skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about this too, because understanding why this doesn't seem to happen more often is part of figuring out how to address the underlying pay gap issue.

My guess is that even assuming a perfectly rational employer (with no unconscious bias), the viability of this sort of arbitrage would depend on women _costing_ $0.70 to the dollar to their employers when compared to men, not on women _earning_ $0.70 to the dollar.

I'm not at all knowledgeable about how this is usually handled in the US, but what I've heard from entrepreneurs in Brazil (where I live) is that despite the fact that maternity leave here is paid for by our social security system, it still ends up incurring in additional costs to the employer, mainly because they need to hire/train a temporary replacement. (Who will most likely be less effective/productive than the more experienced person who took the leave)

Even if the law got updated to grant both genders the same parental leave time (or to allow a shared amount of months to be split by the parents in however way they prefer) it would still require a significant cultural shift to have men actually _choose_ to take the leave. (Anecdotal evidence: I've talked to several local male peers and most of them said they would not bother taking paternal leave even if available, and would rather stay at work)

This sort of market/cost-driven decision making is obviously not good from a moral perspective, and is especially unfair with women that don't want or can't have children, or would rather have children but take a shorter or no leave. However, I also understand that a lot of businesses have very thin margins and fierce competitors, so taking the actuarial calculation approach to estimating how much an employee will 'cost' you might be something they perceive as their only take on surviving.

I'm not sure on what is the best way to (re)align the incentives so that this doesn't happen anymore and the gap is closed for good.

EDIT: what other commenters have pointed out also makes a lot of sense: exercising this sort of arbitrage in the first place would likely require the use of immoral and probably illegal discriminatory practices
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Please tell me you're not referencing the widely debunked Anderson Cooper conspiracy theory.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anderson-cooper-hurricane/
No, group 2 must be doing wage discrimination per the definition: they are paying women less solely because of their gender, that’s the only way the arbitrage works.

If they set wages at $10/hr hoping to capture all the women turned away, they will also fail to capture male employees worth $15/hr. That puts them in the same pool as Burger King. There isn’t an arbitrage opportunity based on gender here.

Assuming that Mcdonald’s and Burger King are the only employers, this also doesn’t get rid of the pricing gap. Women are paid less on average because they are turned away from the higher paying Burger King disproportionately. Burger King thinks what they are doing is not discrimination. Mcdonald’s must also think what they are doing is not discrimination, or they have a vast conspiracy to violate the law. They are both Group 2 companies.
KRS-1 barely leading Lil Kim huh
>Crucially, a gap in overtime acceptance rates barely exists for those who are married. As we can see in Figure 10, married male operators with dependents are only 0 to 2 percentage points more likely to accept overtime than married women with dependents. This suggests that those who are married with dependents, men and women, are able to divide up caretaking responsibilities at home in a way that allows them to work overtime at similar levels.

The decline of two parent households and rise of single motherhood strikes again.
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That is interesting, and new to me. I’ll have to read up on it more. Thank you for the link.
Lightning strikes don't start fires "all the time". Lightning strikes account for <5% of all fires in California.
I remember being amazed by the 3D first person perspective in Total Eclipse on the Commodore 64 back in the 80's. The framerate was atrocious, and you moved like molasses, but the feeling of immersion that came from being able to move freely in the first person perspective was not matched by games for me until Doom. (Wolf3D's 90 degree movements was very mechanical and did not capture that feeling.)
Microsoft can compile everything on ARM if they want to. No reason why Azure would be completely stuck on Intel chips.
“Willingly agreed” is a just a bit of a stretch here. When one party has substantial leverage over the other, consent is not really meaningful.
I don’t buy that this is an either/or situation. One example that comes to mind is the improvements in the efficiency of gasoline powered vehicles while electric vehicle production is ramping up. I think we’re better off that there was a huge push for making ICEs more efficient when electric vehicles were still in its infancy (I can’t prove this but I don’t think throwing more money at Tesla or other companies could have significantly sped up their timeline)
I use mbsync (aka isync).
First we should fill things out a little bit:

Men take more overtime, women do more domestic work, men and women are paid for overtime, neither men nor women are paid for domestic work.

Whether women benefit from domestic labor or not, it's not something that would ever be reflected in wages. Wages are what people earn outside the home. It's an open question whether women are net beneficiaries of the informal transfers that characterize the domestic arrangement.

It's worth considering that during many eras almost all labor was unpaid. In prior eras, most people's labor was devoted almost entirely to domestic affairs: people made their own shoes, houses, food, &c. It was all "domestic labor". It doesn't mean nobody benefitted from it!
A virion is the singular noun for a viral particle. The viral genetic material plus capsid equal an individual virion.
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It should cost the customers more thereby allowing market forces to work. That’s how we get better solutions.
This is not really about technical solutions. It's about an understanding of how computers work. The underlying assumption is that companies _will_ build technology that is as good as the law requires it to be. Large companies very well might, but this is a killer for small businesses.
logging policies are making things worse

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Loggin...
Bear Stearns failed because it was overextended on subprime mortgages and lost the ability to conduct business when the cash dried up.

Enron was convicted of massive, deliberate accounting fraud. The company wasn't viable without the fraud.

Not even remotely similar to the Equifax breach.
They didn't lose them. They still have them. They just let someone else make a copy. That didn't make the copy that Equifax still has any less valuable.

Keeping that data secret isn't the only job it has. In fact that isn't even really their primary job. Their primary job is evaluating the credit worthiness of potential customers for equifax clients. As far as I know, they are still doing that job quite well.
> Does anyone have any insight as to why resistance forces are seemingly so much more effective today compared to the past? Rebels were able to bleed the US of billions with the threat of a cheap car bomb

Many reasons, but certainly one of them is the asymetry in the cost of materiel. For the $30 it costs[0] to make an IED, you can put at risk anything from an APC costing $300,000 [1], to a tank costing over $6,000,000 [2] i.e. a difference of 10,000 to 200,000 times.

Further to this, one can factor in the cost to the US of maintaining security with "boots on the ground", where those soldiers can cost anywhere from $400,000/year to over $2,000,000/year [3] (depending on who you ask).

Finally, the insurgents have a very different aim to the US troops. An analogy might be useful here. Consider the result to an elephant of stirring up an ants' nest [4] (no spoilers - go read it).

(EDITED to fix formatting)

[0] https://www.npr.org/2011/12/18/143902421/in-iraq-fighting-an...

[1] http://www.military-today.com/apc/m113a3.htm

[2] https://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/top-10-most...

[3] https://www.yahoo.com/news/it-costs--2-1-million-per-year-fo...

[4] https://www.voanews.com/a/ants-take-on-elephants-in-african-...
My mom's last cat made it to 20 (he just died last year). But that is about the max for a cat (a few make it into their mid-20s).
So, fuck pg&e. I’m not a fan.

That said, this isn’t quite burned down a house, which they should absolutely be on the hook for, this is the whole city burned down.

There is sort of a structural responsibility to limit blast radius of bad actors that also failed.
It’s been said a few times in this thread that that is a misrepresentation by the article. Allow me to quote at length from an article on the topic by Brown and Lee:

One of the characteristic features of prions is their resistance to a number of normal decontaminating procedures. These pathogens are resistant to processes affecting nucleic acids, such as hydrolysis or shearing [9]. However, agents that digest, denature, or modify proteins do have activity against prions [7]. The PrP purified from the brains of scrapie-infected animals (PrPSc) can be inactivated by prolonged autoclaving (at 121ºC and 15 psi for 4.5 hours), or immersion in 1N NaOH (for 30 minutes, repeat three times), or immersion in concentrated (>3 M) solutions of guanidine thiocyanate [10]. However, certain cautions prevail; it appears that inadequate autoclaving can establish heat-resistant subpopulations that fail to diminish with a further cycle of autoclaving [11]. Stainless steel instruments also may retain infectivity even after treatment with 10 percent formaldehyde [12,13].

Newer decontamination techniques are being investigated. There has been some success in sterilization using a combination of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), proteinase K, and pronase [14]. A radio-frequency gas-plasma treatment has been shown to effectively decontaminate surgical instruments [15]. Another group has tested a decontamination formula combining copper metal ions with hydrogen peroxide [16].
> Does anyone have any insight as to why resistance forces are seemingly so much more effective today compared to the past?

What past are you referring to? Armed insurrection is essentially endemic throughout human history. If you look during the Middle Age's, there's pretty much a peasant revolt going on somewhere, sometime. Of course, you don't hear much about it because such insurrection was rarely effective. The general populace was incapable of mounting a threat to well-trained armies.

That changed with the introduction of the arquebus, which is essentially the first effective gun. Training someone to wield a warbow took a lifetime; training someone to use an arquebus took a few weeks. Serious revolts no longer meant having to sack an unpopular lord; they meant having to flee the country for fear of your life. With the rise of European colonization giving large groups of people motivation to maintain resistance for a long time, it took determined application of overwhelming force to actually dislodge them. The Mapuche, for example, resisted Spanish (and later Chilean/Argentinian) colonization attempts for 350 years. The US took 4 months to wrest the Philippines from Spanish control, and spent the next 14 years trying to put down independence rebellions.

What has changed in the past 30-ish years is that wars have diminished. Especially in the big, neat, "clean" wars you think of, such as the Crimean War. That means that the messy, interminable low-level war that's been with us for 500 years is largely the only wars you hear about, whereas the retrospective look at historical wars, both within and outside of the military, focuses fairly exclusively on the big wars of history.

It's not that they're new, or more effective; it's that they're simply much, much more visible.
Seriously one of the nerdiest hip hop albums ever. It’s one of my favorite double LP’s and never fails as a first record to kick off a party. Can’t believe we’re talking about dr. Octagon on HN :-)
Okay, I opened on desktop and the pricing UI makes more sense now. I was under the impression it was $99 for everything (chat, marketing and CRM).

We use Intercom/Drift here and love their bots for qualifying leads. Do you guys have something similar?
The paper directly contradicts your beliefs about “womens”:

> These gender differences are consistent with women taking on more of the household and childcare duties than men, limiting their work availability in the process (Parker et al., 2015; Bertrand et al., 2015).
You guys might be interested in my startup. We are going to provide a copyright content registration service as well as a vetting service for 3rd parties to upload user posts which are then scanned against the registered content.
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A female friend of mine who worked at Whole Foods did the typically male tactics cited in this article: Trading off regular hours for more lucrative Holiday and overtime hours. She also had a family. (And a 2nd job as a Yoga instructor. Not sure how that aligned her incentives.)
If there were actual earnings to distribute, adjustments such as you describe would certainly be appropriate. However, it seems likely that, in the aggregate, all investors (as a group) lost. So maybe getting back X% of principal is the only workable approach. And I don't know specifics. Perhaps they're taking stuff like that into account.
It didn't "lose" anything, nor is "protecting users' data" it's only job, nor is that data their only asset. It certainly lost credibility, but the name isn't toxic.

Again, Bear Stearns was insolvent due to being overextended, and Enron was propped up by massive accounting fraud (like WorldCom). Equifax, on the other hand, was the victim of a cyberattack.
Reminds me of the (trite?) conservative talk points that if you 1. finish high school 2. don't have children outside of marriage 3. hold down a job, then you should more or less have a successful middle class existence.
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I would love to agree with you, but in this case we're talking about electricity distribution. It's almost impossible to start up a second independent distribution network - the towers alone will cost millions, not to mention the costs of getting permission from all the landowners along the way and fighting all the communities who don't want even more towers over the landscape.

And after all the capital and political fighting your goal is to make less money than the incumbent.
I was told mad cow disease and CJD interchangably, which looking it up seems to be slightly different. I don't know the difference between CJD and vCJD and Wikipedia isn't helping much.
Honestly, I don't know how fast it's progressing, so it may in fact be months. They may already be dead for all I know, but it sounded like they were diagnosed several months before - they don't know how long ago she got it though, due to the long incubation. The family member mentioned mood swings, improper outbursts in conversation, and memory degeneration and how they're nearly bedbound now due to loss of balance.

The nurse family member said cow farmers, so I assume cow feces contaminated dirt, and that their brains looked "like Swiss cheese". This was also in the context of mad cow disease. I checked my notes from the day and it was North Carolina, not Kentucky.
I believe that was the OP's point. If these roles are filled by soldiers instead of contractors, the profit motive for war goes away. At the time, the VP's company was providing billions of dollars of support for the war in the Middle East. While he had divested himself while in VP, to think there was no influence would be naive.
What leverage do they have against a monopoly? Turn off their fridge?
Yes. ACIS is still a terminal-based mainframe application, but it's now fronted by a bunch of shitty Java apps that function as its API.
Most likely they had a web front end that talks to the legacy system. Very common in big companies.

It was probably developed very quickly, possibly outsourced, and just stuck in front of the older system with minimal re-engineering.

Many years ago, I worked on a system that put an X Windows front end in front of a mainframe app that used a 3270 emulator to interact with parts of the legacy app. I imagine this is somewhat similar.
If I improperly stored tons of firewood right against my house, and someone caught the firewood in fire, and then my house burned down, I think I'd share some of the blame. Some blame would have to go on the other person too.
No, you really don't. The following isn't true:

> But in order to arbitrage this, you have to be willing to pay women and men differently.

A very simple way to arbitrage it without discriminating is to set your wages somewhere between what others pay men and women. Women will flock to you, as you pay better than elsewhere, while men will tend to leave to the discriminating jobs. You pay everyone the same, but the result is your cost in wages is lower than your competitors'.
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how does that contradict any of my "beliefs" ?

The workplace is not the one restricting the women to work more hours. It seems to be based on a choice and preference.
Sure, but that's at least an additional piece of security, requiring additional work to bypass.

I totally agree that 100% exfil detection is near impossible. But if you were going to try to get close to it, this is one of the world's databases where you really would want to. Their entire model is about collecting a shit ton of information and providing very heavily controlled access to it. Very well paid people should have spent a lot of time examining how to balance the need to pull in data from many sources, while providing only monetized ways to actually retrieve said data. They're like an old-timey pirate captain, who spends most of her time roaming all over the place in the hopes of being able to plunder someone else's treasure, then hiding said treasure in a safe place.

Except they really didn't take the hiding the treasure part very seriously. ;)
It’s on the web like Facebook is on the web.

I can’t post or reply by creating a web page, and identity is not email or dns, but specific to whatever mastadon instance I register with.

I already have a domain, blog, and email. Posts, replies, likes, etc. But mastadon doesn’t work with the web, or my existing web identity - instead it’s entirely based on federated ActivityPub servers plus various extensions.
Yes, you can sue a town or city.
(Anecdotal evidence: I've talked to several local male peers and most of them said they would not bother taking paternal leave even if available, and would rather stay at work)

Anecdotal: I have a coworker campaigning to have the company let him take paternal leave.
For reference, the TV vocabulary is about 3,000 words.

The average high school vocabulary is 10,000 words.

The average college graduate vocabulary is 30,000 words.

The English language has about 1,000,000 words.

The good news is that one needs to learn only about 3,000 words to become conversant in English.
I was like, "is that the same Dave Patterson?", and then thinking about Google & typical tech journalism I realized, "yeah, of course it is".
you can still download ACiDDraw here - http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html
Isn't the quoted passage talking about two parent households as being a phenomenon?
Perhaps there is some sarcasm there. Maybe a certain amount of playfulness.
> AWS was Amazon monetizing its own infrastructure.

AWS builds infrastructure and monetize them.

AWS's hardware usage far exceeds what they need for their other businesses.
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This is the equivalent to "We offer our thoughts and prayers" after a mass-shooting.
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Flooding in Miami is the new normal.
If my business is distributing data, the number one thing I would monitor for is that I'm getting paid for the data I distribute. Data that gets distributed for free is nearly the worst thing my software can do, so I should be investing a ton in preventing it.
Reading through the timeline, it shows that at every step Equifax was trying to do the right thing...internally publishing vulnerabilities, applying patches, scanning for vulnerabilities, etc. The policies and procedures were good.

One difference is that previously Equifax claimed a single employee failed to scan and patch a system. I don't see a reference to that in the report. All I see now is that someone scanned a system improperly:

> The scan did not identify any components utilizing an
affected version of Apache Struts. Interim CSO Russ Ayres stated the scan missed identifying the vulnerability because the scan was run on the root directory, not the subdirectory where the Apache Struts was listed.
The Teletype Model 40 also used a spinning belt that held type slugs (IIRC, the same ones that the Model 28 used back in the 1950's). Only it was a rubber belt not a metal chain, so it didn't require hearing protection to run with the covers open. ;)

Based on the text content of the line you were printing, the sound would change from a "brap" (not many duplicate letters on the line) to a "braaaaaaaaaap" when you had lots of the same character, like when someone used the equal-sign as a section separator between paragraphs.

One location on the belt held a metal flag not a type element, and that was how the electronics knew the start of the type element sequence. One of the fun pranks you could do was to swap a couple of the type elements...
I explored a similar idea after college as a way to improve textbooks. I haven't done any maintenance in years, but the demo is still online: https://www.okeebo.com/demo/

I found that it was a lot of extra work for authors and they weren't interested.
When it comes to the environment in CA I don't know what to believe anymore. Like I fully expect CA to be anti-resource extraction, even if it's good for them, but I also don't trust the corporate interests that want to extract those resources.
North Korea uses concrete traps in the DMZ: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/hostile-terrain-tank-...
> Also nobody is forcing women to do household chores

Clearly you haven't been following the issue that closely if you think this. Of course woman have been forced to do household chores - up until this past century, they've had no other options.
Fear is also a factor to force people to assimilate.
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> rise of single motherhood strikes again.

The study addressed this. There are sexist gender roles at play even among single parents, potentially. (To wit, you didn’t lament the rise of “single fatherhood.”)

From the study,

> These results suggest that single men are able to take care of their dependents by working more overtime, possibly to pay for child support or to finance other forms of child care. Single women, on the other hand, appear to be making the decision to do the caretaking themselves rather than to caretake through additional earnings. It is, of course, possible that for women this situation is not as much a personal preference as it is a constraint.
“we’ll pay you $0.20 on the dollar for your claim against Madoff”

That’s a reasonable trade given you invest it.
> We have some of the best ratio of compensation to working experience in the country.

But is it among the best ratios of compensation to value provided to the company? That's the more interesting number.
What's the pricing scheme?
You don't have to sign the forced arbitration clause in many places. I didn't sign one at my current employer. I had to explicitly do a little extra paperwork to do so, but I don't have a forced arbitration clause.