skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyone thinking a C-Suiter clocks out at 5pm and doesn't work after hours has no experience in the C-Suite

That's not the standard, though. The criteria is cost above replacement, and quite frankly modern executives show up extremely mediocre on that measure. Companies flip executives all the time, and it almost never results in significant changes to revenue (and when it does, it's down as often as up). In fact there's almost no measurable meritocracy among salaried executives.

The reason executive salaries got so high is simply that the class the makes up the C-suite residents (the major investors and board members) got jealous that the outgoing founders of these companies got so rich, and wanted to play in the same sandbox. It's only fair, right?

But that's exactly the moral argument UAW is making: these companies got fabulously wealthy over recent decades owing to GDP growth and stock market booms, and they should share that wealth with their employees and not just keep it for the owners. The only difference is in how you define "employee".
> As many argue, wages are only set by supply and demand.

Most of the time that I see people invoke "Econ 101" concepts, they are wrong. Supply and demand does not account for the power imbalance between workers and leadership, which unions specifically attempt to address. It does not account for the class differences between workers trying to make ends meet and the board of directors who believe they deserve much higher pay than workers. We are free to change the perceived value of workers through the power of worker solidarity - ensuring that individual workers are not so easily replaced to keep wages suppressed. You can simply say "it's supply and demand" and do nothing to support the workers whose labor is so clearly needed for our economy to function, or we can support collective bargaining rights to make sure that individual workers are not crushed under the power of company leadership. How you view this is up to you, and not a simple fact of natural laws of economics.
To be fair, I am being somewhat (perhaps overly) dramatic. Salmon is just one of those foods I have opinions about. Of the three cuts presented in the more modern diagram [1], I think that pan dressed is superior to filet, and steaks are an atrocity.

[1] https://vectorstock.com/6186158 (Edit: link fixed)
Successful or not is not the point.

If met with the 40% pay increase it's another huge pay raise. There is no reality where line workers screwing in the same 3 door bolts all day long are getting what amounts to an effective ~70% pay increase.

Additionally, the 4 day work week is yet unproven in an industrial setting, such as are UAW member's jobs.
Buying a bag of peanuts at the baseball game and they ask for gratuity - WTF
And the shareholders would be out of their investment.
Olive oil is also frequently rancid. I frequently find packaged nuts and trail mix routinely rancid.
You can pass various env vars with ssh, typically restricted to LANG and LC_*.

But I vaguely remember that in the past it may have been anything, including SHELL.
From the wikipedia:

> The triune brain consists of the reptilian complex (basal ganglia), the paleomammalian complex (limbic system), and the neomammalian complex (neocortex), viewed each as independently conscious, and as structures sequentially added to the forebrain in the course of evolution. According to the model, the basal ganglia are in charge of our primal instincts, the limbic system is in charge of our emotions and the neocortex is responsible for objective or rational thoughts.

We disproved:

- the sequentially added nature

- what these zones are responsible for

So in the end we're only left with a semi-arbitrary split of the brain in 3 zones and none of the hypothised implications. That to me refutes the hypothesis as a whole, and we're keeping the zone naming by sheer inertia.
> Comparing C-Suite compensation, pay scale, growth rate and disparity from line workers is disingenuous at best. They cannot be compared, nor should they.

Why? Why is it that CEO pay reflects company performance but not the line workers? It seems incoherent. How does the collective performance of line workers, which we can predict somewhat from salary, not impact company performance? Where did this idea that only in upper management does salary correspond to company performance? What research was done?

Aside from the rare company built by the CEO wholly or largely, CEOs just seem to come from wealthy families, are tall handsome men, and have all the right connections. These are not brilliant geniuses. Being a c-suite executive is not a meritocratic thing most of the time, it’s an inherited privilege.

Compensation is not a function of their performance, it’s a function of their ability to hold their businesses hostage and threaten to tank their companies unless they’re paid high salaries. Rotating out the c-suite will at least temporarily tank company profits. It’s about power not merit. So why uh, doesn’t the union do the same thing and also hold the business hostage? 40% is not wild at all, it’s a drop in the bucket for shareholders because salaries are so low to begin with.
Sometimes they do. But someone who's uprooting their life like that is probably semi-retiring - at least reducing their hours, having one partner stop working, that sort of thing. And not everyone starts a family, so the cities keep some of the most productive people forever - of course that's unsustainable, but it's not the cities' problem.
Same for the CEOs, though.
More like the CEO pay is a cushy symbiotic relationship with the board, which sets their pay. This is not a line worker job when there's competition.
Note that debt to GDP has decreased slightly in the last 2 years, but inflation has offset this when it comes to total $ of debt.
What we choose to value as society is entirely subjective. While supply and demand influence the change in the mid point of the bid/ask spread - it doesn’t set the absolute clearing price.
Sounds more #vanlife #fire than billionaire level.
I wish there were more people that also don't and still design for desktop screen sizes, but you seem to be a rarer and rarer breed :/
The price will be whatever it needs to be for the market to clear.

Want lower (real) prices? Either convince people to move elsewhere, or build more housing.
> You want to do export promotion instead.

That's what us Germans did, and look where it brought us to: our car companies make a significant chunk of their profit in China - Deka estimates the Chinese share of BMW profits at ~40% [1], for VW all I could find is that 41% of their exports go to China, for Mercedes it's 37%.

Now the Chinese government is massively subsidizing domestic electric vehicles, and our car companies are headed for very dark times.

[1] https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/autoherst...

[2] https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/autoindustrie/vol...

[3] https://www.inrlp.de/ratgeber/fahren/mercedes-benz-china-aut...
If KDP required an ISBN it would cut down on the garbage books. In the US at least, ISBN's cost money.
Oddly enough, the phrase "serial monogamy" describes the same exact thing!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/serial_monogamy
"for the first time"

Hasn't it topped 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23...32... etc.. for the first time too? What makes 33 special?

I certainly don't like the amount of debt in the U.S.... but this is a low quality headline except for the fact you don't need anything more to the story --- or if you do, they are burying the lead behind the paywall.
> Just ask for what you think you deserve and don't work if you don't get it.

This is the most wildly privileged take possible on the issue.
Also, can we update it to be "Data Catalog (DCAT) US profile v3.0" or similar?

As someone who follows open data closely, I thought this was an update to the W3C DCAT Standard, not the US profile & implementation.
There is a big difference between "CEO responsible for increasing profits" and "CEO while profits increased", and it's not at all clear that this is one or the other. (Although in fact, if all competitors in an industry all had their profits grow, I think that's actually likely excellent proof that the CEOs weren't responsible at all.)
There is bootstrapping process of learning which authors in that field have good reputation before you know anything about the field. That is being disrupted by LLMs as well, though.
> Most of the McDs around me are already paying $17-20 (in Minnesota, including rural areas) and the menu prices reflect it

McDonalds had $1.9B in profit in 2022. $1.6B in 2021.
Starbucks had $3.3B in profit in 2022. $3.6B in 2021.
Subway announced they had beaten sales plans by $1.4B in 2021.

It's not the wages that are the issue making the prices go up. These companies aren't hurting for profit.
how so? low supply, high demand for "perceived" good ceos. thus those large corporations can throw money at talent.
Can we just call it "I3F"?
> Comparing C-Suite compensation, pay scale, growth rate and disparity from line workers is disingenuous at best. They cannot be compared, nor should they.

For everything besides growth rate I can see arguing that they can't be compared—I don't agree, but I can understand where you're coming from—but why should a CEO's salary go up dramatically faster as a percentage than line workers'? Is the CEO somehow working 40% more hours than they did last year? Working 40% harder? What is that 40% tied to that line worker salaries shouldn't be tied to?
> Few developers are going to test/target Proton and that's totally part of the pitch.

I think they should though!

Targeting native linux is very difficult. Simply testing the game on Proton would be orders of magnitude easier for the developer.
Compiling Rust binaries for Windows 98 SE and more: a journey (2020)
+1, I find the "for first time" part a bit of an oxymoron as we know this number is going to keep increasing. In a few months, it will top $34T for the first time, and a few months after that, $35T for the first time, and so on.
>At the end of the day you have people doing the work for decades, with an intuition about how things work.

That's exactly my point. This intuition is undocumented however it becomes superseded by new tech. Nobody can (successfully) run a plastics plant with decades of old hardware knowledge and expect to be in business another 20 years.

"In 1991, Aldo retired and Ed took over day-to-day management of the company. First Plastics began the initiative to replace and update its molding equipment with new large capacity presses in 1995. This initiative has placed First Plastics as one of the most technologically advanced injection molders in the Northeast. Today it continues to add the latest technology while increasing its manufacturing capacity."

https://firstplastics.com/about.html
"Profit-sharing agreement" is economically the same thing as "indentured servitude", which is illegal (for good reasons IMO).
They don't, but the important point is:

> 2. only rich people will run in the election.

Which is not true unless you think AOC is rich. It's not unheard of that congresspeople sleep in their office i.e. are homeless because DC rent is high.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/09/1141635119/the-first-gen-z-me...
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The graph on p198 seems pretty surprising to me. Though I didn’t read the accompanying text or look for original sources. It just seems pretty implausible looking at it.
They have the highest accountability.
A trillion bucks ain't what it used to be
they're not that much but you can just get an Australian one for free
Added:

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/

https://lifearchitect.ai/timeline/
When picking candidates for employment, why would an employer choose someone who is willing to work five days over someone willing to only work four? A stressed-out employee who is at work is going to outperform a well-rested employee who isn't present
In my area, the AS is usually provided 'free' with your membership.
I've talked about this before, but the US debt feels to me mostly like an accounting mechanism.

What I mean is that the US government is mostly in debt to itself, in money it can print. For example, the Social Security Trust Fund buys US bonds to secure its cashflows.

Anyway, I really don't understand if and why the US National Debt matters that much (I'm not saying it doesn't, I just don't get it)
NYC's $1,000 trash can of tomorrow ready to debut
Flipped on it's head - 2 thoughts:

1) You cite cost of replacement - yet these companies are unable to replace their C-Suite with anyone costing less. Therefore, they can command the compensation levels they do (not to mention compensation != in pocket pay).

2) UAW employees are indeed readily replicable with little or no training on average. Offshoring is very realistic, and there is no shortage of high-school educated folks willing to work in a factory/plant for current levels of pay.

Inflation is putting a squeeze on everyone, and it just so happens your average worker is feeling it the most. It's no coincidence all these labor issues and strikes are happening right now.
The parent is who determines where the child lives during the time when the child's residency is established for in-state tuition purposes. The parent is who votes for elected officials in the state. The parent is who suggests to the child the viability of a subsidized in-state education.

"Go to State" is a recommendation from the elders. If the parents poo-poo State the kid won't consider it seriously.
> It's actually made of stock options that vest if the share price went above $150, but the expected value was $110 million so that's what was reported.

It gets a little weirder than that I suppose since you might have a great deal of shares in a company, which you never exercise so you could say that money doesn't really exist until exercised.

You can however use those shares as collateral for a mortgage or other line of credit which is a pretty common tactic for wealthy people to avoid paying income tax that they otherwise would if they were to sell said shares.
Sesame oil is the worst. It has a shelf-life of a week or two.
Some public CEOs comp packages are defined by them exceeding $SPY so boards do expect more than just the economic cycle.
They were in no position to negotiate back then. Plus, there was probably heavy influence from retirees to save the pension fund.
I'm not the original poster but I can confirm that in many maybe even most reporting crimes makes little sense.

I chased off an ex coworker who was literally throttling another coworker in a Walmart parking lot. The police arrived after and declined to take a statement, or evidence, or pursue the matter even though the attacker had a known name and address.

A local yokel tried to burn my apartment building down twice setting a fire in the interior stairwell at the top of the building around midnight endangering 50 some apartments. He lost his phone at the scene of attempt 1 and 30 days later came back to try again but nobody put any serious effort towards this. Locally the perp is throught to be a local drug dealer who..

Assaulted a neighbor in the parking lot on a different occasion before I pepper gelled him. Police actually showed up for that one again after it was over and threatened me with prosecution for pepper spraying the fellow that attacked someone.

In Seattle I dealt with multiple dangerous situations with looney tunes that are literally mental patients wandering the streets committing crimes many times by GTFO a few times by standing up to crazies that were threatening me or mine and once with judicious application of pepper spray vs a fellow that had already got physical. In no case would it have been possible to get a cop during the situation nor useful to consult thereafter. They literally announced in 2022 that they had no detectives to handle new sexual assault cases THAT YEAR

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/sea...

They sure as fuck aren't assigning any resources to figure at which mental patient tried to punch a citizen. This is the same reason you see property crime unreported unless such a report is specifically required for insurance purposes. No law enforcement nor prosecutorial resources will be tasked if its reported. For instance I witnessed hundreds of cases of attempted or successful shoplifting that certainly exceeded the figure required for it to be a felony but I myself reported zero to the police nor was I allowed to do so and I know for a fact few if any were pursued for the same logical reason. There is no reason to believe that the city or state would carry such an endeavor to completion.

Then there was the fellow that broke into our building and pushed my wife down and tried to steal her keys. Had to handle that one myself too and put the fellow on the ground. To their credit the cops did show up again after the fact to actually haul the idiot off and charge him. If you gift wrap an incredibly clear cut case and apprehend the bad buy the cops will after the dangerous situation is over act as a glorified taxi and move the bad guy for you. A whole lot of work to move one addict from a cell to a drug treatment program he hopefully completed.

Anecdotally it does feel like its getting worse in the last several years.
> What makes 33 special?

It's the first composite number ending in 3?

And, yes, that only makes sense in decimal, but finance wonks aren't to be bothered with such esoterica.
Perhaps if they offered a pay increase they could attract someone better, but maybe they can't afford it.
The meteor isn’t the problem. It’s the delta-V of the meteor which is the problem.
Fun, do you have the link handy?
Why does LeBron James make so much more than the ball boy and concession stand workers and ushers?

A CEO that delivers alpha deserves a big cut of that. The board exists to hire leaders that can deliver alpha. A good deal fail to. But the ones that do are more than worth their compensation.

And btw you have 0 chance of attracting the kind of CEO that can deliver alpha by offering peanuts. It doesn’t always work out and there’s plenty of snake oil CEOs, but the good and great ones are worth every cent to stock holders.
Reasonable, but doubtful this will solve it. The West Coast states, with the some of the highest minimum wages, already require the standard minimum wage.
Share-based compensation can be good if the stock is heading up, because it's cheaper for the company to pay it than cash is. In between the award and vesting, the increase is paid for by equity investors.

But, you have to keep working there and you have to be able to afford to wait for the vesting.
Yes, this is a better way to say it. Some tasks or features are just out-of-scope for some distros, as they should be.
The only person losing out is going to be the consumer. What's to stop executives at Ford, GM and Stellantis from saying "sure, 40% pay increases, no problem" and then just passing it along to consumers one way or another?

There isn't enough margin in the R&D + logistics of producing cars as is.

Ford's stock is up 25% in 5 years, vastly underperforming the index

GM stock is -5.6% over 5 years

Stellantis stock is +3.55% over 5 years.

Where is the argument that the greedy capitalist meanies at the top are doing nothing but buybacks with the millions in profits inflation the stock?
Are we supposed to pretend that most CEOs don't have an entire fleet of people at their disposal to ensure that they aren't making incredibly boneheaded decisions?
The CEO is measured by company performance over a period (may be a year or years), and the value they bring the organization as a whole.

Your average line worker cannot impact the entire business like this. They alone cannot be responsible for huge growth or periods of rapid shrinkage.

They just happen to be the most visible...
Morse shuck the fup out. When he laughs, Morse why he is laughing. You'll tell boss.
If you work with computers (rather than using them) and don't default to USA English when discussing and using them you are likely in for a bad time.
Redis can't have a working set larger than memory. It has no mechanism to page data to disk. If your data set grows too large, you're hosed unless you add more hardware.
My idea back then was: What is vibration, other than movement of tiniest particles? But yes, maybe collision is what actually makes the temperature? Lets assume all the molecules where moving like they usually do, but for some insignificantly small chance, they do have no collisions for a few seconds. Would the object have a temperature?
A bad SRE team can destroy your company. Yet, even at the best places, you’re lucky if you get a small per diem when you’re on-call.

I’m not saying SREs are poorly paid, but they often are keeping entire companies afloat, and their pay is nowhere near that of the C-Suite.

If the entire SRE team quit / went on strike, there is a non-zero chance the next incident would utterly break the company.

If the entire C-Suite quit, uh… what exactly would happen? People would continue doing what they had already been doing?

Executives are overpaid. Period.
What about CEO pay * Widgets shipped?

I always think "I can clock out at 5pm" or "If I screw up it'll only cost me my job and not 1,000 people their jobs"

C levels deal with stuff I am not interested in and the while the pay is appealing the added life complexity is not. Thus I W2 while seeing my kids 90+ hours a week.
Of course they can and should be compared. They’re human beings, and I don’t care how much additional “value” you brought to the company (you know that’s BS they tell to justify being overpaid) or how many late hours you worked, in my eyes you’re not deserving to earn 1000x more money than your ordinary workers.
Yeah, agreed. Let me know when it's 50... in a year or so at this rate
> The only time I see arguments against high CEO pay (speaking generally), it's from people that know absolutely nothing about what a CEO does or how exceptionally difficult it is to operate a very big company.

The most common argument I see is that the ceo pay has increased relative to the common or average employee salary. I doubt being a ceo has become that much more difficult over the same time period though.
2 decades ago we were a bit more heavy handed about actual prosecution rather than announcing that the police had so few resources that they wouldn't be handling any new sexual assault cases in 2022.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/sea...
100% this. Leadership gets to decide how insanely hooked up they will be. Same as congress. Remember when they carved themselves out their own Health Insurance requirements? Same thing.
They can't do that, because there are plenty of other car makers including from Japan, Germany, etc. This is why competition is good.
The Friedman doctrine[1] + hyperstition[2].

1. Friedman, Milton. "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits." The New York Times, 13 September 1970, https://web.archive.org/web/20230913104415/https://www.nytim...

2. Carstens, Delphi. "HYPERSTITION." Xenopraxis, n.d., http://xenopraxis.net/readings/carstens_hyperstition.pdf.
Stellantis has 270,000+ employees across 16 brands. I'm not saying their CEO does or doesn't deserve $20m in compensation but at some point you're going to run into a problem where... nobody wants to do that job for $1m/yr and they wouldn't be qualified or very good at it.
They are writing automated tests. Same workflow as development.
Sounds like they made a lot of money they wouldn't have otherwise. If they're not making that in the future, that's still better than the alternative.

You could always sell to the rest of Europe, but since they're in a fiscal union with you and you refuse to deficit spend, they're not very good customers.
The people who decide where money gets allocated are allocating most of it to themselves? If this was done in a government it would be called extreme corruption.
That 40% is amortized over 4 years, which is ~9.8% annually. Where are you getting the rest of the 70% from?
They’ll pull out the tip jar