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We need to fix the causes not the symptoms

We need both. You don't fix a skull fracture by giving the patient a helmet.
> it only adds complexity

Of course what they mean by “complexity” is money.

What experts recommend costs money, where the MBA/PM will come with dumb solutions that cost less on paper.
In what way is slapping the salami to provocative pixels with zero feedback to the end user, better than real live human being? How did we get to this point where this is even a question?
As amateur cyclist who used to compete at relatively high level.. Sports, even amateur sports, is not healthy beyond certain point. Competitive amateurs probably reach that point much sooner because most of them don't have proper supervision and learn off youtube and friends.

Sports is good as long as it's „healthy mind in healthy body“ attitude. But beyond that...
You make the job bad enough, no wages will keep people in it.
Indeed. A lot seem to have lost the urgency of meaningful reform, because they don't believe it can be. They are out of ideas and unable to build the momentum to get anything passed. But they already have theirs, so ...
Google blocks third record-breaking DDoS attack in as many months
It is. And you did.
It’s unwise to depend on Google with decades of history of poor customer service.
I feel like we always end up having the same debate.
On side says "Not enough money"
The other side says "But money don't solve problems, there's an effciency problem"
Both are true. Maybe we can now admit that yes bureaucracies are generally inefficient (by design. Why would seek efficiency when it can provide safe jobs for a part of your population that you can now get out of your unemployment stats)
and yes public healthcare system have been massively underfunded, probably for ideological reasons, in order to open up the market to private healthcare like European Union wants to open anything to market. (Look up what happened when they "opened up" the electricity market in France, what a joke)
Considering that Lockheeds Prepar3d is a tweaked version of FSX, I'd imagine that doing similar thing with FS2020 would be possible too.
That assumes someone qualified to be a teacher is also qualified to be a software engineer. Have you met a lot of urban public school teachers?
I think Trump was intoning that he was just a regular guy, not part of the elite - so I'm not sure it qualifies as "misinterpreted" as opposed to simply a lie.
Increase the child tax credit and let schools compete on strategy. Having multiple strategies is actually super useful for preventing monocultures and increasing diversity of thought.
It actually makes sense to deprecate teachers if you are one of the christian fascists in the republican party. We need only look at the recent string of laws, book bannings and similar to get an idea of what religious fascism does.

Attacking the teachers have been a long term goal. School funds already are now allowed to be directed to parochial (religious) schools from the state school coffers. This starves the public school systems one by one.

No Child Left Behind guaranteed that bad schools get less money, and get worse. This all but guarantees that low income areas have terrible school systems that are more just juvenile delinquency prevention and babysitting services.

Book bans are pushed by the "right" (which they rarely, if ever, are), with obvious canards like "Harry potter is evil occult and should be burned". Naturally, with the exception of https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzv9j/texas-school-bans-the... , most of the bans are done explicitly by the christian fascists forcing their beliefs on others.

Or, instead of more money and resources, we see Texas state legislature forcing schools to hang banners of "In god we trust." https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/18/texas-schools-in-god... . Again, it's the forcing of one myopic direction of religion on the masses. It brings the parochial school into the public piece at a time.

All of these different directions have the ultimate effect - deprecate the "godless" education to something with their variant of religion in it. And naturally, we get pablum like "Noah and dinosaurs lived together", and other completely non-science garbage taught as fact.
Starting salaries for many districts for jobs that require a masters is pathetic.

Many suburban schools pay decent, but often urban centers pay poorly.

I know one person who was offered under $30k for teaching young special Ed folks. This is someone who has a masters and extra certs on tops of that.

Your argument about physics teachers being more sought after is interesting but misses the point. As a society we want our children to have the best outcomes, providing them with the best education at early ages provides that.

To have the best education you want to pay well and attract the best candidates. Not have those teachers splitting their time with Uber so they can afford rent.

There was a study that showed the value of great kindergarten teachers and it’s over $300k a year.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/07/28/128819707/the-...
The title makes it sound like the fault or some problem lies with teachers, and that doesn't help in spreading the issue. Similar to "nobody wants to work anymore" sounds like a fault with workers, but actually is a symptom.

Title should be, nobody wants to support teachers anymore.
Sounds like a very regressive tax.

Why not tax vacant homes?
"as european"... Just like teachers/teaching situations in federal US is hard to generalize so is in confederal Europe. You should probably read about the yearly teachers strikes in many southern European countries.

Teaching is a precarious job - particularly in early career in public sector schools. And just like many comments already mentioned: There's a global social trend expecting teachers to be some kind of social workers. And older teachers in many countries public sectors are basically grandfathered into previledged conditions that Young professionals will never attain.
Pictures of my family. Sounds corny but they inspire me.
Legitimate question, thanks. Two married to each other. One over 40. Last living in a nicer part of town than otherwise due to husband, but actually looked for non-teaching jobs and couldn’t find higher salaries so stayed.
> Reporting the images to law enforcement is good.

citation needed.

do these CSAM scanning things actually help reduce kid exploitation?

and if they do, is this the best use of our resources?
Reading this comment makes me want to say “OK Boomer” for the first time (I am an old Gen X person). I can’t think of a single time since the 80’s that a Mellencamp song has had any value or impact. CCR songs keep surfacing in interesting places.
It's pretty close to the median worker having a bachelor's degree so that doesn't really skew the comparison

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. The benefits are high enough to attract enough teachers.

The problem are parents and administration. And more recently kids missed a couple years of school due to Covid and went feral. It's gotten to be a significantly worse job. Solution is to cut the bullshit. Not pay more to incentivize people to put up with the bullshit.
Yes, I think there doing it where they can Green Park had step free access a few years back.

It is very heartening to see wheel chair users in central London more and more.
Here, check this out:.

https://www.unschooling.com/t/the-seven-lesson-schoolteacher...
Apple is a hypocrite. Have been saying this for years now. A deeply corrupted, arrogant and empathyless organization.
Many teachers work very long hours. Ones I've dated did a minimum of 60 hours. They would work their day shift and then go home and work more, and work on weekends, and then do tutoring for extra cash.

Do you know how frustrating and exhausting teaching is? Very. They also don't get hazard pay for working in dangerous schools. One teacher I knew literally stopped teaching and became a kind of official bouncer (I don't know what it's called); when kids would get violent his job was to restrain them. The reason he switched was the kids' disrespect and his own desire to see them improve was crushing his soul.

Many teachers use their own money to buy their students' class materials.

If you're a teacher in New Jersey, you have to also live in New Jersey, a state with a ridiculously high tax rate.

The years of service thing is a fair yardstick because it's comparing apples to apples. We are not paying them based on what a different job would pay them, we pay them based on the job we want them to do.

Benefits and pension are wildly overblown. Half of teachers don't even qualify for pension and benefits vary greatly. https://www.teacherpensions.org/blog/what-average-teacher-pe...

It's not enough money.
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I claim that starting teacher salaries have nothing to do with seniority--they are the universal starting salaries for a district.

They are too low.
We have a one and done rest api that will only send the key once after being staged as part of our pipeline. So that’s the delivery mechanism. Key is on an internal server that isn’t on the public internet except the one and done. Super simple.
I partially agree with you, but private school teachers often get paid less than their public school counterparts. Private schools get a flood of applications from humanities PHDs who don't have the certifications required to teach in public schools, so it's very much a race to the bottom in terms of salary. Private school's biggest advantage for teachers is that the parents treat education seriously, so they are less likely to treat teachers like babysitters.
You’d be surprised! I have a friend named Jorden; it’s not a very common first name here.

Recruiters and coworkers constantly misspell his name. Jordan is used frequently, and he’s even seen “Jordon”. They ever call him “Carter,” which is part of his last name. It’s just life, he doesn’t mind (as I don’t mind when my last name is misspelled)

Why do you think people are deliberately misspelling or mispronouncing your name? Isn’t it much more likely that they’re making mistakes because they subconsciously assume letters go in a certain order in English?

Have you tried bringing it up when you see these typos? They’ll most likely apologize and be embarrassed, but won’t argue with you.

You’re assuming they know the correct version of your name, but most people don’t actually read letter by letter if they’re sending out hundreds of emails a day. People read words, not letters. “Benham” and “Bentham” are English names, and the reader is subconsciously looking for something they’re familiar with
I agree with the rest of your post, but:

> Disruptive children are caused by parents who frankly just don’t give a shit.

This isn’t necessarily true; sometimes the parents simply don’t have the proper info or education themselves. Example: parent of a kid with ADHD who has no understanding of what ADHD is or how it presents, and thus that their kid even has it.
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Perhaps switch to signal or telegram? Some service that guarantees confidentiality.
Did this happen because the kids didn’t listen or because the parents were overly protective or some combination of the two? Helicopter parents denied their children the chance to fail safely and so calibrate the good and bad portions of life. By scheduling their kids time and removing all risk they prevented growth.

You never did chores for your spending money? Had to help out with minor repairs or maintenance of a domicile? Never had a part time job? I suspect not, again, as the now revealed as misguided effort to give their kids the best (“better than we had it”) was crippling. It’s not hard to do what is mentioned in the first paragraph.

Look up the shit that went down in 1968 before you repeat that previous generations had it easier. There’s no draft, although the Cold War and risk of nukes are coming back. You have computer and communication resources that exceed st:tos (damn near), uni has toys that were inconceivable in the 70’s, …. Google what opscan forms and #2 pencils were - that’s years of organizing courses and drop/add.

The only thing that really sucks now is that std’s can kill.
Well on school lunches, California is at least trying to make things better: https://www.schoolmealsforall.org/
This blog post touches on a lot of topics. I'm laying in bed and groggy, so I'm just going to highlight one thing:

>They’re lucky if they have air conditioning.

LKY: "Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."

You can't think properly if you're hot. This isn't my opinion, it's measurable. E.g.

https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/ijerph/ijerph-18-07698/art...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02656736.2017.13...

"Findings indicate that academic achievement is linked to building condition mediated by the social climate and student attendance. The model accounted for 70 percent of the variance in the outcome measures."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02724...

Teaching is complicated. Politics is complicated. Parent-school interactions are very complicated. Air conditioning, by comparison, is drop-dead simple. The inability of school districts to do the simplest and most obvious thing to address the problem underscores the degree to which meaningful information is driven out of the education dialogue by pet-issue squabbling.
Apple is uniquely positioned to come out on top of the cookie-pocalypse. All of their work with Apple ID will pay off once they have the largest first party audiencing capability in the world.
1. Parasitic administration salaries

2. Depending on the state you may not even need one

3. It's the parents, not the kids that make them feel this way. Kids typically love their teachers

4. 100%

5. Building a new school is 10-100s of millions typically. Why it costs so much is worthy of debate, but plunking down new schools these days is far more costly than in the past.
Yes, towards London it starts to really fill up after Maidenhead when arriving in Burnham and, especially, Slough (as was the case with GWR trains before the Elisabeth Line, really).

Before that it's only people who commute locally between Reading-Maidenhead-Slough where driving is a competitive alternative so it's not too busy.

The Elizabeth Line does improve commute within London but in locations like Reading I think people would have preferred more and cheaper fast trains to Paddington as the Elizabeth Line makes no difference for commutes into London or even more local commutes.
That graph of file size vs. number of files would be much easier to read if it were logarithmic. I guess OP is using matplotlib. In this case, use plt.loglog instead of plt.plot. Also, consider plt.savefig("chart.svg") instead of png.
At least to me, it seems quite appropriate to characterize the autocratic merging of government and corporate power as "fascism". Yes, it's missing some specific trappings of the original fascists, but definitions adapt and widen over time.

In fascism 1.0, singular authority vested with the head of government who then subjugated every other institution under the government. In fascism 2.0, power consolidates from the bottom up as corporations weave themselves into our individual lives, merge and collude with each other, and expand their scope in a way that subsumes existing institutions including the existing government.

It's not the same, but it rhymes. Each version seems to be heading towards a similar end state, but coming at it from a different direction. The distinction seems to be the same distinction as between totalitarianism and inverted totalitarianism. Maybe we should call it inverted fascism?
There is also a similar effort[1] to collect data on refractive index curves (against wavelength) for various materials, under CC0 (not CC-BY-SA, which seems a bit ridiculous for objective physical properties). That’s much less immediately useful for rendering, though.

[1] https://refractiveindex.info/
The right has no identity right now, which is why someone like Trump could take it over.

Depending on what happens in the next few years it could well be that they become the party against power. Which would be a rather interesting inversion from the last 40 years.

Which raises a lot of uncomfortable questions for people whose world was informed by Reagan, Thatcher and Bush.
To be clear, I didn't write "be an exceptional physics teacher with knowledge of history, nuance, etc." - I agree that's not a trivial thing and a very desirable one. But if you need "just a physics teacher" for a given spot, I stand by my opinion.
"Pupil-hour" makes no sense in a classroom environment. When you were babysitting, they didn't pay you $10/hr per kid.
> It is extremely rare that someone will be dumped on a codebase without a prior author remaining on to help them ramp up on the code.

The way this is more likely to work out IRL is that the last person who actually understood the design - not just the what's, but the why's - had long since moved on, and the "prior author" that you have access to can, at best, tell you where the dragons are.
It's the nature of bureacracy. All the incentives are aligned so as not to prioritize efficiency.
It's $40K if you select "non-resident", which I assume is because the in-state tuition is taxpayer subsidized.
Believe it or not, YouTube is not good pedagogy. A YouTube video doesn't help you to fill in the gaps of your understanding by re-working a difficult concept with you. A YouTube video, nor an app, doesn't go through the steps of solving a problem with you, and watch how you do it to give you constructive criticism.

Educational content is amazing, but it's not teaching. It's a resource. It's like saying that the existence of books negates the need for teaching and that all the clever people are now writing books.
Undervaluing education is another sign that society is shifting to rent seeking. Extracting short term wealth by burning the future.
> Gen X had such an easy go of it

Please, economy and real estate prices has been boom and bust for Gen X too, 3-4 serious recessions, pensions lost before 401k were a thing, etc.

Maybe look at who you vote for and blame them, not normal people 10-20 years older than you.
I'm not actually sure that's "plenty".

For comparison - we currently pay more per year to keep our 1 year old child in daycare (roughly ~15,000/yr) and for daycare we literally only expect them to keep him alive & clean. And this is considered a "cheap" daycare. Most places in our area (the much cheaper south-west side of Atlanta) still charge more than 1600/m or almost 20k/yr.

We certainly don't expect them to be significantly enriching his education experience (although the simple exposure to other kids will likely do that at this age). We also don't expect the employees to have any sort of educational/vocational training to excel at teaching, or expect them to perform any sort of off-the-clock work (ex: grading, class prep, parent-teacher meetings, etc). I expect them to be mostly high-school graduates with a background check.

So I look at that number, and while it's certainly a large number if you're making 1 teacher manage 30 kids, I don't really know that it's a number that results in viable conditions to truly "educate" children.

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.
Yeah, Deezer uses integers for addressing their albums. This is literally Math.random() on top of their library implemented with a cloudflare function.
Can anyone well versed on the GPU and PC market describe the situation with the gears needed to have this experience? Can you obtain the hardware needed in reasonable time, effort and cost?

BTW, I'm pleasantly surprised that this game hasn't been canceled at some point after the 9/11.
> competition would force public schools to improve or shut down as every school vied for the vouchers.

I don't know how to fairly evaluate a school's performance. I guess we could ask if the students perform better in the job market 10-20 years later, but that's not obviously not helpful or useful information on which to make a decision now.

I get why the voucher system is appealing on first glance. After all, you often can evaluate the quality of goods and services. You can, say, estimate that a shirt you find at the mall will last a few years or that it will fall apart in a month. I just don't think you can do the same for schools. I have a feeling most people will evaluate education based on their beliefs (religious, etc) and the grades their kids "earn".
Ask HN: Where can I find high-quality paid developer learning materials?
The free resources are kind of easy-to-find these days - for example, via multiple GitHub awesome lists. However, there are various smaller platforms/ sites which have quality learning resources but are not that well known.

What are your favorite courses, tutorials, interactive learning things, blogs, etc that are paid?
Do a ctrl+F of "tories" and look at the comments here.
I don't understand this. Actually I use SQLite linked in to the site code itself. Very tough to beat on a whole host of metrics. Shared data is spread like configuration.
Google is not anything like a “utility”. A utility has a natural monopoly because of the effort, expense and disruption that is required to lay down the infrastructure and the need for scale. There is no product that Google has that you can’t and shouldn’t pay for a competitors product.
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Some of the worst educational outcomes in the US are in deep blue states and deep blue cities. Meanwhile, suburban communities in the US tend to vote more "red" and are also the places people go to raise families because of the better public schools.
Yes it will. Because if you pay teachers more, in fact, pay them well, then more people will want to move into the field.

If teaching was like a FANNG tech job, with limited availability due to demand and salary, then it would be "discovered" to be prestigious and valuable and important.

And moreover, everyone would be free to come up with their own performance management BS because you'd actually have the glut of incoming talent that supports failures removing people from the industry (or screw it up so bad that despite the money no one bothers - also a FANNG phenomenan).
At 10:45 I nearly had a heart attack
or, probably millions of families with a small kid. not everybody sleeps in pajamas.

also, while we might find it unwise to make a video, but also we were not there.
Private schools or public?
IanVisits is much a treasured site, with or without being near London, England.
I don't think OP takes into account that there seem to be multiple editions of the same book which are often required by people to refer to. Not everyone wants the latest edition when the class you're in is using some old edition.
Prohibition didn’t work. Everyone who wanted to kept drinking. Religious guilt is an ineffective motivator of change.

Source: human history.

It’s time to move on.
The party of old people and the underclass.
This is a nice advice. Please dont box yourself to your work only. You can express creatively outside work. You can have outside-work projects, enjoy life without to much stress. You can take on advance you education, develop a hobby.