skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great news!

With the current direction of US politics, as a US citizen, I find myself increasingly entertaining the thought of becoming an ex-pat.

Top countries I've thought about have been the Nordic countries - Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Iceland and have considered the Netherlands as well.

They seem to have reasonable blended economies with social policies that make (more) sense.

No country/systems is perfect and I'm always willing to try something new for a time.
You won't be able to do that in the forseeable future.

Multiple reasons why:

- Rich Harris (author of Svelte): eager (when laziness is preferable), styling is problematic, add confusion to attributes vs. props with disastrous ergonomics, leaky design, bad underlying model (DOM), global namespace [1]

- Serhii Kulykov (building Vaadin, a Web Components library): no form participation, broken autofill, broken accessibility, breaks SVG references, cannot extend built-in elements, handling focus, handling selection [2]

- Sarah Mei (Salesforce UX): Web Components break accessibility and assistive technology [3]

On top of that, you will always need a library/framework on top of them to orchestrate them, pass data around etc.

[1] https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...

[2] https://dev.to/webpadawan/beyond-the-polyfills-how-web-compo... and https://dev.to/webpadawan/the-journey-of-web-components-wron...

[3] https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1198069119897047041
You are going to vote though, correct? Lesser of two evils and all that.

If you do not make your voice known, you will be out into the same camp as voter apathy, at which point why should those running care about you if you don't vote?
It is amazing how Europeans like to make fun of Americans for their supposed ignorance of political matters, yet they manage to boast this kind of non-sense that GP wrote. Elternzeit can be for up to 14 months, but it comes with lots of restrictions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247242 It is not some kind of "cash-for-kids" system that turns wombs into goldmines. Even Kindergeld (~220EUR/month for every child until they are 18) is not really profitable.

As to your gut feel: once you get used to the idea that the Welfare State is something that you can not opt out of and how strong it is at leveling out society, I am sure you wont feel like you are "burdening other people". After I moved here and started leaving 43% of my paycheck to the government, 14% to income-based (not actuarial risk based) health insurance and paying 19% for VAT and seeing how little I was keeping of that "good software engineer income", I started worrying less about my burden and more about how I could get some of my fair share back.
When did I say anything against solidarity with other minority groups? That's where all my time and attention goes, not rotting rural white cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers.
All of that has been hired out, because my job enables me to. I do work I enjoy so I don’t have to do work I don’t enjoy.
hardened_malloc
In Korean cooking, there is a flavor known as "cool". Think thin, really heated broth, spicy with green pepper spiciness, the more nasal type (as opposed to red spiciness, more tongue prominent)

In Chinese cooking, there is the "numbing" flavor, red sichuan pepper, white pepper, cloves, et al.

Flavor is simply more complex than the headline that there are only four, and _______.
Like the majority of the US? The vast majority of the country does not support him or his ideas.
See also: "A Trip Down Market Street," filmed just 4 days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_Down_Market_Street
The problem here is there's no way to know the "spirit" without knowledge of its history.

Why not just say what you mean, instead? If the desire is "no replies that are or might spark a controversy", then why doesn't the rule say that?

Better yet, go all the way and forbid replies entirely. That achieves the same stifling of conversation, in this one context where it's deemed "terrible", without the enforcement that can seem capricious and arbitrary (as you say yourself, "it's often not easy to tell the difference") and can needlessly shame an otherwise well-intentioned commenter.
There's a difference between the minimal standard of raising a child to functioning adulthood, which is what orphanages generally manage, and raising a well-adjusted, emotionally healthy person who's not held back, having been given only the bare minimum of rearing.

All the research points to active parenting/interaction with children from day 1 being extremely beneficial.
It's pretty amazing that a volunteer-organized event like FOSDEM can turn around video from the event like that. Lots of company-run events can take ages to put video up assuming that they do so at all.

In all fairness, I think companies often feel they have to release polished videos that have gone through a relatively thorough editing process and then have to justify the ROI associated with paying to have the videos created and edited. And the reality is that 30-60 minute filmed presentations often get just a handful of YouTube views.

Nonetheless, it's impressive that FOSDEM gets all this posted. It's especially nice because, even if you were there, so much is going on at the same time and it's often so hard to get into rooms that it's nice to catch up on anything you really wanted to see but missed.
In politics, there's a huge incentive for insiders to appear to be a kingmaker. Names like Shadow and ACRONYM play into that stereotype of a behind the scenes puppet master, that politicians will pay big dollars to get them / keep them in power.

At a larger level, it makes understanding whats happening really difficult. Its hard to tell who is actually corrupt and who is "peacocking" corruption.
We could also stop pressuring women to conform to male standards of behavior and economic performance and instead celebrate the fact that they alone are able to perform the sacred work of growing and nurturing new human life. Then the “problem” that policies like this are trying to fix simply ceases to exist.
The Mint Guide page (Learn link) discusses Elm and it being one of the roots of this language.

> What is wrong with Elm?

> Elm has great developer experience, but it being a purely functional language leads to some boilerplate code and makes it harder to learn. Also, it's not possible to contribute or influence the language in any meaningful way.
Definitely one of my favorite games of all time! I liked the server that had the economic model with all the different kinds of guns, shields, and armors it was super fun.
The shareholders are not usually the ones making the decisions, the managers are. Rather than going after Joe Average's pension when he put $100 in an index fund that turned out to own Dow Chemical, go after the managers.

Perhaps a rule that anyone in a decisionmaking position who earned over $1m total comp last year is partially liable for fines against the company?

In the UK a few decades ago there was a huge fiasco when Lloyds, one of the few remaining places whose investors have unlimited liability because the company dates from 1686, dumped liabilities relating to asbestos onto them. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/nov/04/business.perso...

Was Sir William Jaffray responsible, in the 1980s, for the actions of those marketing and installing asbestos in the 1970s? He ended up liable for it anyway.
Regaining control of your smartphone with postmarketOS and Maemo Leste - Status of Linux on the smartphone was p nice if you're interested on Linux running on smartphones

https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.webm

https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.mp4
I know I'm going to be downvoted and already regret deciding to share this but...

I've never understood parental leave. If I want to go on a vacation, I have to plan for that and save time to use for it. If you want to have a child, you should have to plan to save your time to take and spend with the child or be in a financial place where one parent can quit their job to stay with the child. It's not like you go to sleep one night and wake up to find a baby next to you that was delivered by a stork. My fiance and I plan to try to have a child once we're married in May but it's something we will save our time off for during the early days of its life because we are choosing to try and have a child.

If a company wants to offer this as a benefit, that's awesome, but I don't understand why governments need to create law to make it a mandatory thing. Having a child is a choice.
Definitely an arms race. There's already a solution for if YouTube injects ads directly into the videos -- https://sponsor.ajay.app/ it works for skipping ads inserted by the creators, at least.
reCAPTCHA increasingly doesn't even give me a captcha. Instead, they simply deny me from even trying; They send this instead of the challenge:

<div>
<noscript>
Please enable JavaScript to
get a reCAPTCHA challenge.<br>
</noscript>
<div class="if-js-enabled">
Please upgrade to a
<a href="[1]">supported browser</a>
to get a reCAPTCHA challenge.
</div>
<br><br>
<a href="[2]" target="_blank">
Why is this happening to me?</a>
</div>

They probably don't like my non-standard user agent string and they definitely don't like that I block a lot of their spyware, but reCAPTCHA used to work properly for many years with the same/similar browser configuration.

[1] https://support.google.com/recaptcha/?hl=en#6223828

[2] https://support.google.com/recaptcha#6262736
Under Armour dumped an app
key paragraph:
"In this moment in history, the network of institutions that comprise the Democratic Party, from cable news channels to law firms to campaign operative networks to Silicon Valley lobbying outposts like Facebook and Google, are hollow and obviously incompetent."

This seems to be hyperbole, but I am not familiar with Matt Stoller so I reserved judgement and read a number of the back issues of his newsletter (archived at no charge on the site at https://mattstoller.substack.com/ ). I came across this https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/airplanes-and-accounting-... which was written in December and correctly predicts the subsequent collapse of Boeing.

Both articles are well written and insightful, the analysis is not from a political perspective but from a careful review of governance models and the impact of incentives on behavior.
Eh? It's either 12/18 months of EI (split however) + 5/8 weeks reserved for the non primary caregiver.
Their entire salary, or close to. They're there to ensure profitability and stability, so you choose stable and reliable vendors.
Definition of conspiracy

1 : the act of conspiring together

Definition of conspire

1a : to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or an act which becomes unlawful as a result of the secret agreement

b : scheme

2 : to act in harmony toward a common end

Following the above, a conspiracy can be "the act of working in harmony toward a common end". Otherwise known as Politics. Whether there's a conspiracy here isn't up for debate; by definition a political party is a conspiracy. What's debatable is if they conspired illegally.
As the other comment stated, I would say you're not there yet, sclae-wise. Hard to tell without further details, so. If you decide to the SAP-route in the future I would advise the following (no complete list by far, so):

- Stick to the standard, the smaller you are the less customization you do. ususally I'd say 90% standard, if you're small aim for 100%. makes it faster and easier to implement. And cheaper, because you need less external resources.

- Wait. SAP is deprecating SAP APO by 2023 (IIRC, something like that). So implementing before that could be a problem. Either you end with a legacy system and have your first release change right after, or during, implementation. And release changes are unique kind of hell themselves. or you end up with a new system that is yet untested. I wouldn't want either of that.

- Try to model your business already now along SAP-processes. First, these processes aren't that bad. especailly for the back office side of things as other pointed out already. Plus, it makes and future SAP implementation a lot easier. Same should be true for other ERP-systems, but I have not that much experience with those. Aside Odoo, which I wouldn't touch with a ten feet pole ever again in my life.

- get external consultants. Really, get them. get the good ones. A lot of hours. At least one for every module of SAP you want to implement. And have one of your own devs sitt on the consultants lap during the project. One per consultant. It's expensive, sure. But less expensive than an aborted SAP-project.

- Invest hours, days, weeks and months in user training. From day one, ideally as soon as you have a test envioronment. Start with key-users, experienced, smart peolple open for change. And work from ther to every singel user of the system. You need their buy in, without even the best SAP-project will fail. These people are alos the backbone for the future, trea them well and listen to them.

In case you want to hear more of my rambling, just shoot me a mail, adress is in my profile.
==Companies would be better off using open source solutions and hiring developers to integrate various systems from scratch.==

Funny enough, this is the type of solution SAP is typically displacing. There are huge flaws in the fully-customized process you suggest.
But kids dont really require one parent for the rest of that parents' life? So they then resume a non-existing career, or do they just stay home when the kids are in school etc? Living in Sweden this has always seemed a bit weird to me, since "stay at home parent" basically doesnt exist here, unless you are (involuntarily) unemployed.
The T2D3 Path to SaaS Growth and $1B Valuation
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I'm a senior engineer with 20 years experience building and operating online products, including at Facebook, major ISPs and many startups.

My core technical skillset is in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Linux, AWS, GCP and Kubernetes, but over time I've been involved in most aspects of architecting, building, running and scaling online services. Keen interest in the business / product areas as well.

I was one of the first 6-7 Facebook SRE hires in Europe (2010-2011), have experience at numerous startups and before that in larger orgs in the ISP/hosting world.

Happy to provide hands-on DevOps expertise to solve your infrastructure / performance / cost / reliability challenges. I can also be relied on for technology vision, systems design, technical operations, mentoring and general engineering wisdom. I excel at understanding short vs long-term trade-offs, identifying performance bottlenecks & future technical debt, quickly learning and assessing new pieces of technology.

Available preferably as a contractor (part time or short term projects welcome), but I'll also consider full time involvement for principal roles (Head of Infrastructure, Lead DevOps, co-founder / CTO / VP Eng ) at startups.

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How to Grow Your Small Business Using a Mobile App?
I use uMatrix to demonstrate what is happening on the Web to non-technical people. The redlining is an excellent visual cue. People are shocked at the dozens and dozens of tracking and analytics beacons that are loaded on any major site.
What Is the Madden Curse? – Digital Trends
Personally, given 2016 and now Iowa, I would rather err on the side of allowing users to find "on the fence" content outside of Twitter, rather than letting the propaganda chips fall where they may. These are ultra-powerful tools, and our society clearly hasn't mastered them (yet).
but they still need to get his job done
Am I the only one that finds the "improved" version much worse?

There are digital artifacts all over the place, like the steam at the beginning, the people's faces, any place there is movement.

I see that some things don't move as "jerky" but I think the original is far superior to watch.

Edited to add: Here's a link to a quick comparison image. These aren't exactly the same frame or size, but close enough to see what I'm talking about.
https://imgur.com/a/A3roH54
> Nobody forces the moms either

In some European countries women are not allowed to work in the following 6 or 8 weeks after giving birth (maybe even longer somewhere?).
I worked as a PeopleSoft developer in college. It's a competitor to SAP. Working with esoteric software taught me how to properly read documents with hundreds of pages. It also showed me how to get by in a less than ideal circumstances.

I am a bit of a maverick in that sort of environment, though. I wrote a JSON encoder [1] to ship PeopleCode objects to the browser via these webscript endpoints you could make in order to use modern web technologies. PeopleSoft actually moved in that exact same direction years later with better JSON support, 'FluidUI', and better html5/javascript support.

ERP systems are hell to work with. It was fun, but ultimately I was glad to get back to the real world. I got back to my main interest C#, but then went fully into the Clojure world :).

[1] https://bitbucket.org/cjbarre/jsoft.json/src/master/
They'll label these things "mostly false", a la Snopes.
Yeah, plus (I think) insurers just quote a price per employee, not a price per man/woman etc. So maybe it's easier to "price" the cost of hiring a woman (maternity leave) than a man (heart attacks or whatever)...
I'm a US male who's 1 month into my 6 months fully-paid paternity leave with our first child.

My wife has roughly 4.5 months between banked PTO and FMLA/disability leave.

I'm sitting at home right now watching/changing/feeding our baby while my wife is out at doctor's appointments taking care of her health. Having the flexibility to practice a modicum of self-care without neglecting the health and happiness of our child has been such a huge boon to our family.

If anyone has any questions about the experience, feel free to ask.
What Is Apple A12 Bionic Chip and Why This Chip Is So Powerful?
Custom colors worked in the vast majority of the post-95 Windows apps I ever used. Some of them did custom theming that ignored system colors, but a lot of those had swappable themes so you could just get a custom theme that was dark. GTK and QT all typically obeyed Windows system colors when I used apps built with those. I don't know for certain that the JVM's UI toolkits obeyed them, but I'm pretty sure they did.

The Windows "high contrast" accessibility mode relied on system colors so you would expect them to work.

The modern hell era of 'every UI element is a png file' is specifically the fault of Apple who caused it (with iOS's gaudy visual style that could not be efficiently rasterized using vector graphics by the average developer) and reinforced it with the way they handled the introduction of Retina displays (adding specific tooling to support tons of massive resolution-specific pngs that developers then shipped in their apps)

System colors were very easy to tap into using VB6, Delphi, VB.Net, C#, etc. If people weren't obeying system colors they just didn't care about obeying user intent or about helping people with visual impairment.
But the content is the article in this case. The content is fake.. No ? Maybe I have messed up the semantics.

I'm not trying to be difficult, but is it not valid in this context to correlate "lie" with "fake" ?
no it is not
What? Why would giving men paternity leave suddenly mean that women would become absent mothers?

As a species that grew out of bands of hunter gatherers, tribes and communities have played a huge role in raising children. Our modern circumstances are the exception — two parents, often shouldering the burden largely on their own.
The HN guidelines say, "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups." Casper is a startup, and the valuation of startups and their IPO prospects are quite important to a lot of people on here.

It is a short article, and there are probably slightly better ones out there, but all of the important information is in this article: the current range and valuation, the prior range and valuation, and the valuation at the last funding round. This tells you a lot.

People post things from Twitter all the time that have even less.
I'm not sure what the point of this is, you can post any studies you want but that wont change the fact that plenty of people wont breastfeed for one reason or another
They were using the Mendix "low code application development platform", which I suspect already comes with many ERP features.
Tailwind CSS 1.2
(edit: why is this -2? I was asking a serious question!)

>14 months paid leave

Certainly you meant weeks... FMLA only covers 12 weeks of unpaid leave here in the United States.
All of your assertions are false. Male wolves and foxes help with child rearing.

Aka Pygmy Men breastfeed (some men can lactate a little) Most Women outside these tribes don't look for it in a man. Whereas there's do.

Social Services does take children away from there parents and raise them instead.

It's only culture that says just the bad children.

Colonialism commonly took natives away to be raised by society instead.

The kibbutz movement used collective child rearing. They thought it was the only way for equality.

Nuclear families are mostly a western thing. Plus we see more and more young people living together in shared housing.some in a family atmosphere. Why not shared child rearing?

Of course if there are good reasons then someone can provide them righ
What I am aiming for is to move away from writing JavaScript or minimize it to the level where it's more controllable.

I've come from Elm where it is done in a very good way, but it's too restrictive, and I like react and it's expressiveness so I wanted to combine the two.

Vue is really good but at the end you are still writing JavaScript which is really hard to do in a safe way. And from my experience Typescript isn't 100% safe as well.
So then why would men be entitled to paternal leave? Because another sex is given leave?
There's the HN Special add-on for Firefox and Chrome. It lets you set a dark style or also use an alternate stylesheet for HN.
Humans are herd animals. From what I know there is consensus among developmental psychologists for attachment theory. A theory that roughly states that the caregiver or caregivers a child has from 6 months of age to two years old is very important and forms how the child will form relationships with other humans during the rest of their life. It does not need to be a single caregiver nor that the caregiver is the mother.

Edit: Historically it has not been uncommon for the mother to die while giving birth. So it has always been important for us to accept other caregivers than our birth mothers.
Hey, over-engineering is a German core competency! And we germans are thourough!
They're both forms of misleading manipulation. DL is just more capable.
Welfare for the Aged in Nigeria, Sustenance for Declining Elderly and Aged Males
How so? I've been a windows developer for over a decade and I'm not aware of any.
Ad rates are continually dropping, so I'm sure the current figure is lower. And you're assuming a random blogger would get the same kind of yield as the mostly professional participants in the ad network there.

And even if you're right, an extra $2k in income would only be nothing to sneeze at if the ROI is decent. But competition for eyeballs is fierce. There's a reason that even professional writers are having a hard time making ends meet.