a shit. But as someone who had ADHD but didn't cut up in school or wasn't a class clown, I had discipline at home. Sure I would talk during class and my mind would wander. But I wasn't being so disruptive class couldn't be taught.

Almost always in the examples of why teachers don't want to teach anymore. The focus is always on pay, testing, and administration. But who wants to come to work and teach children that are so disrespectful and so disruptive that class can't be taught. My salary wouldn't be the deciding factor here.
This post doesn't assume that, but I have met urban public school teachers who could have been software engineers since you asked.

My post does assume that the career would attract more highly qualified candidates if the pay was higher.
Got it!

Everyone should be able to express their thoughts.
> Even today I sometimes wonder what software engineering students learn in 4 or more years. It shouldn't take nearly that long. If you spend 20 hours a week studying software engineering you should be ready to find work in less than a year. And from that point onward, that's where you actually learn how to do it right.

This is the difference between college/university and a coding boot camp. At college, they are trying to teach you a breadth of subject matter and experiences to turn you into a well-rounded, educated person. At a coding boot camp, they are giving you vocational training and nothing more.

Each approach has its benefits and drawbacks and neither is appropriate for every situation.

I'm glad you realized that for you, college did not have a benefit, and you saved yourself a great deal of time and money.
It would be ironic indeed, but the whole thing with "taxi and truck drivers will soon be made obsolete by AI" was also based on extrapolating from 80% to 100% (IIRC, Uber was saying they'd be completely driverless by 2025).
I suspect it won’t be the largest (by population), but it could easily be the most valuable.
Which math books were banned for being too woke? Are they good?
If you are referring to my duplication comments, sure (but even then I believe there are duplicates of the exact same edition of the same book). Though the filtering by filesize is orthogonal to editions etc. so has nothing to do with that.
> it's called money.

Money does not come from the skies, it's about what the market agrees the value actually is (when it comes to private education) or what the government decides (for public education). Public education is a problem because in many western countries it's already the largest budget and it's still a shitshow so you are going to have a hard time to convince everyone that injecting more money is going to make it better.
https://archive.ph/2hy4E
In practice, it's more often the same file with minor edits such as a PDF table of contents added or page numbers corrected. Say, how many distinct editions of this standard text on elementary algebraic geometry are in the following list?

http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=cox+little+o%27shea+ideals&o...

Fun fact: the newest one (the 2018 corrected version of the 2015 fourth edition) is not among them.
Your single point will be compromised. Someone gets access to your system they now have access to all of your passwords. Your password manager is hacked. Your device dies. Putting your eggs in one basket feels like a smart thing until you lose that basket.
It varies significantly by state. Five states explicitly outlaw collective bargaining by teachers and 32 states require it with various limitations on the scope of items that can be negotiated. Some states also have restrictions on striking.

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/how-strong-ar...
Note that while this article is listed as being from Yahoo it's actually sourced from The Telegraph, a right-leaning paper that appears to be on a bit of a crusade at the moment to "right the wrongs of lockdowns" or something.

That's not to say there isn't a story here, or even that they are wrong; just be aware there appears to be an agenda.
> a blockchain where the devs can screw the miners like this isn't really reassuring…

It's not a screwing if they've known the roadmap the whole time....
I edited my comment on this point and largely I agree, but as far as anyone in Google's position is concerned:

1. This is a rare edge case with asymmetric risk and an easy way to avoid said

2. A single failure could be catastrophic

3. No process is perfect especially in the face of someone actively trying to thwart it

You could try really hard to make sure it's not attackable and pray, for little benefit to Google. Or just tell people "too bad, you're on your own".

Even if this processes was assuredly bulletproof,

> In what world would Google receive criticism for giving back accounts to people who has been proven innocent?

The sort of drivel/clickbait that gets published to 'make a good story' is astounding. Or politicians, not known for honesty, could totally play this up if their base has an axe to grind against Google.

No giant corporation (especially publicly traded) is going to take such risks to revive a few wrongfully terminated email/photo accounts unless they have an obligation to (i.e. should Google be a utility). Their responsibilities aren't to be nice, or act in a good way, but to protect their profits. To the extent that I've seen corporations 'act nice' it's largely been to benefit their own employees or pursue some pet cause of an executive.
As a parent, you can be well very well informed on the issue, and still not be able to solve it in your kid. I'd venture that this kind of futility is more prevalent than ignorance.
> More money will encourage more of “those who can” to switch to teaching,

No, it won't, because in the private sector you can have a growing career. If you are teaching it's very likely to be the very same job until you retire.
I've done a lot of FSX over the years and I'm starting to get into MSFS these days, and at least half of the time the ATC tries to kill me in some manner or other. I wasn't surprised when I saw that at all.
> It was common for buildings in the middle ages and almost at any time in history to reuse rocks from the nearby ruins from older civilizations. After all those were readily available and saving weeks of work could mean the difference between having a dwelling and death.

I'm sure that the choice between a dwelling or death was sometimes the case, but it's not like they needed such a stark pro to override the con of destroying archæological remains. It was simply that at the time there was no such thing as wanting to preserve useless old things that happened to be there, and reusing conveniently available building blocks was a no-brainer.
> by filtering any "books" (rather, files) that are larger than 30 MiB we can reduce the total size of the collection from 51.50 TB to 18.91 TB

I can see problems with a hard cutoff in file size. A long architectural or graphic design textbook could be much larger than that, for instance.
..and with CSAM Apple is going to get in the same business. With this latest security update I would not be surprised if CSAM has already been deployed.

Because why on earth would you oppose protecting children? /s
Even if all web clients were perfect, and all users understood what a mailto handler is perfectly, wouldn't it still break if people have multiple email addresses? If you have a gmail and a mail from one of Microsoft's mail providers, you can only have one of those webmail pages as your default mailto handler, right?
Can NextCloud do OCR on the pictures, identify people and allow search by objects in the photo? Because those are the killer features for me that make it super useful to use Google photos.
It’s not a “simple” explanation if you take some time to understand how vaccine works. Just because there’s a side effect form vaccine doesn’t mean that the vaccine isn’t the best option.

Your thought process is classic example of zero risk bias.
Which won’t open in Photoshop 2021, or your parents notSoSmart TV.

Questions like: will you be able to open them in 20 years, does this version of ImageMagic supports it, are not things I’d want to deal with daily.

Yeah, thanks but no thanks.

Hard to compete with standards with expired patents and equivalent if not better performance when the other side is sponsored by a single company. Especially one not particularly known for long term commitment to their projects.
> people only need to look across to Europe.

No they shouldn't be looking europe. Modern healthcare is subsidization of chronically obese people by healthy working class. UK is the most obese country in western europe. Their situation is different cannot be solved by copying ideas from other healthy countries in europe.
I went to visit the Callinish Stones on the Hebrides once. By far and away the eeriest place I've ever been. The hairs on the back of my neck were standing up.
I talked to a certified German pilot about that. He said that pilots right now use two different kind of simulators for training.

1. Simulators which have a 1:1 copy of the cockpit and use the https://www.prepar3d.com/ software from Lockheed Martin (based on a very old MS Flight Simulator software, I think originally 2006). These simulators however are not a perfect simulation of the physics and are only used to practice communication between tower and pilot and between pilot and co-pilot. Hours spent in this simulation do not count as flight hours. A simulator like that costs around 250.000 euros and can be tried out by everybody in Berlin for example:

https://www.mydays.de/geschenkidee/airbus-320-berlin

2. A simulator also with a 1:1 copy of the cockpit with very basic graphics, but very accurate simulated physics model. These kind of simulator moves and behaved almost exactly like the real plane would do. Such a simulator costs, if I remember correctly, about 15 million euros. Hours spent in this simulator count as flight hours during pilot training – at least in Germany.
Education and day-care shouldn't be coupled.
>I strongly suspect that education is highly dependent on the family at home, and that's becoming harder to meaningful do as more and more families are forced to have both parents work full time.

This is a big part of it. Education doesn't stop when the school bell rings.
Made me smile! I wish that was the motivation in real life!

It’s a different world now, populated mostly by power and status hungry folks.

I think there was a period, perhaps until 2000, where it wasn’t a game yet.
> Well, I’m a teacher so let me tell you:

> > It’s definitely about the money.

If that's the case, you choose so poorly and your judgment is so questionable I'm not sure you should be teaching our children.

You're trying to get milk from a stone. You get milk from a teat.

You get money from where the money is, you get money from the private sector.
You don’t seem to know how to evaluate them, yet everyone agrees Harvard is better than your local community college, and there is literally a private school half a mile from my house that charges $60,000 per year. So clearly some people know how to distinguish a bad school from a good school and allocate their money appropriately.
>...parents who frankly just don’t give a shit...

From my experience teaching in multiple Western and non-Western countries, I believe that this factor outweighs all the others put together.
> I chose 30 MiB somewhat arbitrarily based on my personal e-book library, thinking "30 MiB ought to be enough for anyone"

There are books on art and photography and pathology that have multiple high resolution photographs.

I don’t think limiting by file size is a good idea.
> I find it curious that the customer using the product in an unintended way would be upsetting to the vendor. What drives such emotions? In my businesses, I couldn't care less how the customer uses my product. If they're happy, I'm happy.

There's a lot more going on here than maybe you realize.

First, the students are not your only customers. The administration is also one of your customers. If you make the course TOO difficult and fail everyone, your "administration customer" will find a way to get rid of you.

Conversely, if you make the course too easy and everyone gets to cheat and everyone gets an "A", then many students who pass your class may not pass various professional certification exams that are more rigorously controlled (i.e., no cheating). If that happens, then the school may lose accreditation for programs that you are associated with (i.e., if all the nursing majors fail their certification exam, your nursing program may get nuked). Then you get nuked.

Third, whether you like it or not, your relationships with your students is something you have to deal with. Students who don't cheat have a tendency to get really upset if they find out you turn a blind eye to cheating. Happy cheating customers leads to unhappy honest customers.

Fourth, if your fellow faculty members feel like you're going easy on the students to get favorable reviews (or because you're lazy or because you hate confrontation), they can make life unpleasant for you, too. They also aren't too happy if they teach upper level courses and you send a bunch of garbage students their way.
So what would you like The government to “prevent” Google from doing in this case?
> but plenty of people still want to be one

The much higher salary makes up for it, but you can't seriously expect teachers to get the same salary as lawyers.
1. Automation. Teaching in its rawest form has been automated away, leaving it to be a valueless human endeavour. “Teaching” in the context of children survives because it has become a childcare service. But babysitting is not able to charge much as its cost must remain under the income potential of parents, else parents will take the responsibility themselves.
Exploding admin overhead also plagues USA's healthcare. Here's a popular depiction. https://miro.medium.com/max/1376/0*Tw_O22WQs2yyv0ND.jpg

Regardless of private or public, left- or right-wing, bureaucracy begets more bureaucracy. Like a ratcheting effect.

Complaints about bureaucracy is (at least) as old as written history. You may have seen yesterday's frontpage story "The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7207348

Another interesting analysis (for us geeks) is the "complexity catastrophe" described in the book Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. TLDR: Dependencies eventually get so tangled that the cost of change outweighes the expected benefit, and a system which can no longer adapt to the changing world eventually fails outright.

Exploding overhead also happened in education, both K-12 and higher ed. And probably every other mature domain worth examining, if we bothered to look.

Seeing Like a State (James Scott), Bullshit Jobs (David Graeber) and Design Rules (Baldwin, Clark) all address complexity in their own way.

As a geek, I think "path dependent technical debt". For us, there's little to no incentive to cleanup, and certainly no reward, even though everyone moans about it nonstop.

The only notion I have is that, like reducing technical debt, fighting admin overhead (expanding bureaucracy) requires constant effort and investment, that no one is willing to make.

I (greedily) welcome a more optimistic take on this problem, if any one has some ideas. Please.
Bakerloo and Central line are screeching noisy; I would nearly think my hearing went worse since I moved to London
I am in no way advocating for total `gut-based' decision making, because that would be an obvious disaster. I think gathering data, analyzing that data, and making a decision based on the results is a very good and important thing. My issue is that not ALL issues can be decided in this way. So while most things are not 'art', as you've said, some very much are like art and its for these types of issues the metrics model breaks down. It's just the wrong tool for the job. The `risk assessment' approach, I agree can also be a useful one in many cases but not all.

I think one example is when trying to measure, or more likely, rank, people for suitability for something. This can be more of an art. There are metrics that can be useful, but then Goodhart's Law [1] can kick in. And even when the metrics are useful, they simply can't account for, and will never be able to account for, the shear complexity and adaptability of actual people.

So yes, metrics can be good for some thing, risk assessment good for others, but that still leaves some problems on the table for which neither are sufficient.

[1] https://www.formpl.us/blog/goodharts-law#:~:text=Goodhart's%....
capitalism?
There are some very good public schools out there too - but you’re going to pay tuition in the form of housing costs in expensive neighborhoods.
We will probably just get another set of cookie pop ups that make the experience for everyone worse.
Stackoverflow is probably just going to be filled with "What prompt do I need to write to get my AI to output the code I want?" questions instead.
Any MBA or Product Manager telling a security expert what's important and what's not is absolutely doing it wrong. What they teach in an MBA is simply the larger picture of a business, it's complex systems, it's architecture. Anyone that writes code should be fairly good at it because it's essentially the same thing one does as an engineer: Determine the interfaces and contracts between the teams, understand the 'organs of the body' and the processes therein, understand the inputs and the outputs and governing systems such as cash flow and income. What often happens is prioritization and risk assessment ... the needs of the customers are many and there is only so much room in the backlog. What the security expert needs to do is to make the risks clear to the manager in business terms that they can understand, which to be honest, often comes down to probable loss of money, or customers, or brand.
And you can’t even escape these companies by moving to another country.

In my personal view the internet became one big country with overlapping laws and government policies and collusion by corporations. Ever so often I use google to see what search results they can muster but otherwise I don't use cloud storage and do not find myself depending on google. For email I try to teach my friends how to use Thunderbird so they can click a button and their email is mostly GPG encrypted.

If I wanted to share files with someone that will not fit in that GPG encrypted email then I plonk them down on a mini-PC or a VM and share them over HTTPS with cache-control headers to reduce risk of file caches or SFTP with authentication. This is just my own preference and I am a stodgy cranky old bastard but if someone decides that basic auth is too much friction then it was not important for them to receive the files. I implement my own data retention and destruction policies. How my doctor or lawyer decides to store the files is up to them. I can only hope they are wise enough to not store things on their fondle-slab. An intelligent doctor should be able to handle basic authentication and/or be able to follow simple instructions for creating and sharing a GPG public key with me.

Or I could just snail-mail them an encrypted USB drive, however a GPG encrypted email should suffice for sending a few little images to a doctor. Some will bring up rubber hoses and wrenches but there are mitigations for such things. Some might even want legislation to to bandage these dark patterns but experience has taught me to not trust that corporations would be held to account at the same level and standards as citizens.
As the husband of a college teacher who has been perpetually on the tenure track, it really is true that they’re not paid enough. My wife has put in more hours than anyone I know, is more qualified than almost everyone I know. And yet I made way more than her in a single year than she did in a decade because I happened to venture into a field VCs love (and which has zero positive impact on society - web3).

Its cruel and a gross symptom late stage capitalism and its completely misaligned capital allocation.
At any medium or large company, this is going to vary significantly between projects and teams. At a small company, shit code is more or less to be expected.