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I believe parental leave should be provided, but I don't see how anyone expects employers to shoulder the burden of providing paid parental (in reality maternity) leave without an implicit bias towards hiring men (or at least paying women less). You can provide the same benefit to men and women, but let's be honest, even when available most men take only a fraction of the allowed time.

I guess you can force people to take parental leave, but then that just further encourages discrimination against people of child bearing age.

Even if the federal government picks up the bill, it's still a discontinuity in business, something an employer would want to avoid.

> Withholding paid family leave isn’t just bad for parents and babies, it’s bad for business.

If this were true businesses wouldn't have to be forced to provide parental leave. You can point to a study that "proves" that parental leave is good for business, and obviously it makes sense as a benefit. Some companies pride themselves on their parental leave and use it to attract candidates. But obviously it doesn't make sense for many businesses, otherwise they would all be doing it.

It's like one of those things that promises everything to everyone. Like veganism. Proponents tell you it tastes better, is great for your health, is better for the environment, and is cheaper. Obviously it can't be better in all dimensions otherwise everyone would be doing it. You see the same thing with minimum wage. How paying people more is great for everyone and the business. Sometimes it is, but there are trade offs and someone that doesn't run a business can't do a "study" and tell you the optimal policy for your business

When you can't even have a conversation in good faith about the tradeoffs in a policy, nothing will change.

Saying "other countries do it" isn't really an answer. There's no clear solutions
Long list of expected complications from pregnancy...

> OK. So … what do you expect my employer to say about this?

> Congratulations! See you Monday!

Sadly accurate. I worry about my disability getting me fired if I have a bad episode.
I'm being pedantic but,

>Every distribution can be described as a curve. The width of this curve is known as its variance.

Not every distribution has a variance. Some notable examples include the Cauchy distribution (or Lorentz lineshape in physics),

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution

the Power law distribution for powers lesser or equal to 2,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution

and the Levy distribution,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lévy_distribution

These are not mathematical curiousities but actually describe real physical systems.

Additionally, the variance works as a "width" only for unimodal distributions. Any variance based metrics or analysis should only be used after checking for multimodality and, for multimodal data, with extreme caution thereafter.
Severe inflation and enabling the "mask/vax police" populace are things governments do to control people further. Rich people like inflation cause theyre fine. They hate deflation cause then they lose money. And enabling a populace of people just as ignorant as anti vaxxers to police people on how they act is essentially allowing culturally accepted witch hunts.
I am also 36 and zoning is not stopping me from buying a house, lack of trucking to move out of state is because I want my stuff to actually show up in a reasonable amount of time.
Exactly the same here. My AirPods are worse than useless now because they enticingly work for 5 ~ 20 minutes before instantly dying.

I now use corded earphones because they're consistent and always ready to work.
Apparently from the satellite images the ML can identify more of them than a human eye can see while flying. For example you can't see the roots whereas ML can from the image identify that. That's how I understood why they used ML. It wouldn't have been published in Nature if the research was bollocks. Also how could you count 1.8 billion from flying over? Humanly impossible. Hence again the need of ML.
What a coincidence! I was thinking about land being the forgotten third factor of production. Thanks for confirming that thought.
My experience suggests to me that there is a strong perceptual component to depression: It is a sort of blinkering of the internal eye.

The world does not literally become black and white, but nothing in the world is capable of engaging the mind enough to elicit even the briefest saccade and fixation upon it. Attention must be forced upon objects in the world, laboriously and painfully, and the entire perceptual experience is dull and muted, as if the internal emotional pain has become so overwhelming that it has cast a grey fog over the landscape.

The symptoms are profoundly physical; physiological in nature. It is without doubt a disease of the physical body; albeit one which often seems driven by a fractured and injured psyche throwing out discordant, disordered and malign thoughts.

Recovery from depression feels like waking up. The blinkers withdraw, and the world expands, becoming larger, richer and more engaging. The brilliant yellow of a flower is quantitatively still the same, yet draws the eye and becomes an occasion for delight whereas before there would have been nothing.

This experience makes the most sense for me when I consider perception as an active process. Information does not simply fall into the eyes to be passively consumed. Our perceptual experience is a dynamic thing - a continual act of the imagination, only just held in check by our senses. Depression distorts and undermines that part of our imagination which we use to see the world.
You could try the Stylus extension and add your own:

https://add0n.com/stylus.html
random static is the most novel thing that could be present.

Unstructured noise music was novel for while, but by now that has also been done.
This was mostly a fashion thing though, super dangerous and illegal in traffic to boot. You really shouldn't drive a fixed gear bicycle in traffic unless you have at least one and better yet two additional brakes. But according to purists that spoils the lines of their bikes, apparently fashion trumps safety.
The freehub was not invented for another 30 years. But I see that the Cambio Corsa did have a freewheel (similar idea). I was wrong to think it used four fixed gears. So indeed it could have used a chain tensioner!

Video showing it in action (skip to the middle): https://youtu.be/MQe0fLEQ2jY
If we're playing the anecdata game, then my drawer full of frequently used and yet still perfectly fine Apple cables would like a word with you.
> When I think of smart people—like really smart people, not just the smartest guy on the bus, but theoretical-physicist-smart—I can only conclude I’m a damn idiot

What if you have the upper hand and are emotionally intelligent, while lacking academically or in other areas? There's different types of intelligence, like for example being smart about your own body, or being both mentally and physically fit, ready to take on whatever life throws at you.

Maybe some smart physicists are secretly depressed? Maybe they're a bit eccentric and not good in social situations where they're afraid to be their unstable selves. It's all about context and perspective.
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It's the average price of new construction over time. Generally one would not expect new construction to come in dramatically under market right?
'Built-in' matters it's not custom software used by the prosecution on which no expert could be consulted.

It's also likely that precedent testimony exists on using an iPad to zoom into an image or video in other cases.
There is also "networksetup", which allows you to do pretty much anything you want with network configuration. Useful if you want to e.g. automate VPN network switching or locations.
Thanks for the feedback, great idea with the demo video. To help answer your question: the app lets users interact with their whiteboard photos and transfer physical notes to Kanban cards that can be more easily tracked and organized. If you're like me, you may have a bunch of seemingly random whiteboard pictures on your phone with no good way to manage everything they capture. Bustl lets you do just that as well as serving as a whiteboard photo hub so your notes are all in one place.
This is my understanding as well. Although it would be interesting if Indian law forbids entities from signing away this right. (Not all contracts are valid in all jurisdictions - which is certainly well-known to the general public, because every individual hires an attorney to review every Terms of Service, and makes sure they understand and agree with every clause before they agree to it.)
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Is my point nonsense, or are you unable to see past your own pedantry?

Sure, if you insist on invoking Pliny The Elder, I'll grant you that magnetite was originally a bad name. And then humans discovered electromagnetism. Now geology students all over the world invoke a word that didn't even exist - which has the same root name as the mineral, owing to the fact that the mineral has that property. It's now a good name. And every modern geology student is thankful, because they think of "magnetism", not the thousand-year-old root of the word "magnetism" which predated our discovery of the physical phenomenon.

I wrote "presumably" in my reply to you above because I don't know or care what seussite is, and was typing on a cell phone at 2AM. The point was the point. If I flipped a boolean bit because you were trying to trick me, then all you've done is prove that those examples are also bad names rather than good names.

Names ought to have meaning, when possible, rather than being arbitrary.

If you still think that point is nonsense, and are unable to understand that argument beyond the details of an example, then you're going to have a long successful career as the guy people regret inviting to their party.

PS: Disagreeing with an argument doesn't make it nonsense.
The article explain why studies with a placebo branch are important. You have a lot of known unknown and unknown unknown. In particular, as discussed in the article, counting the number of cases/death is hard.

The main problem with the article is that all the vaccines are approved after a RCT were the vaccine is compared to a placebo. For example, look at the slide #6 in https://investors.biontech.de/static-files/53f0968a-279b-4f8... and more details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...
My definition grew into this immutable formula:

The only relevant skill an artist can have is to capture their emotions in their work in such a way that the audience of it is made to both experience and ponder those. Extra points for complex compositions.

There is something to be said about the kind of feeling you chose to share. You can be a dick about it while stil perfecting the challange.

The white dot on canvas or the entirely white canvas are simpel displays of arrogance mixed with some prestige. Not a particularly refined combination of and it reduces to anger in many viewers. It doesnt enrich the spectators life, they know those emotions well enough which, like love songs, makes it poor taste.
Social signals aren't real-time light-beams that someone has to be there to witness; they make up our likes and interests and who we are.

Let's say you are in a museum alone, some of the works presented can resonate and excite you more than the others, but you can't share your excitement with anyone. Where is the social signaling element gone then?

Lets say: Two months later I'll be at a dinner party and over a bowl of Caldo Verde I'll recount an anecdote about the Paul Manship sculpture that I saw that time in the museum on my own, and how it was placed in relation to the other works.
Two words: disc brakes.
It would if people would just stop having children beyond their means. But they continue to do so and then cry about it.
Evolution and my mother in law agree on one thing: the answer is have grandchildren.
> The difference is that the CNN and the Washington Post don't intentionally lie:

Oh, sweet summer child…
> most men take only a fraction of the allowed time

I truly don't understand this, and each time I see the stats on it sit in even greater disbelief. Why would anyone turn down the opportunity to spend, for an awful lot of companies, fully paid time off work to spend time with their new family?

Guessing I'm much less "career-minded" than of lot of these guys, but it makes zero sense to me that you wouldn't stretch this benefit as far as you can do.

Edit: appreciate all the comments! Main themes are to reiterate it's not an easy task by any stretch, and fears (both real and assumed) over retaliation for time out. I'm not yet lucky enough to be father, but I still can't square either of those between work and family time.
And how do you resolve conflicting technological claims from the defense and prosecution? By expert witness. Which is what the judge did. So what’s the problem?
If you want that time off just ask for it off or just quit your job. No one is forcing you to work. You aren't a slave.
I agree with you. Both sides are in it together, conspiring to remove choice whilst using 'democracy' as a fig leaf to cover the ugly truth. Witness the full force of the establishment being turned on the Brexit Party when they threatened to disrupt the cosy duopoly.
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Hey all, I just created https://proposals.es which, like the title says, lets you browse through ECMAScript proposals.

Some of the main features:

* All proposals are colocated in one place and sorted by stars (In the tc39/proposals GitHub repo it is split up in 6 different markdown files with proposals in no particular order)
* You can filter proposals via search
* Proposal READMEs as well as additional details show side by side
* Proposals without a README still render as an iframe

You can find the source on GitHub: https://github.com/saadq/proposals.es. Built with Next.js, React, and TypeScript.
The skill required to create a thing is not the sole arbiter of its value, whether in art, physics, or business. After all, it would be foolish to claim that the most useful discoveries in physics were the ones that required the most difficult advanced math or that the most valuable companies are the ones that require the most skill to manage.

There are many technically skilled artists, physicists, and entrepreneurs whose names you will never learn because the never ended up doing anything particularly original. (And of course there are many original thinkers who will never be known because they're just not technically skilled enough to execute on their vision.)

In my opinion, value in many fields ends up being the cross product of "doing the thing right" and "doing the right thing".
Congratulations, you're part of the "Some Linux user agents get through" segment noted in the second paragraph.
https://pharo.org/
They are people who think their neighborhood should never change after they move in.
We use praw, it works great if you fill out Reddit's forms to register your user-agent as per their terms of service. We get data about all posts, but don't get the comments themselves, just the post metadata (titles, likes, number of comments, etc). Good luck!
That line of thinking applies to everything, though: age, race, religion, disability. There is no developed-world country where employers don't have to be considerate of their employees needs, including the US, it's just that the US currently draws the line differently to everywhere else... just move the line a little, this isn't a radical change.
Hey HN,
Today, I'm happy to announce the launch of https://PomoPlanner.app, which is a daily planner that is based on the Pomodoro technique.

You most likely already know about the Pomodoro technique. To summarize, it's a productivity technique where you use a timer to work exclusively on a specific task for 25 minutes before taking a 5 minutes break. After four rounds you can take a 15 minutes break. This technique is great for beating procrastination and getting work done!

With PomoPlanner, you can plan your days and add the tasks you want to complete for any given day, it's a daily planner.

The tasks are separated into main task, secondary tasks and additional tasks. This is useful to keep focus on the important things you need to accomplish that day since we sometimes have a tendency to work on easier but less important tasks.
For each task, you can set the target number of pomodoros and whenever you complete a pomodoro for that task using the timer, the completed pomodoros counter increments.

On top of that you can also plan mini tasks which are small tasks you have to accomplish on a given day. These tasks can usually be done under five minutes and include things like making a small call, paying the rent and more...

Finally, PomoPlanner also allows you to track physical exercise but also to stay mindful about things that you're grateful about, things you've learned and take extra notes.

PomoPlanner also has an extra tab for a general purpose todo-list.

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You can register and create an account which will allow you to sync your tasks across multiple devices.

On a side note (#nocode):
PomoPlanner was built entirely in No-Code meaning that not a single line of code was written to build it. That's thanks to https://Sktch.io, another project that I've built. The entire interface was built visually and the functional part of the app was built with Sktch.io's visual programming tool.

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I would be very grateful if you can give an upvote!

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It's a fashion statement, nothing more than that. Like a towel, when a man has a fixed gear bicycle others will immediately assume the presence of expendable income, a recent model iPhone, a loft apartment and a high bandwidth connection.
Who thought naming a CLI tool with a camel case name was acceptable? Why isn't there a law against that?
> Saying "other countries do it" isn't really an answer.

It is an answer. For example, my cousin in England was able to spend a year breastfeeding her daughters without having to go through the arduous process of pumping. Their family is alive and well, and so is the UK.
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No: https://www.mclaren.com/racing/inside-the-mtc/mclaren-group-...
Or the lives of other users of the commons.
>But if you are a person in America who has given birth or knows someone who has given birth, this is just a summary of a sobering and absolutely barbaric reality.

It's just the US, not america, one writing for nytimes should know the difference

https://www.angloinfo.com/how-to/brazil/healthcare/pregnancy...

>>Brazil...In 2008, maternity leave was extended from 120 to 180 days

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/10...

>>Cuba wants more babies, so it’s giving parental leave to grandparents, too
I wonder how your C++ would've gone if you had a C++ library of Python-like data types. Something like a 'variant' type that could hold arbitrary integers, strings, and dicts or lists of those (or anything else you commonly used).

You would initially trade some of the C++ performance, but the code shouldn't be more complicated or difficult to write or compile than Python. Then, you'd only need to change the performance sensitive parts to use real C++ arrays or structs.
One of the ironic twists is that EU is doing all the "hardcore" free market austerity stuff (think Greece's imposed austerity or Germany's balanced budget) while the US is doing the Keynesian stuff (tax cuts, stimulus checks, infrastructure projects).
I find this to be a deeply flawed argument. Taking the "insurance system and hospitals" as the unchangeable axiom, to which all else must subordinate is either deliberate misdirection or just small thinking. I propose is precisely the insurance and medical systems that need reforming, and if the insane amounts of political effort and money were spent on improving the (DEEPLY flawed) medical systems instead of these flawed vaccine campaigns and coersive measures, I think we would all be in a much better place. (Except maybe for the insurance company / hospital execs)
I, a man, did not get parental leave at the company I was with when my daughter was born. On top of that, I had asked to travel less and was still being sent on travel, so missed out even more. This was one of the factors in me eventually deciding to leave that company.
>It wasn't the cost of Smalltalk that was the problem, as there were low-cost implementations of Smalltalk, such as Smalltalk/V available on PC from the mid 80s onwards.

Smalltalk/V on DOS (1980s) had extra runtime royalties payments which was too expensive for deployment. So other 4GL languages like dBASE/Clipper/Foxpro or even C Language without those costs were more attractive.

The later Smalltalk/V for Windows did eventually remove the royalties but the base dev package didn't include ODBC database connectivity for free. (I think you had to pay extra for the Digitalk PARTS Workbench with db drivers?) In contrast, Microsoft Visual Basic had free ODBC drivers to connect to Oracle, Sybase, etc.

Of the dozens of companies I interacted with for LOB (line-of-business) applications, Smalltalk was never even a consideration. In the early 1990s, there was modest hype and popularity with Powersoft PowerBuilder which was more of a competitor to MS Visual Basic for internal corporate apps than Smalltalk or Java.
> Saying "other countries do it" isn't really an answer. There's no clear solutions

Your argument makes me think about this satiric article : https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...

I live in a country where it's exactly what we do, and it's fine. I took a 7 months paid parental leave as a dad recently and my company congratulated me for the birth.
Though to be fair to technology, it's amazing how it can track a bird 8000 miles on just solar power, giving us a view of the world no other bird will ever really have at the moment.
So if you disagree with "taste-as-a-measure-of-quality-within-a-genre" do you disagree with the concept works of art can be better than other works of art (within a genre) or do you just disagree this non-numerical measure is called 'taste'? What would you call it instead?
The problem with parental leave is the same problem with universal health care or any entitlement that isn’t utilized by the entire population at the same rate constantly.

Things like roads (and even then there are many locales with crappy roads) are easy to justify. Things like parental leave and universal health care are hard because the percentage of those utilizing will be low and the disproportionate benefit will inherently fall with a small percentage.

It’s inherently a Ponzi scheme. Not to say that we shouldn’t participate, but it is what it is.

Add in the mindset of maximizing wealth and it makes even less sense because those who need is will be increasingly less fortunate and those who don’t can fund it themselves anyway.
Just add gpg to the pipes.
>Saying "other countries do it" isn't really an answer

I mean it definitely is, since 186 other countries in the world do offer paid parental leave. The United States is a huge outlier, especially given its wealth.