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> ...“have two kids and that’s as many as you should have”, and any more would introduce strong social pressure to stop.

I live in Denmark (but I suppose it's somewhat similar in Finland), there is very little social stigma to recieving support from the state.

Because such support is everywhere: child care is supported, parents are given money for each child under 18, when you turn 18 you get educational support, university is free (in fact you get educational support), when graduating you get unemployment support the next month while looking for a job.

I don't think we think of receiving benefits as burdening others, it's more a matter of solidarity. Most people more or less pay off the cost they incur to the state through taxes. So accepting benefits isn't shameful.

Note. it is possible to not get benefits, my little brother said no to educational support during highschool (while he was living at home). It was ~200 USD/month -- but he is a special case, most 18 yearolds do not say no to free money :)

(My little brother later did accept educational support during university ~1k USD / month).
I am of course talking about the same amount of total cache RAM, just split among more processes. Depending on distribution of the calls, you might get more cache misses, but I don't think it's guaranteed, and if it is, I don't think we can assume it's significant. Heck, you could even use more cache RAM; the cost of a total rewrite plus ongoing maintenance in a new language covers a fair bit of hardware these days.
The baffling thing to me about so many conspiracy theories from Sanders' camp is that the delay hurt Buttigieg far worse than Sanders.

Sanders is fine with no news from Iowa, the next primary is in his backyard and he has nationwide name recognition.

Buttigieg on the other hand needs Iowa to be huge for him, and this fiasco certainly hurt that strategy.
This is what the IPCC has to say about this: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-3/
Yup, sorry, was on a train smashed between people.
Mothers already have a year of maternal leave, this is about fathers getting decent amount of leave as well. No one is taking anything away from you.
And it usually ends with the mother taking 12 and the dad taking 2, and these 2 being spent on a longer vacation somewhere.

There are many reasons, it seems to me that external circumstances are shaping a lot of them.
> I noticed when visiting the US that breastfeeding was not very normal. Like they don't even teach it in a standard hospital.

Not sure how you would notice that when visiting, but, yes, they do.
People like to talk about and associate with Marcus Aurelius, because he
was a Roman emperor, and thus books like these will sell: "How to
think like a Roman Emperor".

How about "How to think like a crippled Greek slave who was freed"?
Doesn't sound that impressive. That is Epictetus, who has left an
indelible mark on Marcus Aurelius, who copiously rephrases him. Having
read a few translations of both, Aurelius and Epictetus, I firmly
suggest to start with Epictetus, because of his structured approach,
pungent and forceful prose, use of hyperbole, heavy irony, sarcasm,
humor and other devices.

For those intersted in Epictetus, based on my deep-dive into his work,
here is my long-term suggested reading for the next two years (in that
order):

• Discourses, Fragments and Handbook (translation by Robin Hard, intro
by Christopher Gill; Oxford University Press).

• Encheiridion, and Selections from Discourses, by A.A. Long. This is
a short book; the value addition here is the introduction, and the
outstanding glossary. (NB: there is no escaping full Discourses of
Epictetus.)

• The Inner Citadel, by Pierre Hadot. This is a fantastic dissection
of Marcus Aurelius' work; Hadot studied him for 25 years. It also
contains unparalleled summary of Epictetus, and many quotes of Seneca.

• Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide, by A.A. Long. Important
Note: to get maximum value out of this, you must have already read
at least one translation of Epictetus' full Discourses! This book
orients the reader to Epictetus with an extremely valuable context:
how not to misinterpret his unqualified faith in "divine providence"
(which can grate on our "modern ears"); the influence of Plato and the
"Socratic elunchus" (colloquially known as "Socratic Method"); deep
insights into Epictetus' own inimitable style; and a rich
bibliography. A.A. Long is a star.

• If you've come this far, you must also read the 1927 edition of
Epictetus translation, the two-book Loeb edition of Discourses;
by W.A. Oldfather.
When we had our first child (in Sweden), we could divide the time (13 months total) freely between the two of us. Then we got some extra money if each of us took more than 30% of that time. I think they stopped with the money bonus, but it was really great for us.

We are now having our second child (now in Norway), and while the father quota is great, they now require the mother to be "in activity" (i.e. working) if the father is to have anything more than his quota. This feels like an unnecessary restriction, which we didn't have in Sweden.
WSL 2 is virtualization-based (and likely Microsoft’s primary path going forward), but WSL 1 was not— it actually did implement the Linux ABI on top of the Windows kernel, allowing Linux processes to coexist alongside Windows processes (with no actual Linux kernel involved at any point).

It’s actually a pretty neat architecture— I’m on my phone right now and can’t track down a link, but it’s worth reading about if you’ve got the time. Kind of a shame that they moved on to the virtualization approach, but understandable— they’re trying to solve the same sort of problem as Wine, where you’ve got to mimic all the quirks of a foreign OS and it’s also a moving target (so you’re never “done”).
Its also good for the dads!

"Globally, paternity leave can increase fathers’ involvement within families and this has benefits for the children, the co-parent, the father himself, the economy and society."

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/06/16/involved-d...
Autonomous Trucking Convoys?
Lamenting the name of a thing is a Hacker News pastime. It’s a great way to get karma without contributing substantively to the discussion, or even reading the submission.

It’s often offered as if it’s good advice and the author was somehow completely unaware that other things might share the name, or that it will make SEO hard for a thing the commenter is likely to never want to search for.

I used to keep bookmarks of these comments, but then that became my Hacker News pastime and instead of enjoying the submissions and celebrating creators and hackers, I found I spent more time looking for people complaining about the names of things, it was hell, and I was almost at name-rage catalog sobriety, until now.
The article conflates a lot of things that are not connected to limited liability (unsafe airplanes and pollution!?). And it misunderstands limited and zero liability, pretending the former is the later? Then it fails to understand liability all together.

I understand why there is a human need to hold someone accountable for everything. But that's not realistically possible. Trying or pretending it is leads to very weird results (like the article)

There are so many failures here, I'd go as far as to call it "not even wrong". It's just a mess of accusations and (incorrect) assertions. The cynic in me wonders if its intended to just appeal to people's prejudices. But maybe I'm just cynical...
I would simply re-iterate my point. I think you (also, as a different person than I originally replied to) need to get out of your filter bubble. You do not understand why people find political correctness offensive. Note how I do not phrase that as a question. It is definitely not that they just don't want to have to be nice to people.

When you understand, you may well still not agree with it. (The idea that "understanding is agreement" is a very naive one, but popular nonetheless.) But you clearly do not understand it.
What does "computer science concentrator" or "statistics concentrator" mean? It's a first time I see such a title (?)
“In addition, the historical reasons for having invariants may no longer be consistent with the Census Bureau’s confidentiality mandate.”

us census, RIP
I'm a fan of ATS, really I am, but recommending ATS to someone who said Rust looks too complicated made me literally laugh out loud. Like I said, I like ATS and don't particularly care for Rust, but ATS is in no way less complicated that Rust. But I really do feel like the laugh I had is going to make my day better, so thanks.

Just a note: the above is not sarcasm
So how does it work? Does it use a virtual dom? How is the performance? What about the bundle size?

The answers to those questions should be on your home page.

Also it would be great if you included it here: https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark
https://habr.com/en/post/486856/
Or, the procedural content generator of the simulation has gotten significantly better.
I absolutely loved going to FOSDEM this year for the first time. It's an amazing community!
Windows 10 search bar bug frustrates users
I think it would be interesting to add a z dimension so you could sweep through it with the plane to look for the best aesthetic in the field. Kind of like passing a line laser through smoke. You could even slice along a spline or some other function (e.g. spiral) to get more effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyhySKWPtmA
Semi-supervised segmentation and genome annotation
Any talks you can recommend?
Will they go as far as to censor statements by politicians such as this? https://dailycaller.com/2016/10/09/media-bias-nbc-news-fact-...
The US, federally, already gives dads he same parental leave as moms.

(It's crap, but it's the same crap.)
You're better off spending your time making sure your general accessibility is up to snuff. Given standard OS widgets, textual error messages, proper i18n, etc. screen readers are much better at this than someone gluing on beeps and boops when they think appropriate.
You should specify which MS Dynamics you mean. Because Dynamics has AX/GP/CRM, everything under Dynamics 365 umbrella.

Working with Dynamics CRM and it is an absolute joy customizing the system and building custom stuff on top of it. Very well architected under the hood. Well, it's CRM ofcourse and not ERP monster.
> Quite often I need to know exactly which error messages will be thrown so that I can do things like internationalization.

Internationalization of error message? I didn't know that was a thing!

I'm curious about that, do you have some examples I could check?
I've been wishing for a clean way to write a render function using JSX for every Vue component. Once I tried out React I fell in love with using ordinary JavaScript array methods instead of v-for directives and so on.

(I'm a student, hate webpack, and don't want to learn it's nuances for a few years. I know from googling this can be done with sufficient webpack config).
I once worked on a project that only existed because the end users had seen the SAP web UI and rebelled, hard. In fairness I don't blame them; when we dug down it was easily the worst HTML I've ever seen and some impressively weird behaviour. I can't quite imagine which team at SAP thought it was appropriate to release as a tool.

So, we spent 6 months or so building a front-end that the users wouldn't refuse to touch. HTML5, responsive, attractive, flexible. I mostly worked on the toolkit side of the project to try and keep UIs vaguely standard across the multitude of screens.

And alongside us, the two highest paid contractors I've ever worked with (who seemed to be earning their money), were building what amounted to SQL stored procedures that went into a tool that let them be interfaced as REST APIs. The article talks about the amount to which businesses have to mash themselves around how SAP works - from what I saw and heard, that was even after they'd spent more customising SAP than I would expect to bill to have built very large parts of it from scratch.

So yes. I'm sure that, at a really large corporate scale, SAP has its advantages to organisations. But in a 20 year career it's probably my least favourite technology, including the email server which you could misconfigure so receiving an email would bring down the whole machine. I wouldn't be remotely surprised to see SAP disrupted into oblivion, and a bit of me would love to be part of the disruption.
Formula that adjusts formulation every day by detecting the chemical balance of the baby during nursing does not exist yet (ever? It’s an interesting biology challenge).
ServiceNow is garbage. They're probably less garbage than working with SAP but they're still garbage.
Usually this kind of article is about "migrating from massively popular language to more niche language that we like better".

This is more from niche to niche. Thought that was interesting, but yet the discussion here wasn't all that different to the usual. Guess it's flamewars always, regardless of popularity.
Under Finland's system mother are still given maternal leave, but the fathers now get mandatory leave too. That's how I understood it, no country would forbid the mother maternal leave, except maybe the US.
Was my first time as well this year, long time lurker. Especially liked the closing talk of maddog, but it seems it's not available (yet?) on the page.
That doesn't seem right.

If months of parental leave are granted to mothers but not to fathers (something not decided by who has the womb), we should expect to see motherhood being more damaging to a career than fatherhood.

If parental leave is offered equally to mothers and fathers, we should expect the disparity to shrink, though probably not disappear entirely as the womb thing does still remain.
I assume the health insurance costs of actually having a baby are quite non-trivial. Of course men tend to get e.g. heart attacks and the like, especially as they age, so I suppose it all balances out in the end.
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Not sure that this was the real intent. Germany was notorious for having many stay at home mothers.

So women had to chose between family and career, which partly explains the low birth rate.
Actually it is still the case because school finishes around 2 pm, so many parents (often the mother) have to work part time because of that.

An indirect consequence maybe a decrease of the gender salary gap, but I doubt this was the main purpose...
School of the Future Festival 2020
Foxtrot picks up $17M to reimagine the convenience store
> Why has the GUI so dramatically regressed from 1995?

(1) Mobile caused a generation to at least temporarily sideline all interest in desktop UIs to focus on phones, causing desktop UI to reach near-abandonware status. This seems to be changing now that it's clear that the mobile phone as currently implemented is not going to replace or grow to encompass desktop's role in computing.

(2) There has been an explosion of desktop UI libraries and rendering engines with the web rendering engine (Electron and similar) being the most popular. All these different engines have their own notions of styling and color defaults and theming, causing unification of the desktop to break down. This is largely the fault of desktop OS vendors for failing to offer a unified platform or keep their platforms up to date, forcing people to seek alternatives.
Looks like you guys have reached a deadlock :) It's not all about IQ though. Breastmilk works way better than formula for general health, it helps the baby fight infections and build a good immune system.
Author of the language here, I think it is a major advantage for several reasons:

- the documentation is in one place instead of several places

- the dependencies of a Mint project is usually a few megabytes since everything is included instead of hundreds of megabytes (I have a production app that does not have any dependencies at all)

- only need to learn one (compact) thing, instead of many complex things (complex since there is no compiler to make it simple)

- only need to update the code once there is a new version of the language not every time there is a new version of a dependency

On top of the libraries mentioned the language also includes a formatter, package manager, builder/dev server and testing environment, also for which you would need to add dependencies.

All of these add up to less cognitive load so I can focus on building the product instead of managing the development environment.

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Disagreed. Child bearing is only an initial factor; after the baby is out it goes away. The problem is breastfeeding, but there are ways around that (and some mothers, for a variety of reasons or impediments, don't breastfeed; in that case it's completely moot).

So minus breastfeeding, the asymmetry has a large component of "it was always done like this", plus the mistaken idea some employers have that the leave is some sort of "vacation".

As a new father: quality time with my baby is a huge deal and it's unfair that society expects the mom to do all the work (and spend all that time). I think this should be a concern for all fathers; I find my friends who don't prioritize this and dump it on the mother are behaving in an insensitive way. They get to work on "real stuff" and interact with other adults -- even commuting to work can feel like a respite from caring for a newborn -- and when they get home they don't understand why the mother is burned out and grumpy: "but you stayed at home while I worked, why are you so tired and upset?"
I mint to name it something else.
+1 for Stylus. I've gotten into the habit of fixing little things in most sites I visit regularly, and it's made my browsing experience much nicer.
That is election fraud, perpetrated by the people running the elections themselves, not voter fraud. If you can't trust the people running the elections, then no amount of voter ID is going to matter.
https://xkcd.com/915
> I’m curious what what happen if someone wanted to have ten kids and abused this system, and the mother didn’t work.

Don't take this the wrong way, but that is such an American way of thinking. You guys are so preoccupied with thinking about somebody getting something they don't deserve that you forget about thinking about what is good for everybody else.

Consider this, Nordic countries have generous public services in all walks of life. If we applied American logic to Nordic countries we should expect the following outcomes:

1. Nobody works, because unemployment benefits are so generous.
2. Everybody is on never ending education, because education is next to free.
3. Everybody has 10 kids because of long parental leaves.
4. Everybody is sick and unhealthy because nobody cares about their health because hey health care is free.

Of course no Nordic countries is anything like this. We have the highest work participation rate in the world (more than supposedly hard working Japanese). Nordic people are quite healthy and live long. Most people just have 2 kids. The average birth rate is something like 1.7 to 1.8 in Nordics. In other words we are under replacement.

So our system definitely helps getting more kids as countries with less generous services have much lower birth rates. Look e.g. at developed asian countries how terrible their birth rates are. Yet the generous system does not lead to some abundance of kids.

Let us get real. Having kids is a lot of work. I love my kids to bits but I don't want more than two. I also enjoy my work and other things. So does my wife. Why would we want tons of kids? Some weirdos probably do, but so what? Why should not I and other Norwegian benefit from a great system because a couple of oddballs exist than abuse the system?

Put some trust in your fellow man. People are not all selfish and self centered assholes ready to take, take and take whatever they can get their hands on.
I take the EFF with a grain of salt. I really value their mission, but yes, some of their articles can be a bit fear based. However, behind every fear based article is a reason based argument, but the reason based argument wouldn't have the same shock value.

For the Ring doorbell, I am less worried about an Amazon employee misusing my data than a group of thieves hacking WiFi networks (really not hard) to steal Ring videos in transit to be able to stake out multiple neighborhoods at once. If an Amazon employee has access, it's (probably) not E2E encrypted. So the question is, do you trust Amazon to make their devices, servers, and communication between both secure? I don't because it's not really in their interest to do so.
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Hi,
I'm working on a freelancing platform for autistic people. What would be your version for an MVP for such platform? I'm currently using 2 Typeforms (apply as freelancer + submit projects) and a Telegram group to send the jobs, do you have a leaner version?
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We used to live in caves and evolving past that touched off a chain of events that led to the subprime mortgage crisis. But we don't lament our evolution. Living indoors, while messy with unintended side effects if you choose to look at it that way, is something we value.
I can confirm that savory oatmeal is a great vegetarian way to start the day. It's counter-intuitive and surprisingly good. My favorite preparation involves mixing in cashew nut butter with a little tomato sauce.
It implies the market is more skeptical of the transformational power of a standalone mattress maker.

It's relevant to the HN community!

You have a company that was valued over $1B during funding rounds that has seen that valuation cut in half. That's an example of how the rise of the mega-companies like Amazon and Walmart are suffocating new entrants. Your reinvention of the lounge chair probably won't be a startup now, when Amazon can have a knock-off pushed out the door in a couple of months.
No argument here; I'm a pretty big supporter of Lisps as a whole; most of my personal projects are done with Clojure (or ClojureScript) in no small part due to the power afforded to me by macros.

In fairness to a lot of people, I think that most of the folks in the "MACROS ARE BAD!!!" crowd are under the impression that C macros are the only way people do them, and assume that even Lisp macros are just are also just glorified text-expansion. I would be against macros too if that were the case.