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Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded
Young Grads Are Right to Choose McKinsey over GM
I strongly dislike the idea of any government-mandated paternal leave. Staying home from work is not free, and the cost of it comes out of my salary.

I personally want some paternal leave even with its costs, but I'd prefer that negotiation to stay between me and my employer. I don't want some bottom threshold set by a third party.
I'm not a big "babies" guy either. I'd love if you could delay this leave till they were older. But are you really telling me you'd rather go to work and pay for child care than take 7 months off, fully paid, and be at home? You could take the leave, pay for child care and go hiking every day if you wanted...
Functional Parsing – Computerphile [video]
On most (small, I'm not talking about mini linux) embedded systems, instruction counting will tell you how long something takes to run. In fact, the compilers available are often so primitive that operation counting in the source code can sometimes tell you how long something will take.
Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf]
I think discovered is exactly the right word.

Sort of like India was discovered by Columbus, of course people were living in India before.
A Little about Multi-Talented William Cast
This was someone we definitely noticed about Norway when we were in Oslo for a week.

There was so many dads just walking around the city/parks in the middle of the day pushing prams. It was so nice to see.
> But will they force Dads to take it?

Nobody forces the moms either (though I do understand that dads don't breast-feed every 3 hours without sleep).

The point is that this means the "she will be off for X months" becomes less of a biological parts thing against women and more of a life-stage thing. Though the ageism might still strike here, as people plan to have kids later in their lives.

> Happy to dote when they start to turn into people.

Also specifically for the leave itself, a significant part of my paternity leave was just partner support by picking up everything else that was previously shared including shopping, cooking, laundry. Otherwise, it was just about generally being awake without worrying about the clock.

This all came to highlight when I went back to work after 3 months away, the transition to a 9-5 schedule was bad for everyone involved.
Mother pumps, stores milk in the fridge. Father feds the kid when mother is not home.
A common one (enough that it's a joke) is that red wine (or dark chocolate) either prevents or causes cancer (or heart disease).

I can't recall which paper (in the UK), but there was one that run both stories (whichever consumable it was both caused and prevented whichever disease it was) on the same day, same publication!

Because it's not even about spin, it's just 'content' getting written and published and read. I'm not sure what the (actual) newspaper equivalent phrase is for 'generating clicks', but that's all it is.
> Research has shown this to be optimal (time spent with your children later in life closer to adolescent years matters more than their younger years).

> they're not at an age yet where I can fully appreciate time with them.

Now that sounds closer to the truth. It's not about what's best for "them", it's about how you can _enjoy yourself_ more.
This looks like a DSL on top of React.
Pretty sure anyone working in plaintext is using something better than ed or similar. emacs, vim, and many others are plaintext editors. It's not hard to imagine we can come up with even better tools for it as well.
Quebec goes beyond the Canadian norm in this area, though still nowhere near some European countries: https://www.educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/maternity-paternity-a... (EI premiums are lower here, because a separate QPIP payroll deduction funds the more generous paid leave benefits described at this link in lieu of the corresponding federal ones.)

We also have $8.25/child/day government-subsidized daycare.
> Kid still appears functional.

It's ok, you have more than enough time to traumatize his childhood and early adulthood :-p
Yesterday, I searched for a children song from an old soviet movie (my childhood) to play to my kids. Nothing political whatsoever. Youtube promptly showed me the warning for that channel saying that “VGTRK is funded by the Russian government” (which is true).

Out of curiosity, I browsed throw tons of (political) clips posted by BBC and did not see a similar warning (regarding UK goverment) or anything close to it.
When seen from the inside, it's a community. When seen from the outside, it might look to some like a conspiracy...
Sorry for the editorialized title but it was too long...
Including the Mafia.

If only Rico laws were applied to people who aren't a bit too tanned to be really white.
You're projecting your personal situation on to hundreds of millions of people with dramatically different situations. Government policies should be designed to work as well as possible for as many people as possible, not for the minority who stand out because of their high incomes or high demand skills.
Yes, that is problematic, which is why I use an encrypted email service that encrypts and decrypts on the client. The only people reading my emails should be the intended recipients.

Likewise for videos of and around my house. The only people capable of watching those feeds are me and those I explicitly choose to share it with. Ring should be E2E encrypted, with any video processing being done before upload or after download. Sharing with the police shouldn't be possible without the police coming to my home asking me for video of a given time period, preferably with a warrant.

I have no problem with storing encrypted video in the cloud, assuming that it's reasonably hard to decrypt and my keys aren't stored anywhere nearby (they should strictly be on the client, out of reach of the cloud service). If I want to send a video to someone, the service should download it, decrypt it locally, and then send it over my encrypted channel of choice.

I really don't understand why we put up with anything less. It's incredibly cheap to do get a chip these days that can do video processing on the client, so why is the cloud used for anything other than encrypted video storage and retrieval?
Vanguard Broadens Reach with Entry into Private Equity
In Germany it is the parents who get the leave and they can freely decide who takes the 12 months of it. Even better yet: If they decide to split they get an extra of two months, so 14 in total.
“VPN on Steroids” Launches on Kickstarter
USA will never do this :( Plus my kids are already born. I got two weeks and it wasn't nearly enough.
Write everyone a cheque.

Taxing income is quite regressive too: it’s how people with nothing can survive.
Scratch Other People's Itches
All the candidates donated, not just Buttigieg. It was a joint venture between all of the primary candidates in Iowa.
The Ticketmaster value proposition.
Working days.
Maybe it's me, but I fail to see how this is relevant to HN. The Market Watch article doesn't say much other than what the title already states.

To showcase the irrelevance, let me just copy/paste the whole article.

> Casper Sleep Inc. CSPR, +0.00% lowered the price range for its planned initial public offering on Wednesday to $12 to $13 a share from a previous $17 to $19, a move that reduces its valuation to just over $500 million. The company is planning to offer 8.4 million shares to raise $109.2 million at the top of the range. With 39 million shares outstanding expected once the IPO is complete, the company would have a valuation of just $507 million, below the $741 million it would have had under the previous price range and now less than half the $1.1 billion it garnered in its last private funding round. Eight banks are underwriting the deal, led by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Jefferies. Proceeds of the deal are earmarked for growth and general corporate purposes. The company will list on the New York Stock Exchange, under the ticker symbol "CSPR."
If you need to conduct a whitewater-level investigation of an airbnb spot it might be a sign the system needs to step up its game.
I like to think of time as a surrogate key to the state of the earth. This lecture looks interesting, thanks!
Exercise Routine-Structure Muscle the Natural Way
Big claims require big evidence.

It’s dangerous to embrace the worst case scenario like corruption with open arms and requiring little evidence. People are doing it all the time now and it’s how the trolls win.
That just exposes our different view of where the bottlenecks are - you believe there are a limited number of coders who are up to the task - I believe there are less opportunities than 'adequate to the task' coders.

Which is true? Nobody really knows.
Thanks for all the feedback! It was just a fun idea I had before going to bed and it's definitely not fleshed out.

I know that services like Netflix do VPN detection in much fancier ways and had noticed it when traveling abroad. There's no motivation for me to implement it in anything I do.

Thanks again and sorry for wasting your time!
The evolution of developer experience in the 20th century
There are definitely places in the US where housing prices are not high. However, I don't think that changes the fact that there are areas where the supply for housing cannot keep up with the demand. I don't think that your average person who wants to live in Manhattan would consider a house in Cleveland as an equivalent substitution.
Speaking only for my personal situation, my partner is a stay at home parent. They have no career, do not want a career, and only want to be a full time parent (which I fully support). I use my resources to enable that, and make their life as easy as possible (hired help around the house, childcare, etc).
Paternity leave is a lot easier to implement than artificial wombs.
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I can't count that high ;)
If you want something similar to this, but would like to just code in javascript, check out http://jayesstee.org. Simple codepen example: https://codepen.io/efunneko/pen/pxxwBQ?editors=0010 or slightly more involved demo: https://codepen.io/efunneko/pen/bQvLBP?editors=0010
> India was discovered by Columbus

Maybe you mean "West Indies"?
I would assume that there is some kind of maternal bond, so that it would be best for the mother to primarily be exposed to the newborn at least in the first 6-12 months. I doubt sucking on a plastic bottle would assist with the maternal bond. What do you think?
The technically correct sentence would have been "I know, all analogies..."

But yeah, this one was fun and I read it like you did at first as well!
Some questions you might have - for further questions, just ask anything. Question everything.

### What do you make and sell? ###

We are developing the Safing Privacy Network (SPN), most easily understood as a "VPN on steroids". However, we built the SPN from the ground up and do not rely on the decades-old VPN technology. As a result, we can truly protect our customers from prying eyes, such as an abusive Internet Service Provider.

### How do you distinguish yourself from the competition? ###

We wrote blog posts on how the SPN compares to VPNs and Tor:

- https://safing.io/blog/2020/01/22/how-the-spn-compares-to-vp...

- https://safing.io/blog/2020/01/22/how-the-spn-compares-to-to...

### What keeps you up at night (about your business) ?###

The importance of privacy has in upholding our democratic societies. If we cannot effectively resist mass surveillance, our society will slowly fade into a totalitarian, thought controlling dystopia. How to bring privacy solutions to the masses is what drives us.

### What are you hoping to do over the next year that you have not done before? Why? ###

In the next year, the SPN will evolve from a lab-tested product to a network handling hundreds and thousands of users. Since 2017, we were heavily investing into research and development. Finally bringing our product to the market is very exciting to us!

### What was your "eureka moment" that led you to start this organization or company? ###

The Snowden revelations triggered an "eureka moment" for Daniel, who realized how current privacy solutions simply don't cut it with the vast surveillance programs of intelligence agencies and big tech.

### Are you solving problems for your industry, for society, the world? Which Problem? How come nobody solved those problems before? ###

Mass surveillance impacts everyone connected to the Internet. With our world being so connected, it is hard to think of areas this does not affect. Manipulation, targeted financial exploitation and large scale censorship all already exist in societies around the world because of it.

There are a lot of smart people working on solving pieces of the puzzle, but most solutions end up being very technical and relying on technology not initially built for protecting privacy.

The SPN is built from the ground up, looking on how one would solve privacy with today's technology. It also focuses on ease of use before all, making it a breeze to use.
Definitely. That's why I got excited and thought that there's something specific about MLTon that's used for systems programming here (the capabilities of the "Standard" MLs vary a bit).
The syntax is a little cleaner (and presumably more constrained). Only a little bit, but scaled across a large project maintained by multiple people I could imagine it being a real benefit over JS/React's syntactic overhead and dependence on conventions.
2 years in Romania. Can be either mom or dad
Or catering to two different groups. Like selling arms to both sides.
"abused the system"? Fertility rate in Germany is 1.50 at the moment. Every new child will be a precious asset to sustain the future pension system.
Finally an explanation for my case! I have both astigmatism and myopia. I never understood why dark mode is so popular because to me it's unreadable. Even worse, sites with black background and white text are downright hurtful - after 20-30 seconds I start seeing just horizontal white stripes moving very fast up and down on black background.
Would you show this comment to your kids once they're able to read?
> We're seeing phones switch automatically to dark mode when batteries are low.

Do phone displays really save energy when displaying more black pixels? I always thought that's not the case because the backlight is always on for the entire display anyway.
Huh? Sanders did really well.

If there's a conspiracy, it's not a particularly effective one.
an interesting story from japan:
they have 1 year parental leave for men and women. but just 8% of men actually took it compared with 82% for women. the reason is the same across the planet: they would be left behind at work.

compare this with the former communist country of Romania, today an EU country: 126 days for women, 5 days for men. income during those times is payed for by the state (80%).

societal discrimination against women is deep, and the law can certainly help, but it's only part of the problem. in some places a huge overhaul of society needs to happen. my fear is that the forces that want to keep society as-is are usually much stronger than the ones that want change.
This isn’t true. The Sanders campaign never gave anything to Shadow or ACRONYM. From the reporting I’ve seen, Buttigeig was the largest purchaser of their services, with Biden as a distant second.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/iowa-caucus-results-delayed-by-...

EDIT:

Since this is apparently a “controversial” statement, here is the FEC data proving this is entirely true:

https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&...
>Hey guys, remember when you could just arbitrarily change the colors of UI elements across your entire OS and pretty much all of its applications without the requirement of bespoke 'dark mode's?

I certainly don't. Do you have a specific OS in mind?

In my experience it worked as long as you only used applications that used the stock UI toolkit without customization. As soon as some app tries to use custom controls (or even just custom icons) it becomes messy, either because these controls won't apply the custom system theme and they'll stand out like a sore thumb or because they'll apply partially and make the control hard or impossible to see correctly.

On Linux it's even worse because of the multiple UI toolkits/desktop environment available (GTK-gnome/Qt-kde/motif/wxwidgets/...) which often need to be configured independently from one another. And on top of that some applications like gvim, emacs, firefox or terminal emulators will have their own custom theme configuration that will override the global theme.

I definitely understand why Apple thought it was a good idea to lock things up to give the user a consistent experience.
>Should everybody drop C/C++/whatever and rush into the Rust train because Rust people has conjecture?

The way these things usually work in practice, the evidence that a new paradigm improves things usually builds up slowly. There will never be a point at which someone proves mathematically that C is obsolete. Instead, the gentle advantages of other options will get stronger and stronger, and the effectiveness of C programmers will slowly erode compared to their competition. At first only the people who are really interested in technology will switch, but eventually only the curmudgeons will be left, clinging to an ineffective technology and using bad justifications to convince themselves they aren't handicapped. Is Rust the thing that everyone except the curmudgeons will eventually switch to? Who knows, but if you don't want to end up behind the industry then it might pay to try it out in production to see for yourself. If you don't make room for research and its attendant risks you will inevitably fall behind.
I was one part of the latter group. And am also part of the former, evidently. User from the latter group hate it, rightly so, for bad UI and UX. I do, too. But then I see the intercontected processes you have to run a busniess. And you have to run your business, to a certian degree at least, digital. from that perspective, SAP sucks the less. Which kind of makes it a good software I guess?
That only motivates companies insofar as you are not going to hold them accountable for illegal content on their servers in any case. But we've made clear to Twitter that they will be held accountable for such content. (That's why the guys and gals in the navy blue windbreakers are, effectively, a constant fixture at Twitter. There's literally nothing Twitter can do about it.) So if you're going to make them operate under those conditions whether they are a platform or not, what benefit is there to cooperate with you? I can understand Twitter's view. Just let the government guys in full time, and do your best to take out content you know is going to cause problems. If you miss anything, the government guys can kill it themselves. That way, you're never in a position where it can be said that you were not cooperating with the government.

It's unsurprising that your argument isn't swaying any of the various corporate counsels. I mean, it's an argument that's purely theoretical in a world where the government has said they will hold you accountable for fake news and government agents siphon the communication feeds from your servers full time anyway.

Think of it this way, a threat to chop off someone's arms, is only effective if you have not already chopped off their arms.
Chrome Extension for Speed Reading Google Books
In the US, I have seen cases of both parents taking company leave, and still putting their kids in childcare so that they can do house projects. Defeats the purpose... culture takes time to change
Like they said, React router and the TS template for create react app. There’s your overhead discovery work to do an equivalent to this with react.
My biggest complains is running queries against tables in german. Most of my time is searching tables for fields i actually need. But i'm a complete SAP novice, i understand it gets easier with experience.
It has some effect for OLEDs, in which there is no backlight and dark pixels are simply off.
Having both parents be economically unproductive for an extended period of time is clearly not a tenable arrangement in the long term. But the long term, in this case, is measured in tens of generations. In the short term, most developed societies are more than wealthy enough to shoulder such a burden. People would still probably get looked at weird for having tons of kids, but that already happens anyway.
I'm reminded of a recent comment lamenting the overuse of Mir as a project name.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098891
I lost many, many hours to Subspace in the late 90s.

Screw Spiders.
Of course they didn't restrict themselves to "deepfakes"; they made sure to encompass anything "deceptive", "manipulated" media, "tropes", and "unwanted attention" - which, given every video clip has a start and end point, seems tailor made to allow them to flag eg clips of Ralph Northam endorsing infanticide or Hillary Clinton collapsing in public as leading to an incorrect political conclusion rather than being actually false.
Telegram says they don't backup secret chats.

Remove cloud backups from telegram and it's instantly less valuable for me.

I just changed phones - different operating systems. If it were WhatsApp, my chats would be gone.

Telegram keeps years of my chat history without becoming slow like WhatsApp would have been.
Would make more sense to point out how ridiculously short maternity leave is in many places. Like the US isn't it a couple of weeks or something and not even paid?

I noticed when visiting the US that breastfeeding was not very normal. Like they don't even teach it in a standard hospital.

Finnish moms are getting longer maternity leave than most countries in the world with this system. If other countries can manage with their short maternity leaves, I am sure Finnish mothers can manage too.

I mean I agree with you in principle that moms are needed for longer time than dads, but too often such questions are raised in an a disingenuous fashion to push back against gender equality.

What we do in Norway is that moms get some extra time at work for things like pumping. I believe the first year you get something like 1-2 hours at work for breast feeding.

As a dad I was feeding my child milk which had been pumped earlier.
Iowa goes first. It sets the tone of the entire primary. It sucks, it's ridiculous, it's antidemocratic, but it's the reality on the ground, it's an important part of any serious Democrat primary campaign since Carter won it in '76. Without making any claim about the intent of the DNC and the malice/incompetence axis, ~IF~ someone was going to ratfuck a candidate out of a primary victory, Iowa would be an important component.

*Edited for missing word
Many comments laud this as a step towards gender equality, which is a noble goal. However, I do wonder about the unforeseen consequences. All mammals (afaik) are raised by mothers. Humans are mammals. Humans do a good job of making changes to our nature, and for the most part those changes have resulted in better lives. However we still have things like nuclear families. Children aren't taken away from parents and raised by communities instead. So we don't throw everything out from nature, because some of it works well and reliably. Is there any science to suggest that there are no adverse effects on an infant from having an absent mother?

To move back up: I'm saying there might be a good reason mothers should be given maternal leave and that there might not be as good of a reason for men to be given paternal leave. Gender equality doesn't mean both genders are the same.