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Mobile operating systems have very great children controls. You should research the topic yourself and you will see.


I'm a parent, I have researched it, and found it not great because it still involves third parties and doesn't promote local control/anonymity without involving some external entity - i.e. Apple requires accounts, Google still gets its metrics, etc.

Unless you've got some specific better examples?


Too bad they can't prevent fully grown adults from acting like children.


Nurses in Spain make 2500-3000 euro a month, in a country where the most common salary is 1250 euro. Are they overworked? Well then they can take a pay cut so we can hire more of them.


Eurostat average full time salary 2022 for Spain is €31k. 2021 average nurse salary €38k.

While mean is not median the stats seem to show much less of a difference than your figures. For comparison in the US median full time wage is $66k while median nurses wages is $86k.

Nursing is a skilled occupation requiring a bachelors degree. Seems good they get paid around average wages for graduates.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nama_10_fte__...

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/12/14/nurses-salaries-acr...


Averages as well as you say are useless. You know this, so I don’t know why you bring averages up. I specifically mentioned the most common salary, not the average or the mean, which are completely skewed.

You should also research the salaries of other people who also have a “bachelor’s degree” as you call it. That is, if they get employment and don’t have to emigrate.


That looks like probably median _income_ (ie would include people on social welfare, pensions, part-time workers). Data seems a bit all over the place, but most estimates of median full-time seem to be around 2000eur/month. Spanish min wage is 1184/month for a full-timer, so it's virtually impossible that median full-time income would be only 75 eur more than that.


Same for doctors, we constrain the number of new doctors trained every year to keep their salaries high. Just like constraining the housing supply to keep housing prices high, greed has corrupted these systems from getting better and now we’re just asking people to die instead.


Which country are you talking about, and who is "we"? In the USA, Congress constrains the number of new doctors trained every year not to keep salaries high but rather to limit Medicare expenses. If Medicare beneficiaries can't get an appointment due to a doctor shortage then no claim will be submitted to CMS. Most of the funding for residency programs comes from Medicare, and every year there are medical students who graduate with the MD but are unable to practice medicine because they don't get matched to a residency program.

At one point the AMA did lobby Congress to limit the number of doctors but they reversed their position on that issue long ago.

https://savegme.org/


At least here in Norway, the doctor associations fights hard against any talk about reducing the ridiculously long shifts that nets the doctors large paychecks.

They'd much rather have 1-2 doctors do the work of 3-4, so they can cash in.

Though there is a change of guard happening. Younger people, including doctors, value work-life balance much more and are less inclined to work long hours for more cash.


The US is a federal system, and the states run healthcare and academia. If Congress can tax a state X amount of dollars, that state is obviously able to do so also.

New York accounts for nearly half of all state Medicaid GME funding nationally, with NY state Medicaid GME alone reaching ~$1.8 billion of the $4.4 billion total GME spending in NY in 2012 (federal + state + private).[1]

And is New York better off? Do these claims about GME hold up there? Don't blame AMA or Congress, blame your dominant state political party. Congress should probably require matching for GME which would completely cut off funding for most states. We can already read the headlines.

If you actually knew about this before I mentioned it please let me know, but I think you likely didn't, even though you've obviously spent time researching this important topic. I am actually more irritated how little "people in the know" actually know. It's why I despise outlets like NPR who spread propaganda (agitprop mostly) and refuse to report relevant info and the damage it has caused to America's intelligentsia. Defund NPR and friends, they are the root cause of this mess.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK248024/


    They can take a pay cut
Why is it always a race to the bottom...?


How many hours do they work, compared to the people making €1250/month?


Fewer, for sure.

Not to mention they work for the state so they are guaranteed to have lots of free days by law and their work hours are always respected.


That's how it should work but you will find that a majority of parents cba rearing their children so they want the state to do it for them. And this extends to so many things in life that the authoritarian grip is only going to get tighter with time.


Note: the following is not arguing in favor of the UK policy, but is a general observation.

I seriously doubt that the majority of parents want the state to raise their children for them.

By arguing about irresponsible or lazy parents you are latching on to the first, most convenient thing that seems to make sense to you. But I think that is a mistake because not only does it perpetuate some kind of distorted sense of reality where parents don't care about their children and want to hand off all responsibility for them, but it distracts you from the real causal issues.

The fact is that humans have for millions of years acted in various levels of coordination to raise and look after children as a group. Modern society has made this all sorts of dysfunctional, but it still exists.


> parents cba rearing their children

And THAT is the problem that they should be tackling.


Ironically any attempt to control this is deemed 'authoritarian' as well.


This is a problem that could be solved with socially funded child care, at least in part. But that's not gonna happen. (Posting from USA; I don't know how this may or may not apply in the UK.)

Either way, if parents had more time to raise their children rather than slave away at jobs to stay above water, I have to think there'd be some improvement in child development.


Not necessarily. If they want to have uneducated children, let them.


That is a terrible attitude about education. You are essentially condemning those kids and future generations to a shittier society and shittier lives.


Maybe so, but it’s better than the alternatives.


A reminder that it is a legal requirement that children get primary education. It is a crime to not give them an education.

We did that for a reason and it is undoubtedly better than the alternative.


To be fair, it is because the state makes it difficult for them to rear children.

Long working hours and both parents working full time means they do not have the time or the energy. Then you have the state offering help, and encouraging parents to drop them off at school first thing for breakfast club, and then keep them there for after school activities.


"but you will find that a majority of parents cba rearing their children so they want the state to do it for them"

This is normal and what public education is for. Teaching online safety and sex ed should be considered no different than teaching history


Live by the sword.


What solutions are there for programs that can’t be recompiled because the source code is not available? Think for example of old games.


Probably changing the system time, or faking the system time, so that these programs do not run into issues.


Or party like its epoch time.

=3


Probably a backwards compatible runtime that uses 32-bit timestamps which fills in a fake time after 2038 (e.g 1938). For example steam ships different runtimes, as does flatpak.


Why even have a court? After all if they take you there it must be because you’re guilty. No need for a trial.


> - Some homegrown “SQL helper” that saves you from writing SELECT *, but now makes it a puzzle to reconstruct a basic query in a database

>- Bonus points if the half-baked data access layer is buried under layers of “magic” and is next to impossible to find.

It’s really funny because you’re describing an ORM perfectly.


I don't know what kind of ORM you have used but I probably wouldn't like it either.

My ORM does extremely much more than those "SQL helper" classes and it logs SQL nicely to the console or wherever I ask it to to log.

And it is easy to find it, just search for @Entity.


They're making the tongue-in-cheek observation that those who don't use an ORM end up reinventing one, poorly.


A bad ORM. Every application that accesses an SQL database contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of an ORM.


Of course they are. We continuously hear that we have to stop having cars, kids, and consuming in a way that the elites have described as irresponsible, all whilst they travel the world in private jets where they definitely do not eat tofu.


I guess you should just walk outside a bit.


It’s surprising to me that in America newspapers are expected to publicly endorse a candidate. Not even trying to pretend to be neutral.


Because decisions like these have to be taken purely on the basis of technical merits, not political ideology.


GPL is a purely technical document?


Says who?


Two large scale studies so far. It's worth saying that thus far there have only been two studies on the efficiency gains AI produces and they both report that it's a negative number. Perhaps later studies will rebuke those findings but SCIENCE! At this time we lack findinfs that support the contention that AI is a benefit at least when measures as work hours.


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